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In the news 2 Alaskans killed in airplane crash outside Whitehorse ANCHORAGE — Two Alaska men who worked for the National Park Service were killed in Canada while flying north in a private airplane purchased in Minnesota. The Anchorage Daily News reports 56-year-old Charles Benson of Palmer and 58-year-old Jeffrey Babcock of Wasilla died Monday night after taking off from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Yukon chief coroner Heather Jones in a prepared statement says the men took off at about 5:30 p.m. for Anchorage in the 1952 Cessna 170. They crashed in trees about 2,000 feet off the end of the runway. They died at the scene. National Park Service spokesman Peter Christian says Babcock was in charge of the agency’s aviation program and oversaw about 15 pilots and 20 aircraft. Benson was regional safety manager for the agency in Alaska.
Notices sent to employees with Alaska budget unresolved JUNEAU — Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’s hopeful the Legislature will pass a budget next week but says his administration is preparing in case that doesn’t happen. State employees got a letter Wednesday warning that notices of possible furloughs or layoffs would be sent if a budget isn’t passed during the special session, which could last until June 14. The new fiscal year starts July 1. The letter says that state law and collective bargaining agreements address the notice requirement and require that most employees get 10 working days’ notice from the end of the fiscal year. In late May 2017, then-Gov. Bill Walker’s administration sent letters with more explicit detail on when layoffs would occur if a budget didn’t pass by the start of the fiscal year. Such layoffs were averted. — Associated Press
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Sprucing up Soldotna Applications for storefront improvement grant due June 14 By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
The city of Soldotna is accepting applications for the Storefront Improvement Program, which awards grants to local businesses seeking to revitalize their storefront. Since 2012, the city has been using the grant program to meet its goals of improving the aesthetics of Soldotna’s downtown district, John Czarnezki, the city’s director of economic development and planning, said. Another goal of the program is to increase foot traffic into local businesses. Czarnezki said the improvements need to be transformative and in line with the city’s comprehenSee STORE, page A3
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Orange Poppy, one of several businesses that have improved their storefronts with the help of Soldotna’s Storefront Improvement Program, is photographed Wednesday. The improvement program awards grants to local businesses wanting to beautify their building’s exterior. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
Gray whale found dead in Clam Gulch By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
A gray whale was found dead near Clam Gulch late Thursday. It’s the fourth gray whale found dead in Alaska and the second gray whale found dead in Cook Inlet this year. The cause of death is still unknown. Since Monday, a team of biologists have been waiting for a minus tide to reach the whale so they can perform a necropsy, Julie Speegle, public affairs officer with the Alaska regional office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said. The Clam Gulch whale is the most recent in a series of whale beachings this month, including one spotted last week near Kodiak, one near Cor-
See GRAY, page A2
Mueller’s public statement fuels impeachment calls By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s first — and possibly last — public statement on the Russia investigation is fueling fresh calls on Capitol Hill to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a step that Democratic leaders have so far resisted. Surprising Washington with brief remarks Wednesday, Mueller indicated it’s up to Congress to decide what to do with his findings. The special counsel reiterated that, bound by Justice Department policy, charging a sitting president with a crime “was not an option.” But he also stressed he could not exonerate Trump. Instead, he cited that same policy to say, “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal jus-
president. “It’s clear that the House must begin impeachment proceedings. No one is above the law.” But top Democrats, with almost no support from Republicans, are hesitant to go it alone on an impeachment inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned would be divisive for the nation. They prefer to continue the work of investigating the president and building, as Pelosi said Wednesday, a case that’s “very compelling to the American people.” “We are legislating, we’re investigating and we are litigating,” Pelosi said at an event in San FranSpecial counsel Robert Muller speaks at the Department of Justice Wednesday, in cisco. Washington, about the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) “Nothing is off the table,” she said. “We want to ment proceedings. Committee, the panel with do what is right and what tice system.” “He’s asking us to do impeachment power. With Mueller closing gets results.” “We have one remainhis office and not expected what he wasn’t allowed to Staying the course, Rep. to comment further, it all — hold the president ac- ing path to ensure justice Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the amounted, for some, to an countable,” said Rep. Val is served,” said Sen. Cory chairman of the Judiciaopen invitation for Con- Demings, D-Fla., a mem- Booker of New Jersey, a ry Committee, at a news See CALL, page A2 gress to launch impeach- ber of the House Judiciary Democratic candidate for
Alaska Supreme Court rules against couple in PFD case FAIRBANKS (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled against a military couple seeking permanent fund dividends because they were out of state during required periods, a report said.
The court denied an appeal by Donald Jones and Annette Gwalthney-Jones, The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reported Monday. The couple sought permanent fund dividends for 2014
and 2015 even though they were not physically present in Alaska for several years prior due to Donald Jones’ Air Force assignment. In the ruling released Friday, the court upheld an
Barr in Alaska to talk Native violence, not Mueller remarks By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — Tribal representatives in Alaska told U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday that rural Alaska Natives suffer from multiple public safety problems, including no law enforcement presence in multiple villages, substance abuse and alarmingly high rates of violence and sexual assault. Barr is at the start of a four-day visit to Alaska. Among his first actions in
the visit, Barr heard from Alaska Natives Wednesday who participated with him in an Alaska Native justice roundtable in Anchorage. His visit came the same day special counsel Robert Mueller countered criticism from Barr and others that he should have decided whether to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice during his investigation into Russian election meddling. In his first public comments since the investigation began two years ago, Mueller said indicting a
sitting president was "not an option" because of a Justice Department legal opinion. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided the evidence didn't support an obstruction charge against Trump. At the roundtable meeting, Barr did not address Mueller's remarks or take questions from reporters. As he left the discussion, he didn't respond to a question from The Associated Press about Mueller's remarks. See BARR, page A3
administrative ruling that found the residency requirement for them to be physically present in Alaska for 30 days in the five years preceding their applications is clear and inflexible.
The dispute over the couple’s dividends arose out of a change in state law. The couple’s argument “ignores that the Legislature was aware of and chose to
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Sullivan requests tariff exemption for Alaska seafood KODIAK (AP) — An Alaska senator has written to the U.S. trade representative asking for Alaska fish species to be removed from a list of goods facing tariffs, a report said. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last week, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported Tuesday. As part of an ongoing trade dispute with China, earlier this month the Trump Administration
announced an increase in tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of products and tariffs on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese imports. Sullivan said he asked Lighthizer to consider removing tariffs from seafood fished in Alaska including salmon, some species of rockfish and flatfish, Pollock, and Pacific cod. The increase in tariffs is “creating tremendous uncertainty” for the industry and “is deeply See SEA, page A3
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one in Turnagain Arm earlier in May. Last month, a young humpback whale was Continued from page A1 stranded twice on the shores of Turnagain Arm. dova two weeks ago and Speegle said for the last
18 years, between January and May, normal records have indicated between zero and three gray whale deaths a year. “We’re slightly above
that now,” Speegle said. Speegle said the whale was a sub-adult, or not fully an adult, and is estimated to be between 20 and 24 feet long.
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and the Trump campaign to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor. Investigators examined nearly a dozen episodes involving the president for potential obstruction of justice but ultimately reached no conclusion on whether Trump had illegally tried to stymie the probe. Mueller made clear his desire to avoid testimony, declaring the report his final word on the matter. He said it wouldn’t be “appropriate” for him “to speak further about the investigation.” Nadler would not say whether he would compel Mueller to testify, as he has threatened to do. But he hinted that he may not pursue an aggressive approach against the special counsel, saying, “Mr. Mueller told us a lot of what we need to hear today.” Republicans, as they have done since Mueller’s report was released, called for Congress to move on. The GOP chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Gra-
ham of South Carolina, said that Mueller “has decided to move on and let the report speak for itself. Congress should follow his lead.” Graham has said his committee doesn’t need Mueller to testify. Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary panel, had supported Democratic requests for Mueller’s House testimony but appeared to be satisfied by the special counsel’s comments Wednesday. “While I had hoped he would come before the committee and answer questions from lawmakers, Robert Mueller has led an extraordinary life of public service and is entitled to his life as a private citizen once again,” Collins said. But at least one Republican isn’t ready to move on: Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who has become the sole GOP voice in Congress urging impeachment proceedings. “The ball is in our court, Congress,” Amash tweeted.
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conference in New York stopped short of calling for an impeachment inquiry. “All options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out,” Nadler said Wednesday. Nadler’s committee is among six in the House that are conducting dozens of probes in the Democraticcontrolled House into subjects such as Trump’s tax returns, the handling of the Russia probe and the running of government. “Given that special counsel Mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the President, it falls to Congress to respond to the crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump - and we will do so,” Nadler said in a written statement issued immediately after Mueller’s remarks. Before Mueller’s unexpected appearance, Democratic leaders had tamped down increasingly vocal voices calling for an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi sent lawmakers home for a weeklong recess brushing back the pro-impeachment faction, urging her caucus to stick with the step-bystep approach of investigations. They hoped to hear directly from Mueller in a high-profile hearing that could help focus public attention. But now that Mueller has made clear the work ahead won’t likely include him — announcing his office is closing and he’s resigning his position — it’s igniting new urgency on Capitol Hill to pick up where the special counsel left off. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, another
Democratic presidential hopeful, said, “Mueller did his job. Now it’s time to do ours. Impeachment hearings should begin tomorrow.” While some Democrats want to focus on investigating Trump, building the record in the public, as happened during the Watergate era with Richard Nixon, others, including some new voices Wednesday, say Mueller has all but punted the issue to Congress. They believe opening a formal impeachment proceeding would strengthen their hand in the legal battles over documents and testimony. “It is very clear that President Trump is engaging in a cover-up, obstructing of justice and betraying his oath of office,” said Rep. Betty McCollum, DMinn. “I fully expect the responsible House committees to expedite their investigations and, as soon as possible, formally draft articles of impeachment.” Mueller’s report did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Russia
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Around the Peninsula
Elmer R. Bird
August 10, 1935 - May 20, 2019 Elmer R. Bird, of Soldotna, Alaska passed away on Monday, May 20, 2019 at the age of 83. He died peacefully at Central Peninsula Hospital surrounded by his family. Elmer was born on August 10, 1935 in Lincoln Nebraska to Violet and Ruel Bird. His family moved to Harden, Montana when he was three years old. Elmer graduated from Harden High School in 1954. He worked many odd jobs to support himself including working on ranches as a cowboy. He married Patsy J. Moore in Crow Agency on October 13, 1957. Fifteen minutes later, they were pregnant with their first son. The newlyweds moved to Soldotna, Alaska in 1958 where they built their homestead in Funny River. Funny River was not accessible by road; the only means were by a homemade to barge cross the Kenai River. He was a significant contributor in the development of the Funny River community. Elmer, alongside two state engineers, developed the original layout of Funny River Road on horseback and took part of the construction. As a cowboy, Elmer was a big influence in the early stages of the Soldotna Rodeo. He was instrumental in building the Soldotna Rodeo Grounds, the Soldotna Little League Fields and the Funny River Community Center. Elmer never left home without his cowboy boots; and if it was a special occasion his cowboy hat. He was a full bred cowboy all the way to the end. Elmer and Patsy raised their two sons Glen and Roy Bird and their daughter Dian on their Funny River homestead. Their original homestead started out as a farm with horses and cattle, then a softball field, and currently, after years of hard work and a dream, Bird Homestead Golf Course. Elmer was an equipment operator, which allowed him to travel all over Alaska and California. He retired out of the local 302 Operators Union. Elmer built his own construction company, Slash E Construction, where he developed much of the Funny River area alongside his two sons and the help of his grandchildren. Elmer had many hobbies and developed a love of flying. He owned two airplanes, built his own airplane hangar on their homestead which rests on hole #1 of the golf course, and flew all over Alaska for many years. He had a great passion for working with leather. He was skilled at making everything from chaps to purses. Elmer and Patsy retired together and became snowbirds. They traveled to many different places over the years but ultimately settled in Wellton, Arizona. Elmer became the local go-to golf cart mechanic and resident B.S.’er. Elmer was many things to many people; a pilot, an operator, a cowboy, a drinking buddy, an entrepreneur, a hard-ass, a loved one, a friend, and neighbor. He was always willing to lend a helping hand. Elmer will be remembered by most as the “old timer” with the Coors in his hand sharing his endless supply of knowledge and stories. Even if you didn’t know him you’d grow to love him. Elmer is preceded in death by his parents and siblings. He is survived by his wife Patsy, of 61 years, his sons Glen and Roy, his daughter Dian, 11 grandchildren, and a herd of great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Elmer was a member of the Soldotna Masonic Lodge and Soldotna Elks Lodge. Elmer’s memorial service will be held at Bird Homestead Golf Course on Funny River Road on Saturday June 1, 2019 at 3:00 PM.
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omit the previous regulation’s ‘unavoidable circumstances’ exception,” the ruling said. Jones was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base beginning in 1998 and married Gwalthney-Jones in 2000. The Air Force transferred Jones in 2001 and he was never reassigned to Alaska, although the couple maintained ties by registering vehicles, holding driver’s
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troubling, because they continue to potentially negatively impact the very Americans the administration is trying to help,” Sullivan’s letter said. The letter was also signed by Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, who are both Republicans. The administration risks “losing critical congressional support” if the tariffs
licenses, owning property, and casting absentee ballots in Alaska. Jones received permanent fund dividends from 2001 to 2013 and Gwalthney-Jones received them from 1982 to 2013. The couple remained eligible for dividends from 2001 to 2013 despite being “largely absent” from Alaska due to a residency exemption benefiting military members. They received 2016 dividends after returning to the state and re-establishing residency in the view of fund officials.
result in targeting Americans, “like hard working Alaskan fisherman who harvest a world class product from our well-managed fisheries,” the letter said. Sullivan said he met with Lighthizer last week. “He was very engaged. My office and his office have been working this non-stop for the last couple of weeks,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said he hoped the request would encourage the administration not to repeat the “inadvertent shooting of ourselves in the foot.”
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Kenai Watershed Forum Deck Party Join us May 31 from 3-6 p.m. and see our new deck! Thanks to a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation and some amazing help from our partners in the community we are now ADA accessible! Stop by to see the deck, grab a snack, meet our newest employees, our new summer interns, see what we are up to this summer and renew your membership!
Soldotna Historical Society Board meeting
Soldotna Senior Center Luau Fundraiser Soldotna Senior Center will be hosting their annual Hawaiian Luau fundraiser on Saturday, June 15, starting at 5:30 p.m. This event is open to the public. Enjoy a fun filled evening starting with a wonderful Hawaiian feast, continuing with fabulous hula dancing demonstrations by the Pua Mae Ole hula dancing troupe, and wrapping up with our outcry auction. There will be many silent auction items available for bidding, as well as door prizes given throughout the night. Tickets are $26 for adults and $13 for children under 12. For tickets and reservations, please call 262-2322.
