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Credit Union 1 to end pot business pilot program ANCHORAGE — An Alaska credit union plans to discontinue a pilot program to provide checking and savings accounts to marijuanarelated businesses, an official said. Credit Union 1 will end the program Aug. 30 because critical insurance coverage will no longer be available, The Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday. Cre dit Union 1 announced the program’s launch in November to establish financial services for the primarily cash-operated industry. Marijuana-related businesses cannot continue the program beyond a pilot phase without the liability coverage, said Credit Union 1 CEO James Wileman. Alaska voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. The state generated more than $10 million in marijuana tax revenue from July 2017 to June 2018, according to the state Department of Revenue. Cannabis businesses often operate in cash because banks and credit unions are wary of taking on clients whose product is still federally illegal, the newspaper reported. Credit Union 1 was told by its insurance broker that the necessary coverage would not be renewed because of the credit union’s cannabis banking program, Wileman said.
Loaded AR-15 rifle found along bike path ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage man walking his dog found a loaded semi-automatic rifle along a popular bike trail. The Anchorage Daily News reports William Thrash found the AR-15 Tuesday in grass a few feet off a bike path that runs along Campbell Creek. The greenbelt is a popular route for walkers and bikers. Thrash says he wondered whether the weapon was fake. He picked it up and found a round loaded in the chamber and other rounds in the magazine. — Associated Press
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Two key measures set for October ballot Voters to weigh in on city manager, sales tax cap. By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
Voters will get to weigh in on two measures — one changing the borough mayor’s role and another increasing the sales tax cap — in October’s municipal election. The decision to put the measures on the ballot was approved at Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. In a narrow five to four vote, the assembly passed an ordinance that would establish a manager form of
government, which would shift chief administrator duties to a manager. According to the ordinance, the form of government is used in 12 out of 19 Alaska boroughs. Sponsored by assembly members Hal Smalley and Kelly Cooper, the ordinance would allow the assembly to appoint a borough manager through a majority vote. In a June 20 memo from Cooper and Smalley to the assembly, they said the mayor would still be elected area wide, but would no longer be the chief administrator. “The mayor would serve as chair of the assembly, still be able to participate in assembly discussions, may vote on assembly actions in the
case of a tie and may veto assembly actions,” the memo states. This form of government can be initiated either by a petition or by a motion adopted by the assembly. If approved by the voters, the assembly would adopt a manager plan after the next mayoral election in 2020. The ordinance received criticism at Tuesday’s meeting, with many who spoke saying they wanted to see a plan for the transition. Duane Bannock of Kenai said he believes the ordinance will fail at the election, which is just over 50 days away, because there is no plan. “What’s your plan?” Bannock asked the assembly Tuesday night.
“It’s not in the ordinance or in the memo. What are the qualifications for new manager? What will recruitment and selection and hiring processes include? Who will be in charge of the process? What’s the salary range and benefit package being offered?” Stormi Brown, Kenai resident and former human resources director for the borough, said she doesn’t think the additional salary should scare people from the idea of a borough manager. “That borough manager will go through an interview and recruitment process,” she said. “An elected See vote, Page A3
Locals double up on recall drives
Peninsula residents have eyes set on removing state Rep. Gary Knopp from office By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
The turbulent political climate in Alaska has spurred many people to et involved outside of the ballot box. While a statewide effort was recently launched at the beginning of August to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a different recall effort — one aimed at Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Soldotna — has been underway on the Kenai Peninsula since the early days of the legislative session. Volunteers for the Recall Knopp effort have set up a booth every Wednesday at Soldotna Creek Park. Yesterday, the booth grabbed the attention of several passersbys. Denele McCarthy, a resident of Soldotna, was one of the Wednesday Market attendees to approach the “Recall Knopp” booth to add her name to the application. “I think after two special sessions and still not getting the work done, being excused or not, he’s not listening to his constituents,” McCarthy said. “It seems like they just want to raid the PFD and pay for state services that way instead of actually coming up with a fiscal plan.” Jason Floyd, owner of Ammo Can Coffee in Soldotna and selfdescribed conservative, has been leading this recall effort after a series of decisions by Knopp left Floyd and other Republican voters feeling betrayed and abandoned by a member of their own party, he said. Floyd said that he voted for Knopp, who ran unopposed in the last
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Denele McCarthy, of Soldotna, signs the petition Wednesday at Soldotna Creek Park to recall Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Soldotna.
election cycle, but even then he had low expectations for his representative. Looking back, Floyd said he should have taken the fact that no Democratic or independent candidate ran against Knopp as a warning sign of what was to come. At the beginning of the legislative session this year, Knopp was one of a number of Republicans who
formed a majority coalition with the House Democrats to stand against Dunleavy’s agenda. This split in the Republican Party led to 30 days of the House being unable to assign leadership roles for committees in order to begin the session, and Knopp ended up as the deciding vote that made Rep. Bryce Edgmon, then D-Dillingham and now I-Dillingham, the
Speaker of the House. “The majority of people on the peninsula voted for this governor, and the first thing Gary did when he was sworn in was say, ‘I’m gonna stand against Dunleavy because someone has to,’” Floyd said. “It’s like, who are you representing again?” See knopp, Page A3
Statewide efforts to boot Dunleavy from office come to Soldotna By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
A statewide effort to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy officially kicked off last Thursday, and on Wednesday several peninsula organizers set up a booth at Soldotna Creek Park to collect signatures. Vickie Herrmann from Kenai said that she signed the application during Wednesday’s signature drive because she is concerned about reduced funding for substance abuse treatment and public education, among other things.
“How could you take funding away from schools?” Herrmann said. Andrew Hanrahan, a commercial fisherman from Kasilof, also signed an application Wednesday. He said he does not feel that the governor has the state’s best interests in mind. “ D u n l e av y ’s views are extraordinarily short-sighted,” Hanrahan said. “The guy is a liar, and he’s not doing what’s best for Alaska.” The recall effort comes in the wake of two special legislative sessions that saw the governor and lawmakers go back and forth on issues concerning the state’s budget
and the appropriate amount for the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. Dunleavy campaigned on promises of significantly reducing the state’s budget and issuing a $3,000 dividend check to each Alaska resident. The recall effort is in response to some of the specific actions that he has taken in his first year as governor. Petitioners have cited four actions by Dunleavy as demonstrating either a neglect of duties, incompetence or a lack of fitness for the office: his refusal to appoint a judge to the Palmer Superior Court within 45 days of receiving nominations;
his alleged use of state funds to purchase electronic advertisements and direct mailers that made partisan statements about political opponents and supporters; his use of the lineitem veto to withhold funds from the judiciary in response to a court decision on abortion, and his veto of $18 million from state Medicaid funding that was made in error. Recalling an elected official in Alaska is a multistep process. In order to file the application for a recall petition, a number of signatures must See recall, Page A3
Conservation groups file lawsuit over wilderness road By Dan Joling Associated Press
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ANCHORAGE — Nine conservation groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. Interior Department over its latest proposed land trade that could lead to a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska. The Izembek National Wildlife
Refuge near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula contains internationally recognized habitat for migrating waterfowl. A federal court judge in March rejected a previous land swap. “This deal violates the same laws as the first one and we’re prepared to continue the legal fight to protect this irreplaceable wilderness,” said Bridget Psarianos, staff attorney for Trustees
for Alaska, an environmental law group representing the plaintiffs. Residents of King Cove, a village just outside the refuge boundaries, for decades have been seeking a land connection through the refuge to Cold Bay, which has an all-weather airport and better access to emergency flights. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
in 2013 concluded that a road would cause irrevocable damage to the Izembek watershed. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in a statement last month said the needs of King Cove residents were more important. “I choose to place greater weight on the welfare and well-being of the Alaska Native people who call King Cove home,” Bernhardt said.
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Veto reversal resolution fails at assembly By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
A resolution encouraging Gov. Dunleavy to sign HB 2001 failed at the Tuesday Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. Assembly members Kelly Cooper, Hal Smalley and Willy Dunne were in support of the resolution. HB 2001 is a budget bill that reverses about 80% of the $444 million in vetoes Dunleavy made to the operating budget in June. “This resolution is communicating to the governor the impact some of his vetoes have to the borough,” Dunne said at the meeting. “Some of these vetoes would harm the borough.” Dunne went on to illustrate how cuts to the university would impact projects and research in his district of the southern peninsula. He said a $6 million state cut to drug and alcohol treatment and
recovery may impact agencies trying to build recovery centers in his district. A $21 million senior benefits cut is impacting Homer area seniors, too, Dunne said. “Homer Senior Center reported that 13 seniors are slated for eviction because they cannot afford to pay their rent because their benefits have been withheld,” Dunne said. The assembly meeting was attended by Rep. Ben Carpenter of Nikiski, who said the resolution doesn’t help solve the problem. “This resolution, which I’m sure is well-meaning, is not helpful in the ultimate solution,” Carpenter said at the meeting. “What you’re saying is just go ahead and restore the vetoes, but you aren’t making a recommendation for how you’re going to pay for it. From the borough’s perspective you’re kicking the can to the next level to let them hash it out.”
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks with his cabinet members at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 8.
Smalley, who served in the Legislature, said finding solutions for where the money should come from is a job for state senators and representatives. “That is the Legislature’s responsibility,” Smalley said. “Identifying where those funds will come from — that’s
their job. They need to do their job.” The house bill was passed by the Legislature last week and is on the governor’s desk where he can choose to sign it into law, veto all or some of the bill or not sign it, allowing it to become law after the 30-day deadline on Aug. 30.
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Social service groups urge Dunleavy to relax veto pen By Dan Joling Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — Alaska social service providers gathered Wednesday to urge Gov. Mike Dunleavy to forego vetoes in the latest budget bill but acknowledged that they have no guarantee that the outcome will be different this time around. Dunleavy in June vetoed more than $400 million from a budget passed by legislators. More than one-third of the money vetoed was from the budget of the University of Alaska. Programs aiding the homeless, the elderly and the poor also took hits. State lawmakers could not muster a three-fourths majority to override. However at special session last week, they approved a budget bill restoring much of the money eliminated, which Dunleavy could
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strong mayor doesn’t have to be qualified to know anything. They don’t have to know how to manage money or staff or contracts or anything at all, and they get just under $100,000 in salary.” Others who spoke expressed concern about the people of the borough being unable to vote a manager out. “We have no way of getting rid of this borough manager if he keeps five people on this assembly happy,” Wilma Hanson of Nikiski said. “We don’t need a borough manager and that’s a fact.” A similar ordinance failed in 2010, assembly member Dale Bagley said at the meeting, and he suspects this ordinance will again. If approved by the voters in October, the assembly would have one year to prepare a plan for a borough manager form of government.
Sales tax cap An ordinance increasing the sales tax cap increase from $500 to $1,000 will also be going to the voters in October. The ordinance was introduced by Mayor Charlie Pierce and assembly member Kenn Carpenter and is aimed at maintaining future fund balances, according to the ordinance document. “Due to the continuing uncertainty about state and local revenues, the decline in state assistance to municipalities, the increasing loss in property tax revenues to the borough from exemptions on real property, and increasing reliance on borough funding for the school district, the borough must take steps to maintain its unrestricted fund balance into the future within financially prudent and responsible parameters to enable it to fund the services and public education programs as desired by borough residents,” the document said. “I just ask the people that come in here and ask for more education money, to get on the street corners and do their part to pass this measure,” assembly President Wayne Ogle said at the meeting. In a July 25 memo to the assembly, Borough Finance Director Brandi Harbaugh said estimates indicate the increase would generate approximately $3.1 million to $3.4 million annually
again veto. At a press conference outside state offices in Anchorage, representatives of more than two dozen groups urged Dunleavy to retain the money both as a driver of the economy and as a humanitarian response to Alaskans who lack basic services such as food, health care and housing. “Yes, Alaska is faced with a fiscal challenge,” said Trevor Storrs of Alaska Children’s Trust. “But the real issue we are faced with today is deciding what kind of state we want to live in.” One of the highest risk factors for children, Storrs said, is homelessness. Eliminating a majority of services for combatting homelessness, early childhood education and behavioural health services puts children in harm’s way and endangers Alaska’s future work force, he
in borough revenue. The ordinance passed the assembly seven to two, with assembly member Brent Hibbert and Bagley voting against sending the question to the voters. “This has been in front of us before,” Hibbert said. “I think we had a great plan with the bed tax. I think it would have passed … I don’t think this is going to make it. I’m going to vote no on it.” “I think we did have a good plan there with the bed tax and I hate to see this thing trump the bed tax,” Bagley said. “I strongly believe this will get shot down when the voters vote on it.” Other assembly members were reluctant to pass the ordinance to the voters, including assembly member Norm Blakeley. “After being on this body for awhile, it seems like we have a real problem spending money constantly,” Blakeley said. “We’re going to get another $3.4 million out of this and I know its going to be spent, somehow somewhere, and that’s my problem with it. But, I think the people have a right to vote on it but I’m not crazy about doing it.” Tyson Cox, a current council member in Soldotna, urged the assembly to pass the ordinance to a vote of the people. “The argument of whether it should be $500 or $1,000 is not really he argument we should be having right now,” Cox said at the meeting. “It’s should we bring this to the people and let them decide? I personally believe so. I would like to vote on that and I’m sure there’s a lot of people that would.” Currently, the borough’s sales tax is only applied to a maximum of $500 per sale, rent or service transaction. This sum was enacted in 1965, and never adjusted for inflation or otherwise. The ordinance states the value of $500 in 1965 would have been equal to $3,195 in 2018, according to the Alaska Department of Labor Anchorage Consumer Price Index inflation. The ordinance would keep the sales tax cap to $500 on rents, since an increase in the overall cap would disproportionately affect tenants. “Affordable rental housing is important for the borough and its residents, and the borough’s best interests would be served by keeping the cap on residential rentals at $500 per month,” the ordinance document states. If approved by voters, the increase would be effective Jan. 1, 2020.
said. He urged Dunleavy to be a champion for children. “Preserve the Alaska we all live in,” he said. Ken Helander, advocacy director for AARP, called for Dunleavy to maintain the senior benefits program, Pioneers Homes and Alaska Legal Services that allow elders to live in dignity. “These parts of our community that have been so carefully crafted are now threatened by decisions that do not reflect respect for our elders or wisdom for the community,” Helander said. Michael Fredericks, chairwoman of Catholic Social Services board, said the agency served 3,339 people — including 172 veterans and 539 victims of domestic violence — with its homeless services network during the three coldest months of the winter.
