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In the news Dense smoke advisory in effect for interior peninsula A dense smoke advisory is in effect for the interior Kenai Peninsula, according to the National Weather Service. The advisory includes the Sterling Highway Corridor from Sterling to Cooper Landing, and is in effect through Friday. Smoke from the Swan Lake Fire will reduce visibility to 1/4 mile or less at times, according to the advisory. The worst conditions will be overnight through the morning hours, with improvement during the afternoon and evening. The advisory recommends that drivers slow down, use headlights and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
Some campgrounds and trails reopened near Skilak Hidden Lake Campground and the recreational trails accessed along Skilak Lake Road opened Thursday afternoon, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge announced. The areas were closed due to concerns about the Swan Lake Fire, which has been burning east of Sterling since June 5. Along the Sterling Highway, all trails, cabins and campgrounds — including Skyline Trail, Seven Lakes Trail from Kelly Lake to Engineer Cabin, Kelly Campground, Petersen Campground, Watson Campground, Jean Lake Campground and Kelly cabin — remained closed to support firefighting operations in that area. — Victoria Petersen
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TOP: Reagan Reed poses with an American flag at the Kenai Park Strip during the 2019 July 4th parade in Kenai. ABOVE, LEFT: A volunteer from AK Kids hands out candy during the parade in Kenai. ABOVE, RIGHT: Forever Dance Alaska performs for the crowd during the parade in Kenai. (Photos by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
Celebrating America, the Alaska way By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
Live music, classic cars, American flags and a lot of candy — all of these and more could be seen at this year’s 4th of July
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of the procession. Parents brought out their camping chairs and picnic blankets and snagged a spot in the shade while the kids hovered at the edge of the sidewalk, ready to snatch up all the candy being
Borough approves resolution in favor of Funny River boat launch By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
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Parade in downtown Kenai. The sidewalks from Fidalgo Avenue to the Main Street Loop were flooded with paradegoers who eagerly awaited all the floats, trucks and motorcycles that were part
Around 20 Funny River residents came to the Tuesday Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting to speak in favor of a resolution supporting a community boat launch to the Kenai River. The resolution unanimously passed the
assembly. A majority of the speakers were in support of the initiative, which came from Mayor Charlie Pierce. The community has very little access to launch their boats into the Kenai River from the Funny River area, and many of the residents said they have to travel
to Soldotna or Kenai to launch their boats. In a June 20 memo from Pierce to the assembly, Pierce said the Funny River community has been working to convince the state to develop a boat launch facility in their community for many years. The memo says no properly conSee BOAT, page A2
thrown their way. The parade featured special appearances from all sorts of colorful characters: Batman, Spiderman, Smokey the Bear, Buttons the clown and the Scoop, the Oilers Mascot,
just to name a few. Twin City Raceway and Road to Recovery showed off a few of their speed machines — including one painted red, white and blue — while local dance See 4TH, page A2
Swan Lake Fire continues to spread with no rain in sight By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
Hot and dry weather continue to exacerbate the Swan Lake Fire, which is now at 84,492 acres, according to the latest update from the Northwest 13 Incident Management Team. Temperatures in the area are forecasted to be in the low 90s for the foreseeable
future, and winds will be coming in from the north and northwest with a high pressure system keeping the smoke low to the ground near Cooper Landing. A community meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at Cooper Landing Elementary School to address concerns about smoke conditions in the area. An air See FIRE, page A3
Local radio stations grapple with cuts to public media By Megan Pacer Homer News
In the wake of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s line-item budget vetoes, local public radio stations on the Kenai Peninsula stand to lose a substan-
tial chunk of their operating budgets. As part of a $444 million cut to the $8.7 billion state operating budget through line item vetoes on June 28, Dunleavy eliminated $2.7 million in state funding for public
broadcasting, which includes TV stations as well as radio. KBBI Public Radio in Homer will have been on the air for 40 years this August and has been operating with a two-person news staff for the last few years. The station
currently has one full-time reporter, and is advertising for a news director after the departure of News Director and reporter Aaron Bolton in June. Kathleen Gustafson has been named interim news director. Interim General Manager
Scott Waterman and Board President Genie Hambrick put out a statement to the station’s supporters regarding the statewide budget cut and what it could mean for the local station. According to the stateSee RADIO, page A3
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groups Diamond Dance Project and Forever Dance Alaska showed off their moves. Dorothy Gray drove her 1954 F100 in the parade for the third year in a row. This year her granddaughters Leah and Eileen Arness joined her for the fun. Leah and Eileen matched the truck’s ‘50s theme with poodle skirts and cateye glasses and handed out candy while Gray drove alongside them.
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structed boat launch exists on that side, the south side of the river. The lack of a publicly accessibly boat launch has resulted in tourists and others accessing the river by trespassing on private property, the memo said. “This creates overcrowded parking in private neighborhoods on unmaintained roads, blocking emergency vehicle access and causing many problems.” A 2004 study supported the construction of the facility and better river access in the area, the memo said. Michael Masters, a resident of Funny River since 1979, spoke to the assembly in support of public access to the Kenai River. He said upstream between Centennial Park in Soldotna and Killey River, there is only one public access point to launch a boat on the south side of the Kenai River. “This situation is unacceptable for the people that live in this subdivision and the entire Funny River community,” Masters said. Many residents who supported the launch said it could increase property values in the community,
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“It was awesome,” Leah said about being in the parade. “We got to see so many people!” This is Leah’s second year being the parade, and Eileen was joining her sister and grandma for the first time. When asked what her favorite part of the parade was, Eileen didn’t need to give it much thought: “The candy!” “I have to say, I’ve lived here for 41 years and I don’t think it’s ever been this hot before,” Gray said after the parade was over. Temperatures reached the upper 80s in Kenai on Thursday, and Gray wasn’t
the only who commented on the heat. Addison Hayes is a dancer at Forever Dance Alaska, and she said it was a little tough to do all that dancing in the hot weather. That being said, Hayes didn’t let the heat stop her from having a good time. The parade ended at the Kenai Park Strip where dozens of booths were set up with games, food and crafts for sale. Local band Troubadour North played a three-hour set and put their hometown spin on songs like “Wagon Wheel” and “Friends in Low Places.” A Hometown Heroes
display was set up where people from the peninsula honored their loved ones in the military with signs displaying their name, rank and the branch in which they served. Rep. Gary Knopp, RSoldotna, was in attendance with a dunk tank, and people could donate a couple dollars to the LeeShore Center for the chance to soak the local representative. At the other end of the park strip, in the spirit of America’s vibrant democracy, Jason Floyd and others gathered signatures in an attempt to recall Knopp from Alaska’s Legislature.
and keep anglers from trespassing over private property to get to the river. Ed Scribner, a resident of Funny River, said he would love to launch his boat somewhere safe. “I would think we should be encouraging people to our recreation area to help make the community grow,” Scribner said. The resolution was also supported by the executive director of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, Ben Mohr. Mohr said the association has been advocat-
ing for river access in Funny River for quite awhile. “You could have someone living 200 yards from the river and it takes them longer to launch their boat, than somebody that’s out in Nikiski, and that should be rectified,” Mohr told the assembly Tuesday. Not everyone was in favor of the boat launch, and several people spoke in opposition of the resolution. Jason Knotter lives in Funny River. He said it’s not the right time for the boat launch.
“I hear a lot of valid concerns of why we should have the boat launch but I don’t think now is the right time to be spending money on a project that is a luxury,” Knotter said. “It’s a want not a need, when we have needs that are getting cut at the moment.” The resolution demonstrates borough support for the community’s efforts to obtain state cooperation and support to build these needed facilities for the public benefit, the memo said.
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Around the Peninsula Kenai Peninsula College holiday closure In observance of Independence Day, all locations of Kenai Peninsula College will be closed on Thursday-Friday, July 4- 5. Campuses will re-open with normal hours on Monday, July 8.
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 907-3986935 or by going to: facebook.com/RustyravinPlantRanch. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit Nuk It Un Sober Living in Kenai.
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ment, KBBI’s share of state funding is $74,335. “The news is disappointing, but not unexpected,” the statement reads. “KBBI has been aware for months that our state grant … was in jeopardy.” “On the southern Kenai Peninsula, KBBI is the only radio station that is part of the emergency alert system, the only source for local daily news, and the only place for local programming,” it continues. “While we will make every attempt to maintain current services, the Governor’s (sic) decision makes it more challenging than it already is — and the following year will be even more difficult.” Waterman and Hambrick do not anticipate KBBI closing, according to the release. However, the loss of state funding will shift more burden onto local station donors and supporters, they wrote. “We must increase membership donations, local business underwriting, and special event fundraising, and we must continue to seek other sources of operating dollars, such as grants,” the statement reads. Waterman said in an interview that he won’t know right away what KBBI’s next steps will be in terms of making potential cuts. That will take a while to figure out since
A Safe Place for the Heart
The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council’s PROPS (Prevention, Response, Operations and Safety) Committee meeting will be held in Nikiski on Friday, July 12 at 10 a.m. at the Nikiski Senior Center, 50025 Lake Marie Avenue. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222.
Camp Mend-A-Heart is a free day camp for ages 6 to 16 who have experienced a loss due to death. Camp is held at beautiful Solid Rock Camp, just outside of Soldotna. Many fun activities as well as age appropriate grief activities. Dates are Aug. 13 to the 15, 2019. All applications must be in by July. Please contact Hospice at 262Kenai Central High School Swimming Pool 0453 for additional information, questions and applicaSwim lesson dates: Session III July 8-19; Session IV July tions. Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 22- August 2; Swim lesson times: 11 a.m.-11:40 a.m. (M-F); 2nd Annual Disability Pride 11:45 a.m.-12:25 p.m. (M-F); 12:30 p.m.-1:10 p.m. (M-F); The Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride 1:15 p.m.-1:55 p.m. (M-F); 1:15 p.m.– 1:45 p.m. (3 and 4 Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park year olds) (M-F); Private Lessons 3-3:30 p.m., 3:30-4 p.m. from 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the (M-F, 10 days of private) or 10:15-10:45 a.m. (Tuesday and Thursday). Need to sign-up for lessons in advance at the Ke- signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. nai Pool. Private Swim lessons times or pool rentals are avail- Al-Anon support group meetings able. Register for swim lessons in advance at the Kenai Pool. Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Pool rentals are available. 283-7476 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. The Temporary Flight Restriction has expanded to include the western portion of the Chugach National Forest to support suppression efforts and firefighter safety. Pilots can confirm current flight restrictions at http://tfr.faa.gov. As of noon on Thursday, the
following areas of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge are closed, including campgrounds and cabins: Watson Lake, Peterson Lake, Jean Lake, Kelly Lake, Trapper Joe Cabin, Big Indian Cabin, East Fork Moose River, Bottenintin Lake, Skyline Trail, Seven Lakes Trail
and Mystery Creek Road. For more information, call the Refuge Visitor Center at 907-2602820. For the latest on the Swan Lake Fire, call the Incident Management Team at 208391-3488 or visit kpboem. com.
the fiscal year is just coming to an end. He said he’ll be looking at the daily tasks that need to be done to make the station run, and trying to find which ones KBBI can potentially live without. Stations like KBBI need to show at least $300,000 in local or non-federal revenue in order to quality for federal funding. Last year, KBBI had about $375,000 from fundraising efforts. Without the $75,000 from the state the station usually gets, they’ll be just skating through. “We may be OK on that one,” Waterman said. “It’ll be a tight push.” Waterman emphasized what an important role KBBI plays during emergencies and natural disasters on the lower Kenai Peninsula. It’s able to broadcast up-to-date information through its role in the emergency alert system. “This whole last week, people have been tuning in to find out whether they could drive up the road to Anchorage,” Waterman said, referencing updates KBBI has been giving on the Swan Lake Fire near the Sterling Highway near Sterling. “We’re a critical part of the infrastructure for that.” KBBI has 40-50 volunteers who help made the station run, Waterman said. As a public media outlet, the station serves as a way to unite people across the southern peninsula. “Community radio is one of the linchpins that tie communities together,” he said.
“It’s a linchpin for kind of helping keeping the community informed, keep it entertained, and to really bind the community together in many ways.” KDLL, the public radio station based up the road in Soldotna, is also in the midst of preparing for harder times. General Manager Jenny Neyman said the station’s share of state funding generally falls anywhere between $75,000$77,000. This is about a quarter of the station’s overall revenue, she said. “Our board in developing our FY 2020 budget, we did talk possibilities and dire possibilities, and we’re going to have to readdress that budget now that things are looking a little more certain,” Neyman said. One of the things the board discussed was possibly using money from the station fund balance to get it through this next fiscal year without having to reduce services or programming. KDLL’s first priority going forward will be to keep as much local programming on the air as possible, Neyman said. However, she did say “the only two areas we could cut are our programming costs and our staff.” Staff at a local radio station means local programming, Neyman said.
Neyman also pointed out that, for a lot of smaller radio stations, there is the added burden of the fact that the local match requirement for getting federal funding was raised four years ago. Instead of needing to show $250,000 in local revenues, stations now must raise $300,000 from their local communities. It was an “uphill battle” for KDLL to make that funding leap to begin with, Neyman said. She also said that a large potion of that federal funding comes in the form of the state contribution. Neyman said public radio stations play a special role in Alaska, especially in villages or communities off the road system, where public radio is sometimes the only media outlet available. “I feel like the value of pub radio in Alaska is connection,” she said. Neyman pointed out that not only do public radio stations localize their programming and news, but that they also contribute to the statewide network of news called the Alaska Public Radio Network. Radio stations like KDLL and KBBI also air bushline messages, broadcast local basketball games and put the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly and Homer City Council meet-
ings on the air — all things that help a community, but don’t make the stations money, Neyman said. “We feel like it is a public benefit to have an informed citizenry, so we choose to do those things,” she said. “We’re never going to make money doing those things.” KDLL Board President Sally Cassan-Archuleta echoed the sentiment that a loss of state funding puts federal dollars at risk. It also poses a risk to local programming and services, she said. “What I see right off the bat is that it jeopardizes how our area receives information,” Cassan-Archuleta said. “We’re listener supported radio just like KBBI.” She said people in Alaska rely on public radio for myriad things that aren’t strictly local or national news. “That’s why we have public media,” she said. “That’s why our country thought it was a good idea.” Cassan-Archuleta said KDLL is proud of both its reporters as well as the music shows and other programming run by local volunteers. “Our local DJ program at KDLL is really very cool,” she said. “We have people who
have been doing a weekly show for six years, volunteer.” One of those people is Cassan-Archuleta herself, who has hosted the music show Dead Musicians for the last four years. “I think we’re going to see some of that have to disappear because we just will not have that support,” she said. “We will do the best we can, and we will try and stay local public radio with local reporting with local programming as much as possible.” Cassan-Archuleta, who said she’s been supported public radio since she was 18, and who stepped into the board president role this year, said the best thing listeners can do is get in touch with their state representatives. “I would encourage people who also deem public media as the important thing that it actually is … to call their legislators, to call and express that,” she said. If communities were to lose certain programming, services, or stations altogether, they’d lose more than news. “You’re losing a media source whose sole purpose is to serve its community,” Neyman said.
