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Deadline looms to register to vote Here’s where to go to make your voice heard in municipal elections Oct. 1.

Sunday, Sept. 1 is the deadline to register to vote in municipal elections.

Absentee ballots can be submitted in person from Sept. 16 through Election Day, Oct. 1 at the following locations: The Kenai Peninsula Borough Clerk’s Office at 144 N. Binkley St. in Soldotna from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Annex Office at 638 E. Pioneer Ave in Homer from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Homer City Clerk’s Office at 491 E. Pioneer Ave. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

The Kenai City Clerk’s Office at 210 Fidalgo Ave. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

The Seldovia City Clerk’s Office at 235 Dock St. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

The Seward City Clerk’s Office at 410 Adams St. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Election Day is Oct. 1, and polling locations will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov to find your nearest polling location, and visit the Kenai Peninsula Borough website for more information on the upcoming municipal elections.

correction A Sunday, Aug. 25 article published in the Clarion incorrectly stated that Industry Appreciation Day was organized by the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District and the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. Industry Appreciation Day is organized by a committee of volunteers representing the different industries present at the event as well as the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce.

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Borough declares drought disaster Seldovia’s water source nearly depleted; Nanwalek will be out by today.

By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough issued a local disaster declaration Thursday on behalf of the City of Seldovia and Native Village of Nanwalek, which have both been experiencing water

shortages due to drought conditions on the peninsula.

The communities of Chignik Lagoon, Chignik Lake and Tatilek are also reporting water shortages and boil water advisories.

Nanwalek, which has been taking steps to conserve water and is relying on a

rapidly diminishing bottled water supply, will be out of water by Friday, according to the declaration.

The Nanwalek IRA Council declared a State of Emergency due to the impending lack of water for the community on Tuesday.

Nanwalek faces water shortages every summer, however, due to the hot and dry summer, water is running out, tribal administrator’s

assistant Katrina Berestoff said.

The shortages have prompted the community to shut off water for 12 hours at a time at night, delaying school breakfasts at Nanwalek School.

Berestoff said the community received four pallets of water, with three cases of water for each household, with the help of Chugachmiut Corporation, North

Pacific Rim Housing Authority and Chugach Alaska Corporation.

Berestoff said the community’s water supply depends on snow every winter.

“When it melts out too fast we kind of get a good idea that we will run out in the summer, especially if we are in a drought,” Berestoff said.

Seldovia’s council passed See drought, Page A2

Crews continue to battle Swan Lake Fire

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

The Swan Lake Fire showed little growth overnight Wednesday, but heavy smoke continued to affect operations Thursday.

Helicopters were unable to fly on the eastern flank of the fire in the Resurrection Trail area Thursday, but an unmanned drone was used to assess the effectiveness of burnout operations in the south central area of the fire above Skilak Lake, according to a Thursday afternoon update from the Office of Emergency Management.

As of Thursday morning, the fire measured 161,921 acres.

The incident management team reported Thursday that an additional strike team consisting of four engines and a hotshot crew were slated to work from 10 a.m. to midnight around Cooper Landing to bolster available resources during the hours when fire growth has been most active. They will join other crews in the area to reduce hazardous fuels around structures, install water sprinklers and protect the power line corridor.

The most active portion of the fire on Wednesday was located on the eastern flank in the Juneau Creek drainage. The fire slowly moved downslope to the south as well as up-valley to the north on the Resurrection Trail. According to the update, this growth does not present immediate

Alaska Wildland Fire Information

The Swan Lake Fire can be seen from above on Monday on the Kenai Peninsula.

concern for Cooper Landing, but fire managers are evaluating strategies that will limit further spread.

Thursday, three crews hiked up the drainage to begin constructing new containment lines.

Cooper Landing remained in a “SET” status as of

Thursday evening due to the proximity of the fire. All residents should be fully prepared to evacuate if the situation warrants. Residents who are uncomfortable or feel they need more time should consider leaving before an evacuation notice.

Cooper Landing School will

Public lands around fire closed

The closures are due to health and safety concerns related to the Swan Lake Fire.

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Continued wildfire activity has prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service to issue emergency area closures for portions of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest.

