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Budget vetoes to have local fallout
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Last Friday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a series of vetoes totaling $444 million to the state’s operating budget, many of which have the potential to impact residents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Among the cuts was a veto of $130 million to the University of Alaska system, which could put the Kenai Peninsula College and Kachemak Bay Campus on the chopping block. The university cut may also affect local collegebound students, Pegge Erkeneff, communications liaison for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, said. “We want our students
Mount Marathon Race officials will decide Thursday morning whether to cancel the junior race, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. The National Weather Service is forecasting widespread smoke for Seward on Thursday, mainly before 10 a.m. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says children, teenagers, older adults and those who have heart or lung diseases are more susceptible to the health threats due to smoke. The women’s and men’s races are happening, though all competitors may choose to defer entry to 2020. Junior racers also may defer entry, but race officials are taking a more cautious approach with that race, which has not been canceled since it began in 1964. The junior race goes halfway up and down the 3,022-foot mountain overlooking Seward. Air quality will be accessed at 7:30 a.m. and if the air is unhealthy, officials could announce via public address, volunteers at Race Headquarters and mmr.seward.com that the race is canceled by 8 a.m. A second assessment will be done at 8:30 a.m., with final determination at 8:45 a.m. If the junior race is canceled, racers get their $25 entry fee back and entry into the 2020 race. For more information, check mmr.seward.com.
Climber dies in fall at Denali National Park ANCHORAGE — An Alaska rock climber fell to his death at Denali National Park and Preserve. The National Park Service in a release says 26-year-old Evan Millsap of Fairbanks was killed while climbing with a partner at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday in a rocky drainage off Igloo Canyon. The canyon is near Mile 37 of the park road. As Millsap rappelled down the rock face, an anchor system set up by the climbers failed. Millsap fell 70 feet. His partner climbed down and sought emergency assistance. Park rangers received word of the fall at 11:20 p.m. — Associated Press
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Swan Lake Fire prompts Cooper Landing smoke concerns By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters about his budget vetoes at the state Capitol in Juneau on Friday. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Taking a shot Levi and Caleb Smith from Soldotna play a round of Cornhole during the Levitt AMP Soldotna Music Series in Soldotna Creek Park on Wednesday. The 12-week concert series, which began in early June, showcases local and national musical acts and includes family-friendly entertainment. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
After nearly a month, the Swan Lake Fire continues to burn through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge east of Sterling. A community meeting has been scheduled for Friday and management of the fire was handed off to the Northwest 13 Incident Management Team. The current size of the fire is 79,200 acres, according to the latest update from the Incident Management Team, but clouds and heavy smoke early Wednesday morning prevented a perimeter update by infrared satellite or helicopter mapping flight. Joe Anderson, public information officer for the Incident Management Team, said on Wednesday that Cooper Landing has been receiving a significant amount of smoke from the fire. The community meeting will address any concerns regarding air quality and let the residents of Cooper Landing know what contingency plans are in place to prevent the fire from threatening the area. The meeting will take place Friday at 6 p.m. at Cooper Landing Elementary and is open to the public. Between Mile 58 and Mile 63 of the Sterling Highway, near the Skyline Trail, firefighters are developing a strategy for the east side of the fire to prevent it from spreading in this direction. The highway remains open but firefighters will be present. Motorists are advised to use caution and expect delays. The Southwest corner of the fire also remains a priority as firefighters work to strengthen existing containment lines. North of the Homer See FIRE, page A3
Farmers concerned about heat, lack of rain By Sydney Leto For the Homer News
As lower Kenai Peninsula temperatures have soared recently, local farmers and gardeners have concerns about how June’s lack of rain and steady warm temperatures will affect their businesses in the weeks ahead. Last weekend, hundreds of shoppers visited the Homer Farmers Market, many wearing sun-dresses and shorts beneath the bright sky, which was filled with smoke from fires to the north. Though the vendors featured a variety of flow-
Madra Choromanska prepares freshly cut flowers for Alaska Stems on June 29, at the Homer Farmers Market in Homer. (Photo by Sydney Leto)
ers, food and herbs, some growers worried about the effect of the weather on
their livelihood. “If it doesn’t rain again, we are going to be in trou-
ble. Outside (the high tunnel), we may lose everything,” said Kelly Hickman, who farms off-grid with her family in Nikolaevsk. Temperatures this June have been consistently in the 60s and, according to U.S. Climate Data, Homer received only 0.16 inches of rain in June of 2019, compared to a measured 2.53 inches of rain in June of 2018. “I’ll push it and say ‘oh, we are going to get rain in a week,’ and I won’t water as much. But, that’s a mistake,” said Colleen Powers at Arctic Rose Herbs, who relies on a rainwater catch-
ment system for her greenhouse and one acre dedicated to herbs, flowers and berries. Powers says she can collect about 2,800 gallons of water, and historically doesn’t have to buy any. In recent years though, Powers said she has had to order about one to three deliveries of about 1,000 gallons each from Moore and Moore, a local water provider. The price of a water delivery in Homer varies depending on where people live and delivery schedules. For delivery on a normal schedule to Fritz Creek, 2,500 gallons See FARM, page A3
Arts groups brace for program cuts, grant losses By Michael Armstrong Homer News
In the list of 182 line-item vetoes released last Friday by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, one didn’t make his press office’s “items of interest” tally. Buried in the more than $400 million in cuts, Dunleavy defunded the entire $2.8 million of the Alaska State Council on the Arts
budget — effectively eliminating the state arts agency. Of that veto, Dunleavy slashed $1.1 million in an item called “statutory designated program receipts,” money that comes from non-state sources. Of the $2.8 million cut, $700,000 is state money, said Council Chairman Benjamin Brown of Juneau. “Counterintuitive doesn’t
begin to discern how hard it is or impossible for me to understand the logic behind these purported vetoes,” Brown said. “It’s so unreasonable,” said Asia Freeman, artistic director of the Bunnell Street Arts Center, one of the Homer arts groups that receives ASCA grants. “It’s such an ineffective way to think of cutting.” If the Alaska Legislature,
meeting jointly as the House and Senate, does not get the 45 out of 60 votes to override Dunleavy’s veto, that will mean a $30,000 to $35,000 hit to Bunnell Street Arts Center, Freeman said. “It’s fairly significant for us,” she said. “It’s comparable to one of the jobs here. It’s comparable to an entire program. A really good example of that is
the Artists in the Schools.” Through that program, Bunnell is one of several regional arts and culture agencies that administers the program: training artist teachers, processing applications and coordinating residencies. Alaska State Council on the Arts grants up to $15,000 to agencies like Bunnell — Bunnell gets a little See ARTS, page A3
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to study in the state and stay here, building a positive future for Alaska,” Erkeneff said. “Our freshman and sophomores who are college bound and beginning to plan may consider education options Outside. Our juniors and seniors will make firm plans. Many of our graduates in the class of 2019 have put plans in motion for studies beginning next month, and even turned down offers from educational institutions outside of Alaska.” Dunleavy vetoed school bond debt reimbursement by 50%, or $48.9 million worth of the money used to pay the state subsidy for older bond debt from cities and boroughs. The cut means the borough will have to pay more on those older bonds, and a total local loss of $1.3 million. In his original proposed budget, Dunleavy budgeted for a 100% reduction to school bond debt reimbursement, which resulted in a loss of $2.6 million for the borough. Mayor Charlie Pierce said the borough budgeted for the governor’s proposed plan, meaning they were preparing to face the $2.6 million cut. “In February, when the original proposal came out, we took that to heart and we identified the impacts to the borough and what they could be,” Pierce said. “We went into strategic planning and we created two different plans.” Pierce said the two plans dealt with higher and lower level cuts. Plan ‘A’ prepared for cuts like the $2.6 million school bond debt cut. He said the $2.6 million school bond debt cut was included in the budget as an actual cut. “We incorporated those changes into our budget right away,” he said. Plan ‘B’ considered deeper cuts, like the governor’s proposal to siphon
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$15 million in oil and gas property tax revenues from the borough. Pierce said when his administration met with Dunleavy several weeks ago, the governor said “he was not going to touch oil and gas tax at this time.” “That was around $10 or $15 million net to us, which never materialized,” Pierce said. “We didn’t have to look at Plan ‘B’ but we still have that in the mix of ideas that are on the table.” Overall Pierce said he feels “very favorable about” the vetoes. “We’re sitting with the $1.3 million that we get back from the state and the sharing of the school bond debt,” Pierce said. “The real net gain at the end of the day — we’re sitting with a surplus in our budget of about $1 million.” Pierce said the governor took one-time funding of $30 million out of the 2020 funding for schools, which he says the House and Senate will “need to deal with somehow.” The one-time funding was passed by lawmakers last year. “That’s a big item that could impact our local schools here, so we’re concerned about that as well,” Pierce said.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District doesn’t feel as favorably toward the cuts. “The uncertainty created, at this late date in the year, continues to affect our young people and communities,” Erkeneff said. She said cuts to school bond debt reimbursement means less funding available for future expenditures on the peninsula, where roughly 30% of schools are over 50 years old, and half of the schools are 30 years or older. A 90% veto of the Homelessness Assistance Program Grant will affect peninsula organizations offering assistance to some of the most vulnerable students and families in the district, Erkeneff said. A $2.7 million cut to public broadcasting will also affect the district, since they rely on local public radio stations to relay district emergencies and accurate stories and data about public education to the public. The funding for the Live Homework Help program and the Online with Libraries Program was zeroed out. These programs are used in many public school libraries around the state. The Professional Teaching Practices Com-
mission — which “serves as a preventative and positive force in helping to enhance the professional performance of all educators” — was cut in half. All funding was eliminated for early learning programs, including prekindergarten pilot programs and grants, Head Start, Parents as Teachers, and Best Beginnings. Pierce said the community and the state should be considering future cuts the governor plans to make in 2021. “I hope folks don’t get lost or forget we still have a deficit in the state and we’re going to have to balance it,” Pierce said. “The way you fix the problem is with new revenue or create some cuts … I don’t see anyone coming up with new revenue ideas and the governor’s hands are tied. Pierce said the borough is going to remain in close contact with the governor and his administration. “We’re going to stay tuned in with his administration and try to hear early so we can strategize and plan accordingly,” Pierce said. Legislators will reconvene Monday, and the last opportunity for lawmakers to override vetoes will be July 12.
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‘Wild Pecos Bill’
Around the Peninsula
Kenai Performers Summer Drama Camp students present, “Wild Pecos Bill,” by R. Eugene Jackson. Two shows: Friday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 13 at 2 p.m. Admission In observance of Independence Day, all locations of Kenai is $5 at the door. Location: 44045 K-Beach Road (backside of Peninsula College will be closed on Thursday-Friday, July Subway restaurant). For more information, call Terri at 2524- 5. Campuses will re-open with normal hours on Monday, 6808. July 8.
Kenai Peninsula College holiday closure
Kenai/Nikiski Class of ‘89 reunion
Fabric and Craft Materials Sale
The Kenai United Methodist Church is hosting an estate sale from the fabulous stash of Nancy Egbert. Nancy was an active community quilter, knitter and maker of crafts. Quilt fabric, yarn, patterns, doll making materials, scrapping, beading materials will all be available. The sale is Friday, July 12 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, July 13 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The Kenai United Methodist Church is located across from Wells Fargo.
Kidfest brings health and safety to Soldotna
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska, along with the Soldotna Chamber’s Student Ambassador Program, is hosting KidFest on Saturday, Aug. 10 at the Peninsula Center Mall in Soldotna. This family-friendly community event promotes health and safety for children returning to school. Get the kids out of the house for an afternoon of educational activity booths and stations, car seat checkups, chances to win prizes and earn backpacks with basic school supplies with completed report card activity, a photo booth, and so much more! Admission is free, and the fun starts at 11 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m! For more information, visit pchsak.org/ kidfest.
Salmon Run Series
Come enjoy running and the Tsalteshi Trails this summer during the Salmon Run Series. The five-race series is held Wednesday nights starting July 10. The routes are perfect for any type of runner or walker. Check our Facebook page for weekly trail routes and updates. All proceeds support Kenai Watershed Forum education programs. First race in 2019 is Wednesday July 10, last race is Aug. 7.
Rock ’N The Ranch Music Festival
The RustyRavin will host its third annual music festival on Friday and Saturday, July 12-13 at Mile 12.5 of Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kenai. Listen to two great days of music from the Gasoline Lollipops of Colorado, Blackwater Railroad Company of Seward, H3, Juno Smile, Daddy’s Issue and The Melster Band! Free camping and parking for all paid concertgoers! The largest beer garden and dance area on the Kenai Peninsula along with food carts, craft vendors and great music! Music starts at 6 p.m. on Friday and ends at midnight. Saturday’s music starts at 2 p.m. and ends at midnight. Adult ticket prices are $35 per day or $55 for a two day pass. Youth tickets are free for 15 and younger with a paying adult. Tickets are available from Eventbrite online or available at the gate. More information is available at 907-398-6935 or by going to: facebook.com/RustyravinPlantRanch. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit Nuk It Un Sober Living in Kenai.