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be collected equal to 10% of people who voted in the last election. In this case, that number is 28,501. The recall campaign is set to release on Friday morning the number of signatures collected, but has not given any specifics. Seward organizer Fay Herold said on Wednesday that the statewide campaign was well over halfway to reaching its first goal. Herold added that they collected more than 10,000 signatures within the first day of the recall. After filing the application, it will
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At a town hall in Soldotna last February, Knopp explained to his constituents why he broke from the Republican Party and caucused with the Democrats in the House. At the time, Knopp argued that while he was in favor of cutting government spending, he didn’t agree to the steep cuts that the governor had in mind. Floyd attended this town hall, and at the time he had not yet made up his mind whether or not to begin the recall process. At one point, Knopp said he used “sleightof-hand” in order to resolve the conflict over House leadership, referring to when he unexpectedly nominated himself as Speaker in order to prevent Rep. Dave
The organization, which serves people of all faiths, lost $1.2 million in the initial vetoes. “We project a 48% increase in homelessness immediately and directly affecting the health and safety of the individuals I mentioned,” she said, and increased cost to municipalities for dealing with them. The agency oversees high-profile, short-term crisis shelters such as the Brother Francis shelter and Clare House, a 24-hour emergency shelter open to women with children and expectant mothers over the age of 18. The biggest financial hit, however, has been to its case management services that are designed to permanently “ladder out” people from homelessness. The agency has begun to lay off case workers for the program, Fredericks said.
Mark Lackey of Alaska Head Start Association, which supports health and education services for preschool children of low-income families, said the organization estimates 500 fewer children will be enrolled statewide if vetoes are sustained. Dunleavy has said that he sees much of the budget settled but that he would consider putting some money back in, according to his spokesman, Matt Shuckerow. Dunleavy told reporters last week that cuts and efficiencies must be part of a sustainable budget plan. He said he expected there would be vetoes in the latest budget but the extent had not been determined. “But, again, the idea behind this is not, quote, to harm Alaska. The idea behind this is to get a sustainable budget” and resolve the state’s budget deficit, Dunleavy said.
either be approved or rejected by the state’s Division of Elections, and from there organizers will have to collect at least another 71,252 signatures, which is 25% of the number of voters in the last election. If that number is reached and the petition is accepted, a special election will be held within 60-90 days and the recall question will appear on the ballot of the next statewide election. Herold said that, if all goes according to plan, this could take place as early as next summer. If a majority of voters decide to recall the governor, the normal succession protocol will kick in and Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer will serve as governor for the remainder of Dunelavy’s term.
Herold said that the recall coalition is nonpartisan and citizen-led. Due to the initial outpouring of signatures, Herold and other organizers are “extremely confident” that they will reach their goals. “We can’t get volunteers to the petition locations quick enough,” Herold said. “And it’s all been by word-of-mouth. We’ve spent no advertising money but Alaskans are coming out of the woodwork to sign.” On the peninsula, volunteers have already collected signatures during Salmonfest and in Homer, Ninilchiik, Nikiski and Soldotna. Organizers estimated that hundreds of signatures were collected yesterday at Soldotna Creek Park.
Talerico, R-Healy, from obtaining the position. “I was so shocked by what Gary said,” Floyd said. That moment was when Floyd decided to move forward with the recall effort. The petition cites three reasons for recalling Knopp: neglect of duties, incompetence and fitness for office. Recalling an elected official in Alaska is a multistep process. Floyd and the other petitioners have to collect a number of signatures equal to 10% of those who voted in the last election cycle in order to file an application for a petition. In this case, that number is about 800, and Floyd said that their goal is 1,000 just to be safe. After filing the application, the petition is then approved or rejected by the state, and if approved Floyd and others would then need to collect a number of signatures equal to 25% of those
who voted in the last election. Floyd said that their goal for the total number of petition signatures is 3,000. The recall effort is still in the application stage, and Floyd said that they’ve collected about half of the signatures they need to file the petition. If the application is accepted and the group collects the 3,000 signatures needed for the petition, a special election would be held within 60-90 days of the petition’s approval that would ask voters a yes-or-no question: Shall Rep. Gary Knopp be recalled from office? In addition to the booth set up every Wednesday at Soldotna Creek Park, the petition is available to sign at Ammo Can Coffee, Artzy Junkin gift shop, Big Dog Custom 4x4 Auto Repair and Hispeed Gear computer repair. Anyone interested in volunteering or donating can visit recallgaryknopp.com for more information.
around the peninsula Harvest Moon Local Food Festival Kenai Local Food Connection is accepting vendor applications for its Harvest Moon Local Food Festival, to be held 10 a.m.-6 pm, Saturday, Sept. 14 at Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna The festival is open to vendors of food (grown, harvested or made in Alaska); medicinal/ wellness/personal care products made from locally grown or wild-harvested ingredients; food trucks featuring local ingredients; and educational booths relevant to the purpose of the festival. The rate is $30 per 10’ x 10’ tent space.
The vendor application is on-line at kenailocalfood.org/projects. For more information, call Heidi at 907-283-8732 x 5.
Kenai/Nikiski Class of ’89 reunion Kenai/Nikiski Class of ’89 reunion will be held Friday, Aug. 9 at Kenai River Brewing company from 5:30-8 p.m. and at Bridge Lounge at 8 p.m. same night. A potluck at Hilcorp Rec Site will be held Saturday, Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. Info: FB Kenai Peninsula Class of ‘89 or call 253-229-9877.
TRASHercise! The City of Kenai is sponsoring a series of lunch time hikes with the purpose of cleaning up our city and getting some exercise at the same time — TRASHercise! The next scheduled TRASHercise is this Thursday, Aug. 8 at Kenai Municipal Park (301 S. Forest Dr.). Please join us as we enjoy our beautiful city and keep our community clean at the same time. Details: All TRASHercise events are from noon-1 p.m. All TRASHercise events are pending suitable weather. We will post on our Facebook page if we cancel.
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Texans must ask ourselves, who are we?
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ho are we? We ask because of what happened Saturday in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed — and, several hours later, in Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed. We ask because the mayor of El Paso, Dee Margo, said: This is not who we are. (We’re paraphrasing.) He said it with conviction. And he’s right. El Paso is a peaceful, neighborly city. El Pasoans live their lives harmoniously, interdependent with the residents of Juarez, the city on the other side of the border. It’s how El Paso and Juarez have been for 350 years, Margo said. El Paso averages fewer homicides in a year than happened Saturday — if you need statistics to show you who El Paso is and isn’t. More to the point, the gunman didn’t come from El Paso, or from the other side of the border. He came all the way from Allen, Texas, 659.2 miles to the east-northeast via interstate, according to Google Maps. What happened in El Paso is as unlike El Paso as what happened inside a church at Sutherland Springs, Texas — 26 people shot dead — was unlike that church congregation, and what happened at a school in Santa Fe, Texas, 10 people killed, was unlike that group of students and faculty. The killers in those other two shootings had a direct connection to their targets. The El Paso killer has no known connection to El Paso — proving Margo’s point that this is not who El Paso is. It’s somebody else. Somebody full of hate — hate that was encouraged. Hate that has no place in El Paso. El Paso is a safe city and an example of how relations between two countries should be. El Paso steps up to protect immigrant children. Now, El Paso is in shock. El Paso has lost mothers and fathers, tios y tias, abuelos y abuelas, people who mattered. But, according to Margo, this tragic, avoidable loss will not define El Paso. It’s not who El Paso is. Who are we? As Texans, we’re a people who have endured three horrific mass killings in less than two years. In defining who we are, we must ask and answer for ourselves: ■■ What could we have done differently? ■■ What are we willing to do now to stop this madness? ■■ What will our leaders do and what will we demand of them? ■■ We can start by asking Gov. Greg Abbott who he is, who he’d like to be and how he’d like to be remembered. He has been governor during all of these shootings. Is that how he wants to be remembered? Abbott, to his credit, steps up during crises, going to disaster scenes sometimes when they still aren’t safe. He shows compassion, but struggles to acknowledge gun violence is hurting our state. Abbott is the governor who went to a shooting range to sign a bill lowering the fee for concealed carry permits. During this stunt, he shot a few rounds and said he’d save the bulletriddled target as a message to news reporters. What will Abbott do, in the aftermath of El Paso, to make us forget he is that guy? Will he blame mental illness — the increasingly popular scapegoat of cowards who don’t want to admit there are too many guns and too much hate, and are unwilling to do something about it? Who’s Gov. Greg Abbott? A religious man. He said he and his wife are praying for El Paso and he asked the rest of us to do the same. We have no reason to doubt that he has been praying and believes in the power of prayer. But we’ve heard this all before, and the result seems to be one more mass shooting after another. Why not on President Donald Trump, who spreads hate, which is the cause of these mass shootings? Or Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who targeted Black Lives Matter after the Dallas police shootings and is blaming video games for the El Paso shooting? Asked and answered. Abbott gives us reasons to have higher expectations. It still doesn’t answer the question: Who are we? Who do we want to be? We all should want to be more like El Paso, as fine an example of peace and harmony as there is — a peace and harmony that it took an outsider to disrupt. And we must find effective solutions that will prevent similar tragedies. That’s who we need to be. — Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Aug. 5
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voices of the peninsula | Fran Zwonitzer
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s I contemplate the upcoming election, I am reminded of all the men and women, alive and dead, who bought my ticket to freedom by picking up a gun and going to war. I’m reminded of the slaves who were ripped away from their homes and families, forced to leave their own countries in order to build ours. Millions died as a result. I pay tribute to the women of the suffragette movement who were willing to do whatever it took, including die, to insure that I would be able to exercise my rights as a woman in a very male-dominated society. We have arrived at this moment in history by swimming in the rivers of blood, sweat and tears shed by people the world over. Americans are not the only people who have paid dearly for the freedom we enjoy in this country. In order for humans to survive, we took what we needed as we began to migrate across the earth. We killed not
only to get it, but also to keep it. When you cast your vote in this election, it won’t matter whether you are Republican, Democrat or any other. It won’t matter whether you are black, white or green. It will not matter whether you are male, female or undecided. It will only matter that you have made an effort to gain an understanding of the truth. If you expect that truth from a politician, you will undoubtedly be disappointed. A quote from Socrates seems to sum it up: “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.” Lying is nothing new when it involves politics. What is quite disturbing is the blatancy of these lies an the willingness of the American people to slap some jam on ‘em and eat ‘em right up. We need to be more aware of hidden agendas disguised as truth. Our freedom is absolutely dependent on our education. Many slaves
paid the ultimate price as a result of learning to read. Slave owners realized they could not control an educated populace. Read a few books about the early development of our country. Learn about the support given to Hitler by our government and some of the wealthiest men in America. Discover the truth about the oil and drug cartels and the influence of capitalism around the world. Be aware of any who claim to be capable of engineering world peace. There will be no true peace until the Prince of Peace returns. His name is Jesus. I urge you to ponder the words of Adolf Hitler: “What great fortune that the people do not think.” These dark words seem to have taken on new life, and have never been more relevant since the day they were spoken. Be vigilant. Fran Zwonitzer has lived 16 years in Homer and moved here from Colorado.