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A strong economy is a terrible thing to waste Raise a glass to the longest
economic expansion in modern American history. A full decade has passed since the end of the last recession, in June 2009, and the economy continues to grow. As of Monday, the current expansion surpassed the previous record for uninterrupted growth, set between 1991 and 2001. But this time around, no one is accusing Americans of irrational exuberance: These good times don’t feel particularly good. Economic growth over the past decade has been slow and fragile, and most of the benefits have been claimed by a small minority of the population. The sense of disappointment is more than a feeling. Through the first quarter of 2019, the nation’s gross domestic product had increased by 25 percent during the current expansion. Between 1991 and 2001, economic output expanded by 42 percent. Between 1982 and 1990, output increased 38 percent. And between 1961 and 1969, output grew by 52 percent. The distribution of the gains is even less satisfying. Truck drivers still earned, on average, slightly less in 2018 than in 2009, after adjusting for inflation. Executive compensation, by contrast, went up, up and away. Chief executives of companies in the S&P 500 stock index — a list that includes most of the nation’s largest corporations — made an average of $14.5 million in 2018, increasing by $5.2 million in the past decade, according to data compiled by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The wealthy have also reaped most of the gains from rising stock prices. The least affluent 70 percent of American households had less wealth at the end of 2018 than at the beginning of 2007, according to the Federal Reserve. The top 30 percent of households saw at least some increase, but the big gains were heavily concentrated at the very top, in the hands of a small proportion of extraordinarily wealthy families. This inequality of prosperity has become a defining issue in the nation’s politics. President Trump ran on the promise that he would restructure the economy to revive employment in mining and manufacturing. Democrats vying to run against the president in 2020 are offering their own prescriptions for economic revival — and speaking of the plight of American workers in language usually reserved for recessions. That rhetoric contrasts with the slow but steady improvement in economic conditions over the past decade. The unemployment rate is bumping along at the lowest levels since the 1960s; wages have started to rise more quickly, particularly for lowwage workers. But the fact that it took so long to get here is a big problem for many American families. While unemployment is low, the slow pace of the recovery means that the average rate of unemployment in a given month during the past decade was a full percentage point higher than during the 1991-2001 expansion and almost two points higher than between 1961 and 1969. There is also reason to worry that America has squandered the opportunity for a more prosperous future. During periods of economic growth, governments can take advantage of swelling tax revenues to improve infrastructure, invest in education and fund research. Companies can plow profits into new products and markets. But over the past decade, both public and private sectors have largely refrained from investing. The government has handed out tax cuts while companies have handed out dividends and repurchased shares. In effect, they’ve chosen to distribute profits among already wealthy Americans rather than develop the intellectual capital and equipment that could increase growth in the decades ahead, as investments in public universities, highways, fundamental scientific research and satellite networks did in the past. Another result of the Trump administration’s tax cut is that federal deficits, which usually shrink during periods of economic growth, are on the rise. That leaves less room for the government to respond to a downturn by cutting taxes or by increasing spending. And the Fed cannot easily ride to the rescue: It has kept rates low to extend this fragile expansion, leav-
It’s time we earned our PFDs A laska V oices R ich M oniak
It’s a bit ironic that the special legislative session to determine the size of our Alaska Permanent Fund dividend will cost the state $1.3 million. It’s a high price tag to legislate how much money the state should pay us just for living here. One way to offset the cost is to reduce everyone’s dividend by about two dollars. Relatively speaking, that’s no more than the pocket change we might drop into a collection jar for a worthy cause. But even that little amount would upset people who don’t want any of the PFD going to fund state government. They’d say it’s not free money. The fund is our constitutionally created share of the state’s oil wealth. Some might even argue that because they didn’t do their jobs, our elected representatives ought to cover the special session cost. It would be about $22,000 each, which is less than half of what former Gov. Bill Walker offered by way of a voluntary salary reduction two years ago. Walker’s $48,000 pay cut didn’t happen though. The legislation he proposed to codify it never got out of committee. And I expect the two ideas I’ve suggested to pay for the special session wouldn’t even get that far. But there’s a clue in Walker’s offer that’s worth examining further. Since
his salary wasn’t reduced, he donated that amount to causes impacted by budget cuts. It went to fundraisers for drug detection K9s in Wasilla, Cordova and Yakutat. The key word is donate. It’s a simple act already tied to the PFD via the Pick. Click.Give campaign. But rather than money, we could perform community service. It won’t solve the budget problem, but it would void the notion that the PFD is an entitlement. According to a Foraker Group report I quoted a year ago, nonprofits operating in Alaska employ about 17% of the state’s work force. That’s two-thirds higher than the national average. How they’re funded is a different story. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranks Alaska households 28th in terms of financial donations. But we’re “generous” with our time, they report. About 37% of us volunteer for community service. That’s not just 11% more than the rest of the country. It means there’s an opportunity to encourage more participation. So imagine that to earn the PFD, every qualified Alaskan over 14 years of age would be required to show they performed 50 hours of community service during the prior year. But unlike real volunteers, because it’s exchanged for a $1,600 to $3,000 PDF, the effective compensation would be $32 to $60 per hour. Not getting something for nothing is a central argument against the latest liberal giveaway known as universal basic income. And interestingly enough, the PDF has been used to defend such proposals. Writers at the Wall Street Journal, Vox and Vice.com all referred to the
annual check as free money. Not in a derogatory way, but rather to argue a government granted entitlement doesn’t automatically translate into weakening the work ethic. But that also means most people are willing to work a little more when times are tough. The idea of working to earn the PDF is entirely consistent with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that Congress passed in 1996. That law imposed a requirement for welfare recipients to find employment within two years of receiving benefits. A similar plan is being considered to move able bodied people receiving Medicaid into the workforce. Like any program involving the transfer of money between the government and its citizens, the difficult part would be crafting laws that everyone agrees are necessary and fair. Defining community service could be contentious. Justifiable exemptions for some people will leave loopholes for others. And an enforcement mechanism to prevent fraud will be needed. It’s a prescription for more regulations and new bureaucratic jobs. And the need for more revenue, which is already part of the problem. The idea may very well be unrealistic. But if we’re unwilling to devise a method to legitimately claim we earn our PFD, then we can’t rightly criticize lawmakers who want to reduce it. Because they’d be choosing not to lay off people who actually work for the checks they get from our state treasury. Rich Moniak is a Juneau resident and retired civil engineer with more than 25 years of experience working in the public sector.
July 4, 1959: A Remembrance of Alaska’s 49-Star Flag
July 4, 2019, marks the 60th anniversary of the first raising of the 49-star flag at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. “J’you know the capital of Alaska?” My friends and I thought this a great joke. We delighted in people’s blank looks or slow smiles. We didn’t know anything about Alaska or why a state’s capital had such a strange name. We thought Alaska must be like “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon” — snowy, cold, deserted except for desperate men and brave dogs. July 4, 1959, was going to be a big day for Alaska, that I knew for sure. President Dwight Eisenhower had proclaimed that a new flag with 49 stars would be raised for the first time anywhere at one minute past midnight, July 4, at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland — and that’s where I lived. My family piled into the station wag-
on the evening of July 3 to drive to Baltimore harbor. Thousands converged on the old fort to honor a brand new state. That hadn’t happened in 47 years, and the spectators were feeling very historic. Picnickers staked their territories and settled in to enjoy the warm, humid evening, basking in Baltimore’s skyline. The crowd radiated from a towering flag pole, a newly constructed replica of the 1814 staff that bore the “broad stripes and bright stars” that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Twilight turned to dusk. Fried chicken, potato salad, Kool-Aid and brownies disappeared. Sweaters and jackets came out, and an expectant hush fell as darkness brought the United States Marine Band to the platform to start the countdown to midnight. Local and national guests made their remarks. We kids squirmed through the formalities, eager for the real show to begin. A resounding boom signaled the start. Out in Baltimore harbor, the United States Navy shot brilliant rockets to attack the fort. On land, the Army Field Artillery answered with crackling cannons. Alaska’s flag was welcomed with a reenactment of the 1814 British bom-
ing little room to cut rates. The end of an expansion, like the death of a star, is visible only after it happens. It is possible the economy will continue to grow for years, giving policymakers a chance to do better; long-lived
expansions have become increas- out to be right. ingly common across the develSo enjoy this lackluster oped world. It’s also possible expansion while it lasts. What that the analysts predicting a comes next may well be worse. recession next year — there are always analysts predicting a — The New York Times, recession next year — will turn July 2
V oices of the P eninsula M arcia K uszmaul
bardment of Fort McHenry. Rockets glared red, bombs burst in air, but the gallant defenders held firm. When the smoke cleared, my wide eyes saw, as Key’s must have, the 1814 flag flying high above the ramparts. With wild cheers and a flourish from the Marine Band, we turned back to the floodlit flag pole. One by one, people rose to their feet, straining to see the 49star flag begin its slow, deliberate ascent. My father swung me to his shoulders, and in a long, precious moment, the Honorable Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, hoisted the flag, hand over hand. The Marine Band played “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as we stood hands over hearts, breathless with pride and wonder. The sky exploded with fireworks, sealing Alaska’s place in the nation. We settled back to our blankets. The streaming colors and roaring booms kept my child’s overtired eyes and ears wide open, savoring the spectacle. Little did I know that the seed of my future was planted that night. Marcia Kuszmaul first lived in Homer in the mid-1980s and returned 30 years later when she and her husband bought a bed and breakfast business. She’s here to stay.
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Trump: ‘stay true to our cause’ By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, CALVIN WOODWARD and LYNN BERRY Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated “the greatest political journey in human history” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy but cheering crowd of spectators, many of them invited, on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. Supporters welcomed his tribute to the U.S. military while protesters assailed him for putting himself center stage on a holiday devoted to unity. As rain fell on him, Trump called on Americans to “stay true to our cause” during a program that adhered to patriotic themes and hailed an eclectic mix of history’s heroes, from the armed forces, space, civil rights and other endeavors of American life. He largely stuck to his script, avoiding diversions into his agenda or re-election campaign. But in one exception, he vowed, “Very soon, we will plant the American flag on Mars,” actually a distant goal not likely to be achieved until late in the 2020s if even then. A late afternoon downpour drenched the capital’s Independence Day crowds and Trump’s speech unfolded in occasional rain. The warplanes and presidential aircraft he had summoned conducted their flyovers as planned, capped by the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team. By adding his own, one-hour “Salute to America” production to capital festivities that typically draw hundreds of thousands anyway, Trump became the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on the Fourth of July. Protesters objecting to what they saw as his co-opting of the holiday inflated a roly-poly balloon depicting Trump as an angry, diaper-clad baby.
A National Guard vehicle sits parked at a security perimeter near the National Mall in Washington before Independence Day celebrations, Thursday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump set aside a historic piece of real estate — a stretch of the Mall from the Lincoln Monument to the midpoint of the reflecting pool — for a mix of invited military members, Republican and Trump campaign donors and other bigwigs. It’s where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech, Barack Obama and Trump held inaugural concerts and protesters swarmed into the water when supporters of Richard Nixon put on a July 4, 1970, celebration, with the president sending taped remarks from California. Aides to the crowd-obsessed Trump fretted about the prospect of empty seats at his event, said a person familiar with the planning who was not authorized to be identified. Aides scrambled in recent days to distribute tickets and mobilize the Trump and GOP social media accounts to encourage participation for an event hastily arranged and surrounded with confusion. Back at the White House, Trump tweeted an aerial photo showing an audience that filled
both sides of the memorial’s reflecting pool and stretched to the Washington Monument. “A great crowd of tremendous Patriots this evening, all the way back to the Washington Monument!” he said. Many who filed into the sprawling VIP section said they got their free tickets from members of Congress or from friends or neighbors who couldn’t use theirs. Outside that zone, a diverse mix of visitors, locals, veterans, tour groups, immigrant families and more milled about, some drawn by Trump, some by curiosity, some by the holiday’s regular activities along the Mall. Protesters earlier made their voices heard in sweltering heat by the Washington Monument, along the traditional parade route and elsewhere, while the VIP section at the reflecting pool served as something of a buffer for Trump’s event. In the shadow of the Washington Monument hours before Trump’s speech, the antiwar organization Codepink erected a 20-foot tall “Trump
baby” balloon to protest what activists saw as his intrusion in Independence Day and a focus on military might that they associate with martial regimes. “We think that he is making this about himself and it’s really a campaign rally,” said Medea Benjamin, the organization’s co-director. “We think that he’s a big baby. … He’s erratic, he’s prone to tantrums, he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions. And so this is a great symbol of how we feel about our president.” The balloon remained tied down at the Mall because park officials restricted the group’s permission to move it or fill it with helium, Benjamin said. Protesters also handed out small Trump-baby balloons on sticks. Molly King of La Porte, Indiana, a 13-yearold Trump supporter in sunglasses and a “Make America Great Again” hat, happily came away with one. “They’re making a big stink about it but it’s actually pretty cute,” she said. “I mean, why not love your president as you’d love a baby?”
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Michigan Rep. Justin Amash quitting Republican Party GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, the only Republican in Congress to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, said Thursday he is leaving the GOP because he has become disenchanted with partisan politics and “frightened by what I see from it.” In an opinion article published in the Washington Post , on July 4, Amash said partisan politics is damaging American democracy. “I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party,” Amash said. “I’m asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us.” Amash had been the only Republican in Congress to say Trump engaged in impeachable conduct, drawing the ire of many fellow Republicans and Trump. In a series of tweets on May 18 , Amash said that he had read special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash said at the time. He was roundly criticized by fellow Republicans and withdrew from the Freedom Caucus of conservatives in Congress after the group disavowed his views. Amash had filed in February for re-election in 2020 as a Republican in a race that has since drawn three primary challengers, his first intraparty challenge since 2014. Amash’s chief of staff, Poppy Nelson, said Thursday that Amash plans to run as an independent. Amash told WOOD-TV at a Grand Rapids parade on Thursday after announcing
that he was leaving the party that he intended to “set an example.” “People need to stand up for what’s right, stand up for what they believe in and be independent of these party loyalties that really divide us,” he said. At a town hall in Michigan after he announced his support for impeachment proceedings, Amash cited a section of the Mueller report that suggested Trump had told former White House counsel Don McGahn to create a “false record” denying he had asked for Mueller’s removal as special counsel. “Things like that to me reflect incredible dishonesty and really harm the office of the presidency. I don’t think that you can just let that stuff go,” Amash told his constituents. “I think you have to have proceedings to deter this kind of conduct even if ultimately the person is not convicted.” Under the Constitution, the House has the power to begin impeachment proceedings and the Senate would decide whether to convict. Trump responded immediately to Amash’s announcement that he is quitting the GOP, tweeting Thursday: “Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most disloyal men in Congress is ‘quitting” the Party.” Trump called Amash a “total loser.” Amash said he in the oped he is trying to escape a “hyperpartisan environment.” “The parties value winning for its own sake, and at whatever cost,” Amash wrote. “Instead of acting as an independent branch of government and serving as a check on the executive branch, congressional leaders of both parties expect the House and Senate to act in obedience or opposition to the president and their colleagues on a partisan basis.”