Closures for the Chugach National Forest include: all National Forest Service (NFS) lands and facilities south of American Creek to its intersection with the Resurrection Pass Trail, all NFS lands west of Resurrection Pass Trail to Devil’s Creek Trail, all NFS lands west of Quartz Creek and north of the Sterling Highway to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge/

National Forest boundary and all NFS lands east of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Boundary to American Creek.

On the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, closures include: all public use facilities within Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area, all refuge lands, trails and facilities adjacent to the Sterling Highway from the eastern boundary of the refuge at Mile 55 to the western boundary of the refuge at Mile 76 and the Sportsman’s Boat Launch Facility.

More details about the refuge closures as well as a map showing the areas affected can be found at https://www.fws.gov/ refuge/kenai/. More details about the closures in Chugach National Forest can be found at https:// www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/ chugach/alerts-notices.

The closures are due to concern for public health and safety related to the Swan Lake Fire, which

has been burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge for 85 days and is currently at 161,921 acres.

The closures will be in effect through Sept. 27, but may be rescinded or extended as conditions change.

According to the news release from USFWS, dangerous conditions within the burned area can cause serious injury. Deep ash pits can form in burned organic layers — also known as “duff” — and can stay hot under the surface while blending in visually.

Stepping into an ash pit can cause serious burns.

In addition, burned trees have lost their root systems, leaving them weak and likely to fall down even in light winds. Falling trees can change trail access and create challenging hiking conditions where trails were easily accessible in the past.

The open-fire burn restriction remains in effect and includes warming and cooking fires.

be closed until Tuesday, Sept.

3 at the earliest, according to a Wednesday night update from the borough school district.

The southwestern corner of the fire near Sterling experienced increased activity inside the containment lines.

Work continued on Thursday

to cool the area and further secure the perimeter by extinguishing any remaining burning or smoldering fuels adjacent to the containment lines. Structure protection on the western flank is effectively in place, and the fire has not spread past the containment line since it was established.

The Sterling neighborhoods east of Feuding Lane and east of Adkins Road remain in a “READY” status. A “READY” notification means that residents should actively prepare for a potential evacuation should the threat level increase.

A high-pressure system will remain on top of the fire for the next day, leading to light winds, warm temperatures and low humidity. A low-pressure storm system is approaching from the southwest that is expected to bring some precipitation Friday and Saturday night.

Incident Meteorologist Jeff Tonkin said during the community meeting in Cooper Landing Wednesday night that he expects about half an inch of rain on Friday night and another half an inch on Saturday night.

Gusty winds are predicted for Sunday afternoon. Fire suppression activities and dense smoke conditions have made travel on the Sterling Highway between Sterling and Cooper Landing hazardous, and authorities are discouraging travel on that part of the highway.

Those who choose to travel See fire, Page A2

Assembly extends fire declaration by 45 days

By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula emergency declaration regarding several wildfires burning on the peninsula was extended at a special Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting Thursday afternoon.

A resolution to extend the disaster declaration, which was only in effect until Aug. 28, was passed unanimously by the assembly.

The disaster declaration is now extended for 45 more days, to allow for more complete response, the resolution said.

“The declaration seeks state assistance as the borough has expended significant resources relating to the response to these fires in coordinating with the state of Alaska,” the resolution said.

The assembly also

addressed an emergency ordinance at their special assembly meeting that appropriates $200,000 from the general fund to be used for the response to the wildfires.

The ordinance passed the assembly unanimously, and state’s the money is needed to provide funding for the borough’s ongoing efforts in response to the fires and assessments of damages.

“The assembly finds that an emergency exists due to current fire-related conditions, including firefighting support, preparations and communications with the public due to road closures, evacuation preparedness and notifications, temporary housing, smoky air threatening public health and the continued threat to persons and property from these conditions,” the ordinance said.

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AccuWeather® 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna Today

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an emergency declaration Monday stating that record high temperatures and lack of precipitation have depleted the community’s water source. The declaration asked the Kenai Peninsula Borough and state to offer support and assistance.

Seldovia has issued water conservation notices and is taking preventive measures to limit water usage. Seldovia’s city manager, Cassidi Cameron, said less than 2.5 million gallons of water were left in the reservoir, which she estimates will last the community 16 more days.

Cameron said some of the elders in the community remember a time in the 1980s when the reservoir was depleted, but didn’t know if it was to a similar extent.

Droughts and water supply shortages were not previously a part of the city or the borough’s emergency operating plans, Cameron said.