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McConnell, GOP Senate unlikely to act swiftly on guns By Lisa Mascaro and Matthew Daly Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is resisting pressure to bring senators back from recess to address gun violence, despite wrenching calls to “do something” in the aftermath of backto-back mass shootings. Instead, the Republican leader is taking a more measured approach, as GOP senators are talking frequently among themselves, and with the White House, in the face of mounting criticism that Congress is failing to act. President Donald Trump is privately calling up senators — and publicly pushing for an expansion of background checks for firearms purchases — but McConnell knows those ideas have little Republican support. In fact, the White House threatened to veto a House-passed background checks bill earlier this year. Yet, as the nation reels from the frequency of shootings and their grave toll, McConnell’s unwillingness to confront the gun lobby or move more swiftly is coming under scrutiny. “I can only do what I can do,” the president told reporters as he departed Washington for visits to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, where 31 people were killed in two mass shootings over the weekend. On Wednesday, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown made a personal plea to Trump during his visit to “call on Sen. McConnell to bring the Senate back in session this week, to tell the Senate he wants the background checks bill that has already passed the House.” House Democrats signed onto a letter urging McConnell to act immediately on the House-passed legislation, which would require federal background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, including online and at gun shows. In Kentucky, where McConnell is recuperating
from a weekend fall that left his shoulder fractured, activists have been demonstrating at his home and protesting at his downtown Louisville office. “House Democrats are moving prayerfully and purposefully to advance action,” wrote Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter Wednesday to Democratic colleagues. The Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., may take action during the recess on so-called “red flag” legislation to allow removal of guns from those deemed a threat to themselves or others. But none of it has moved the Republican Senate to act more urgently. McConnell’s office is declining comment, referring back to a short statement he issued late Monday saying he was tasking three GOP committee chairmen “to engage in bipartisan discussions of potential solutions.” The politics of gun violence are difficult for Republicans, including McConnell, who would risk losing support as he seeks reelection in Kentucky if he backed restricting access to firearms and ammunition. Other Republicans, including those in Colorado, Maine and swing states, also would face difficult votes, despite the clamor for some changes to gun laws. “In Congress, we’re trying to come up with some answers,” Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn, who is also up for reelection, said after donating blood in El Paso. In the meantime, Trump has been dialing up Senate Republicans about what is possible. Trump spoke at least three times with Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who has long pushed a bipartisan background check bill with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the GOP senator said. Trump continues to say there’s “great appetite” for background checks legislation. “I think we can bring up background checks like we’ve never had before,” he said
before departing Washington. But that is not the case, for now. Instead, Republicans are trying to build support for more modest measures, including so-called red-flag bills from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that would allow friends and family to petition authorities to keep guns away from some people. But those efforts are also running into trouble from conservatives, who worry about due process and infringing on gun owners’ rights. GOP senators are also considering changes to the existing federal background checks system, modeled on the so-called “fix-NICS” bill signed into law from the last session of Congress, as well as strengthening penalties for hate crimes, Republicans said. Republican senators have been doing almost daily conference calls, and talking among themselves and the White House, as they try to figure out their next steps, according to a Republican aide familiar with calls who discussed the private talks on condition of anonymity. While many of those proposals have bipartisan support, Democrats are unlikely to agree to them without consideration of the more substantive background checks bill. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday, “We Democrats are not going to settle for half-measures so Republicans can feel better and try to push the issue of gun violence off to the side.” Manchin, who said he talked with Trump on Monday and Tuesday, said the president is “very committed to getting something done that will make a difference.” He said, “At this point in time leadership comes from President Trump.” Even though the Democratic-led House overwhelmingly approved the background checks bill in February, it has scant support in the Republican Senate.
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House Judiciary sues to force McGahn to testify WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee took another step toward possible impeachment proceedings, filing a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday aimed at forcing former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify about his interactions with President Donald Trump. McGahn was a star witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation who — under Trump’s orders — has refused to testify before the panel. The Democratic lawsuit challenges the White House rationale that McGahn and other witnesses have “absolute immunity” from appearing and can defy subpoenas. The legal action comes at a time when more than half of House Democrats have said they support beginning an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi has so far resisted that step, saying she wants to wait to see what happens in court. The McGahn lawsuit is a central part of Pelosi’s strategy of “legislate, investigate, litigate,” but could delay any final decisions on impeachment for several months.
Judge intervenes on behalf of threatened seabird in Oregon SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon judge has ruled that the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission illegally reversed an earlier decision granting endangered species status to the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in old-growth forests. Conservation groups on Wednesday accused Oregon officials of seeking to avoid protections for the bird, allowing clear-cut logging where it nests. Michelle Dennehy, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, or ODFW, said it does not comment on legal matters. “Oregon’s desperate struggle to avoid protections for the marbled murrelet ignored science, the law and ODFW’s mission to protect Oregon’s imperiled wildlife,” said Nick Cady, legal director at Cascadia Wildlands, one of the groups that in 2016 petitioned the wildlife commission to list the marbled murrelet as endangered.
Kansas imposes toughest online tax collections in the nation TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas plans to impose what some tax experts said Wednesday would be the nation’s most aggressive policy for collecting state and local taxes on online sales, possibly inviting a legal battle. The state Department of Revenue issued a notice last week saying any “remote seller” doing business with Kansas residents must register with the department, collect state and local sales taxes and forward the revenues to the state, starting Oct. 1. It cites a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year allowing states to collect sales taxes on internet sales.
around the world Canadian police say 2 bodies found, believed to be fugitives TORONTO — Canadian police said Wednesday they believe two fugitives suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man have been found dead in dense brush in northern Manitoba. Authorities located two male bodies and are confident they are 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy. She said an autopsy will confirm their identities and causes of death. Critical evidence found last week when police discovered items directly linked to the suspects on the shoreline of the Nelson River helped locate the bodies, MacLatchy said. Following that discovery, authorities were able to narrow down the search. — Associated Press
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Trump visits met with protests By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas — Aiming to play the traditional role of healer during national tragedy, President Donald Trump paid visits Wednesday to two cities reeling from mass shootings that left 31 dead and dozens more wounded. But his divisive words preceded him, large protests greeted him and biting political attacks soon followed. The president and first lady Melania Trump flew to El Paso late in the day after visiting the Dayton hospital where many of the victims of Sunday’s attack in that city were treated. The president was kept out of view of the reporters traveling with him, but White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said the couple met with hospital staff and first responders and spent time with wounded survivors and their families. Trump told them he was “with them,” she said. “Everybody received him very warmly. Everybody was very, very excited to see him.” But outside Miami Valley Hospital, at least 200
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Demonstrators chant Wednesday as they protest the arrival of President Donald Trump outside Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohion, after a mass shooting that occurred in the Oregon District early Sunday morning.
protesters gathered, blaming Trump’s incendiary rhetoric for inflaming political and racial tensions in the country and demanding action on gun control. Some said Trump was not welcome in their city. There were Trump supporters, as well. Emotions are still raw in the aftermath of the early Sunday morning shooting rampage that left 10 dead, including the gunman, in the city’s popular Oregon entertainment district. Critics contend Trump’s own words have
Texas governor: ‘No red flags’ in El Paso suspect’s past EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he’s not aware of any “red flags” in the suspected El Paso gunman’s past and made no
contributed to a combustible climate that has spawned violence in cities including El Paso, where another shooter killed 22 people over the weekend. And the vitriol continued Wednesday. Trump spent part of his flight between Ohio and Texas airing his grievances on Twitter, berating Democratic lawmakers, a potential 2020 rival and the press. It was a remarkable split-screen appearance for TV viewers, with White House images of handshakes and
mention of taking major gun-control measures following the state’s third mass shooting since 2017. Abbott, a Republican, said racism needs to be confronted and a crackdown initiated on internet sites used by violent extremists after the weekend attack that left 22 people dead in the
selfies juxtaposed with angry tweets. Trump and the White House have forcefully disputed the idea that he bears some responsibility for the nation’s divisions. And Trump continued to do so as he left for the trip on Wednesday. “My critics are political people,” Trump said, noting the apparent political leanings of the shooter in the Dayton killings. He also defended his rhetoric on issues including immigration, claiming instead that he “brings people together.” Some 85% of U.S. adults believe the tone and nature of political debate has become more negative, with a majority saying Trump has changed things for the worse, according to recent Pew Research Center polling. And more than three quarters, 78%, say that elected officials who use heated or aggressive language to talk about certain people or groups make violence against those people more likely. In Dayton, raw anger and pain were on display as protesters chanted “Ban those guns” and “Do something!” during Trump’s visit.
mostly Latino border city. “The people of Texas have been victimized by several mass shootings. It must be stopped,” said Abbott, who met with legislators Wednesday in El Paso and said the state will act swiftly to address his calls for action. — Associated Press
Third governor in 6 days for Puerto Rico By DÁnica Coto Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez became Puerto Rico’s new governor Wednesday, just the second woman to hold the office, after weeks of political turmoil and hours after the island’s Supreme Court declared Pedro Pierluisi’s swearing-in a week ago unconstitutional. Accompanied by her husband, Judge Jorge Díaz, and her daughter, Vázquez took the oath of office in the early evening at the Supreme Court before leaving without making any public comment. “I will continue to focus on helping our people regain
Today in History Today is Thursday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2019. There are 145 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon, facing damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, announced he would resign the following day. On this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph. In 1942, during World War II, six Nazi saboteurs who were captured after landing in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others who cooperated with authorities were spared. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed the U.S. instrument of ratification for the United Nations Charter. The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II. In 1968, the Republican national convention in Miami Beach nominated Richard Nixon for president on the first ballot. In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as “damned lies” reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vowed not to resign -- which he ended up doing. In 1993, in Somalia, four U.S. soldiers were killed when a land mine was detonated underneath their vehicle, prompting President Bill Clinton to order Army Rangers to try to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. In 2000, the wreckage of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking the Union ship Housatonic, was recovered off the South Carolina coast and returned to port. In 2002, Saddam Hussein organized a big military parade and then warned “the forces of evil” not to attack Iraq as he sought once more to shift the debate away from world demands that he live up to agreements that ended the Gulf War. In 2003, the Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese offered $55 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits stemming from alleged sex abuse by priests. (The archdiocese later settled for $85 million.) In 2006, Roger Goodell was chosen as the NFL’s next commissioner. In 2008, China opened the Summer Olympic Games with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry. Ten years ago: Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic and third female justice. A small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River in New York City, killing nine people, including five Italian tourists. Typhoon Morakot slammed into Taiwan, leaving more than 670 either dead or missing (the typhoon also killed 22 people in the Philippines and eight in China). Five years ago: The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. Israel and militants from Gaza resumed cross-border attacks, after a three-day truce expired. One year ago: The United States announced that it would impose new sanctions on Russia for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempt to kill a former spy and his daughter in Britain. Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle died at the age of 36 after a long battle with cancer. A Montana coroner said the death of “Superman” actress Margot Kidder had been ruled a suicide from a drug and alcohol overdose. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Nita Talbot is 89. Actor Dustin Hoffman is 82. Actress Connie Stevens is 81. Country singer Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) is 80. Actor Larry Wilcox is 72. Actor Keith Carradine is 70. Movie director Martin Brest is 68. Radio-TV personality Robin Quivers is 67. Percussionist Anton Fig is 66. Actor Donny Most is 66. Rock musician Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) is 62. TV personality Deborah Norville is 61. Actor-singer Harry Crosby is 61. Rock musician The Edge (U2) is 58. Rock musician Rikki Rockett (Poison) is 58. Rapper Kool Moe Dee is 57. Rock musician Ralph Rieckermann is 57. Middle distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton is 51. Rock singer Scott Stapp is 46. Country singer Mark Wills is 46. Actor Kohl Sudduth is 45. Rock musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) is 44. Singer JC Chasez (‘N Sync) is 43. Actress Tawny Cypress is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Drew Lachey (lah-SHAY’) (98 Degrees) is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marsha Ambrosius is 42. Actress Lindsay Sloane is 42. Actress Countess Vaughn is 41. Actor Michael Urie is 39. Tennis player Roger Federer is 38. Actress Meagan Good is 38. Rock musician Eric Howk (Portugal. The Man) is 38. Actress Jackie Cruz (TV: “Orange is the New Black”) is 35. Britain’s Princess Beatrice of York is 31. Actor Ken Baumann is 30. Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo is 30. Pop singer Shawn Mendes is 21. Actress Bebe Wood (TV: “The Real O’Neals”) is 18. Thought for Today: “It is the anonymous ‘they,’ the enigmatic ‘they’ who are in charge. Who is ‘they’? I don’t know. Nobody knows. Not even ‘they’ themselves.” -- Joseph Heller, American author (1923-1999).
their way in an orderly and peaceful fashion,” she said in a statement in which she promised to assume the position with “humility and commitment.” T h e h i g h c o u r t ’s unanimous decision, which could not be appealed, settled the dispute over who will lead the U.S. territory after its political establishment was knocked off balance by big street protests spawned by anger over corruption, mismanagement of funds and a leaked obscenity-laced chat that forced the previous governor and several top aides to resign. But it was also expected to unleash a new wave of demonstrations because many Puerto Ricans have said they don’t want Vázquez as governor. “It is concluded that the swearing in as governor by Hon. Pedro R. Pierluisi Urrutia, named secretary of state in recess, is unconstitutional,” the court said in a brief statement. Pierluisi said that he had stepped forward to help islanders “in the best good faith and desire to contribute to the future of
our homeland,” but that he would respect the court’s ruling. “I must step aside and support the Justice Secretary of Puerto Rico, the Honorable Wanda Vázquez Garced,” he said in a statement before she was sworn in. People began cheering in some parts of San Juan after the ruling was announced. But late in the day, about two dozen protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion and called for the removal of Vázquez. “There’ll be no peace as long as there’s impunity,” yelled the crowd, which remained calm as curious onlookers including tourists took pictures and video. Carmen Santiago, a homemaker from San Juan who joined the protest, said Puerto Ricans still have energy to organize more protests. “Especially the young people,” she said. “It should be the people who choose the governor, not the party.” But many Puerto Ricans are physically and emotionally exhausted and want an end to the political turmoil, said
Xiomary Morales, a waitress and student who works a block away. She praised the court’s decision, saying that those in power “are used to doing what they want.” “They should just hold fresh elections, hit restart like a PlayStation game,” Morales said. Tita Caraballo, a retired nurse from the inland eastern city of Gurabo, disagreed with the court. “I think they are playing with the people and, I don’t know, maybe they have someone they want and that is why they are doing this,” Caraballo said. Pierluisi was appointed secretary of state by thenGov. Ricardo Rosselló while legislators were in recess, and only the House approved his nomination. Pierluisi was then sworn in as governor Friday after Rosselló formally resigned in response to the protests. Puerto Rico’s Senate sued to challenge Pierluisi’s legitimacy as governor, arguing that its approval was also necessary, and the Supreme Court decided in favor of the Senate.