The Museum is open! Soldotna Historical Society Board Midnight Sun Soiree board meeting will take place Monday, June 3 at 4:30 p.m., The LeeShore Center invites you to join us at the Kenai in the main building, 461 Centennial Park Road. Questions? Elks Lodge Saturday June 8, 6-11 p.m. for the Midnight 262-3832 Sun Soiree with Prime Rib Dinner, Silent Auction, Split the Pot, Raffle, Door Prizes, Live Music and Dancing. Tickets Peninsula Christian Center yard sale are $60 per person or $110 per couple and available at The Peninsula Christian Center will host a multi-family yard LeeShore Center or online at www.leeshoreak.org. roceeds sale at 161 Farnsworth Boulevard on Friday, May 31 and to help fund construction of a heated storage building. For Saturday, June 1 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Donations accepted. more information contact the LeeShore Center at 283-9479. Call Liz Chase at 262-3233 for further information.
Ninilchik Clam Scramble
Ninilchik Clam Scramble 5K mud and obstacle run will take place on Saturday, June 15. Starting at Deep Creek running along the beach through numerous obstacles through Ninilchik River through the old village up the stairs to the Ninilchik View State Park. This is a family fun event. More information can be found at www.facebook.com/Ninilchikchamberofcommerce/. Benefits from the run help Ninilchik Emergency Services and Ninilchik Chamber of Commerce. If you have any question please feel free to contact Debbie Cary 907-398-8308.
Adventure Talks with Lisa Maloney
2019 Celebration of Birds
The Keen Eye Bird Club is hosting Saturday bird walk opportunities led by local bird enthusiasts. Schedule follows: June 1 Bishop Creek/Stormy Lake Walk 8-10 a.m. Families encouraged. Weather appropriate clothing is suggested. For more information refer to the Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival Facebook Page or call 262-7767.
Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival
Into its 20th year, the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival is happening June 20-23 in Seldovia and is building to be an event to remember. The headliners are the Sahnas Brothers and Suzanne Lansford who play a blend of Greek, Latin, and Flaminco guitar music with the added flair of Suzanne Lansford’s excellent fiddle accompaniment. Happening at the same time is the 5th annual Higgy’s En Plein Air Art Festival with Emil Vinberg and Jen Jolliff as Headliners. Tickets are $40 for an all festival Adult pass, Teens $16., under 12 free. More info on Facebook- Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival or the seldoviaartscouncil.net.
KDLL Public Radio has an Adventure Talks presentation with Lisa Maloney, author of the new guide book, “Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska” at 6:30 p.m. May 30 at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center. Maloney will show pictures and talk about trails in the region, as well as hiking safety, gear and other resources. Admission is free for KDLL members and $5 for nonmembers. KDLL will air an interview with Maloney about becoming a guide book 2nd Annual Disability Pride Celebration author and writing her new book at 10 a.m. May 29 at 91.9 The Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride CelFM and streaming live at www.kdll.org. For more informa- ebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park from tion, contact Jenny at 283-8433 or info@kdll.org. 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Pride is seekKenai River Queens garage sale ing sponsors for this event and extends a warm invitation to you The Kenai River Queens Womens Hockey team is hav- and your business to participate. We hope to hear back from you ing a huge fundraising garage sale Friday, May 31 and Sat- by June 3. Contact Maggie Winston at 907-740-0410 or Nikki urday, June 1, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. each day, rain or shine!! Marcano at 907-262-6351. Donations can be mailed to IndepenMultiple families are donating awesome stuff for the sale! dent Living Center at 47255 Princeton Ave., #8, Soldotna, AK, Come by the huge Dome garage across from Peninsula 99669. Powersports on the Kenai Spur Highway and check it out!! Free Picnic at the Food Bank Look for signs and balloons!! Join us for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Spring Festival Garden Club June workshops and Fundraiser on Friday, May 31 from noon to 7 p.m. This is a Saturday, June 22: 10-11:30 a.m.: What do you really community event for all ages and an opportunity for us to thank know about Worm Poo? This Workshop will tell you what’s you, our neighbors, for your support. There will be a free barbeReally true Oh Pooh! 1-2:30 p.m.: Tied to the garden wa- cue/picnic, games, music, cake walks and bucket raffles. There tering? Come learn what relief can bring. Members Only will be prizes for the kids and even a clown making balloon aniregistration begins June 1. Public registration begins June 8. mals. A no host beer/wine garden will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Registration ends June 18. Register online at www.cenpen- and if you donate a food item you will be entered the drawing gardenclub.org. for a special prize.
A Safe Place for the Heart
2019 TriTheKenai Triathlon
Camp Mend-A-Heart is a free day camp for ages 6 to 16 who have experienced a loss due to death. Camp is held at beautiful Solid Rock Camp, just outside of Soldotna. Many fun activities as well as age appropriate grief activities. Dates are Aug 13 to the 15, 2019. All applications must be in by July. Please contact Hospice at 262-0453 for additional information, questions and applications. Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The 2019 TriTheKenai triathlon is set for Sunday, June 9. This event is a great beginner triathlon for adults (15+) and youth (6-14) and includes both individual and team events and for the serious-minded triathlete. We offer the more challenging intermediate distance event. The nonprofit TriTheKenai is a great family fun community event and this year our charity of choice is the Soldotna Montessori Food Box program. If you are not a racer, we are always in need of volunteers on race day. Contact Janice at volunteer@trithekenai.com. Get all the event details or Dutch Oven Gathering register at www.trithekenai.com or email me at wahoo@trithekThe Last Frontier Dutch Oven Society is hosting an event on enai.com or call 252-0558. Thursday, May 30, for anyone with an interest in Dutch oven cooking and wants to enjoy a meal prepared by participants. The Al-Anon support group meetings site is the Nels and Carla Anderson home, 303 Diane Lane, SolAl-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Pendotna. If you are new to this cooking style, feel rusty and need insula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River instruction, or want to prepare a dish onsite, come at 5:30 p.m. Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. Otherwise, bring a prepared Dutch oven dish or any side dish and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter of your choosing and arrive at 6:30 p.m. No supplies needed. through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. ConChildren are welcome. Call 953-8421 for more information. tact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.
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During the roundtable meeting, Vivian Korthius, representing the Association of Village Council Presidents, echoed others in saying more law enforcement officers are needed. She noted that there were six press cameras in the room. That's the same number of village public safety officers in her 48-village region, she said. "So simply put, we need your help," she said. Communities with no police presence often must wait long stretches before state troopers can arrive to investigate crimes. Sometimes the wait is as long as a full day, participants said.
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sive plan. “We don’t want to just pay for a new paint job or general maintenance,” he said. “We encourage a more transformative effect.” So far, the city has funded 15 projects, totaling around $84,000 in grants. Czarnezki said the Soldotna City Council traditionally allocates $15,000 for storefront improvement grants, or enough money to fund
They also spoke about the need to strengthen tribal courts. Barr spent most of his time listening to tribal representatives detail the lack of law enforcement in villages, the slow response times, the violence against women and abuse of alcohol and drugs, including opioids. In the larger rural hub communities, victims of domestic violence and sexual assault have limited services available, or none at all in the villages, according to participants. Near the end of the session, Barr said he was open to a follow-up as suggested by a participant. "I consider this an introductory discussion," he said of the roundtable. Earlier in the day, he met
with top Alaska law enforcement officials. Plans also included visiting the state crime lab. Barr will wrap up the visit with the rural communities of Bethel, Galena and Napaskiak. Barr's Alaska trip comes as Congress and advocates have renewed a focus on violence against Native American and Alaska Native women. Federal figures show they are victims of violence at astonishing rates. The most recent numbers show that more than half have faced sexual and domestic violence at some point in their lives. A 2013 federal report found that at least 75 Alaska Native communities had no law enforcement presence.
Tribal leaders have spoken candidly about barriers that victims face in seeking justice, saying some sexual assault victims must take boats or planes to urban areas to get a medical forensic exam. State authorities handle criminal investigations in more than 200 Alaska Native villages. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both Republicans, are joining Barr on parts of his visit, and Sullivan participated in the roundtable discussion. Loretta Lynch, who served as attorney general under President Barack Obama, also visited Alaska Native leaders to discuss public safety and other issues in June 2016.
two projects. Czarnezki said the city is trying something new this year with the program. To encourage competitiveness, applications for storefront improvement projects have a due date. In prior years, the program worked on an open enrollment basis. Genevieve SmithwickAley has received the grant twice for projects on her buildings on Kobuk Street, which include businesses Kaladi Brothers Coffee, Steamer Trunk Fashion Boutique and Shops Around the Corner, home to busi-
nesses Orange Poppy, Kelsi’s Kloset and Northern Roots Hair Salon. “It definitely improved my business, in sprucing up my storefront,” she said. She said any businesses interested in making improvements to their storefront should apply first, since owners won’t be reimbursed for updates made before the project is approved. The grant requires at least a 50% percent match in funding from the building owner, with the city helping with up to $7,500 of the cost. The program covers
exterior business remodels in the city’s commercial districts. When the program first started, the city only offered $5,000, and in 2014, the grants were raised to $7,500. Czarnezki said the city came to recognize that storefront rehabilitation is expensive. “$5,000 doesn’t necessarily influence whether [storefront improvement] is going to happen,” he said. Interested business owners can apply at www.soldotna.org/storefront. Applications are due June 14.
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Trump must recognize the climate crisis for what it is With hurricane season officially
beginning Saturday, it’s frightening that the Trump administration continues to ignore the role climate change plays in spawning increasingly horrific storms that threaten the lives and property of Texans and residents of other Gulf states. The U.S. Climate and Health Alliance said Hurricane Harvey dealt Texas a harder blow two years ago because climate change produced stronger storm surges, increased precipitation, and created more powerful winds. Harvey dumped nearly 52 inches of rain on parts of Harris County. Researchers said that was 40 percent more rain than a similar storm would have produced decades ago. Not even scientists within President Trump’s administration have been able to weaken his skepticism. He paid no attention to the latest National Climate Assessment, which every four years evaluates the effects of climate change on the United States. The report said climate change had made Texas particularly “vulnerable to increasing temperatures, extreme precipitation and continued sea level rise.” The report meant nothing to Trump, who remains hell bent on reversing environmental rules imposed by previous administrations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide that cause global warming. It’s bad enough that Trump ignores science, but he has also placed accomplices in key positions to hide the truth from the rest of us. One culprit is former astronaut James Reilly, who Trump appointed last year to head the U.S. Geological Survey, one of the federal agencies charged with keeping tabs on climate change and predicting its impact. Reilly, a geologist who also once worked for an oil exploration company, has ordered USGS scientists using computer-generated climate models to project the impact of climate change only through 2040. If you think it’s mere coincidence that scientists say current emissions’ impact on global warming won’t be felt until after 2040, you need to know more about Reilly. During last year’s confirmation hearings, he assured senators, “I’m fully committed to scientific integrity.” Yet when asked specifically “when” more action should be taken to address global warming, Reilly suddenly became cryptic. “Interpretation of the ‘when’ is really the problem,” he said, “and the ‘when’ really is the problem in: What’s that spectrum of time for you? Time, in this regard, is probably the same as what was best described in how you measure depth in a seismic section. That is, it’s basically numbers on a rubber band, and you’re doing one of these things, trying to figure out where’s the best fit.” Come again? His mutterings are reminiscent of Bill Clinton debating the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Only in this case, the consequences of denial are quite possibly apocalyptic. Truth becomes more complex when we don’t want to face it. All Reilly had to say is “now.” Now is the time to directly confront global warming. Reilly shouldn’t be in charge of the USGS if he can’t admit that. If scientific integrity is as important to him as he said it is, he won’t make it a casualty to Trump’s insistence that global warming take a back seat to whatever business model he believes is more important than surviving catastrophic climate-related events. Another of Trump’s sycophants, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, shocked some participants at a recent meeting in Finland of the eight-nation Arctic Council when he seemed to suggest global warming is good because it is thawing a bonanza of untapped reserves of oil, gas, uranium, gold and rare minerals while opening up new shipping routes and fisheries. The words “climate change” never came out of Pompeo’s mouth. NASA, which like the USGS studies our climate, says the damaging changes scientists expect to occur beyond 2040 include stronger, more frequent, and longer-lasting hurricanes, rising sea levels due to melting ice, and an “essentially ice
Arts, culture integral to rural communities A laska V oices B enjamin B rown The arts are appreciated for their uplifting effect on the human spirit. What is sometimes called the “intrinsic value” of arts and culture springs from the potential of music, theater, dance, painting, sculpture and other art forms to inspire joy, amusement, introspection, sadness, hope and calmness in the human mind and soul. These emotional responses to artistic stimuli help us connect with ourselves and make us better able to live in the world and interact with our fellow humans. Another side to the arts, less quantified through human history until recently, is described as “instrumental value,” including the economic impact of creative activities. The arts are a tremendous economic driver; the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates the arts and cultural sectors contribute $763 billion annually to the Gross Domestic Product. In states where 30% or more of the population lives in rural areas, arts and culture contributed a national aggregate of $67.5 billion in 2015, from the highest amounts in North Carolina and Tennessee, with the largest rural arts economies, through South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Iowa where the value added ranges from $4-5 billion annually. In Alaska, arts and culture contribute approximately $1.4 billion to the economy, employing some 11,000 people, clearly a significant part of what makes a
prosperous, high-quality life on the Last Frontier possible and sustainable. Earlier this month, I was in our nation’s capital to participate in a policy briefing about recent research findings on how important the arts are to economic well-being in rural America. The National Endowment for the Arts (the NEA, our nation’s arts agency) partnered with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA, which counts all State Arts Agencies as its members) to look at arts activity and jobs in rural America to produce an analytic assessment tool. The third partner was the bipartisan National Governor’s Association (NGA), which strives to help chief executives in every state find the best practices to accomplish great things in the differing states-as-laboratories that comprise our great nation. The United States is becoming an increasingly urban country, and concentrated metropolitan areas benefit from accumulated wealth and economic activity that can make it easier for residents to thrive and prosper. But Alaskans, and the other 60 million Americans who live in rural parts of America, are proud to live where we do, with both the challenges and freedoms that come with rural living. Rural America has many distinct historic elements, but the charm of history and rusticity doesn’t offset declines in traditional economic activities or remedy the ills that have come with declining populations and diminishing historic sources of employment. Arts and cultural activities help rejuvenate rural communities, providing a means to face down problems like the opioid epidemic and the criminal activity it has engendered. Finding ways to promote arts and cultural activity is one of the most effective ways to put rural America back on the path to health and wealth.