That’s going to change this fall, she said.

Seldovia’s reservoir comes from the east side of the town, and water supply relies on snowpack and rain.

“That’s our watershed,” Cameron said. “That’s what we depend on. We’re hoping

Showers and thunderstorms will affect the Southeast, the Plains, Rockies, Ohio Valley and interior Northeast today. Hurricane Dorian will spin northeast of the Bahamas enroute to the Florida coast.

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this isn’t the new norm and that this is just a one-time event.”

Cameron said the community is expecting two water deliveries with 10 pallets of water next week. A graywater station is also being set up in town, where community members can use buckets to gather water for toilets and other household appliances.

“We’re doing what we can,” Cameron said. “Hope for rain.”

The Kenai Peninsula is now in either a severe or extreme drought, according to Thursday’s updated U.S. Drought Monitor map.

The area experiencing an extreme drought in the northern peninsula was expanded this week and the southern peninsula was upgraded from a moderate drought to a severe drought.

The U.S. Drought Monitor — produced in partnership with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of NebraskaLincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — measures droughts using five levels, level zero being no drought with abnormally dry conditions and the fourth level being an exceptional drought.

Jessica Blunden is a physical scientist at the monitoring branch at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association’s National Center for Environmental Information Center for Weather and Climate in North Carolina.

She puts together information for the drought monitor map and said more than just a lack of precipitation over time causes a drought.

In Alaska, wildfires, heat and other factors are used to determine how severe of a drought the Kenai Peninsula is in.

“There has also been extreme heat there (Southcentral), and there has been more evaporation, which can have an effect and is one of the reasons we’ve gone into higher categories of drought,” Blunden said.

“This is the driest (the area) had been on the drought monitor map, which has been going for 20 years.”

Blunden said before this summer, Alaska never saw anything above the moderate drought category.

“What’s happening now, especially in (the Kenai Peninsula) area, is basically unprecedented,” Blunden said.

A likely chance of rain on Friday and Sunday may offer some relief.

Lucas Boyer, a meteorologist at the National Weather

Service office in Anchorage, said a couple rounds of rainfall may occur on Friday night through Saturday, with another chance of rain on Sunday. He said rainfall may be lighter in places depending on how much rain is lost in the mountains.

Eugene Petrescu, the acting meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Forecast Office in Juneau, said the peninsula has seen the driest summer on record.

The Kenai area has had no measurable rainfall since July 28. Boyer said trace amounts of rainfall were recorded in the area Aug. 6, 13 and 14, during what is typically peak rain season.

Between June 1 and Aug. 12, Kenai has received 1.51 inches of rainfall — a nearly 40% decrease in the average rainfall for the area, which is 3.88 inches of rain.

During the month of June, Kenai received 0.11 inches of rain. The average rainfall for the area in the month of June is 1.07 inches. In July, Kenai received 1.4 inches of rain, compared to an area average of 1.84 inches.

During a special borough assembly meeting, Thursday, Mayor Charlie Pierce told the assembly to expect water shortages to be addressed at Tuesday’s regular assembly meeting.

the Cooper Landing Volunteer Fire Department. After picking up the placard, residents should display them clearly on the dashboard of their vehicle. The placard is to be used when approaching Cooper Landing from the east so that pilot cars at Mile 40 can more easily identify Cooper Landing residents and get them to the community safely.

The National Weather Service issued a dense smoke advisory Thursday, effective until 1 p.m. Friday for the interior Kenai Peninsula, including the Sterling and Cooper Landing highway corridor.

An Air Quality Advisory was issued by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday

and remains in effect through Friday.

The Color Run in Kenai was scheduled for this Saturday but has been postponed due to the heavy smoke. The new date is Saturday, Sept. 28 at Soldotna Creek Park. Registration will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the race will start at noon.

DEC air quality advisories can be found at http://dec. alaska.gov/Applications/Air/ airtoolsweb/Advisories/.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and the Chugach National Forest have issued additional closures in response to the fire.

The closures on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and the Chugach National Forest have been issued for all public lands surrounding and

including the burned area.

For a map and a comprehensive list of closures, visit kpboem.com.

A temporary flight restriction remains in place over the Swan Lake Fire. The TFR includes drones. Flying drones near wildfires could cause injury or death to firefighters as a result of a mid-air collision with tactical firefighting aircraft.