Strongest earthquake in 20 years rattles Southern California By JOHN ANTCZAK and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The strongest earthquake in 20 years shook a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing injuries and damage in a town near the epicenter, followed by a swarm of ongoing aftershocks. The 6.4 magnitude quake struck at 10:33 a.m. in the Mojave Desert, about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles, near the town of Ridgecrest, California. Multiple injuries and two house fires were reported in the town of 28,000. Emergency crews were also dealing with small vegetation fires, gas leaks and reports of cracked roads, Kern County Fire Chief David Witt said. He said 15 patients were evacuated from the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital as a precaution and out of concern for aftershocks. Kern County District Supervisor Mick Gleason told CNN there were some structural issues with the hospital and some patients had to be
Pipes are damaged from an earthquake, Thursday, in Trona, Calif. A strong earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing some damage in a town near the epicenter, followed by a swarm of aftershocks. (AP Photo/Matt Hartman)
moved from one ward to another and that others were taken to a neighboring building. Gleason did not say what the structural issues were. Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breeden said that utility workers were assessing broken
gas lines and turning off gas where necessary. The local senior center was holding a July 4th event when the quake hit and everyone made it out shaken up but without injuries, she said. “Oh, my goodness, there’s
another one (quake) right now,” Breeden said on live television as an aftershock struck. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Kern County. The declaration means that the state will
help the county and municipalities in it with emergency aid and recovery efforts. Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breeden praised Newsom for declaring the emergency. She also noted at a news conference that other nearby governments have offered to help the recovery effort. President Donald Trump said he was fully briefed on the earthquake and that it “all seems to be very much under control!” Police and fire officials said at a news conference Thursday afternoon that they have enough resources so far to meet needs in the wake of the earthquake. Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin said at a news conference that “we have plenty of resources.” California Highway Patrol Lt. John Williams says officials have found cracks on several roads in the county, but overpasses and underpasses are in good shape. A series of aftershocks included a 4.5 magnitude temblor, according to the United States Geological Survey. “It almost gave me a heart attack,” said Cora Burke, a waitress at Midway Cafe in
Ridgecrest, of the big jolt. “It’s just a rolling feeling inside the building, inside the cafe and all of a sudden everything started falling off the shelf, glasses, the refrigerator and everything in the small refrigerator fell over.” Video posted online of a liquor store in Ridgecrest showed the aisles filled with broken wine and liquor bottles, knocked down boxes and other groceries strewn on the floor. Flames were seen shooting out of one home in the community. Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the California Institute of Technology’s seismology lab, said the earthquake was the strongest since a 7.1 quake struck in the area on October 16, 1999. “This has been an extremely quiet abnormal time,” Jones said. “This type of earthquake is much more normal … The long term average is probably once every five or 10 years somewhere in Southern California.” Jones said that the 6.4 quake centered near the town of Ridgecrest was preceded by a magnitude 4.2 temblor about a half hour earlier.
San Francisco to paint over historic George Washington mural By SAMANTHA MALDONADO Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people. The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco
area during the Depression. The San Francisco School Board’s decision to paint over the 83-year-old mural is prompting some to worry that other artwork from the so-called New Deal era could face a similar fate because of changing sensitivities. In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor, statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence, the 13-panel, 1,600-sqaure foot mural at George Washington High School contains images of white pioneers standing over
the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The board’s decision last week comes at a time when the legacies of Washington and other historical figures who owned slaves are being re-examined. Some cities have changed the names of streets and buildings named after slave owners. Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the history project, Living New
Deal, said the Washington mural is meant to show the “uncomfortable facts” about America’s first president. For that, it was among many New Deal works of art considered radical when created. “We on the left ought to welcome the honest portrayal,” Walker said, adding that destroying a piece of art “is the worst way we can deal with historic malfeasance, historic evils.” Mark Sanchez, vice president of the school board and a third-grade teacher, said students who must walk past
the mural during the school day don’t have a choice about seeing the harmful images. “Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start,” he said. Lope Yap, Jr., vice president of the Washington High School Alumni Association and a 1970 graduates, disagreed, saying when he was a student and saw the mural he was “awed by the subtle ways Arnautoff was able to critique American history.” He said the depictions are “treasures, priceless art” and painting it
over is tantamount to pretending the history depicted never happened. “I’m not into censorship,” Yap said. “I would want to deal with history so we can prevent this from ever happening again.” The mural is a fresco, which means it’s painted on the wall and can’t easily be removed. Painting it over won’t happen immediately. Should a lawsuit or other delay arise, it will be covered up until the issues are resolved. The board plans to digitally archive the mural.
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World
Gibraltar detains Syria-bound supertanker with Iranian oil By ARITZ PARRA and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
MADRID — Authorities in Gibraltar said they intercepted an Iranian supertanker Thursday that was believed to be breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Tehran’s crude oil to war-ravaged Syria. A senior Spanish official said the operation was requested by the United States. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency called the incident “an illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.” Gibraltar port and law enforcement agencies, assisted by Britain’s Royal Marines, boarded the Grace 1 early Thursday, authorities on the British overseas territory at the tip of Spain said in a statement. It added that the vessel was believed to be headed to the Baniyas Refinery in Syria, a government-owned facility under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad and subject to the EU’s Syrian Sanctions Regime. The EU and others have imposed sanctions on Assad’s government over its continued crackdown against civilians. They currently target 270 people and 70 entities. Spain’s caretaker foreign minister, Josep Borrell, said the tanker was stopped by British authorities after a re-
A Royal Marines vessel sails toward the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday. Spain’s acting foreign minister says a tanker stopped off Gibraltar and suspected of taking oil to Syria was intercepted by British authorities after a request from the United States. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)
quest from the United States. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet that British Ambassador Rob Macaire was summoned over the “illegal interception” of the ship. Mousavi later called the ship’s seizure “odd and destructive.” “It can cause an increase in tensions in the region,” he said in a live telephone interview on state television Thursday night. U.S. national security adviser John Bolton tweeted that the ship’s seizure was “excellent news.” “America & our allies will continue to prevent regimes
in Tehran & Damascus from profiting off this illicit trade,” Bolton added. In Madrid, Borrell told reporters that Spain was assessing the implications of the operation because the detention took place in waters it considers its own. Britain insists Gibraltar is part of the United Kingdom but Spain argues that it is not, and the tanker operation risks offending the Spanish. “We’re looking into how this (operation) affects our sovereignty,” said Borrell, who was nominated earlier this week to become the EU’s foreign policy chief.
The Gibraltar authorities didn’t confirm the origin of the ship’s cargo but Lloyd’s List, a publication specializing in maritime affairs, reported this week that the Panama-flagged large carrier was laden with Iranian oil. According to a U.N. list, the ship is owned by the Singapore-based Grace Tankers Ltd. The vessel likely carried just over 2 million barrels of Iranian crude oil, the data firm Refinitv said. Tracking data showed that the tanker made a slow trip around the southern tip of Africa before reaching the Mediterranean, it said.
Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees By Seth Borenstein Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more. And there’s enough room, Swiss scientists say. Even with existing cities and farmland, there’s enough space for new trees to cover 3.5 million square miles, they reported in Thursday’s journal Science. That area is roughly the size of the United States. The study calculated that over the decades, those new trees could suck up nearly 830 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s about as much carbon pollution as humans have spewed in the past 25 years. Much of that benefit will come quickly because trees remove more carbon from the air when they are younger, the study authors said. The potential for removing the most carbon is in the tropics. “This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution” and the most effective, said study co-author Thomas Crowther, a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Six nations with the most room for new trees are Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and China. Before his research, Crowther figured that there were other more effective
ways to fight climate change besides cutting emissions, such as people switching from meat-eating to vegetarianism. But, he said, tree planting is far more effective because trees take so much carbon dioxide out of the air. Thomas Lovejoy, a George Mason University conservation biologist who wasn’t part of the study, called it “a good news story” because planting trees would also help stem the loss of biodiversity. Planting trees is not a substitute for weaning the world off burning oil, coal and gas, the chief cause of global warming, Crowther emphasized. “None of this works without emissions cuts,” he said. Nor is it easy or realistic to think the world will suddenly go on a tree-planting binge, although many groups have started , Crowther said. “It’s certainly a monumental challenge, which is exactly the scale of the problem of climate change,” he said. As Earth warms, and especially as the tropics dry, tree cover is being lost, he noted. The researchers used Google Earth to see what areas could support more trees, while leaving room for people and crops. Lead author Jean-Francois Bastin estimated there’s space for at least 1 trillion more trees, but it could be 1.5 trillion. That’s on top of the 3 trillion trees that now are on Earth, according to earlier Crowther research.
Deadly land, deadly sea: Libya migrants face brutal choice By MAGGIE MICHAEL and LORI HINNANT Associated Press
CAIRO — A boat from Libya carrying 86 migrants sank in the Mediterranean and left only three survivors, authorities said Thursday, after an airstrike on a detention center near the Libyan capital killed dozens of others. The twin tragedies illustrate the almost unthinkable choice facing those who have reached the North Africa coast while seeking a better life in Europe: Risk a hazardous sea voyage in a flimsy, rubber-sided boat, or face being crammed into a detention center, where some of the migrants say they have been forced to assemble weapons for someone else’s war. “I fled from the war, to come to this hell of Libya,” said one teenager from subSaharan Africa who suffered minor injuries in Tuesday night’s airstrike near Tripoli. “My days are dark here.” The International Organization for Migration said the boat sank late Wednesday off the Tunisian city of Zarzis and 82 of the migrants who had been on board were missing. Fishermen pulled four men from the water, and one died overnight, said Lorena Lando, the agency’s head in Tunisia, said. The boat, which had sailed
An unidentified Malian survivor, right, of a shipwreck sits in the Red Crescent center of Zarzis, southern Tunisia, Thursday. (AP Photo/Sami Jelassi)
from the Libyan port of Zuwara, was carrying twice as many people as should have been aboard, said Chamseddine Merzoug, a Tunisian Red Crescent volunteer in an interview via Skype. The United Nations and aid groups blame the deaths in part on the European Union’s policy of partnering with militias in war-torn Libya to prevent migrants from trying to cross the sea, saying the policy leaves migrants at the mercy of brutal traffickers or
confined in detention facilities near front lines, often without adequate food and water. Migrants who survived the airstrike said they were conscripted by a militia to work in a weapons workshop at the Tajoura detention center, which had been the focus of a U.N. warning in May after an earlier airstrike hit 100 meters (yards) away. The wounded teenager said he fled war in his homeland at the age of 14, seeking to join fellow nationals who made
it to Europe in rickety boats. But his journey was riddled with torture and abuse. By the time he reached the coast, Europe was no longer so welcoming and he was caught by the EU-funded Libyan coast guard and spent 20 months in the detention center. For the last eight months, he labored without pay in the workshop adjacent to a hangar housing dozens of migrants, cleaning the militia’s weapons, from rifles to anti-aircraft guns, said the youth, who
refused to give his name or nationality for fear of reprisal from the militias. When the U.N. or other aid agencies visit, migrants told The Associated Press, the militia hid the weapons. The decision to store weapons at the facility in Tajoura, east of Tripoli, may have made it a target for the self-styled Libyan National Army, which is at war with an array of militias allied with a weak, U.N.-recognized government in the capital. The Tripoli government has blamed the LNA and its foreign backers for the airstrike, which killed at least 44 and wounded more than 130. The LNA, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, says it targeted a nearby militia position and denies striking the hangar where the migrants were being held. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the attack might amount to a war crime. Hifter, whose forces control much of eastern and southern Libya, has received support from Egypt, France, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Many of those who died in the attack were crushed under debris as they slept. Pictures shared by the migrants show the hangar reduced to rubble littered
with body parts. More than 48 hours afterward, relief workers were still removing bodies while the wounded lay on bloody mattresses in a courtyard, receiving medical aid. The teen was sleeping when the munitions fell, obliterating the workshop and knocking him unconscious. “When I woke up, I found myself inside the hospital,” he said. But the injuries to his back and leg were relatively minor and on Thursday he was back at Tajoura, along with hundreds of others who survived the airstrike. There are no plans as yet to evacuate them. In the aftermath of the airstrike, several of the detainees told visiting aid workers that guards fired on them as they tried to escape. A group of 29 migrants from Eritrea and Somalia were relocated Thursday by the U.N. refugee agency from a detention center in the town of Gharyan, about 100 kilomters (62 miles) south of Tripoli, where they had been held for months, the group said. Gharyan was the scene of fighting last week and conditions at the detention center were dire, the UNHCR said, adding that the migrants were released to the community.
UN: 5,287 killings in Venezuela security operations in 2018 By JAMEY KEATEN and SCOTT SMITH Associated Press
GENEVA — Venezuela’s government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year linked to cases of “resistance to authority,” the U.N. human rights chief reported Thursday, denouncing a “shockingly high” number of extrajudicial killings. Michelle Bachelet’s report focusing on the last 18 months follows her trip to the troubled South American country last month and draws upon over 550 interviews conducted by her office with rights defenders, victims, witnesses of rights violations and other sources. She and her teams held
nearly 160 meetings with state and other stakeholders. Bachelet, a former Socialist president of Chile, herself met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last month. Authorities in Maduro’s government tallied 5,287 killings during security operations that were classified as cases of “resistance to authority,” plus another 1,569 this year through May 19, the report said. It also cited separate figures by the Venezuelan Violence Observatory of at least 7,523 such killings of that type last year, plus at least 2,124 from January to May this year. “The incidence of alleged extrajudicial killings by security forces, particularly
the special forces (FAES), in the context of security operations has been shockingly high,” Bachelet’s office said. Interviewees consistently referred to FAES as a “death squad” or “extermination group.” NGOs say the FAES is responsible for hundreds of killings. Among more than 20 recommendations on issues like ensuring media freedom and providing proper health care, she called for disarming and disbanding progovernment armed groups known as “collectivos.” The report from an ostensibly impartial observer like the United Nations comes as Venezuela’s internal turmoil of recent years has divided the international
community. Over 50 countries, including the United States, many South American neighbors of Venezuela and European nations, have recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, even though Maduro remains in power. Maduro’s government blasted an “openly biased” account that presented a “distorted version” of actual conditions. “There are countless inaccuracies, errors, facts taken out of context and false assertions,” it said. Venezuelan officials insisted the report overlooked visits by U.N. observers in March to jails, hospitals, public housing programs and distribution centers for
medicine and food, and said it “omits in its entirety the achievements and advances achieved” by the country in the field of human rights. Maduro’s government has been struggling to regain control of the international narrative about the oil-rich country, notably through its recent overtures to international groups like the Red Cross and U.N. agencies — many of which are trying to help beleaguered civilians. The U.N. says that more than 4 million people have left the country in recent years, putting strains in particular on neighbors Brazil and Colombia, as well as Peru. Many findings of the report highlighted well-worn themes during Venezuela’s
continued economic and political crisis: the impact of international sanctions against Maduro’s government, a wobbly health care system, rising disease, food shortages and the strains caused by runaway inflation. It cited repression of political opponents, arbitrary detentions and cases of torture and cruel treatment including electric shocks, suffocation with plastic bags, water boarding, and sexual violence. “We have the government’s commitment to work with us to resolve some of the thorniest issues — including the use of torture and access to justice — and to allow us full access to detention facilities,” Bachelet said in a statement.