The study unveiled in Washington, D.C., earlier this month can be accessed online at nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NGA_RuralArtsReport. pdf. It contains practical assessments of what has been shown to work in differing rural contexts. The creative sector has most potential to effect positive change when a comprehensive plan is built on clearly identified assets and specific needs. Statistical figures on unemployment, educational attainment, population immigration and emigration, and the size and nature of various industries are key metrics to chart a course forward. The briefing was live streamed on Facebook at facebook.com/NASAA.Arts/videos/2436268953063511/. All of Southeast Alaska is rural, and we face many challenges that have beset other rural American communities. The loss of some of the traditional job sources from downsizing government and changes to the natural resource sector require a response. One area of continuing economic growth is the visitor industry with record numbers of people expected in 2019. Arts and culture is a logical way to support and strengthen the visitor industry, by featuring our history, expanding existing physical infrastructure to accommodate growing need, and maximizing returns to year-round residents and our communities. This can and should lead to more stable jobs with good wages, ultimately creating more resources for transportation, housing, education, public safety, health, and arts and cultural assets for the benefit of all. Benjamin Brown is a lifelong Alaskan and an attorney who lives in Juneau. He serves as chairman of the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
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Trump urges Roy Moore not to run for US Senate MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday discouraged Alabama Republican Roy Moore from running for U.S. Senate again in 2020, saying the GOP must regain the once reliably red state and Moore “cannot win.” Moore, who contends establishment Republicans are trying to keep him from running, disputed the assertion saying, “everybody knows I can win.” Moore lost the 2017 special election to Democrat Doug Jones amid
sexual misconduct allegations. He is considering a second run in 2020. “Republicans cannot allow themselves to again lose the Senate seat in the Great State of Alabama,” Trump wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet. Trump, who backed Moore in 2017 despite the allegations, tweeted “I have NOTHING against Roy Moore,” but warned “Roy Moore cannot win.” Trump added that if Democrats retain the seat in 2020, “many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost.” Moore told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he has not made a decision about whether to
enter the 2020 race, but Trump’s comments will not influence him. “I think the president is coming under pressure from people in Washington, scared that I will run for the Senate, scared I will win and know I can win,” Moore, 72, said. “Everybody knows I can win and that’s what’s worrying in Washington.” Moore said he will announce a decision in June. Jones defeated Moore in 2017 by 22,000 votes out of 1.3 million cast in a special election to fill the seat previously held by Jeff Sessions, who became Trump’s attorney general.
free” Arctic Ocean. NASA says the southwestern United States should expect “declining water supplies, reduced agricultural yields, health impacts in cities due to heat, and flooding and erosion in coastal areas.” At this point, it appears unlikely that Trump will ever stop trying to weaken or get rid of environmental rules that would help mitigate these and other
devastating consequences. He’s surrounded himself with yes men such as Reilly and Pompeo who won’t talk him down from his position. He doesn’t listen to anyone in Congress, Republican or Democrat, who might change his mind. So, it’s up to the American public to reach the president. He’s running for re-election, so he must care what voters think.
Contact the White House and let Trump know you don’t want to live in fear of more storms even worse than Harvey. Tell the president it’s time to acknowledge human activity’s role in creating the greenhouses gases that cause global warming and to do something about it.
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— The Houston Chronicle, May 28
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Severe weather forecasts continue By MITCH STACY Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio — People from Kansas to Pennsylvania picked up the pieces from a swarm of tornadoes and braced for more violent weather Wednesday in a storm that’s seen a record number of twisters with no end in sight. North Texas remained under a tornado watch until the evening, while the National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning along the Oklahoma-Arkansas line as strong thunderstorms brought a new round of rain to eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, where the Arkansas River is expected to crest at historic levels. In the east, multiple tornado warnings were issued for New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At least three tornadoes were confirmed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. In Kansas, the National Weather Service was still assessing the strength of a twister that injured at least 15 people Tuesday, three of them seriously, and damaged homes, trees and power lines in Douglas and Leavenworth counties in east-
By ANDREW TAYLOR and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
A destroyed home sits in a neighborhood after it was hit by a tornado on Tuesday, south of Lawrence, Kan., near US-59 highway and N. 1000 Road. (Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)
ern Kansas. “I’m just glad I found my two dogs alive,” said Mark Duffin, of Linwood, Kansas. “Wife’s alive, family’s alive, I’m alive. So, that’s it.” Duffin, 48, learned from his wife and a television report that the large tornado was headed toward his home about 30 miles west of Kansas City. The next thing he knew, the walls of his house were coming down, he told the Kansas City Star.
Tuesday marked the 12th straight day that at least eight tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service. The previous record for consecutive days with that many tornadoes was an 11-day stretch in 1980. The weather service website showed at least 27 reports of tornadoes Tuesday, most in Kansas and Missouri but also in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In Ohio, tens of thousands of Ohio residents were with-
out power or water Wednesday in the aftermath of at least eight tornadoes that spun across the state Monday. One person was killed and more than 140 injured. At least 60,000 people lacked water service in the Dayton area, where ice and water distribution centers were set up. A utility said power had been returned to some 35,000 customers Wednesday, but tens of thousands still were awaiting restoration.
US to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The decision comes after Bernhardt visited the site Tuesday and met with leaders of the Navajo Nation and Pueblo tribes that have been fighting to protect culturally significant sites beyond the park, with its stone structures
McConnell: ‘We’d fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy
that were used by an ancient civilization. The area has been central to an ongoing dispute over drilling in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado, one of the nation’s oldest production areas. A coalition of tribes has called repeatedly for a moratorium on energy development, while members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have introduced legislation to officially create a buffer zone within 10 miles of the park. Advocates welcomed Bernhardt’s decision, but some
cautioned that it was a stopgap measure. They argued for passing the legislation, which they say would protect the area’s archaeological and sensitive landscapes by halting new oil and natural gas lease sales on federal holdings within the buffer zone. The delay on leasing will give the U.S. Bureau of Land Management time to finish drafting an updated management plan to guide energy development on federal land across the region. Bernhardt requested that the plan include an alternative that reflects tribal leaders’ views and the boundaries sought by
lawmakers. “I walked away with a greater sense of appreciation of the magnificent site managed by the National Park Service and a better understanding of the tribal leaders’ views of its cultural significance,” Bernhardt said after his visit. The Bureau of Land Management in recent years has put off leasing parcels within the buffer zone, but most of that area is Navajo land and individual Navajo allotments. The legislation would not affect mineral rights on that land, meaning development would still be possible.
WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader says if there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court during next year’s election cycle, the Republican-controlled Senate would likely confirm a nominee selected by President Donald Trump. In an appearance Tuesday in Paducah, Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told a questioner that if a Supreme Court justice died next year, creating a vacancy on the nine-member court, “Oh, we’d fill it.” McConnell’s comments appeared to mark a reversal from his stance three years ago, during President Barack Obama’s final year in office, when he orchestrated a blockade of Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia . McConnell blocked hearings for Garland, a federal appeals court judge, saying that the choice should be left to voters in an election year. McConnell’s change of heart drew attacks from Democrats still smarting from his success in cementing the high court’s conservative majority. The vacancy created by Scalia’s death was filled by conservative Neil Gorsuch while swing vote Anthony Kennedy, who retired, was replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh after an acrimonious brawl last year. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said McConnell was a “hypocrite” and tweeted that his colleague “lives for GOP judges because he knows the GOP agenda is so radical & unpopular they can only achieve it in
courts.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the fifth-ranking House Democrat, called McConnell “a shameless individual” and accused him of “stealing a Supreme Court seat that Barack Obama had the right to present to the American people.” McConnell spokesman David Popp said McConnell was being consistent because he took care in 2016 to say that vacancies occurring when the White House and Senate are held by different parties should be held up. Republicans now control the Senate and White House. “You’d have to go back to 1888 when Grover Cleveland was in the White House to find the last time a vacancy created in a presidential year was confirmed by the party opposite the occupant of the White House,” McConnell said in March 2016, a month after Scalia died. There is no announced vacancy and no justice has made moves indicating they’re about to leave, but there’s internet chatter that Justice Clarence Thomas, the current court’s longest serving justice, would consider retirement if his seat could be filled by a Trumpnamed younger conservative. Thomas was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. The Senate has approved more than 100 federal judges since Trump took office, including two Supreme Court justices and 41 appeals court judges. At the Paducah event, McConnell said confirming judges is the best way to have “a long-lasting positive impact on the country. That’s the most important thing we’ve done in the country, which cannot be undone.”
Case of Tennessee man accused of killing 8 with grand jury By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press
GALLATIN, Tenn. — A 12-year-old girl who is among the eight people a Tennessee man is charged with killing was found partially undressed and lying on top of a serrated knife, baseball bat and part of a broken rifle, authorities said in court Wednesday. Sumner County District Attorney General Ray Whitley and law enforcement officials revealed the details about 12-year-old Sapphire McGlothlin-Pee before a judge sent 25-year-old Michael Cummins’ case to a grand jury. Sapphire was discovered last month in the living room of a trailer home underneath a loveseat, with one foot sticking out, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation forensic scien-
tist Miranda Gaddes testified. Authorities also testified that Sapphire was stabbed, but Whitley said there’s no evidence so far that she was sexually assaulted. He said that is still being investigated. Along with Sapphire’s body, those of Cummins’ parents, 51-year-old David Carl Cummins and 44-yearold Clara Jane Cummins; and Sapphire’s mother, 43-yearold Rachel Dawn McGlothlin-Pee, and her grandmother, 64-year-old Marsha Elizabeth Nuckols, were found in the trailer in the rural Westmoreland area. Affidavits say those six victims and the two others — a man whose body was found in the woods and a woman whose body was found in a house — died from blunt-force head injuries. The graphic testimony
of how Sapphire was found drew an outburst in court from her uncle, Steve McGlothlin. He was kicked out of court by deputies. McGlothlin told reporters the killings left him the only living member of his immediate family. Wednesday marked McGlothlin’s first glimpse of Cummins, who sat in a wheelchair with a cast on his leg from the bullet wound he received when authorities found him after a brief manhunt. Cummins, who has a long criminal record with multiple instances of court-ordered mental health evaluations, bobbed his head back and forth throughout the hearing. “Personally, I don’t feel the man deserves to draw another breath on this earth,” McGlothlin said of Cummins. “So, the moment they
wheeled him in that room, I had wished for him to die.” According to an affidavit, on April 17 — 10 days before the discovery of the bodies in the trailer — an officer found Jim Dunn’s headless body about 75 yards away from a burned cabin, with his head about 25 yards away from his body. Sumner County Sheriff’s Office Detective Lance Hampton said he believes the body had been there for three or four days. He said he thinks animals detached Dunn’s head from his body. Cummins was later seen with a rifle that looked like one of Dunn’s that had gone missing, and on April 27, authorities discovered Dunn’s missing rifle at the trailer where the six victims were found, the affidavit
New Hampshire sues 3M, DuPont, chemical companies By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water. The substances — known collectively as PFAS — have been used in coatings meant to protect consumer goods and are commonplace in households across the United States. Studies have found potential links between high levels of PFOA in the body and a range of illnesses including kidney cancer, increased cholesterol levels and problems in pregnancies. And because they persist for so long in the environment, PFAS has been dubbed a forever chemical With the lawsuits, New Hampshire becomes the sec-
ond state in the nation to go In an email, 3M said it PFAS” and would “vigorousafter the makers and distribu- “acted responsibly in connec- ly defend its environmental tors of perfluoroalkyl and tion with products containing stewardship.” polyfluoroalkyl substances and the first to target statewide contamination. New York state has sued six companies that made firefighting foam containing PFOS and/or PFOA chemicals that it says have contaminated drinking water in two communities and groundwater in another. “The actions we are taking today is intended to ensure that those responsible for PFAS contamination to our state’s drinking water supplies and other natural resources are held accountable,” New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon McDonald said. “As alleged in the lawsuits, the defendants possessed unique knowledge of the dangers of PFAS chemicals but continued to make or sell them without warning the public of their health risks.”
says. Part of the broken rifle was found under Sapphire and the other segment was discovered near the body of Cummins’ mother, Gaddes said. Another victim, 69-yearold Shirley B. Fehrle, was found dead in a separate home and has no known relationship to Cummins, authorities have said. Prosecutors believe Cummins stole a car belonging to Fehrle and abandoned it in a creekbed. Another person was injured at the first trailer but survived. Prosecutors said shoeprints found at the trailer and
where Fehrle was killed also tied the scenes together. Cummins had been on probation after serving just 16 months of a 10-year sentence for attempting to burn down a neighbor’s house in September 2017 and assaulting her when she tried to put out the fire. He was released on probation in January, but his probation officer had been preparing an arrest warrant for probation violations, Whitley has said. Cummins violated a no-contact order with the neighbor and failed to get a required mental health evaluation, a previous affidavit says.
Domestic Violence On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. Contact The LeeShore Center Crisis Line at 283-7257 if you need help. The LeeShore Center is proud to be a United Way agency
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In UAE, Trump’s adviser warns Iran Top US and Russian diplomats discussed of ‘very strong response’
ways to end Syria war
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser warned Iran on Wednesday that any attacks in the Persian Gulf will draw a “very strong response” from the U.S., taking a hard-line approach with Tehran after his boss only two days earlier said America wasn’t “looking to hurt Iran at all.” John Bolton’s comments are the latest amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran that have been playing out in the Middle East. Bolton spoke to journalists in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, which only days earlier saw former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warn there that “unilateralism will not work” in confronting the Islamic Republic. The dueling approaches highlight the divide over Iran within American politics. The U.S. has accused Tehran of being behind a string of incidents this month, including the alleged sabotage of oil tankers off the Emirati coast, a rocket strike near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a coordinated drone attack on Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels. On Wednesday, Bolton told journalists that there had been a previously unknown attempt to attack the
By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press
In this Tuesday, May 21 photo, provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. B-52H Stratofortress, prepares to join up with Qatari Air Force Mirage 2000s and U.S. F-35A Lightning IIs to fly in formation over Southwest Asia to build military-to-military relationships, in an undisclosed location. (Senior Airman Keifer Bowes/U.S. Air Force via AP)
Saudi oil port of Yanbu as well, which he also blamed on Iran. He described Tehran’s decision to back away from its 2015 atomic deal with world powers as evidence it sought nuclear weapons, even though it came a year after America unilaterally withdrew from the unraveling agreement. Bolton stressed the U.S. had not seen any further Iranian attacks in the time since, something he attributed to the recent military deployments — America recently sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf. But he warned the U.S. would strike back if again attacked. “The point is to make it very clear to Iran and its
surrogates that these kinds of action risk a very strong response from the United States,” Bolton threatened, without elaborating. Bolton spoke before talks with Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He declined to have his remarks recorded by journalists. A longtime Iran hawk, Bolton blamed Tehran for the recent incidents, at one point saying it was “almost certainly” Iran that planted explosives on the four oil tankers off the UAE coast. He declined to offer any evidence for his claims. “Who else would you think is doing it?” Bolton asked at one point when
pressed. “Somebody from Nepal?” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has repeatedly criticized Bolton as a warmonger. Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said later Wednesday Bolton’s remarks were a “ridiculous accusation.” Separately in Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani said that the “road is not closed” when it comes to talks with the U.S. — if America returns to the nuclear deal. However, the relatively moderate Rouhani faces increasing criticism from hard-liners and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the collapsing accord.