A community meeting will be held at the Sterling Community Center on Friday at 6 p.m. to discuss the fire and current operations with the incident management team and the borough’s Office of Emergency Management.

For the latest information on the fire, visit kpboem.com or call 208-391-3488.

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through the fire area should be prepared for delays of up to three hours and should make sure they have plenty of fuel, food and water. Motorists should not stop along the highway within the fire area.

As of Thursday afternoon, there were checkpoints at Mile 40, Mile 53 and Mile 71, with vehicles coming from Anchorage or Seward stopped at Mile 40 to wait for a pilot car. Wait times were expected at between 40 minutes to several hours.

Placards for those with homes or cabins in Cooper Landing are available at

Peninsula Clarion

Gina Renee Betts

February 27, 1963 - August 26, 2019

Longtime Soldotna resident Gina Renee Betts, 56, passed away Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna from complications of an aneurysm.

A celebration of her life will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at her home at 46275 Radcliff Ave. in Soldotna.

Gina was born Feb. 27, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minn. She graduated from high school and, in 1984, moved to Soldotna where she worked with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

Her family wrote, “Gina was an incredibly caring and giving woman. She worked so hard for her family and would give the shirt off her back to anybody. There was never a time when she was sitting down. She was always on the go from one job to the next She loved her daughters unconditionally and was so proud. She recently became a grandma, which was her pride and joy. Gina’s smile and laughter will be missed. She brought so much joy when she entered the room. Your daughters will continue to make you proud. We love you mom.”

Gina was preceded in death by her father, John Lavern Betts, mother, Marilyn Joan Betts, and brother, John Wayne Betts.

She is survived by her daughters, Christey Fuhrmann of Rochester, Minn., and Kyra Betts of Soldotna; granddaughter, Kinley West of Soldotna; sisters, Connie and Linda of Siren, Wis.; fiancé, Glen of Soldotna; and her fiance’s mother, Donna of Soldotna.

Memorial donations may be directed to the family at 46275 Radcliff Ave., Soldotna, AK 99669.

Arrangement were by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

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Meeting on Hilcorp seismic testing gets heated

By Michael Armstrong Homer News

A public meeting last Friday night on Hilcorp Alaska LLC’s plan to start seismic testing in lower Cook Inlet moved from information to indignation as some people asked pointed questions and someone blew an air horn.

About 100 people attended the meeting at Land’s End Resort held by the oil and gas company to discuss its plan to do a seismic survey this fall in about 200-square-miles of federal waters near Homer.

On Aug. 14, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it had approved a permit for Hilcorp to do geophysical exploration of 14 federal Outer Continental Shelf leases Hilcorp acquired in 2014.

At the meeting, Hilcorp Operations Manager Mike Dunn described it as “a smaller company,” but that situation flipped on Monday when BP announced in a $5.6 billion deal it has agreed to sell its entire business in Alaska to Hilcorp, making Hilcorp the largest private oil and gas operator in the state.

“We buy older fields and kinda make them more efficient,” Dunn said last Friday.

The BOEM permit allows Hilcorp to do seismic surveying from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31.

The 300-foot Polarcus Alima vessel will tow an array of compressed air guns that fire air blasts through the ocean water down to the sea floor.

“The idea is to shoot seismic (air guns) and then create an image of what the subsurface looks like so we can determine if there’s oil there,” Dunn said.

Under its BOEM, National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permits, Hilcorp is allowed “incidental takes” of marine mammals and fish — that is, it can harass the animals with noise, but it cannot kill them.

Dunn explained that survey ships will have observers to look for marine wildlife. If they see wildlife, the survey will stop until the animals move away. The acoustic blasts will be ramped up slowly with the idea of scaring animals away before the sound gets louder.

“It’s a burst of air pressure.

That’s what it is,” Dunn said.

That’s when someone in the crowd at the meeting blew

an air horn and someone else said “total b—-s—-.”

Jill Schaefer, the facilitator hired by Hilcorp to run the meeting, went into the back of the crowd to talk to some of the protesters.

“We ask you not to call b—-s—- when we are trying to present information,” she said. “… Having an air gun and interrupting does not help us give the information we want to present.”

A Homer Police officer came to the meeting shortly after that. Homer Police Lt. Ryan Browning said the officer had a discussion with a person and issued a disorderly conduct warning.

