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ANCHORAGE — The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska has settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Cherokee Indian inmate at a state prison who claimed he was not allowed to practice his Native faith with certain clothing. The ACLU says the lawsuit by Goose Creek Correctional Center prisoner Brian Hall against the state Department of Corrections was settled Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed in August 2016 after Hall was denied requests to wear as part of his faith a bear claw pendant and a bandanna in violation of the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. ACLU officials say in a news release that under the settlement agreement, Hall and others will be able to practice their faith without “constitutional constraints.” DOC officials did not immediately respond with comment.
Police in Alaska detain 12-yearold boy in fatal shooting ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say the suspect detained in a fatal weekend shooting is 12 years old. Police announced Wednesday that the boy is suspected of shooting 18-year-old Thomas Williams early Sunday night in woods off Chester Creek Trail. The youth is also suspected of shooting a juvenile boy. Both Williams and the injured boy suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The name of the 12-year-old was not released. He’s in custody at McLaughlin Youth Center. Police have forwarded charges to juvenile justice authorities. Police say an altercation among a group of young people preceded the shooting. Witnesses at around 6:30 p.m. called police to report shots fired north of Sullivan Arena. Minutes later, a caller told a dispatcher he had been shot and that he was in woods running from the shooter. — Associated Press
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Nonprofit offers veterans an Alaska adventure By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
A nonprofit based in Alaska is helping veterans from across the country experience the natural beauty of the 49th state. The organization is called Helping American Veterans Experience Alaska, or HAVEAlaska, and this year HAVE-Alaska is taking a group of eight veterans on a weeklong fishing trip around the Kenai peninsula from June 2 to June 7. Joe Halstead is the president and founder of HAVEAlaska, and he started the group about two years ago out of a desire to give back to the veterans who impacted his life, including his father. Halstead always See HAVE, page A3
Members of the peninsula hospitality industry spoke out against a proposed bed tax at Tuesday night’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. Before taking public comment, the assembly
Dunleavy to hold proPFD rally in Wasilla Juneau Empire
Sgt. 1st Class Gert Bindrich and Capt. Lee Halstead smile for the camera during HAVE-Alaska’s 2019 fishing trip in Soldotna on Wednesday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/ Peninsula Clarion)
Assembly gets pushback on bed tax By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
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postponed the vote for two weeks, to gather more input from municipalities within the borough. The 12% bed tax, introduced at the May 7 assembly meeting, would affect temporary lodging, including motels, hotels and bed and breakfast businesses, across the borough. The tax
would generate more than $1 million in additional revenues in FY 2020, and over $4 million in the next two fiscal years, according to estimates included in the ordinance. The ordinance would exempt temporary lodging rentals from the general sales tax rate and instead would levy a maxi-
mum bed tax of 12%. The bed tax, similar to ones defeated by the borough assembly in 2017 and 2018, is being proposed to close budget shortfalls facing the borough. “Due largely to the state’s current economic crisis and proposed reducSee TAX, page A3
As lawmakers are split on what to do with the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, the governor is keeping the pressure on to give Alaskans a full dividend. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration announced Wednesday that there will be a rally at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Everett’s Mat-Su Valley Resort in Wasilla to encourage legislators to decide on a $3,000 PFD. The event, called “Rally to Restore the PFD,” is free and open to the public. “I invite Alaskans to join me at a rally in support of a full PFD under the formula we’ve followed for more than 30 years,” Dunleavy said in a statement. One of Dunleavy’s key campaign promises was to provide a full PFD after the Legislature voted to cut the amount of the PFD the past three years to help balance the budget. He’s pledged to veto anything but a full, $3,000 dividend. The rally comes just two days after the Alaska Senate was unable to decide on a PFD amount during a floor session. The Senate was just one vote short of passing a $3,000 PFD.
Marking 75 years since D-Day By JOHN LEICESTER and RAF CASERT Associated Press
OMAHA BEACH, France — The five beaches are silent at dawn but forever haunted. When the sun rises Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled and died 75 years ago, the diminishing number of World War II veterans who know firsthand of the sacrifices that were made to dismantle tyranny will remember DDay and hope the world never forgets. After Britain’s spirited anniversary tribute to the derring-do of the Allied forces that set off from England to defend democracy, the commemoration will be comparatively solemn in France, the country where so many young lives ended in sand and sea on June 6, 1944. Leaders from the United States, Britain, Canada, France — and then-foe and
People walk on Omaha beach, Normandy, where an American flag is planted, Wednesday. Extensive commemorations are being held in the U.K. and France to honor the nearly 160,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and other nations who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944 in history’s biggest amphibious invasion. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
now ally Germany — will Normandy beaches to help since at peace. once again laud the troops turn the tide of the war and A ceremony at daybreak who stormed the fortified give birth to a new Europe, will mark the time when the
first troops landed. Remembrances are taking place throughout the day at the military cemeteries where countries buried their fallen citizens. French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump will look out over Omaha Beach, the scene of the bloodiest fighting, from the cemetery with grave markers for over 9,000 Americans, servicemen who established a blood bond between the United States and its trans-Atlantic allies. “I have all kinds of friends buried,” said William Tymchuk, 98, who served with the 4th Canadian Armored Division during some of the deadliest fighting of the brutal campaign after the Normandy landings. “They were young. They got killed. They couldn’t come home,” Tymchuk, who was back in Normandy, continued. See D-DAY, page A2
Legislators could change law to collect extra pay By Alex McCarthy Juneau Empire
Less than a year after a law was signed to cut off legislators’ per diem in the event of a late budget, there’s talk in the Capitol of changing part of the law back.
House Bill 44 deals with a variety of ways to hold lawmakers accountable, including a conflict of interest provision and a portion stating that legislators wouldn’t receive a per diem — a daily payment meant to cover living and eating expenses — if
they didn’t pass a budget on time. Under the law, legislators would not get paid back for the per diem they missed, but there’s a way for lawmakers to change that. This session, the Legislature did not pass a budget during its 121-day regular
Teen charged in fatal shooting near Anchorage waterfalls By DAN JOLING Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — A 16-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of a woman along a popular Anchorage hiking trail.
Kayden McIntosh is also charged with evidence tampering in the death of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman. Hoffman’s body was discovered bound with duct tape in the Eklutna River near Thunderbird Falls. She had been shot in the back of the head.
Police say McIntosh and an unnamed woman who was a friend of Hoffman used Hoffman’s cellphone after the shooting to text Hoffman’s family and mislead them about where she was last seen. McIntosh remains See TEEN, page A3
session and has still not done so as the 30-day special session approaches its end. Legislators have not gotten a per diem — which is $302 per day for non-Juneau-based legislators, according to the Legislative Affairs Agency — since the end of regular
session. Per diem comes out of the Legislature’s operating budget, according to LAA. Sen. Gary Stevens, RKodiak, said lawmakers are watching their bank accounts dwindle as session wears on. “Nobody should be exSee PAY, page A3
Advancing landslide threatens Denali park road ANCHORAGE (AP) — Dirt slowly sliding down a mountain threatens a section of road in Denali National Park and Preserve, officials said. The road is in the path of a creeping landslide that has pushed a 100-yard stretch of the gravel road 6 feet since September, Alaska’s Energy
Desk reported Monday. Maintenance staff used rock and gravel to fill a gap in a section of the 92-mile road at Polychrome Pass, officials said. Most tourists access the park using the road and the landslide poses an “existential threat,” according to a See PARK, page A3
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. . . D-Day Continued from page A1
“Sorry,” he said, tearing up. “They couldn’t even know what life is all about.” The biggest-ever air and seaborne invasion took place on D-Day. More than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches code-named Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold, carried by 7,000 boats. In that defining moment of military strategy confounded by unpredictable weather and human chaos, soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations applied relentless bravery to carve out a beachhead on territory Nazi Germany had occupied for four years. “The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory,” Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted in his order of the day. The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, hastened Germany’s defeat less than a year later. Still, that single day cost the lives of 4,414 Allied troops, 2,501 of them Americans. More than 5,000 were injured. On the German side, several thousand were killed or wounded. From there, Allied troops would advance their fight, take Paris in late summer and march in a race against the Soviets to control as much German territory as possible by the time Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker and Germany surrendered in May 1945. The final battles would divide Europe for decades between the West and the Soviet-controlled East, the faceoff line of the Cold War. Russian President Vladimir Putin wasn’t among the world leaders who joined Queen Elizabeth II on the south coast of England for Britain’s 75th anniversary events honoring the ultimate triumph of D-Day. The guests of honor at Wednesday’s international ceremony in Portsmouth were several hundred of them aged 91 to 101 who served in the
U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, CA, after parachuting in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Rafael Yaghobzadeh)
conflict — and the 93-yearold British monarch, also a member of what has been called the “greatest generation.” The queen, who was an army mechanic during World War II, said that when she attended a 60th anniversary commemoration 15 years ago, many thought it might be the last such event. “But the wartime generation — my generation — is resilient,” she said, striking an unusually personal note. “The heroism, courage and
sacrifice of those who lost their lives will never be forgotten,” Elizabeth said. “It is with humility and pleasure, on behalf of the entire country — indeed the whole free world — that I say to you all, thank you.” In France, Normandy was awash with ceremonies and reenactments of key moments in the campaign ahead of Thursday’s observances. U.S. Army Rangers climbed the jagged limestone cliffs of Normandy’s Pointe du Hoc to honor the men who scaled them under fire 75
years earlier. Elsewhere, parachutists jumped from C-47 transporters in WWII colors and other aircraft, aiming for fields of wild flowers on the outskirts of Carentan, one of the early objectives for Allied paratroopers. Among the jumpers was 97-year-old D-Day veteran Tom Rice, 97. The American was dropped into Normandy with thousands of other paratroopers in 1944 and recalled it as “the worst jump I ever had.”
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Around the Peninsula When is it time for a long-term facility?
Food for Thought Join us in the Fireweed Diner, every Tuesday from 5-6 p.m., beginning June 11 through Sept. 10 for a meal and a time of learning about food and nutrition. June 11: What’s for Dinner? with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern; June 18: “What I have on Hand” Meal Planning with Amorette Payment,SNAP-ED nutrition educator; June 25:Bring the Kids! with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern. RSVP to Greg Meyer, executive director, 907-262-3111 or gmeyer@kpfoodbank.org.
Soldotna Senior Center will host a Caregiver Support meeting on Tuesday, June 11 at 1 p.m. Meeting topic: “When is it time for a long-term facility?” Many family members want to care for their loved one at home for as long as possible. What does “for as long as possible” really mean? We will discuss factors to indicate the time may be right to consider the additional support of an assisted living home or nursing Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s meeting home for more care. Please join us to share your experiences The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. For meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Location is the log buildmore information, call Sharon or Judy at 907- 262-1280. ing, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south Kenai River Queens fundraising sale of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. The Kenai River Queens Womens Hockey team is having There will be a woodturning demonstration. Nonmembers a HUGE fundraising garage sale Friday, June 7 and Saturday, are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. June 8 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. each day, rain or shine! Multiple Salmon Classic Round Up families are donating awesome stuff for the sale! Come by The Sterling Senior Center is hosting its annual fundraiser, the huge Dome garage across from Peninsula Powersports on the Kenai Spur Highway and check it out! Look for signs! Salmon Classic Round Up, on June 22 at 5 p.m. BBQ dinner, Silent Auction, Live Auction, beer and wine available. Sterling Friday Flea Market Tickets are $30 each and are available at the center at 34453 The Sterling Community Center invites you to our Sum- Sterling Highway or online at: sterlingseniors.org/eventsmer community event, Sterling Friday Flea Market. On Fri- activities Further info, call 262-6808. Sterling Area Senior day June 14, 21, 28, July 12, 19, 26 and Aug. 9 and 16. Open Citizens is a 501c3 non-profit focusing on food, housing, se10 a.m.-4 p.m. The market is for Crafters, fruit/vegetable curity, and active lifestyles. Vendors, Merchandise Vendors, and Second Hand booths. Garden Club annual plant 10-feet wide by 20-feet deep spaces for rent in parking lot The Central Peninsula Garden Club annual plant sale for $10. Bring your own tents and tables or we have Rentals: 6ft table and one chair $10. Get a space at the Sterling Friday starts at 10 a.m., and runs until the plants are sold out, SaturFlea Market anytime during the summer. If the weather is day, June 8. Location is Peninsula Grace Church parking lot, not cooperating vendors can come inside. All vendors and 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Mile 19.5, Soldotna. Sale customers will have access to Sterling Community Center will include annual & perennial flowers, vegetables, herbs, facilities and vending machines. Call for registration and in- berries, rhubarb, trees, and bushes. This annual fundraiser is used to support local agriculture, club presentations, and formation262-7224 or email scc@acsalaska.net.
. . . Teen Continued from page A1
jailed. Online court documents do not list an attorney who could provide a statement on his behalf. A relative of Hoffman called police Monday to report her missing. The person told police she had last been seen Sunday by a friend at Polar Bear Park in east Anchorage. However, that information was incorrect, accord-
. . . Pay Continued from page A1
pected to lose money doing this job, and of course everyone is right now,” Stevens said. “Juneau’s an expensive place to stay.” Stevens is the chairman of the Legislative Council, a 14-member body that addresses issues related to the Legislature when lawmakers are not in session. With a majority vote, the council has the ability to grant legislators back pay, Stevens said. The Legislative Coun-
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tions of state funds to local governments, the borough is currently facing a budgetary shortfall estimated to be substantial,” Assembly Vice President Dale Bagley wrote in an April 25 memo to the assembly. In his memo, Bagley said thousands of visitors traveling to the Kenai Peninsula contribute to the economy, while also creating a large demand on borough servic-
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Hoffman may have been shot but she didn’t know where. Police on Tuesday interviewed the friend and McIntosh. The friend was released. The investigation is the second involving a fatal shooting and a juvenile suspect on Sunday. An 18-year-old man was killed and a boy wounded in a forest along Chester Creek Trail north of Sullivan Arena. A 12-year-old boy faces charges in the juvenile justice system.