Farmers market donation station
The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank and Cooperative Extension Service are teaming up on a new way to support local farmers and improve food security in our community. When shopping at the farmers markets, please consider buying an extra produce item to be donated to the food bank. There will be a donation station at each market for donated produce. Food bank staff will distribute the items to people in need. Thank you for supporting both our farmers and our food bank!
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less — and the agencies raise funds from schools, private donors and fundraisers to run the program. “At a time when the (Kenai Peninsula Borough) school district doesn’t have an arts specialist, we’re working very hard in the private sector to make up for a shortfall,” Freeman said. To raise awareness about the Council on the Arts and other vetoes, on Monday Freeman sent out an email encouraging
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would be about $170. At the market, Powers pointed out an unusual discoloration in certain crops, and how some leaves were
Exercise room open 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Homesteader and Pioneer Plaque dedication dinner and auction: Saturday, Aug 3 at 5:30 p.m. Call for more information or information on renting the gym, kitchen or conference room. Pickle Ball: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Zumba: Monday 6 p.m.; Friday Market: July 12, 19, 26 and Aug. 9, 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the KP Young Adult Ministry River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 KP Young Adult Ministry is available at Ammo Can Cof- p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and fee Thursday nights at 7 p.m. KP Young Adult Ministry is enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. geared toward fostering the healthy Christian Community for Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information. young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. For Soldotna Public Library activities more information contact us through our Facebook Page KP For more information, contact the library at Soldotna PubYoung Adult Ministry. lic Library at 262-4227. —Summer Writing Contest: Submissions due July 31. Sterling Friday Flea Market Got a short story you’re itching to get out on paper? Fiction, The Sterling Community Center invites you to our nonfiction, fantasy, dystopia, we’ll take it all! Submit your Summer community event, Sterling Friday Flea Market. entries to Leslie at the desk or lmeyer@soldotna.org by July On Friday, July 12, 19, 26 and Aug. 9 and 16. Open 10 a.m.- 31. 3,000 word maximum, ages 13-19. “This is all about an intricate and carefully constructed network of partnerships that is unfortunately being swept away by these vetoes,” he said. Freeman compared the system to a tree “where if you chop it down at the base it will affect so many things.” “The beauty of what the Rasmuson Foundation does is leveraging,” Freeman said of grants coming from that foundation and others. “When you lose the lever, what do you do?”
already dry and quickly falling to the ground. She said she believes this is due to using purchased water that has been treated with chlorine instead of pure rainwater. Darius Kleine, owner of Fritz Creek Fungi, also said that water is becom-
ing a concern for him. Kleine, who has been on his property for 20 years, has watched as the spring-fed creek that he relies on turns dry each summer. This has become a trend over the past three years, and this year it’s happening earlier than last. Soon, he said, they might need to start buying water. June’s consistent heat is also causing plants to produce ahead of schedule. In Homer’s unique growing climate in which everything usually happens relatively quickly, this year growers
are commenting that crops are coming even faster. “Watering is our number one priority right now,” said Madra Choromanska at Alaska Stems, a flower farm and design studio located in Homer. “With flowers, the sunnier it is, the faster they are blooming. We are so behind on general farm work like weeding, because we just need to get the flowers out right now.” Michelle Hatten at Stone Circle Peonies in Fritz Creek echoed Choromanska’s experience, reporting
that this is her sixth year of growing peonies and her flowers are two weeks ahead of schedule. The rapid rate of growth this year will mean that Alaska peony farmers will need to hold onto their flowers longer before they can sell them. In having peonies ready in June, Alaska is now overlapping with the Dutch and Danish schedule, Hatten said. Alaska is known for being the only producer in the world of peonies in the month of July, providing desirable flowers
during the peak of wedding season when no other region can. Greeted with the everstunning views of Kachemak Bay and its changing tides, visitors descending into Homer for the holiday weekend might never imagine that water might be a concern for locals. And, as local farmers watch the weather report, not a spot of rain sits on the radar.
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use cabins in the path of the fire have structure protections in place and are being monitored. Smoke conditions on the peninsula continue to be a point of concern, and the Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality advisory for the area on Monday. The best place to get information on the current air quality conditions on the peninsula can be found at the University of Alaska Fairbanks smoke prediction website. The Department of Public Safety issued a ban on the sale and use of fireworks on the Kenai Peninsula, and the ban is expected to remain in place through the
weekend, including on the Fourth of July. A Temporary Flight Restriction is in effect for the area over the fire, and pilots can confirm current restrictions at https://tfr.faa.gov/ save_pages/detail_9_0513. html. The Skilak Lake Wildlife Recreation Area partially reopened on Monday to allow public use at Lower and Upper Ohmer Lakes, Lower Ohmer Campground, Upper and Lower Skilak Lake Campgrounds and Upper Homer Lake Cabin. Skilak Lake Road, along with Jim’s Upper, and Lower Skilak landings also remain open. For more information on the closures, contact the Refuge
Visitor Center at 907-2602820. Officials for the Mount Marathon Race in Seward on July 4 have issued an announcement due to the persistent smoke from the Swan Lake Fire. According to the announcement, all registered runners will be allowed to defer their 2019 entry to the 2020 race if they choose not to run due to air quality. This includes lottery winners, priority racers, petitioners and special invites. The deferral form and the announcement can be found at the Mount Marathon website. For the latest on the Swan Lake Fire, visit kpboem. com.
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not be able to display the Silver Hand Seal proving authenticity of their artistic products; • $1.5 million in foundation money will be returned; • The status of art in the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank, including pieces on loan to members of Congress, will become uncertain; and • Dunleavy’s own Governor’s Arts & Humanities Awards program will end. Brown said the art council’s ability to leverage foundation and non-state contributions should be seen as fiscally prudent, a way to stretch state tax dollars in a time when that should be encouraged.
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Foundation program administered by the Alaska State Council on the Arts. That’s an example of how the council works with granting agencies, Brown said. “Our staff are the ones getting the applications from would-be grant recipients, recommending them for funding and reviewing them by the board of trustees,” he said. If the council goes away, Brown said Alaska will be the only state in the union without an arts council. Other effects will be: • An annual allocation of $700,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts will
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Kenai/Nikiski Class of ‘89 reunion will be held Friday, Aug. 9 at Kenai River Brewing company from 5:30-8 p.m. an Food for Thought dat Bridge Lounge at 8 p.m. same night. A potluck at Hilcorp Join us in the Fireweed Diner at the Kenai Peninsula Food Rec Site will be held Saturday, Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. Info: FB Bank, every Tuesday from 5-6 p.m. from June 11 through Kenai Peninsula Class of ‘89 or call 360-893-2750. Sept. 10 for a meal and a time of learning about food and nutrition. RSVP to Greg Meyer, executive director, 907-262Annual Summer Book Sale 3111 or gmeyer@kpfoodbank.org. The Annual Summer Book Sale at the Kenai Community Library will be held from Thursday, July 18 through Satur- Nikiski Senior Center day, July 20. The usual advance sale for members will be held Lunch is everyday from 11:30-1 p.m. Members $8, nonWednesday, July 17, from 4 to 6:30 pm. As always, member- members $9, kids 6-10 year $4, kids 5 and under are free. ships may be purchased and used that evening. Yoga is offered from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays, and pilates is ‘Ferrous and Fiber’ at Kenai Fine Art Center offered on 10 to 11 a.m. on Mondays. The Nikiski Coloring and Craft Club meets to color over coffee and conversations the opening reception of Ferrous and Fiber will be held after lunch on Wednesdays. Thursdays: Pinochle, 12-30-3:30 Thursday, July 4 from 5-7 p.m. at the Kenai Fine Art Cen- p.m.; Bible study, 1-3 p.m. Game night potluck will be hosted ter. During our 1st Thursday opening see the artwork, meet weekly, in the downstairs area of the center. Participants are the artists and hear what they have to say about working with encouraged to bring their favorite dish to share. 5:30 p.m., silk and metal. Work by artists Chelline Larsen & Adam Hoyt every Friday, Nikiski Senior Center. Games of Cribbage will will showcase hand-dyed silk with free motion quilting and be help upstairs weekly. 1 p.m., every Saturday. embellishments along side plasma cut, powder coated metal Yoga in the Park pieces/furniture. 1st Thursday will include refreshments, muSoldotna Parks & Recreation and The Yoga Yurt are exsic, free and open to the public. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the cited to offer free yoga in the park in June and July. This is Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www.kenaifineart.com. “Ferrous a gentle flow yoga for all skill levels on Fridays from 6-7:15 p.m. at Farnsworth Park in Soldotna. Farnsworth park is loand Fiber” will hang until July 27. cated at 148 S Birch Street and yoga will happen rain or shine PROPS Committee meeting so dress accordingly. For more information call 262-3151. The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council’s 2nd Annual Disability Pride PROPS (Prevention, Response, Operations and Safety) ComThe Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride mittee meeting will be held in Nikiski on Friday, July 12 at 10 Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park a.m. at the Nikiski Senior Center, 50025 Lake Marie Avenue. from 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222.
people to march in the Fourth of July parade in support of the arts, public radio, the University of Alaska, seniors and others. “We are all feeling gutpunched and scared for the future of Alaska,” Freeman wrote. “Let’s be strong and stand together for what we love.” The veto protesters will march behind the New Old Time Chautauqua group, which is on a one-week tour in Homer. Bunnell, the Homer Council on the Arts and Pier One Theatre collaborated in bringing the national entertainment group to Homer, with support from the Harper Arts Touring Fund, a Rasumuson
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Electric Transmission line and along the East Fork Moose River, the fire lines along the Sterling Highway remained strong as firefighters continue mopup operations in that area. Firefighters and Homer Electric have developed a strategy to reduce fire risk for the transmission line with the intention of re-energizing the line later this week. As the fire continues to spread primarily eastnortheast, the Moose Research Center and public
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Easy compromises won’t denuclearize NKorea The latest summit meeting was unusual, as it was held at a place that
symbolizes the divided Korean Peninsula. How should an appeal for the easing of tensions by the U.S. and North Korean leaders be utilized to achieve North Korea’s denuclearization? It is important to produce tangible results. U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, held talks at Panmunjom, which lies along the military demarcation line. They agreed to resume working-level talks between their nations for North Korea’s denuclearization. The previous summit talks in February were broken off, as North Korea demanded the removal of sanctions imposed on it in exchange for its partial denuclearization. In May, North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles. The latest summit meeting can be praised for halting an exacerbation of the situation and creating a trend toward bilateral dialogue. It was of no small significance that the United States demonstrated its intention to play a leading role in dealing with the North Korean problem, at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping followed one another in having talks with Kim, with a view to expanding their influence in this respect. The question is whether working-level talks can be brought on the right track at last. The United States and North Korea are said to be setting up a negotiation team, aiming to start talks within two or three weeks. After the U.S. and North Korean leaders reached an agreement to completely denuclearize the Korean Peninsula during their first summit in June last year, working-level talks were repeatedly frustrated. … The United States has demanded North Korea declare and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and facilities. North Korea pledged to stop producing nuclear weapons and conducting nuclear tests, but it has not referred to the dismantlement of its existing nuclear weapons. By utilizing the diplomatic efforts of the leaders to make a fresh start, it is necessary to close this gap through working-level talks. The two countries also need to work out the details of the technical matters involved, such as procedures for denuclearization and verification methods. Using his twitter account, Trump urged Kim to hold a meeting with him and he made it happen. He became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea. With a U.S. presidential election set for next year, Trump also aimed to emphasize his latest meeting as a historic achievement. Making an easy compromise must be avoided. It is essential to maintain the sanctions on North Korea until it takes action to denuclearize itself. It is also indispensable to cope with North Korea’s short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, which threaten Japan’s security. North Korea’s state media trumpeted the latest summit talks, saying, “A new history of reconciliation and peace has begun.” It is safe to say that Kim has succeeded in enhancing his prestige. Will he be able to maintain a close relationship with Trump, however, while putting off his country’s denuclearization as in the past? In reference to Trump’s entry into North Korea, Kim praised the move as “a very courageous and determined act” that will “bring an end to the unpleasant past.” If he wants to normalize relations with the United States and conclude a peace agreement, Kim should take measures to lessen his country’s nuclear and missile threats and to stabilize the region. — The Japan News, July 2
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In the Alaska Native classic novel, “Two Old Women,” author Velma Wallis tells the story of two elders left behind by their tribe during a hard winter. If the members of the Alaska Legislature haven’t read the book, there’s a lesson there worth taking to heart as its members consider overriding Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s procrustean vetoes. You do not abandon your elders. And while we’re at it, you also do not abandon your culture, your teachers, your sick, your communicators and all that people and institutions that keep a society running. That’s what Dunleavy has done with his more than $400 million line-item vetoes of everything from university to arts funding. In “Two Old Women,” the leaders of an Athabaskan tribe starving in a bad winter make the hard choice to leave behind two elderly women who are moving slower and slower. Spoiler alert: Through persistence and their long knowledge of living off the land, the women not only survive the winter, but emerge stronger. They reunite with the tribe. Shamed by what they did, the leaders come to understand that knowledge has great value
and that those who hold it should be cared for. You know, like a university. That’s the larger lesson of “Two Old Women.” A community survives by pulling together, by respecting its weakest members and caring for them. It survives by nurturing its children and giving them the education and knowledge they need to become valued, active citizens. The children in turn will care for their elders. They will carry their weight when they are old, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because our elders can give us the knowledge and wisdom to survive. That’s the other lesson of “Two Old Women:” When you think elders have become a burden and have no value, it turns out that their lifelong experience can help younger people survive. When Dunleavy made his vetoes on July 28, he was like the chief in “Two Old Women.” That chief thought that in hard times he had to make tough choices. The council members of the tribe who backed the chief thought that for the good of the tribe the two old women should be left behind. Dunleavy has called expedient what is really cruel. He has made budget vetoes not to save money or put the state back on a firmer financial track, such as of the Alaska State Council
on the Arts. Some vetoes appear to be out of spite, such as a $300,000 veto to the Alaska Court System because Dunleavy didn’t like how the courts ruled on use of state money to fund abortions. He is using the cuts to fund a big Permanent Fund dividend of $3,000, the bribe he paid for greedy Alaskans to vote him into office. It’s a bribe lower Kenai Peninsula legislators also offered, like Rep. Sarah Vance of Homer. Rather than ask rich Alaskans, Outside workers and small business to pay an income tax — a tax that would allow larger dividends for those who truly need it — Dunleavy satisfies greedy Alaskans at the expense of the sick, the old and the poor. If the Alaska Legislature has a heart, if it has any compassion, it it cares for everyone, they will understand what one of the tribal council members in “Two Old Women” who first made the decision to abandon them discovers. As Wallis writes, “We were wrong to leave them behind. They proved it so. Now we will pay them back with respect.” Dunleavy was wrong. The Legislature should pay our elders and disadvantaged back with respect. It should do the right thing and override the governor’s vetoes.