Top U.S. and Russian diplomats discussed step-by-step implementation of a 2012 roadmap to U.N.-supervised elections in Syria that could allow a Syrian government “to move back into the international community,” the U.S. envoy for the war-torn country said Wednesday. Ambassador James Jeffrey’s comments indicated a new U.S.-Russian engagement on efforts to end the eight-year Syrian conflict that has killed over 400,000 people and lift Syria’s isolation in the West and elsewhere. But Jeffrey cautioned that “this is just a potential way forward.” He noted there have been no steps such as a cease-fire in the last rebelheld stronghold in Idlib that the Trump administration is demanding or the convening of a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria as called for in the roadmap. Such steps “would give us confidence that the Assad regime actually understands what it must do to help end this conflict,” he told reporters after a closed Security Council meeting on Syria’s political situation. Jeffrey, the U.S. special representative for Syria engagement, spoke of discussions that he and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in mid-May with Russian President Vladimir Putin
and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “In terms of working with the Russians in Sochi, we believe that there is a sincere interest in finding a solution to this conflict,” Jeffrey said. “But this is going to take hard decisions — hard decisions not only by us, but hard decisions by the Russians and hard decisions, most of all, by the Syrian regime.” The June 30, 2012, Geneva agreement on a blueprint for peace in Syria was approved by representatives of the U.N., Arab League, European Union, Turkey, and all five veto-wielding Security Council members — the U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain. It calls for a Syrian-led political process starting with the establishment of a transitional governing body vested with full executive powers, moving on to the drafting of a new constitution, and ending with elections. The Security Council unanimously endorsed the agreement in Resolution 2254 adopted in December 2015 that set a timetable for talks and a cease-fire that was never met. Jeffrey said that at the Sochi meeting with the Russians, “we talked about … the potential way forward to see a step-by-step implementation of U.N. Resolution 2254 in return for steps that would allow a Syrian government that adheres to 2254 to move back into the international community.”
South Africa’s president names Cabinet that is 50% women By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s president on Wednesday named a trimmeddown Cabinet that is 50% women, making the country’s one of few in the world to be “gender-balanced.” President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement followed similar moves by Ethiopia and Rwanda last year. Ramaphosa cut the Cabi-
net from 36 ministers to 28 as he seeks to reduce the bloating under predecessor Jacob Zuma, who stepped down last year under pressure amid corruption allegations. Fighting the corruption and mismanagement that has consumed billions of rand is the major issue facing the ruling African National Congress, whose election win this month was the weakest in its 25 years in power amid public frustration.
The ANC leadership still contains some Zuma allies, complicating Ramaphosa’s efforts at reforms aimed at restoring investor confidence in the economy, the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa. Creating jobs is another immense challenge in a country where unemployment is over 25%, and where a growing youth population that never knew the harsh racial system of apartheid that ended in 1994 is restless
for a better future. “The people who I am appointing today must realize that the expectations of the South African people have never been greater and that they will shoulder a great responsibility,” Ramaphosa said in a national address that stressed the need for an “ethical” government. South Africa’s new Cabinet retains Deputy President David Mabuza, who also has faced graft allegations
China dangles a potentially harmful new threat in trade war By PAUL WISEMAN, FRANK BAJAK and YANAN WANG Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Facing new trade sanctions and a U.S. clampdown on its top telecommunications company, China issued a pointed reminder Wednesday that it has yet to unleash all its weapons in its trade war with the Trump administration. Chinese state media warned that Beijing could cut America off from exotic minerals that are widely used in electric cars and mobile phones. The threat to use China’s rich supply of so-called rare earths as leverage in the conflict has contributed to sharp losses in U.S. stocks and sliding long-term bond yields. For months, the world’s two biggest economies have been locked in a standoff over allegations that China deploys predatory tactics — including stealing trade secrets and forcing foreign companies to hand over technology — in a drive to supplant U.S. technological dominance. The Trump administration has imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports and is planning to tax the $300 billion in imports that have so far been spared. And it escalated the stakes this month by putting the Chinese telecom giant Huawei on a blacklist that effectively bars
but has denied wrongdoing. Also remaining are Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and public enterprises minster and former finance minister Pravin Gordhan. Both have been well-regarded. The main opposition Democratic Alliance criticized the president for keeping Mabuza in what it called the first real test of Ramaphosa’s tough stance on corruption. “Unfortunately, Ramaphosa placed the in-
Israel heads toward election as Netanyahu fails to form govt By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press
In this Monday, May 20 photo, a couple watch content on a smartphone near a Huawei store in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
U.S. companies from supplying it with computer chips, software and other components without government approval. The U.S. claims Huawei is legally beholden to China’s ruling Communist Party, which could order it to spy on their behalf. Washington has offered no evidence that the Huawei has done that, however. Huawei is trying to beat back one punitive U.S. measure in federal court. In a motion filed late Tuesday in eastern Texas, the company argued that a 2018 law that bars it from selling telecom gear to U.S. gov-
ernment agencies and contractors should be struck down as unconstitutional. The move for summary judgment in a case filed against the U.S. government in March says the law violates a constitutional prohibition against “trial by legislature” of individual entities. Congress thus acted unconstitutionally when it “adjudicated Huawei’s guilt and blacklisted it,” the motion argues. An attorney representing Huawei in the U.S. case, Glen Nager of Jones Day, asserts that Congress alone cannot constitutionally impose punishment on an in-
dividual company — which the punitive law does in singling out Huawei by name. The law “is intended to drive Huawei out of the U.S. — i.e., to banish it,” Nager argued. It “stigmatizes Huawei as a tool of the Chinese government” with no right to a fair hearing, he added. Steven Schwinn, a professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, suggested that Huawei’s arguments fall short constitutionally, and “given that this relates to national security, we can expect the courts to be fairly deferential to the government.”
ternal factional interests of the ANC ahead of the interests of the people of South Africa,” the DA said in a statement. Ramaphosa also included younger leaders in his Cabinet, notably former ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola as the minister of justice and correctional services. Another youth leader, Njabulo Nzuza, was appointed as deputy minister of home affairs.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament voted to dissolve itself early Thursday, sending the country to an unprecedented second snap election this year as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition before a midnight deadline. The dramatic vote, less than two months after parliamentary elections, marked a setback for Netanyahu and sent the longtime leader’s future into turmoil. Netanyahu, who has led Israel for the past decade, had appeared to capture a fourth consecutive term in the April 9 election. But infighting among his allies, and disagreements over proposed bills to protect Netanyahu from prosecution stymied his efforts to put together a majority coalition. Rather than concede that task to one of his rivals, Netanyahu’s Likud party advanced a bill to dissolve parliament and send the country to the polls for a second time this year. “I didn’t spare any effort to avoid unnecessary elections,” Netanyahu said after the vote, lashing out at an ally-turnedrival, Avigdor Lieberman, who refused the prime minister’s offers to join the government.
He said the country was being forced to hold “unnecessary, wasteful elections because the people had their say. They didn’t have their say enough for what Mr. Lieberman wants.” Had the deadline passed without the vote, Israel’s president would have given another lawmaker, most likely opposition leader Benny Gantz, an opportunity to put together a coalition. After the vote, Gantz angrily accused Netanyahu of choosing self-preservation over allowing the country’s political process to run its course. Gantz said that Netanyahu opted for “three crazy months” of a new campaign and millions of wasted dollars over new elections because he is “legally incapacitated” by looming indictments. “There is no other reason,” Gantz said. The country now plunges into a new election campaign that will last at least three months under Israeli law. With much of the country on vacation in late August, a tentative date of Sept. 17 was set. The campaign looks to complicate Netanyahu’s precarious legal standing. Israel’s attorney general has recommended pressing criminal charges against him in three separate corruption cases, pending a hearing scheduled for October.
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Heavy-hitting Homer heads to state softball Recent NLC champion Mariners enter Div. II tourney in search of 1st state crown in 13 years By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion
The accolades won by the Homer softball team are plenty — three straight Northern Lights Conference titles and 19 state appearances in the last 20 years — but winning state has always been a tough goal to reach. Homer has a state softball championship from 2006, but only a handful of near misses outside of that to show for its impressive run of state appearances. In order to break that 13-year drought, the Mariners could use a hot streak.
Fortunately, they are currently riding one. The Mariners dominated last week’s Northern Lights Conference tournament, winning three games by a combined score of 35-6 and running away with the title over Kodiak. It has Homer head coach Bill Bell feeling good as the final weekend of the year approaches. “Things are really clicking right now,” Bell said. The Division II state softball tournament gets under way today with pool play at Cartee Fields in Anchorage. The field is split into
two three-team groupings, Pool A and Pool B. In Pool A, Homer plays two games Thursday, against Ketchikan at 10 a.m. and Hutchison at 2:45 p.m. Pool B is comprised of Delta Junction, Sitka and Kodiak. From there, teams will need to play and win at least three games to claim the Div. II crown. The top two teams from Pool A and B will get a one-game bye Friday, while the other four will begin bracket play Friday morning. A loss sends you to the loser-out bracket. The battle for the Div. II championship gets under way Satur-
day at 2:45 p.m. If the team that emerged from the loser-out bracket wins, then an “If-necessary” title game will be played. They say hitting is contagious, and Homer’s stat line certainly proves that entering the tournament. Eight qualified players — essentially the entire starting lineup — are hitting over .400 this year, a list that includes Grace Godfrey, Kaitlyn Johnson, Haylee Owen, Annalynn Brown, Brianna Hetrick, Kaylin Anderson, Zoe Adkins and Hannah Hatfield. “They’re banging out hits,” Bell said. “It amazes me, I look at
some of their swings and think it’s not great, but they’re getting hits. “It’s not gymnastics, you don’t need form to get it done.” Godfrey leads the team in nearly every offensive category, including RBI’s with 34, home runs with three, runs scored with 42 and walks with 22. The slugger is hitting .581, getting on base at .677 and slugging .959. “I think she’s set and ready to lead the team on,” Bell said. However, since this is the state tourney and no team is a pushover, Bell said the Mariners may need to See HOMER, page A8
Older guys see wins at French Open By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
PARIS — Roger Federer, 37, joked to a stadium filled with screaming kids that he’s “so super old.” Stan Wawrinka, 34, pulled a crying boy out of a crush of autograph-seekers in the stands. Rafael Nadal, about to turn 33, offered this advice to youngsters at his match who might be pondering a tennis career: “The main thing is, don’t think about winning Roland Garros.” Schools in France are closed on Wednesdays, bringing out a, um, louder brand of fan to the French Open, and that trio of past champions of the clay-court major seemed to appreciate the adulation from the little ones who attended their straight-set victories. Fitting, too, perhaps, that Federer advanced to a third-round meeting against 20-year-old Casper Ruud, someone so much his junior that the guy’s father was in the field when Federer made his debut in Paris in 1999. “I know probably more about his dad,” Federer said, “than about him.” Federer, the tournament’s 2009 champion who hadn’t been in the field in four years, will be playing his third opponent in a row who is 25 or younger, after beating 144th-ranked Oscar Otte 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in the second round. Now the 20-time major champion takes on Ruud, a Norwegian ranked 63rd. He is coached by his father, Christian, who told Casper he once practiced with Federer, although they never played. “Ever since I can remember, I’ve been watching Roger on TV,” said Ruud, who knocked off 29th-seeded Matteo Berrettini 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Then came this admission from Ruud: “To be honest, I’ve been a little bit more of a Rafa fan and Rafa guy.” Better hope no one tells Roger. Still, even if he always has preferred Nadal, Ruud described what comes next this way: “I’m playing one of the greatest champions ever of this sport on Friday, so I’m just super excited for it. I can play loose and free.” Wawrinka, the winner in 2015 and the runner-up two years later, also had no trouble against a much younger foe Wednesday, eliminating 22-year-old Cristian Garin 6-1, 6-4, 6-0. Afterward, Wawrinka came to the rescue of one of his tiniest fans, lifting him away from danger and offering a towel as a keepsake. “I took him out of that mess a little bit,” Wawrinka said. “He was in pain and sad.” Owner of three Grand Slam titles in all, Wawrinka will bring his signature backhand into what shapes up as a more competitive matchup against two-time major semifinalist
The winning goal shot by St. Louis Blues’ Carl Gunnarsson, of Sweden, lands in the back of the net behind Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask, of Finland, during the first overtime period in Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final, Wednesday in Boston. (Bruce Bennett/Pool via AP)
Blues net OT goal to even series Gunnarsson goal ties Stanley Cup finals at 1-1 with Boston By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer
BOSTON — Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson bumped into coach Craig Berube in the bathroom before the start of overtime and told him: “I just need one more.” “He hit the post in the third there, and he just felt good about himself, obviously. Which he should have,” Berube said. “I liked hearing it.” After clanging the potential winner off the post in the final two-minutes of regulation, Gunnarsson scored on a delayed penalty 3:51 into overtime to give St. Louis a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins and tie the Stanley Cup Final at a game apiece. Jordan Binnington made 21 saves, and Robert Bortuzzo and Vladimir Tarasenko scored in regulation to send
a game in the championship series to overtime for the first time since 2016. It was the Blues’ first victory in the Stanley Cup Final in franchise history after 13 straight losses. “I guess that’s a little bonus and pretty cool if you think about it that way,” Gunnarsson said. “We’re pretty sure we’re not going to stop here.” Charlie Coyle and Joakim Nordstrom scored and Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for Boston, which won 4-2 in Game 1 on Monday night for their eighth straight postseason victory. Game 3 is Saturday night in St. Louis. Gunnarsson also assisted on Bortuzzo’s first-period goal and then hit the post behind Rask with about 2 minutes left in regulation. In the final minute, Boston’s David Pastrnak had a chance
off a faceoff, but Binnington turned it away. “Would have loved to have it in the third, but who cares?” Gunnarsson said on the ice moments after the victory. “It’s great, taking this home.” After a furious first period that ended in a 2-all tie, the teams went on defense in the second. Despite four penalties, including a highsticking, blood-drawing double-minor against Boston’s Connor Clifton, neither team was able to score. It stayed tied through a hard-hitting third period, with both teams failing to convert good scoring chances and avoid overtime. But after the break, it was all Blues. Boston did not get off a shot in the overtime, and the Eastern Conference champs struggled to clear it out of their own zone. Alexander Steen drew a hooking penalty
in front of the net, and the Blues pulled Binnington for an extra skater. Gunnarsson worked it around to the blue line, passed it to Oskar Sundqvist and then got it back for a rifle shot over Rask’s stick side into the corner of the net. “He got a second chance at it and made the most of it,” forward Brayden Schenn said. “The boys are happy for him.” Gunnarsson also fed Bortuzzo midway through the first period for a shot that deflected off Matt Grzelcyk’s stick past Rask to make it 1-1. Nordstrom scored just 40 seconds later to give Boston a 2-1 lead, but that lasted less than five minutes before Tarasenko took advantage of a mistake by Brad Marchand and lifted the puck over Rask with a second effort to tie the score again at 2.