. . . Park National Park Service report. The slide’s pace is accelerating. In 2016 it pushed the road 3 feet down the mountain, doubling that distance in 2017, and then doubling it again to 12 feet in 2018, officials said. Park managers are fixing problems as they occur to maintain the road’s existing path, but are also exploring options including bridging
over or tunneling under the slope. Structures could also be built to block the landslide, or rock could be removed from above to reduce the risk, officials said. U.S. lawmakers have asked the park service to report on the potential for a re-route. “To rebuild this, or to do an alternate route, is going to be exceptionally expensive. It is just not easily done,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, said last week in Anchorage.
cil would not address that, he said, until after the Legislature tackles more important issues such as the budget and the amount of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. Former Rep. Jason Grenn, who proposed HB 44 and watched it pass into law, said that if legislators gave themselves back pay after not passing a budget, “that would be an egregious action and slap in the face to public in my opinion,” he told the Empire recently. Stevens said the idea of securing back pay has not been brought up in any official capacity. He said that not every
legislator is able to afford living in another city without a stipend. “I don’t think it’s fair to ask people to spend their own money to do their job,” Stevens said. “Hotels are expensive, a couple hundred dollars. I’m staying at the Baranof, and my wife is with me, so it’s a larger room. It’s expensive. I’m paying for it, I can afford it, but I don’t think it’s fair to ask other people who don’t have the money to do that.” Legislators do collect an annual salary, Stevens said. According to LAA, that salary is $50,400. Grenn flipped that argu-
ment about fairness around. “It’s not fair to the public that Legislators continue to take money our state doesn’t have just because they failed to accomplish their only constitutional duty on time,” Grenn said. “In the private sector, you wouldn’t pay workers extra overtime and bonuses if they continually failed at doing the job they signed up for.” Legislators’ per diem fluctuates based on the season and based on special sessions, LAA Executive Director Jessica Geary said via email Wednesday. This session, the rate has been $302 per day
throughout, and that the Legislative Council voted in April to keep that rate instead of raising the per diem to $322 per day. Per diem fluctuates from year to year as well, as it is tied to the federal rate set by the U.S. Department of Defense, Geary said. In 2018, for example, per diem was $275 for non-Juneau legislators and $206.25 per day for Juneau lawmakers. Juneau legislators’ per diem is 75% of what non-Juneau lawmakers do, as they live at home during session. Per diem for a 30-day special session would be
$9,060 per lawmaker, or $516,420 total. According to LAA cost estimates, Juneau lawmakers do not receive a per diem in special session. This wouldn’t be the first part of HB 44 to not make it through the session. Earlier this session, the Legislature rolled back the conflict of interest portion of the bill as well as lawmakers found the legislation to be too constrictive to conversation on the floor and committee meetings. They did that through Senate Bill 89, which went to the governor’s desk May 1 for final approval.
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Breakfast Association, said. Members of the hospitality industry often spoke passionately against the tax during the ordinance’s public hearing, saying the ordinance unfairly targets an industry already exempt from the borough’s general sales tax cap. “To single out the largest property taxpayers is blatantly unfair,” Mike Warburton, owner of Ocean Shores in Homer, said. Many residents were frustrated with the timing of the ordinance, which is being discussed during what is
peak season for most of the hospitality industry. “Here we are in June, we’re all trying to get ready for our season, we’re all trying to train employees,” Adriene Sweeney, owner of the Driftwood Inn in Homer, said. “Most of us work 12 to 18 hours a day during the summer. We are exhausted and tired of this.” The ordinance would need to be passed by August to make it on the ballot for the next borough election, scheduled for Oct. 1. If the tax is approved by both the assembly and the voters, it
would take effect April 1, 2020. Duane Bannock of the Uptown Motel in Kenai spoke in support of including RV and tent sites in the ordinance. “Our customers have a high probability of eating in restaurants, not hot dogs brought from Costco — and drinking in bars, not drinking bottles of beer brought from Costco,” Bannock said. “The Uptown Motel is not a hundred percent opposed to tax collection. We do however remain opposed to this ordinance as written.”
In Alaska, 49 cities and boroughs have a bed tax, ranging from 4% to 12%. Only one resident spoke in support of the bed tax. Don St. John said he doesn’t own a lodge or bed and breakfast. “I am 110% for it,” he said. “I think its half what it should be. Twenty four percent sounds great. All the damn tourists are paying for it, so let’s get some money in the borough and help pay for our budget.” Another public hearing on this ordinance will take place at the June 18 meeting.
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drich, who fled to America from East Germany when he was 17 and served three years in Vietnam, described the trip as the experience of a lifetime. “I can finally take this off my bucket list,” Bindrich said, referring specifically to fishing on the Kenai Peninsula. Bindrich and his son Scott are both part of the trip this year, and the two served together during Operation Desert Storm. Scott said that the fishing and hiking on the peninsula is something that just can’t be duplicated anywhere else. “We went hiking to Russian River Falls and got to see salmon jumping out of the water as they went upstream,” Scott said. “It was like something you’d see on the Discovery Channel, except it was right in front of you.” After halibut fishing in Homer they headed inland for some catch-and-release king salmon fishing in Ke-
nai. Wednesday consisted of a hike to Russian River Falls followed by a meetand-greet barbecue at the Fish Magnet Guide Service in Soldotna, which also provides the lodging for the veterans over the course of the trip. On Thursday it’s back to Homer for more halibut, and the week will end with flying out in a float plane to a secret spot for more salmon fishing. Bill Gray, another veteran on the trip, said it was great to see veterans from different age groups and backgrounds connecting with one another. Gray has been in a wheelchair for the last 47 years after being involved in a car accident while serving in the U.S. Marines. HAVE-Alaska ensures that their adventures are accessible to all, and Gray said that he is excited for the float-plane trip on Friday. Gert Bindrich joked that Gray actually had an easier time than some of the others on Wednesday’s hike. “He got to sit the whole time!” he said.
In the past, HAVE-Alaska has offered other kinds of adventures — including bear hunting — but Halstead said that the fishing trips have been especially popular and added that he and his team of volunteers have those trips down to a science. Veterans who attend the trips have all of their expenses paid for by the organization, which is funded through individual donations as well as sponsorships from local businesses. The total cost to sponsor a veteran for a fishing trip is $2,500 and includes airfare, meals, lodging, fish processing, charters and licenses. The only requirement for the veterans is that they have been honorably discharged from their military service. Applications for the program are available on the group’s website, havealaska.org. Halstead hopes to expand the organization in the future with more volunteers and more funds so that it can help more American veterans experience Alaska.
“These additional sales taxes would be used to support education,” Bagley’s memo said. “They would also make other revenues available for services funded by property taxes and help to sustain the general fund.” Several residents said they wished the tax money would go to support the tourism industry in some way. “If we’re being taxed for something, we should see a benefit on that tax,” Marcia Kuszmaul, owner of Juneberry Lodge in Homer and president of Homer Bed and
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McIntosh shot Hoffman and pushed her into the river, police said. McIntosh and the woman then drove to Polar Bear Park and used Hoffman’s phone to send text messages to Hoffman’s relative stating that she had been dropped off at the park, police said. Then they drove to Lions Park in northeast Anchorage and burned Hoffman’s belongings, police said. On Monday, a relative of Hoffman’s female friend told police that
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had a passion for helping out veterans and has experience working with the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Wishes for Warriors and Operation Renewed Hope Foundation. Halstead said he wanted to create a healing environment for veterans, especially those who had suffered serious injuries or were dealing with trauma as a result of their service. “When you see them sit around the fire at the end of the night and bond over the trip and share their stories, that’s what I see as part of the healing nature of what we do,” Halstead said. The veterans started the trip with a day of halibut fishing in Homer. Seventynine-year old Gert Bindrich, a retired Army sergeant first class who lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, had the first catch of the day. Bin-
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What others say D-Day, a day of victory and sacrifice never to be forgotten On June 7, 1944, readers of The Plain Dealer got a firsthand account of the Allies’ pivotal D-Day landing the day before from the paper’s war correspondent, Roelif Loveland, writing “from a balcony seat high up in God’s heaven,” as flak and tracer bullets lit up the sky around his aircraft. And the Cleveland family of 1st Lt. Howard C. Quiggle was also able to read that he was alive and well — and piloting the B-26 Marauder that had ferried Loveland to his eagle’s perch above the battle, “riding the tail of a comet to see history in the making,” as Loveland wrote in his Page One story after that fateful day. The D-Day landings that changed the course of war and accelerated Adolf Hitler’s slow descent to defeat were launched 75 years ago this week. “We will accept nothing less than full Victory!” came the order from Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yet victory was never certain. A handwritten note from Ike, written in case of defeat, concludes, “The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.” Fortunately, bravery and devotion, as well as luck, planning, daring and deep sacrifice by those who launched and fought on those bloody beaches, did the trick. Attacking along 50 miles of shoreline, more than 4,000 Allied troops fell on that first day. But many more followed, beginning the drive for Berlin. Where are they now, those intrepid paratroopers, bombardiers, pilots, medics, Army Rangers and all those others who stormed ashore on June 6, 1944? Like 1st Lt. Quiggle and Roelif Loveland, a World War I combat veteran considered one of the greatest writers ever to grace the pages of The Plain Dealer, most have passed on to their rewards. Only about 30 American survivors are expected to attend this year’s D-Day battle anniversary in France. Nearly 350 World War II veterans die every day, the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department estimates, according to the Associated Press. Pretty soon, they all will be gone — and the rest of us must be the ones to carry forward their stories, and remember the history they forged and their sacrifice and that of their fallen comrades. Longtime Plain Dealer military affairs reporter Brian Albrecht has helped by spending years compiling vivid stories from D-Day survivors and others who fought in or contributed to the war effort during World War II. Twelve of those stories were highlighted in Sunday’s Plain Dealer, from the 2008 remembrances of the late English clerk Betty Leighty of Parma Heights, who came to the United States as a war bride in 1946, to John Bistrica’s vivid 1994 depiction of the tumultuous, bloody landing at Omaha Beach and the night he spent freezing, wet and hungry in a 20-foot hole he had to dig himself. Bistrica at 95 was recently profiled in The Vindicator of Youngstown, where he lives. Their powerful stories need to be remembered, along with the D-Day fight, so crucial to ultimate victory in that war. But are our collective memories fading too fast? An Associated Press story in The Plain Dealer Tuesday reported that many states no longer require D-Day to be part of the history curriculum. The Ohio Department of Education’s 52-page model “American History” curriculum, posted at education. ohio.gov, does not mention D-Day. That doesn’t mean that teachers can’t teach it — and many probably do. And educators might argue that, as we get farther away in time from a conflict, teaching its root causes and long-term impacts becomes more important than the specifics of any given battle. But specifics of battle also matter. The nitty-gritty reality of war matters. So on this 75th anniversary of the D-Day battle, we collectively should resolve to work harder to make sure this history, this sacrifice, this longest day, isn’t lost when the last veteran of that battle departs his Earthly existence. — The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, June 4
Measles vaccine prevents illness, saves lives V oices of the P eninsula G iulia T ortora In 1989, I spent two months working in a hospital in Tanzania, Africa. While I worked in that small village, where no vaccines were available and care options were limited, I was shocked to discover that the main disease that killed children was measles. Not malaria. Not malnutrition. Measles. Watching any child die of a preventable disease is heartbreaking. Measles vaccination rates have declined, and the outbreak in the U.S. is both serious and terrifying. The likelihood of seeing it in Alaska is very high, and we need to prepare to face the consequences of this public health nightmare. There is a great deal of controversy about vaccinations, mostly due to misinformation that started with a study in 1998 by Anthony Wakefield that postulated a connection between the measlesmumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. It has since been proven both falsified and inaccurate. There have been many studies since then that disprove that link. But misinformation is rampant, and this causes people to make
unfortunate decisions — decisions that will cause deaths in our community. Here are the facts: getting two doses of measles vaccination confers 97% immunity. Any adult born before 1957 is considered immune. If there is no laboratory evidence of immunity in adults, a booster should be given. Children should routinely be vaccinated with the MMR initially at 12 to 15 months of age, with a second between age 4 and 6. There are different Centers for Disease Control recommendations for travel, and for any outbreak, with infants being vaccinated earlier, and adults receiving boosters. Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. With exposure, nine out of 10 unimmunized people will contract the disease, by way of droplet contact. The virus remains infectious for two hours after a person is in an area. That means that if you enter an elevator two hours after someone with measles sneezed in that elevator, you can get the disease. Measles starts with a high fever (as high as 105 degrees), then feeling sick, coughing, having a runny nose and getting red eyes. After that there are spots that occur in the mouth, and then a rash, which comes on about 14 days after exposure. It is a spotty rash, and it spreads from the head to the trunk, then to the lower extremities. A person is infectious for the four days before the rash
starts. There are rare cases in which the rash does not appear. The people who are most at risk for complications are children under age 5, adults over age 20 and pregnant women. There is no effective treatment, but getting immunoglobulin infusions can decrease the complication and death rate. If exposed, vaccination as soon as possible can decrease your risks, preferably within three days of exposure. There is one other little known aspect to measles infection: it has been shown that a measles infection changes your prior ability to fight infection for up to three years. That means that the immunity that you have built up from prior exposures or immunizations is no longer present. It is a side effect that is only seen with measles. My hope is that we move toward better immunization coverage to protect our community. More reliable information on measles is available on the CDC website. You can look into this in any of the medical clinics in town, and at the public health department. If we can keep one person from getting sick from this, it will be worthwhile. If we can keep one person from dying, that will be a victory. Giulia Tortora is a family physician who has been working in the Homer community for 25 years.
News and Politics
Oregon joins interstate pact to ignore Electoral College By SARAH ZIMMERMAN Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon voted Wednesday to become the 15th state to grant its electoral college votes to whoever wins the popular vote across the country. The Oregon House sent the governor a measure to join National Vote Interstate Compact, a pledge between states to side-step the Electoral College and overhaul the way the nation elects presidents. Gov. Kate Brown, who has made expanding voter access a priority, has already indicated she will sign the measure. “It is truly disenfranchising to believe that your vote for president will mean nothing on a national stage simply because of where you live,” said Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell, the Democrat who carried the bill on the floor. “Today, we make Oregon a battleground state.” The move taps into growing anger over the nation’s complicated elections process that some argue doesn’t always
align with the will of the voters. President Donald Trump became the second Republican in five elections to win the presidency through the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. Fourteen states plus the District of Columbia have already signed onto the pact, which only takes effect when enough states join to reach 270 electoral votes — the threshold needed to win the White House. With Oregon’s 7 electoral votes, the movement is now 74 electoral votes short of that goal. Supporters say a popular vote would shift focus from swing states, allowing states like Oregon to receive more political attention from presidential candidates. Mitchell, from the coastal city of Astoria, said that candidates concentrate their time on only a few battleground states and ignore states like Oregon who have reliably voted for one party. “This is about giving all voters in the United States, regardless of where they live, the ability to be heard in the most important of our elections,” she said. Governors in New Mexico, Delaware
and Colorado signed legislation this year, while Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak vetoed a proposal saying the agreement could leave sparsely populated states with less of a voice. Opponents say that the move goes against the intention of the Founding Fathers and that scrapping the electoral college wouldn’t get rid of the concept of swing states. They argue that presidential candidates would instead pay more attention to densely populated areas to secure the maximum amount of votes. “The Electoral College ensures that we are the United States of America, and doesn’t become the united municipalities of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago,” said Rep. Werner Reschke, a Republican from Klamath Falls. The compact itself is meant to bypass the Electoral College without pursuing a constitutional amendment on the federal level, which would require a two-thirds vote and ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures.