Religion
Peninsula Clarion | Friday, July 5, 2019 | A7
The freedom of joy V oices of F aith F rank A lioto
I am so blessed to have the privilege to be with people in some extremely tough circumstances and times in their lives. On one occasion as serving as a hospital chaplain, I visited a patient who was going through a tough time. After exchanging pleas-
antries, I asked him a general question about how he was doing. He looked at me and with a smile and gleam in his eye, he declared, “I am joyful!” He was facing many medical challenges and I reasoned in my mind this patient had plenty of opportunity not to be joyful. He had every human right to be discouraged and feeling down. What was different with this patient? He shared with me
he had a relationship with God and he was banking on a promise found in the Bible in Nehemiah 8:10: “…for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” This man’s joy was not based on his external circumstances, but was rooted in the strength and gladness that God had already given him. I am sure he had experienced many other “ups and downs” in life, but he had this deep gladness, security, and
history of walking closely in a relationship with Jesus that went beyond what currently he was experiencing. This scripture was written in a time where the people of God had turned to other things, which temporarily made them satisfied but left them empty. It was only after receiving God’s forgiveness and realizing they could not do it on their own that they
then could rest in the joy of the Lord. God allowed them to receive that joy and further came near when Jesus Christ came to earth. When Jesus died and rose again, he restored us to a peace with God that cannot be undone. Not only does this peace bring us into relationship with God, but it allows us to experience a strengthening joy to face the hard challenges in
life. Are you in need of peace and joy? Choose, like this amazing patient, to experience the freedom Jesus gives, and you too can rest in the joy of the Lord as it will be your strength in whatever you will face! Pastor Frank Alioto serves as a chaplain with Central Peninsula Hospital and Central Emergency Services.
Evangelical group to spend $50M on get-out-the-vote efforts By ELANA SCHOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Veteran conservative activist Ralph Reed said Wednesday that the faith-based group he leads plans to spend at least
$50 million on get-out-thevote efforts in 2020. It's part of a large-scale marshaling of evangelical resources that's poised to benefit President Donald Trump's reelection campaign.
Church Briefs 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.
Methodist Churches Sing Together
North Star United Methodist Church and Kenai United Methodist Church will be holding a Worship in Song service at the North Star location on Sunday, July 7 at 9:30 a.m. Kari Mohn and Dorothy Wagoner will be leading the service of patriotic hymns and hymns of new beginnings. North Star United Methodist Church is located at Milepost 25.5 on the Kenai Spur. All are welcome to come and sing.
KP Young Adult Ministry
KP Young Adult Ministry is available at Ammo Can Coffee Thursday nights at 7 p.m. KP Young Adult Ministry is geared toward fostering the healthy Christian Community for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. For more information contact us through our Facebook Page KP Young Adult Ministry.
After Trump spoke to an annual conference hosted by Reed's group, the Faith & Freedom Coalition, the longtime GOP strategist previewed a voter outreach plan for 2020 that he said would include significant
investment in Latino voters of faith. Of the $50 million the group has set aside to spend on communicating with voters, Reed said $4 million would go toward contacting socially conservative
and religious Latino voters in swing states that include Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona. "We will do our job. We will turn out our vote," Reed told reporters. The Faith & Freedom
Coalition's work on turning out voters, particularly Latinos, who support socially conservative issues such as abortion restrictions, will help bolster the Republican Party's efforts to deliver Trump a second term.
Clothes Quarters open weekly
United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-283-4555.
The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from 12:30-3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church at 907-283-7868.
Kasilof Community Church Food Pantry Kasilof Community Church Food Pantry starts Wednesday, June 5 and every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The pantry is located in the church office building next to the Kasilof Mercantile, about mile 109 on the Sterling Highway. All are welcome. Non perishable food items may be dropped at this same location Monday thru Thursday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Contact the church office for more information at 262-7512.
Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street, and all are welcome. Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church on Tuesday from 10a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. For more information call 262-4657.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal and fellowship and blood pressure checks to anyone interested. The meal is the second, third and fourth Sunday of each month, from 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall, located on campus at 222 West Redoubt Avenue, Soldotna. The Abundant Life Assembly of God church, Sterling, will be joining us in this ministry and providing a hot meal on the second Sunday of the month at 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall. The Soldotna Church of the Nazarene will offer the meal on the third Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help will offer on the fourth Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help would like to invite other churches who would like to join this ministry to perhaps pick up one of the other Sunday evenings in the month. Call 262-5542. Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion. com. Submissions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For moreinformation, call 907-283-7551.
Religious Services Assembly of God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
Soldotna Church Of Christ
Mile 1/4 Funny River Road, Soldotna
209 Princess St., Kenai 283-7752 Pastor Stephen Brown Sunday..9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.................6:30 p.m. www.kenainewlife.org
Peninsula Christian Center
161 Farnsworth Blvd (Behind the Salvation Army) Soldotna, AK 99669 Pastor Jon Watson 262-7416 Sunday ....................... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday..................6:30 p.m. www.penccalaska.org Nursery is provided
The Charis Fellowship Sterling Grace Community Church
Dr. Roger E. Holl, Pastor 907-862-0330 Meeting at the Sterling Senior Center, 34453 Sterling Highway Sunday Morning ........10:30 a.m.
262-2202 / 262-4316 Minister - Nathan Morrison Sunday Worship ........10:00 a.m. Bible Study..................11:15 a.m. Evening Worship ........ 6:00 p.m. Wed. Bible .................... 7:00 p.m.
Kenai Fellowship Mile 8.5 Kenai Spur Hwy.
Church 283-7682
Classes All Ages ........10:00 a.m. Worship Service.........11:15 a.m. Wed. Service ................ 7:00 p.m. www.kenaifellowship.org
Episcopal
50750 Kenai Spur Hwy (mile 24.5) 776-7660 Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Fellowship Meal....... 12:30 p.m. Afternoon Worship ... 1:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m
Nazarene
Connecting Community to Christ (907) 262-4660 229 E. Beluga Ave. soldotnanazarene.com Pastor: Dave Dial Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Dinner & Discipleship 6:00 p.m.
Funny River Community Lutheran Church
North Star United Methodist Church
Andy Carlson, Pastor Missouri Synod 35575 Rabbit Run Road off Funny River Rd. Phone 262-7434 Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. www.funnyriverlutheran.org
St. Francis By The Sea
110 S. Spruce St. at Spur Hwy. - Kenai • 283-6040 Sunday Services Worship Service.........11:00 a.m. Eucharistic Services on the 1st & 4th Sundays
283-6040
Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Mile ¼ Kenai Spur Box 568, Soldotna, AK 99669 262-4757 Pastor Meredith Harber Worship ............11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month
Sterling Lutheran Church LCMS 35100 McCall Rd. Behind Sterling Elementary School Worship: Sunday .... 11:00 a.m. Bill Hilgendorf, Pastor 907-740-3060
Non Denominational
Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Hwy, Nikiski “Whoever is thirsty, let him come”
776-8732 NSUMC@alaska.net Sunday Worship ..........9:30 a.m.
300 W. Marydale • Soldotna 262-4865 John Rysdyk - Pastor/Teacher Sunday: Morning Worship ................9:30 a.m. Sunday School....................11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship ..6:00 p.m.
Star Of The North Lutheran Church L.C.M.S.
You Are Invited! Wheelchair Accessible
Lutheran
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Methodist
Dustin Atkinson, Pastor Sponsor of the Lutheran Hour 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai 283-4153 SUMMER SCHEDULE Worship Service.........10:00 a.m.
Nikiski Church Of Christ
Catholic 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna Oblates of Mary Immaculate 262-4749 Daily Mass Tues.-Fri. .................... 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil ........... 5:00 p.m. Reconciliation Saturday................4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Sunday Mass ............ 10:00 a.m.
Mile 91.7 Sterling Hwy. 262-5577 Minister Tony Cloud Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Evening Worship ....... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m
Lutheran
Southern Baptist Non Denominational Kalifonsky Christian Center
Mile 17 K-Beach Rd. 283-9452 Pastor Steve Toliver Pastor Charles Pribbenow Sunday Worship .......10:30 a.m. Youth Group Wed. ..... 7:00 p.m. Passion for Jesus Compassion for Others
Kenai Bible Church
604 Main St. 283-7821 Pastor Vance Wonser Sunday School..............9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service .... 6:30 p.m.
North Kenai Chapel Pastor Wayne Coggins 776-8797 Mile 29 Kenai Spur Hwy
Sunday Worship...................10:30 am Wed. Share-a-Dish/Video.....6:30 pm
College Heights Baptist Church
44440 K-Beach Road Pastor: Scott Coffman Associate Pastor: Jonah Huckaby 262-3220 www.collegeheightsbc.com
Sunday School .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Morn. Worship .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening - Home Groups. Nursery provided
First Baptist Church of Kenai
12815 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai 283-7672 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m. Morning Worship ......10:45 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer ..... 6:30 p.m.
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n my days off I drive. I drive to mountains and rivers and through flats — pacing the highway with wheels looking for a groove they can fall into. Sometimes I follow roads until I meet their ends. I never have an exact destination, but I know I am searching. I didn’t know exactly for what, until recently. Several weeks ago, to kill time on a warm Sunday evening with too much light, I drove to the end of Funny River Road — or as far as I could go before I hit an unwelcoming stretch of dirt, lined with chest-level grass. Despite my desire to explore, and urge to see new things, I was filled with the uneasy feeling the farther I crept down the road. It was a feeling that I realized has followed me since I got here a year and a half ago: I knew I didn’t belong there. Despite the vastness of the landscape, this place has felt cloistered and inaccessible in a strange way. And no matter where I drive, or however often, I feel a distinct sense that Alaska is trying to throw me back. The mountains and rivers and flats are owned by bears and fish, and by those who came out and staked claims long before my arrival. Grasping for a piece of this place to settle onto, I have felt like I am in a maze with no end — or that loops back to the beginning, center unfound. During these long summer days, the sunshine has made the pull to drive even stronger, and the sense of being unmoored even more intense. Every place I’ve lived, I’ve eventually found a place that belonged to me. In the disorienting, mad New York landscape, where lights and people scrolled on an endless track, I found a patch of grass in Union Square. In the Pacific, my place was a corner of beach on the eastern side of the island, where the reef dropped off precipitously, and the waves crashed through underwater canyons with unseen bottoms. I could sit near rocks in the low tide, dress floating around me, listening to the waves and seeing no one else for hours. I have already written about the rickety swing under my trees in Nebraska — and there I belong too. For last weekend’s adventure, I took advice of a Nikiski dweller, who told me to drive past the “fourth or fifth” dumpsite off the northern end of Kenai Spur, and try out Swanson Lake. It was humid and green and as I drove north I could smell the sun-cooked cow parsnip lining the road. I stopped at the boat launch — deserted — and waited, waded, sat on the heated concrete. A few curious people came and went, deterred by buzzing flies. I stayed long enough to get a photo of my shoes, perched at the edge of the glassy green lake, and to hear strange birds calling in the trees. I
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Pyper Dixon and Erik Johnson, both of Seward, sprint for the finish of the Mount Marathon Race on Thursday in Seward. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Peninsula Power
Lafleur’s title highlights success for area runners By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
In 2015, as the shock of what world-class mountain runners Emelie Forsberg and Kilian Jornet had done to the Mount Marathon Race records hung in the air like the gently falling mist, questions began to emerge. Was this the end of Mount Marathon as we know it? Would it soon be a championship thick with the world’s best mountain athletes, altering the unique and rich local flavor that had been building since the first race up and down the 3,022foot mountain that overlooks Seward on July 4, 1915? Professional runner Rickey Gates was responsible for bringing the record smashers to Alaska. What did he have to say for himself? “I think it’s super important for the race to maintain his integrity,” Gates told KTVA after his secondplace finish. “I think it’s a small town race first and an international competition second.” Never was Gates more right than Thursday in a hot Seward hazy from Swan Lake Fire smoke. The mountain running culture
of Seward, helped along by a few athletes raised on the central Kenai Peninsula, authored a rousing small town defense of the mountain. The women’s race saw Hannah Lafleur, 30, of Seward become the first local senior race champion since Cedar Bourgeois finished a run of seven straight in 2010. And Lafleur had company, with six women’s runners with peninsula ties finishing in the top seven and eight finishing in the top 25. “I don’t think it’s hit me yet,” Lafleur said at the finish line sitting on a bucket and sipping an energy drink with a shaking hand. “I just feel it’s such a privilege to run with people like the Barnwells (Isabel, Allison and Mackenzie), Christy Marvin and Denali (Foldager-Strabel). “They’re people that I think of as such legends that I look up to so much. Even just running with them is pretty cool.” Peninsula women have done well before, taking eight of the top 16 last year, 11 of the top 23 in 2017 and seven of the top 20 in 2016. The men have not fared as well, putting at most two in
the top 20 in the past three years, but Thursday they joined the party with three in the top five behind champion and pro runner Max King, 39, of Bend, Oregon. The most stunning improvement came from Seward’s Pyper Dixon, 28, who finished fourth in 47 minutes, 16 seconds, after a previous best of 18th in 50:22 in 2013. “It’s so sick being a part of the Seward running community,” Dixon said. “It’s probably the most meaningful part of my life. It’s so important to me.” Part of that Seward running community is Fred Moore, 79, who finished the 92nd running of the race in 1:26:47 for his 50th straight finish. Many competitors paid homage by putting pink in their outfits — Moore’s trademark — but the everresourceful runner threw a clever curveball by donning brilliant yellow shorts himself. “The guy is super inspirational to me,” Dixon said. “I’ve known him my whole life. I definitely want to keep running mountains like he does when I get older.” The big news heading See RUN, page A10
Seward’s Hannah Lafleur runs to victory Thursday in the women’s Mount Marathon Race. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
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Wood frogs have antifreeze in their blood that allows survival in below-freezing temperatures in winter. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
was surprised to learn that despite the diverse wildlife in Alaska, the state has not a single reptile. Alaska’s cold conditions make life in the winter hard to get through. It takes innovative behavior and physiology to manage such an extreme climate. However, there is one animal, the closest thing we have to a reptile, which has adapted in unique ways: the wood frog. This small frog is the Kenai Peninsula’s only amphibian! Amphibians need a moist environment to survive, dependent on their
R efuge N otebook F rannie N elson very thin skin to absorb water and oxygen. Once winter strikes, water in the soil, lakes and vegetation freezes. How then, do wood frogs survive through this incessantly dry and frozen season? Similar to some other species in winter, wood frogs become dormant. The
difference is their heart and breathing quite literally stop. As temperatures decline, wood frogs find a comfortable spot in the duff to bury themselves for the winter. Snow offers some insulation but temperatures often remain subfreezing. If frogs froze completely, the water inside them would crystalize and draw out the water from inside their cells, causing complete dehydration and death. To avoid this, wood frogs produce glucose that acts as a form of antifreeze. See FROG, page A9
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Twins take 3rd in Bill Miller tourney Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The Post 20 Twins defeated Eagle River 14-2 Thursday at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai to take third place in the Bill Miller Big Fish Wood Bat Tournament. The Twins used four pitchers
to limit Eagle River to just two hits. Jeremy Kupferschmid gave up a run in an inning, Seth Adkins pitched a scoreless inning, Chris Jaime pitched two scoreless innings and Jacob Boze gave up a run in an inning. On offense, the Twins belted out 15 hits.