Beth Sharp, a wildlife habitat specialist with Hilcorp, said the effect on marine mammals would be like going to a loud rock concert. Hearing would be affected but there wouldn’t be any permanent damage. Hilcorp staff or contractors will do acoustic monitoring and assessing for the air guns to make sure the air guns don’t cross the threshold between having a lasting effect or causing an injury.

“This is the balance of resource development and protecting the environment,”

Sharp said. “… I am confident we have the protections in place and the observers in place so we have the assurance we’re not harming marine mammals.”

When Robert Archibald, a retired mariner, asked if Hilcorp would do seismic testing all day, Sharp said yes.

“As long as we’re actively operating, we can continue into the night with the idea that anything will move,” she said.

“Will you have (wildlife) observers with X-ray vision or infrared?” asked Dave Aplin.

“Your question was pretty silly,” Sharp replied.

Another audience member pressed the question.

“What are you going to do at night? That’s what we’re asking,” said Alan Parks. “…

When you say you’re not going to have an observer at night, I say that’s not cool.”

Bob Shavelson of Cook Inletkeeper said in an email that the National Marine Fisheries Service seeks comments on a request to modify a letter of authorization on the incidental takes and observing at night. For more information, visit https:// www.federalregister.gov/

Fall Train Stop Market at Whistle Hill

Look for the railroad cars!

For more info, visit our Facebook page, “The Train Stop Market.”

around the peninsula League of Women Voters candidate forum A forum for candidates running for borough assembly & school board will be held on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the borough assembly chambers in Soldotna. This is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, an issueoriented, nonpartisan organization working to inform voters.

Please attend to help make our democracy effective.

Alaska Farm Bureau meeting Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Alaska Farm Bureau will meet at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Homer Public Library. Topic for the meeting is discussion about splitting the chapter into a north peninsula and south peninsula chapter. Members may also attend through Zoom. Email kpchapterfb@gmali.com for information. Also, please note that the Kenai Chapter is sponsoring a Pie Contest at the 7th annual Harvest Moon Local Food Fesival, which will be held at the Soldotna Creek Park on Saturday, Sept. 14. We hope you can enter a pie in the contest! More information about the local food festival is at: www.KenaiLocalFood.org

Kenai Fine Art Center September events September is fundraiser month for the Kenai Fine Art Center with art donated by

area artists. The Silent Auction runs the entire month from Sept. 5-27, starting at 5 p.m. during the 1st Thursday event.

Patrons have the option to pay a “pay it now” price at any time.

Tickets are on sale now for the Auction event on the 28th. This event has the remaining silent auction items, live auction items, food, music and door prizes. These tickets are usually sold out and individuals should not expect availability during the last few days of September.

Tickets are available for $35 from board members or at the Kenai Fine Art Center.

Fall craft fair, bake sale

The Nikiski Senior Center will host a fall craft fair and bake sale on Saturday, Sept. 21 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at 50025 Lake Marie Ave. Contact 907-7767654. Space available. $10 per day/no table. $15 per day/table included.

Sterling Senior Center breakfast The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 9 a.m.noon. Menu includes bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes, and biscuits and gravy. Cost is $10 for adults and$5 for children. Further questions, call 262-6808.

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Adults 18 years or older are invited to participate. Deadline is Monday, Sept. 30 Notifications will be Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Kenai Pumpkin Festival. Registration forms are available at: Kenai Senior Center and Kenai Community Library or online at www. kenai.city/parksrec/page/ parks-and-recreation-forms.

For additional information call 907-283-8262. This Poetry Contest is brought to you by the Kenai Parks, Recreation & Beautification, Kenai Community Library, Kenai Senior Center and Friends of the Kenai Community Library.

Soldotna Senior Center Fundraiser It’s time again for the Soldotna Senior Center’s Fall Roundup fundraiser! Please join us for an evening of funfilled music and dancing with

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Saturday, Sept. 7, doors open at 5:15 p.m. A Prime Rib dinner with all the fixin’s is on the menu. Silent auctions and outcry auctions will wrap up this fundraising shindig!

Door prizes, fiddling, dancing, vittles, who could ask for more? Tickets are $28 for cowboys and cowgirls, $14 for little ‘uns under 12. All proceeds will support senior services and programs at the Soldotna Senior Center.