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Seward’s Jacoby wins Junior Nationals race By Joey Klecka Peninsula Clarion
Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby continued her meteoric career arc Tuesday with a championship win at the 2019 Speedo Junior National Championships at Stanford University, California. Jacoby, an incoming Seward High School sophomore, won the
women’s 100-meter breaststroke, her specialty, in a time of 1 minute, 8.12 seconds. Jacoby tagged the wall 0.61 seconds ahead of runner-up Emma Weber. Jacoby, 15, was fastest out of 117 swimmers in the event preliminaries with a time of 1:10.03, then lowered her own personal record in the A final with a time just four seconds off the current women’s
world record of 1:04.13, held by the USA Olympian Lilly King. “We’re really excited about it,” said Jacoby’s high school coach, Meghan O’Leary. “It’s a big deal, she’s very happy and it was one of her goals going into the meet.” Jacoby is already qualified for next summer’s US Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, thanks to a sizzling time in the 100 breaststroke
last December at the Winter Nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Winter Nationals performance followed up a sensational freshman campaign in high school, where she won two state titles for Seward in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200 IM. Jacoby is also fresh off a 12th-place finish in the same race at the Phillips 66 National
Championships last weekend. Jacoby finished fourth in the B final in the 100 breaststroke Saturday in the same pool, competing against world-class athletes. In Tuesday’s Junior Nationals final, Jacoby also almost captured the meet record time of 1:08.11, held by American swimmer Zoe Bartel from 2016. Jacoby’s time was 1/100 of a second off Bartel’s mark.
Owens, Brennan lead locals at Soggy Bottom bike race By Jeff Helminiak Peninsula Clarion
Sterling’s Tyle Owens, 17, and Soldotna’s Angie Brennan, 45, led Kenai Peninsula riders Saturday in the Soggy Bottom Challenge mountain bike race. The men’s race was won by Anchorage’s Jason Lamoreaux, finishing in 5 hours, 34 minutes and 35 seconds, ahead of Anchorage’s Owen Ala at 5:49:57. Owens came through at 6:16:44. The women’s race went to Anchorage’s Ana Jager at 6:53:08, with Tazlina Mannix second at 6:53:57. Brennan crossed at 8:48:46. The event is normally 100 miles, with 10,200 feet of climb and loss, but this year was shortened to 70 miles, with 6,700 feet of climb and loss. The section of the trail that was cut off is Resurrection Pass South, from Cooper Landing to the junction with the Devil’s Creek Trail. So riders started in Hope, rode Resurrection Pass North and the Devil’s Creek Trail, then returned. Owens said the race was cut because Resurrection Pass South was opened just days before the race after the Swan Lake Fire. Also, this was a good opportunity to test the 70-mile course in the event of a heavy rain year.
Competing in his third Soggy, Owens said the shorter course had a big effect on the pace. He said the distance drew some of the state’s top riders, and that showed right from the start. “In the past two years, it started out a bit slower, with everybody talking up the gravel road to the trail head,” Owens said. “On the gravel road this year, there wasn’t much talking, and once on the trail, everybody took off like it was a sprint.” Owens said he woke up with a bit of a head cold Saturday. Early in the course, he forgot about a 90-degree turn on an descent and went over the handlebars. Add all that to the unexpected quick pace and it was a rough start. “In the first hour, I had a really rough go of it,” he said. “I couldn’t get my head in the game. Climbing after the first hour, I started to feel pretty good.” At the front of the pack, the quick pace had taken its toll. Seward’s Chaz DiMarzio, the 2013 and 2018 champ, had the lead but crashed before the Devil’s Creek trail head and had to drop out of the race. DiMarzio had started every Soggy except one since the race began in 2004, and failed to finish a Soggy he started for just the third time. “He was flying,” Owens said of DiMarzio. “It was
Yankees roll to 8th straight, rout Orioles BALTIMORE (AP) — Gio Urshela and Kyle Higashioka each hit two home runs, and the Yankees’ long-ball outburst against the Baltimore Orioles reached historical proportions Wednesday night in a 14-2 blowout that extended New York’s winning streak to eight games. Urshela had a pair of tworun drives, and Higashioka totaled five RBIs with his two shots. It was the first career multihomer game for both players. The Yankees have 11 players with multihomer games against Baltimore this season, breaking the record of 10 set by San Francisco against the Dodgers in 1958.
METS 7, MARLINS 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Conforto homered twice, Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil hit two-run shots and New York completed a fourgame sweep of Miami. The Mets posted their sixth straight victory, winning for the 13th time in 14 games.
DODGERS 2, CARDINALS 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Martin drove a tworun, two-out single up the middle for the Dodgers’ 10th walk-off win of the season, and Los Angeles swept St. Louis.
BRAVES 11, TWINS 7 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ozzie Albies homered twice in his second straight fourhit game, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman both went deep, and Atlanta beat Minnesota.
WHITE SOX 8, TIGERS 1 DETROIT (AP) — Ivan Nova pitched eight scoreless innings, and Chicago beat Detroit.
BLUE JAYS 4, RAYS 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Reliever Brock Stewart allowed two hits over four scoreless innings in his Toronto debut and win over Tampa Bay.
ASTROS 14, ROCKIES 3 HOUSTON (AP) — Yuli Gurriel drove in a team record-tying eight runs, Gerrit Cole won his 10th straight decision and Houston routed Colorado.
BREWERS 8, PIRATES 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Keston Hiura hit two home runs and drove in three runs, powering Milwaukee to a three-game sweep of Pittsburgh.
CUBS 10, ATHLETICS 1 CHICAGO (AP) — Ian Happ hit his second career grand slam, José Quintana tossed two-hit ball through seven innings to win his sixth straight and Chicago routed Oakland.
MARINERS 3, PADRES 2 SEATTLE (AP) — Mallex Smith doubled leading off the eighth inning and scored when Daniel Vogelbach beat out a potential inning-ending double play, and Seattle snapped a five-game losing streak.
pretty impressive. “I think everyone was going so much harder and being a little less careful. They’re thinking they have to make up time here because they don’t have 40 more miles.” That need for speed did not mix well with brushy trail conditions. “It was so overgrown,” Owens said. “At times, I was just looking for a low spot in the brush. I ended up with some pretty good pushkie burns. I almost couldn’t see the trail in spots.” By the Devil’s Creek trail head, Owens had worked his way into a tie for fourth with Dante Petri, a former Sterling resident now living in Anchorage. Owens said great work from his team got him out of the checkpoint a little more than two minutes ahead of Petri. But Petri caught Owens by the climb to the junction with Res Pass and was able to beat him by a little over two minutes. Owens will head to Seward this fall to enroll in the 10-month industrial electricity program at AVTEC. He wants the Soggy to be a part of his future. He said he has his training dialed in, but needs more experience. “It was a whole different race and the pacing was
scoreboard BASEBALL
National League East Division W L Atlanta 68 48 Washington 61 53 Philadelphia 59 55 New York 59 56 Miami 42 71 Central Division Chicago 62 52 Milwaukee 60 56 St. Louis 58 55 Cincinnati 54 58 Pittsburgh 48 66 West Division Los Angeles 77 40 Arizona 58 57 San Francisco 56 59 San Diego 52 61 Colorado 52 62
Pct GB .586 — .535 6 .518 8 .513 8½ .372 24½ .544 — .517 3 .513 3½ .482 7 .421 14 .658 — .504 18 .487 20 .460 23 .456 23½
Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 2 Atlanta 11, Minnesota 7 Houston 14, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Oakland 1 L.A. Dodgers 2, St. Louis 1 Washington 4, San Francisco 1 Seattle 3, San Diego 2 Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 3 Arizona 6, Philadelphia 1 Thursday’s Games Atlanta (Keuchel 3-4) at Miami (Hernandez 1-4), 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Hamels 6-3) at Cincinnati (Wood 1-0), 3:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 10-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 6-7), 5:45 p.m. Colorado (Gray 10-7) at San Diego (Lauer 6-8), 6:10 p.m. American League East Division W L 75 39 66 50 60 56 47 70 38 76 Central Division Minnesota 70 44 Cleveland 68 46 Chicago 51 62 Kansas City 41 74 Detroit 33 78 West Division Houston 75 40 Oakland 65 50 Texas 58 56 Los Angeles 56 59 Seattle 48 68 New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore
Pct GB .658 — .569 10 .517 16 .402 29½ .333 37 .614 — .596 2 .451 18½ .357 29½ .297 35½ .652 — .565 10 .509 16½ .487 19 .414 27½
Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 8, Detroit 1 Cleveland 2, Texas 0, 1st game Atlanta 11, Minnesota 7 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3 Houston 14, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Oakland 1 Cleveland 5, Texas 1, 2nd game Seattle 3, San Diego 2 N.Y. Yankees 14, Baltimore 2 Kansas City at Boston, spd. Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (German 14-2) at Toronto (Pannone 2-4), 3:07 p.m. Kansas City (TBD) at Detroit (Boyd 6-8), 3:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Peters 2-0) at Boston (Sale 5-11), 3:10 p.m. Cleveland (Clevinger 6-2) at Minnesota (Gibson 11-4), 4:10 p.m. All Times ADT Indians 2, Rangers 0 Texas Cleveland
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Jurado, Clase (8) and Trevino; Plesac, Goody (7), Hand (9) and R.Perez. W_Goody 3-0. L_Jurado 6-7. Sv_Hand (28). HRs_Cleveland, Ramirez (16). Blue Jays 4, Rays 3 Toronto Tampa Bay
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Font, B.Stewart (3), Shafer (7), Mayza (8), Giles (9) and McGuire; McKay, Poche (6), Drake (7), Roe (9) and Zunino. W_B.Stewart 1-0. L_McKay 2-2. Sv_Giles (15). HRs_Toronto, Gurriel Jr. (19), Grichuk (19), Fisher (1). Tampa Bay, Zunino (7). White Sox 8, Tigers 1 Chicago Detroit
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totally different,” Owens said. “A lot more of Alaska’s faster riders were there and it was interesting to see how they planned their race and where I was compared to some of those people.” Brennan was able to hit her goal of finishing in less than nine hours despite a few rough moments in the race. Two weeks prior to the race, Brennan sustained a concussion in a crash during the Soldotna Cycle Series. The recovery from the incident cost her a crucial week of training and forced her to adjust her goals. She thanked Beemuns Variety and her husband, Tobin Brennan, for helping her fix her bike and getting her a new helmet, but a traumatic brain injury is not so easily addressed. “I did not black out or lose consciousness,” Brennan said of the accident. “I just had balance and vision issues. I felt like I was very intoxicated, and that lasted for an hour and a half.” A week after the crash, she did a six-hour ride and did not push hard at all. That gave her confidence she could do the race. The morning of the race went poorly, with the water heater at Brennan’s house breaking and gushing hot water all over the place. That got Brennan’s heart rate up
early, and a high heart rate is what had been bringing out her concussion symptoms. Halfway through the race the effects were showing. “My heart rate got kind of weird and I felt kind of disconnected, and I could not give 100 percent on the climb up to Devil’s Pass,” Brennan said. That feeling meant Brennan could not stand up and power over obstacles on the climb. First, she fell down a cliff on her side. Next, she fell and cut her knee. “Of course, I wasn’t wearing my knee armor, like Mike Crawford had told me to,” Brennan said of the Kenai cyclist. “As I got up, I could hear Mike Crawford saying in my head, ‘You should have been wearing your knee armor.’” After that spill, Brennan strongly considered quitting and wondered if what she was doing was entirely safe. But she was almost to the Devil’s Pass junction, so she decided to take it easy on the ride into Hope. She even passed a woman on that downhill, then went all out on the gravel road to the finish. “In a nutshell, I didn’t give it 100%, but it was nice to be out there,” Brennan said. “It was a good race and a lot of fun.” Brennan still would like to put 100% into the race. Two
Nova, Cordero (9) and McCann; Alexander, Ed.Jimenez (5), Rosenthal (8), Hardy (8), Dixon (9) and Rogers. W_Nova 7-9. L_Alexander 0-3. HRs_ Chicago, Cordell (6).