Tanner Ussing was 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI, Jacob Boze was 2 for 4 with two runs and two RBIs, Davey Belger was 2 for 4 with two runs, and Logan Smith had a hit and two RBIs. Kupferschmid, Andrew Carver, David Michael, Mose Hayes and Adkins added hits. Michael had four RBIs, while Adkins had two
RBIs. In championship, Auburn, Rhode Island, defeated Napoleon, Ohio, in a bizarre game. The game was scheduled for seven innings, but went extra time and Ohio grabbed a 9-6 lead after the top of the 10th. With two outs in the bottom of the 10th, Rhode Island hit a
three-run homer to tie it. As the Rhode Island batter was scoring, a brawl ensued. Tournament director Lance Coz ruled the game should be over and Rhode Island would win, because the tiebreaker goes to the team that last scored. Coz then made sure the teams separated and got out of town.
Miners get past Oilers in 11th inning Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The Mat-Su Miners topped the Peninsula Oilers 4-3 in 11 innings Thursday in Alaska Baseball League play at Coral
Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai. In the winning rally in the 11th, Collin Montez doubled for the Miners with one away. Robbie Brue then singled to put Montez on third. Ricky
Martinez then singled to give the Miners the lead. Bryan Woo pitched the first four innings for the Oilers, giving up two runs — one earned — on three hits. Kyle Muller pitched the next four, giving up a
run on three hits. Heath Olive went 1 1-3, giving up just a hit, while Steven Ordorica pitched the last 1 2-3 and gave up the winning run. The Oilers fell behind 2-0 after three innings,
but tied it in the bottom of the fifth. Mat-Su scored in the sixth and the Oilers scored in the seventh to send the game to extra innings. For the Oilers, Bobby Goodloe was 2 for 4, while
Connor McCord, Calvin Farris, Skyler Messinger, Victor Carlino and Travis Bohall added hits. The Oilers host the Miners at 5 p.m. today and in a 5 p.m. doubleheader Saturday.
Rangers avoid series sweep by topping Angels By The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas — Lance Lynn matched the major league lead with his 11th win and the Texas Rangers avoided a series sweep with a 9-3 victory over the grieving Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night, the Fourth of July game that the late Tyler Skaggs had been scheduled to start. The Angels won the first two games of the series after the 27-year-old Skaggs was found dead in his hotel room in Texas on Monday, and that night’s scheduled game was postponed until August. DODGERS 5, PADRES 1 LOS ANGELES — HyunJin Ryu tossed six scoreless innings, All-Star Cody Bellinger hit his 30th home run, and the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres for their ninth straight home victory. The Dodgers had won their previous five home games via
walk-off, one short of the major league record set by the 2000 Kansas City Royals. Bellinger had the winning RBIs on Tuesday and Wednesday. They didn’t need any late-game fireworks this Fourth of July.
NATIONALS 5, MARLINS 2 WASHINGTON — Anthony Rendon hit his 20th homer and knocked in the go-ahead run to help the Nationals finish a three-game sweep of the lastplace Miami Marlins. Washington has won eight of nine and 13 of 16 to climb to a season-best four games over .500.
YANKEES 8, RAYS 4 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — DJ LeMahieu hit a tiebreaking two-run single and Gary Sanchez had a long three-run homer in the 10th inning, and AL East-leading New York overcome a ninth-inning blown save by closer Aroldis Chapman to beat second-place Tampa Bay in the opener of a four-
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game series. Edwin Encarnacion hit his 25th homer for the Yankees, who are 15-2 since June 15 and have a season-high, 7½-game lead over the Rays.
BRAVES 12, PHILLIES 6 ATLANTA — Dansby Swanson hit two homers and drove in five runs, and the Braves rallied from a firstinning, four-run deficit to beat the Philadelphia Phillies. Ozzie Albies gave Atlanta the lead with a three-run homer in the third. A.J. Minter (3-4) pitched a perfect seventh to earn the victory.
Castillo (8-3) was working on a no-hitter before Keston Hiura singled with one out in the seventh. The All-Star righthander might have gone the distance if not for a 69-minute rain delay with two out in the eighth inning.
Kipnis also drove in runs for the suddenly streaking Indians, who beat the Royals — losers of four straight and seven of eight — for the fifth time in six meetings.
CARDINALS 5, MARINERS 4
PITTSBURGH — Kris Bryant hit his 17th homer and Chicago erupted following manager Joe Maddon’s fourthinning ejection, routing Pittsburgh to stop a four-game losing streak. Bryant tied a season high with four hits, including a first-inning shot to the seats in right-center off Jordan Lyles (5-5). Robel Garcia finished a double short of the cycle in his first major league start. Willson Contreras drove in three runs for the Cubs, who moved back into a tie with Milwaukee for first place in the crowded NL Central, where all five teams are separated by 3½ games.
SEATTLE — Matt Wieters and Dexter Fowler homered, Tommy Edman came through with another key hit, and St. Louis rallied past Seattle. Wieters hit a solo shot in the third inning and Fowler added a two-run drive in the fourth. Daniel Ponce de Leon got his first major league win, and CarREDS 1, BREWERS 0 los Martinez worked the ninth CINCINNATI — Luis for his third save. Castillo struck out nine while INDIANS 8, ROYALS 4 pitching one-hit ball into the eighth inning, leading the Reds KANSAS CITY, Mo. — to the victory. Francisco Lindor drove in three Cincinnati won for the runs, Jose Ramirez homered fourth time in five games. Jesse twice and Cleveland rallied to Winker went 3 for 3 and scored beat bumbling Kansas City to the only run on Yasiel Puig’s complete a three-game sweep. first-inning single off Brandon Tyler Naquin and Jason Woodruff (10-3).
rizon more expansive. If I didn’t look too closely I could pretend there was Continued from page A8 no land at all, just water stretching toward nothing. left feeling like I had yet to Even in what I think find a place I could grasp is peak tourist season, onto. the beach was deserted. I So I drove again, ontrekked through the sand ward, to the beach at the until I found a rock — big end of the road. enough to climb and close The last time I had been enough to the shore that I at the beach in Nikiski there didn’t risk falling into the were chunks of washedmire. I fit in the hollow, ashore sea ice as tall as me, lying between two warm and a cold, unwelcoming slopes. And for an hour or surf lapping on frozen mud. so, that rock was mine. This time the sand was At some point, a famwarm enough to shuffle my ily with two muck-covered bare feet through — and the dogs, and several children sun hot enough that I could — I think two, I was paying wander without a jacket. attention to the frolicking The far-off fires had dogs, dashing in and out of made the mountains nearly the surf — came wandering indiscernible and the hoby. The woman asked me
if I had a phone. I handed it off, thinking she was going to make a phone call. Instead she stood back and took a photo of me, perched on the rock — mermaid like, except I was wearing jeans and not sporting a tail. Maybe she was compelled to take the photo because I was taking an embarrassing number of selfies, but I’d like to think it was because I looked like I belonged on that rock — mermaid tail or no. Eventually I jumped from my rock, and wandered into the surf. I headed as far into the waves as I could, making it nearly waist-deep before my toes sank dangerously into the sticky quicksand of the inlet’s bottom.
The inlet isn’t quite the ocean, but it’s adjacent. The waves aren’t the crystal blue of the Pacific. Silt and water churn together as the tide comes in and out, creating a muddy emulsion. As the water calms, brown ribbons separate at the top, rivulets of dust suspended in a gray soup. But waves are still waves — and the pull of the ocean is like no other. Rivers, cold and rushing as they are, are elusive. Rivers run away from you. Lakes ask you to take steps into the unknown, and won’t reveal their secrets until you’re already head deep. They might be welcoming, or they might swallow you. The ocean comes to you. And its ever shifting waves
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can become infected by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a fungal pathogen that causes Chytridiomycosis. This disease has been linked to dramatic population declines and extinctions in 30 percent of amphibian species elsewhere in the world. Chytrid fungus unbinds the proteins in the outer layers of the skin that contain keratin, which allows the fungus to feast on the nowfreed amino acids. The frogs become lethargic during infection and it may cause them to shed their skin. The skin may also grow thick. These attacks on the skin hinder the frogs from breathing, hydrating, osmoregulating or thermoregulating. In 2002, Reeves discovered a dead wood frog with Chytridiomycosis on the Kenai refuge — the first discovery of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Alaska. Chytrid fungus has since been detected elsewhere in Alaska, mostly along gravel roads and human access sites. However, abnormalities and Chytrid fungus aren’t the only impacts we’re having on wood frogs. Climate change causes weather and temperatures to vary greatly. Once the fungus is on
frogs, it surprisingly thrives in variable temperatures. This is because the fungus, as a simpler organism, is able to adapt faster than frogs. Studies have found alterations in frogs’ white (immune) cells due to temperature changes. In other words, climate change is fostering an environment that weakens the frog’s immune systems and makes them more susceptible to this lethal fungus. Wood frogs showcase how even a robust species remains susceptible to human actions in harmful and unexpected ways. Contaminants leave tadpoles vulnerable to dragonfly predation and mature frogs vulnerable to fungal attacks amplified by human-driven climate change. Their increasing loss of “arms” and legs is an indicator of an ecological system under stress.
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As the ice in their blood freezes, their liver sends glucose to the cells to bind the water molecules, leaving the cells full of a sugary liquid. In other words, the water freezes all around the cells but the cells themselves remain unfrozen, keeping the frogs alive. The frogs exist in this state until spring when they thaw out and hop back in the ponds to reproduce. With this adaptation, wood frogs can endure temperatures down to minus 4! You’d think that a species which can endure such variable climates would have no issue with our warming world, right? Nonetheless, we are seeing anthropogenic effects on this tough little creature. Mari Reeves, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, studied wood frog abnormalities on five National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska, including the Kenai refuge, from 2004 to 2006. Prevalence of skeletal and eye abnormalities ranged from 1.5 to 7.9 percent and even reached 20 percent at individual breed-
ing sites. For comparison, background levels elsewhere in North America are typically 1 to 3 percent. The most common abnormalities were ectromelia (partial limb), micromelia (shrunken limb), amelia (limb missing) and unpigmented iris (eye totally black). In this study, skeletal abnormalities were primarily caused by dragonflies eating the limbs off metamorphosing tadpoles, resulting in lost or stunted development. However, it’s not quite that simple. Dr. Reeves and her team saw a correlation between road proximity and skeletal abnormalities. Roads carry all sorts of foreign elements, including heavy metals and hydrocarbon derivatives. These contaminants, along with other abiotic conditions like higher temperatures, can affect the metamorphic development of wood frogs — slowing them down and restricting full developmental potential. This leaves the frogs smaller, less fit and more vulnerable to predation. Sure enough, the study showed that smaller frogs had more abnormalities than larger ones. Once mature, wood frogs
Frances Nelson is a biological intern at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge this summer. She is also a junior in Environmental Science at Colorado College. Find more Refuge Notebook articles (1999–present) at https://www.fws.gov/refuge/ Kenai/community/refuge_ notebook.html.
CUBS 11, PIRATES 3
ATHLETICS 7, TWINS 2 OAKLAND, Calif. — Mar-
cus Semien hit a grand slam in the eighth after his tying solo homer leading off the fifth, Chris Herrmann had a careerhigh four hits, and Oakland beat Minnesota for a winning series against the AL Central leaders.
TIGERS 11, WHITE SOX 5 CHICAGO — Niko Goodrum hit a two-run homer during Detroit’s five-run sixth inning, and Matthew Boyd matched a career high with 13 strikeouts. The Tigers won just the second time in their past 13 games. Miguel Cabrera and Jeimer Candelario homered, and John Hicks and Nicholas Castellanos each had two RBIs.
RED SOX 8, BLUE JAYS 7 TORONTO — Pinch-hitter Marco Hernandez hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Blue Jays.