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Santana, Indians slug way to victory over Red Sox BOSTON (AP) — Carlos Santana homered and hit Cleveland’s first triple of the season, Greg Allen added a pair of three-baggers and the Indians pounded out a season-high 18 hits in a 14-9 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. Santana, who finished a single shy of the cycle, was 3 for 4 with five RBIs as Cleveland matched its season best for runs. Jose Ramirez had two doubles and two RBIs. Allen and Kevin Plawecki also drove in two runs apiece for the Indians, who won two of three against the World Series champions in Boston.
ning to allow the go-ahead run to score and Los Angeles beat Oakland and sent the Athletics to their second straight loss after a 10-game winning streak. Mike Trout was rested a day after fouling a ball off the top of his right foot. Noé Ramírez (2-0) retired six batters to win. César Puello had three hits, including his first career home run, and drove in four runs.
PIRATES 7, REDS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — Josh Bell tied Pittsburgh’s record with his 12th homer in May, and the Pirates stopped Derek Dietrich’s home run spree in beating Cincinnati for a split of the teams’ four-game series. Bell’s three-run homer tied Jason ANGELS 12, ATHLETICS 7 Bay’s mark from May 2006. His 23rd OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Gold extra-base hit in May left him one shy Glove first baseman Matt Olson made of Paul Waner’s club record for any a rare throwing error in the 11th in- month. He had three hits, raising his
average to .345 with 18 homers overall. Colin Moran also had a three-run shot off Anthony DeSclafani (2-3), who has given up seven homers in his last three starts.
YANKEES 7, PADRES 0 NEW YORK (AP) — DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit jolted rookie Chris Paddack with instant home runs, James Paxton pitched four hitless innings in his return from the injured list and New York beat San Diego. Gio Urshela also connected off Paddack, Gleyber Torres hit a late homer and Voit added his first big league triple as the Yankees won their eighth straight series.
run double and Washington withstood a grand slam by rookie Austin Riley to beat Atlanta. Sánchez (1-6) returned to Atlanta, where he thrived in 2018, to earn his first win of the season. He was perfect through 5 1/3 innings and allowed one hit and one walk with seven strikeouts.
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ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4 DENVER (AP) — Jeff Hoffman pitched five solid innings and beat out an infield single to drive in a key run as Colorado beat Arizona. Brendan Rodgers had a two-run single and Trevor Story added three hits for the Rockies, who won their season-high fourth in a row at home and clinched a series win in the fourgame set.
HOUSTON (AP) — Kyle Hendricks pitched eight strong innings, Kyle Schwarber homered for the second straight game and Kris Bryant added a solo shot in his return to the lineup to help Chicago avoid a sweep with a win over Houston. The game included a scary and jarRANGERS 8, MARINERS 7 ring moment when a young fan was hit by a foul line drive off the bat of SEATTLE (AP) — Nomar Mazara NATIONALS 14, BRAVES 4 Albert Almora Jr. in the fourth inning. and Asdrubal Cabrera hit consecutive ATLANTA (AP) — Aníbal Sán- The Astros did not provide an imme- doubles in the ninth inning, lifting chez allowed one hit in six scoreless diate update on the girl’s condition, Texas over Seattle. See MLB, page A8 innings, Howie Kendrick hit a three- though a photo taken by The Associ-
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Sports Briefs Steffensen using hit streak to propel Mesa CC Kenai’s Paul Steffensen extended his college hitting streak to eight games Wednesday, helping third-seeded Mesa Community College advance in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II World Series. Steffensen got the week started by hitting 1 for 4 in a 2-0 opening-round win against sixth-seeded Lincoln Land (Illinois) Community College on the first day of the tournament in Enid, Oklahoma. Then, on Tuesday, the 2018 Kenai Central grad went 1 for 4 again with an RBI, but Mesa lost 4-3 in 12 innings to Madison (Wisconsin) College. Later on Tuesday, Mesa beat Northeast College 8-6 in 10 innings, advancing the Thunderbirds to the semifinal round. Steffensen hit 2 for 6 in that game, including a game-tying RBI groundout in the eight inning. Wednesday, Mesa beat Madison 113, as Steffensen went 2 for 5 with an RBI and two runs. Mesa will face Madison again Thursday in an elimination game, with the winner advancing to the finals.
Petterson named to NWAC 2nd-team list as reliever Soldotna’s Gavin Petterson was recently named to the East Region AllNWAC Second Team after a stellar season of pitching. The 2017 Kenai Central grad posted a season ERA of 3.55 for Columbia Basin College (Washington) as a reliever, racking up a 3-2 record with two saves. Petterson struck out 36 over 33 innings in 13 games. His last six appearances saw him craft a 2.41 ERA.
Chelsea beats Arsenal in EL final, Hazard scores twice BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — For Eden Hazard, it was the perfect goodbye. For Petr Cech, it was a painful way to retire. Hazard scored twice past his former teammate as Chelsea sliced through Arsenal in the second half of the Europa League final on Wednesday, netting four times in the space of 23 minutes to win 4-1 in a London derby played far from home. The Belgian then confirmed that he is likely to leave the club this summer, amid widespread speculation about a move to Real Madrid. “I think it is a goodbye but in football you never know,” Hazard told British broadcaster BT Sport . “My dream was to play in the Premier League. I did this for seven years for one of the biggest clubs in the world. Maybe it’s time for a new challenge.” After a drab first half, Chelsea took control in the 49th minute when Olivier Giroud met Emerson’s pass with a diving header into the net. It was the French striker’s 11th goal in 14 games in the Europa League this season, but he barely celebrated against his old team, kneeling with palms raised as his teammates mobbed him. Pedro doubled the lead when he found space in the penalty area in the 60th to stroke in a cut-back pass from Hazard.
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basketball NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Golden State vs. Toronto Thursday, May 30 Golden State at Toronto, 5 p.m. Sunday, June 2 Golden State at Toronto, 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 5 Toronto at Golden State, 5 p.m. Friday, June 7 Toronto at Golden State, 5 p.m. Monday, June 10 x-Golden State at Toronto, 5 p.m. Thursday, June 13 x-Toronto at Golden State, 5 p.m. Sunday, June 16 x-Golden State at Toronto, 6 p.m. All Times ADT
hockey NHL Playoffs STANLEY CUP FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Monday, May 27 Boston 4, St. Louis 2 Wednesday, May 29 St. Louis 3, Boston 2, OT, series tied 1-1 Saturday, June 1 Boston at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Monday, June 3 Boston at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Thursday, June 6 St. Louis at Boston, 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9 x-Boston at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 12 x-St. Louis at Boston, 4 p.m. All Times ADT
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East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 33 22 .600 — Atlanta 30 26 .536 3½ New York 27 28 .491 6 Washington 24 32 .429 9½ Miami 19 34 .358 13 Central Division Chicago 31 23 .574 — Milwaukee 31 25 .554 1 Pittsburgh 27 27 .500 4 St. Louis 26 28 .481 5 Cincinnati 26 30 .464 6 West Division Los Angeles 37 19 .661 — San Diego 29 27 .518 8 Arizona 28 28 .500 9 Colorado 27 27 .500 9 San Francisco 21 33 .389 15 Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2 N.Y. Yankees 7, San Diego 0 Philadelphia 11, St. Louis 4 Miami 4, San Francisco 2 Washington 14, Atlanta 4 Chicago Cubs 2, Houston 1 Colorado 5, Arizona 4 L.A. Dodgers 9, N.Y. Mets 8 Thursday’s Games St. Louis (Hudson 3-3) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 2-2), 9:05 a.m. San Francisco (Beede 0-1) at Miami (Alcantara 2-5), 9:10 a.m. Arizona (Clarke 1-1) at Colorado (Freeland 2-6), 11:10 a.m. Milwaukee (Anderson 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Musgrove 3-5), 3:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Vargas 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 7-1), 6:10 p.m.
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Grigor Dimitrov, who eliminated 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 6-7 (3), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 over nearly 4½ hours. Nadal’s form hadn’t been up to his usual standards during much of the clay season: This was the first
Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, San Diego 0 L.A. Angels 12, Oakland 7, 11 innings Texas 8, Seattle 7 Cleveland 14, Boston 9 Detroit 4, Baltimore 2 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3, 11 innings Chicago Cubs 2, Houston 1 Chicago White Sox 8, Kansas City 7 Thursday’s Games Boston (Sale 1-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 4-3), 3:05 p.m. Minnesota (Perez 7-1) at Tampa Bay (Morton 5-0), 3:10 p.m. Kansas City (Junis 3-5) at Texas (Minor 5-3), 4:05 p.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (Banuelos 2-4), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Skaggs 4-4) at Seattle (Kikuchi 3-2), 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT
Rangers 8, Mariners 7
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Leclerc, Smyly (2), Chavez (7), Kelley (9) and Mathis, Kiner-Falefa; LeBlanc, Biddle (6), A.Adams (6), Elias (8), Bass (8) and T.Murphy, Narvaez. W_Chavez 1-1. L_Bass 0-1. Sv_Kelley (6). HRs_Seattle, Beckham (10), Haniger (14).
Angels 12, Athletics 7
Bieber, Perez (6), Cole (8), T.Olson (8), Wittgren (9), Hand (9) and Plawecki; Weber, J.Taylor (5), Brewer (6), Velazquez (7), Hembree (9) and Vazquez. W_Bieber 4-2. L_Weber 1-1. Sv_Hand (15). HRs_Cleveland, Santana (10). Boston, Betts (9), Benintendi (6), Bogaerts (10), Bradley Jr. (4).
Rays 4, Blue Jays 3 Tor. 200 000 010 00 —3 12 0 T.B. 001 020 000 01 —4 14 0 (11 innings) Thornton, Hudson (5), Biagini (7), Law (9), Shafer (10) and Jansen; Snell, Roe (7), Kolarek (7), Alvarado (8), Wood (8), Castillo (11) and Kratz, d’Arnaud. W_Castillo 1-3. L_Shafer 0-1. HRs_Toronto, Gurriel Jr. (4).
White Sox 8, Royals 7 K.C. 010 004 020 —7 15 0 Chi. 250 000 01x —8 10 0 Sparkman, J.Lopez (2), Boxberger (7), Kennedy (8) and Maldonado, Gallagher; R.Lopez, Fry (6), Marshall (7), K.Herrera (8), Colome (9) and McCann. W_K. Herrera 2-3. L_Kennedy 0-2. Sv_ Colome (11). HRs_Kansas City, Soler (13). Chicago, Abreu (14), Moncada (10).
Yankees 7, Padres 0 S.D. 000 000 000 —0 4 1 N.Y. 210 011 20x —7 10 1 Paddack, Warren (6), Perdomo (7) and Hedges, A.Allen; Paxton, Green (5), Ottavino (6), Holder (7), Cortes Jr. (9) and Romine. W_Holder 4-2. L_Paddack 4-3. HRs_New York, Voit (14), Torres (14), Urshela (3), LeMahieu (5).
Cubs 2, Astros 1
Hendricks, Cishek (9) and Contreras; Miley, Devenski (8), Harris (9) and Chirinos. W_Hendricks 5-4. L_Miley 5-3. Sv_Cishek (5). HRs_Chicago, Schwarber (10), Bryant (13).
Pirates 7, Reds 2 Pit. 000 003 400 —7 15 0 Cin. 000 000 011 —2 7 0
(11 innings) Canning, J.Anderson (7), Buttrey (7), L.Garcia (8), H.Robles (9), N.Ramirez (10) and Lucroy; Hendriks, Mengden (2), Buchter (6), Petit (6), Wang (8), Treinen (9), Trivino (10), Brooks (11) and Hundley, Phegley. W_N.Ramirez 2-0. L_Trivino 2-1. HRs_Los Angeles, Puello (1). Oakland, Canha (9), Olson (7), Semien (7).
Brault, R.Rodriguez (6), Liriano (6), Holmes (7) and El.Diaz; DeSclafani, Lorenzen (6), Bowman (8), R.Iglesias (9) and Casali. W_Brault 2-1. L_DeSclafani 2-3. HRs_Pittsburgh, Bell (18), Moran (5). Cincinnati, Senzel (4).
Tigers 4, Orioles 2
Bumgarner, Melancon (7), S.Dyson (8) and Posey; P.Lopez, N.Anderson (7), Guerrero (8), Romo (9) and Alfaro. W_N.Anderson 2-2. L_Bumgarner 3-5. Sv_Romo (11). HRs_San Francisco, Belt (8).
R.Carpenter, N.Ramirez (6), Greene (9) and Hicks; Means, Givens (7), Bleier (8), Kline (9) and Wynns. W_N.Ramirez 1-0. L_Kline 1-2. Sv_Greene (18). HRs_Detroit, Dixon (5), Hicks (3). Baltimore, Broxton (2).
Indians 14, Red Sox 9 Cle. 213 112 400 —14 18 1 Bos. 120 300 030 — 9 14 0
time since 2004 that he entered May without a title for the year. But he looked good while taking the title at the Italian Open this month, including a victory over Novak Djokovic in the final, and he’s been close to untouchable so far as he seeks a recordextending 12th trophy in Paris. His latest tour de force was a 6-1, 6-2,
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rely on other ways to score aside from their power hitting. Bell said the team has ramped up its focus on small ball, working on things like bunting and effective baserunning. Homer’s pitching staff isn’t bad either. Junior Annalyn Brown has pitched the lions share of innings this season for Homer with 70%, and has crafted an ERA of 4.16. Bell said her focus and grit in the pitching circle has paid dividends for the Mariners this year, and added he expects her to be a huge factor at state. “She’s just an incredible force,” Bell said. “She gets in the pitching circle and everything else is tuned out. She goes pitch for pitch, we’ll be yelling things from the dugout and she’s not hearing it. When something bad happens, it doesn’t even faze her.” Brown hasn’t lacked at the plate either. She carries a .438 average to state and gets on base more than half the time. Behind her, freshman Zoe Adkins has been the only other player with significant innings under her belt. When she isn’t pitching, Adkins typically patrols right field, and Bell is happy to have the young star. “Knowing she’s a freshman makes me even more comfortable,” he said. As far as the six-team field of contenders, the coaching veteran said one crucial component that could help to pave the way to a state title could be the absence of Thunder Mountain. The defending Div. II champs didn’t even make the cut this year after being knocked off by Ketchikan in the Southeast region tournament. The other state berth from that region was Sitka, which got in by virtue of being the best Southeast team in the regular season. “Looking at who’s coming to state, it’s not the same intimidating feeling,” Bell said.
The Rangers capitalized on three errors and a wild pitch by relief pitchers in the sixth inning, leading to one of four lead changes. Shin-Soo Choo then hit a two-run single in the eighth to tie it at 7 in an unexpected pinchhit appearance to set up Texas’ ninthinning rally.