The Legislature isn’t above the law A laska V oices L arry W ood As a plebe who is growing weary of the asinine arguments back and forth regarding the special session, I am more disturbed by the inclination of our Legislature to ignore the law and to deny the People a timely resolution of two important tasks. Both PFD amount and the capital budget remain unfinished after the last special session. The Legislature did not finish the People’s business. Any delay is on the Legislature, not the governor. The governor has stated that he will add the capital budget to the issues to be resolved, if the Legislature can agree on the PFD amount. The capital budget resolution means jobs, and the PFD amount is important to people. If the Legislature was truly diligent and committed, it would have completed any outstanding business last special session. It did not. Now, some in the Legislature are making a mountain out of a pebble. The interpretation of a plainly stated statute passed in 1982 as HB 185 and signed into law by then Gov. Jay Hammond, who was an attorney. One would think, that if the statute were so confusing as to the governor’s authority to designate the location of the special session, then such confusion would have been dealt with prior to passing HB 185. There was a Legislative Legal Services then, and all draft bills go to them for review and
edit before being introduced as a bill. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s call for a special session in Wasilla has met with surprising resistance from the Legislature. Both Senate President Cathy Giessel (R) and House Speaker Bryce Egdmon (I) have opposed the session’s location. The governor called for the session by proclamation to be held in Wasilla at Wasilla Middle School. Hardly an expensive and inaccessible location. AS 24.05.100 gives statutory authority for calling a special session. The statute is not quoted in a single news story. Allegations that the governor’s authority to designate a location may be unconstitutional have been made in a memo by Megan Wallace, the current Legislative Legal Director. Wallace’s opinion expressed in her memo to the Legislature does not carry the weight of law. Wallace’s opinion is mere conjecture at this point. Without a court order striking down the statute or the Legislature and governor acting to rescind, the statute remains in effect. That’s the way our system of law works. Otherwise, our rule of law is at the whim of despots. AS 24.05.100 plainly states that the governor has the authority to call a special session to be held wherever he chooses. The Legislature has the authority to do the same, provided there is a two-thirds majority who agree to the session and the location. At present, as admitted by both Giessel and Edgmon, there is not a two-thirds majority in the Legislature to convene either a special session nor a location. The governor’s authority to call a special session to a location of his choosing is found under AS
24.05.100(a)(1, 2) which state in part: (a) The legislature may hold a special session not exceeding 30 calendar days in length. (1) The governor may call the legislature into special session by issuing a proclamation. At a special session called by the governor, legislation is limited to the subjects designated by the governor in the proclamation … issued at least 30 days in advance of the convening date … (b) A special session may be held at any location in the state. The Legislature can call itself into special session, but to do so requires a two-thirds majority by a poll of the members of both houses. By their own admission, that majority does not exist. AS 24.05.100(a)(2) states in part: (2) The Legislature may call itself into special session if two-thirds of the membership responds in the affirmative to a poll conducted by the presiding officer of each house. Without a court challenge and injunction to negate the governor’s choice of location, AS 24.05.100 trumps opinion. The Legislature is acting as if it were above the law. Under our rule of law, none are above the law. AS 24.05.100 says the governor may designate the location, he did so. It is the Legislature’s duty to honor the statute as written. If there is to be a legal challenge, do so, but get the People’s business done first. The Legislature is failing in its job … again; and holding the People of this state hostage over matters that should have been dealt with during the regular session. Larry Wood is a 65-year Alaskan living on Lazy Mountain near Palmer.
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Appeals court: Trump can’t use Pentagon cash for border wall By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a freeze on Pentagon money to build a border wall with Mexico, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s ability to make good on a signature campaign promise before the 2020 election. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build highpriority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico. The decision is a setback for Trump’s ambitious plans. He ended a 35-day government shutdown in February after Congress gave him far less than he wanted. He then declared a national emergency that the White House said would free billions of dollars from the Pentagon. The case may still be considered, but the administration cannot build during the legal challenge. “As for the public interest, we conclude that it is best served by respecting the Constitution’s assignment of the power of the purse to Congress, and by deferring to Congress’s understanding of the public interest as reflected in its repeated denial of more funding for border barrier construction,” wrote Judges Michelle Friedland, a Barack Obama appointee, and Richard Clifton, a George W. Bush appointee. A freeze imposed by U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. of Oakland in May prevented work on two Pentagon-funded wall contracts —
In this Feb. 5 file photo, Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro walks towards prototypes for a border wall in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
one spanning 46 miles in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles in Yuma, Arizona. While the order applied only to those first-in-line projects, Gilliam made clear that he felt the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition, was likely to prevail in their argument that Trump ignored Congress’ wishes by diverting Defense Department money. Gilliam went a step further Friday by ruling definitively that the administration couldn’t use Pentagon counterdrug money for the two projects covered in his May order or to replace 63 miles in the Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, sector and 15 miles in its El Centro, California, sector. The administration immediately appealed. N. Randy Smith, a George W. Bush appointee, strongly disagreed with the appeals court ruling, say-
ing it misread constitutional separation of powers. “The majority here takes an uncharted and risky approach — turning every question of whether an executive officer exceeded a statutory grant of power into a constitutional issue,” he wrote in his dissent. “This approach is in contradiction to the most fundamental concepts of judicial review.” The Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. Its attorneys argued that the freeze on Pentagon funds showed a “fundamental misunderstanding of the federal appropriations process.” At stake is billions of dollars that would allow Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term. Trump declared a national emergency after losing a fight with the Democraticled House that led to the 35-day shutdown. Congress
agreed to spend nearly $1.4 billion on barriers in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, which was well below the $5.7 billion the president requested. Trump grudgingly accepted the money but declared the emergency to siphon cash from other government accounts, finding up to $8.1 billion for wall construction. The money includes $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s asset forfeiture fund. Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper has yet to approve transferring the military construction funds. The Treasury Department funds have so far survived legal challenges. The president’s adversaries say the emergency declaration was an illegal attempt to ignore Congress.
Airstrike kills 44 migrants in Libyan detention center By RAMI MUSA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
BENGHAZI, Libya — An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens of others in an attack that the U.N. human rights chief said could amount to a war crime. The Tripoli-based government blamed the attack on forces associated with Gen. Khalifa Hifter, whose Libyan National Army has been waging an offensive against rival militias in the capital of the war-torn North African country since April. It refocused attention and raised questions about the European Union’s policy of cooperating with the militias that hold migrants in crowded and squalid detention centers to prevent them from crossing the Mediterranean to seek better lives in Europe. Most of them were apprehended by the Libyan coast guard, which is funded and trained by the EU to stem the flow of migrants. At the United Nations, the Security Council held a closed emergency session
Debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, Wednesday. An airstrike hit the detention center for migrants early Wednesday, killing several. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)
on the airstrike in Tripoli’s Tajoura neighborhood, and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an independent investigation. Hifter’s forces said they were targeting a nearby military site, not the detention center. There also were suspicions of involvement by foreign countries allied with his forces. Countries assisting Hifter include Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. Two migrants interviewed by The Associated
Press said the airstrike hit a compound that houses a weapons warehouse and an adjacent detention center holding about 150 migrants, including several Sudanese and Moroccans. The two spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Online video purported to be from inside the detention center showed blood and human remains mixed with rubble and the belongings of the victims. The U.N. gave an initial figure of 44 dead and more
than 130 wounded. But the two migrants told the AP that three or four escaped harm and about 20 were wounded. They said the rest were killed, indicating the final death toll could be much higher. A Moroccan consular official said 15 Moroccans were in the center and at least three were slightly injured. The fate of the others was unclear. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to government policy.
Arrests made over Hong Kong protests By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press
HONG KONG — Police said they had arrested 13 people after the protests on Monday’s anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, including one man accused of storming the legislature building in a break-in involving hundreds of pro-democracy protesters who vandalized offices and the main chamber. The local man surnamed Poon was arrested in Mong Kok and accused of assaulting police, criminal destruc-
tion, misconduct in public places and forced entry of the Legislative Council Complex, police said late Wednesday night. Eleven men and a woman were arrested in connection with a different protest that took place Monday morning. They face various charges including possession of offensive weapons, unlawful assembly, assaulting a police officer, obstructing a police officer and failing to carry an identity document. The brief statement did not describe the offensive weapons or provide
further details. Pro-democracy protesters rushed police barricades around the time of a morning flag-raising ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to China in 1997. Police used shields, batons and pepper spray to drive them back. That afternoon, while hundreds of thousands of people were participating in a peaceful march marking the anniversary, a few hundred protesters began trying to break into the locked legislative
building by smashing thick glass walls and prying open metal security curtains. When they poured into the building late that night, they spraypainted slogans on the walls and caused extensive damage. In shocking scenes Monday and early Tuesday, the protesters vented their anger and frustration at a government that hasn’t responded to their demands. They stood on the desks in the legislature’s main chamber and climbed high to cover the city’s official emblem with black spray paint.
No prosecution for woman who was shot, lost fetus BLAKE PATERSON Associated Press
BESSEMER, Ala. — An Alabama district attorney said Wednesday she is dropping the manslaughter charge against a woman who lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight. Marshae Jones was arrested last week after a grand jury concluded she intentionally caused the death of her fetus by initiating a fight, knowing she was pregnant. Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December argument over the fetus’ father, authorities said. Jemison was initially charged with manslaughter, but a Jefferson County grand jury declined to indict her after police said an investigation determined Jones started the fight, and Jemison ultimately fired in self-defense. Jones, 28, was indicted by the same grand jury and arrested. But Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Lynneice O. Washington said Wednesday that she would not pursue the case. “After reviewing the facts of this case and the applicable state law, I have determined that it is not in the best interest of justice to pursue prosecution of Ms. Jones,” Washington said, flanked by her chief assistant and local church leaders. “There are no winners, only losers, in this sad ordeal.” The prosecutor did not take questions or explain the process that led to grand jurors returning the indictment to begin with. Lawyers representing Jones said they were
pleased with Washington’s decision and urged Jones’ supporters to direct their energy to “ensuring that what happened to Marshae won’t ever happen again.” Jones’ lawyers filed a motion to dismiss Monday morning, arguing that in issuing the charges, the state used a “flawed and twisted rationale” that “ignores the law and ignores reason.” The idea that Jones intentionally caused the death of her fetus by initiating the fight is a “tortured,” ”irrational” theory which “defies the most basic logic and analysis,” the filing asserts. Alabama is one of dozens of states that have fetal homicide laws allowing criminal charges when fetuses are killed in violent acts, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Jones’ arrest sparked outrage across the country, with advocates for women’s rights calling it another attempt to charge women for crimes related to their pregnancies. Legal scholars said the arrest raised questions about what other scenarios — such as driving a car or swimming in a pool — could constitute putting a fetus in danger. In an emailed statement, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director Jeffery Robinson said Washington’s decision “represents precisely what we want to see in these critical moments: a prosecutor who is not afraid to use prosecutorial discretion and power to refuse to prosecute when the law and justice demands that charges should be dropped.” Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, said she’s pleased to see the case dismissed but noted it would be a mistake to see it as an outlier.