Feds to test North Carolina election computers for hacking By EMERY P. DALESIO and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — More than two years after North Carolina check-in software failed on Election Day, federal authorities will finally examine equipment from a company targeted by Russian military hackers to determine if intentional tampering aimed at disrupting voting occurred. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysis of laptops used in Durham County is the first known federal investigation of equipment that malfunctioned during the 2016 election, when Russian hackers infiltrated several states. The VR Systems electronic poll books malfunction forced officials in the
heavily Democratic county to issue paper ballots and extend voting hours. How many voters may have been disenfranchised as a result is unknown. VR Systems had been targeted the previous August by a Russian spearphishing campaign, though Chief Operating Officer Ben Martin maintains the company was not hacked as a result. Martin said he believes the April report on Russian interference in the 2016 election from special counsel Robert Mueller was referring to his Tallahassee, Florida, company — the name was redacted — in describing how Russian spies installed malware on the network of a company that “developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls.” Martin disputes that finding, however. He says a security audit by cybersecu-
rity company FireEye found no sign of a breach — though that audit was done more than seven months after the election, the company told U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon in a letter last month. State and local officials did not conduct forensic investigations of the Durham County poll book software to determine if there was tampering. They did, however, securely store the 21 laptops that state elections board attorney Katelyn Love said would be turned over to DHS. DHS spokeswoman Sara Sendek said the forensic examination, first reported by The Washington Post, and other support “may help to provide a better understanding of previous issues and help to secure the 2020 election.”
Nation
US officials warn of climate risk By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials warned Wednesday that climate change is an increasing threat to national security, a message at odds with a broader Trump administration effort to downplay the threat from global warming. Military and intelligence officials outlined a range of long-term threats arising from climate change, including food and water shortages that can produce political turmoil and land disputes, as well as melting ice in the Arctic that Russia and other adversaries could exploit for commercial gain. “Climate change effects could undermine important international systems on which the U.S. is critically dependent, such as trade routes, food and energy supplies, the global economy, and domestic stability abroad,” Rod Schoonover, a senior State Department analyst focusing on global issues, told members of the House Intelligence Committee. “Most countries, if not all, are already unable to fully respond to the risks posed by climate-linked hazards under present conditions. The assessments laid bare the disconnect between senior officials who regard climate change as a longterm, global threat and the views of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is ending medical research by government scientists that uses human fetal tissue, overriding the advice of scientists who say it has led to lifesaving medical advances and handing abortion opponents a major victory. The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that governmentfunded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue for now, subject to additional scrutiny — although it also ended one major university project that used the tissue to test HIV treatments. That school — University of California, San Francisco — called the decision “politically motivated.” Administration officials
Departments investigate racist, violent posts by police By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research Office of Geography and Global Affairs Senior Analyst Dr Rod Schoonover speaks at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on national security implications of climate change on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
broken from that message and even belittled his own government’s views. “I believe that there’s a change in weather, and I think it changes both ways,” Trump said in an interview on “Good Morning Britain” that aired on Wednesday. “Don’t forget it used to be called global warming. That wasn’t working. Then it was called climate change. Now it’s actually called extreme weather, because with extreme weather, you can’t miss.” Peter Kiemel, counselor to the National Intelligence Council at the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, singled out the gradual thawing of the Arctic as a concern. He said the melting of sea ice can create increased opportunities for mining, fishing and shipping for Russia by making the path between Asia and North America more navigable. “As a result, the Arctic is emerging as a new domain of strategic competition,” Kiemel said. “Russia, China and others are dramatically increasing their activities and investments in the region.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a similar point last month in a speech in Fin-
land, but cast the warming sea as an economic opportunity for the West. “Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new naval passageways and new opportunities for trade, potentially slashing the time it takes for ships to travel between Asia and the West by 20 days,” Pompeo said. Jeff Ringhausen, senior naval intelligence manager for Russia and Eurasia at the Office of Naval Intelligence, was more cautious in his assessment Wednesday, but still conceded a potential threat to U.S. allies posed by a changing Arctic environment.
Trump halts fetal tissue research by government scientists By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press
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said the federal policy changes will not affect privately funded research. Ending the use of fetal tissue by the National Institutes of Health has been a priority for anti-abortion activists, a core element of President Donald Trump’s political base. A senior administration official said it was the president’s call. The official wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss internal deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity. But research using fetal tissue has led to lifesaving advances , including development of vaccines for rubella and rabies and drugs to treat HIV. Scientists around the country denounced the decision, saying that fetal tissue was critically needed for research on HIV vaccines, treatments that harness the body’s immune system to battle cancer, and other health threats, including some to fetuses themselves.
“Prohibiting valuable research that uses fetal tissue that is otherwise going to be discarded doesn’t make any sense,” said Dr. Lawrence Goldstein, a regenerative medicine specialist at the University of California, San Diego. “It blocks important future research vital to the development of new therapies.” The government’s own top medical scientist, NIH Director Francis Collins, said as recently as last December that he believes “there’s strong evidence that scientific benefits come from fetal tissue research ,” and that fetal tissue, rather than any alternatives, would “continue to be the mainstay” for certain types of research for the foreseeable future. “Today, fetal tissue is still making an impact, with clinical trials underway using cells from fetal tissue to treat conditions including Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and spinal cord injury,” said Doug Melton,
co-director of Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute and president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Last year, the administration announced a review of whether taxpayer dollars were being properly spent on fetal tissue research. As a result, NIH froze procurement of new tissue. On Wednesday, the administration also said it is not renewing an expiring contract with the University of California, San Francisco, that used fetal tissue to create a human-like immune system in mice for HIV research. University Chancellor Sam Hawgood said in a statement that the Trump administration action ended a 30year partnership with NIH. “UCSF exercised appropriate oversight and complied with all state and federal laws,” said Hawgood. “We believe this decision to be politically motivated, shortsighted and not based on sound science.”
Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida. They found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and, especially, glorifying police brutality. All the posts were public. “It’s a good day for a choke hold,” wrote an officer in Phoenix. A sergeant in Philadelphia commented that a young suspect should be “taken out back and put down like the rabid animal he is.” Another sergeant posted a meme that said, “Death to Islam.” In St. Louis, a police official shared a meme asserting that “if the Confederate flag is racist, then so is Black History Month.” “Obviously, some of the posts are very disturbing,” said Emily Baker-White, a lawyer who launched the Plain View Project in 2017. The work, she said, revealed a troubling online subculture that threatens to undermine public confidence in law enforcement. “It gets in the way of officers’ ability to protect everybody out there,” she said. “My biggest fear is that there are people who are seeing these posts online, who are interacting with these officers, who think, ‘The police might not be there for me because I pray differently than they do, or I look differently, or I have a different immigration status.’” Police departments often have social media policies that limit what officers may say online, and most of the departments included in the Plain View database said this week they are launching investigations into their officers’ Facebook feeds. St. Louis began an internal affairs probe, and announced that officers will undergo sensitivity training, after researchers flagged 166 posts by active-duty police. The city prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has launched a separate review. “These posts are disturbing and unacceptable,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a state-
ment. “We expect professionalism out of every city employee. No exceptions.” In Phoenix, Police Chief Jeri Williams has moved some officers to “non-enforcement” assignments while the department probes Facebook posts she called “embarrassing and disturbing.” The database included nearly 180 posts tied to current Phoenix police officers that disparage Muslims, black people, transgender people and other groups. “They completely contradict how the Phoenix Police Department should speak about the members of our community or others,” Williams said in a statement. York, a small city in southcentral Pennsylvania, is likewise investigating its officers’ posts, and the police department will “take disciplinary action if any is warranted,” said Officer Derek Hartman, a police spokesman. York’s social media policy prohibits online conduct that “negatively impacts” the police department and residents. The database includes a 2014 Facebook post purportedly by Galen Detweiler, a York officer who worked for Baltimore police at the time. “Bucket list: Punch a guy so hard he poops himself,” the post said. The comment had a checkmark next to it. Three years later, Detweiler was caught on video repeatedly punching a female suspect in the face during a struggle outside a York bar. The woman’s attorney, Leticia Chavez-Freed, said Wednesday she plans to use his 2014 post as an exhibit in a federal lawsuit alleging he used excessive force. “You just see how embedded this culture is of punishing instead of policing, a lack of compassion for people who may not look like you, and frankly a love of violence,” she said. York police declined to make Detweiler available for comment. Baker-White, a former federal public defender in Philadelphia, got the idea for Plain View after she was assigned to a police brutality case and found an inflammatory social media post by one of the officers involved. “That made me ask the question, how prevalent is this stuff? How much of this stuff is out there?” she said. Funded by Injustice Watch, a not-for-profit journalism organization, Baker-White and her team pored through the Facebook accounts of more than 2,800 current officers and nearly 700 former officers.
English classes, legal services cut for immigrant kids By ASTRID GALVAN and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press
PHOENIX — Immigrant children in the care of the U.S. government may no longer have access to English-language courses and legal services, officials said Wednesday. The Health and Human Services department notified shelters around the country last week that it was not going to reimburse them for teachers’ pay or other costs such as legal services or recreational equipment. The move appears to violate a legal settlement known as the Flores agreement that requires the government to provide education and recreational activities to immigrant children in its care. But the agency says it doesn’t have the funding to provide those services as it deals with a soaring number of children coming to the U.S., largely from Central America. It’s now up to the various nonprofit and private organizations that care for the children to cover the cost of teachers, supplies, legal services and even recreational activities and equipment — if
In this April 19 file photo, migrant children play soccer at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on Good Friday in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/ Wilfredo Lee, File)
they can, or choose to. Health and Human Services says it currently has 13,200 children in its care, and more are coming. The Border Patrol said Wednesday that 11,500 children without a parent crossed the border just last month. The kids are trans-
ferred to the care of Health and Human Services after the Border Patrol processes them. Health and Human Services contracts out their care and housing to nonprofits and private companies. “As we have said, we have a humanitarian crisis at the
border brought on by a broken immigration system that is putting tremendous strain (on the agency),” Health and Human Services spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer said. “Additional resources are urgently required to meet the humanitarian needs created
by this influx - to both sustain critical child welfare and release operations and increase capacity.” Health and Human Services is seeking nearly $3 million in emergency funding to cover more beds and provide basic care. An official at one of the shelter providers said the government notified them on May 30 that they wouldn’t be reimbursing costs of providing education and other activities. The providers pay for things like teacher salary upfront and are then reimbursed by the government. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said his employer was scrambling to figure out how it would cover the cost of teachers. The provider hasn’t laid anyone off, but worries about children who desperately need to learn English and be intellectually stimulated. Advocates are also worried about the ramifications of cutting recreational activities. Funding cuts may result in physical education coordinators from being let go and in a lack of adults who can supervise children playing outside.
“The kids are inside 23 hours, and the hour they spend outside is a real lifeline for them,” said J.J. Mulligan, an attorney at the Immigration Law Clinic at University of California, Davis, who has visited and spoken to many of the children at the facilities. “Most of them come from Latin American countries where soccer is king, so the ability to play with their friends really brings them joy in dark circumstances.” In a memo to staff obtained by The Associated Press, Southwest Key interim CEO Joella Brooks said she was working with the government to figure out why the funding had ended and how it can continue to offer the services. Southwest Key is a nonprofit and the largest provider of shelters for immigrant children. “In the meantime, remember the service, encouragement and compassion you provide to these youth every day matters a great deal. Please continue to stay focused on taking good care of them,” Brooks wrote. U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, was critical of the cuts.
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UN: 2 million Somalis could die of starvation Russian, Chinese leaders UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A United Nations emergency relief coordinator says more than 2 million men, women and children could die of starvation in Somalia by summer’s end if international aid is not sent quickly to the droughtstricken African country. U.N. UndersecretaryGeneral Mark Lowcock says about $700 million is needed after a rainless season that has killed both livestock and crops. He said Tuesday that the U.N.’s Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $45 million to cover food shortages, water and daily necessities in Somalia as well as parts of Kenya and Ethiopia affected by droughts. Of a Somali population of 15 million people, more than 3 million are struggling just to meet minimum food requirements, he said, and the shortages are about 40 percent worse now than this past winter. “What was forecast to be an average rainy season in Somalia is now one of the driest on record in over 35 years,” he said. “Communities that were already vulnerable due to past droughts are again facing severe hunger and water scarcity and are at risk from deadly com-
hail burgeoning ties By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press
In this Saturday, May 18 file photo, newly-arrived women who fled drought line up to receive food distributed by local volunteers at a camp for displaced persons in the Daynile neighborhood on the outskirts of the Somalian capital Mogadishu. (AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh)
municable diseases.” The U.N. aid complements efforts by governments of the three countries to assist their people, especially those with disabilities or who are internally displaced. Somalia’s humanitarian fund is currently depleted. If financial aid is delayed, the cost of saving lives on the margin of death are much higher, Lowcock said, adding that the option then is to
turn to expensive, therapeutic feeding programs. “We could have a quick response now, which would be cheaper, reduce human suffering and more effective, or we can wait for a few months until we get all those horrible pictures on our TV screens and social media of starving kids,” Lowcock said. Lowcock, who heads the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Affairs, said that in
past decades droughts came about every half dozen years but recently they have hit every two or three years. “There’s not really any question in my mind that these more frequent droughts are related to global warming and climate change,” the U.N. official said. “So the only middleand longer-term response is to look at alternative livelihoods — a different way to make a living.”
Social Democrats appear headed back into power in Denmark By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A nearly complete preliminary count from Denmark’s general election Wednesday suggested left-leaning parties made gains while populists faded, which if confirmed by final returns would put the main opposition Social Democrats back in power after four years. The Social Democrats, led by 41-year-old Mette Frederiksen, had about 25.3% of the votes after a campaign in which party leaders vowed a tough stance against immigration. Other left-leaning parties also made gains. If those
parties supported the Social Democrats to form a “red bloc,” a Social Democratled government would have 91 votes in the 179-seat parliament, a majority. With nearly 100 percent of the votes counted, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen showed a slight gain from four years ago. But the populist Danish People’s Party was recording a big drop in support, meaning Rasmussen would no longer muster a majority in the 179-seat Folketing. The Danish People’s Party’s performance was a contrast to some other European countries, where far-right populists are on the rise. The party, a backer of
Rasmussen’s center-right government and the secondlargest party in the outgoing parliament, received about 9% of the vote Wednesday, compared to 21.1% in 2015. Many Danish People’s Party voters have drifted to the Social Democrats, mainly because of it readopting strict views on immigration. The party advocated restricting immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s, but softened its position later while in a coalition with left-wing parties. Its lawmakers have voted for several of the centerright government’s laws to tighten immigration. “This is really, really bad,” People’s Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said,
adding the party would not change its politics because of the loss. The Hardliner Course party didn’t cross the 2% threshold needed to enter Parliament. The New Right, another openly anti-Muslim group that also fielded candidates for the first time, will be in the legislature after getting 2.4% of the votes. The Social Democrats have said they want to form a one-party government headed by Frederiksen, who would become Denmark’s youngest-ever prime minister. The party has said it would seek support on the right when it comes to immigration issues and on the left for matters like social welfare.