MARLINS 4, GIANTS 2 MIAMI (AP) — Jorge Alfaro had a career-high four hits and Miami handed San Francisco its seventh consecutive loss. Neil Walker had a tiebreaking, pinch-hit double in the seventh and Starlin Castro hit the first triple of the season for the Marlins, who have won nine of 12.
TIGERS 4, ORIOLES 2 BALTIMORE (AP) — Brandon Dixon hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth inning to lead Detroit past Baltimore. The Tigers took two of the three games and won their first road series since April 1-3 against the Yankees. Orioles reliever Mychal Givens allowed a solo homer to John Hicks that tied the game 2-2 in the eighth. Nicholas Castellanos walked to lead off the ninth and Dixon followed with a two-run shot off Branden Kline (1-2).
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Phillies 11, Cardinals 4 S.L. 000 100 030 — 4 8 1 Phi. 202 250 00x —11 12 1 G.Cabrera, Wacha (4), T.Webb (5), Brebbia (7) and Wieters; Nola, Nicasio (8), Hammer (9) and Realmuto, Knapp. W_Nola 6-0.
6-4 win over 114thranked Yannick Maden, a qualifier from Germany. OK, so Nadal hasn’t really faced much of a test yet. Still, he is displaying the court-covering, ball-walloping style he has perfected, which could come in handy when he plays 2016 French Open quarterfinalist David Goffin in the third round.
inning, driving in the winning run as Tampa Bay beat Toronto. Adames’ hit came off Justin Shafrer (0-1), who walked two and allowed a single by Avisail Garcia. With one out and the infield jammed with fielders, Adames drove a ball to deep center field. Diego Castillo (1-3) got the win after pitching the 11th for the Rays, who have won five straight. Tampa Bay banged out 14 hits; Garcia and Tommy Pham each had three.
WHITE SOX 8, ROYALS 7 CHICAGO (AP) — Six innings after being beaned with a pitch from Kansas City starter Glenn Sparkman, Tim Anderson doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth, lifting Chicago over Kansas City. José Abreu hit a three-run homer, Yoán Moncada also connected and the White Sox swept a three-game series for the first time this season.
PHILLIES 11, CARDINALS 4
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper hit his 10th homer, his 200th career double and drove in four before fouling a ball off his foot and exiting in the fifth inning, and Philadelphia beat St. Louis. The hot-hitting Harper drove a tworun homer in the third and followed an inning later with a two-run hustle double. He had three hits when he left the game with the Phillies ahead by 10 runs. Aaron Nola (6-0) struck out eight over seven innings. Scott Kingery and Maikel Franco hit back-to-back homRAYS 4, BLUE JAYS 3, ers in the fifth, and Andrew McCutch11 INNINGS en hit a two-run shot two batters later ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — to blow the game open. Willy Adames delivered a long single Matt Weiters homered for St. Louagainst a five-man infield in the 11th is.
Nationals 14, Braves 4 Was. 440 150 000 —14 15 0 Atl. 000 000 400 — 4 6 0 A.Sanchez, McGowin (7) and Suzuki; Gausman, Toussaint (2), Winkler (5), Newcomb (5), Blevins (7), J.Webb (8), Tomlin (9) and Flowers. W_A.Sanchez 1-6. L_Gausman 2-4. Sv_McGowin (1). HRs_Washington, Adams (5), Soto (9). Atlanta, Riley (7).
Rockies 5, D-Backs 4 Ari. 020 011 000 —4 11 1 Col. 100 310 00x —5 10 0 Ray, Crichton (5), Hirano (6), Y.Lopez (7), Chafin (8) and Kelly, Avila; Hoffman, Oh (6), Estevez (7), Shaw (8), Oberg (9) and Iannetta. W_Hoffman 1-1. L_Ray 4-2. Sv_Oberg (1). HRs_Arizona, Jones (11), Kelly (5).
Dodgers 9, Mets 8 N.Y. 210 021 200 —8 13 0 L.A. 021 000 114 —9 15 1 Syndergaard, Gsellman (7), Familia (8), Ed.Diaz (9) and Ramos; Buehler, P.Baez (6), Urias (7), Y.Garcia (8), Alexander (9) and W.Smith, Ru.Martin. W_Alexander 3-1. L_Ed.Diaz 1-3. HRs_New York, Smith (2), Rosario (6), Alonso 2 (19). Los Angeles, Pederson (16), Seager (6), Muncy (11).
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L.A. 200 010 202 05 —12 16 0 Oak. 001 000 222 00 — 7 12 2
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L_G.Cabrera 0-1. HRs_St. Louis, Wieters (2). Philadelphia, Franco (8), McCutchen (9), Kingery (3), Harper (10).
Second Round Stefanos Tsitsipas (6), Greece, def. Hugo Dellien, Bolivia, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, def. Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 3-6, 8-6. Stan Wawrinka (24), Switzerland, def. Christian Garin, Chile, 6-1, 6-4, 6-0. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def. Marin Cilic (11), Croatia, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, vs. Diego Schwartzman (17), Argentina, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-3, susp. Casper Ruud, Norway, def. Matteo Berrettini (29), Italy, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Oscar Otte, Germany, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Kei Nishikori (7), Japan, def. JoWilfried Tsonga, France, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Laslo Djere (31), Serbia, def. Alexei Popyrin, Australia, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-4. Pablo Carreno-Busta, Spain, def. Alex de Minaur (21), Australia, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1. Benoit Paire, France, def. PierreHugues Herbert, France, 6-2, 6-2, 5-7, 6-7 (6), 11-9. Juan Ignacio Londero, Argentina, def. Richard Gasquet, France, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Corentin Moutet, France, def.
Guido Pella (19), Argentina, 6-3, 6-1, 2-6, 7-5. David Goffin (27), Belgium, def. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Yannick Maden, Germany, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. Women’s Singles Second Round Sloane Stephens (7), United States, def. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-1, 7-6 (3). Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Jennifer Brady, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-4. Garbine Muguruza (19), Spain, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 6-4, 6-1. Elina Svitolina (9), Ukraine, def. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, , walkover. Belinda Bencic (15), Switzerland, vs. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 4-6, 6-4, 4-4, susp. Donna Vekic (23), Croatia, def. Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, 1-6, 6-1, 6-2. Johanna Konta (26), Britain, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, def. Kiki Bertens (4), Netherlands, 3-1, ret. Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, def. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 6-4, 6-0. Carla Suarez-Navarro (28), Spain, def. Shelby Rogers, United States, 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-3. Elise Mertens (20), Belgium, def. Diane Parry, France, 6-1, 6-3. Anastasija Sevastova (12), Latvia, def. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, 6-2, 6-4. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 7-5, 6-1. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Shuai Zhang, China, 6-7 (4), 6-0, 7-5. Petra Martic (31), Croatia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-2, 6-1. Karolina Pliskova (2), Czech Republic, def. Kristina Kucova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-2.
transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Evan Phillips to Norfolk (IL). Sent DH Mark Trumbo to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment. BOSTON RED SOX — Placed 1B Mitch Moreland on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Sunday. Optioned RHP Travis Lakins to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled RHP Colten Brewer and LHP Josh Taylor from Pawtucket. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Carson Fulmer to Charlotte (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned LHP Josh Smith to Columbus (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Zach Plesac from Columbus. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed 2B Josh Harrison on the 10-day IL. Recalled OF Victor Reyes from Toledo (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed SS Carlos Correa on the 10-day IL. Recalled INF/OF Myles Straw from Round Rock (PCL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Ben Lively from Omaha (PCL). Sent 1B Lucas Duda to Omaha for a rehab assignment.
Today in History Today is Thursday, May 30, the 150th day of 2019. There are 215 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 30, 1911, the first Indy 500 took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner was Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 6 1/2 hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000. On this date: In 1381, the Peasants’ Revolt against economic injustice erupted in England during the reign of King Richard II; the king and his men, initially caught off-guard, were able to crush the rebellion several weeks later. In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN’), France. In 1883, 12 people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing. In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1935, Babe Ruth played in his last major league baseball game for the Boston Braves, leaving after the first inning of the first game of a double-header against the Philadelphia Phillies, who won both games (Ruth announced his retirement three days later). In 1937, ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. In 1943, during World War II, American troops secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces. In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1989, student protesters in Beijing erected a “Goddess of Democracy” statue in Tiananmen Square (the statue was destroyed in the Chinese government’s crackdown). In 1994, Mormon Church president Ezra Taft Benson died in Salt Lake City at age 94. In 1996, Britain’s Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage. In 2008, diplomats from 111 nations meeting in Dublin, Ireland, formally adopted a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs. (The United States and other leading cluster bomb makers -- Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan -- boycotted the talks.) Ten years ago: Britain’s Prince Harry raised money for an AIDS charity by playing in a polo match on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Internet sensation Susan Boyle placed second on “Britain’s Got Talent,” with dance troupe Diversity taking the top prize. Five years ago: Beset by growing evidence of patient delays and cover-ups, embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned from President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, taking the blame for what he decried as a “lack of integrity” in the sprawling health care system for the nation’s military veterans. One year ago: Harvey Weinstein was indicted in New York on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case stemming from sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul. Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko stunned colleagues by appearing at a news conference in Kiev less than a day after police in the Ukrainian capital said he’d been assassinated; authorities said his death was staged to foil a plot on his life by Moscow’s security services. A senior House Republican, Trey Gowdy, said there was no evidence that the FBI planted a “spy” on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, as Trump had alleged. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West visited the White House to appeal to Trump on behalf of a woman serving a life sentence for drug offenses. (Days later, Trump granted clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, freeing her from prison.) Gaza’s Hamas rulers said they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the two sides since a 2014 war. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Ruta Lee is 84. Actor Keir Dullea is 83. Actor Michael J. Pollard is 80. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers is 76. Rock musician Lenny Davidson (The Dave Clark Five) is 75. Actor Stephen Tobolowsky is 68. Actor Colm Meaney is 66. Actor Ted McGinley is 61. Actor Ralph Carter is 58. Actress Tonya Pinkins is 57. Country singer Wynonna Judd is 55. Rock musician Tom Morello (Audioslave; Rage Against The Machine) is 55. Actor Mark Sheppard is 55. Movie director Antoine Fuqua is 54. Actor John Ross Bowie is 48. Rock musician Patrick Dahlheimer (Live) is 48. Actress Idina Menzel is 48. Actor Trey Parker is 47. Rapper Cee Lo Green is 44. Rapper Remy Ma is 39. Actor Blake Bashoff is 38. Christian rock musician James Smith (Underoath) is 37. Actress Javicia Leslie is 32. Actor Jake Short is 22. Actor Sean Giambrone is 20. Actor Jared Gilmore is 19. Thought for Today: “For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer (1906-2001).
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Events and Exhibitions n KDLL Public Radio has an Adventure Talks presentation with Lisa Maloney, author of the new guide book, “Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska” at 6:30 p.m. May 30 at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center. Maloney will show pictures and talk about trails in the region, as well as hiking safety, gear and other resources. Admission is free for KDLL members and $5 for nonmembers. KDLL will air an interview with Maloney about becoming a guide book author and writing her new book at 10 a.m. May 29 at 91.9 FM and streaming live at www.kdll. org. For more information, contact Jenny at 283-8433 or info@kdll.org. 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 252-6808. n Into its 20th year, the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival is happening June 20-23 in Seldovia and is building to be an event to remember. The headliners are the Sahnas Brothers and Suzanne Lansford who play a blend of Greek, Latin, and Flaminco guitar music with the added flair of Suzanne Lansford’s excellent fiddle accompaniment. The second headliner is Tumbledown House Band, which performed at Salmonfest 2018. Also appearing from Alaska is the Emily Anderson Band from Fairbanks, Kat Moore from the Super Saturated Sugar Strings, Noah Proctor and Kelly Baber from Soldotna, Susan Mumma and Daryl and the Scribs from Seldovia. Happening at the same time is the 5th annual Higgy’s En Plein Air Art Festival with Emil Vinberg and Jen Jolliff as Headliners. Both events have free workshops along with musical busking, a song circle with the performers and other activities to make this a truly memorable weekend! Tickets are $40 for an all festival Adult pass, Teens $16., under 12 free. More info on Facebook- Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival or the seldoviaartscouncil.net. 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. 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. 283-7040, www.kenaifineart.com. “Of Stone” will hang until June 1.
Entertainment n The Vagabond will have live music on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 at 9 p.m. The band will be Troubadour North. n The Place will host the Mika Day Show on Friday, May 31 starting at 8 p.m. Saturday is karaoke. n The Flats Bistro in Kenai presents live dinner music Thursday and Friday from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursday, and Mike Morgan on Friday. The Flats Bistro would like to thank all the musicians and music lovers who made “Friday Night Live” and “Later on Saturday” such a great community experience this past winter and spring. Please watch this space for more music at The Flats this summer. For reservations call The Flats Bistro at 907-335-1010. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m.
Daniel Firmin plays a two-song set during the Mountainside Open Mic & Art Night at The Rookery on Oct. 31, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire) By Ben Hohenstatt Capital City Weekly
Sometimes music syncs up perfectly with the time of its release. That’s the case with the breezy and winsomely warm new release “Buddies” by Daniel Firmin, which is entering the world in wake of the recent summery stretch of Memorial Day weekend weather. “Buddies” is a lean fivesong EP-length effort that
is simultaneously a taut collection of slightly offbeat indie pop and a shaggy dog hangout album, which makes sense given how the album came to be. Firmin, a singer-songwriter from Fairbanks who now lives in Juneau, recorded it in Wattage Studios in Anchorage with his friend Chad Reynvaan after Firmin traded the favor of driving a trailer from Fairbanks for studio time. They then enlisted the
talents of their friends, Anchorage musicians Kathryn Moore and Andy Tholberg, to provide extra instrumentation. Those additional talents give “Buddies” its title as well as its sound. While the bones of the release are absolutely in line with the sort of acoustic guitar-driven songs that Firmin performs live around the capital city, the additional musicians allow for some flourishes outside
By Julia Rubin The Associated Press
“The River,” by Peter Heller (Alfred A. Knopf) This novel about two Dartmouth College students on a canoe trip gone badly awry is partly an ode to the Northern wilderness, partly a survival how-to, and mostly a thriller — suspenseful and gut-wrenching. Best friends Wynn and Jack take a late-summer trip to Canada, paddling down a river that winds through lakes and over rapids on its way to Hudson Bay. Like the river, author Peter Heller’s plot often takes its time, digressing to describe how the boys fillet a fish or make camp, or what the Northern Lights look like. But don’t get lulled: There’s action around the bend. The two friends, both country boys, are experts in the woods and on the water, where they are self-proclaimed “minimalists” — no phones, no frills. They also share “a literary way of looking at the world,” and frequently see it through the lenses of Edgar Allan Poe, Virgil, James Dickey and more. Their leisurely trip turns into a harrowing dash to-
ward safety when both nature and other people turn violent. Nature dishes up a massive forest fire that bears down on them. The boys smell and hear the blaze long before they see it — the fleeing animals, the drifting smoke, the popping and hissing of trees. Meanwhile, human mysteries lurk: Wynn and Jack hear a man and woman arguing on the bank as their canoe glides by in the fog when they return to warn the couple about the fire, they find nobody there. Later, a man turns up at their camp downriver, alone. Where is the woman? Heller, author of previous novels including “The Dog Stars” and “Celine,” dives deep into the details of wilderness camping — so deep that sometimes you just want to jump ahead and find out what happens. Likewise with his acute and poetic observations of nature. But he is setting the scene and establishing two likable and memorable characters in Wynn and Jack. Each brings a different perspective to the violence and tragedy they encounter. River travel has often been a metaphor for writ-
This cover image released by Alfred A. Knopf shows “The River,” by Peter Heller. (Alfred A. Knopf via AP)
ers. At one point early on, as the boys approach some rapids, Heller writes that “every river story they had ever read was just beneath the surface of their imagi-
nations and must have fired them with extra energy and braced them, too, because at least half of those stories did not have happy endings.”