Today in History Today is Thursday, July 4, the 185th day of 2019. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. On this date: In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In 1802, the United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, New York. In 1817, ground was broken for the Erie Canal in Rome, New York. The middle section of the waterway took three years to complete; the entire canal was finished in 1825. In 1831, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, died in New York City at age 73. In 1872, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, was born in Plymouth, Vermont. In 1910, in what was billed as “The Fight of the Century,” black world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson defeated white former champ James J. Jeffries in Reno, Nevada. In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his famous farewell speech in which he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” In 1982, the space shuttle Columbia concluded its fourth and final test flight with a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne married his manager, Sharon Arden, in Maui, Hawaii. In 1987, Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the “Butcher of Lyon”, was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison (he died in September 1991). In 1997, NASA’s Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars, inaugurating a new era in the search for life on the red planet. CBS newsman Charles Kuralt died in New York at age 62. In 2013, Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, was sworn in following the ouster of Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist leader overthrown by the military after just one year in office. In 2017, the United States confirmed that North Korea had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, as the North had boasted and the U.S. and South Korea had feared. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it a “new escalation of the threat” to the U.S. Ten years ago: Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was fatally shot in a Nashville condo by his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, who then killed herself. North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast. The Statue of Liberty’s crown was reopened to tourists for the first time since September 11, 2001. Serena Williams beat her big sister, Venus, 7-6 (3), 6-2 for her third Wimbledon title and 11th Grand Slam championship. Five years ago: Germany summoned the U.S. ambassador in Berlin after the arrest of a man reported to have spied for the United States, heightening friction between the two countries over alleged U.S. eavesdropping in Germany. Richard Mellon Scaife, 82, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortunes and a newspaper publisher who funded libertarian and conservative causes and various projects aimed at discrediting President Bill Clinton, died in Pittsburgh. One year ago: British police said two Britons who fell critically ill in the town of Amesbury were exposed to nerve agent Novichok, the same material used to poison a former Russian spy in a nearby area months earlier. A protest against U.S. immigration policy forced the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, with a group unfurling a banner from the pedestal and a woman holding police at bay for hours after she climbed the base. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Eva Marie Saint is 95. Actress Gina Lollobrigida is 92. Country singer Ray Pillow is 82. Singer Bill Withers is 81. Actor Ed Bernard is 80. Actress Karolyn Grimes is 79. Rhythm and blues singer Annette Beard (Martha and the Vandellas) is 76. Broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera is 76. Vietnam War veteran and peace activist Ron Kovic is 73. Rhythm and blues musician Ralph Johnson (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 68. Rock musician Domingo Ortiz (Widespread Panic) is 67. Singer John Waite is 67. Rock musician Kirk Pengilly (INXS) is 61. Country musician Teddy Carr is 59. Rock DJ Zonka is 57. International Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver is 57. Rock musician Matt Malley is 56. Christian rock singer Michael Sweet is 56. Actor-playwright-screenwriter Tracy Letts is 54. Actor Al Madrigal is 48. Actress Jenica Bergere is 45. Actor-singer John Lloyd Young is 44. Singer Stephen “Ste” McNally (BBMak) is 41. Actress Becki Newton is 41. Actor Mo McRae is 37. TV personality Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is 37. Rhythm and blues singer Melanie Fiona is 36. Malia Obama is 21. Thought for Today: “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” -- Adlai E. Stevenson, American diplomat and politician (1900-1965).
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Ohio, Rhode Island to meet for title By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
Everything continues to go well for the Post 300 River Bandits of Napoleon, Ohio, on the baseball diamonds in Alaska. On mountainous hiking trails, though, not so much. The River Bandits defeated the Post 20 Twins 9-3 on Wednesday at Coral Seymour Memorial Park to move to 3-0 in the Bill Miller Big Fish Wood Bat Tournament and advance to today’s championship game at 9 a.m. at Seymour Park. Post 300 (22-9 overall, 7-1 in Alaska) will face the squad from Auburn, Rhode Island, which improved to 2-1 at the tourney by toppling Eagle River 18-0 in five innings Wednesday. The Twins (11-6-1 overall) and Eagle River play for third place today at noon at Seymour Park. The River Bandits ar-
Post 20 first baseman Seth Adkins tags out Axel Shanks of Napoleon (Ohio) Post 300 on Wednesday at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai. Twins pitcher Mose Hayes picked off Shanks. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
rived June 28 and are leav- trip to Alaska. Alaska so they can experi- different than Ohio,” head “It’s an opportunity to see ing July 7 for their 10th “We bring the kids to ence something very, very coach Chad Donsbach said. See TWINS, page A7
Americans gain final NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christian Pulisic scored twice in the second half, and the United States beat Jamaica 3-1 on Wednesday night for a berth against Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final. Weston McKennie also scored for the Americans, who face El Tri at Chicago on Sunday night in the finale of a tripleheader of finals. The U.S. women play the Netherlands in the World Cup final and Brazil faces Peru for the Copa America. The U.S. is 6-4 in Gold Cup finals, including 1-4 against Mexico with a win in 2007 and losses in 1993, ‘98, ‘09 and ‘11. The Americans havwe won 10 straight Gold Cup matches. McKennie scored for the second straight game, putting the U.S. ahead in the ninth minute with his third international goal. The game was halted in the 16th minute for 1 hour, 28 minutes because of a lightning storm. Pulisic made it 2-0 in the 52nd minute and, Shamar Nicholson cut the deficit in the 69th and Pulisic got his second goal in the 87th, giving the 20-year-old 13 goals in 30 international appearances. Nine of Pulisic’s 12 international goals have come in competitive matches. The Nissan Stadium crowd of 28,473 was chanting “We Want Mexico” in the game’s closing minutes.
Netherlands nips Sweden LYON, France (AP) — When Jackie Groenen received the ball, even though she was outside the penalty area, the Dutch midfielder knew she had to seize her opening. It was 99 minutes into a grueling Women’s World Cup semifinal, and neither the Netherlands nor Sweden was finding a clear path to the goal Wednesday night. “I saw a nice angle,” Groenen said. “We’ve been discussing this for a couple of weeks now that I need to take shots more often. The ball just came really nicely, and I thought, ‘Let’s do this.’” A slick passing sequence ended with Groenen driving a shot past goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl. A first shot on target in France produced her first goal of the tournament. “I’m not much of a scorer,” she said. “But I’m very happy today I got to score.” It sent the Netherlands into its first Women’s World Cup final, where the Dutch will face the United States on Sunday, back in the Stade de Lyon. Two years after the Dutch won their first major trophy — the European Championship — Groenen is already dreaming of a first world title in only their second attempt. “It kind of went through my mind as soon as I got off the pitch,” she said. “The Americans are massive, they have massive players. They are the biggest team in the world but I can’t wait to play.” Progress for the Dutch has been rapid after reaching the round of 16 during their World Cup debut four years ago. “The potential for the Netherlands has been there for a long time,” Netherlands coach Sarina Wiegman said. “Since 2007, when the Eredivisie started and players got better facilities and could train more, the players developed so much that they improved. And then when you’re at big tournaments, like European Championships and World Cups, they develop even more. They made transfers to big clubs in Europe.”
Scoreboard Soccer Women’s World Cup SEMIFINALS Tuesday, July 2 At Lyon, France United States 2, England 1 Wednesday, July 3 At Lyon, France Netherlands 1, Sweden 0, ET THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 6 At Nice, France England vs. Sweden, 7 a.m. CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 7 At Lyon, France United States vs. Netherlands, 7 a.m. All Times ADT
Basketball WNBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington Connecticut Chicago New York Indiana Atlanta
W 9 9 6 6 5 2
L Pct GB 3 .750 — 4 .692 ½ 7 .462 3½ 7 .462 3½ 9 .357 5 9 .182 6½
WESTERN CONFERENCE Las Vegas Minnesota Seattle Los Angeles Phoenix Dallas
8 7 8 6 5 4
5 .615 — 6 .538 1 7 .533 1 6 .500 1½ 5 .500 1½ 7 .364 3
Wednesday’s Games New York 84, Seattle 83 Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games Indiana at Dallas, 4 p.m. New York at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Seattle, 6 p.m. Washington at Las Vegas, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT
Soccer MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 10 5 5 35 37 26 D.C. United 8 4 7 31 25 19 Montreal 9 8 3 30 24 31 Atlanta 9 7 2 29 24 20 NY City FC 7 1 8 29 30 19 New York 8 7 3 27 30 24 Toronto FC 6 7 5 23 30 31 Chicago 5 7 7 22 31 28 Orlando City 6 9 3 21 25 25 New England 5 8 5 20 20 35 Columbus 5 12 2 17 16 28 Cincinnati 3 13 2 11 15 42
WESTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles FC 12 2 4 40 44 15 LA Galaxy 10 7 1 31 24 22 Seattle 8 5 5 29 27 24 Minnesota U. 8 7 3 27 33 27 Houston 8 6 3 27 26 22 Real Salt Lake 8 8 2 26 25 28 FC Dallas 7 7 5 26 27 25 San Jose 7 7 4 25 29 30 Portland 6 8 2 20 25 28 Vancouver 4 7 8 20 21 25 Colorado 5 9 4 19 28 36 S. Kansas City 4 7 7 19 28 34 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Wednesday, July 3 New York City FC 3, Seattle 0 Philadelphia 3, Orlando City 1 Chicago 5, Atlanta 1 Minnesota United 3, San Jose 1 Los Angeles FC 5, Sporting Kansas City 1 Houston 4, New York 0 Real Salt Lake 1, Columbus 0 Thursday, July 4 D.C. United at FC Dallas, 5 p.m. New England at Colorado, 5 p.m. Toronto FC at LA Galaxy, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT
Baseball AL Standings
East Division W L Pct GB New York 55 29 .655 — Tampa Bay 50 37 .575 6½ Boston 45 41 .523 11 Toronto 33 54 .379 23½ Baltimore 25 61 .291 31 Central Division Minnesota 54 31 .635 — Cleveland 47 38 .553 7
Chicago 41 42 .494 12 Detroit 27 54 .333 25 Kansas City 29 58 .333 26 West Division Houston 55 32 .632 — Oakland 47 40 .540 8 Texas 46 40 .535 8½ Los Angeles 44 43 .506 11 Seattle 38 52 .422 18½ Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 5, 1st game Toronto 6, Boston 3 Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 1 L.A. Angels 6, Texas 2 Chicago White Sox 9, Detroit 6, 2nd game, 12 innings Houston 4, Colorado 2 Cleveland 4, Kansas City 0 Minnesota 4, Oakland 3, 12 innings St. Louis 5, Seattle 2 Thursday’s Games Cleveland (Plesac 3-3) at Kansas City (Bailey 7-6), 9:15 a.m. Detroit (Boyd 5-6) at Chicago White Sox (Lopez 4-7), 10:10 a.m. Minnesota (Berrios 8-4) at Oakland (Anderson 0-3), 12:07 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 5-4) at Seattle (TBD), 12:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Happ 7-4) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 1:10 p.m. Boston (Porcello 5-7) at Toronto (Stroman 5-9), 3:07 p.m. L.A. Angels (Canning 3-4) at Texas (Lynn 10-4), 4:05 p.m. Friday’s Games Kansas City at Washington, 3:05 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 3:07 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 3:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 3:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Houston, 4:10 p.m. Texas at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m. Oakland at Seattle, 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT
NL Standings
East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 51 36 .586 — Philadelphia 45 41 .523 5½ Washington 44 41 .518 6 New York 39 48 .448 12 Miami 32 52 .381 17½ Central Division Milwaukee 46 41 .529 — Chicago 45 42 .517 1 St. Louis 42 42 .500 2½ Pittsburgh 42 43 .494 3 Cincinnati 40 44 .476 4½ West Division Los Angeles 59 29 .670 — Colorado 44 42 .512 14 Arizona 43 45 .489 16 San Diego 42 44 .488 16 San Francisco 39 47 .453 19 Wednesday’s Games Washington 3, Miami 1 Pittsburgh 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Cincinnati 3, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Atlanta 9, Philadelphia 2 Houston 4, Colorado 2 San Francisco 7, San Diego 5 L.A. Dodgers 5, Arizona 4, 10 innings St. Louis 5, Seattle 2 Thursday’s Games Miami (Hernandez 1-2) at Washington (Sanchez 4-6), 7:05 a.m. Milwaukee (Woodruff 10-2) at Cincinnati (Castillo 7-3), 10:10 a.m. Chicago Cubs (Quintana 5-7) at Pittsburgh (Lyles 5-4), 12:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 5-4) at Seattle (TBD), 12:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Eflin 7-7) at Atlanta (Soroka 9-1), 3:20 p.m. San Diego (Lamet 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 9-2), 5:10 p.m. All Times ADT
White Sox 7, Tigers 5 Det. 200 010 002—5 Chi. 110 202 10x—7
6 0 12 0
Norris, Farmer (6), Hardy (7), Austin Adams (8) and J.Hicks; Cease, Marshall (6), Aaron Bummer (8), Herrera (9), Alex Colome (9) and James McCann. W_Cease 1-0. L_ Norris 2-8. Sv_Alex Colome (19). HRs_Detroit, Candelario (3).
Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 3 Bos. 002 100 000—3 Tor. 001 202 01x—6
8 0 11 0
Sale, Walden (6), Wright (8) and Vazquez; Phelps, Waguespack (2), Mayza (7), Hudson (7), Giles (9) and D.Jansen. W_Waguespack 1-0. L_Sale 3-8. Sv_Giles (13). HRs_Boston, Vazquez (13). Toronto, Gurriel Jr. (15), Drury (7),
Jansen (6).
Orioles 9, Rays 6 Bal. 000 300 006—9 TB 001 101 003—6
11 2 11 1
Means, Givens (8), Bleier (9), Armstrong (9) and Sisco, Severino; Stanek, Pruitt (2), Poche (7), Alvarado (9), Kittredge (9) and Zunino. W_Givens 1-4. L_Alvarado 0-5. Sv_Armstrong (2). HRs_Baltimore, Nunez (19), Ruiz (5). Tampa Bay, Brosseau (1).
Angels 6, Rangers 2 LA 004 002 000—6 Tex. 001 010 000—2
12 1 4 0
Barria, J.Anderson (6), Buttrey (7), Bedrosian (8), H.Robles (9) and Garneau; Jurado, Valdez (7), C.Martin (9) and Federowicz. W_Barria 3-2. L_Jurado 5-4. HRs_Los Angeles, Trout 2 (24). Texas, Federowicz (3).
Indians 4, Royals 0 Cle. 001 100 020—4 KC 000 000 000—0
8 0 5 0
Clevinger, Goody (7), Hand (9) and Perez; Duffy, McCarthy (7), Hill (8), W.Peralta (9) and Maldonado. W_Clevinger 2-2. L_Duffy 3-5. HRs_Cleveland, Santana (19), Perez (15).
White Sox 9, Tigers 6, 12 inn. Det. 002 020100 100—6 12 Chi. 100 010300 103—9 10
0 1
Alexander, Alcantara (6), Stumpf (7), Cisnero (7), J.Jimenez (9), Greene (10), N.Ramirez (11) and Bo.Wilson; Detwiler, Minaya (7), Aaron Bummer (8), Alex Colome (9), Fulmer (10), Osich (11), J.Ruiz (12) and Collins. W_J.Ruiz 1-1. L_N.Ramirez 3-3. HRs_Detroit, Castellanos (9). Chicago, Cordell 2 (5), Abreu (20), Moncada 2 (16).
Yankees 5, Mets 1 NY 200 002 100—5 NY 100 000 000—1
10 0 7 1
German, Green (7), Cortes Jr. (9) and G.Sanchez; J.Vargas, Font (6), Matz (7), Gsellman (8), Familia (9) and Ramos. W_German 10-2. L_J.Vargas 3-4. HRs_New York, Gregorius (4), Urshela (7). New York, McNeil (7).
Astros 4, Rockies 2 Hou. 112 000 000—4 Col. 100 000 100—2
6 0 7 0
Miley, Devenski (7), McHugh (7), H.Rondon (8), R.Osuna (9) and Chirinos; Lambert, Bettis (6), Diaz (8), W.Davis (9) and Iannetta, Wolters. W_Miley 7-4. L_Lambert 2-1. Sv_R.Osuna (19). HRs_ Houston, Bregman (23), Gurriel (11).
Cardinals 5, Mariners 2 SL 000 000 005—5 Sea. 000 011 000—2
9 0 5 0
Wainwright, T.Webb (6), Brebbia (6), Miller (9), C.Martinez (9) and Molina; Leake, Austin Adams (8), Elias (9) and T.Murphy. W_Brebbia 2-3. L_Austin Adams 1-1. HRs_St. Louis, Edman (3). Seattle, Moore (4).
Nationals 3, Marlins 1 Mia. 000 000 001—1 Was. 000 002 01x—3
6 1 7 0
Alcantara, J.Garcia (6), Chen (8) and Holaday, Alfaro; Strasburg, Rodney (8), Doolittle (9) and Gomes. W_Strasburg 10-4. L_Alcantara 4-8. Sv_Doolittle (19). HRs_Washington, Adams (13), Dozier (13).
Reds 3, Brewers 0 Mil. 000 000 000—0 Cin. 010 000 11x—3
4 0 8 1
Chacin, Jeffress (7), A.Wilkerson (8) and Pina; Gray, R.Iglesias (9) and Casali. W_Gray 5-5. L_Chacin 3-9. Sv_R.Iglesias (15). HRs_ Cincinnati, Puig (19).
Braves 9, Phillies 2 Phi. 000 002 000—2 Atl. 000 306 00x—9
6 1 10 0
Pivetta, Nicasio (6), R.Suarez (7), Hammer (8) and Realmuto;
Br.Wilson, Newcomb (7), J.Webb (9) and Flowers. W_Br.Wilson 1-0. L_Pivetta 4-3. HRs_Philadelphia, Harper (16). Atlanta, Donaldson (16), Riley (15), Joyce (3).
Pirates 6, Cubs 5 Chi. 010 110 200—5 Pit. 000 301 002—6
9 0 11 1
Darvish, Kintzler (7), Strop (8), Kimbrel (9) and Caratini; Archer, Feliz (6), Liriano (7), Neverauskas (8), R.Rodriguez (9) and Stallings, E.Diaz. W_R.Rodriguez 3-3. L_Kimbrel 0-1. HRs_Chicago, Baez (22), Caratini 2 (4). Pittsburgh, Bell (26), Cabrera (5).
Giants 7, Padres 5 SF 003 004 000—7 SD 021 100 010—5
9 0 11 0
S.Anderson, Gott (5), Moronta (6), S.Dyson (7), Watson (8), W.Smith (9) and Vogt; Quantrill, Wieck (5), Perdomo (5), Stammen (7), Wingenter (8), Erlin (9) and Hedges, Mejia. W_Gott 5-0. L_Perdomo 1-1. Sv_W.Smith (22). HRs_San Francisco, Longoria (11), Dickerson (3). San Diego, Renfroe (25), Tatis Jr. (12).
Dodgers 5, Diamondbacks 4, 10 inn. Ari. 000 200 101 LA 030 000 001
0—4 1—5
10 10
0 0
M.Kelly, Andriese (7), Chafin (7), Holland (9), Hirano (9), Lopez (10) and C.Kelly; Buehler, P.Baez (8), K.Jansen (9), J.Kelly (10) and Barnes, R.Martin. W_J.Kelly 3-3. L_Lopez 1-2. HRs_Arizona, Walker (15), Kelly (10). Los Angeles, Bellinger 2 (29).
Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Named Lara Pitaro Wisch executive vice president and general counsel and Ethan Orlinsky special counsel to the commissioner. American League BOSTON RED SOX — Sent RHP Heath Hembree to Pawtucket (IL) for a rehab assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Added RHP Dylan Cease from Charlotte (IL) as 26th man for Wednesday’s doubleheader. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated RHP Chih-Wei Hu for assignment. Signed SSs Landy Pena and Jose Pastrano to minor league contracts. DETROIT TIGERS — Designated LHP Jose Manuel Fernandez for assignment. Selected the contract of LHP Tyler Alexander from Toledo (IL). Sent C Grayson Greiner to Lakeland (FSL) for a rehab assignment. HOUSTON ASTROS — Signed SS Dauri Lorenzo to a minor league contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Signed OFs Erick Pena and Roger Leyton to minor league contracts. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed INF Tommy La Stella and OF Brian Goodwin on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Jaime Barria from Salt Lake (PCL). Selected the contracts of INF Matt Thaiss and OF Jarrett Parker from Salt Lake. Sent RHP Matt Harvey to Inland Empire (Cal) for a rehab assignment. Signed SSs Arol Vera and Adrian Placencia to minor league contracts. MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Jake Odorizzi on the 10day IL. Recalled RHP Zack Littell from Rochester (IL). Signed OF Emmanuel Rodriguez to a minor league contract. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned LHP Stephen Tarpley to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reinstated RHP Domingo German from the 10-day IL. Signed OF Jhon Diaz to a minor league contract. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Designated RHP Aaron Brooks for assignment. Reinstated RHP Blake Treinen from the 10-day IL. SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed RHP Levi Stoudt to a minor league contract. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed 1B Ji-Man Choi on the 10-day IL. Reinstated RHP Jose De Leon from the 10-day IL and optioned
him to Durham (IL). Recalled INF Mike Brosseau from Durham. Traded 3B Andrew Velazquez to Cleveland for international signing bonus pool money. Signed C Ronnier Quintero to a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with 3B Josh Jung and Davis Wendzel on minor league contracts. Recalled RHP Phillips Valdez from Nashville (PCL). Optioned RHP Pete Fairbanks to Nashville. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Sean Reid-Foley to Buffalo (IL). Reinstated RHP Jacob Waguespack from the 10-day IL. Sent RHP Edwin Jackson to Buffalo and OF Dalton Pompey to the GCL Blue Jays for rehab assignments. Signed INF Jean Arnaez; Cs Luis Bullon and Victor Mesia; UTs Wilder Perez and Leafar Antonio Yege; SSs Rikelbin De Castro, Angel Del Rosario and Francisco Veracierto; LHPs Cristopher Castro, Brahiam Jimenez, Carlos Perez and Yeuri Sanchez; OFs Amin Araujo, Starlin Beltre, Peniel Brito, Cristian Feliz, Darlington Linarez, Yeireth Mordan, Julio Ozoria, Nathanael Perez, Robert Robertis and Wildaniel Santos; and RHPs Cesar Ayala, Sergio Caruci, Yohan Concepcion, Leo Correa, Jefferson Smith Herrera, Jean Luis Lopez, Frank Medina, Kelvin Perez, Christopher Rodriguez, Dahian Santos and Yeicol Valdez to minor league contracts. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Sent RHP Allen Webster to the AZL Cubs 1 for a rehab assignment. Signed SS Kevin Made and C Brayan Altuve to minor league contracts. Select the contract of INF Robel Garcia from Iowa (PCL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Signed SS Adael Amador and RHP Karl Kauffmann to minor league contracts. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Traded RHP Nathan Witt to Tampa Bay for RHP Casey Sadler and optioned him to Oklahoma City (PCL). Transferred LHP Rich Hill to the 60-day IL. Signed RHP Kristian Cardozo and OF Luis Rodriguez to minor league contracts. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Signed OF Luis Medina to a minor league contract. NEW YORK METS — Signed OF Alexander Ramirez to a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed RHP Cristopher Cruz and OFs Jasiah Dixon and Jake Wright to minor league contracts. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Signed LHP Esmerlin Vinicio to a minor league contract. Optioned RHP Tyler Beede to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled RHP Ray Blakc from Sacramento. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Named Chris Fleming and Roy Rogers assistant coaches and Paul Miller assistant to the head coach. Promoted coaching intern Chris Kent to video coordinator. PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Signed Fs Mario Hezonja and Anthony Tolliver. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed G Anthony Stolarz to a two-year contract and D Jani Hakanpaa to a one-year contract. ST. LOUIS BLUES — D Chris Butler announced his retirement. SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Named Ezra Hendrickson assistant coach on the first team technical staff. DALLAS — Transferred M Carlos Gruezo to Augsburg (BundesligaGermany). COLLEGE CONCORDIA (ORE.) — Named Rock Allen assistant men’s basketball coach. DETROIT — Promoted assistant softball coach Marc Gillis to head coach. HOLY CROSS — Named Brett Nelson men’s basketball coach. PEPPERDINE — Named Kristen Dowling women’s basketball coach.
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bears, moose and eagles. There are eagles in Ohio, but not in the amount you have up here.” Donsbach said the team spaces the trip out every two or three years to make it so players don’t go to Alaska twice, although one player is returning this year. That lets families totally commit to the trip as well. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a lot of these families and a lot of these kids,” he said. Post 300 has developed traditions over the years, but one of those traditions — hiking Flattop Mountain in Anchorage — may be on the way out. The mountain is climbed more often than any other in Alaska, but it’s still a mountain with danger spots. Donsbach said they didn’t pick the best route down over the weekend and a player caught a toe while sliding on his butt and ended up tumbling for about 200 yards. Fortunately, the player was mostly OK, with a laceration on his ear that had to be glued shut and a small broken bone in his hand. “We’re starting to be able to joke about it now that’s he’s mostly OK, but it was scary when it happened,” Donsbach said. Also planned for the team are a trip through the Whittier Tunnel, a walk to get a great look at Portage Glacier and a trip to the Reindeer Farm in Palmer. Donsbach said a final highlight of the trip is the well-organized tournaments and the generous hospitality of the Alaska Legion teams. The River Bandits were set to attend a dinner hosted by the Twins on Wednesday
Peninsula Clarion | Thursday, July 4, 2019 | A7 night, then maybe go eagle viewing. In Wednesday’s game, the Twins kept it scoreless through two innings before Post 300 broke out for five runs in the top of the third. The River Bandits won the BP Invitational in Anchorage over the weekend for a third time in team history and the first time since 2013. Even though the Twins had been beaten just once in the last 12 games coming in to Wednesday’s game, Post 20 coach Robb Quelland knew it would take a great game to top Post 300. Mose Hayes pitched six innings for the Twins, giving up five hits and seven runs — three earned. Hayes did not walk a batter and struck out five. Harrison Metz gave up two unearned runs on two hits in an inning. “We didn’t play a perfect game,” said Quelland, whose squad made five errors. “Mose pitched fantastic other than a couple of hit batters. “Any mistake, they’re going to capitalize on.” Dakota Benner won for Post 300, going six innings and giving up two unearned runs on three hits while walking two and striking out five. Brandon Shafer gave up a run on a hit in the seventh. For Post 20, Hayes went 2 for 4 while Jeremy Kupferschmid and David Michael also had hits. Shafer and Austin Lichty each had a pair of runs for the River Bandits. Both coaches said their teams are learning valuable lessons right now. Quelland said his team has still had to perform despite all the time it takes to host a tournament. The Twins spent 14 hours at the diamond Tuesday. Meanwhile, Post 300 is in the midst of a 30-day span where they will spend 24 nights in hotels.