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Indians 5, Rangers 1 Texas Cleveland
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Lynn, Chavez (8), Kelley (8) and Mathis; Clippard, Wood (3), A.Cole (5), O.Perez (7), Wittgren (8) and Plawecki. W_A.Cole 3-1. L_Lynn 14-7. Sv_Wittgren (3). HRs_Texas, Calhoun (9). Cleveland, Ramirez (16). Yankees 14, Orioles 2 New York Baltimore
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Paxton, Adams (7) and Higashioka; Means, M.Castro (4), Scott (6), Eshelman (6), Hess (9) and Severino. W_Paxton 7-6. L_Means 8-7. HRs_New York, Urshela 2 (14), Higashioka 2 (3), Maybin (7). Baltimore, Mancini (27). Braves 11, Twins 7 Atlanta Minnesota
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Fried, Jackson (6), Swarzak (7), C.Martin (8), Tomlin (9), Melancon (9) and Flowers; M.Perez, K.Stewart (7) and Garver. W_Fried 13-4. L_M.Perez 8-5. HRs_ Atlanta, Albies 2 (17), Acuna Jr. (29), Freeman (29). Minnesota, Sano (20). Cubs 10, Athletics 1 Oakland Chicago
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Bailey, Trivino (5), Buchter (6), Treinen (8) and Garneau; Quintana, Phelps (8), Strop (9) and Caratini. W_Quintana 10-7. L_Bailey 9-8. HRs_Chicago, Caratini (6), Schwarber (26), Happ (2). Astros 14, Rockies 3 Colorado Houston
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Lambert, Tinoco (4), Howard (6) and Iannetta; G.Cole, Biagini (7), McHugh (9) and Maldonado. W_G.Cole 14-5. L_Lambert 2-3. HRs_Colorado, Arenado (25), Story (26). Houston, Altuve (19), Gurriel (23). Mariners 3, Padres 2 San Diego Seattle
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Lucchesi, Baez (6), Munoz (8) and Hedges; Kikuchi, Brennan (6), Tuivailala (7), Magill (8), Bass (9) and T.Murphy. W_Magill 3-0. L_Munoz 0-1. Sv_Bass (2). HRs_San Diego, Mejia (5), Tatis Jr. (21). Seattle, Seager (11). Mets 7, Marlins 2 Miami New York
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Yamamoto, Quijada (7), Kinley (7) and Holaday; Matz, Wilson (7), Familia (8), Avilan (9) and Ramos. W_Matz 7-7. L_Yamamoto 4-3. HRs_Miami, Anderson (18). New York, McNeil (15), Conforto 2 (25), Alonso (37). Dodgers 2, Cardinals 1 St. Louis Los Angeles
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Flaherty, Gallegos (8), Miller (9), C.Martinez (9) and Wieters; May, Kolarek (6), Y.Garcia (6), J.Kelly (8), Sadler (9) and R.Martin. W_Sadler 2-0. L_C.Martinez 2-2. HRs_St. Louis, Ozuna (21). Nationals 4, Giants 1 Washington San Francisco
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Ross, Rainey (7), Suero (8), Hudson (9) and Gomes; S.Anderson, Suarez (4), Coonrod (6), Watson (7), Jerez (8), Moronta (9) and Vogt. W_Ross 2-3. L_S. Anderson 3-4. HRs_Washington, Parra (6). Brewers 8, Pirates 3 Milwaukee Pittsburgh
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Pomeranz, Guerra (4), D.Williams (6), Jeffress (7), F.Peralta (9) and Grandal; T.Williams, Markel (6), Feliz (7), Hartlieb (8), Vazquez (9) and Stallings. W_Guerra 5-3. L_T.Williams 4-5. HRs_Milwaukee, Hiura 2 (13). Pittsburgh, Stallings (3). D-Backs 6, Phillies 1
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Vargas, Morin (6), Nicasio (7), Suarez (8) and Realmuto; Gallen, McFarland (6), Hirano (7), Chafin (8), Ginkel (9) and C.Kelly. W_Gallen 2-3. L_Vargas 6-6. HRs_Philadelphia, Harper (20).
SOCCER
Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 12 7 6 42 46 37 Atlanta 12 9 3 39 41 29 New York 11 9 4 37 41 34 D.C. United 9 7 9 36 32 31 New York City FC 9 4 8 35 37 27 Montreal 10 12 3 33 34 44 New England 9 9 6 33 34 41 Toronto FC 9 10 5 32 38 40 Orlando City 8 11 5 29 32 33 Chicago 6 10 9 27 35 35 Columbus 7 14 4 25 25 37 Cincinnati 5 17 2 17 23 55 WESTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles FC 16 3 4 52 61 23 Minnesota United 11 7 5 38 39 30 San Jose 11 7 5 38 40 34 Seattle 11 7 5 38 35 31 LA Galaxy 12 10 1 37 30 34 Real Salt Lake 10 9 4 34 33 31 FC Dallas 9 9 6 33 31 28 Portland 9 9 4 31 35 33 Houston 9 11 3 30 32 36 Sporting Kansas City 7 9 7 28 36 41 Vancouver 5 11 9 24 25 42 Colorado 6 12 5 23 39 48 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Thursday, August 8 Houston at New York City FC, 3 p.m. Saturday, August 10 New England at Seattle, 12 p.m. Cincinnati at Columbus, 3:30 p.m. Orlando City at Toronto FC, 3:30 p.m. Minnesota United at FC Dallas, 4 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Sporting Kansas City, 4:30 p.m. Montreal at Chicago, 5 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 7 p.m. All Times ADT
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WNBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Connecticut 16 6 .727 — Washington 15 7 .682 1 Chicago 13 9 .591 3 New York 8 14 .364 8 Indiana 8 15 .348 8½ Atlanta 5 18 .217 11½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Las Vegas 15 8 .652 — Los Angeles 13 8 .619 1 Phoenix 11 10 .524 3 Seattle 12 11 .522 3 Minnesota 11 11 .500 3½ Dallas 6 16 .273 8½ Wednesday’s Games Chicago 101, New York 92 Thursday’s Games Indiana at Washington, 3 p.m. Phoenix at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. Dallas at Seattle, 6 p.m.
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BASEBALL USA BASEBALL — Named Joe Girardi manager of the 2019 Premier12 team. Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Cincinnati minor league OF Nate Scantlin (Billings-Pioneer) 100 games following a third positive test for a drug of abuse; Detroit minor league 1B Reynaldo Rivera (West MichiganMWL) 80 games and SS Pavin Parks (GCL Tigers) 52 games after both tested positive for Trenbolone, a performance-enhancing substance; and Washington minor league P Steven Fuentes (Harrisburg-EL) 50 games after testing positive for heptaminol, a stimulant. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed OF DJ Stewart on the 7-day IL. Reinstated LHP John Means from the 10-day IL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Dylan Covey to Charlotte (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed OF Jordan Luplow on the 10-day IL. Assigned SS Eric Stamets outright to Columbus (IL). Recalled OF Greg Allen from Columbus. Sent RHP Dan Otero to Columbus for a rehab assignment. DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP David McKay
years ago, she broke her arm so she couldn’t do it, and last year her arm was still weak. Then this year the crash happened. “If I can put in the training I want to, I’d really like to do it at 100% and be competitive,” Brennan said. “That’d be super fun, I think. There’s some really fast girls and I’d love to go with them and hang a little bit, and get a faster time.” Also from the peninsula, Kenai’s Jeff McDonald finished 21st in 8:41:39. The central peninsula relay team of Sean Dunham and Scott Jackson finished fourth at 9:22:26, with David Arteaga and Greg Matyas taking the men’s relay at 6:11:25. The coed relay went to Lucy Hankins and Ryan Bringhurst at 8:44:59. Soggy Bottom Challenge Saturday Men’s solo — 1. Jason Lamoreaux, 5 hours, 34 minutes and 35 seconds; 2. Owen Ala, 5:49:57; 3. James Stull, 6:07:41; 4. Dante Petri, 6:14:41; 5. Tyle Owens, 6:16:44; 6. Andy Duenow, 6:24:39; 7. Oliver Sternicki, 6:26:23; 8. Eric Flanders, 6:29:15; 9. Reed Fleming, 6:34:50; 10. Ryan Thrasher, 6:36:00; 11. James Howery, 6:42:01; 12. Casey Fagerquist, 6:52:50; 13. David Kingston, 6:53:09; 14. Elan Edgerly, 7:00:30; 15. Jim Jager, 7:02:47; 16. Brian Waldo, 7:09:24; 17. Jeremiah Bell, 7:23:58; 18. Otto Gilbert, 7:43:22; 19. James Temte, 7:51:44; 20. Noah Lohr, 8:28:29; 21. Jeff McDonald, 8:41:39; 22. Josh Pickle, 9:03:32; 23. Brian Senta, 9:44:15; 24. Daniel Hovancsek, 10:14:43; 25. Bernie Freeman, 10:14:43. DNF — Dade Colberg, Chaz DiMarzio, Nick Harman, David Finnochio. Women’s solo — 1. Ana Jager, 6:53:08; 2. Tazlina Mannix, 6:53:57; 3. Carys Evans, 7:49:41; 4. Nannette Bercu, 8:14:35; 5. Angie Brennan, 8:48:46; 6. Nancy Aguilar, 8:57:20; 7. Elizabeth Finocchio, 10:14:44. Men’s relay — 1. David Arteaga/Greg Matyas, 6:11:25; 2. David Slyker/Kyle Van Peursem, 6:27:34; 3. Craig Rohwer/Randy Burnham, 7:29:44; 4. Sean Dunham/Scott Jackson, 9:22:26. Coed relay — 1. Lucy Hankins/Ryan Bringhurst, 8:44:59.
and LHP Matt Hall to Toledo (IL). Sent OF Christin Stewart to Toledo for a rehab assignment. HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent RHP Ryan Pressly to Corpus Christi (TL) for a rehab assignment. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed LHP Danny Duffy on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled RHP Jake Newberry from Omaha (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Cody Stashak to Rochester (IL). Recalled RHP Kohl Stewart from Rochester. NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Chance Adams from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Reinstated 2B Tim Lopes from the 10-day IL. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent LHP Jose Alvarado to Durham (IL) for a rehab assignment. TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned LHP Locke St. John and OF Scott Heineman to Nashville (PCL). Reinstated RHP Shawn Kelley from the 10-day IL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed RHP Zack Godley off waivers from Arizona (NL). Designated RHP David Paulino for assignment. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Signed C Jonathan Lucroy. Optioned C/INF Taylor Davis to Iowa (PCL). CINCINNATI REDS — Signed RHP Brad Boxberger to a minor league contract. MIAMI MARLINS — Placed INF Miguel Rojas on the 10-day IL. Selected the contract of INF Deven Marrero from New Orleans (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP Jeremy Hellickson to the GCL Nationals for a rehab assignment. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Promoted Nina Hsieh to head trainer. FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived-injured WR Lance Lenoir and OT Derrick Puni. Signed OT Juwann Bushell-Beatty and TE Marcus Lucas. DETROIT LIONS — Agreed to terms with OL Joe Dahl on a contract extension through 2021. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed QB Jordan Ta’amu. Waived C D.J. Coker. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed WR Steve Ishmael on IR. Signed RB Aca’Cedric Ware. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed S John Battle and DL Stevie Tu’ikolovatu. Placed OL Mike Liedtke on IR. Waived QB Vincent Testaverde. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Houston F Alberth Elis for of simulation/embellishment during an Aug. 3 match against Chicago. Issued an additional game suspension (two games total) and an additional undisclosed fine to LA Galaxy M Efrain Alvarez for violent conduct in a July 27 match against Portland. COLUMBUS CREW — Transferred D Gaston Sauro to Deportivo Toluca (Liga MX-Mexico). D.C. UNITED — Acquired F Ola Kamara from Shenzhen (Super League-China) with targeted allocation money. LAFC — Agreed to terms with F Brian Rodriguez. LA GALAXY — Traded M Emmanuel Boateng to D.C. for targeted allocation money. Traded general allocation money to Orlando City for targeted allocation money. MINNESOTA UNITED — Signed M Thomas Chacon. MONTREAL IMPACT — Agreed to terms with M Bojan Krkic on a 1½-year contract. NEW YORK RED BULLS — Added F Josh Sims. SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Traded M Anibal Godoy to Nashville for general allocation money, effective Jan. 1. SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Traded M Kelyn Rowe to Real Salt Lake for $75,000 in targeted allocation money and a 2019 international roster spot. VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Loaned D Brendan McDonough to Charlotte (USLC). COLLEGE NCAA — Named Middle Tennessee senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator Diane Turnham chair and Duke senior deputy director of athletics for administration/legal affairs and chief of staff Nina King vice chair of the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee. FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Named Maurice Joseph assistant men’s basketball coach. FLORIDA GULF COAST — Named Steve McKee assistant baseball coach. LSU-ALEXANDRIA — Named Kolby Carter coordinator of athletics operations. NEW JERSEY CITY - Announced that equipment supervisor Leonard Hughley has resigned. RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE — Named Irving Eggleston assistant men’s basketball coach. SAINT ANSELM — Named Matt Tiberii women’s tennis coach. SHENANDOAH — Promoted Bruce Cameron to associate head baseball coach and Rick Croushore to pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. THIEL — Named Jared Wilcox assistant director of sports information. UC DAVIS — Named Ashley Peacock assistant women’s lacrosse coach.