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See BUDDIES, page A10
Danger, beauty, suspense in ‘The River’s’ wilderness
See EVENTS, page A10
Driving for Unalakleet From behind a petite slice of moonlight shines upon the Bering Seas frigid surface …. Frozen crystals softly collide with the pack ice while wolves sing their songs to the stars …. Echos of the Arctic wind ride upon the snow cloaked tundra while frost gathers on the parkas hood …. As the stars witness musher and team dancing through the slim light a solitary Raven watches from above …. — John A. Anderson, Kenai, 2018
of Firmin’s usual live repertoire. There’s also a palpable friendliness to the music that makes for an exceedingly comfortable listen. The helping hands are particularly noticeable on the effort’s book-ending tracks “Next To Me” and “You’ve Got It All” which start and end “Buddies” in an energetic fashion. “Next To Me” is an ideal opening song for “Buddies” as it begins as a jaunty, straightforward strummer before backing vocals, and a shimmering synthesizer drizzle enters the mix. It’s sweet without being saccharine, catchy and over in 132 seconds. It isn’t a song that necessarily demands repeat listens, but it politely and firmly requests them, and it’s tough to say no. The next three songs on the album — “Everything That’s True,” “All Around the Room,” and “I’d Still Love You,” — are less boisterous but offer a better platform for Firmin to show off his expressive voice. There’s an alt-country influence that will appeal to fans of Wilco’s first album or “Bobby” by (Sandy)
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) By Lindsey Bahr The Associated Press
It’s been a bit since moviegoers had the chance to catch up with Godzilla, five years in fact, which in cinematic franchise time feels like at least a few decades. In other words, it’s understandable if you go into “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” a little rusty on just what went down in To-
kyo and San Francisco back in 2014. But “Godzilla: King of the Monsters ” is a sequel in the loosest possible sense that requires minimal recall from the audience, which is likely a good thing for those whose brains have been overloaded with “Game of Thrones,” “Avengers” and “Star Wars” minutiae and mythology. Worry not, Godzilla is here to provide
some old-fashioned summer spectacle, no CliffsNotes required. It’s a low bar, sure, but at least Godzilla is comfortable with its place in the blockbuster ecosystem. The filmmakers have even helpfully shifted the focus to another family entirely for this installment, from the inert Brodys (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen) to
the Russells, a now-broken family of scientists who lived in San Francisco during the 2014 attack. There are a few holdovers though, mostly employees of Monarch, the secret multinational organization that studies the titans, like Dr. Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) and Dr. Graham (Sally Hawkins), who are being accused of hiding Godzilla from world governments who’d rather just destroy them all. As far as the newcomers go, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) also works for Monarch and has developed a machine called the Orca, which simulates the sounds of the various titans. She believes this can be used to help manage them. Emma lives with her 14-year-old daughter, Madison (“Stranger Things”’ Millie Bobby Brown in her first major film role), who is precociously enchanted by her mother’s work and admires the primordial creatures. Madison’s father Mark Russell (Kyle Chandler, See MOVIE, page A10
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Theater company brings Shakespeare to steel By Kristen De Groot The Associated Press
For more than a century, steel mills churning along Pittsburgh’s three rivers helped define the region as one of the world’s largest steel-making capitals until the collapse of the industry in the 1980s. Now, ruins of the industry loom massive and rusting, a reminder of power and loss. Where better to stage a production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear?” Quantum Theatre is using the backdrop of the Carrie Furnace for its production of the bard’s bleakest tragedy, which tells of grief and madness, family values gone wrong and a powerful king
brought low. “Pittsburgh was once a giant in that particular space. You can’t be at the site without feeling the enormity of industry and the enormity of the fact that the industry collapsed and we were stripped as a region of this power,” said Karla Boos, artistic director and founder of the theatre company. “All very wonderful metaphors for King Lear.” The Carrie Furnaces are the last remaining structures of what was once the thrumming heart of the Homestead Steel Works, which produced steel used in the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and other iconic structures. The fur-
naces along the Monongahela River were built in the 1880s and operated until 1982. Only furnaces No. 6 and No. 7 remain. They’re among the only surviving pre-World War II blast furnaces in the United States, and are designated National Historic Landmarks. They were also the site of one of the nation’s most dramatic and deadly labour conflicts. In 1892, a labour dispute at the Homestead Works turned violent when striking workers battled armed guards, a pivotal episode in the history of the country’s labour movement. That history also fits into the violence of the play, Boos said.
After Act 1 in the shadow of blast furnace, the audience — armed with flashlights — takes a quartermile walk to a garden amid a circle of trees, surrounded by acres of nature that’s reclaimed itself at the site. It’s meant to evoke the English countryside. “You go from a kind of majesty to a circle of trees in this wilderness, and experience the end of the play so intimately,” Boos said. Director Risher Reddick was especially interested in exploring how Lear is reduced to his most basic elements, as the site of the former blast furnace has been. “What remains is the question, and it’s a very
In this 2019 photo actor Jeffrey Carpenter, performs in the opening of the Quantum Theatre production of Shakespeare’s tragedy at the site of the old Carrie steel producing blast furnace in Swissvale, Pa. (AP Photo/ Keith Srakocic)
great question for Pittsburgh,” she said. “And a lot remains. We’ve reinvented
ourselves.” “King Lear” runs through June 2.
Botswana hires Hollywood firm to fight elephant hunting PR By BRIAN SLODYSKO and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Botswanan government has enlisted a public relations firm with deep ties to Hollywood to push back against the bad publicity generated by the southern African nation’s decision to lift its ban on elephant hunting. 42 West, a firm mostly known for its work with celebrities and the film industry, notified the U.S. Justice Department last week that it will be working with Botswana’s tourism ministry, according to a filing made under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The firm will be paid $125,000 over the next two months — with the possibil-
ity of more work to come — for developing talking points and a communications plan that “articulates Botswana’s policy on elephant hunting” that will be delivered to “key U.S. and other Western audiences,” according to its filing. That puts 42 West in an awkward spot. Big-game hunting is a deeply divisive issue, particularly in Hollywood, and numerous celebrity activists have spoken out against killing the world’s largest land mammal for sport, including some calls for a tourism boycott of Botswana. Among the firm’s clients is actress Meryl Streep, who has been a vocal opponent of the sale and importation of ivory, which in 2014 she called a “product of horrific
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n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on KalifornContinued from page A9 sky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
. . . Buddies Continued from page A9
Alex G. “You’ve Got It All” closes the album with an uncut Pixie Stick of
power pop sugar rush. Whether that’s good or bad depends on how much mileage you get out of sub-2-minute tracks with “woahoh” vocal fills, a Cars-like synth line and hand claps as percussion. I’d go to bat for it as a well-executed retro rave-up with the same sort of slightly silly charm of “Soul No. 5” by Caroline Rose or “12:51” by the Strokes. I’m someone who was thrilled to find a $3 copy of the Cars’ “Candy-O” and has a real soft spot for way too many latter-day Weezer releases, so it’s a foregone conclusion that I’d enjoy it. At first, it seems like less-than obvious closer because it doesn’t sound a whole lot like the rest of the album and boasts the sort of energy that typically designates a cut from either the first half of the album or a song strategically placed on Side 2 to keep things going. However, it does sound like a handful of Alaska musicians having a blast, which does make it a pretty great summary of “Buddies” spirit even if it’s at odds with the release’s worthwhile sound.
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whose intensity is at level 10 for most of the movie) is not really in Continued from page A9 the picture, having left after the San Francisco incident, but is drawn back in when Emma and Madison (and the Orca) are kidnapped by some militant eco-terrorists led by Jonah Alan (Charles Dance). This group wants to use the titans, of which there are now “17 and counting” including a pretty dazzling Mothra and a less-enchanting three-headed “Monster Zero,” to help reset the planet and reverse climate change and overpopulation. There’s some convenient explanation of why the radiation from the titans actually helps revitalize vegetation, which, like many of the silly plot devices in this movie, you kind of just let slide. That said, anyone currently watching “Chornobyl” on HBO will likely be very stressed out about the amount of radiation all the humans are likely absorbing just by being in proximity to all these creatures. Michael Dougherty has taken the directing reins this time, from Gareth Edwards, and has done a fine job capturing the grandness of the titans, keeping the action coherent and balancing the human element thanks to a terrific cast that also includes O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Thomas Middleditch. His script is also pleasingly light and often funny, although Bradley Whitford’s Dr. Stanton goes a little overboard trying to be the comic relief. But even that is easy to give a pass to. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” is turn-your-brain-off summer fun, and doesn’t need to be anything more than that. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sequences of monster action violence and destruction, and for some language.” Running time: 131 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
cruelty to elephants, who could very well become extinct within decades if we don’t act now.” Allan Mayer, a principal with 42 West who is leading the effort, declined to comment on Friday. Streep publicist Leslee Dart, a 42 West co-CEO who is named in the filing, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Botswana has been a relatively safe refuge for elephants on a continent where illegal poaching and habitat loss has sent their numbers into sharp decline. The country is home to an estimated 130,000 African elephants — about a third of all that remain. After its initial announcement on Thursday was met with social media blowback,
the Botswanan government clarified on Friday that it plans to issue no more than 400 elephant hunting permits per year. Elephant hunting is already legal in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa. With a population of just over 2 million people, Botswana has more space than some of its more densely populated neighbors for elephant herds to roam. Still, the government said there have been a growing number of conflicts between elephants and humans — especially farmers. Groups lobbying in favor of trophy hunting, such as U.S.-based Safari Club International, have long argued that the fees paid by well-heeled American and European hunters provide
essential revenue for cashstrapped African governments to fund anti-poaching and conservation programs. A licensed two-week elephant hunting safari can cost more than $50,000 per person, not including airfare, according to advertised rates. The African elephant has been classified as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act since 1978. Though President Donald Trump has decried big-game hunting on Twitter as a “horror show,” his administration has reversed Obama-era restrictions on the importation of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. Elephants have long been hunted for their hides and tusks, either for taxidermy trophies or ivory used for carving and
jewelry making. Botswana’s hunting ban was put in place under a previous president, Ian Khama, an outspoken conservationist. But the current president, Mokgweeti Masisi, has advocated for reopening the nation to hunting, and the decision to lift the ban comes ahead of general elections in October. Masisi raised eyebrows earlier this month when he gave stools made of elephant feet to regional leaders while hosting a meeting on the animals’ fate. The American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted Tuesday: “President Masisi, for every person who wants to kill elephants, there are millions who want them protected. We’re watching. #BeKindToElephants.”
Blast from the past comedies, Fawcett bio win in TV ratings
This image released by ABC shows Wanda Sykes as Louise Jefferson, left, and Jamie Foxx as George Jefferson in “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’,” special which aired on Wednesday. (Eric McCandless/ABC via AP) By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES — Blasts from the past proved irresistible to viewers, who flocked to live versions of a pair of classic sitcoms and a special about a 20th-century TV beauty. ABC’s re-creation of episodes of “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” was among last week’s mostwatched programs with 10.4
million viewers, according to Nielsen figures released Wednesday. Woody Harrelson played Archie Bunker, the role originated by the late Carroll O’Connor on “All in the Family,” with Jamie Foxx following in the footsteps of Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson. A “Nightline” program on the do-overs of producer Norman Lear’s famed 1970s and ‘80 comedies also land-
ed in the top 10, with an ABC documentary on the life and career of Farrah Fawcett coming in at No. 12. The actress, who shot to fame in the “Charlie’s Angels” series in 1976 and later appeared in the sitcom “Spin City” and in movies and on stage, died of cancer in 2009 at age 62. NBC, powered by “The Voice” and its “Chicago” drama franchise, was the week’s most-watched broadcast network with an average 4.35 million viewers, just squeezing past CBS’ 4.33 million. ABC averaged 3.87 million, Fox had 2.5 million, ION Television had 1.27 million, Univision with 1.26 million, Telemundo 1.1 million and the CW 610,000. Turner, home to several NBA playoff games, was the top-rated cable network with an average 1.9 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 1.84 million, followed by MSNBC with 1.37 million and ESPN with 1.1 million. ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an aver-
age of 8.1 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 7.2 million and the “CBS Evening News” averaged 5.4 million viewers. For the week of May 2026, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: “NCIS,” CBS, 12 million; “Live: All in the Family-The Jeffersons,” ABC, 10.4 million; NBA Playoffs: Golden State at Portland, ESPN, 7.99 million; “The Voice,” NBC, 7.97 million; “Nightline: All in the Family-The Jeffersons,” ABC, 7.7 million; “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.5 million; “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.49 million; “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 7.4 million; “Chicago P.D.,” NBC, 6.6 million; NBA Playoffs: Milwaukee at Toronto, Turner, 6.4 million. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by Fox Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.
Louvre reopens after one-day closure due to overcrowding The Associated Press
PARIS — The Louvre museum in Paris reopened to the public Wednesday after being shut down for a day when workers complained about overcrowding and walked out Monday. Union representatives met Wednesday to discuss plans from the museum’s management on how to ease the traffic flow at the world’s most visited museum. They say the current dispute is linked to renovation work around the “Mona Lisa,” the museum’s most famous painting, which has caused organizational problems, huge queues and the harassment of staff by frustrated tourists. Unions decided to reopen the museum at 11 a.m., some two hours after its regular start time, after management agreed to bring in 30 more employees on a temporary basis over summer. “Satisfied is not the word. It’s a short-term band-aid dressing to the
problems of overcrowding,” said Christian Galani of the CGT Culture union. “Thirty extra temporary workers will be hired in June. But what we want are permanent civil servant positions to solve the problem once and for all,” he added. Unions note that staff numbers have dropped over the past decade even though the number of visitors to the Louvre has risen 20%. Hundreds of frustrated tourists, some who had been waiting several hours in line Wednesday, expressed relief that they would be allowed into the venerable institution. Lauren Berry, a 24-year old tourist from Oxford, Mississippi, said that she and her family had already been turned away from the Louvre on Monday but came back on Wednesday in hopes that it would reopen. The museum is closed on Tuesdays. “We had planned our entire trip around coming to the Louvre because we are huge art lovers,” Berry said. The gallery in which the
Tourists wait in line to visit the Louvre museum as it reopens, in Paris, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
“Mona Lisa” is exhibited is undergoing a months-long renovation. Because the Leonardo Da Vince masterpiece is so valuable, it cannot be moved during the building works like all the other paintings in that gallery. It is currently the only painting remaining in the Salle des Etats room, and tourists are cramming together just to get a glimpse of it for a few seconds. Pierre Zinenberg, a Louvre employee and union
representative, told The Associated Press that the staff can’t work under these conditions. “Tourists are being aggressive to employees near the “Mona Lisa” because they are being squeezed” into a small space, he said. A new security window for the masterpiece, which will enable the painting to be temporarily moved to a more practical location further away from the renovations, is expected to be installed as early as July.