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Peninsula Oilers pitcher Connor McCord delivers to the Mat-Su Miners on Wednesday at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Oilers hold off Miners, win again By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
The Peninsula Oilers held off the Mat-Su Miners for a 5-4 victory Wednesday at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai in Alaska Baseball League play. The win is the second in a row for the Oilers and also the first in five tries this season against the Miners. The six-game series continues today with a 7 p.m. contest that has free admission. The Oilers move to 9-16 in the
league and are 7.5 games behind the league-leading Anchorage Bucs. The Oilers are a game ahead of the lastplace Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks and 4.5 behind the third-place Anchorage Glacier Pilots. The Miners, at 159, are a game behind the Bucs. Connor McCord gave the Oilers a big start, lasting six innings and giving up two runs — one earned — on five hits while walking two and striking out four. The Oilers scored runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to go up 3-0, but Mat-Su battled back to tie it with
two runs in the top of the sixth and a run in the top of the seventh. Peninsula jumped back on top with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. In the top of the ninth, the Miners were able to get to closer Calvin Farris for a run and two hits, but Farris was able to preserve the game. Bobby Goodloe went 3 for 4 with a run and an RBI for the Oilers, while Jaden Fein had a pair of RBIs. Farris was 2 for 4, while Travis Bohall scored a pair of runs. Erik Webb had a 4-for-5 day for the Miners.
FAA takes flight at Wimbledon WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Dealing with jitters early in a match is nothing new to Felix Auger-Aliassime. Being among the favorites to win Wimbledon? Considering the Canadian is just 18 and never had won so much as one Grand Slam match until this week, well, yes, that’s not the sort of thing he is used to. One more victory, and the kid known to many by his initials, “FAA,” could be taking on defending champion Novak Djokovic. Not that he’s
worrying about that just yet. The first player born in the 2000s to win a men’s match at a major, the 19th-seeded Auger-Aliassime progressed to the third round in his debut at the All England Club with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over French qualifier Corentin Moutet on Wednesday. “I can recall being 10 years old and playing (for) the first time away from home and being very nervous. Since (I was) very young, you kind of learn how to deal with this pressure, with the stress,” he said. “But at different stages
of your career, you face different times. Now it’s Grand Slams. Maybe one day I’ll play finals of these events and I’ll be, for sure, extremely nervous. I think it’s emotions you can’t go against. It comes — and then it all depends on how you deal with it. Today, I was able to deal with it in a good way.” Auger-Aliassime is hardly the only one contemplating the possibility that he could play for a major championship in the not-too-distant future. Much like Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old American
who beat Venus Williams on Monday and won again Wednesday, Auger-Aliassime is fascinating folks because of his play, but also his age. Tennis has been waiting for quite some time to discover a worthy successor to the Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Djokovic, who have won the past 10 major titles and 53 of the last 64. So there is a bit of irrational exuberance whenever some youngster comes along with the sort of talent and poise Auger-Aliassime seems to possess in abundance.
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Larsen brings love of forest, trees to life in July exhibit By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion
Events and Exhibitions n The Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park from 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. n The Kenai United Methodist Church is hosting an estate sale from the fabulous stash of Nancy Egbert. Nancy was an active community quilter, knitter and maker of crafts. Quilt fabric, yarn, patterns, doll making materials, scrapping, beading materials will all be available. The sale is Friday, July 12 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, July 13 from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. The Kenai United Methodist Church is located across from Wells Fargo. n The opening reception of “Ferrous and Fiber” will be held Thursday, July 4 from 5-7 p.m. at the Kenai Fine Art Center. During our 1st Thursday opening see the artwork, meet the artists and hear what they have to say about working with silk and metal. Work by artists Chelline Larsen & Adam Hoyt will showcase hand-dyed silk with free motion quilting and embellishments along side plasma cut, powder coated metal pieces/furniture. 1st Thursday will include refreshments, music, free and open 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. “Ferrous and Fiber” will hang until July 27. n The Annual Summer Book Sale at the Kenai Community Library will be held from Thursday, July 18 through Saturday, July 20. The usual advance sale for members will be held Wednesday, July 17, from 4 to 6:30 pm. As always, memberships may be purchased and used that evening. n Kenai Performers Summer Drama Camp students present, “Wild Pecos Bill,” by R. Eugene Jackson. Two shows: Friday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 13 at 2 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door. Location: 44045 K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant). For more information, call Terri at 252-6808. n Soldotna Parks & Recreation and The Yoga Yurt are excited to offer free yoga in the park in June and July. This is a gentle flow yoga for all skill levels on Fridays from 6-7:15 p.m. at Farnsworth Park
The passion of Soldotna artist Chelline Larsen will be brought to light this month as part of the Kenai Fine Art Center July exhibit. Larsen’s work is the centerpiece of the July exhibit at the Kenai gallery, which will host an opening reception Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. The normal daily hours of the gallery are 12 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. The exhibit features a collection of three-dimensional sculptures, acrylic painting, painted and quilted fabric and table art. Larsen is the full-time owner of Dragonfly Gallery, where she has taught fabric painting for the past 15 years. As a student at Kenai Peninsula College studying art in the early 1990s, Larsen honed the craft of fabric design and painting, which she picked up from her mother and grandmother — both of whom were talented seamstresses and designers. “Painting silk is one of my main art forms,” Larsen said. “When I was invited to do the show, I thought about using a lot of techniques that have intrigued me for some time.”
”Mossy Tree at Williwaw”, an acrylic painting by Chelline Larsen, hangs Tuesday at the Kenai Fine Arts Center in Kenai. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
Larsen said she has been creating fabric art for about 28 years. She now operates her business, along with husband Adam Hoyt, out of the home she grew up in. Larsen said the house has been in her family since the mid-1950s. Fine Art Vice President Marion Nelson said she wished to see Larsen and Hoyt work together to form the art in the exhibit. Hoyt is originally from Newport, New Hampshire, and found his way to Alaska
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ful of tables and benches throughout the exhibit, and Hoyt has brought them into reality with a plasma cutter. “Just absolutely marvelous,” said Nelson. “It is so classy.” The tool incorporates Computer Numerical Control (CNC) programming to delicately inject a stream of hot plasma through an electrically conductive material like steel. Over the past nine months, Larsen said she has See LARSEN, page A9
Review: Alison Gaylin probes how violence affects families
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Music In Our Park By Hedy-Jo Huss, Soldotna Have you marked Wednesdays on your calendar for “Music In The Park”? Announcement of the performers will appease. These shows will please! Six to nine is a good time. There’s time to check out the market vendors. And, aaaaah, good eats to score. Reindeer gyros to Thai pad noodles. You’ll decide; the choice is wide. Produce to peonies are eye-catchers. Leggings to tie dye. Los of items to try. The “grass” in front of the stage is split. The beer and wine “garden” to one side, families to the other. Hula hooping 4-year-olds bump into one another. Settled into camp chairs or stretching our on a blanket, we’re all set! Parking is now at a premium. No matter what, folks find a way to see them. Tilt your head back a bit. a view of gulls atop the amphitheatre roof. Beady eyes flash; it won’t miss any of it! Back to the grounds and the sounds! Might see a fiddler whirling like a dervish. Or, “new grass” speaking out their wish. Of local musicians we are proud! They open, or fill in, as needed. Groups come from around the state. Some come up from the Lower 48! All summer, Soldotna has music to look forward to in midweek. Sponsors support, and great efforts from the chamber of commerce, I repeat.
in 1993 to work at Centennial and Swiftwater parks in Soldotna. Like Larsen, Hoyt is an outdoors enthusiast and currently works at the Kenai Peninsula Borough as the lead water operator, along with his work at the Dragonfly Gallery. It’s that line of work that has gotten Hoyt involved with Larsen’s art, as he has helped bring to life Larsen’s designs in several pieces of the July gallery. Larsen said she has formulated the artistic designs seen in the hand-
This cover image released by William Morrow shows “Never Look Back,” by Alison Gaylin. (William Morrow via AP)
“Never Look Back” by Alison Gaylin (William Morrow) The popularity of true crime podcasts bleeds into the tightly plotted “Never Look Back” by Alison Gaylin. Her fictional hero Quentin Garrison uses his position as the interviewer for the L.A.-based podcast “Closure” to chronicle how violence affects families for decades in various ways. Alison Gaylin’s 11th novel perceptively examines family dynamics, the domino effects of violence and our personal stories — real or invented — that help us manoeuvr through life. The strong tension that launches “Never Look Back” only intensifies with each surprising twist. Violence destroyed Garrison’s family and he inherited the aftermath. His mother’s youngest sister was only 4 when she was killed in a shootout by teenagers Gabriel LeRoy and April Cooper, nicknamed the Inland Empire Killers who ended up murdering 12 people in
Southern California in 1976. His grandfather, devastated by his little girl’s murder that led to his wife’s suicide, neglected his surviving child. A drug addict all her life, Kate became the kind of parent she had — neglecting Quentin, destroying his selfconfidence and crushing his sense of identity. He’s afraid to ever show his true self to his husband, Dean, or his life-long best friend and coproducer, Summer. Quentin uses “Closure” for his own sense of closure by first trying to interview his grandfather, whose bitterness still simmers. The two have a fight. Quentin finds another angle for his podcast when a source calls to say he believes a woman named Renee Bloom is really April, who was presumed killed in a fire along with Gabriel. The source says he recognized April’s voice and mannerisms when he saw Renee doing a televised discussion with her daughter, online film columnist Robin Diamond. Although skeptical, Quentin still flies to the New York area to find the truth, igniting another chain of violence. See BOOK, page A9
Review: ‘Spider-Man’ swings again with a successful sequel By MARK KENNEDY The Associated Press
Peter Parker might be forgiven for craving a vacation as “Spider-Man: Far From Home” begins. After an emotional and strenuous last few movies with the Avengers, a break sounds nice. “I didn’t think I had to save the world this summer,” he complains. But, you know the drill: With great power comes great responsibility. So it’s just a matter of time before Parker’s European school trip is interrupted by mayhem that requires a webslinger. We’re just glad the filmmakers didn’t also take a vacation as well. In this ambitious and ultimately successful sequel to “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” Parker trades New York’s Coney Island and the Staten Island ferry for such iconic cities as Venice, Berlin, London and Prague. Seeing him swing from ancient bell towers instead of Manhattan skyscrapers is weirdly thrilling. The first half of “SpiderMan: Far From Home ” could stand alone — Parker juggles trying to romance
This image released by Sony Pictures shows, from left, Numan Acar, Tom Holland and Jacky Gyllenhaal in a scene from “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” (Jay Maidment/ Columbia Pictures/Sony via AP)
the tough-but-vulnerable MJ (the always welcome Zendaya) while also fighting giant monsters beside a ragtag group of superheroes. Perhaps it’s a little underwhelming, but it’s solid. Just stick around: Things get positively bizarre in the second half as the film shifts up a few gears, turning into a kind of commentary on filmmaking illusion itself. It goes from sunny pop to acid jazz, from “Saved By the Bell” to “The Matrix.” Speaking of school, viewers who haven’t yet seen “Avengers: Endgame” have some homework to do before watching Tom Holland