Rotary spruce tree planting The River Rotary will be planting spruce trees in collaboration with the City of Soldotna. Those interested in helping to plant the hundreds of trees Saturday, Aug 31. or Monday, Sept. 1 contact our Rotary president, Kathy at 907-394-5195. This activity is weather dependent, please call ahead. It will be at Swift Water campground in Soldotna.

The Fall Train Stop Market on Whistle Hill will be held Friday-Saturday, Sept. 6-7 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. This twoday outdoor market features over 20 vendors from the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage areas. Addie Camp Dining Car will be open with a limited menu. Brew@602 will be open from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. with their full menu of coffee and waffles. Whistle Hill is located at 43540 Whistle Hill Loop in Soldotna.

Caregiver Support Meeting Sterling Senior Center will host Caregiver Support Meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 1 p.m.: Discussion will focus on strategies for long distance caregiving. Please join us to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. Call Sharon or Judy at 907-2621280, for more information.

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A victory in court not enough to offset costs of opioid crisis

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klahoma has won a judgment of more than $572 million against corporate health care giant Johnson & Johnson after showing that the company’s role in the state’s opioid crisis created a public nuisance that “compromised the health and safety of thousands of Oklahomans.”

The company says Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s verdict is wrong and has promised an appeal.

But for now, we’ll take the court’s decision on its face, and declare it another significant victory for the state and Attorney General Mike Hunter. Combined with two previous settlements with opioid manufacturers, the state looks to get more than $900 million in justified compensation from big drug companies.

A judgment of $572 million is big by any standard, but it’s a lot less than the $17 billion the state had asked for. The larger number anticipated the many years it would take for the state to recover from the opioid crisis. Balkman’s judgment says his number covers only one year’s costs for the state, and future orders are a possibility.

Hunter’s decision to pursue Oklahoma’s opioid cases independently of the multistate case pending in Ohio was brave. If he had lost, he risked being blamed for the state absorbing all the opioid crisis costs. His boldness and his success means the state won’t have to split compensation with other litigants and has less risk of losing some or all of its settlements if a drug company declares bankruptcy.

The temptation of a $572 million windfall is to celebrate, and it certainly beats losing. But we haven’t lost sight of the fact that the money is compensation for the state’s costs in a horrific crisis.

Both sides agreed that some 2,100 Oklahomans died of unintentional prescription opioid overdoses from 20112015; that more than 326 million opioid pills were dispensed in the state in 2015 alone, equivalent to 110 pills for every adult Oklahoman; and that, in 2017, 4.2% of babies covered by the state’s Medicaid program were born with withdrawal conditions associated with drug exposure in the womb.

Such human tragedy puts Monday’s justice in perspective and is the mark of shame forever upon those responsible.

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alaska voices | Catherine M. Mater and Dominick A. DellaSala

A solution for the Tongass, climate change

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perfect storm is brewing in Southeast Alaska and all weather vanes are pointing to the Tongass National Forest — the “Amazon” of America that serves as lungs of the nation by absorbing and storing the equivalent of almost 10 percent of all the carbon retained in U.S. forests. Alaska has been in the national news with coverage of dried-up salmon spawning grounds due to unprecedented drought, and dwindling deer populations from logging old growth on Prince of Wales Island; all while the White House and Alaskan officials double down on eliminating protections for Alaska’s roadless old growth stands.

Understanding the connection between the Tongass, continued timber production, climate change and the real need for creating economic development in the state has never been more urgent. But these seemingly disparate silos offer a comprehensive solution.

While the state’s forest products industry that relies on old growth timber has sharply declined, a new one is emerging focused on transitioning out of old growth logging to reliance on Tongass young growth — 55-75-year-old trees — timber supply.

Between 2016-2018, resulting from Congressional funds secured by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Forest Service completed the most intensive young forest inventory ever conducted on the Tongass previously logged by the pulp and paper industry 50 years ago.

Approximately 140,000 acres of these clustered, low elevation young growth acres are outside all environmentally sensitive areas

and are within 800 feet of currently open forest service roads, so little road building would be required.

The Forest Service inventoried over 40,000 of these acres within the Prince of Wales, Ketchikan, Petersburg and Kake supply circles.