Sudan protesters: 40 bodies pulled from Nile By BASSAM HATOUM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — More than 40 bodies of people slain by Sudanese security forces were pulled from the Nile River in the capital of Khartoum, organizers of pro-democracy demonstrations said Wednesday, and new clashes brought the death toll in three days of the ruling military’s crackdown to 108. The Sudan Doctors Committee, one of the protest groups, reported eight more deaths by late Wednesday and said at least 509 people had been wounded. Word about the retrieval of the bodies came as Sudan’s ruling general called for a resumption of negotiations with the protest leaders, which they promptly rejected. They said the generals cannot be serious about talks while troops keep killing protesters. A spokesman for the protesters said that instead they would continue their demonstrations and strikes seeking to pressure the military into handing over power to a civilian authority. The reported discovery of the bodies in the Nile suggested that Monday’s violent dispersal of the protest movement’s main sit-in camp, outside military headquarters, was even bloodier than initially believed. The attack on the camp was led by a notorious paramilitary unit called the Rapid
Worshippers gather at a mosque behind a roadblock set by protesters on a main street in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to stop military vehicles from driving through the area on Wednesday. The death toll in Sudan amid a violent crackdown on prodemocracy protesters and the dispersal of their peaceful sit-in earlier this week in the capital climbed on Wednesday, protest organizers said. (AP Photo)
Support Forces, along with other troops who waded into the camp, opening fire and beating protesters. During the mayhem, the Doctors Committee said witnesses reported seeing bodies loaded into military vehicles to be dumped into the river. The camp was not far from the Blue Nile, just upstream from where it joins the White Nile and then flows north through Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean. The committee said in a statement that a day earlier, militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces were seen pulling 40 bodies from the river and taking them away.
It said it was not known where they were taken. One activist, Amal al-Zein, said the number could be even higher. She said activists and private citizens had pulled dozens more bodies from the Nile in areas near the sit-in and took them to a hospital morgue. “Some bodies have wounds from bullets, others seemed to have beaten and thrown in the Nile,” she said. On Monday, the Doctors Committee put the death toll from the crackdown at 40. Another 10 were reported killed in clashes Tuesday in Khartoum and Omdurman, the capital’s twin city across
the Nile, and farther south in the White Nile state. At least 18 more were killed in clashes or died of earlier wounds Wednesday, the Doctors Committee said late in the day. The committee said it feared the final death toll would be much higher. Protests continued in Omdurman and Khartoum’s central Bahri and Buri district, where clashes erupted with the Rapid Support Forces, activists said. “In Buri, there were lots of shootings and tear gas,” said Hashim al-Sudani, an activist. “They tried to force people into narrow streets” to beat them.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for Kremlin talks that reflected increasingly close ties between the two countries that were communist rivals during the Cold War. Xi called Putin his “close friend,” noting that they have met nearly 30 times over the last six years. The trip marked Xi’s eighth visit to Russia since he took the helm in 2012. “We will strengthen our mutual support on key issues,” Xi said, sitting next to Putin in an ornate Kremlin hall. Relations between Russia and China have become increasingly close as they both face mounting tensions with the U.S. Moscow’s ties with Washington have declined sharply over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and the allegations of Kremlin meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections, while China is engaged in a spiraling trade war with the U.S. “Protectionism and unilateral approaches are on the rise, and a policy of force and hegemonism is increasingly taking hold,” Xi said. Putin and Xi were meeting in Moscow as world leaders gathered on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Putin, who attended 70th anniversary commemorations in France five years ago, has not been invited. Russia was not involved in D-Day but the Soviet effort was cru-
cial in defeating the Nazis on the Eastern Front. The Russian leader emphasized that Moscow and Beijing have the same view on many global issues, particularly noting their shared opposition to Washington’s withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a key Cold War-era arms control pact. In a joint statement issued after the talks, Putin and Xi criticized the U.S. move, saying it will “undermine strategic stability.” They also voiced worry about the growing threat of an arms race in space, calling for a legally binding international agreement banning weapons in orbit. “A ban on deployment of any weapons in space would avert a serious threat to global peace and security,” Putin and Xi said in a statement. The two presidents underlined their shared approach to international crises, emphasizing the need to preserve a nuclear deal with Iran and promising to help advance the stalled talks on North Korea’s denuclearization. Putin hailed the launch of a Chinese car factory south of Moscow as a sign of burgeoning business ties. He and Xi also visited Moscow Zoo for a ceremony welcoming a pair of giant pandas from China. “We highly appreciate that friendly gesture,” Putin said with a smile. Later this week, Xi will be the most prominent guest at Russia’s major investment conference in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Cuba expects major economic damage from Trump measures By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press
HAVANA — Drivers of classic cars, restaurateurs, tour guides and owners of bed-and-breakfasts are all saying the Trump administration’s new restrictions on U.S travel to Cuba will be a severe blow to their businesses. The restrictions announced Tuesday eliminate U.S. cruise travel to Cuba. They also wipe out the most popular category of legal travel to the island, the group educational trips known as people-to-people travel. An expert on Cuban tourism says the Cuban state stands to lose $130 million per peak cruising season, which runs from November to June. No figures were available on the expected losses to private businesses, which serve many people-to-people groups. But Cuban entrepreneurs say they expected major damage. “We’re about to enter a terrible period,” said Enrique Nuñez, owner of La Guarida, one of the Havana’s bestknown private restaurants. Just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, Royal Caribbean’s Empress of the Seas pulled out of Havana harbor, blowing its horn in farewell as it became what could be the last U.S. cruise ship to visit Havana during the Trump administration. “I wasn’t aware this would be the last cruise,” passenger Garry Lemar said before boarding. In Nassau in the Bahamas, hundreds of angry passengers disembarked from Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sun after it was rerouted from its path to Cuba. Cruise ships were offering discounts and refunds to passengers diverted from Cuba,
but many weren’t placated. “I have been to the Bahamas several times and I’m not very happy,” said Gigi Starks, a teacher and realtor from Atlanta. “I really wanted to go to Cuba.” Outside Havana’s cruise dock, drivers of classic cars said they were bracing for the worst. “The repercussions will be very big because nobody will be working,” said Yosbell Figueroa, who has been supporting two children and his parents with income earned from driving cruise passengers around in his ‘51 Chevrolet. “It won’t just be classic convertibles but hotels and people in general. It’s going to affect everyone.” Cuba has about 500,000 private businesspeople who operate about 24,000 rooms in bed-and-breakfasts and hundreds of private restaurants. With a drop in aid from Venezuela, Cuba has been counting on tourism to lift its stagnant economic fortunes. It imposed food rationing last month. Tourism expert José Luis Perelló said Trump’s latest measures would keep Cuba from reaching its objective of 5 million tourists in 2019, 200,000 more than in 2018. In just the first four months of 2019, 142,000 Americans came to Cuba by cruise ship, more than half of all American visitors. That figure is now set to plummet. “Tough times are coming for my business,” said David Pajón, who rents an apartment in Old Havana. He said he had a message from the Trump administration. “If you want prosperity for the private sector in Cuba and the Cuban people in general, no more sanctions please!”
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Morton stays unbeaten, Rays beat Tigers DETROIT (AP) — Charlie Morton allowed five hits in seven innings, extending his unbeaten streak to 20 starts and leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. Morton (7-0) hasn’t lost since Aug. 11, and only Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers, at 21 starts, has a longer active unbeaten streak. Morton struck out eight with no walks and needed just 83 pitches to complete seven innings. Austin Meadows tripled and scored on a throwing error in the third to open the scoring. Tampa Bay scored two more runs in the fifth and snapped its four-game losing streak.
Amed Rosario hit a three-run homer and New York won despite losing Robinson Canó hours after his return from the injured list. Michael Conforto and Adeiny Hechavarría each had a solo homer for the Mets, who ended a three-game skid with their second win in seven games. Canó played for the first time since straining his left quadriceps May 22 but was pulled at the start of the fifth inning with tightness in the muscle. He favored the leg running to first base on a rally-killing double play in the third.
DIAMONDBACKS 3, DODGERS 2, 11 INNINGS
PHOENIX (AP) — Jarrod Dyson hit a tying double in the eighth inning with the help of Chase Field’s new artificial turf, David Peralta had a winning single in the 11th, and Arizona METS 7, GIANTS 0 avoided a three-game sweep. NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Vargas The two-time defending NL champipitched his first shutout in two years,
on Dodgers entered with a season-high, after a season-high five-game losing seven-game winning streak and began streak. the day 10 1/2 games ahead of secondplace Colorado in the NL West and 13 games in front of the Diamondbacks. NATIONALS 6, WHITE SOX 4 The Dodgers, an NL-best 43-20, lost for WASHINGTON (AP) — Trea just the second time in 13 games. Turner homered off Alex Colomé in the ninth inning, and Washington won its season-high fourth straight. PHILLIES 7, PADRES 5 The Nationals led 4-1 in the eighth SAN DIEGO (AP) — Adam Hase- before another meltdown by a bullpen ley drove in the go-ahead run in the that has a 6.68 ERA — no other team eighth inning with his first big league is above 6.00. hit, and Philadelphia rallied from a Leury Garcia singled with one out three-run deficit. in the eighth off Kyle Barraclough, The 23-year-old Haseley made his and José Abreu hit his 16th homer one major league debut Tuesday as the out later. Wander Suero relieved and center fielder for the NL East-leading Welington Castillo homered on his Phillies, who are scrambling to recon- first pitch. figure their outfield. Craig Stammen (4-2) walked Scott MARLINS 8, Kingery with two outs in the eighth, BREWERS 3 and Haseley sliced a sinker for an opposite-field double down the leftMILWAUKEE (AP) — Brian Anfield line. Pinch-hitter Andrew Knapp derson hit his first career grand slam followed with an RBI single for Phila- and Miami spoiled Jimmy Nelson’s delphia, which won its second straight
return to the major leagues. Starlin Castro and Bryan Holaday each drove in two runs as the surging Marlins earned their fourth straight victory. Sandy Alcántara (3-5) pitched seven crisp innings in his first win since he tossed a two-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the New York Mets on May 19.
BLUE JAYS 11, YANKEES 7 TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Zack Britton in a five-run eighth inning, Randal Grichuk had a pair of homers and Toronto sent New York to its first three-game losing streak since early April. Toronto trailed 7-4 in the seventh but closed against Jonathan Holder on a two-run, two-out double by Teoscar Hernández. Brandon Drury and Grichuk combined for back-to-back homSee MLB, page A8
Raptors hit big shots, take 2-1 Finals lead Curry scores 47, Warriors fall to Leonard, Toronto By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. — For every amazing shot in a career night by Stephen Curry on his home court, Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Lowry and Danny Green kept finding dazzling answers of their own. The Toronto Raptors decided to “let it rip,” and now they have the momentum again in these back-andforth NBA Finals. Leonard scored 30 points on a night Curry went off for a playoff-best 47, and the Raptors beat the banged-up Golden State Warriors 123109 on Wednesday for a 2-1 series lead. Curry also had eight rebounds and seven assists but couldn’t do it all for the two-time defending champions, down starters Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson and key backup big man Kevon Looney because of injuries. “They outplayed us. They deserved it,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I’m very proud of our effort,
and now we’ve just got to bounce back and hopefully get back in here Friday night and hopefully get a little healthier and get some guys back.” Splash Brother Thompson missed his first career playoff game after straining his left hamstring late in Game 2, while Looney is out the rest of the series after a cartilage fracture on his right side near the collarbone that also happened Sunday. Durant, a two-time reigning NBA Finals MVP, has been sidelined nearly a month because of a strained right calf. Game 4 is Friday at Oracle Arena, where Warriors fans will be rooting for the returns of Durant and Thompson. Before the game, one of the Raptors wrote “let it rip” on the locker room board. Lowry contributed 23 with five 3-pointers and Green had 18 points with six 3s after Pascal Siakam got the Raptors rolling early. Toronto shot 52.4% and made 17 from deep. “I give our guys a lot
Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) makes a layup as Golden State Warriors forward Jordan Bell (2) defends during the first half of Game 3 of basketball s NBA Finals, Wednesday in Oakland, Calif. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
of credit. I thought we answered a lot of runs,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. “Each time they chipped, we kind of answered back. And that’s kind of what you
got to do if you’re going to keep your lead.” The Warriors trailed 96-83 going into the final quarter. Curry’s three free throws at 10:37 made it a
seven-point game before back-to-back baskets by Serge Ibaka. Siakam scored 18 points and established the momentum for Toronto from the
tip, hitting his first three shots and setting a tone for a defensive effort that stayed solid without the foul problems that plagued the Raptors in Game 2.
US men fall 1-0 to Jamaica for rare loss to Caribbean team By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer
WASHINGTON — Not much went right for the United States in its next-to-last prep match for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Jamaica dealt the U.S. just its second home defeat to a Caribbean nation in a half-century, beating the Americans 1-0 in an exhibition on Wednesday night that made coach Gregg Berhalter’s new-look team appear far from prepared for the fast-approaching tournament. Shamar Nicholson took advantage of a giveaway by Christian Roldan to score from outside the penalty area in the 60th minute, five minutes after he entered the match. “We lacked speed. We lacked aggression in the final third,” Berhalter said. “When the ball’s wide, there should be four guys in the penalty box and we only had two
half the time.” Without midfielders Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams, the U.S. failed to generate much offense, and striker Josh Sargent squandered what chances he did have, including a point-blank shot that went wide in the 71st minute. The Americans had installed a new, alternate formation during just two days of training. “Personnel affects formations and performance, for sure, but I think that we’d be selling these guys short if we didn’t say that they can still perform at a high level,” Berhalter said. “Today just wasn’t our day. It wasn’t our best.” The question now is whether Berhalter’s team can find form in time for its Gold Cup opener on June 18, the Americans’ first competitive match since the October 2017 loss at Trinidad and Tobago that ended the U.S. streak of seven
World Cup appearances. Since a 1969 defeat to Haiti at San Diego, the only U.S. home loss to a Caribbean team had been 2-1 to Jamaica in a 2015 Gold Cup semifinal at Atlanta. The Reggae Boyz beat the Americans for just the third time in 26 meetings, which have included 15 U.S. wins and eight draws. Berhalter was hired in December and tasked with implementing a possession-oriented, attacking style. He started with three wins and a draw as he experimented with lineups. Pusilic is scheduled to report to training camp on Thursday, three days before a friendly against Venezuela at Cincinnati. Adams is not due to arrive until next Tuesday. McKennie (sprained left ankle) and Gyasi Zardes (bruised left foot sustained during training Tuesday) did not dress along with forward
Jozy Altidore, who arrived Sunday and has not played for the national team since the loss at Trinidad. Berhalter said Sebastian Lletget will not be on the 23-man Gold Cup roster, which will be announced Thursday. The midfielder hurt his left hamstring playing for LA Galaxy on Sunday. “We’re going to miss him,” Berhalter said. “He was important to this group from a versatility standpoint, and these things happen to players and it’s never nice.” Nicholson, who debuted against the U.S. in February 2017, got his first international goal when he beat goalkeeper Zack Steffen from 22 yards after Roldan’s giveaway, taking advantage of Wil Trapp’s inability to pressure him. “There were some bright spots in the first half in particular, but overall we started to lose a little bit of structure and continuity as the game went on,” Trapp said. “In
the final third we were just a little anemic at times with the speed of play and the quality of chances we were creating.” Steffen appears the likely Gold Cup starter after Brad Guzan was not invited to training camp. “I think our spacing was a little off when we had the ball,” Steffen said. “There could have been a little more communication to help our press and do a little bit less running. I think there was a lot of running and we looked a little tired.” Jackson Yueill, a 22-year-old midfielder who is not eligible for the Gold Cup, started in his U.S. debut. Duane Holmes, a 24-yearold midfielder, made his debut in the 66th minute. Joe Gyau, a 26-year-old forward from Silver Spring, Maryland, entered in the 67th in his third international appearance and first since 2014.