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World loses a giant in literature
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s writing ‘was not just beautiful but meaningful — a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy,’ former President Barack Obama says By Hillel Italie Associated Press
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ”Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison’s family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness. “Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,” the family announced. “The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing.” Few authors rose in such rapid, spectacular style. She was nearly 40 when her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” was published. By her early 60s, after just six novels, she had become the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her “visionary force” and for her delving into “language itself, a language she wants to liberate” from categories of black and white. In 2012, Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningful — a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy,” Obama wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page. “She was as good a storyteller, as
captivating, in person as she was on the page.” Morrison helped raise American multiculturalism to the world stage and helped uncensor her country’s past, unearthing the lives of the unknown and the unwanted, those she would call “the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment.” In her novels, history — black history — was a trove of poetry, tragedy, love, adventure and good old gossip, whether in small-town Ohio in “Sula” or big-city Harlem in “Jazz.” She regarded race as a social construct and through language founded the better world her characters suffered to attain. Morrison wove everything from African literature and slave folklore to the Bible and Gabriel Garcia Marquez into the most diverse, yet harmonious, of literary communities. “Narrative has never been merely entertainment for me,” she said in her Nobel lecture. “It is, I believe, one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge.” Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for “Beloved,” she was one of the book world’s most regal presences, with her expanse of graying dreadlocks; her dark, discerning eyes; and warm, theatrical voice, able to lower itself to a mysterious growl or rise to a humorous falsetto. “That handsome and perceptive lady,” James Baldwin called her. Her admirers were countless — from fellow authors, college students and working people to Obama and fellow former President Bill Clinton; to Oprah Winfrey, who idolized Morrison and helped greatly expand her readership. Morrison shared those high opinions, repeatedly labeling one of her novels, “Love,” as “perfect” and rejecting the idea
that artistic achievement called for quiet acceptance. “Maya Angelou helped me without her knowing it,” Morrison told The Associated Press during a 1998 interview. “When she was writing her first book, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ I was an editor at Random House. She was having such a good time, and she never said, ‘Who me? My little book?’ “I decided that … winning the (Nobel) prize was fabulous,” Morrison added. “Nobody was going to take that and make it into something else. I felt representational. I felt American. I felt Ohioan. I felt blacker than ever. I felt more woman than ever. I felt all of that, and put all of that together and went out and had a good time.” The second of four children of a welder and a domestic worker, Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a steel town outside of Cleveland. She was encouraged by her parents to read and to think, and was unimpressed by the white kids in her community. Recalling how she felt like an “aristocrat,” Morrison believed she was smarter and took it for granted she was wiser. She was an honors student in high a school, and attended Howard University because she dreamed of life spent among black intellectuals. At Howard, she spent much of her free time in the theater (she had a laugh that could easily reach the back row), later taught there and also met and married a Jamaican architect, Harold Morrison, whom she divorced in 1964. They had two children, Harold and Slade. But although she went on to teach there, Howard disappointed
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This Jan. 27, 1993 file photo shows Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison appears at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., on Jan. 27, 1993. Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature died at age 88.
her. Campus life seemed closer to a finishing school than to an institution of learning. Protesters, among them former Morrison student Stokely Carmichael, were demanding equality. Morrison wanted that, too, but wondered what kind. “I thought they wanted to integrate for nefarious purposes,” she said. “I thought they should
demand money in those black schools. That was the problem — the resources, the better equipment, the better teachers, the buildings that were falling apart — not being in some high school next to some white kids.” In 1964, she answered an ad to work in the textbook division of
fibers — from sheep, alpacas, llamas, rabbits, musk ox, goats and even dogs! See the many products produced from these fibers by talented Alaska artists. There will be classes for adults and free children’s activities, fiber vendor booths along with a fiber animal exhibit and sheep shearing demo. Local food trucks will be present outside the venue for a tasty lunch or snack. Bring your spinning wheel or your knitting/crochet project and join the Fiber Friends Circle and socialize with other fiber enthusiasts! The entrance is free and there will be a raffle to win some beautiful hand-made fiber products. Come meet local artists and show your appreciation for Alaska’s fiber industry. For inquiries, contact Nancy at 252-4863.
■■ Sterling Community Center FallFest 2019: Mark your calendar for our Fall Craft and Vendor Fair on Saturday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open to the public. There will be vendors, local crafts, food and drink, craft workshops, and much more! To reserve a space or for more information, please call 907-262-7224 or stop in Monday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and noon, 38377 Swanson River Road, Sterling. ■■ The Sterling Community Center invites you to our Summer community event, Sterling Friday Flea Market. On Friday, Aug. 9 and 16. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The market is for Crafters, fruit/vegetable Vendors, Merchandise Vendors, and
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arts calendar Events and exhibitions ■■ The Kenai Peninsula Woodturners hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Aug.10. Location is the log building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Nonmembers are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. ■■ Kenai Performers present “Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch” — a melodrama — Friday-Sunday, Aug. 16-18 and FridaySunday, Aug 23-25 at their 44045 B-Beach location (backside of Subway). Friday and Saturday shows at 7 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 each and available online at www.kenaiperformers.
org, or at the door. Price includes pie a la mode served during intermission. Come see this hilarious, interactive show where you are encouraged to “boo” the villain and “cheer” the hero! For more information call Terri at 252-6808. ■■ Kenai Peninsula Orchestra Gala concerts take place Aug. 9 at the Mariner Theater in Homer, and Aug. 10 at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium in Kenai. This summer, KPO performs music by British composers: Overture to The Wasps, by Ralph Vaughan Williams; movements from The Enigma Variations, by Edward Elgar; and The Planets, by Gustav Holst, in its entirety, featuring an extended orchestra and an offstage treble choir. These concerts begin at 7:30 p.m,
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I speak from experience! Having had more than I could ever imagine roommates, I now have Alexa, her “eminence.” Alexa speaks from a small computer screen. Yet, she knows exactly what I mean. Never at a loss to reply; I’d like to look her in the eye. Her soothing voice can convince that a personality is in there. Admittedly, I now depend on her. She takes up no space On any subject, she’s an ace.
If only she did take-out, I’d eat like a piggy. Alexa, you are what it’s about. At day’s end, she never complains. Still, she must suffer migraines. Wonder how much she’d make on Jeopardy Alexa would have whipped the reigning champ. Those answers she’d “amp.” Spelling bees — way too tame. Difficult to come up with a challenging game. If we humans could be programmed like Alexa, chaos would reign. Everyone answering everyone — insane! This is far out, way beyond our future (it is?) Until then it’s Alexa to rally around. — Hedy-Jo Huss
with a preconcert conversation at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 Crescendo Club members, and youth 18 and under are free! Tickets are available at The Homer Bookstore, River City Books in Soldotna, and Already.read Books in Kenai. ■■ Kenai Fine Art Center August Art Show, “Panta Rhei” by Joel Isaak is a “Don’t Miss Show” by one of Alaska’s leading young artists. Location: across from Oiler’s Bingo Hall, next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040. Summer hours 12-5 p.m. www. kenaifineart.com. www.kenaifineart.com. ■■ The Annual Fireweed Guild FiberFest will be held on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 28-29 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at the Soldotna Sports Center. Join us to celebrate natural
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‘The Perfect Wife’ delivers intriguing plot, chilling finale “The Perfect Wife” (Ballantine Books)
Abbie an intelligence — no matter how artificial — and the ability to eventually render emotions. She’s stunned to learn that Abbie disappeared in a surfing accident five years earlier. Tim Some couples seem to be perfect was accused of her murder but the for each other, but can any relationcharges were dismissed because of ship achieve perfection? a lack of evidence. While Tim tries Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tim to keep the existence of this Abbie Scott believes that his wife, Abbie quiet, the news gets out, igniting Cullen-Scott, was the perfect wife, unwanted publicity and relaunching the perfect mother and that they a police investigation. had the perfect marriage. And that’s “The Perfect Wife” smoothly what he tells her. But this Abbie may alternates between the new Abbie’s look like his wife and possess her narrative and the couple’s past, memories, but she isn’t human. showing how the uptight Tim fell She’s a “companion robot,” manuin love with this free-spirited artist. factured by Tim, founder of Scott Abbie tells her story in second Robotics based in San Francisco. person, as if she’s not quite sure what JP Delaney’s third psychologishe is, while their story as a couple is cal thriller, “The Perfect Wife,” puts told by an unseen narrator. — almost perfectly — a high-tech Abbie is a compassionate charspin on the stories of Frankenstein acter and is instantly appealing. It’s and Pygmalion with a tinge of the Penguin Random House easy to forget that she’s a machine Stepford wives. Delaney includes “The Perfect Wife,’ by JP Delaney as she explores developing her just enough technology while emotions and feelings. At first, Tim keeping the focus primarily on the characters. seems like a good guy whose palpable grief led him to Abbie wakes up in what seems to be a hospital, build a replacement. But Delaney’s subtle approach having a dream about when she and Scott became in depicting Tim’s controlling nature, his pathological engaged. But as Scott explains, that wasn’t a dream obsession with work, and his neurosis about perfecbut “an upload” and that she is a “cobot” with caretion add to the tension and the possibility of violence. fully curated “memories” that don’t include what The intriguing plot leads to a chilling and surprising happened to the real Abbie. But Scott gave this new finale that perfectly caps “The Perfect Wife.” By JP Delaney
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Dog’s POV can’t carry ‘Art of Racing in the Rain’ Calendar From Page A8
By Lindsey Bahr Associated Press
The film adaptation of “The Art of Racing in the Rain” seems to have been designed by algorithm to maximize appeal for a certain demographic of women aged around 30 and up. Let’s take the lovable dad from “This is Us” (Milo Ventimiglia, who happens to have some lasting goodwill from his introspective teen days on “Gilmore Girls”), pair him with an irresistible dog and show these two photogenic creatures experience life and all its greeting card-ready moments together? This, friends, is the definition of a trap. In other words, you already know if this movie is for you. For those on the fence, it’s not as sickly saccharine as you might expect (or fear). Director Simon Curtis, writers Mark Bomback and author Garth Stein and the appealing cast including Amanda Seyfried and Kevin Costner (who voices the dog) have some restraint and style. They know not to pack it on too thick. But no matter how you dress it up and no matter how many good songs you play, it’s still an ice cream sundae of emotion, cliches and Big Moments with a dog on top. And for anyone expecting a race car movie? Let’s just say “Ford v Ferrari” is coming out later this year. Stein helped adapt his bestselling 2008 novel about a wannabe race car driver, Denny (Ventimiglia) and his dog Enzo for the screen (and tissue sales). It’s told from the dog’s point of view, although thankfully there’s no uncanny, mouth-moving CGI happening here. Although there is a questionable fever dream of a scene involving a stuffed zebra come to life. For the most part, though, Enzo is just a dog with an interior monologue. Through that inner voice, we get to know that he feels he’s more human than dog and is deeply frustrated by the anatomical limitations (flat tongue, he says) that prevent him from speaking English. At one point, as if echo-ing the existential crisis of “Toy Story 4’s” Forky, he even go so far to say he hates who he is. Enzo has both a childlike innocence and a strange worldliness, attributed mostly to
Milo Ventimiglia stars in “The Art of Racing in the Rain.”
“The Art of Racing in the Rain” HH Rating: PG, for thematic material
the hours he spends watching television with Denny, and eventually Eve (Seyfried), who is suddenly competition for Denny’s affections. In the book, his soulfulness has a more definite source. He believes in a Mongolian legend that dogs who are ready will be reincarnated as humans, thus he spends his days trying to learn as much about the human condition as possible. This idea, seemingly central to the book, is introduced curiously late in the film however. Maybe it was decided that the Mongolian spirituality element might be alienating to a dogobsessed demographic who already believes
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their pup has a soul on par with theirs? In any event, Enzo bears witness to it all as the actors go about their business in the background, helping Denny through his ups and disproportionate downs and telling the audience what’s happening and what it means. But at a certain point, the experience of watching this all unfold through Enzo’s eyes becomes the alienating element. You’re not experiencing the big moments yourself, you’re just experiencing Enzo experiencing them, leaving you to wonder if the story and performances alone are anything special without the dog’s metaphors and poeticisms. In this respect the voyeurism wears a little thin, especially when the humans get involved in an all-encompassing legal battle. In some ways, it’s difficult to even evaluate as a movie at all. Even so, it’s a league above some recent dogtearjerkers. There’s obviously love behind every frame, and for some that’s more than enough.