Supplemental work conducted by Juneau-based Geos Institute and the Alaska office of the Natural Resource Defense Council and shared with the Forest Service underscore an undeniable “wall of wood” opportunity to begin transitioning the Alaska timber industry based on sustainable forest management principles not evidenced in prior old growth logging, all the while preserving currently protected old growth acres for climate, subsistence and recreation benefits. Importantly, many of these abundant low-risk, accessible young growth stands, according to Forest Service inventory results, are already producing merchantable timber in per acre volumes often equal to that produced from old growth stands and have age class distributions that can support a sustainably managed forest products industry for decades to come.

The young growth stands are taller and have larger diameters than expected — meeting Tongass Advisory Council requirements for transition — and generate less than 2 perfect defect after harvest compared to 70 percent defect from old growth stands.

The recent 2019 Kuiu old growth timber sale offers hard-learned lessons on why a transition to young growth needs to rapidly happen. With over 10 miles of road construction required to reach Kuiu timber supply

and 70 percent defect, the project simply didn’t pencil out, and no bids were received.

Existing regional mills would need to install small log processing technology to efficiently process the new young growth supply, but capitalization for these renovations would be highly supported by the public and of keen interest to private funding sectors. And after 3 years of peerreviewed project design development and field work undertaken by the Forest Service Research Station on Tongass young growth, the next step is to establish a Young Growth Wood Quality Pilot manufacturing line that would process young timber to test for lumber grade recovery and market demand for manufactured products Tongass and Sealaska Timber Corporation young growth logs have been sold to export markets for almost a decade.

Taking a page from Sealaska’s playbook, the 9 million acres of old growth targeted for logging in the Alaska Roadless Rule could be set aside for permanent protection and accumulating atmospheric carbon stores.

Payments for those forest carbon stores could come from heavy carbon emitters such as the cruise ships that now enter and launch from Alaskan shores. Recent 2019 investigative reports show that each of these ships emits as much particulate matter to the atmosphere as one million cars every day.

For Alaska a clear choice exists on the Tongass: navigate a new course with an abundant young growth “wall of wood” or continue the old growth course towards conflict and litigation.

That perfect storm is now.

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Alabama governor apologizes for wearing blackface in college MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologized Thursday for wearing blackface decades ago, becoming the latest politician to face scrutiny over racially insensitive photos and actions from their university days.

Ivey, 74, issued the apology after a 1967 radio interview surfaced in which her now-ex-husband describes her actions at Auburn University, where she was vice president of the student government association.

“I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes, and I will do all I can — going forward — to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s,” Ivey said.

Ivey released a recording of the college radio interview she and then-fiance Ben LaRavia gave. In the interview, LaRavia describes Ivey as wearing coveralls and “black paint all over her face” while pretending to search for used cigars on the ground in a skit at the Baptist Student Union party. The skit was called “Cigar Butts.” No other details of the skit were given.

Ivey and LaRavia were married for a short time and later divorced.

Ivey said Thursday that she did not remember the skit, but “will not deny what is the obvious.”

“As such, I fully acknowledge — with genuine remorse — my participation in a skit like that back when I was a senior in college.”

— Associated Press

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Trump attacks Fox, and gets silence

By David Bauder Associated Press

NEW YORK — The one constant with President Donald Trump’s increasingly frequent attacks on Fox News has been the network’s refusal to respond, even as the president complains that “Fox isn’t working for us anymore.”

In recent days, however, some Fox personalities like Bret Baier, Juan Williams and Brit Hume have ceased looking the other way.

Fox is stocked with pro-Trump commentators like Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro and Laura Ingraham, and the president is a frequent viewer. He speaks up when he sees things that displease him, with news anchor Shepard Smith, chief White House correspondent John Roberts, commentator Williams, contributor Donna Brazile and network pollsters all targeted this summer. He groused Wednesday that news anchor Sandra Smith offered “zero pushback” in an interview with Democratic communications director Xochitl Hinojosa.

One tweet Wednesday cut to the very heart of the network’s existence.

“The new Fox News is letting millions of great people down,” he wrote.

“We have to start looking for a new News outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore.”

Fox’s official response? There was none.

Current Fox executives declined comment for this story. They’re not necessarily alone; NBC News doesn’t respond to tweets, either. Some who’ve heard the president’s complaints liken it to a basketball coach “working the refs,” and the best stand stoically while

getting an earful. There’s a concern that responding just gives Trump’s commentary more attention, and that Twitter attacks are simply the white noise of this administration.