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Today in History Today is Friday, July 5, the 186th day of 2019. There are 179 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 5, 1954, Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee; the song he recorded was “That’s All Right.” On this date: In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain. In 1865, the Secret Service Division of the U.S. Treasury Department was founded in Washington, D.C., with the mission of suppressing counterfeit currency. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. In 1946, the bikini, created by Louis Reard, was modeled by Micheline Bernardini during a poolside fashion show in Paris. In 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the National League. In the game against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park, Doby, pinch-hitting for Bryan Stephens, struck out in his first at-bat during the seventh inning; Chicago won 6-5. In 1971, President Richard Nixon certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4. In 1977, Pakistan’s army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seized power from President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Bhutto was executed in 1979). In 1989, “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” the pilot to the situation comedy “Seinfeld,” aired on NBC-TV. In 1991, a worldwide financial scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. In 2011, a jury in Orlando, Florida, found Casey Anthony, 25, not guilty of murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the 2008 disappearance and death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. In 2013, Pope Francis cleared two of the 20th Century’s most influential popes to become saints in the Roman Catholic church, approving a miracle needed to canonize Pope John Paul II and waiving Vatican rules to honor Pope John XXIII. Ten years ago: A bankruptcy judge ruled that General Motors Corp. could sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, clearing the way for the automaker to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Riots and street battles that killed nearly 200 people erupted in China’s western Xinjiang province in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the region in decades. Roger Federer won his record 15th Grand Slam title when he outlasted Andy Roddick 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14 in a marathon match for his sixth Wimbledon championship. Five years ago: Ukrainian troops forced pro-Russian insurgents out of Slovyansk, a key stronghold in Ukraine’s embattled east. Petra Kvitova overwhelmed Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 in less than an hour to win Wimbledon for the second time. One year ago: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid ethics scandals that prompted more than a dozen federal and congressional investigations; deputy administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, was named to take over as acting administrator. James Alex Fields Jr. pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges in a car attack on a crowd of protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017; a 32-year-old woman died and dozens were injured. (Fields later pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crime charges under a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.) Today’s Birthdays: Actress Shirley Knight is 83. Singer-musician Robbie Robertson is 76. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 71. Rock star Huey Lewis is 69. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage is 68. Country musician Charles Ventre is 67. Singersongwriter Marc Cohn is 60. Actor John Marshall Jones is 57. Actor Dorien Wilson is 57. Actress Edie Falco is 56. Actress Jillian Armenante is 55. Actress Kathryn Erbe is 54. Actor Michael Stuhlbarg is 51. Country musician Brent Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 50. Rapper RZA is 50. Rhythm and blues singer Joe is 46. Rock musician Bengt Lagerberg (The Cardigans) is 46. Actor Dale Godboldo is 44. Rapper Bizarre is 43. Rapper Royce da 5’9” is 42. Rock singer Jason Wade (Lifehouse) is 39. Actor Ryan Hansen is 38. Country musician Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum) is 37. Rock musician Nick O’Malley (Arctic Monkeys) is 34. Actor Jason Dolley is 28. California Angels player Shohei Ohtani is 25. Thought for Today: “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” -- Isaac Asimov, American author (19201992).
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into the race was smoke. The day got off to a rough start when the junior race, which started in 1964, was canceled for the first time. With the finish barricaded, a group of bandits ran anyway, with Sebastian Szweda Mittelstadt, 17, of Indian and Nowelle Spencer, 16, of Anchorage taking unofficial titles. Spencer is the daughter of eight-time men’s champion Bill Spencer, who gave his daughter what turned out to be the theme of the day as the senior races took place safely despite the smoke. “He just said have fun, and if you feel like the smoke is bad, don’t push it,” Nowelle said. “You don’t want to have any long-term effects from just one race.” Race officials took the unprecedented step of giving all racers the option to skip the race and still get a coveted bib for next year. There were just over 360 bibs for the men, with 258 finishing the race. The women had just over 350, with 216 finishers. The one they will be talking about forever is Lafleur. She reached the top of the mountain in third place, 1:09 behind two-time champ Christy Marvin, 38, of Palmer and 16 seconds behind Julianne Dickerson, 31, who lives in Anchorage but was raised in Kenai. Trent Gould should have known what was coming next. That’s Lafleur’s boyfriend and he’s become accustomed to getting to the top of mountains first, then getting blown away on the downhill. “I just kind of sent it — no brakes,” Lafleur said. “I was thinking this isn’t real. I don’t know what I was thinking. I think I blacked out. I kind of felt like it was an out-of-body experience.” She passed Marvin and Dickerson by midmountain and won at 53:24, the 34th fastest women’s time in race history. Marvin was next at 53:54, while Dickerson was third at 54:03. Local runners then just kept on coming, with Seward’s Allison Barnwell in fourth, 2008 Seward High graduate Foldager-Strabel in fifth, 1998 Seward High grad Aubrey Smith in sixth and 2018 Seward grad Ruby Lindquist in seventh. “I think we just love being outside and running up and down the mountains,” said Barnwell, a 27-yearold attending law school in Montana. “We have a few fast people in training, then everyone tries to keep up with them.” Lafleur arrived in Seward in 2016 and was running the race for only the third time, but the city of just under 3,000 at the head of mountain-lined Resurrection Bay has no problem claiming her. “This means so much,” Barnwell said. “It’s so cool to have the winner come from Seward. Hopefully, she’ll be the next Cedar.”
The reasons Lafleur has so quickly ingratiated herself were apparent in the postrace interview. Community: “It was every single person in the Seward trail running community that got me here. It was so fun training for the race alongside them.” Love of mountains: “I’m going to keep running Mount Marathon whether it’s the race or for fun. This is my backyard and I can run there on-trail from my house. So I feel lucky to have this place as my backyard.” Gracious: “The volunteers — I would say I would not have made it back down were it not for all the people pouring water and ice on us. Despite the smoke and despite the heat the volunteers just showed up. They were so incredible.” For Dickerson, the daughter of Jay and Glenese Pettey of Kenai, the third-place finish continues a string of remarkable improvement. She was 111th in 2015, 87th in 2016, 33rd in 2017 and ninth last year in 58:45. “Training works,” she said. Dickerson, who gave a shout out to Anchorage’s Ellyn Brown for completing a 30th straight race, got serious about Mount Marathon a few years ago and started working with groups like Alaska Endurance Project, AK Athlete and Thirsty Thursdays. Her explanation for why women with peninsula ties are doing so well? They’re the ones putting in the most work. “I’m going to keep pushing,” Dickerson said. “Women in Alaska can bring it. I didn’t have any background or skills in this. I keep training and I keep getting faster.” It’s that attitude that had Max King, 39, of Bend, Oregon, wary headed into the men’s race. King is considered one of the most versatile runners in the world, having been in the top 20 twice at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in addition to winning trail races around the world. Last year, King ran the fourth-fastest time in race history only to watch Anchorage’s David Norris claim a second win. Even when Alaska Pacific University skiers like Norris elected not to line up due to smoke, King knew the area runners would not make the race easy. “Actually, yeah,” King said, when asked if he was surprised an area the size of the peninsula can produce so many quality mountain runners. “Last year, I came up here and was so impressed by the runners that showed up here. I knew this year it’d be the same thing. They’re tough, athletic and they train hard.” King did the thing elite athletes do — make something hard look easy. He won at 43:39 (tied for ninth fastest in race history), while three-time champ Eric Strabel, 37, of Palmer was next at 45:21. But King said he
was worried the whole time in a race that has quickly come to mean a lot to him. “It’s one of the races I’ve connected with,” he said. “There’s so much special history and tradition. The community around the race is such a special community.” It takes 10 years of finishes — or a race victory — to gain the option to enter every year no matter the previous year’s finish. King said he would have kept coming back for 10 years straight if he didn’t get the win, because he always wants the option to enter. Lars Arneson, a 28-yearold graduate of Cook Inlet Academy, was third at 45:32, improving on previous bests of seventh last year in 47:07. Arneson could not reel in Strabel on the downhill. “He was sending up so much dust that I moved back a bit and tried to hang on,” Arneson said. “I just couldn’t catch him on the road.” Does this performance make him think a win is possible one day? “That’s always the dream,” he said. Dreams can happen, even pipe dreams, because that’s what Dixon called his thought of a possible top-10 finish Thursday. Dixon is a fixture in the Seward trail running community thanks to the Dixon/ Holden Memorial Tonsina Beach Trail Run, held to honor Jerry, Pyper’s father who did in 2010, and 1999 Skyview High grad Seth Holden, Pyper’s cousin who died in a plane crash less than a month before Jerry. It was family and friends that pulled Dixon through, taking eight water bottles on the mountain to strategic spots on the uphill that averages 35 degrees. “The best way I can describe it was that it’s like Mario Kart when you get the mushrooms,” he said. “Every time I got one dunked on me, I broke into a run. It saved me at least six minutes on the uphill.” Dixon outsprinted Erik Johnson, 42, of Seward, for fourth place. Dixon had no idea it was Johnson at the time. “I was going 110 percent at that point, but I would have gone 120,” he said. “Erik and I are such rivals. But I thought I was racing a stranger.” Johnson got his sixth topeight finish in eight Marathon starts. Like Dixon, the effort came with a big boost from family and community. Just two minutes before the start, Johnson realized his race bib was at friend Sean and Sadie Ulman’s house, and not attached to Johnson’s pink shorts. “I asked a volunteer, ‘Can I use your cellphone?’” Johnson said. “I called my wife at Sean’s house and I knew exactly where it was.” Mariah Johnson quickly grabbed the bib and ran a little less than two blocks to Second and Jefferson, where she handed her husband the bib as he streamed by. The snafu start meant