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Maintaining friend’s website becomes unwelcome burden DEAR ABBY: My brother-in-law has always been a bully and a chronic liar. It has torn our family apart. He’ll tell one family member one thing, and the other another story for the purpose of getting them mad at each other. He is also a narcissist. Innocent people have been victim- Abigail Van Buren ized by all of this. Now he is moving on to the elderly neighbors and lying to them about family members. Confronting him will do no good. We have tried. How do we get him to stop the bullying and lying? His wife is no help because she has been brainwashed and can no longer think for herself. Please help. Maybe by publishing this letter it will turn on a lightbulb. -- DESPERATE IN NEW ENGLAND DEAR DESPERATE: Because your brother-in-law is now spreading misinformation among the elderly neighbors, explain to THEM that he has a “personality disorder” and a problem with the truth. Then give them some examples and, with luck, you can nip this in the bud.
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happening around you and the judgments being made. A change is possible on the homefront that might cause an expansion of some sort. Tonight: Don’t resist an offer that seems too good to be true. It just might be real. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You have a way of drawing others toward you. However, you might not be the only one with this gift. The person you meet or interact with today is used to others running toward him or her. How are you going to handle this situation? Tonight: Think before you leap. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Plunge into a project that you want to finish. Your energy and enthusiasm build, allowing more flex and give. You might tend to be extravagant when shopping or spending. Be realistic about your feelings. Tonight: Pay bills, then out. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You hear news from a child, loved one or dear friend with enthusiasm. Make plans that both of you would enjoy for today or the near future. Stay aware of your limitations, both in terms of time and finances. Tonight: Having a hoot! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might be happiest close to home. You are also more likely to accomplish a lot. Not only do your instincts play into a decision, but so does your imagination. What you could add to the project might be beneficial. Tonight: Make it easy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Speak your mind and be willing to take a stand. You might discover how difficult it can be to hold an audience’s attention. If you can get others to discuss why they are distracted, you might be able to bypass a problem. Tonight: Ask a needed question. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Realize how much you are spending. You might need to tighten your budget. In the long run, you will have more money to spend when you want to splurge. A family member expresses strong opinions. Tonight: Brainstorm about the weekend. BORN TODAY Football player Gale Sayers (1943), actress/singer Idina Menzel (1971), musician CeeLo Green (1975)
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Food processor versus blender Dear Readers: In a challenge between A FOOD PROCESSOR AND A BLENDER, who would win? Let’s take a look. Blenders are tall, often with a glass blending container that has hash marks for measuring, and with fixed blades. They are designed mostly to mix liquids, to puree fruits for smoothies and to blend ice cream with milk for milkshakes. A blender’s motor is weaker, but it should be able to crush ice. Food processors are shorter and stout, usually plastic, and have blades you can change out, depending on the task you want to perform. The motor on a food processor is more powerful, to chop nuts, meats, dried fruits, etc. You don’t need liquid in a food processor; you do in a blender. Grab your wallet: You’ll spend more for a food processor than a typical blender. -- Heloise P.S. An immersion blender is a handheld mixing tool that you actually put into a mixing bowl or even a pot of soup on the stove. BLACK OR BLUE? Dear Heloise: I would love if manufacturers would put the color “navy” or “black” on clothing tags. I often get dressed and realize that what I thought was black was actually navy, and vice versa. -- Susan H., via email This can be a problem for shoes, too! One black shoe and one blue shoe is not a cute look! -- Heloise
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 30, 2019: This year, you express your innate cleverness and humor. As a result, you will expand your circle of friends. If single, you might meet someone through this new circle. If attached, you finally fulfill a mutual goal and turn a dream into a reality this year. ARIES knows how to energize you. 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 Though you might wake up on the wrong side of the bed and go to sleep feeling manipulated, the day flows. If you maintain a sense of humor, an unanticipated opportunity might drop on you. Remain upbeat, no matter what comes down the pike. Tonight: Make weekend plans. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Reach out for someone at a distance who is often a source of wisdom. Opportunities appear when relating to a close friend or associate. Do not automatically say yes or no. Check out the pros and cons. Tonight: Buy tickets for a game or concert this weekend. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might feel energized by a close friend’s idea. You will want to jump on the bandwagon, but make sure your presence is welcome. You do not want bad blood to develop between the two of you just because you were impulsive. Tonight: Avoid a disgruntled friend. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Stay on top of your work. You might have to meet a very demanding pace. Once you get a touch ahead, you will feel far more relaxed. You might feel pushed by a difficult friend or associate. Recognize what is happening. Tonight: You have the power of the word “no.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Your desire to travel, understand others and look at different lifestyles emerges. You might be up for planning a mini weekend away or inviting a very different friend over for dinner. Stay open to suggestions. Tonight: Order in. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH You might not be able to make a difference with a key person in your life. Do not underestimate what is
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DEAR ABBY: I have depression and anxiety problems. My dad sometimes forgets that I have it. I tried to kill myself a couple of times. I asked him if I can have a service dog for my mental health problems. He says I can’t have one. I understand his reasons, but I think it would help me. I really need help. -- GOING INSANE IN WASHINGTON DEAR GOING INSANE: I cannot fathom how the parent of a child who has attempted to commit suicide would “forget” it. I will assume that you are under the care of a mental health professional for your depression and anxiety. If you aren’t, you should be. Your father may be more open to accepting the concept of a therapy dog if he hears it from your therapist. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.
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DEAR ABBY: Around 12 years ago, I helped out an old friend I’ll call Patty by creating an author website for her. I have maintained it for her ever since. She is grateful and gives me a gift every once in a while to show her appreciation. Over time, her requests for revisions and updates have increased to the point that I dread receiving them. I’m very busy with a business I own, and I really don’t want to do this for her anymore. The problem is, I created the website using an obscure program she has no idea how to use (she’s tech-unsavvy to begin with), so if I stop, I would be leaving her high and dry. Oh, and she has no money, so I don’t think hiring someone to take over would be an option. The only thing I could recommend to her is that she start making a new webpage from scratch, using a free site. I’m dying to let this go, but I think she’ll be crushed, and I hate to hurt her. Any advice? -- OVERWORKED FRIEND DEAR OVERWORKED: Explain to your friend that you have a business to run and you will no longer be able to give her the free services you have been. Then, if you want to keep the friendship, rebuild her a website on a platform that will be easier for her -- or someone else -- to manage in the future.
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King season sees slow holiday start By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
The Anchor River, Deep Creek and Ninilchik River were open to sport fishing this holiday weekend but high water levels left anglers with a lot to be desired. “Overall, fishing was rather slow this last weekend which was to be expected,” said Gary Sinnhuber of Silverfin Guide Service. “We had quite a bit of rain, so the Anchor River and Deep Creek rose up pretty high and murky.” The Ninilchik River was the best bet for fishing, but was pretty light. “The encouraging thing, though, is to look at the fish counts … it looks like the numbers are increasing by a good amount. It’s looking much more favorable,” Sinnhuber said. The Anchor River weir has counted 288 king salmon so far. Deep Creek weir is reporting 228 fish. A weir at the second mile marker on the Ninilchik River weir has seen 144 king salmon since its installation on May 15. Sinnhuber operates a ‘walk and wade’ guiding service, where he shows his clients how to fish from the banks of the rivers.
One of Silverfin Guide Service’s clients shows off a king salmon caught in Anchor River in 2017. (Photo courtesy of Gary Sinnhuber)
“I don’t have a boat, I just take people on the rivers and we walk about a half a mile,” he said. “It’s pretty simple, but it’s also about letting people know the regulations and the proper handling of fish.” An important aspect is teaching his customers, and other fishermen, how to properly release a fish. On the Ninilchik River, anglers are only allowed to retain hatchery fish, so wild king salmon have to be released.
When releasing a fish, it’s important to land the fish as quickly as possible and to leave it in the water, avoid dragging the fish onto the river bank. Remove the hook back through the same hole it entered while the fish is still in the water before releasing it. “You need to keep the fish and the gills in the water so the fish has the best chance of surviving,” Sinnhuber said. The Kenai River has seen some king salmon. Fish and Game is
reporting that a few have been caught and released on the lower Kenai River, where water conditions are low and clear. The Kenai River fish count is at 203 for the early run. Kasilof River king salmon fishing is also expected to pick up over the next week or so, according to Fish and Game. Local lakes are also warming up, leading to improved fishing for rainbow trout, Arctic char, Arctic grayling and land-locked salmon. “Sport Lake has been producing nice-sized rainbow trout and fishing the Swanson River Road lakes is reported as fair,” according to Fish and Game. “Try fishing with dry or wet flies such as an egg sucking leech, bead head nymph, or mosquito pattern, small spoons and spinners size #0 or #2, or small bait under a bobber.” Island Lake in North Kenai was stocked on May 17 with nearly 5,000 catchable Arctic char. Arc Lake in Soldotna and Tirmore Lake in North Kenai were both stocked with catchable Arctic grayling on May 23. Reach fisheries reporter Kat Sorensen at ksorensen@peninsulaclarion.com.
‘The Salmon Way’: Author shares Alaska’s salmon stories and ways of life From the fish camps of the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, to the gillnets of Bristol Bay, to the bear and angler-packed banks of Juneau’s Sweetheart Creek, salmon connect people to the land, the water, the seasons, and each other. Those connections create a culture that inspired author Amy Gulick’s most recent book, “The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind,” released on May 1. “Salmon create a generosity of spirit, and generosity creates relationships,” Gulick said. “Relationships create community. When you step back you think ‘Wow, how can a mere fish do that?’ It’s the gift of salmon — not just to people, but to the land, the plants, the fish, the trees. They’re the gift that keeps on giving.” “The Salmon Way” chronicles Alaskans’ relationship with salmon through six main sections, each one delving into a different theme: salmon as a gift, salmon as seen through the lens of commercial, sport or subsistence fishing, salmon in Bristol Bay, and the future of salmon. It weaves in profiles of salmon people, Gulick’s evolution as a salmon lover and stories of her journeys to fish camps, fishing boats, setnets, smokehouses and salmon-loving homes around Alaska. Gulick’s first book, “Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest,” published in 2010, delved into the relationship between salmon and the Tongass’ trees. For “The Salmon Way,” she asked almost everyone she spoke with the same question: What do salmon mean to you? One woman told her salmon are “like breathing,” Gulick said. People to whom salmon provide different things — subsistence, sport, a paycheck — still answered similarly and in ways that went deep. “If you blindfolded yourself and you listened to everybody’s an-
swer, you would have no idea who those people were. You couldn’t label any of them. You couldn’t put them into a faction,” Gulick said. That led to one of Gulick’s goals with the book: to help Alaskans see that when it comes to salmon, we have more similarities than differences. “If we want a salmon-filled future,” Gulick said, “we need to be fighting for the fish and not over the fish.” Every day in her home state of Washington, Gulick said, she’s confronted with what Alaska’s future could be. The state has spent and budgeted billions of dollars to restore its once-legendary salmon runs, depleted to less than 10% of their historical abundance due to what scientist David Montgomery, author of “King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon,” identifies as the “Five H’s:” loss of habitat, overharvest, hydropower and dams, hatcheries, and people not learning from history. Each time she traveled north to Alaska, Gulick said, the plane felt like a time machine. “When I was flying north, I was hurled back in time to what my home was 200 years ago. And I’d just be so grateful,” she said. Going south, “… in a way I felt like I was being hurled into the future of what (Alaska) could be if we weren’t careful…. I always say the way that we lose salmon is gradual. We lose it stream by stream, river by river. It’s not overnight. It’s not apocalyptic. It’s a slow process, but in a few generations, they’re gone. And then enough time goes by, and we don’t even know what we’ve lost.” Soon after a conversation with the late and reknowned Tlingit Ravenstail weaver Teri Rofkar of Sitka, who tells her “relationships” is a better word to use for mountain goats and the Tongass’s trees than “resources,” Gulick writes, “There’s no doubt that salmon are valuable to Alaska, but when viewed in monetary terms, fish become commodities. So what are salmon worth to Alaskans?
Thursday
52/45 High tides: 2:14 a.m. 2:47 p.m. Low tides: 9:06 a.m. 9:02 p.m.
15.9 feet 14.4 feet 2.5 feet 3.6 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Friday
55/41 High tides: 2:50 a.m. 2:33 p.m. Low tides: 9:45 a.m. 9:43 p.m.
17.0 feet 15.6 feet 0.9 feet 3.2 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Saturday
56/40 High tides: 3:26 a.m. 4:16 p.m. Low tides: 10:22 a.m. 10:23 p.m.
18.0 feet 16.6 feet -0.7 feet 2.8 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Sunday ‘The Salmon Way’ by Amy Gulick explores the connections between Alaska culture and salmon. (Image copyright Amy Gulick)
59/43 High tides: 4:01 a.m. 4:57 p.m. Low tides: 10:59 a.m. 11:03 p.m.
19.0 feet 17.5 feet -2.1 feet 2.4 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Fish Counts
Castnetting in Sweetheart Creek, Alaska. (Image copyright Amy Gulick)
Throughout my travels I asked everyone I met how he or she values salmon. Not a single person responded with financial figures. Instead, all of the answers spoke to the relationship instead of the resource. The most frequent responses included family, community, culture, well-being, and way of life — values too precious to reduce to
dollars and cents, and senseless to try. The truth worth of salmon to Alaskans? Priceless.” Mary Catharine Martin is the communications director of SalmonState, a nonprofit initiative that works to keep Alaska a place wild salmon thrive. For more information, go to www.salmonstate. org.
By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN For the Peninsula Clarion
Weekend Almanac
Kenai River early run kings: The daily sonar passage estimate for Tuesday was 80 kings. The cumulative estimate through June 30 is 283.
Marine Forecast Lower Cook Inlet Kalgin Island to Point Bede: Friday: NE wind, 15 knots, seas 3 feet. Saturday: S wind, 10 knots, seas 3 feet. Sunday: S wind, 15 knots, seas 3 feet. — National Weather Service
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