Rain washes out French Open schedule, organizers scramble By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
PARIS — The second full-day washout at the French Open since 2000 made a mess of the schedule Wednesday and raised the possibility that the Grand Slam tournament will not finish on time. Tournament director Guy Forget said there is a chance that the women’s singles final could be delayed from Saturday to Sunday.
“It’s not what we hope,” Forget said, “but if we have no other choice, then that’s what we will do.” Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam site without a covered court; a retractable roof is expected to be added to the main stadium before next year’s tournament at the facility in western Paris. As things stand now, with the last two women’s quarterfinals — defending champion Simona Halep of Romania vs. 17-year-old
Amanda Anisimova of the U.S., and No. 8 Ash Barty of Australia vs. No. 14 Madison Keys of the U.S. — moved from Wednesday to Thursday, whoever emerges from that half of the draw could end up playing on three consecutive days. The semifinals that were supposed to be Thursday are now scheduled for Friday. But, as Forget noted, while Thursday’s forecast looks OK, Friday’s calls for more showers.
“Friday,” he said, “is kind of complicated.” That would mean the women’s semifinals could end up on Saturday. Also moved from Wednesday to Thursday were the last two men’s quarterfinals: No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who is attempting to win a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title, against No. 5 Alexander Zverev of Germany, and No. 4 Dominic Thiem of Austria vs. No. 10 Karen Khacha-
nov of Russia. Instead of beginning at 2 p.m. local time (1200 GMT, 8 a.m. EDT) on Thursday, play will start at noon (1000 GMT, 6 a.m. EDT). One semifinal in each singles draw already was set Tuesday, so those players can sit back, relax and prepare. On the men’s side, Rafael Nadal faces Roger Federer, meeting Friday for sixth time at Roland Garros and 39th time overall. They own a combined 37 Grand
Slam titles. “The one,” Forget called it, “that a lot of people are waiting for, of course.” On the women’s side, it’s No. 26 Johanna Konta of Britain against unseeded 19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic. Neither has reached a major final. Play was wiped out by rain at the French Open for a full day in 2016. Before that, it hadn’t happened since 2000.
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Oilers begin season tonight The 2019 Alaska Baseball League season opens tonight on the road for the Peninsula Oilers with a 7 p.m. game with the Anchorage Bucs at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage. The Oilers finished 23-21 last year and lost two postseason games to the Bucs to end their season. The Oilers went 5-6 in the regular season against the Bucs in 2018. The Oilers will play two games apiece against the Bucs and Anchorage Glacier Pilots and one game with the Chugiak/Eagle River Chinooks before returning to Kenai for the club’s home opener June 12 at Coral Seymour Memorial Ballpark against the Chinooks.
Ostrander to attempt double Boise State redshirt junior Allie Ostrander will begin a weekend that could see history made for the Broncos. The 2015 Kenai Central grad is attempting a championship double at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas, running the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 5,000-meter run. Ostrander is the two-time defending women’s Div. I steeplechase champion and a third straight title would make her the first Boise State athlete to win three national track titles, and she would become the first ever to win the women’s steeplechase crown in three consecutive years. Colorado’s Jenny Barringer won three nonconsecutively in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Ostrander’s weekend gets under way tonight with a steeplechase semifinal heat at 4:32 p.m. (AKDT). If she qualifies, the steeplechase final awaits Saturday at 2:54 p.m. Like she has for the past two years, Ostrander will need a quick refresh for the 5,000 final, which starts at 4:25 p.m. (AKDT), giving Ostrander only 1 hour, 31 minutes, between races, and since Ostrander’s typical steeplechase time is just under 10 minutes, the time between races is realistically about 1:21.
Atletico leads challenge to Champions League revamp PARIS (AP) — Seven Spanish soccer teams have protested against a plan to transform the Champions League into a largely closed competition, openly opposing the European Club Association ahead of emergency meetings in Malta. Atletico Madrid, second to Barcelona in the Spanish league, is the biggest club to complain to the ECA leadership about its vision for launching a “frontal attack” on the stability of the European game in a letter obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Barcelona and Real Madrid, whose officials sit on the executive board of the 232-member ECA, are not among the signatories.
NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Toronto 2, Golden State 1 Thursday, May 30: Toronto 118, Golden State 109 Sunday, June 2: Golden State 109, Toronto 104 Wednesday, June 5: Toronto 123, Golden State 109 Friday, June 7: Toronto at Golden State, 5 p.m. Monday, June 10: Golden State at Toronto, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, June 13: Toronto at Golden State, 5 p.m. x-Sunday, June 16: Golden State at Toronto, 4 p.m. All Times ADT
hockey NHL Playoffs STANLEY CUP FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Boston 2, St. Louis 2 Monday, May 27: Boston 4, St. Louis 2 Wednesday, May 29: St. Louis 3, Boston 2, OT Saturday, June 1: Boston 7, St. Louis 2 Monday, June 3: St. Louis 4, Boston 2 Thursday, June 6: St. Louis at Boston, 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9: Boston at St. Louis, 4 p.m. x-Wednesday, June 12: St. Louis at Boston, 4 p.m. All Times ADT
baseball National League
East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 35 27 .565 — Atlanta 33 28 .541 1½ New York 29 32 .475 5½ Washington 28 33 .459 6½ Miami 23 36 .390 10½ Central Division Chicago 34 26 .567 — Milwaukee 34 28 .548 1 St. Louis 30 29 .508 3½ Pittsburgh 29 31 .483 5 Cincinnati 28 32 .467 6 West Division Los Angeles 43 20 .683 — Colorado 31 29 .517 10½ San Diego 31 31 .500 11½ Arizona 31 32 .492 12 San Francisco 25 35 .417 16½ Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati at St. Louis, ppd. Washington 6, Chicago White Sox 4 Arizona 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 11 innings Philadelphia 7, San Diego 5 Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 4 N.Y. Mets 7, San Francisco 0 Miami 8, Milwaukee 3 Chicago Cubs 9, Colorado 8 Thursday’s Games San Francisco (Anderson 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 5-3), 8:10 a.m. Atlanta (Foltynewicz 1-4) at Pittsburgh (Archer 2-5), 8:35 a.m. Cincinnati (Mahle 2-5) at St. Louis (Mikolas 4-5), 9:15 a.m. Miami (Smith 3-3) at Milwaukee (Woodruff 7-1), 10:10 a.m. Colorado (Gray 5-4) at Chicago
Cubs (Quintana 4-4), 10:20 a.m. Washington (Corbin 5-3) at San Diego (Lucchesi 4-3), 6:10 p.m.
American League
East Division W L Pct GB New York 38 22 .633 — Tampa Bay 36 23 .610 1½ Boston 32 29 .525 6½ Toronto 23 38 .377 15½ Baltimore 19 42 .311 19½ Central Division Minnesota 40 20 .667 — Cleveland 31 30 .508 9½ Chicago 29 32 .475 11½ Detroit 23 35 .397 16 Kansas City 19 42 .311 21½ West Division Houston 42 21 .667 — Texas 31 28 .525 9 Oakland 30 31 .492 11 Los Angeles 30 32 .484 11½ Seattle 26 39 .400 17 Wednesday’s Games Washington 6, Chicago White Sox 4 Toronto 11, N.Y. Yankees 7 Cleveland 9, Minnesota 7 Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 0 Texas 2, Baltimore 1, 12 innings Boston 8, Kansas City 0 L.A. Angels 10, Oakland 9 Seattle 14, Houston 1 Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay (Stanek 0-1) at Detroit (Norris 2-4), 9:10 a.m. Boston (Weber 1-1) at Kansas City (Duffy 3-2), 9:15 a.m. Houston (Verlander 9-2) at Seattle (Milone 1-1), 11:40 a.m. N.Y. Yankees (Happ 5-3) at Toronto (Jackson 0-3), 3:07 p.m. Minnesota (Berrios 7-2) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-5), 3:10 p.m. Baltimore (Hess 1-7) at Texas (Jurado 2-2), 4:05 p.m. Oakland (Fiers 4-3) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 4-5), 6:07 p.m. All Times ADT
Rays 4, Tigers 0 T.B. 001 020 010 —4 7 0 Det. 000 000 000 —0 5 3 Morton, Drake (8) and Zunino; Turnbull, N.Ramirez (6), Hardy (7), Reininger (8), A.Adams (9) and J.Hicks. W_Morton 7-0. L_ Turnbull 3-5.
Blue Jays 11, Yankees 7
Bos. 200 040 200 —8 11 0 K.C. 000 000 000 —0 3 1 Sale and Leon; Junis, Boxberger (5), J.Lopez (6), W.Peralta (8), Kennedy (9) and Maldonado. W_ Sale 2-7. L_Junis 4-6. HRs_Boston, Devers (9).
Rangers 2, Orioles 1 Bal. 000 000 001 000 —1 8 0 Tex. 100 000 000 001 —2 9 1 (12 innings) Means, Armstrong (7), M.Castro (8), Bleier (9), P.Fry (11) and Severino, Sisco; Minor, Chavez (6), C.Martin (8), Kelley (9), Leclerc (10), Springs (12) and Mathis. W_Springs 3-1. L_P.Fry 0-3. HRs_ Baltimore, Martin (2).
Mariners 14, Astros 1 Hou. 100 000 000 — 1 6 1 Sea. 000 027 05x —14 13 0 Peacock, Guduan (6), Bra.Rodgers (6), White (8) and Stubbs; Leake and T.Murphy. W_Leake 5-6. L_Peacock 5-3. HRs_Seattle, Seager (2), Williamson (1), Encarnacion (17), Santana (11), Murphy (4).
Angels 10, Athletics 9 Oak. 043 000 020 — 9 15 0 L.A. 104 300 011 —10 14 0 Soria, Mengden (2), Petit (4), Wang (5), Hendriks (8), Buchter (8), Trivino (8) and Hundley, Phegley; Bedrosian, Pena (2), N.Ramirez (3), J.Anderson (6), Buttrey (7), H.Robles (8) and Lucroy, Garneau. W_H.Robles 3-0. L_Trivino 2-4. HRs_Los Angeles, La Stella (13), Trout (15), Ohtani (5).
Nationals 6, White Sox 4 Chi. 000 001 030 —4 11 3 Was. 010 102 002 —6 9 0 Covey, J.Fry (6), Marshall (6), Bummer (7), Colome (9) and Castillo; A.Sanchez, Barraclough (7), Suero (8), Doolittle (9) and Suzuki. W_Doolittle 4-1. L_Colome 2-1. HRs_Chicago, Castillo (4), Abreu (16), Moncada (12). Washington, Turner (3).
D-Backs 3, Dodgers 2
N.Y. 000 133 000 — 7 9 3 Tor. 210 010 25x —11 10 0 Paxton, Ottavino (5), Kahnle (6), Holder (7), Britton (7), Cessa (8) and G.Sanchez; Thornton, Law (6), Gaviglio (7), Giles (9) and Jansen, Maile. W_Gaviglio 4-1. L_Britton 2-1. HRs_New York, Sanchez (19), LeMahieu (7). Toronto, Drury (6), Grichuk 2 (12), Guerrero Jr. (7).
(11 innings) Maeda, Urias (6), P.Baez (8), Stripling (9), Alexander (11) and W.Smith; Duplantier, Chafin (6), Y.Lopez (7), Hirano (8), G.Holland (9), Andriese (10), Godley (11) and Avila. W_Godley 2-4. L_Alexander 3-2. HRs_Los Angeles, Smith (2).
Phillies 7, Padres 5
Min. 041 010 100 —7 7 1 Cle. 102 020 31x —9 11 0
Phi. 010 100 320 —7 11 0 S.D. 004 010 000 —5 8 0
M.Perez, R.Harper (5), May (6), Parker (7), Duffey (8) and J.Castro; Clippard, Olson (2), Goody (3), Cole (5), Wittgren (7), Cimber (8), Hand (9) and R.Perez. W_Wittgren 3-0. L_Parker 0-2. Sv_Hand (18). HRs_Minnesota, Cruz (8), Polanco (10), Buxton (7). Cleveland, Luplow (8), Lindor (11), Perez (9).
Arrieta, Velasquez (5), Alvarez (7), Nicasio (7), Dominguez (8), Neris (8) and Realmuto; Quantrill, M.Diaz (6), Wingenter (7), Stammen (7), Yates (9) and Allen. W_Nicasio 1-2. L_Stammen 4-2. Sv_Neris (12). HRs_Philadelphia, Bruce (3). San Diego, Myers (11), Naylor (2).
Red Sox 8, Royals 0
Mets 7, Giants 0 S.F. 000 000 000 —0 5 1 N.Y. 100 410 10x —7 8 0
Pirates 7, Braves 4 Atl. Pit.
L.A. 002 000 000 00 —2 7 0 Ari. 000 100 010 01 —3 5 0
Indians 9, Twins 7
Beede, Gott (6), D.Holland (7) and A.Garcia; J.Vargas and Ramos. W_J.Vargas 2-3. L_Beede 0-2. HRs_New York, Hechavarria (4), Rosario (7), Conforto (11).
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Gausman, Tomlin (6), Blevins (8) and McCann; Musgrove, Vazquez (9) and E.Diaz. W_Musgrove 4-6. L_Gausman 2-5. HRs_Atlanta, Swanson (13), Acuna Jr. (12). Pittsburgh, Diaz (1), Moran (7).
Marlins 8, Brewers 3 Mia. 104 010 020 —8 10 0 Mil. 010 000 002 —3 8 2 Alcantara, N.Anderson (8), Conley (9) and Holaday; Nelson, Houser (4), Albers (7), Guerra (8), Claudio (9) and Grandal. W_Alcantara 3-5. L_Nelson 0-1. HRs_ Miami, Anderson (7). Milwaukee, Grandal (13).