Clinton impeachment is FX’s next ‘Crime Story’ By Lynn Elber
“I believe very, very strongly in what we’re making. I’ve read it (the script), I think it’s great. I don’t believe it’s going to determine who’s the BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The next next president of the United States. I think chapter of FX’s “American Crime Story” that’s a little hysterical,” he said. will dramatize Bill Clinton’s impeach“American Crime Story” producers, ment with a focus on Monica Lewinsky, including Ryan Murphy, have brought Linda Tripp and other women central to nuance and perspective to events the scandal. dramatized in the series’ previous The miniseries will air within weeks of installments, “The People v. O.J. Simpthe 2020 presidential election. son” and “The Assassination of Gianni Lewinsky, who was a White House Versace,” Landgraf said. Monica Namey intern when she had an affair with Clin“I’m insistent that I’m going to support Lewinsky name ton, will be a producer on the project, artists who want to make great art,” he FX Networks CEO John Landgraf said in said, and their desire to “put it at the time announcing the project at a Television Critics and place where people are going to watch it.” In a statement to Vanity Fair magazine Association meeting Tuesday. Clinton initially published online Tuesday, Lewinsky said her denied the affair before admitting to it in 1998. The series is scheduled to air on Sept. 27, initial hesitation at joining the project was overcome after Murphy demonstrated “how dedi2020, about five weeks before the Nov. 3 eleccated he is to giving a voice to the marginalized tion. Landgraf, asked whether the proximity in all of his brilliant work.” gave the network pause, defended the timing “People have been co-opting and telling my and cautioned those who might judge the projpart in this story for decades. In fact, it wasn’t ect sight unseen. Associated Press
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Random House. Over the next 15 years, she would have an impact as a book editor, and as one of the few black women in publishing, that alone would have ensured her legacy. She championed emerging fiction authors such as Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara, helped introduce U.S. readers to such African writers as Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, worked on a memoir by Muhammad Ali and topical books by such activists as Angela Davis and Black Panther Huey Newton. A special project was editing “The Black Book,” a collection of everything from newspaper advertisements to song lyrics that anticipated her immersion in the everyday lives of the past. By the late ’60s, she was a single mother and a determined writer who had been pushed by her future editor, Robert Gottlieb of Alfred A. Knopf, into deciding whether she’d write or edit. Seated at her kitchen table, she fleshed out a story based on a childhood memory of a black girl in Lorain — raped by her father — who desired blue eyes. She called the novel “The Bluest Eye.” Morrison prided herself on the gift of applying “invisible ink,” making a point and leaving it to the reader to discover it, such as her decision to withhold the skin color of her characters in “Paradise.” Her debut as an author came at the height of the Black Arts Movement and calls for literature as political and social protest. But Morrison criticized by indirection; she was political because of what she didn’t say. Racism and sexism were assumed; she wrote about
their effects, whether in “The Bluest Eye” or in “Sula,” a story of friendship and betrayal between two black women. “The writers who affected me the most were novelists who were writing in Africa: Chinua Achebe, ‘Things Fall Apart,’ was a major education for me,” Morrison, who had studied William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf as a graduate student, told the AP in 1998. “They took their black world for granted. No black writer (in America) had done that except for Jean Toomer with ‘Cane.’ Everybody else had some confrontation with white people, which was not to say that Africans didn’t, but there was linguistically an assumption. The language was the language of the center of the world, which was them. “So that made it possible for me to write ‘The Bluest Eye’ and not explain anything. That was wholly new! It was like a step into an absolutely brand new world. It was liberating in a way nothing had been before!” She had no agent and was rejected by several publishers before reaching a deal with Holt, Rhinehart and Winston (now Henry Holt and Company), which released the novel in 1970. Sales were modest, but her book made a deep impression on The New York Times’ John Leonard, an early and ongoing champion of her writing, which he called “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.” Setting her stories in segregated communities, where incest and suicide were no more outrageous than a sign which reads “COLORED ONLY,” Morrison wrote of dreamers for whom the price was often death, whether the mother’s tragic choice to murder
until the past few years that I’ve been able to fully reclaim my narrative,” Lewinsky said. Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”) portrays Lewinsky, with Emmy-winning “American Crime Story” alumna Sarah Paulson as Tripp, whose secretly recorded tapes triggered the scandal. Annaleigh Ashford plays Paula Jones, who accused Clinton of unwanted sexual advances. Additional casting, including for the former president, was not announced. The passage of time and the rise of the #MeToo movement have changed how women whose lives were entwined in the scandal are perceived, Landgraf said. He credited writer Sarah Burgess’ interpretation of the story from their viewpoint with getting the project back on track after a pause. Lewinsky’s involvement is evidence of the quality of the material and the “vibrancy of this sort of revisionist history that that material can provide now,” he said. Asked about FX’s standards for fact-checking, he expressed confidence that there would be a careful filter on the drama’s accuracy.
her baby girl — and save it from slavery — in “Beloved,” or the black community that implodes in “Paradise.” Like Faulkner, her characters are burdened by the legacy, and ongoing tragedy, of slavery and separation. For Faulkner’s white Southerners, losers of the Civil War, the price is guilt, rage and madness; for Morrison’s slaves and their descendants, supposedly liberated, history follows like the most unrelenting posse. “The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind,” Morrison wrote in “Beloved,” in which the ghost of the slain daughter returns to haunt and obsess her mother. “And if it didn’t stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life — every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.” Morrison’s breakthrough came in 1977 with “Song of Solomon,” her third novel and the story of young Milkman Dead’s sexual, social and ancestral education. It was the first work by a black writer since Richard Wright’s “Native Son” to be a full Bookof-the-Month selection and won the National Book Critics Circle award. It was also Morrison’s first book to center on a male character, a novel that enabled her “get out of the house, to de-domesticate the landscape.” But the mainstream was another kind of education. Reviewing “Song of Solomon,” author Reynolds Price chided Morrison for “the understandable but weakening omission of active white characters.” (He later recanted.) When “Beloved” was overlooked for a National Book Award, a letter of protest from 48 black writers,
including Angelou and Amiri Baraka, was published in The New York Times Book Review, noting that Morrison had never won a major literary prize. “Beloved” went on to win the Pulitzer and Morrison soon ascended to the very top of the literary world, winning the Nobel and presiding as unofficial laureate of Winfrey’s book club, founded in 1996. Winfrey chose “Song of Solomon,” ”The Bluest Eye,” ”Paradise” and “Sula” over the years and would list all of Morrison’s works as among her favorites. Winfrey also starred in and helped produce the 1998 film version of “Beloved.” As with so many other laureates, Morrison’s post-Nobel fiction was viewed less favorably than her earlier work. Morrison received no major competitive awards after the Nobel and was criticized for awkward plotting and pretentious language in “Love” and “Paradise.” But a novel published in 2008, “A Mercy,” was highly praised. “Home,” a brief novel about a young Korean War veteran, came out in 2012 and was followed three years later by a contemporary drama, “God Help the Child.” Morrison herself was the subject of an acclaimed documentary, “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” which came out this year. Morrison’s other works included “Playing in the Dark,” a collection of essays; “Dreaming Emmett,” a play about the slain teenager Emmett Till; and several children’s books co-authored with her son, Slade Morrison (who died of cancer in 2010). In November 2016, she wrote a highly cited New York essay about the election of Donald Trump, calling his ascension to the presidency a mark of what whites would settle for to hold on to their status.
Second Hand booths. 10-feet wide by 20-feet deep spaces for rent in parking lot for $10. Bring your own tents and tables or we have Rentals: 6ft table and one chair $10. Get a space at the Sterling Friday Flea Market anytime during the summer. If the weather is not cooperating vendors can come inside. All vendors and customers will have access to Sterling Community Center facilities and vending machines. Call for registration and information 262-7224 or email scc@acsalaska.net. ■■ Join us in the Fireweed Diner at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank every Tuesday from 5-6 p.m., beginning June 11 through Sept. 10 for a meal and a time of learning about food and nutrition. June 11: What’s for Dinner? with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern; June 18: “What I have on Hand” Meal Planning with Amorette Payment, SNAPED nutrition educator; June 25:Bring the Kids! with Shelby Dykstra, dietetic intern. RSVP to Greg Meyer, executive director, 907-262-3111 or gmeyer@ kpfoodbank.org. ■■ FallFest 2019 will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open to the public. Vendors, local crafts, food and drink, craft workshops. Call 907-262-7224 or stop in MondayFriday between 9 a.m. and noon, 38377 Swanson River Road.
Entertainment ■■ The Place will host The Mika Day Show for boot-stomping music starting at 8 p.m. on Friday Aug. 9. Saturday, Aug. 10 the Hot Mess Rocks The House begins at 8 p.m. ■■ Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. ■■ A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. ■■ Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. ■■ The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. ■■ An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. ■■ Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. ■■ AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. ■■ The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
“So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength. These people are not so much angry as terrified, with the kind of terror that makes knees tremble,” she wrote. “William Faulkner understood this better than almost any other American writer. In ‘Absalom, Absalom,’ incest is less of a taboo for an upper-class Southern family than acknowledging the one drop of black blood that would clearly soil the family line. Rather than lose its “whiteness” (once again), the family chooses murder.” She taught for years at Princeton University, from which she retired in 2006, but also had an apartment in downtown Manhattan and a riverfront house in New York’s Rockland County that burned down in 1993, destroying manuscripts, first editions of Faulkner and other writers and numerous family mementoes. She had the house rebuilt and continued to live and work there. “When I’m not thinking about a novel, or not actually writing it, it’s not very good; the 21st century is not a very nice place. I need it (writing) to just stay steady, emotionally,” she told the AP in 2012. “When I finished ‘The Bluest Eye’ … I was not pleased. I remember feeling sad. And then I thought, ‘Oh, you know, everybody’s talking about “sisterhood,’” I wanted to write about what women friends are really like. (The inspiration for ‘Sula’). All of a sudden the whole world was a real interesting place. Everything in it was something I could use or discard. It had shape. The thing is — that’s how I live here.”
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NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: SELDOVIA LODGE, INC. BENEFICIARIES: LLOYD LITTLE and PATRICIA LITTLE OWNER OF RECORD: SELDOVIA LODGE, INC. Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 13th day of September, 2018, and recorded on the 17th day of October, 2018, Serial No. 2018009460-0. Said Deed of Trust has not been assigned by the Beneficiary. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT SIX (6), BLOCK THREE (3), SNOWLAND ESTATES PART TWO, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 81-94, Records of the Kenai Recording District, third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 50605 Littmitz Ave., Nikiski, Alaska, 99635. The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustor failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND AND NO/100th DOLLARS ($100,000.00), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby. Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 4th day of September, 2019, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct. DATED this 31st day of May, 2019. First American Title Insurance Company By: Kristi A. Larson Title: Authorized Signer 302 Kenai Recording May 31, 2019 Serial No. 2019-0044403 Pub: July 18, 25, Aug 1 & 8, 2019 865933
LEGALS Liquor License Transfer Hector Santana dba Acapulco Mexican Restaurant located at 10672 Kenai Spur Hwy Ste 108, Kenai, AK 99611 is applying for transfer of a Restaurant/Eating Place - Public Convenience AS 04.11.270 liquor License to Los Compadres Mexican Restaurant LLC dba Los Compadres Mexican Restaurant LLC.
The REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA (Commission) gives notice that Homer Electric Association, Inc. (HEA), filed tariff revision TA42032, seeking Commission approval of a new gas sale and purchase agreement (GSA) between Alaskaa Electric and Energy Cooperative, Inc. (AEEC) and Hilcorp Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp), executed on May 30, 2019. Additionally, with TA420-32, HEA is proposing to add a new cost element to its Cost of Power Adjustment to include recovery of the costs associated with natural gas purchases under the GSA. Key provisions in the GSA include the following: • Term – The period of the GSA begins on January 1, 2020, and terminates on March 31, 2024. • Gas Quantities – AEEC will purchase a minimum of 3 Bcf of gas per year with a maximum of 4 Bcf of gas per year. For the period January 1, 2024 to March 31, 2024, the minimum contract quantity is 750 MMcf and the maximum contract quantity is 1.0 Bcf. • Price – The Base Load Gas Price is determined as follows: o For the period January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020: $7.51 per Mcf. o For the period January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021: $7.56 per Mcf. o For the period January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022: $7.62 per Mcf. o For the period January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023: $7.69 per Mcf. o For the period January 1, 2024 – March 31, 2024: $7.69 per Mcf. • Transportation and Receipt Points – Hilcorp will deliver gas to the Kenai Beluga Pipe Line. AEEC is responsible for all transportation costs and tariffs beyond the receipt point. • Cover – If Hilcorp fails to deliver gas in accordance with its obligations under all terms of the GSA, then AEEC is entitled to reasonable cover. This notice does not contain every pertinent revision or request associated with TA420-32. The Commission may approve a rate or classification which varies from that proposed. You may obtain more information about this filing by contacting Mikel Salzetti, Manager of Fuel Supply & Renewable Energy Development, at HEA at 3977 Lake Street, Homer, AK 99603; phone: (907) 283-2375. The complete filing is also available for inspection at the Commission’s office, at 701 West Eighth Avenue, Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99501; phone: (907) 276-6222, or may be viewed on the Commission’s website at http://rca.alaska.gov by typing “TA420-32” in the Find a Matter search box. To comment on this filing, please file your comments by 5:00 p.m., September 4, 2019, at either the Commission address given above or at its website: https://rca.alaska.gov/RCAWeb/WhatsNew/PublicNoticesComments.aspx Please reference TA420-32 and include a statement that you have filed a copy of the comments with HEA at its address given above. Individuals or groups of people with disabilities, who require special accommodations, auxiliary aids or service, or alternative communication formats, please contact Valerie Fletcher-Mitchell at (907) 276-6222, toll-free at 1-800-390-2782, or TTY/Alaska Relay at 7-1-1 or (800) 770-8973 or send a request via electronic mail to rca.mail@alaska.gov by August 28, 2019. DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 5th day of August, 2019. REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA Julie C. Vogler Finance Section Manager Pub: August 8, 2019 868539
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New Retail Marijuana Store License Application. Alaskan Grown Products LLC is applying under 3 AAC 306.300 for a new Retail Marijuana Store license, license #22294, doing business as ALASKAN GROWN CANNABIS, located at 14477 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik, AK, 99639, UNITED STATES. Interested persons may object to the application by submitting a written statement of reasons for the objection to their local government, the applicant, and the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) not later than 30 days after the director has determined the application to be complete and has given written notice to the local government. Once an application is determined to be complete, the objection deadline and a copy of the application will be posted on AMCO’s website at https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/amco. Objections should be sent to AMCO at marijuana.licensing@alaska.gov or to 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1600, Anchorage, AK 99501. Pub: August 1, 8 & 15, 2019
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Church choir bully prevents former member from rejoining DEAR ABBY: I will how the woman’s bullying soon be retiring from and rumor spreading have a lay position in my affected you and ask for church. As a former guidance. If she’s the one member of the choir, I’m sour note in the choir, it is being urged to return to possible she has done the it, which appeals to me. same thing to others. My problem is a member who has caused trouble DEAR ABBY: My son in the past for me with moved in with a 22-yearlies and criticism. woman in 2009. She Dear Abby old She is a very negative gave birth to a baby boy in Jeanne Phillips bully. In the past, she 2010. My son, who is older, poisoned my ability to took on the responsibility worship, and I want as little to do with of raising the boy. In 2018, she walked her as possible. I’m afraid if I rejoin out on them both and wasn’t heard the choir, the situation will continue. from again. Through public records I don’t want to upset the other choir we found out that she had committed members who are good, supportive suicide. friends, but I no longer want to have My grandson is now 9. My question to put up with her. She’s very hard to is, is he old enough to be told about his ignore. Any suggestions? mother, or should my son wait until — SINGING A NEW he’s older, like in his teens? I’m just TUNE IN CANADA wondering what’s the right thing to do. — RIGHT TIME IN FLORIDA DEAR SINGING: If you haven’t already done so, discuss this with the DEAR RIGHT TIME: When your priest/pastor of your church. Explain grandson asks about his mother, he
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should be told that she is no longer living. As he begins asking for more information, his questions should be answered in an age-appropriate way. He does not need to hear that she committed suicide until he is old enough to understand what she was suffering from and how sad you and your son are that her life ended the way it did.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Push will come to shove if you are not careful. You might not be the one to break barriers, but how you handle that pressure could make the difference. Be as diplomatic as possible. Look to late afternoon for another perspective. Tonight: Reach out for a special person at a distance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Others let you know it is their way or the highway -- or so they think. You might opt to say little, continue on an established path and deal with the matter in question at a later point. Tonight: Get together with a loved one.