pull on the red-and-blue suit this time. “Far From Home” takes place immediately after the meta-conclusion of all 22 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and assumes you know what happened. Plus, it might be a school night, but don’t even think about leaving the theatre before catching the two post-film codas. Director Jon Watts returns, adding to the great work he did in the first film, and screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, who helped write “Homecoming,” make their own homecoming. So does Jon Favreau playing Happy
Hogan, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May and Jacob Batalon as Parker’s best pal, who this time ditches the nerdiness to show off a man-ofthe-world Ned. Borrowed from elsewhere in the Marvel Universe are Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill and a snarling Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Spider-Man gets to play this time with a pair of high-tech eyeglasses that are an advanced tactical intelligence system, much like he interacted last time with his suit’s computer, Karen. (Alas, no cameo See MOVIE, page A9
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‘Golden Girls’ appears to get better with pop culture age By TERRY TANG Associated Press
Alexandra Wilkinson was only 2 months old when “The Golden Girls” ended its television run in 1992. But she became a fan last year while taking a course called “Women and Aging: Lessons from the Golden Girls” at California State University, Long Beach. Now she streams episodes on Hulu. She owns a “Golden Girls” T-shirt. And when she graduated recently with a master’s degree in gerontology, she decorated her cap with a picture of “Golden Girl” Sophia along with the sardonic Sicilian’s trademark phrase, “Picture it.” “I was amazed at how this TV show from before I was born really related to so many topics I’m learning about right now,” said Wilkinson, 27. “It doesn’t even matter what they’re talking about, whether it’s a serious concept or not. Their personalities just have a way of bringing humor into everything.” The class, which finished
its second year in May, is the latest example of the surprising pop culture longevity of Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia. The Emmy-winning series revolved around four older women living together in Miami. It starred Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Betty White, who is the only living cast member at age 97 (White, through her agent, declined an interview request). The show aired on NBC from 1985-1992. Just in the last few years, however, there’s been a wave of merchandising, from a trivia game to Chia pets. Funko, known for its Pop dolls of sci-fi and fantasy characters, created “Golden Girls” figures, a limitededition cereal and, most recently, PEZ dispensers. In 2015, a fan built an unofficial Lego set of the women in their home. Next February, a “Golden Girls” theme cruise will launch from — where else? — Miami. Marsha Posner Williams, a co-producer on the series’ first three seasons, said the
creators simply set out to tell stories about an oftenoverlooked segment of the population. “This was a way of showing that even though you might be of a certain age, you’re not dead,” Williams said. “You’re full of life, full of laughter, full of sarcasm and it can be quite joyful.” Unlike the ’80s fashions worn in the show, the dialogue still holds up, Williams said, resonating with many people, from the gay community to millennials. “All the issues are so real that they talk about, even though it was 35 years ago,” she said. H. Alan Scott of Los Angeles has co-hosted a “Golden Girls” podcast for four years called “Out On the Lanai,” a reference to the patio where the women would often talk. He also stages drag shows as Sadie Pines, a riff on the fictitious Shady Pines retirement home where Sophia used to live. He calls the show “timeless in a lot of ways because they weren’t necessarily topical in the jokes they
did.” Maria Claver, a gerontology professor who created the CSU Long Beach class with colleague Long Wang in spring 2018, thinks nostalgia is one reason “The Golden Girls” endures. Many fans who watched when it originally aired are now in or facing their golden years. And the episodes have been helpful illustrations for her students. “I think one of the strengths of using a show like ‘Golden Girls’ is that you can address sometimes uncomfortable or difficult topics with humor,” Claver said. “I think that makes students comfortable to talk about things like sexuality among older women.” The weekly class touched on subjects like menopause, addiction, sexuality, dementia and caregiving. Claver and Wang would screen a relevant episode and then lead a discussion. There were guest speakers, including Williams. As a super-fan, Claver also can’t help but delight in turning students on to the
This Dec. 25, 1985 file photo shows the stars of the television series “The Golden Girls” during a break in taping in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
show’s entertainment value. “It is a thrill to introduce it to some of the younger students and by the end of the semester, they’re like ‘Omigosh, I’m totally a Dorothy,’” Claver said. Wilkinson, the recent grad, said she can laugh along even when she has no idea who a guest star like Burt Reynolds is. “Of course there are references I don’t quite understand. Like they’ll mention a musician or they’ll mention an actor I’ve never
heard of,” Wilkinson said. “But for some reason, the way they deliver it is hilarious.” Williams loves that “Golden Girls” keeps finding a new audience. “We all do projects that we wish our names were not on,” she said. “But, if you’re lucky, you have one in your career that you’re so fricking proud to be associated with.” ——— Follow Terry Tang at www.twitter.com/ttangAP
3-D printing recreates ancient sculpture destroyed by ISIS By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON — A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict. The sculpture is a replica of a colossal 3,000-year-old statue from the Temple of Ishtar in Nimrud, in what’s now Iraq. The stone statue was one of many artifacts from the Mosul Museum destroyed by the Islamic State group after it overran the city in 2014. The replica Lion of Mosul, which can be viewed online , was modelled from crowd-sourced photos taken by Mosul Museum visitors in happier times and 3-D printed as part of Google’s digital arts and culture project. It’s going on display at London’s Imperial War Museum in an exhibition
that looks at how war devastates societies’ cultural fabric — and at the ingenious and often heroic steps taken to preserve it. Chance Coughenour, digital archaeologist at Google Arts and Culture, said the exhibition “highlights the potential of technology — both in terms of digitally preserving culture and telling these amazing stories in engaging new ways.” It also illustrates a grim truth: culture has long been a casualty of conflict. Museums, monuments and even music are often deliberately targeted by combatants. “The destruction of culture is sort of an accepted sideline to war,” Imperial War Museum curator Paris Agar said Wednesday. “One of the main reasons for destroying culture is to send a message: We have victory over you. We have power
over you. It’s because culture means so much to us; if we didn’t care it wouldn’t be a tool.” The horror that rippled around the world in April at the sight of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral in flames is proof of the powerful attachment we have to buildings and artworks. The most shocking parts of the exhibition are the records made by the destroyers: meticulous Nazi lists of artworks they’d stolen; video of the Taliban blowing up Afghanistan’s 1,000-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas; footage of IS militants methodically sledgehammering statues in the Mosul museum. The show covers a century of destruction, from the German army’s World War I destruction of the university and library of Louvain, Belgium to the shelling of the National and University Library in Sarajevo during
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in Soldotna. Farnsworth park is located at 148 S Birch Street and yoga will happen rain or shine so dress acContinued from page A8 cordingly. For more information call 262-3151. n The Sterling Community Center invites you to our Summer community event, Sterling Friday Flea Market. On Friday, July 12, 19, 26 and Aug. 9 and 16. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The market is for Crafters, fruit/vegetable Vendors, Merchandise Vendors, and Second Hand booths. 10-feet wide by 20-feet deep spaces for rent in parking lot 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 Flea Market anytime during the summer. If the weather is not cooperating vendors can come inside. All vendors and customers will have access to Sterling Community Center facilities and vending machines. Call for registration and information262-7224 or email scc@acsalaska.net. n Join us in the Fireweed Diner at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank 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, 907262-3111 or gmeyer@kpfoodbank.org. n The RustyRavin will host its third annual music festival on Friday and Saturday, July 12-13 at Mile 12.5 of Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kenai. Listen to two great days of music from the Gasoline Lollipops of Colorado, Blackwater Railroad Company of Seward, H3, Juno Smile, Daddy’s Issue and The Melster Band! Free camping and parking for all paid concertgoers! The largest beer garden and dance area on the Kenai Peninsula along with food carts, craft vendors and great music! Music starts at 6 p.m. on Friday and ends at midnight. Saturday’s music starts at 2 p.m. and ends at midnight. Adult ticket prices are $35 per day or $55 for a two day pass. Youth tickets are free for 15 and younger with a paying adult. Tickets are available from Eventbrite online or available at the gate. More information is available at 907-398-6935 or by going to: facebook. com/RustyravinPlantRanch. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit Nuk It Un Sober Living in Kenai.
Entertainment n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 2629887. 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 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 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 The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
the Bosnian war in 1992. The 1940 devastation of England’s Coventry Cathedral by Germany’s Luftwaffe is shown alongside the destruction of the Frauenkirche in Dresden by Allied bombing in 1945. Both were later rebuilt, in very different ways: Coventry with a modern cathedral beside the ruins of the old, Dresden brick by brick from the original plans. Images of destruction sit alongside stories of resistance and rescue. The show features the work of the World War II Monuments Men, who saved Nazi-looted artworks, and tells the story of Khaled al-Asaad, a scholar who devoted his life to studying Syria’s ancient site of Palmyra and was murdered by IS in 2015. Some militaries have made efforts to prevent looting and destruction. The British Army recently set up a Cultural Property
Protection Unit — modernday monuments men and women — and the exhibition includes a pack of “archaeology awareness playing cards” distributed to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Internationally backed projects to train craftspeople and archaeologists in Syria and Iraq may help those countries recreate what has been lost. And the law has made small steps toward bringing cultural vandals to justice. In 2016, Islamic extremist Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was convicted of destroying World Heritage cultural sites in Timbuktu, Mali — the first war-crimes conviction by the International Criminal Court for cultural destruction. “It has always been part of warfare,” Agar said. “All that has changed in recent years is the awareness and attempt to stop it.”
The display is one of three linked exhibitions at the museum under the heading Culture Under Attack. The second looks at how British museums evacuated their treasures from London to keep them safe during World War II — and what they left behind. The third, Rebel Sounds, explores music as resistance, focusing on clandestine jazz fans in Nazi Germany, punks fighting for the right to party during Northern Ireland’s violent “Troubles,” a Belgrade radio station that championed free speech and Serbian techno in the war-torn 1990s, and musicians from Mali who defied an Islamist ban on music. Culture Under Attack opens Friday and runs to January 5. Admission is free. ——— Follow Jill Lawless on Twitter at http://Twitter.
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and fostered a deep connection with the flora and other organisms that bring a forest to life. “Ever since I was a child, I’ve played in the woods,” she explained. “All the time, in Soldotna living in that house, the forest was all around. I actually grew up connected to the forest because it was my playground. It’s where a lot of that comes from. It’s kind of difficult to explain but I’ve always had this affinity with the trees.” Larsen explained that reading “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben helped fuel her passion for her style of art and gave her new ideas to incorporate
into her work. Wohlleben is a German forester who explains in his book that forests are essentially a community of living organisms who communicate with one another and which even help keep others flourishing. Wohlleben even has a folksy name for the community of forests — the Woodwide Web — and it’s part of what has made Larsen interested in nature to begin with. The 3D pieces and the fabrics and quilted art displays together form a can’tmiss exhibit that Larsen hopes will be enjoyed by all. “She’s a great artist, and July is a great month to be a great artist,” Nelson said.