Cubs 9, Rockies 8 Col. 000 003 401 —8 11 0 Chi. 000 035 01x —9 10 1 Marquez, Rusin (6), J.Diaz (7), B.Shaw (8) and Wolters; Darvish, Ryan (6), Kintzler (6), Brach (7), Montgomery (7), Edwards Jr. (8), Cishek (9) and Contreras. W_Kintzler 2-0. L_Marquez 6-3. Sv_Cishek (6). HRs_Chicago, Bote (7).
transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent DH Mark Trumbo to Norfolk (IL) for a rehab assignment. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed RHP Carlos Carrasco on the 10day IL, retroactive to Sunday. Optioned OF Greg Allen to Columbus (IL). Recalled RHPs Jon Edwards and Nick Goody from Columbus. Sent RHP Mike Clevinger to Columbus for a rehab assignment. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed 3B Jeimer Candelario on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Friday. Recalled 3B Harold Castro from Toledo (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Riley Greene on a minor league contract. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Corbin Martin to Round Rock (PCL). Recalled LHP Reymin Guduan from Round Rock. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Released 2B Chris Owings. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Released RHP Matt Ramsey. SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed RHP Connor Sadzeck on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday. Optioned RHP Andrew Moore to Arkansas (TL). Reinstated RHP Gerson Bautista from the 60-day IL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned OF Jonathan Davis to Buffalo (IL). Recalled OF Teoscar Hernández from Buffalo. Sent RHP David Phelps to Dunedin (FSL) on a rehab assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Traded C Tyler Heineman to Miami. LOS ANGELES DODGERS —
Placed INF Matt Beaty on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled OF Kyle Garlick from Oklahoma City (PCL). Sent C Austin Barnes to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP Taylor Williams to San Antonio (PCL). Recalled RHP Jimmy Nelson from San Antonio. NEW YORK METS — Designated OF Aaron Altherr for assignment. Reinstated 2B Robinson Canó from the 10-day IL. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Andrew McCutchen on the 10-day IL and RHP Victor Arana on the 60-day IL; Arana retroactive to April 19. Selected the contract of OF Adam Haseley from Lehigh Valley (IL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed C Francisco Cervelli on the 10-day IL. Assigned RHP Jesus Liranzo outright to Indianapolis (IL). ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP Génesis Cabrera to Memphis (PCL). Recalled RHP Ryan Helsley from Memphis. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed LHP Matt Strahm on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday. Optioned LHP Brad Wieck to El Paso (PCL). Designated OF Alex Dickerson for assignment. Reinstated RHP Miguel Diaz from the 60-day IL. Recalled RHP Cal Quantrill from El Paso. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed C Buster Posey on the 10-day IL. Reinstated RHP Trevor Gott from the 10-day IL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Signed RHP Fernando Rodney to a minor league contract. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DT L.T. Walton and TE Nate Becker. Released DT Quindarius Thagard and TE Moral Stephens. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived OT Desmond Harrison. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Waived DL Khairi Clark. Signed RB Taj McGowan. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed RB Damien Harris. HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with D Tarmo Reunanen on an entry-level contract. SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Announced assistant coach Mike Lapper has left the club. Named Jarryd Phillips director of sports performance. TENNIS ITF/FED CUP — Named Billie Jean King global ambassador. COLLEGE HOBART — Named Stefan Thompson men’s basketball coach. OKLAHOMA STATE — Announced junior softball INF Hayley Busby is transferring from Virginia. ROWAN — Named Dr. John Giannini interim athletic director. SAINT JOSEPH’S — Named Eric Lang men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach. TEXAS — Freshman women’s basketball C Sedona Prince will transfer.
Small, charming French court says goodbye
Today in History
against the court’s crushed red brick. The twang of a racket’s strings against a tennis ball’s fuzz. The foot stomp accompanying a volley. The slap of a ball against the white net tape. The clicks from the cameras of professional photographers whose lens hoods peered through squares cut from the green wall behind a baseline. The “Sorry!” just before an errant server’s toss was caught instead of struck. The “No!” that let you realize, as soon as a player did, a shot would land out. The “Merci!” to a ballkid handing over a towel between points. The two-note wail of a Parisian siren — distinct from the whirl of a U.S. siren — when an emergency vehicle sped past on an adjacent street. Reporters and spectators were not the only ones who got the chance to eavesdrop, of course. Players could hear everything going on in the stands. Often, more than they wanted to. One example: During a third-round match in 2006 between James Blake of the U.S. and a 19-year-old Gael Monfils of France, the locals kept giving the American a hard time. They yelled when Blake volleyed or before his second serves. When Monfils put one shot near
Today is Thursday, June 6, the 157th day of 2019. There are 208 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 6, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe. On this date: In 1654, Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated; she was succeeded by her cousin, Charles X Gustav. In 1799, American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia. In 1816, a snowstorm struck the northeastern U.S., heralding what would become known as the “Year Without a Summer.” In 1918, U.S. Marines suffered heavy casualties as they launched their eventually successful counteroffensive against German troops in the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in France. In 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp. In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, New Jersey. (The movie shown was “Wives Beware,” starring Adolphe Menjou.) In 1939, the first Little League game was played as Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy 23-8 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1966, black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, 25 1/2 hours after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes. In 1982, Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country. (The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.) In 1985, authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama visited the American cemetery at Omaha Beach in France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Summer Bird won the Belmont Stakes, rallying past Mine That Bird to spoil jockey Calvin Borel’s attempt at winning all three legs of the Triple Crown. Svetlana Kuznetsova beat top-ranked Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in an all-Russian final at the French Open. Five years ago: Men who’d stormed Normandy’s shore 70 years earlier joined world leaders in paying tribute to the 150,000 Allied troops who risked and lost their lives in the D-Day landings. One year ago: Breaking with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan said there was no evidence that the FBI had planted a “spy” in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to hurt his chances at the polls. Trump commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who had spent more than two decades behind bars for drug offenses; her cause had been championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West. Carrie Underwood continued to make history as the most decorated act at the CMT Music Awards as a new award for female video of the year gave her 18 wins overall; Blake Shelton walked away with the night’s top prize, video of the year. Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst, who also managed the St. Louis Cardinals to two pennants and a World Series championship in the 1960s, died at the age of 95. Today’s Birthdays: Singer-songwriter Gary “U.S.” Bonds is 80. Country singer Joe Stampley is 76. Jazz musician Monty Alexander is 75. Actor Robert Englund is 72. Folk singer Holly Near is 70. Singer Dwight Twilley is 68. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is 67. Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein (FY’-ur-steen) is 67. Comedian Sandra Bernhard is 64. International Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg is 63. Actress Amanda Pays is 60. Comedian Colin Quinn is 60. Record producer Jimmy Jam is 60. Rock musician Steve Vai is 59. Rock singer-musician Tom Araya (Slayer) is 58. Actor Jason Isaacs is 56. Actor Anthony Starke is 56. Rock musician Sean Yseult (White Zombie) is 53. Actor Max Casella is 52. Actor Paul Giamatti is 52. Rhythm and blues singer Damion Hall (Guy) is 51. Rock musician James “Munky” Shaffer (Korn) is 49. TV correspondent Natalie Morales is 47. Country singer Lisa Brokop is 46. Rapper-rocker Uncle Kracker is 45. Actress Sonya Walger is 45. Actress Staci Keanan is 44. Jazz singer Somi is 43. Actress Amber Borycki is 36. Actress Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is 12. Thought for Today: “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” -- Carl Jung (1875-1961).
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
PARIS — When the French Open ends, its Court No. 1 will bid adieu, too, demolished to make way for a grassy gathering place at Roland Garros. In a sign of the times, the arena’s final event Sunday will not be a tennis match, but an esports competition. Court No. 1 is famous for its concrete oval — prompting, among English-speakers, the nickname “Bullring” — and its intimate dimensions, with seating for fewer than 4,000. Spectators cram wherever they can, sitting on staircases or standing in aisles. “You feel everyone on top of you. You don’t have much space,” said Madison Keys, a semifinalist at Roland Garros last year and into the quarterfinals so far this year. “But I actually like that. It’s really good energy. I’ll be sad to see it go.” Me, too. More than the shape or size, though, I’ll miss the place’s sounds, which made watching, and listening to, a match there unique, especially from the courtside media seats. Players’ inhales and exhales. Sighs. Swear words. (So many swear words.) The scrape of sneakers’ grooved soles
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ers against Luis Cessa in the eighth. New York has lost the first two games of a three-game set, ending a streak of nine consecutive series wins. New York has not won 10 series in a row since 1954.
RED SOX 8, ROYALS 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chris Sale tossed a threehitter for his third career shutout, and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Rafael Devers drove in three runs apiece to lead Boston. Sale’s dominant performance was summed up by the eighth inning, when the seventime All-Star struck out the side on nine pitches — his second immaculate inning of the year.
Sale (2-7) has rebounded from a dismal April to put together a series of solid starts. He finished with 12 strikeouts and no walks, his seventh double-digit strikeout game of the season.
a line, someone in the front row said something to Blake. Instead of letting it go, Blake motioned for the guy to come see for himself. Hard to believe, maybe, but the heckler did just that, hopping over the short wall and ambling right out there onto the court to inspect the mark. “I wish I would have won that match, but it was still a fun atmosphere,” Blake recalled this week. “I love partisan crowds.” The “Bullring” joins other cozy Grand Slam courts razed in recent years. The difference: The U.S. Open’s Grandstand and Wimbledon’s No. 2 Court (known as “The Graveyard of Champions,” because of notable upsets, including George Bastl over Pete Sampras, and Jill Craybas over Serena Williams) were reimagined and reconstructed. The “Bullring” won’t return, supplanted by 5,290-capacity Court Simonne-Mathieu, which is surrounded by greenhouses. All part of a renovation that, in 2020, is expected to finally — mon dieu! — usher the French Open into modernity with a retractable roof at the main stadium, Court Philippe Chatrier. That way, the tournament can avoid total washouts like Wednesday’s.
in his career as the Pirates beat Atlanta in a game delayed more than two hours by rain. Musgrove (4-6) bounced back from a pair of bumpy starts to overwhelm the Braves and help Pittsburgh end a threegame skid. The right-hander CUBS, 9, ROCKIES 8 retired 14 straight and struck CHICAGO (AP) — David out six without issuing a walk. Bote drove in a career-high seven runs to lead Chicago. RANGERS 2, Bote had four hits, includORIOLES 1, ing a three-run homer and bas12 INNINGS es-clearing double to hand the Rockies a second straight loss ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) after ending their season-high — Delino DeShields’ single in eight-game winning streak the 12th inning, his fourth hit Tuesday. of the game, drove in pinchrunner Isiah Kiner-Falefa from base to lift Texas. PIRATES 7, BRAVES 4 second DeShields singled off Paul PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joe Fry (0-3), who entered in the Musgrove gave Pittsburgh’s 11th. Kiner-Falefa ran for Asbeleaguered bullpen a wel- drúbal Cabrera, who led off the come break, pitching into the 12th with a single to left field. ninth inning for the first time Kiner-Falefa advanced to second when Shin-Soo Choo was
hit by a pitch and scored on DeShields’ hit.
INDIANS 9, TWINS 7 CLEVELAND (AP) — Roberto Pérez hit a solo homer in the seventh inning to drive in the go-ahead run and Cleveland Indians used seven relief pitchers after announcing scheduled starter Carlos Carrasco will be sidelined indefinitely because of a recently diagnosed blood condition.
MARINERS 14, ASTROS 1 SEATTLE (AP) — Edwin Encarnacion capped Seattle’s seven-run sixth inning with a three-run homer, Mike Leake pitched his first complete game since 2015 and the Mariners stopped a four-game losing streak.
Peninsula Clarion | Thursday, June 6, 2019 | A9
Arts&Entertainment What’s Happening
Pratt reopens with more accessibility By Michael Armstrong Homer News
Events and Exhibitions n Join us in the Fireweed Diner, every Tuesday from 5-6 p.m., beginning June 11 through Sept. 10 for a meal and a time of learning about food and nutrition. June 11: What’s for Dinner? with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern; June 18: “What I have on Hand” Meal Planning with Amorette Payment, SNAP-ED nutrition educator; June 25:Bring the Kids! with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern. RSVP to Greg Meyer, executive director, 907-262-3111 or gmeyer@kpfoodbank.org. n The opening for the Kenai Fine Art Center’s June exhibit, Historic Buildings of Kenai, will take place June 6 from 5-7 p.m. Seethe artwork and meet the artists. Kenai city council members will be awarding prizes. The restored Kenai Fire Department firetruck, from Kenai’s volunteer firefighter era will be on display in front of the Art Center. Special guests for the evening will besome of the original volunteer firemen, sharing pictures and stories from that time in Kenai’s history as the KFAC was theoriginal fire and police department building. The iron barred jail in the rear of the building is a point of interest for summervisitors and those few who recall spending a night there, decades ago. 1st Thursday will include refreshments; it is free andopen to the public. 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. Historic Buildings of Kenai will hang until June 29. n Kenai Performers is holding open auditions for a melodrama titled, “Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch…or, The Perfumed Badge”by Shubert Fendrich on Sunday, June 23, 2-2:30 p.m. and Monday, June 24, 7-7:30 p.m. in their rental space located on thebackside of Subway restaurant on K-Beach Road. Play has roles for 4 men/5 women, age 16 and up. Performance dates areAugust 1618 & 23-25, 2019. For more information contact Terri at 252-6808. n The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Location is the log building, Mile 100on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be awoodturning demonstration. Nonmembers are welcome. Questions? Call 801-5439122. 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.
After a yearslong effort to raise funds and design a new building, last fall the Pratt Museum board decided to set aside those plans and instead remodel its current structure. At a reopening celebration last month following a winter-long closure, the community saw how a well-used and loved building could be modernized and made better. “The board decided that the most prudent thing to do in the current economic climate is to make the current building more suitable for the museum’s needs for the time being,” Pratt Museum Director Laurie Stuart wrote in an Aug. 13, 2019, email explaining the rationale behind a remodel. While the building got new paint, some new siding and exterior upgrades, the renovations addressed an issue that made the museum board and staff initially want to start from scratch: A hodgepodge of floors and levels that made the museum difficult or inaccessible for those with limited ability.