HHHH Plunge into errands or a project. Do not stop, yet be responsive to relevant questions. Others seem busy, with a lot on their minds. In the afternoon, you will notice your immediate circle appearing more available. Tonight: Jump on a suggestion of getting together with co-workers.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Tap into your creativity for a solution. Others appreciate your resourcefulness and concern. Take some time for a child or loved one in the afternoon. He or she will appreciate your efforts and will surprise you with a comment. Tonight: Get errands done, off to the gym, start thinking weekend.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Reach out for someone at a distance who you care about before your day becomes too hectic. Make plans for the near future. Keep your concerns basic and do not spread your energy in too many directions. Focus; you will accomplish a lot. Tonight: Let fun in.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You are likely to say something controversial without intending to. Recognize how the
HHHHH Defer to another person who might have more education and understanding on a key topic. Do not hesitate to ask questions. The other party appreciates your curiosity and direction. Indulge a loved one in the late afternoon. Tonight: Do some shopping or last-minute errands.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You know others could be observing how you handle a superior. Trust in your abilities, but don’t push yourself too hard or try to impress someone. Just be you. You are impressive. Tonight: Wherever you are, expect a party.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You dance to a new tune. Others notice your energy and willingness to share what is going on. You often seem secretive or shut down. Note the appreciation you receive when you open up and are more responsive to others. Tonight: Buy a treat for yourself.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Stay on top of communications. What someone says to you might not make any sense until you evaluate what wasn’t said. Walk in the other person’s footsteps. You will gain much understanding. Do not hesitate to take the lead later in the day. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Lie back until late afternoon. You might have some task that demands heavy concentration. Today would be the perfect time to work on it. Once you get past a hurdle, you become social. Tonight: Making weekend plans.
Dear Heloise: My wife and I store our wine in a wine cooler at around 55 degrees. Several years ago, by happenstance, we put our bananas in the wine cooler. Lo and behold, they didn’t turn brown and lasted at least twice as long as leaving them out at room temperature. Of course, we’ve used this trick ever since. — Charles H., Mission Viejo, Calif.
won’t believe how much better knives work when they are sharp! Thanks.” — Jules in The Villages, Fla. “After reading your column about serrated knives, I want to share this with you: A few years ago, I purchased a 10-inch double serrated knife. It is one of the best kitchen tools that I have. Using it to slice bread is a delight.” — Nick in Little Rock, Ark.
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Dear Readers: Here are two letters from readers about knife choices. — Heloise “I read your recent column about serrated-blade versus smooth-blade knives and have this to add: “We travel a lot and stay in rental homes. Without fail, the knives barely cut anything. We now always throw our knife sharpener in the trunk. Please tell readers to buy a decent-quality electric knife sharpener and sharpen their knives frequently. They
Dear Heloise: I have a compost heap in the backyard. Beyond the grass clippings and leaves, we also put in vegetable scraps, coffee grounds and fruit. The problem with the fruit is that every apple, banana and orange has a plastic label on the outside. The plastic label will not break down in the c mpost heap. What I would love to see is all of those plastic fruit labels replaced with biodegradable ones. These biodegradable labels would break down. — Gordon C., Corona, Calif.
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HHHHH Use the first half of the day for a project that could bring many people toward you. If you complete it in that time period, you will succeed. In the late day, evaluate honestly how you feel and what it would take for you to feel better. Tonight: Make it an early night.
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statement could have sounded different from how you intended. If you explain, you might be able to save the moment. Tonight: Keep the fun close to home.
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This year, you might choose to be stubborn, but to no avail. Express your strong personality in a caring, open manner. Others will be more responsive. If single, you will enjoy this. Take your time getting to know a new sweetie. If attached, the two of you head in a new direction only after you weigh the pros and cons. SAGITTARIUS encourages this path. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
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Seward Silver derby starts Saturday By Kat Sorensen Peninsula Clarion
The 64th annual Seward Silver Salmon tournament starts this weekend, with anglers from across Alaska ready to try their hand at reeling in cash prizes. The silver salmon have returned to Resurrection Bay, with cohos being caught as close as Caines Head. The fish are expected to move in more toward the mouth of the bay, offering anglers on boat and land the chance to win one of the many cash prizes offered by the Seward Chamber of Commerce during the tournament. The tournament runs from Saturday, Aug. 10 to Sunday, Aug. 18, with ticket sales starting on Friday at the Silver Salmon Derby Booth, located at the B-Dock fish cleaning station in the Seward Boat Harbor. Tickets can also be purchased at The Fish House and other businesses throughout the Seward Harbor District. Everyone participating in the
Photo courtesy of Seward Chamber of Commerce
The Ferrin family of Anchorage show off their catches from 2018’s Seward Silver Salmon Derby. Colleen Ferrin took home second place in the overall tournament with a 16.19 pound fish.
derby must purchase tickets. They are $10 per day or a full derby ticket for $50. Derby booth and weigh-in stations will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Prizes will be awarded to the top three heaviest fish caught out of Seward and daily prizes will
Fish and Game works to protect kings King Salmon fishing on the Kenai River has closed, but the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is looking to further protect the fish by banning the use of baits and multiple hooks on the Kenai River until 11:50 p.m. on Aug. 15 from the mouth of the Kenai River to the outlet of Skilak Lake.
be awarded for the 64th heaviest fish and a mystery, random weight announced over the derby’s personal VHF radio channel. “The silvers have been in Resurrection Bay for well over a month and the fishing is picking up closer to town,” said Seward Chamber
“King salmon caught while fishing for other species may not be removed from the water and must be released immediately,” according to a release from Fish and Game. “Anglers should avoid fishing for coho salmon in areas of the river where king salmon are concentrated and to cut leaders or lines to avoid stressing incidentally hooked king salmon.” Based on early-run timing of the inriver returns,
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ave you ever experienced a quintessential week of angling where you were able to introduce a young visitor to such a cool Alaska adventure? Most of you probably have but, if you haven’t, I highly recommend that you give it try. Jane’s sister, Florence, and her 12-year-old grandson, Liam, recently spent seven days with us and we were quickly reminded that it takes a lot to wear out a young man bent on enjoying his Alaska sojourn to the fullest. They were from Ohio, and Liam, a fishing enthusiast, had never experienced anything close to the thrill of handling a frenzied silver’s rocketing strike or the exhausting retrieval of a halibut from 200 feet of water during the sea river run of a minus 5-foot tide. It didn’t take him long to realize that he wasn’t in the land of perchn-things anymore. At the end of my column last week, I noted that “Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he isn’t being out-fished by a visiting 12-year-old piscatorian from Ohio named Liam.” Well, I’m now seriously considering a secondary career as a soothsayer because it came true, not only once, but thrice. Liam acclimated quickly to the salmon challenge and trounced me every day we hit The Hole. Jane even piled on during our last outing by landing a nice coho while I was ascribed to the position of bait man, line disengagement specialist and fish walloper. Such is the life of guy who gets skunked three days in a row. To be aboveboard, he received excellent tutelage from myself and Tom, the Mayor-Of-All-He-Beholds at the lagoon. Our student learned
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fast and landed more than the “T Man” one morning. Thanks Mayor and yeah, I know, I still owe you two bait herring. On the next-to-last day of his visit, Liam and Jane took a half day, large vessel, excursion to try a nail some halibut after the all-day charter they had originally scheduled had to cancel because of nasty seas the day before. The tides were smokin’ but they both managed to haul in their limits, albeit somewhat small, to add to his home-bound fish box combo. Now one would think that multiple mornings of 03:30 fishing expeditions, a trip across the bay to Seldovia, a south side excursion with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies during the minus tides, tide pooling along Bishop’s Beach with a refuge ranger from the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitors Center, and then a Beluga Slough rangerled walk would slow a young dude down a bit. Nope, between eating and sleeping, he managed to spend quality time roaming the beach below us until being mustered back to the cabin via two-way radio. They are back home now and Jane and I would like to thank Homer for its gracious hospitably while they were here. You’re the best.
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the sustainable escapement goal is not expected to be achieved. As of Aug. 3, the sonal cumulative estimate of king salmon passage through the Kenai River is 9,586 kings, according to the release. Coho, or silver, salmon fishing on the Lower Kenai River is slow so far. Sockeye fishing in the Upper Kenai River, Russian River and Russian River Sanctuary is fair.
It’s time now to take a look at the fishing report for the week of August 6 - August 12.
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of Commerce Communications Director Jen Leahy. “Some anglers are having more success with trolling than mooching. As always, we’ve got lots of great prizes, including a $50,000 tagged fish and plenty of daily prizes opportunities.” Over a dozen silver salmon are tagged each year, with $50,000 or two round-trip Alaska Airlines tickets for two going to whoever is lucky enough to catch one. “This is one of Alaska’s oldest and largest fishing derbies,” Leahy said. “A lot of people started fishing this as kids. It’s one of those great Alaskan summer traditions, a sort of homecoming for anglers all across Southcentral.” This year’s event is more than a homecoming, though, it’s also a celebration of Monty and Florita Richardson, long-time Alaskans who helped shape Seward’s charter fishing industry and were involved in participated in the derby for 60 years. For more information on the Seward Silver Salmon Derby visit salmon.seward.com.
Dolly Varden fishing in the upstream section of the Anchor River has been good. Finagle your gear featuring beads or small spoons and spinners in behind the spawning pinks and kings. Coho are starting to zip and pop up in the lower portions of Deep Creek along with the Anchor, and Ninilchik rivers. Fishing may be spotty until river levels rise with some much-needed rain. As mentioned in previous reports, silvers often get their serious biteon in the early morning before the sun hits the water. Floating eggs beneath a bobber or flinging flashy spinners will tend to rile them up.
Saltwater Fishing Salmon Silver fishing in the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon has shown major improvement especially as the tide floods into the hole. Fishing by the dawn’s early light can abruptly catch fire during the wee hours of the morning but shut off just as quickly as the initial sun rays touch down on the surface of the pond. Trolling near the Homer Spit has been producing silvers as well as some wandering kings. Oodles of brain stems with fins also known as humpies are still being caught where respectable salmon also cruise. Either try setting your gear to varying depths or jet out to a different sector of the salty in an attempt to avoid them. Chinook fishing has improved marginally in the last couple weeks,
with a majority of the kings being thumped along the Homer Spit and the south side of the bay from Eldredge Passage to Point Adam. Halibut Heftier halibut are moving into areas within Kachemak Bay. There have been sound accounts of steady halibut strikes with larger flats in the mix on the east side of the Homer Spit. The most reliable fishing is still in outer Kachemak Bay and beyond.
Weekend Almanac Thursday
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High tides: 11:16 a.m. 16.66 ft 11:22 p.m. 19.04 ft Low tides: 5:22 a.m. 2.30 ft 5:23 p.m. 4.79 ft
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High tides: 12:43 p.m. 16.06 ft Low tides: 6:41 a.m. 2.66 ft 6:36 p.m. 6.19 ft (Tide information for Kenai River Entrance)
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High tides: 12:32 a.m. 18.54 ft 2:07 p.m. 16.44 ft Low tides: 8:01 a.m. 2.39 ft 7:54 p.m. 6.69 ft (Tide information for Kenai River Entrance)
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Other Saltwater Fishing There are still sockeye coming into China Poot but the run is backing off and the personal use dipnet fishery closed on Aug. 7. Lingcod and nonpelagic rockfish hunters continue to travel well outside of Kachemak Bay for recurrent catches of their quarry. Drifting over rocky pinnacles while teasing your targets with jigs will normally work well. Pelagic rockfish can consistently be picked up while trolling or jigging in waters near Fourth of July Creek, Point Pogibshi, and Bluff Point. Emergency Orders Emergency Order 2-RCL-7-0119 and 2-RCL-7-02-19 closed all eastside Cook Inlet beaches to clamming for all species from the mouth of the Kenai River to the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit for 2019. For additional information, please contact the ADF&G Homer office at (907) 235-8191. Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he’s finally emerged from sulking in his safe place after being out-fished by a 12-year-old saltwater novice. Quit laughing, Tom.
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High tides: 1:42 a.m. 18.59 ft 3:13 p.m. 17.36 ft Low tides: 9:06 a.m. 1.71 ft 9:02 p.m. 6.39 ft (Tide information for Kenai River Entrance)
Fish Counts Late-run Kenai River Sockeye Aug. 6 — 76,338 Aug. 5 — 72,711 Aug. 4 — 62,687 Cumulative — 1,471,395
Marine Forecast Late-run Kenai River Chinook Aug. 6 — 139 Aug. 5 — 170 Aug. 4 — 303 Cumulative — 10,198
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