Johnson spent the race passing people. He just couldn’t get Dixon. But Johnson has been building up the Seward trail running community by organizing races for years, so the stellar day for all the local runners left him feeling just fine, thank you, particularly about Lafleur. “It was almost like nuclear — that’s the way I feel for her,” he said. “It’s so exciting to know we trained for the race, and I gave her little pep talks along the way, and she went out and did it.” Mount Marathon Race results Women 1. Hannah Lafleur, Seward, AK 53:24 2. Christy Marvin, Palmer, AK 53:54 3. Julianne Dickerson, Anchorage, AK 54:03 4. Allison Barnwell, Seward, AK 57:26 5. Denali Foldager-Strabel, Seward, AK 59:06 6. Aubrey Smith, Talkeetna, AK 59:54 7. Ruby Lindquist, Moose Pass, AK 1:00:20 8. Abby Jahn, Anchorage, AK 1:01:06 9. Jenna DiFolco, Fairbanks, AK 1:01:08 10. Holly Brooks, Anchorage, AK 1:01:10 11. Annie Connelly, Chugiak, AK 1:01:16 12. Klaire Rhodes, Anchorage, AK 1:01:25 13. Lisa Anglen, Anchorage, AK 1:01:39 14. Mackenzie Barnwell, Seward, AK 1:02:05 15. April McAnly, Eagle River, AK 1:03:48 16. Mira Hopkins, Anchorage, AK 1:03:56 17. Lauren Spinelli, Anchorage, AK 1:04:25 18. Sheryl Loan, Eagle River, AK 1:06:01 19. Alice Baker, Hesperus, CO 1:06:11 20. Stacey Pearson, Salt Lake City, UT 1:06:27 21. Hannah Booher, Chugiak, AK 1:06:27 22. Rya Berrigan, Palmer, AK 1:06:40 23. Amy Harper, Arroyo Grande, CA 1:06:48 24. Isabel Barnwell, Seward, AK 1:06:56 25. Kristen Sieminski, Seward, AK 1:08:15 26. Tori Hickel, Anchorage, AK 1:08:27 27. Leah Besh, Anchorage, AK 1:09:10 28. Karol Fink, Seward, AK 1:09:17 29. Hannah Lies, Anchorage, AK 1:09:23 30. Jolie Glaser, Seward, AK 1:09:36 31. Verena Gill, Anchorage, AK 1:10:21 32. Kelly Ann Cavaretta, Seward, AK 1:10:41 33. Sarah Freistone, Anchorage, AK 1:10:46 34. Trish Kopp, Anchorage, AK 1:10:58 35. Teal Hall, Moose Pass, AK 1:10:59 36. Alyse Loran, Anchorage, AK 1:11:03 37. Tekla Seavey, Seward, AK 1:11:14 38. Tiffanie Bird, Anchorage, AK 1:11:29 39. Gyongyver P Schilling, Hope, AK 1:11:33 40. Marion Woods, Anchorage, AK 1:11:40 41. Hannah Beutler, Seward, AK 1:11:41 42. Laura Tuttle, Anchorage, AK 1:11:45 43. Hallidie Phillips, Anchorage, AK 1:12:04 44. Cecelia Nocas, Anchorage, AK 1:12:35 45. Amy De Schweinitz, Anchorage, AK 1:12:48 46. Wendy Sailors, Anchorage, AK 1:12:51 47. Emily Helland-Carlson, Anchorage, AK 1:12:53 48. Jacqueline Klecka, Anchorage, AK 1:13:00 49. Justine Reese, Wasilla, AK 1:13:02 50. Kimberly Riggs, Anchorage, AK 1:13:29 51. Susan Casey, Eagle River, AK 1:13:44 52. Shannon Donley, Anchorage, AK 1:14:08 53. Grace Annett, Anchorage, AK 1:14:15 54. Teresa Comer, Eagle River, AK 1:14:20 55. Jess Klain, Anchorage, AK 1:14:36 56. Anna Widman, Kenai, AK 1:14:38 57. Stephanie Wright, Seward, AK 1:14:40 58. erica shafer, Anchorage, AK 1:14:46 59. Hannah Ingrim, Girdwood, AK 1:15:23 60. Gina Robinson, Anchorage, AK 1:15:24 61. Kaylee Heck, Anchorage, AK 1:15:27 62. Grace Gannon, Anchorage, AK 1:15:29 63. Stacy Schaffer , Seward, AK 1:15:40 64. Carrie Koso, Wasilla, AK 1:15:42 65. Heather Moon, Soldotna, AK 1:15:44 66. Amanda Hegna, Eagle River, AK 1:16:05 67. Elizabeth Hooper, Anchorage, AK 1:16:20 68. Alina Rubeo, Wasilla, AK 1:16:23 69. Amy Dreger, Boulder, CO 1:16:29 70. Sarah Cosgrave, Anchorage, AK 1:16:41 71. Halley Werner, Seward, AK 1:16:42 72. Jocelyn Kopsack, Palmer, AK 1:16:51 73. Kelley Lane, Seward, AK 1:16:54 74. Jennifer Anderson, Seward, AK 1:17:17 75. Josephine Braun, Seward, AK 1:17:30 76. Kellyn Brothis, Parker, CO 1:17:40 77. Jessica Pahkala, Anchorage, AK 1:17:41 78. Kristi Adams, Wasilla, AK 1:18:32 79. Caitlin Gohr, Anchorage, AK 1:18:40 80. Kinsey Loan, Eagle River, AK 1:18:42 81. Shelby Lee Harris, Seward, AK 1:18:51 82. Christy Jordan, Seward, AK 1:18:59 83. Mary Beth Koster, Seward, AK 1:19:11 84. Sable Hodson, Los Angeles, CA 1:19:50 85. Annie Johnson, Edmonds, WA 1:20:35 86. Gina Valdes, Seward, AK 1:20:41 87. Jane Mulcahy, Jonesville, VT 1:20:56 88. Kayla RoweKnotek, Anchorage, AK 1:21:02 89. Karen Carswell Kirk, Eagle River, AK 1:21:03 90. Julia Morris, Wasilla, AK 1:21:19 91. Willow Schlenker, Gakona, AK 1:21:26 92. Jamie Whiteman, Anchorage, AK 1:21:27 93. Marcie Lovgren, Bozeman, MT 1:21:37 94. Robin Reich, Anchorage, AK 1:21:39 95. Amber McDonough, Anchorage, AK 1:22:11 96. Marcelle Roemmich, Seward, AK 1:22:14 97. Ruth Cvancara, Anchorage, AK 1:22:26 98. Erin Gillespie, Fountain Valley, CA 1:22:41 99. Julia Ruimveld, Homer, AK 1:22:44 100. Megan Fink, Anchorage, AK 1:23:10 101. Megan Olson, Anchorage, AK 1:23:20 102. Amie Wu, Anchorage, AK 1:23:26 103. Cheryl Shellabarger, Loveland, CO 1:23:40 104. Grace HeglundLohman, Saint Paul, MN 1:23:47 105. Kathleen Sorensen, Seward, AK 1:23:56 106. Courtney Lyons, Anchorage, AK 1:23:58 107. Pamela Richter, Anchorage, AK 1:24:25 108. Leslie Varys, Wasilla, AK 1:24:27 109. Rebekah Koenigbauer, Bozeman, MT 1:24:33 110. Dawn Dinwoodie, Anchorage, AK 1:25:03 111. Justine Pechuzal, Seward, AK 1:25:19 112. Sondra Stonecipher, Soldotna, AK 1:25:38 113. Cassandra Delgado, Seward, AK 1:25:41 114. Ava Harren, Boise, ID 1:25:44 115. Jenna Frederic, Anchorage, AK 1:25:44 116. Danielle Harris, Eagle River, AK 1: Seward’s Fred Moore starts up the mountain on the way to completing his 50th straight Mount Marathon Race on Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion) 25:58 117. Troyce Allen, Anchorage, AK 1:26:53 118. Heidi Conway, Anchorage, AK 1:26:56 119. Charlotte Edmondson, Anchorage, AK 1:27:18 120. Erin Hamilton, Anchorage, AK 1:27:56 121. Elizabeth Finocchio, Anchorage, AK 1:28:10 122. Ingrid Reese, Anchorage, AK 1:28:24 123. Jen Yach, Anchorage, AK 1:28:39 124. Darcy Waddell, Pueblo West, CO 1:29:05 125. Timeri Noren, Eagle River, AK 1:29:05 126. Jessica Larrabee, Wasilla, AK 1:29:11 127. Brenna Berry, Homer, AK 1:29:16 128. Sadie Ulman, Seward, AK 1:29:23 129. Kay Sind, Anchorage, AK 1:29:39 130. Mariah Johnson, Seward, AK 1:29:46 131. Mariah Butters, Seward, AK 1:29:54 132. Chantel Welch, Sisters, OR 1:30:17 133. Sarah Hurkett, Eagle River, AK 1:30:17 134. Heidi Sinclair, Seward, AK 1:30:21 135. Wendy Terry, Anchorage, AK 1:30:38 136. Shani Rinner, Anchorage, AK 1:31:02 137. Suzanne Knudsen, Indian, AK 1:31:13 138. Jordin Thompson, An-
chorage, AK 1:31:21 139. Rachelle Kanady, Anchorage, AK 1:31:29 140. Karen Looney, Palmer, AK 1:31:49 141. Kristy Templeman, Anchorage, AK 1:31:53 142. Christine Youngblood, Anchorage, AK 1:32:18 143. Tonia Baklnova, Anchorage, AK 1:32:37 144. Nicole Lawrence, Seward, AK 1:32:57 145. Kellie Arthur, Soldotna, AK 1:33:13 146. Dreanna Owens, Eagle River, AK 1:33:19 147. Jasper Wallace, Anchorage, AK 1:33:40 148. Margaret Cunningham, Anchorage, AK 1:34:20 149. Nicole Aikins, Anchorage, AK 1:34:29 150. Emma Weatherly, Anchorage, AK 1:34:37 151. Amber Sheffield, Wasilla, AK 1:34:56 152. Amy Belmear, Eagle River, AK 1:35:04 153. Linnea Hollingsworth, Seward, AK 1:35:17 154. Carole Holley, Anchorage, AK 1:35:20 155. Elizabeth Johnson, Anchorage, AK 1:35:30 156. Roxanna Reynolds, Anchorage, AK 1:35:34 157. Laura Lundell, Chugiak, AK 1:35:40 158. Jennifer Frazier, Eagle River, AK 1:35:52 159. Amanda Barnett, San Antonio, TX 1:35:57 160. EmmaLee Moore, Seward, AK 1:36:07 161. Jill McLeod, Anchorage, AK 1:36:13 162. Andrea Snowden, Anchorage, AK 1:36:15 163. Kerri Garcia, Fairbanks, AK 1:36:26 164. Hallie Bergwall, Seward, AK 1:37:04 165. Karen Miernyk, Anchorage, AK 1:37:05 166. Denielle Beilfuss, Shorewood, WI 1:37:37 167. Sarah Bosch, Anchorage, AK 1:37:47 168. Aliann Schmidt, Soldotna, AK 1:38:15 169. Laura McGinley Kline, Boulder, CO 1:38:47 170. Mary Vollendorf, Anchorage, AK 1:39:14 171. Nancy Schierhorn, Anchorage, AK 1:39:25 172. Kathleen Morrison, Soldotna, AK 1:39:39 173. Jill Simek, Anchorage, AK 1:39:41 174. Lindy Byerly, Seward, AK 1:42:08 175. Kathryn Jacobsen, Anchorage, AK 1:42:15 176. Hilary Nicol, San Francisco, CA 1:42:43 177. Jennifer Smith, Anchorage, AK 1:42:46 178. Tracie Haan, Palmer, AK 1:43:01 179. Kelsey Tranel, Anchorage, AK 1:43:26 180. Joey Eski, Anchorage, AK 1:43:26 181. Tracey Nguyen, Bellevue, WA 1:43:51 182. Katie Peot, Missoula, MT 1:43:52 183. Cecilia Jarvis, Anchorage, AK 1:43:55 184. Katee Chard, Anchorage, AK 1:44:14 185. Brittany Winternheimer, Anchorage, AK 1:44:29 186. Megan Volk, Eagle River, AK 1:44:35 187. Billie Jo Kopsack, Palmer, AK 1:46:26 188. Amy Brumbaugh, Anchorage, AK 1:46:52 189. Laurel DeVore, Golden, CO 1:48:43 190. Jamie Greendyk, Kodiak, AK 1:48:50 191. Samantha Simpson, Anchorage, AK 1:48:51 192. Anna Johnson, Anchorage, AK 1:48:51 193. Ana Reid, Homer, AK 1:50:39 194. Ellyn Brown, Anchorage, AK 1:50:52 195. Mari Eaton, Anchorage, AK 1:50:53 196. Jean Labonte, Eagle River, AK 1:51:06 197. Corey Frazier, Eagle River, AK 1:52:03 198. Cynthia Kupczynski, Chelan, WA 1:52:43 199. Heather Mahoney, Wasilla, AK 1:54:17 200. Wendy Bryden, Moose Pass, AK 1:55:30 201. Kimberley Graham, Hope, AK 1:56:33 202. Alyse Lincoln, Bethel, AK 1:57:47 203. Sarah Warnke, Eagle River, AK 1:59:33 204. Nancy Osborne, Bellbrook, OH 1:59:43 205. Ingrid Burton, Los Gatos, CA 2:00:56 206. Jodi Harskamp, Anchorage, AK 2:01:14 207. Leslie Dickson, Anchorage, AK 2:02:01 208. Lanara Forgit, Anchorage, AK 2:06:49 209. Katherine Cheng, , 2:09:57 210. Andrea Rodriguez, Seward, AK 2:10:53 211. Sheri Boggs, Eagle River, AK 2:14:29 212. Genia Van Wormer, Paducah, KY 2:16:33 213. Kris Kile, Anchorage, AK 2:16:34 214. Jennifer Andrade, Seward, AK 2:27:43 215. Lynn Spencer, Anchorage, AK 2:30:27. Men 1. Max King, Bend, OR 43:39 2. Eric Strabel, Anchorage, AK 45:21 3. Lars Arneson, Anchorage, AK 45:32 4. Pyper Dixon, Seward, AK 47:16 5. Erik Johnson, Seward, AK 47:17 6. Jessie McAuley, Squamish, 47:29 7. Adam Loomis, Anchorage, AK 47:34 8. Kenneth Brewer, Anchorage, AK 47:37 9. Matt Shryock, Anchorage, AK 48:00 10. Allan Spangler, Anchorage, AK 48:05 11. Lyon Kopsack, Palmer, AK 48:27 12. Luke Jager, Anchorage, AK 48:34 13. Benjamin Marvin, Palmer, AK 48:46 14. Adam Jensen, Anchorage, AK 49:40 15. Bodhi Gross, Boulder, CO 49:52 16. Christopher Kirk, Eagle River, AK 50:05 17. Ryan Cox, Anchorage, AK 50:22 18. Taylor Turney, Anchorage, AK 50:41 19. Derek Steele, Anchorage, AK 50:48 20. Peter Mamrol, Anchorage, AK 51:23 21. David Glennon, Boulder, CO 51:32 22. Jacob Kirk, Anchorage, AK 51:38 23. Ben Ward, Anchorage, AK 51:41 24. Ryan Phebus, Girdwood, AK 52:17 25. Miles Knotek, Moose Pass, AK 52:25 26. Nick Snow, Anchorage, AK 52:34 27. Hayden Hawks, Cedar City, UT 52:43 28. Tor Christopherson, Anchorage, AK 53:34 29. Ryan Beckett, Anchorage, AK 53:50 30. Charles DiMarzio, Seward, AK 54:02 31. Forrest Mahlen, Anchorage, AK 54:04 32. Craig Taylor, Eagle River, AK 54:16 33. Daniel Kane, Anchorage, AK 54:16 34. A William Stoll, Anchorage, AK 54:41 35. Isaac Lammers, Broomfield, CO 54:41 36. Paul Butera, Anchorage, AK 54:53 37. Conor Deal, Boise, ID 54:53 38. Alex Alonso, Eagle River, AK 55:25 39. Brenton Knight, Westminster, CO 55:54 40. John Wros, Girdwood, AK 56:03 41. Darin Markwardt, Palmer, AK 56:06 42. Roman Gross, Talkeetna, AK 56:25 43. Harlow Robinson, Anchorage, AK 56:50 44. Gabe Martin, Anchorage, AK 56:53 45. Jerome Ross, Anchorage, AK 57:23 46. Collin Atkinson, Seward, AK 57:31 47. Patrick Conway, Anchorage, AK 57:33 48. Luke Rosier, Seward, AK 57:35 49. Sean Ulman, Seward, AK 57:35 50. Shawn Erchinger, Colorado Springs, CO 58:38 51. Brandon Rinner, Anchorage, AK 58:58 52. David Spencer, Anchorage, AK 59:03 53. Trevor Kreznar, Seward, AK 59:09 54. Marten Martensen, Anchorage, AK 59:18 55. Luke Duffy, Anchorage, AK 59:26 56. Keegan Crow, Seward, AK 59:27 57. Erik Mundahl, Anchorage, AK 59:37 58. Karl Romig, Lawing, AK 59:43 59. Alex Youngmun, Anchorage, AK 59:54 60. Daniel Naylor, Seattle, WA 59:54 61. Eric Vilce, Anchorage, AK 59:57 62. William Mans, Anchorage, AK 59:59 63. Isaac Bertschi, Anchorage, AK 1:00:00 64. Brad Benter, Anchorage, AK 1:00:09 65. Jim McDonough, Anchorage, AK 1:00:16 66. Patrick Lewis, Seward, AK 1:00:28 67. Keith Zemke, Anchorage, AK 1:00:38 68. Andrew Duenow, Anchorage, AK 1:01:12 69. Derek Nottingham, Eagle River, AK 1:01:33 70. Corey Kline, Boulder, CO 1:01:39 71. Jacob Streich, Kenai, AK 1:01:52 72. Mike Heatwole, Anchorage, AK 1:01:57 73. Troy Larson, Anchorage, AK 1:02:12 74. Mike Wahlig, Anchorage, AK 1:02:59 75. Mark Brady, Anchorage, AK 1:03:13 76. Joey Klecka, Kenai, AK 1:03:19 77. Barney Griffith, Anchorage, AK 1:03:25 78. Patrick Stinson, Anchorage, AK 1:03:40 79. Eugen Beutler, Seward, AK 1:03:51 80. William Michener, Eagle River, AK 1:03:53 81. Westley Dahlgren, Anchorage, AK 1:03:59 82. Logan Schulz, Anchorage, AK 1:04:00 83. Jack Delaney, Dubuque, IA 1:04:10 84. Lance Kopsack, Palmer, AK 1:04:20 85. Cameron Reitmeier, Anchorage, AK 1:04:23 86. Daniel Virgin, Palmer, AK 1:04:23 87. Joshua Allely, Anchorage, AK 1:04:29 88. Casey Volk, Eagle River, AK 1:04:45 89. Michael Quimby, Eagle River, AK 1:04:51 90. Brian Haviland, Anchorage, AK 1:04:52 91. Brian Boyle, Chugiak, AK 1:05:02 92. Samuel Young, Seward, AK 1:05:05 93. Gage Jarvis, Anchorage, AK 1:05:10 94. Jeremy Hoagland, Wasilla, AK 1:05:38