The remodeled Pratt Museum, as seen on May 25, in Homer. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
The $1.3 million remodel also expanded the collections area and created a stable climate and interior environment to protect valuable artifacts. “Accessibility and collections care were the main priorities — and visitor experience,” said Curator of Exhibits Scott Bartlett. “It changes the whole flow of the museum.” Where the old museum had several levels
Corner June By Bonnie Marie Playle This is the sunny month; the time of year that’s bright and radiant. The colors are simply brilliant. The signs are Gemini, the twins and Cancer, the crab. The Geminis are bright and quick-witted while Cancers are nurturers; the elements are air and water both signs go together like none other. This month has three birthstones, the pearl, alexandrite and moonstone. All of these mean honesty and calmness. The meanings show promise. The colors are light blue, white and cream; symbolizing loyalty, goodness and calming all of which are positive so it seems. The animal is the bull, which is strong-willed; to be around him use skill. The June flowers are rose and honeysuckle; love and happiness. The sunny month has no bitterness. The royal bird is the dove, purposely sent to bring peace from above. The trees, ash, horn beam, fig, birch and apple are quite a mixture, but paint a beautiful picture. It’s hard not to be happy in June, thank you God, for all you do. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.
on the second floor. • The old mezzanine between the main floor and the basement floor has been raised to the level of the Marine Gallery, with a door cut through a wall connecting the mezzanine to the Marine Gallery. • The main entrance has been expanded to include automatic doors and an Arctic entryway. Steps connect the entrance to the botanical garden, but the See PRATT, page A10
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and awkward stairways, the remodel makes these changes: • At the main entrance and at the back of the Special Exhibits Gallery, 700-pound capacity lifts have been added that can take one person in a wheelchair and an attendant or several people with mobility needs. • A long ramp connects the Permanent Exhibits Gallery on the main floor with the Marine Gallery
2019 Viking Books By Tracee M. Herbaugh The Associated Press
“Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life” (Viking), by Amber Scorah
As an adolescent Jehovah’s Witness, Amber Scorah knocked on plenty of doors and assigned each house a two- or three-letter code. NH for not home B-CA
for busy, call again DNC for do not call, if a resident was unusually threatening. She also knew if you were that person who hid behind the curtains pretending you weren’t home. In a new memoir, Scorah chronicles her experience in the Jehovah’s Witness faith and ultimately leaving it to start an entirely different life. “Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life” is a deeply personal and detailed exposition that, at times, is difficult to read. But you will be better for it should you choose to do so. Born into the Jehovah’s Witness faith, the writer’s entire world was comprised of the religion. Jehovah’s Witnesses are discouraged in working or socializing unless these pursuits centre on the faith. The same goes for higher education. “Leaving the Witness” opens as the author recounts her move from Vancouver to Shanghai, an adventure she hoped would invigorate her marriage. Jehovah’s Witness activities are illegal in China, so the pair had to conduct their missionary work in secret. The couple’s pros-
elytizing most often started as an outside-the-faith relationship and this is where things unfurled. Scorah takes a job producing podcasts and meets an American man who exposes her to ideas she hasn’t before considered. “A religious person learns to live with a divided heart, one that does not acknowledge what it does not want to admit to itself,” she writes. She eventually leaves the religion, though it’s the church that kicks her out — and starts over. Because all of Scorah’s friends and family are Witnesses, she is excommunicated and grapples with losing everyone from her past. To be sure, abandonment is a traumatic circumstance — and one the author knows well. “Leaving the Witness” is a fully engrossing story. It is a stark reminder that nothing is permanent. Readers will walk away with a keen understanding of this secretive religion. Her prose is clean and easy to follow, but it’s the final chapter that’s exquisitely written. It’s quite possible Scorah has executed a perfect final line for the story.
Review: The X-Men struggle to the end in ‘Dark Phoenix’ By Lindsey Bahr The Associated Press
The good news is “Dark Phoenix ” is neither an apocalypse nor is it “X-Men: Apocalypse,” but this latest installment is not exactly a solid step forward or a satisfying ending for anyone. It’s supposed to be the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, and yet it feels more like a rushed and inconsequential spinoff than something that we’ve been building toward for two decades. Perhaps that’s because we’ve barely gotten to know this version of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), whose transformation into the all-powerful Phoenix is the thing that divides the X-Men into a tiny civil war. A brief flashback to 1975 shows a young Jean’s defining trauma, when the telekinesis she can’t yet control results in a horrific car crash and her becoming an orphan.
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Tye Sheridan, from left, James McAvoy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Alexandra Shipp in “Dark Phoenix.” (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)
She’s taken in by Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) who offers her help and guidance and tells her that she can decide to use her powers for good, which is not exactly top of mind for her when, 17 years later, she absorbs a deadly cosmic energy field. The main action is set
in 1992, a decade after the events in “Apocalypse” and 30 years after the events in “X-Men: First Class,” and you might find yourself wondering just how old are all of these mutants and what is their skin care regime. If there is a reason this had to be set in 1992, the movie certainly
doesn’t give you any explanation, nor does it really attempt to capture the look of the early ’90s at all in costume or production design. But it’s 1992, the title card says so, and Charles is riding high on a tide of public goodwill. The X-Men are finally being regarded as See MOVIE, page A10
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Different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people
Norma Crosby and Sophie Trist, right, touch a bass relief of a photograph of the Vietnam Tet Offensive, by John Olson, Monday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — As people at the American Alliance of Museums’ trade show passed their hands along the raised figures in touchable versions of a Vietnam War photograph, small metal sensors touched off recordings to explain whose picture they were touching and what had happened to him. At a nearby booth was a flat reproduction of a Van Gogh self-portrait with slightly raised, slicker areas to show
both outlines and how brush strokes swept or swirled within those outlines. Museums nationwide are working to make their collections more accessible for people with disabilities, said Elizabeth Merritt, vice president for strategic foresight for the alliance, which represents museums of all sorts, from tiny local history museums to huge zoos. Hours when lights and noise levels are kept low for people on the autism spectrum are another example of inclusiveness, she said, as are websites and smart-
phone apps designed to work with screen readers for the blind. Not all touchable art is high-tech. The Singapore Art Museum commissioned three artists to make touchable adaptations of their own works, and plans more. But tech has a big role. 3D Photoworks , of Chatham, New York, was created by photographer John Olson to make his work and other two-dimensional art accessible to the blind and visually handicapped. The company has digital artists carve out contours
for scanned art. After the models are created, small metal sensors are added to trigger narrations about the work and the figures within which they’re set. “I’ve never seen anything like that, where it integrates touch and sound,” said Sophie Trist, 22, who has been blind since birth. Her favorite among three art works and a map was Romare Bearden’s collage “Three Folk Musicians,” showing two guitarists and a banjo player. Without audio, she said, “I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between a guitar and a banjo. … Whereas if it were only the sound, it wouldn’t be the full picture, either.” She appreciated hearing the banjo and learning that it was invented by enslaved Africans. Trist, a resident of suburban Mandeville, Louisiana, and a rising senior at Loyola University of New Orleans, was among several members of the National Federation for the Blind with Olson, who has partnered with the federation for about a decade. Other high-tech adaptations noted by the alliance are 3-D models made by the Brooklyn Museum for
the “sensory tours” it has held for years for blind or partly sighted patrons. That museum also offers tours with headsets to amplify the guide’s comments as well as tours in American Sign Language. In Claremont, California, at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology , described on its website as the only nationally accredited U.S. museum on a high school campus, students can scan fossils and create models of them . The Louvre commissioned small low-relief models of parts of its exterior for exhibits about the museum’s own eight-century history, said Philippe Moreau of Tactile Studio ‘s Canada office, which did the work. The studio’s many displays, diagonally across from Olson’s at the AAM expo, included one such model; the Van Gogh reproduction; a copy of a bust by French artist Jean-Baptist Carpeaux; and, from work for the Louvre of Abu Dhabi , a line drawing taken from a painting in a sacred Hindu text. It shows the buffalo demon Mahishasura fighting the manyarmed goddess Durga. The outlines are in slick, slight-
ly raised plastic, with text and Braille labels including “Sword and shield,” ”Arrows” and “Leaping lion” — the animal on which Durga is riding. Though created to give blind and visually handicapped people a look at flat art, the works also offered a new view to the sighted. Court Myers, a technical consultant for the American Indian Cultural Museum in Oklahoma City, ran his fingers across a set of “brush strokes” in Tactile Studio’s Van Gogh. “Wow!” he said. “You go up to his ‘Starry Night’ and want to feel what those swirls look like.” He was also blown away by “The Tank” — a 4-footwide blowup of Olson’s famous photograph of wounded Marines getting emergency treatment on top of a tank during the Tet offensive in February 1968. The sensor for a Marine shown holding a wounded man invoked an interview in which he explained why he had a toy squid in his helmet band. The combination of hearing, touch and sight changed the sensation itself, Myers said: “For a second there, it felt squiddy.”
Wes Studi, David Lynch among honorary Oscar recipients By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES — The first Oscar winners of the season are already here. Groundbreaking filmmaker David Lynch, CherokeeAmerican actor Wes Studi director Lina Wertmüller and actress Geena Davis will all be receiving honorary Oscar statuettes at the Governors Awards in October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday. Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work advocating for gender equality in media as the founder of a non-profit organization, the Geena Davis In-
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entrance also is through the existing deck that a small ramp connects to the parking lot and handicapped parking spaces. • The west wall lift is a three-way lift that can be used to transport people from the main floor to the Marine Gallery floor or to the bottom floor. “Lifts have been getting use,” Bartlett said in talking to front-desk staff. “They’re definitely appreciated.” With the change in the stairs and the added lift in the Special Exhibits Gallery, some floor space
stitute on Gender in Media, and the female-focused Bentonville Film Festival. The 63-year-old actually has won an Oscar before, for her supporting performance in “The Accidental Tourist,” and was also nominated for “Thelma & Louise.” The three other honorary Oscars are intended to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the industry, but have not yet taken home Oscar gold. Lynch, 73, is a four-time Oscar nominee for “The Elephant Man,” in which he was nominated for what is now known as adapted screenplay and best director. His other nominations
are for best director for “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Dr.” Studi, 71, has never received an Oscar nomination, but has been part of a number of Oscar-nominated and winning films like “Dances with Wolves,” ”The Last of the Mohicans,” ”The New World,” and “Geronimo: An American Legend.” At 90, Wertmüller is perhaps unfairly the least famous of the recipients, but broke enormous ground for women in the industry when she became the first woman to get a best director nomination for the film “Seven Beauties” in 1976. Wertmüller lost out to John G. Avildsen, who won for
“Rocky.” Only four other women have followed in getting that best director nomination: Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, and Bigelow is the only woman who has won. The film academy’s board of governors voted on this year’s recipients Saturday, months earlier than usual to accommodate the shortened awards calendar this year. “These Governors Awards given by the Academy each year recognize individuals who have devoted themselves to a lifetime of artistic accomplishment and brought outstanding contributions to our industry, and beyond,” said film
has been gained. In the Permanent Exhibits Gallery, closing the museum store freed up space for a youth activity area and a new Community Gallery. The museum has a small display of items for sale like logo apparel, but no longer sells commissioned art or other items. “We have some exhibit plans in there,” Bartlett said of the Community Gallery. “There are some youth engagement activities, education activities. We want to use that place for some conversations and reflection. That will evolve. We want to focus on exploring ideas with people and communica-
tion as an active space.” A small video theater has been built along the east wall in the space near the long ramp to the Marine Gallery. That also provides an alluring sight line down to the gallery, with a beluga skeleton hanging above the ramp. Exhibits like one on commercial fishing that include Don Ronda’s detailed boat models have been moved into the Marine Gallery. The Marine Gallery also includes elements of “Darkened Waters,” an exhibit on the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The most dramatic change to the museum happened downstairs,
with the remodel of the collections area. Collections Manager Savanna Bradley couldn’t hide her enthusiasm at a space that almost triples the area to hold the biological, cultural and historical artifacts of the museum. “This is probably the biggest change,” she said. “One of the major concerns was the space was so packed. Here we have this big, open space.” The collections area takes up about half of the downstairs. The front half connects to outside doors and to an eventual museum addition. Now in the disarray of moving, the room will be used for community meetings and
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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 Continued from page A9 Art Center. For more information or to volunteer to help at any of these happenings call 252-2773.
Entertainment n The Place will host Eric Doucet on Friday, June 7 at 8 p.m. 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 2832725. 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. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky 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.
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In this file photo, actor Wes Studi attends a special screening of “Hostiles” at Metrograph in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
academy President John Bailey in a statement. The 11th annual ceremony will be held on Oct. 27, a month earlier than
usual, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood just steps away from where the Oscars will take place on Feb. 9 2020.
lectures. Windows from a hallway look into the collections area. That allows visitors to observe Bradley, researchers or staff as they work on collections. It can make delicate artifacts visible without endangering them from mishandling. For example, sometimes staff might want to display artifacts on a gallery floor, but then they would have to be constantly monitored. “We have space we can do that and still share with the public,” Bradley said. “I’m getting excited because I’ve had two school groups in here.”
The remodel still has a few items on its punch list. With the collections moved out while construction was done, now the museum staff have to settle back in and find a spot for everything. After being closed for nine months, staff can get back to work on other projects. “I feel like we can finally move forward,” Bradley said. “… Now that it’s light in here it makes it easier to do everything.” “We’re excited to be back with the program stuff,” Bartlett said. Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@ homernews.com.
heroes and he’s become the public face of the operation, with a direct line to the President of the United States and everything. Continued from page A9 Yet he’s getting a little cavalier with his people, sending them off on an impossible rescue mission to space which will render Jean into the Dark Phoenix. Even his longtime allies like Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Hank/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) are starting to question his motives. This, frankly, is the more interesting thread but the film, written and directed by Simon Kinberg, instead uses Jean/Phoenix — who, again, we don’t know very well — as the embodiment of all of his ambition and failings. Essentially, Jean discovers that Charles has been hiding some information from her about her childhood and she gets angry (dangerously so) and starts racking up a body count. Even Magneto (Michael Fassbender), who is living in what looks like a dystopian sleepaway camp, doesn’t want any part of it and she becomes an outcast. So when an intense alien with nefarious plans and sky high stilettos, Vuk (Jessica Chastain) tells her that she’s just misunderstood and to follow her, Jean is all ears. It’s a lot of fussy plot with not much heart behind it, and while Turner is excellent at looking like a woman in distress, she needs a character to back up all that conflict and make us care. Even a pretty shocking death barely registers emotionally. It probably also doesn’t help that this is coming on the heels of “Avengers: Endgame.” As with the other X-Men movies featuring this younger cast, the best parts are usually when Magneto and Charles are in the same scene, which we do get a bit of here in a pretty fun action sequence on a train which introduced me to the concept of “dreadlock fighting.” But all in all, “Dark Phoenix” is a whiff. The most suspenseful thing that happened had nothing to do with the movie at all, but the theatre’s fire alarm that went off during a review screening during the epic climax. “Dark Phoenix,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action including some gunplay, disturbing images, and brief strong language.” Running time: 113 minutes. Two stars out of four. ——— MPAA Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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Man ready for romance spoils the mood without his teeth DEAR ABBY: I am a 53-year-old man who has had very few girlfriends, although there are some women who are interested and who I would certainly date. The problem is, for some reason, I don’t move forward, and I’m now worried that I’m so set in my ways I’ll be alone for Abigail Van Buren the rest of my life. Could the issue be that I haven’t met the right person, as I tell myself? Other reasons could be my insecurity, lack of trust in women, and my fear that women won’t like my lifestyle (I have no ambition). Most people find a mate. Why not me?