who has concocted four Spider-Man suits, including a “stealth” one that gets him the nickname Night Monkey in Europe. And the trippy visual effects that stun in the second half connect not to the first film but to “SpiderMan: Into the Spider-Verse” — a huge complement since that one was animated. But let’s be honest: The thing keeping this together is Holland. He is utterly endearing as a goofy, insecure now-16-year-old hero with a cracked cellphone and who often makes things worse, apologizing along the way. Holland’s aw-shucks naivete is a 1950-ish throwback even though he is firmly in 2019 — taking selfies while
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who never talked about her past. The idea that this wellliked suburban matron who was a loving mother could be a killer living incognito seems preposterous to Robin—the fodder of B movies. And yet, the more Robin begins to consider this, the more she wonders about her mother. Quentin is clinically depressed, obsessive and possi-
bly violent, but Gaylin’s realistic shaping makes the reader also feel for him. Damaged by his family and its history, Quentin has still managed to inspire love and devotion from Dean and Summer, despite his protestation that he’s not a good person. “Never Look Back” is another superior outing from Gaylin, who won the 2019 Edgar for her last novel, “If
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visualized and pieced together elements of the show to showcase her passion for the outdoors and for the forests. “I spent (this past) winter exploring different things that weren’t my M.O.,” Larsen said. “People know me for my silk painting, but I wanted to expand. The main inspiration that I have comes from a really deep fascination of the forest and the trees.” Born in Seward but raised mostly in Soldotna, Larsen spent countless hours of her childhood playing in the woods around her house,
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this time from Stan Lee, the Marvel icon who died in 2018). Jake Gyllenhaal, who has proven to be an actor of tremendous range, is a newcomer to the superhero genre but proves a comfortable fit despite being asked to wear one of Marvel’s oddest costumes. As Mysterio, he dons a huge cape, Roman Empire breastplate, giant gauntlets and a big glass bubble over his face like an upside-down goldfish bowl. But as Will Smith might say, Gyllenhaal makes this look good. Credit to him and costume designer Anna B. Sheppard,
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The solid plot of “Never Look Back” also works well as a character study as Gaylin intelligently delves into each person’s psyche. Robin, wrapped up in her fraying marriage and online haters who object to her column, begins to wonder just how well she knows her mother,
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Lines are drawn in family feud over recovering addict but I also feel like this is a safety issue. -- UNCOMFORTABLE IN MINNESOTA DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE: As a parent, you have to do what you think is best for your children. I wish you had ex- Abigail Van Buren plained your parents’ reason for not visiting your home, because it appears to be manipulative and a means of punishing you for sticking to your guns. Given the fact that Pete has tried to convince your husband to share his scheduled medications and has bragged about “acting good” when with family, you are doing the right thing. DEAR ABBY: My sister -- age 57 -- has terrible table manners. We live three hours apart but get together every two or three months to enjoy each other’s company. Recently, we went to a nice restaurant, and she let out a loud, obnoxious, disgusting burp. I was surprised and embarrassed. She quickly apologized. I said, “Can’t you lower
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They try to egg you on to join them. You might be happiest doing nothing today. Make that possibility OK. Tonight: Do your thing. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH If you remain responsive to those around you, then you could find that you’re having a great time. Don’t allow another person to rain on your parade. This person might be out of sorts and feel the need to dump on somebody! Hook up with friends; make a celebration even more possible. Tonight: Let the party go on. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Others cannot help noticing you and wanting to be around you. You could be tired and might appreciate a power nap before the celebrations get going. You’ll only benefit from this snooze. You’ll carry the banner to the wee hours. Tonight: A must appearance. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Reach out for a dear friend or loved one at a distance. Make plans to visit with each other in the near future. You wish that you could see each other more often. Expect to have your own Fourth of July celebration with this person. Tonight: Go for unique. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH One-on-one relating gives you an even clearer idea of what’s happening. Be more upbeat and direct in how you handle a changeable situation that could also involve a special person and relationship. Tonight: Party the night away. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You naturally defer to others. Your more upbeat, fun-loving personality emerges. You have a lot to offer to others, and they to you. You give friendship quite naturally, but feelings of a deeper nature could easily evolve. Tonight: Say yes to an invitation. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You’re likely to drop in on one or two parties or celebrations. Don’t stop and decide to get serious or responsible at this point. Get into the celebration and its meaning to the United States. Tonight: You could go to the wee hours. BORN TODAY Former first daughter Malia Obama (1998), playwright Neil Simon (1927), cartoonist/inventor Rube Goldberg (1883)
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Celebrate the Fourth! Dear Readers: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! Today is July Fourth, the day we celebrate our independence and the birth of our great nation. Take a moment to reflect on where we have come from and where we can go from here. The future is full of hope, dreams and promise! -- Heloise SPARKLER SAFETY Dear Readers: Slow-burning and bright, sparklers are fun, especially for young children on the Fourth of July. However, MANY safety precautions are in order. Here are a few: * Make sure sparklers are legal in your neighborhood. * Have your child standing, outdoors, and wearing closed-toe shoes. * Don’t wave a lit sparkler, and light each one individually. * Have each child stand 6 feet from the next. * Keep a bucket of water nearby to extinguish the sparklers. * Never relight a “dud” sparkler. Have a safe and happy holiday! -- Heloise AN ORIGINAL ANSWER Dear Heloise: What’s the definition of “organic”? I see it everywhere in the supermarket. -- Don S. in California Don, “organic,” in the world of cuisine, means foods that are raised naturally, without being treated with chemical fertilizers, pesticides or hormones. -- Heloise
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, July 4, 2019: This year, you open up to new possibilities. Once you get a project going, you’ll resent any interference. Understand that to others, you could seem demanding. If you’re single, decide whether you want to date, and make time for that pastime. If you’re attached, make a point of drawing your significant other close by sharing more of your outside life. Remember how important this bond might be. LEO knows how to encourage you to have a good time. 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 have the get-up-and-go and energy to do whatever you please. Although you might want to direct your energy into the celebrations, don’t forget your sweetie. Tonight: Get into the snap, crackle and pop of the moment. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Invite others over for a fun afternoon and evening. Whether you decide to have a pool party or barbecue is your call. Others will be excited to come over. You could be delighted by the end results. Tonight: Light up the firecrackers. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Make calls early in the day. Someone might need to hear from you but not know how to ask. Plans could be subject to change; you might receive an unexpected but delightful invitation. Tonight: Cheer the Fourth of July. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Decide to keep to your budget no matter what! You could find several reasons not to. Be willing to say no. A partner could become contentious because you might decide not to make a purchase that he or she desires. Tonight: Make it your treat. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Allow your effervescent personality to come out. Your mood has that extra zip that seems aligned with the holiday nature of the day. If you don’t have plans, you’ll most likely create plans just by being you. Tonight: Cheer the Fourth of July, in your style. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You might want to pull back and take some much-needed personal time. Listen to your friends who have plans.
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the volume and cover your mouth?” She became defensive and said, “I apologized!” Her burping happens often, but this one was beyond the pale. I don’t like it, never have. How do I communicate to her effectively to burp quietly and in a controlled manner? -- DISGUSTED IN NEW JERSEY DEAR DISGUSTED: I think you have already done that. Is it possible your sister suffers from a gastrointestinal disorder? If she hasn’t brought this to the attention of her doctor, she should. If, however, there is nothing physically wrong with her, you may be happier having your meals in a different kind of restaurant -- a loud, casual burger joint or a sports bar where no one will notice her problem while rooting for the home team. DEAR READERS: Have a very happy and healthy Fourth of July, everyone. And please be safe! -- LOVE, ABBY 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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DEAR ABBY: My stepbrother “Pete” is a recovering addict who did significant prison time for possession and gang affiliations. He has also had multiple DUI convictions. He’s been out for two years and is holding a job and taking care of his kids part-time. My parents think he’s completely rehabilitated, but I think he’s using again, based on his behavior. He has tried to get my husband to give him some of a prescription medication he takes, and jokes about “acting good” when with family but not at home. I decided I no longer want to be around Pete, particularly with my children, and I asked my parents not to have him over while we are visiting. They said they understood, but the last time we went for a weekend, Pete was there with his son, and it was really uncomfortable. Now they say they just want us to all get along and that I’m “snobby” for wanting to exclude Pete. I have reached a point where I’m no longer willing to visit them because I can’t trust them. They won’t come to my house, but are mad at me for “withholding their grandkids from them” (their words) and “breaking up the family.” What are my obligations in this situation, and is it reasonable to insist we visit without Pete? I hate to make them choose,
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Anchorage man takes home Seward Halibut Tournament win By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
The Seward Halibut Tournament ended with June and a winner topping in at more than 250 pounds. Guy Minske of Anchorage reeled in the largest fish of the tournament, which ran from June 1 to June 30. He caught the 257.8 pound fish on June 15 on the F/V Predator with Captain Will Gentry of J-Dock Sport Fishing. Gentry has been fishing in Seward for 21 years, with 17 years as a captain, but this was his first halibut tournament win, according to the tournament organizers, the Seward Chamber of Commerce. The fish was caught in early June, which is unusual for the tournament. “Overall, halibut fishing was very strong this June. I was consistently impressed with the fish that were coming into the harbor,” said Jen Leahy, communications director of the Seward Chamber of Commerce. “Our biggest fish were caught the first two weeks of
the tournament, which is unusual and kept everyone guessing how the final week would play out.” The tournament also recognized the largest catch of each week, as well as the largest fish caught by active military or on a private boat. “Private boaters really showed up this year. They put some great fish on the leaderboard, including third place overall,” Leahy said. Michael Clarke, a private boater, took home the third heaviest fish, as well as largest active military winner and the prize for private boat owner. Minske brought home $2,500 for his fish, a $1,500 overall prize for biggest and $1,000 for the largest fish of the week. “Our new prize structure — instituting weekly winners in addition to overall prizes — received positive feedback from anglers who appreciated having more chances to win,” Leahy said. For full details on weekly winners and more, visit halibut. seward.com.
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To kick things off, I’d like to sincerely wish all of you a very safe and pleasurable Fourth of July celebration. It’s cool to be able to manipulate a couple of vacation days into five, isn’t it? The coming week looks to be set on sizzle, so make sure you’r ewearing enough sunscreen to walk across the surface of the sun buck-naked and barely pop a tan line. Ignore that sage advice and you’ll probably end up headed home sitting atop a 10-pound bag of ice sporting body blisters the size of a superdome and glowing like a Yelloweye rockfish. Special note: The tides are going to be rockin’ some righteous change-outs, so if you tie into a flat the size of a preschooler’s skateboard it’s going to feel like a derby contender. If it’s the real thing, you might as well kick back and let it tow you around until it dies of old age or decides to come up and see what the hell is annoying it. If that happens and it has the surface area of a chopper pad, it’s probably time to John Wayne the situation and pump a round into the beast just behind the dorsalside (left) eye, and morph its brain into yogurt. A fish like that will have some awesome bragging rights unless you’re the type that needs a personal trainer just to get into your deck boots and lacks the common sense to buy a Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby ticket. Anyway, let’s get it on and take a look at the fishing report for the
The lower sections of the lower Kenai Peninsula roadside streams including the Anchor River should have good fishing for Dolly Varden over the next week. Try using beads, streamers, small spinners and spoons.
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Saltwater Fishing Salmon The Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon will open to snagging at noon (12 p.m.) July 4 through July 7, 2019, to allow anglers a greater opportunity to harvest kings in the lagoon. Weighted treble hooks pulled just under the surface are the most effective at snagging salmon. Snagging in the Homer Boat Harbor is not allowed. Chinook trolling improved over the last week, but was still sluggish with the fish dispersed throughout K Bay, making things a bit of a crap shoot. Trolling in 3090 feet of water remains the most efficacious (bestest) way to target the heavyweights. Sockeye are knocking around in both China Poot Bay and Tutka Bay Lagoon. Take a shot at snagging these fish with weighted treble hooks.
Halibut Halibut hunting has been steady in offshore locations in Cook Inlet and outer Kachemak Bay. You might want to try drifting to reconnoiter new areas, particularly during the middle of the tidal exchange when the current is the strongest.
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76/55 The winning fish in this year’s halibut tournament was reeled in by Guy Minske, left, and weighed 257.8 pounds. (Photo submitted by Seward Chamber of Commerce)
on July 10. A resident Sport Fishing License and Personal Use Permit are both required for dipnetting. Only Alaska residents are able to dipnet. The Ninilchik River has been producing some good king salmon fishing. Both hatchery and wild fish are showing up in good numbers, but anglers are reminded to check for the adipose fin, since only hatchery fish are allowed to be kept. Fish and Game recommends fishing with a variety of gear, like spinners, spoons and flies.
A chunk of good ole herring impaled on a circle hook is the standard lure, but try using lead head jigs with grub tails tipped with bait. If nothing else, the lures are cool looking.
Other China Poot personal use dipnet fishery opened July 1 to Alaska residents only, and there were decent numbers of fish in the creek late last week, so fire up the kicker and mosey over there. Lingcod season opened July 1. Most successful anglers target them on the outer North Gulf Coast along rock pinnacles. Try lead head jigs with white grub tails tip along with a piece of bait. Come to think of it, I was asked the other day what I thought about lingcod. I pondered for a moment and said, “Well, they are delicious, off-the-chart ugly, have a set of teeth that a radial saw would envy and will devour their own kind. Other than that, they are kind of mellow unless dissed by you getting anywhere near their personal space. They also have explosive tempers and will attempt to turn you into Sushi if you annoy them with a hook and a gaff. Plus, they don’t do well as pets.” The guy backed up and walked away. Go figure. There are several basic things to consider when searching for lingcod. First, stony stuff is their ’hood. The rockier and more vertical, the more likely you will find them hangin’ in their pads with a territorial attitude (rough reefs usually between 30 and 330 feet deep). Second, tide and current
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Kenai Peninsula Weekly Fishing Report The Upper Kenai and Russian River continues to provide excelled fishing for sockeye salmon this year, with the Lower Kenai River catching up. King salmon fishing continues to be slow on the Kenai River, but the Alaska Department of Fish and Game recommends trying the Kasilof River. Fishing for kings near the Crooked Creek confluence area is good, but Crooked Creek is closed to fishing. The Kenai River is amping up for dipnet fishing, which opens
Weekend Almanac
makes a big difference. Slow water movement at tide changes is cool because you can fish vertically with less hang-ups and gear loss. When your lure hits bottom, immediately pull it up a few feet and start a jigging motion to put life into your bait set-up. This action will also help you keep from getting locked into something like a nasty hunk of reef. Jigs can be most anything flashy from the standard diamond types to flashy and wicked-cool looking Yo-Zuri jigs or the aforementioned leadhead jigs with white grub tails tip featuring a piece of odoriferous yuck. Finally, most lingcod get nasty when first hooked, but if you win the duel and get a big one into the boat without structural damage to your equipment or body, don’t forget to bleed it out immediately to avoid a more pronounced fishy taste.
Shellfish The next clamming tides are July 2 - July 8. Razor clams can be found on beaches along the Westside 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. Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he isn’t busy lacing up his body armor in prep to watch the July 4th Snagamania at The Hole. Could be some interesting fireworks out there.
Saturday
75/56 Low tide 1:48 am 2:17 pm High tide 7:24 am 8:26 pm
1.90 ft -3.29 ft 22.42 ft 21.25 ft
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Sunday
78/57 Low tide 2:41 am 3:05 pm High tide 8:17 am 9:15 pm
2.17 ft -1.83 ft 21.11 ft 20.77 ft
(Tide information for Kenai River Entrante)
Fish Counts Russian River early-run sockeye: Cumulative as of 7/17 — 69,879 June 29- 1,568 June 30 - 1,775 July 1 - 3,038 Kenai River early-run king: Cumulative as of 616 — 4,186 June 28 - 49 June 29 - 95 June 30 - 67 Kenai River late-run sockeye: July 1 - 6,810
Marine Forecast Lower Cook Inlet Kalgin Island to Point Bede: Friday: NW wind, 10 knots, seas 2 feet. Saturday: SW wind, 10 knots, seas 2 feet. Sunday: Variable wind, -10 knots, seas 2 feet. — National Weather Service