95. Andrew Dougherty, Anchorage, AK 1:06:01 96. Michael Johnson, Anchorage, AK 1:06:01 97. Matti Silta, Soldotna, AK 1:06:24 98. Michael Lucas, Anchorage, AK 1:06:32 99. Ian Beals, Anchorage, AK 1:06:33 100. Greg Michaelson, Anchorage, AK 1:06:36 101. Jacob Thompson, Anchorage, AK 1:06:37 102. Brett Vadla, Anchorage, AK 1:06:46 103. Shane Topf, Eagle River, AK 1:07:08 104. Connor Sperry, Mesa, AZ 1:07:44 105. Mike Kramer, Fairbanks, AK 1:07:47 106. Shayne Wescott, Eagle River, AK 1:07:51 107. Joseph Nyholm, Seward, AK 1:07:53 108. Brian Pautzke, Girdwood, AK 1:07:57 109. Steve Gilles, Indian, AK 1:07:58 110. Fred West, Anchorage, AK 1:08:01 111. John Clark, Palmer, AK 1:08:02 112. John Kogl, Valparaiso, IN 1:08:03 113. Rocky Elhard, Seward, AK 1:08:11 114. Lee Helzer, Anchorage, AK 1:08:14 115. Dorian Gross, Boulder, CO 1:08:15 116. Joe Hunner, Eagle River, AK 1:08:33 117. Brandon King, Anchorage, AK 1:08:36 118. Quinn Carroll, Anchorage, AK 1:08:39 119. Noah Zogas, Anchorage, AK 1:09:02 120. Jeremy Weber, Wasilla, AK 1:09:09 121. Todd Bethard, Anchorage, AK 1:09:26 122. Mark Silverman, Anchorage, AK 1:09:33 123. Whit Rambach, Carmel, CA 1:09:40 124. David Owens, Eagle River, AK 1:09:54 125. Solomon D’ Amico, Seward, AK 1:09:55 126. Marek Kolendo, Wasilla, AK 1:09:57 127. Jason Moore, Anchorage, AK 1:10:05 128. Michael Rubeo, Wasilla, AK 1:10:14 129. Luke Martensen, Anchorage, AK 1:10:16 130. Steven Tennison, Fairbanks, AK 1:10:22 131. Nicholas Swann, Seward, AK 1:10:34 132. Kirk Louthan, Anchorage, AK 1:10:45 133. Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage, AK 1:10:58 134. Brad Precosky, Anchorage, AK 1:11:01 135. Matthew Anderson, Anchorage, AK 1:11:06 136. Shawn Naber, Anchorage, AK 1:11:08 137. Bret Connor, Anchorage,, AK 1:11:12 138. Brenden Turney, Anchorage, AK 1:11:21 139. John Cosgrave, Anchorage, AK 1:11:24 140. Kegan Storjohann, Anthem, AZ 1:11:35 141. Braun Kopsack, Palmer, AK 1:11:43 142. Bryan Templeman, Anchorage, AK 1:11:59 143. Steven Andersen, JBER, AK 1:12:06 144. Ben Martensen, Anchorage, AK 1:12:19 145. Peter McEnaney, Eagle River, AK 1:12:24 146. Thomas Nenahlo, Anchorage, AK 1:12:29 147. Zach Momberger, Chugiak, AK 1:12:57 148. Scott Henry, Anchorage, AK 1:13:13 149. Dylan Miller, Anchorage, AK 1:13:14 150. Jason Leslie, Seward, AK 1:13:25 151. Wes Hoskins, Palmer, AK 1:13:32 152. Aaron Dickson, Palmer, AK 1:13:37 153. Rick Hansen, Anchorage, AK 1:13:52 154. David Retherford, Wasilla, AK 1:13:57 155. Joshua Zuber, Anchorage, AK 1:13:58 156. Kris Burnett, Anchorage, AK 1:14:47 157. Bryan Anderson, Healdsburg, CA 1:15:15 158. Brian Beckstead, Millville, UT 1:15:25 159. William Serra, Anchorage, AK 1:15:30 160. Mark Fineman, Anchorage, AK 1:15:30 161. Alec Kay, Anchorage, AK 1:15:32 162. Ted Paprocki, Anchorage, AK 1:15:36 163. John Heimerl, Anchorage, AK 1:15:37 164. Davis Dunlap, Palmer, AK 1:15:39 165. Rick Luebke, Kenai, AK 1:16:32 166. Scott Wamsganz, Anchorage, AK 1:16:51 167. Jordan Stoner, Bozeman, MT 1:17:02 168. Tim White, Los Alamos, NM 1:17:03 169. Walter Moore, Kasilof, AK 1:17:06 170. John Pahkala, Anchorage, AK 1:17:15 171. Timo Rieder, Bern, 1:17:27 172. Greg Roads, Wasilla, AK 1:17:34 173. Riley Martin, Anchorage, AK 1:17:41 174. Lane Reed, Wasilla, AK 1:17:46 175. Dane Crowley, Palmer, AK 1:17:54 176. Bill Spencer, Anchorage, AK 1:17:58 177. Dan Linkhart, Seward, AK 1:18:08 178. David Rebischke, Anchorage, AK 1:18:18 179. Jacob Parker, Fairbanks, AK 1:18:23 180. Daniel Willman, Anchorage, AK 1:18:38 181. Christopher Kingsland, Seward, AK 1:18:43 182. Christopher Crosta, Anchorage, AK 1:18:43 183. David Aquino, Anchorage, AK 1:19:21 184. Thomas Schultz, Anchorage, AK 1:19:41 185. Bennett Lee, Anchorage, AK 1:19:45 186. Justin Smole, Anchorage, AK 1:19:45 187. Michael Tranel, Red Lodge, MT 1:19:46 188. Adam Berg, Chicago, IL 1:20:12 189. James Murray, Wasilla, AK 1:20:38 190. Karl Mechtenberg, Seward, AK 1:20:55 191. Lucas Hepler, Anchorage, AK 1:21:05 192. Kevin Chartier, Anchorage, AK 1:21:22 193. Jared Wallace, Seward, AK 1:21:29 194. Tannen Berry, Homer, AK 1:22:02 195. Matthew Moore, Seward, AK 1:22:06 196. Connor Owens, Palmer, AK 1:22:47 197. Stephen Mayer, Anchorage, AK 1:22:47 198. Lee Barloon, Anchorage, AK 1:22:57 199. Keith Sanfacon, Anchorage, AK 1:23:11 200. Todd Brownson, Anchorage, AK 1:23:22 201. David M Lorring, Soldotna, AK 1:23:41 202. Everett Billingslea, Seattle, WA 1:24:11 203. Robert Forgit, Anchorage, AK 1:24:27 204. Alex Best, Bullard, TX 1:24:51 205. Nicholas Whitmore, Anchorage, AK 1:25:53 206. Ben Michaelson, Anchorage, AK 1:26:10 207. Jason McLennan, Anchorage, AK 1:26:42 208. Fred Moore, Seward, AK 1:26:47 209. Michael Squires, Anchorage, AK 1:27:31 210. DuWayne Ruzicka, Anchorage, AK 1:28:02 211. Jason Bressler, Anchorage, AK 1:28:26 212. Gunner Hodgson, Palmer, AK 1:28:29 213. Jared Kern, Anchorage, AK 1:28:37 214. Teddy Bahr, Anchorage, AK 1:28:47 215. Kerry Klauder, Anchorage, AK 1:28:50 216. Jeremy Hinshaw, Anchorage, AK 1:29:23 217. Todd Stull, Yokota Air Base, 1:29:59 218. Conway Seavey, San Francisco, CA 1:30:52 219. Robert Haan, Palmer, AK 1:31:31 220. Cole Burnett, Anchorage, AK 1:31:37 221. Brooks Berry, Moose Pass, AK 1:31:56 222. Chad Arthur, Soldotna, AK 1:32:40 223. Mark Jacobsen, Anchorage, AK 1:32:53 224. Brian Stoecker, Anchorage, AK 1:33:29 225. Edward Hartman, Seward, AK 1:34:13 226. Peter Adams, Anchorage, AK 1:34:25 227. Kyle Kelley, Girdwood, AK 1:34:39 228. Glen Anderson, Seward, AK 1:36:29 229. Steve Carroll, Anchorage, AK 1:37:04 230. Steve Baer, Portland, OR 1:37:36 231. Joseph Hawkins, Palmer, AK 1:38:41 232. Russell Storjohann, Anthem, AZ 1:38:43 233. Kevin Lauver, Soldotna, AK 1:39:25 234. Trent Taylor, Anchorage, AK 1:41:02 235. Evan Steinhauser, Eagle River, AK 1:41:53 236. James Sorrels, Orlando, FL 1:42:38 237. Darin Marin, Anchorage, AK 1:43:22 238. John Browne, Anchorage, AK 1:46:23 239. Bernard Hildebrand, Northway, AK 1:46:25 240. Gregory Lincoln, Bethel, AK 1:48:13 241. Norm Johnson, Anchorage, AK 1:50:39 242. Ron Nelson, Seattle, WA 1:50:58 243. James Conley, Chugiak, AK 1:53:07 244. Trent Boggs, Eagle River, AK 1:53:26 245. Allen Clendaniel, Anchorage, AK 1:57:38 246. Harold Faust, Seward, AK 2:02:24 247. Steve Parrish, Anchorage, AK 2:02:46 248. Tab Ballantine, Anchorage, AK 2:03:48 249. Curtis Silook, Anchorage, AK 2:04:15 250. Michael Chard, Anchorage, AK 2:06:46 251. Jeff Donlan, Anchorage, AK 2:07:51 252. Kneeland Taylor, Anchorage, AK 2:08:03 253. Christopher Booth, Edina, MN 2:09:40 254. Sean McManus, Denver, CO 2:11:19 255. Mark Tuovinen, Anchorage, AK 2:11:33 256. Bill Wamsganz, Anchorage, AK 2:17:32 257. Ernest Stolen, Anchorage, AK 2:20:35 258. James Fischer, Anchorage, AK 2:22:04. Golden men 1. Brian McMahon, Anchorage, AK 1:18:04 2. Thomas Meacham, Anchorage, AK 1:42:09.
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Matriarch uses inheritance to keep her family in line If she has enough money that she’s successfully holding it over everyone’s heads, she has enough to hire someone to clean her house for her on a weekly or monthly basis. Rather than pray for her demise, ask yourself, “If she’s not Abigail Van Buren cleaning and cooking, how IS she taking care of herself?” Contact the senior center nearest to where this poor woman lives, or the closest Area Agency on Aging and ask what can be done to help her. If not you, then your husband’s parents, aunts and uncles should do this. Ignoring her condition could be considered elder abuse. DEAR ABBY: I have never seen this issue discussed anywhere but cannot believe I’m the only person who is dismayed by the tradition of bringing casseroles to the homes of the bereaved. When my father died, my mother and I hosted a post-memorial get-together at her home. Each of my parents’ many friends and
Hints from Heloise
Rubes
By Leigh Rubin
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Listen to what’s being said with care. Someone might be trying to send you an important message. Remain open. Even if you get a negative impression at first, say little. All this could change quickly. Tonight: All smiles. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You love your friends, but you love romance more. Many of you could be doing a juggling act with your interests today. The good news is that you actually enjoy yourself while carrying on like this. Tonight: Be with the people you most enjoy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Others seem to drop their errands, needs and responsibilities on you. Practice saying the word “no.” If you do, you’ll be a lot happier. Don’t forget to check in with an older friend or loved one. Tonight: Out late. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Reach out for someone you often see. You both have fiery tempers and can create fireworks all by yourself. You might wonder how your call will be received. Worry if you want to, but make the phone call. Tonight: Where the action is. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Don’t go overboard with trying to get someone to respond to you. This person either will or won’t want to be close. The less you do for him or her as you continue to be friends, the faster you’ll find out what this person wants from you. Tonight: Play it cool. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Defer to a loved one or dear friend. He or she seems to have a strong sense of planning. This person already made plans for you to join him or her today. Be gracious; observe. More than you realize might be going on. Tonight: Open up; share, especially if coaxed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might need more R and R. Your energy seems to be slowly leaving you. Don’t hesitate to ask for what you want from a loved one or dear friend. This person just might be in the mood to accommodate you. Tonight: All smiles. Let others make the first move. BORN TODAY American entrepreneur P.T. Barnum (1810), actress Edie Falco (1963), actor Ryan Hansen (1981)
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SEND A GREAT HINT TO: Heloise P.O. Box 795001 San Antonio, TX 78279-5001 Fax: 1-210-HELOISE Email: Heloise@Heloise.com THANK-YOU NOTES Dear Heloise: Please consider rethinking your response to thank-you notes for wedding gifts. It’s not the bride’s responsibility to write the thank-you notes; rather, it’s the couple’s responsibility. -- Pam in Kansas Pam, you’re absolutely right! Today, roles for people are changing. That said, women still do most of the thank-you notes, but I’d like to see more men get involved and help their new wives perform this task. -- Heloise CHARGE YOUR PHONE Dear Heloise: If you want to charge your phone quickly, plug it into the wall, not a PC. Think about investing in a fast charger, but check your phone’s manual or the manufacturer’s website to see what’s required for your make of phone. It’s usually not necessary to turn your phone off while charging, but be sure to check your phone’s manual, just to be certain. -- John W., Middletown, Del. IT’S IN THE BAG Dear Heloise: I ripen bananas, tomatoes and peaches in a paper bag on the kitchen counter. This traps the natural ethylene gases that many fruits release, and that speeds up the ripening process. -- Carrie W. in Ohio
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, July 5, 2019: This year, you break precedent and let your conservative self take a back seat. You want to add more zest to your daily life. If you’re single, someone you could become quite possessive of might be worth dealing with. All will turn out fine. If you’re attached, you and your partner express much more romantic passion than you have in the past. You have the material to write a love story together if you choose to do so. LEO gives you tips about your relationships. 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) HHHHH You’re unlikely to wind down from the fireworks. In fact, you keep going and going. Others wonder where all the energy comes from. Don’t underestimate an associate’s determination to get some personal time with you. Tonight: Nap first. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could be quite happy with what comes your way. You might feel as though you cannot settle in for a while. You easily could invite others over for an early breakfast. You might have a difficult time otherwise. Tonight: A loved one shows you his or her appreciation. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You’re full of commentary. You could weave among sarcasm, humor and dead seriousness. Others who are used to you might find the situation humorous, but a new acquaintance might be quite upset. He or she doesn’t know how to read you. Tonight: Indulge in some good old-fashioned fun. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might be full of fun and ready to frolic in your unique style. How you deal with someone could radically change after you see how he or she acts today. This person has the ability to draw in good luck by being upbeat. Tonight: Take a walk on the wild side. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You might overdo it or go overboard emotionally with someone you have an interest in. You cannot seem to ignore this person. You need to find out whether these feelings are mutual. Touch base with this person in the next few days. Tonight: Just ask.
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acquaintances brought a casserole. Mom’s refrigerator was always full, so there was no room after the seventh casserole. My mother told me to take the rest to the basement and say it was put in the freezer. My parents never owned a freezer, so after everyone left, we put 17 casseroles down the garbage disposal. Please make your readers aware that postfuneral food is often inconvenient even if the thought is appreciated. A restaurant gift card accomplishes the same thing and assures the family will end up with something they actually like. -- ENOUGH IS TOO MUCH DEAR ENOUGH: That the love, effort and expense your parents’ friends went to ended up down the drain is a shame. I am printing your letter because your suggestion makes sense and readers may appreciate it. If this happens to other readers, it would not be ungracious to be honest. Explain there is no more room in the fridge or freezer and suggest the food be taken with the mourners when they leave. 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: For the last 12 years, we have been traveling 7 1/2 hours to see my husband’s grandparents. This happens several times a year. Each time I pray it will be the last visit. Invariably, when we return home, I am sick for about a week, and it’s getting worse. At 96, Grandma isn’t cleaning the house (Grandpa died four years ago). She lives on her own in the country. Grandma has fallen, can’t cook for herself and still drives. The closest family member lives seven hours away. Grandma has always been a manipulator, and I’m tired of how she treats her family. She uses the “financial inheritance” for leverage. My family has things planned out in advance about what to do when someone has reached a certain age. I’m tired of subjecting myself to this, let alone facing Grandma’s wrath. The rest of the family accepts it for what it is. They don’t want to upset her, so they give in and accommodate. Do I have the right to back out? -- WANTS TO RUN AWAY DEAR WANTS: Before backing out, may I recommend that you and your husband discuss this with all of the relatives involved? It seems to me that a group intervention for Granny may be in order.
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