-- MR. ALONE DEAR MR. ALONE: The reason may be that, until now, you haven’t been willing to identify and work on the issues that have prevented you from finding one. A licensed mental health professional can help you overcome your insecurities and inability to trust, and understand what they stem from. Once you succeed at that, you may find you have more ambition than you currently think.
-- CONFUSED DINER DEAR CONFUSED: Some people turn the door handle to see if the restroom is occupied. Others knock, particularly if it has been occupied for an unusually long time. The woman you encountered may have been in a bad mood, or felt that because you knocked you had rushed her. You did nothing wrong, and I hope you didn’t let it ruin your evening. 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.
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, June 6, 2019: This year, you could waffle between being highly emotional and being a happy risk taker. You will see which attitude works for you. If you’re single, others find you extremely attractive. You have several strong choices. If you’re attached, the two of you bond to make this tie stronger. You become more expressive about your feelings, which warms up the interactions between you. Your loving personality warms the tie even more. Make plans to get away for a romantic interlude more often. LEO makes you laugh. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could feel pressured by a boss or someone who has a lot of power over you. Tap into your sixth sense for guidance as to what to do. You will find the right path, but expect a surprise on the way. Tonight: Kicking up your heels. Enjoy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You communicate directly and well. If someone gets defiant, it might not be because of what you said. It has to do with a long-term issue of the other party. Encourage others to reveal what is ailing them. Tonight: You are full of surprises. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Be aware of your need to give more of yourself in order to continue on the same path. Someone you deal with has become increasingly demanding. Express your feelings in a meaningful manner. Tonight: Have a long-overdue talk. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You have an emotional nature, yet today you can organize your feelings in a way that works for you. Someone might take a strong stand against you, which not only upsets you but floors you. Detach and do not react. Tonight: Do some shopping on the way home from work. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might feel as if someone is pulling you down in the morning. You simply might not be in an assertive, positive mood. You also could be frustrated by a certain situation. By late afternoon, you recharge. Your actions surprise another person. Tonight: Let the party spontaneously go on.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Emphasize your goals as well as a special long-term desire. A friend or loved one could be involved. Check out a purchase with care. You might be hesitant but ultimately know how to pay for this item. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Emotions run high around work. Everyone has their own perspective on a difficult situation. On top of that, there is a difference of opinion as to how to handle it. A meeting toward the end of the day could be important. Tonight: Where the gang is. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your ideas seem unusually innovative at this point in time. Test them out on another person who can break out of rigid thinking. You feel as if you can make a difference. Others look up to you. Tonight: A must appearance. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You understand where another person comes from much more than he or she thinks. You might feel as if you are being pulled and manipulated by him or her. You will be able to relate to this person in a far better manner later on. Tonight: An inevitable talk. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might want to back off if you’re having a difficult conversation. Do be aware of your role in this problem. Consider how the other party feels as well. When you can have a more sensitive talk, do so. Tonight: Go with another person’s choice. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Plug into work and get your work done. You cannot handle all the back-and-forth and disagreement. You too have a strong view, but you feel no need to express it. Tonight: Respond to another person’s request. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You come up with delightful ideas when making plans with a loved one or around a child. Meanwhile, you feel the need to get to a friend who seems more than just upset! Be sensitive. Tonight: Plug into work. BORN TODAY Soldier/spy Nathan Hale (1755), tennis player Bjorn Borg (1956), actor Paul Giamatti (1967)
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TOUGH TANGLES Dear Heloise: I have to wash several aprons (maybe six to 10 or more) at one time for my business, and they often come out of the dryer in a knotted mess of apron strings. The strings are long enough to wrap around back and tie in front. Do you have any hints to avoid this annoyance? -- Carolyn, via email Carolyn, there are a few options for you. Pop a few aprons into a mesh lingerie bag; this will lessen tangling. Another option, if the aprons are white, is to throw several white towels in the load. The towels will create a buffer to reduce tangles. A gentle slipknot may also help. -- Heloise TOO MUCH NOISE Dear Heloise: Have you noticed we are bombarded with music everywhere we go? Even in restrooms within restaurants and shops. Why are owners doing this? You can’t hear the salesclerk talk to you. As a hearing-impaired person who has worn hearing aids for over 40 years, this is annoying. In our community of 150,000 senior citizens, a large percentage of us have hearing loss; business owners need to realize we won’t go where we aren’t comfortable to shop and eat or for entertainment. Come for a visit anytime, Heloise. We would love to welcome you to The Villages! -- Jan and Fred S., via email I would love to return to the beautiful Villages in Florida! -- Heloise
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-- MAKING THE EFFORT IN OHIO DEAR MAKING: The truth is, your friend needs to see a dentist and get his false teeth adjusted or replaced. Out of consideration for you, he should wear them when he desires intimacy. That you don’t get turned on when he’s toothless isn’t shallow. I’m sure many women would feel the same way.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I were recently at an upscale restaurant. I needed to use the restroom. When I approached the ladies’ room door, it was closed. I knocked twice and heard a grumbling from inside. A minute later a lady exited. She asked me if I had knocked, and I replied that I had. She then admonished me in a stern voice as if I were a child, saying, “Don’t do that!” Was I wrong to knock on a restroom door that was closed? Are we to assume that someone is in there? I always close the restroom door when I leave because I assume that people do not want a view of the restroom while enjoying dinner.
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DEAR ABBY: I dated a man several years ago, and we just hooked up again. In the interim he had all of his teeth pulled. His dentures are ill-fitting, and he refuses to get them adjusted. As a result, he goes without any teeth, which I find a whole lot less than sexy. Our love life is suffering as a result. He has tried to persuade me to kiss him without the teeth, or he sits around all evening and then runs and puts them in for a “bootie call.” But now he doesn’t even do THAT! He’ll wear the teeth to work and other places, but not with me. He expects me to get in the mood, even though he looks like Grandpa. We had a spat about it, and he called me shallow. Am I? I take pride in my appearance FOR HIM. I think he just expects me to get over it and make out with him toothless, but I can’t! It’s not like we live together. We see each other once a week or less. Please tell the truth here.
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Weekend Almanac
By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
Seward area anglers are getting good use out of their waders this June as they wade into the waters of Resurrection Bay to snag sockeye salmon. The early-season sockeye salmon are in Resurrection Bay, their numbers growing daily as the fish head toward Bear and Spring Creeks just outside of Seward. “This run should continue to improve, but right now more effort and patience will be needed to catch your limit,” according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Through September, between 10,000 and 20,000 sockeye will swim up Bear Creek. “Fish are coming in thick. McDonald’s or walking down from Afognak is the place to go for reds. People are catching limits daily. Kings are starting to run up the culvert and are finding themselves trapped in the boat harbor,” said Seward fisherman Kenny Regan. For those interested in seeing fish instead of catching, the weir, operated by Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, is open for viewing on Bear Lake Road. Fish and Game recommends visiting in June and July to view spawning sockeye. Resurrection Bay, known as the North Gulf Coast by the Alaska
Thursday
66/41 High tides: 6:41 a.m. 7:54 p.m. Low tides: 1:10 a.m. 1:43 p.m. Peter Frank of Seward displays a sockeye salmon he caught in Resurrection Bay in Seward on Saturday. (Photo submitted by Gillian Braver)
Department of Fish and Game, is open year-round to salmon fishing (except king salmon) and anglers are allowed six per day, six in possession. Snagging is legal in all saltwater, as long as it’s not specifically prohibited, so Seward anglers have been hitting popular spots such as Spring Creek beach, near the waterfall at the mouth of Lowell Creek and by the culverts of the Seward Lagoon outflow. Snagging allows anglers to hook a salmon on the body with an unbaited hook. Although it may
seem intuitive, it’s more challenging than it seems. Hopeful snaggers should cast ahead of their target, keep the rod tip forward, pull their rod back as if they are setting the hook, return the rod tip forward and repeat. Looking for a more detailed description on the technique of snagging? Watch what fellow anglers are doing, especially the ones with fish on the bank. Snagging is not allowed in fresh water. Only unbaited single-hook artificial lures or flies are allowed. During May and June last year,
the red run was so successful that the bag and possession limits for sockeye salmon were increased in fresh and salt water for Resurrection Bay to 12. The Seward Halibut Tournament also started this week and runs from June 1 to June 30. “Halibut fishing continues to be good, especially when the weather is good,” according to Fish and Game. Tickets for the tournaments are $10 each with a variety of awards for heaviest fish, tagged fishes and different weekly prizes.
need to be recorded. Now it’s time to look at the fishing report for week of June 4 - June 10.
Freshwater Fishing The Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River open to sport fishing on Saturday, June 8 through Monday, June 10. Expect fishing to be fair to good on the Anchor and Ninilchik Rivers if water conditions remain low. Deep Creek water levels have been dropping and clearing up and should also fish well this weekend. Large tides could bring good pulses of fish into the streams on the incoming tide. Try fishing at the mouth a few hours before high slack, or a bit further up the river at high tide and just after. Chartreuse and hot pink spinners, spoons and spin and glows are likely to have the best results. Expect fair success for the June 5 youth-only fishery on the Ninilchik River. Remember Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River have sport fishing — including fishing gear — restrictions in effect right now. Check out the corresponding emergency order number in the last part of this report. Note: The Anchor River run continues to look healthier. As of June 3, 1,136 fish have passed through the counter. On June 3 of last year, only 143 had made the journey and on the same date of 2017, 1,205 passed through.
Saltwater Fishing King Salmon As mentioned earlier, schools of chinook salmon are continuing to show up at the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon. Fishing has been fair to good early in the morning. Try different kinds of scented
salmon roe beneath a bobber. Plug-cut herring and chunks of mackerel are also working well when offered the same way. Don’t set the bait too deep. Keep an eye on who is being successful and at what depth they have their lure. If you enjoy spinning, the old standby size No. 5 Blue Fox Super Vibrax spinner is tough to beat. Remember, retrieve these puppies slow to get the best “thump” attraction. Try fishing the lagoon as the tide floods in, or fish just outside of the pond as the tide begins to ebb out. Trolling for king salmon has been slow in both Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet over the last week, with scattered reports of good fishing near Bear Cove and in the inlet north of Anchor Point. Trolling with small herring or thin blade spoons behind a flasher has been a winning technique. Halibut Halibut fishing has been good, with consistent results in offshore locations 20-30 miles west of the Homer Harbor and west of Anchor Point. Sampled sizes over the weekend were above average, with a 110-pounder sampled in the Homer Harbor on Saturday. When exploring new areas for halibut, try drifting to locate concentrations of the flats before anchoring. Herring on a circle hook is the most popular bait; however, octopus, salmon heads, and jigs will fire up their appetite. Shellfish Clamming tides are June 4 June 6. Razor clams can be found on beaches along the west side of Cook Inlet and can be accessed by boat or plane. Popular razor clam beaches include the Polly Creek beach, Crescent River Bar and
Chinitna Bay. Boaters are advised to use caution before traveling across the Cook Inlet because of strong tidal currents and variable weather conditions. Littleneck clams can be found in a variety of habitats from Jakolof Bay to Bear Cove. Typically, littleneck clams are found shallower in the substrate, up to eight inches deep.
Emergency Orders Emergency Order 2-RCL-701-19 and 2-RCL-7-02-19 closed all eastside Cook Inlet beaches to clamming for all species from the mouth of the Kenai River to the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit for 2019. Emergency Order 2-KS-7-1119 limited the fishing season on the Anchor River June 8-10, 2019. Emergency Order 2-KS-7-1219 restricted fishing gear to only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure in the Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River through July 15. Emergency Order 2-KS-7-1319 reduced the king salmon bag and possession limits in the Ninilchik River to one hatchery king salmon 20 inches or greater in length. Emergency Order 2-KS-7-1419 combined the annual limit for king salmon to two king salmon 20 inches or greater in length from the Anchor River, Deep Creek, Ninilchik River and all marine waters south of the latitude of the mouth of the Ninilchik River to the latitude of Bluff Point. Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com when he isn’t still busy consoling the mayor of the fishing hole, Tom, for his loss of up to 70 yards of line firmly nailed inside a “big hog” when a #^*+!%(@ seal scarfed up his prize after a 20-minute battle. I told you they were thieves.
Last week I reported that the Fishing Hole’s chinook run had been about as productive as surface trolling from a ferry in high seas off of Kodiak — or, at least something like that. Well, just a couple of days later, things changed after a series of beefy tides pushed in bringing several schools of blackmouth with them. Easy now, don’t herniate yourself trying to lunge into your XTRATUFs while grabbing a rod and some bait just to jet out there. That would be inappropriate, especially if you’re attending a wedding or in the middle of a surgical procedure, so slow your roll. The best is yet to come, if you know what you’re doing. On the down side, one can always tell when the official run has started because the thieving seals show up along with the lame dipsticks who crawl out of their dank root cellars caressing tight-lining snagging gear. Now, don’t get me wrong, I actually have empathy for the scofflaws. It’s sad to watch those titans of blatant incompetence as they struggle to bring in a fish backwards and then quickly haul it to their rig because they lack the intellectual wherewithal to read and understand the regulations, much less record the fish or count to two. The fish being caught, so far, are somewhat small, averaging around 5 to 9 pounds with some nice ones tipping 13 or more. Others are diminutive dudes and qualify as jack salmon (20 inches or under). They all taste good, but remember a jack counts toward your daily limit of two kings although they don’t
2.5 feet -3.6 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Chinooks starting to hit at Fishin’ Hole By Nick Varney For the Homer News
19.7 feet 17.7 feet
Friday
66/45 High tides: 7:30 a.m. 8:45 p.m. Low tides: 1:58 a.m. 2:32 p.m.
18.8 feet 17.2 feet 2.9 feet -2.8 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Saturday
64/44 High tides: 8:24 a.m. 9:41 p.m. Low tides: 2:52 a.m. 3:25 p.m.
17.6 feet 16.7 feet 3.4 feet -1.7 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Sunday
59/48 High tides: 9:28 a.m. 10:41 p.m. Low tides: 3:54 a.m. 4:24 p.m.
16.3feet 16.5 feet 3.8 feet -.4 feet
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Fish Counts Kenai River early run kings: The daily sonar passage estimate for Tuesday was 199 kings. The cumulative estimate through June 30 is 989.
Marine Forecast Lower Cook Inlet Kalgin Island to Point Bede: Friday: SW wind, 10 knots, seas 2 feet. Saturday: SW wind, 15 knots, seas 3 feet. Sunday: SW wind, 10 knots, seas 2 feet. — National Weather Service
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