The calculus is also different at Fox because that’s where many Trump supporters gravitate. If their favorite politician is perceived as being under attack by their favorite network, how would those viewers react? Trump didn’t like questions posed by Fox’s Megyn Kelly during a 2015 debate, and boos rained down upon her when she later appeared before a live audience gathered for a Hannity telecast.

“I don’t think Fox cares about Trump’s attacks,” said Alex Conant, a Republican communications consultant who heads Firehouse Strategies.

“They just care about their audience.”

Still, Trump’s contention that Fox is “working for us” is damaging for a network when that perception has made it more difficult to cover the Democratic presidential campaign. Trump hasn’t distinguished between Fox’s opinion and news employees, which the network has long done to counter the argument that its purpose is to advance one point of view.

“That’s so scary that the president of the United States thinks that a media organization is his,” said Williams, the commentator called on to give a liberal point of view, on a Fox radio program.

“You know, that’s not good.”

Fox’s elder statesman Hume tweeted in response to Trump on Wednesday : “Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you.”

It’s worth noting that even as Trump has attacked Fox, he still seeks its audience more than any other outlet. He gave

an interview Thursday to Fox’s Brian Kilmeade.

Fox News is routinely the most watched cable network, with an average of 2.33 million viewers in prime time last week.

Williams is among the few at Fox to directly answer a Trump attack through a column he wrote this week for The Hill . Trump last week called Williams “pathetic,” ”nasty” and “wrong,” yet “he couldn’t be nicer as he asked to take a picture of him and me for his family.”

Williams said that when Trump was a candidate, he and Fox’s Ed Henry ran into him in the lobby of the network’s Manhattan headquarters. A Fox maintenance man asked if he could get a picture with Trump, and Williams took it. The man then offered to reciprocate by taking a picture of Williams and Trump; Williams said he never asked for it or brought his family into the conversation.

When he was a Washington Post reporter covering Mayor Marion Barry’s administration, Williams’ house was broken into and his wife found a butcher knife left on their bed. He was fired by National Public Radio for a commentary after Sept. 11, 2001 when he said he was nervous about getting on planes with Muslims.

“Those attacks are a step down from the blitz” launched by Trump’s supporters after the president’s tweet, he said.

Baier, on his show last week, defended Fox’s pollsters from attacks. “Fox has not changed,” Baier said. “We have a news side and an opinion side.”

After one hostile tweet, Smith addressed one viewer Wednesday by looking at the camera and saying, “Good afternoon, Mr. President. It’s nice to have you with us.”

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‘A big deal:’ Hurricane Dorian aims at Florida

By Freida Frisaro and Adriana Gomez Licon Associated Press

MIAMI— Florida residents picked the shelves clean of bottled water and lined up at gas stations Thursday as an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Dorian threatened to broadside the state over Labor Day weekend.

Leaving lighter-thanexpected damage in its wake in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the second hurricane of the 2019 season swirled toward the U.S., with forecasters warning it will draw energy from the warm, open waters as it closes in.

The National Hurricane Center said the Category 1 storm is expected to strengthen into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 with winds of 130 mph and slam into the U.S. on Monday somewhere between the Florida Keys and southern Georgia — a 500-mile stretch that reflected the high degree

of uncertainty this far out.

“If it makes landfall as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, that’s a big deal,” said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.

“A lot of people are going to be affected. A lot of insurance claims.”

President Donald Trump canceled his weekend trip to Poland and declared Florida is “going to be totally ready.”

With the storm’s track still unclear, no immediate mass evacuations were ordered.

Along Florida’s east coast, local governments began distributing sandbags, shoppers rushed to stock up on food, plywood and other emergency supplies at supermarkets and hardware stores, and motorists topped off their tanks and filled gasoline cans.

Some fuel shortages were reported in the Cape Canaveral area.

Josefine Larrauri, a retired translator, went to a Publix supermarket in Miami only to find empty shelves in the water

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Shoppers load their truck with supplies ahead of Hurricane Dorian at The Home Depot in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on Thursday.

section and store employees unsure of when more cases would arrive.

“I feel helpless because the

whole coast is threatened,” she said. “What’s the use of going all the way to Georgia if it can land there?”

As of Thursday evening, Dorian was centered about 330 miles east of the Bahamas, its winds blowing at 85 mph as it

moved northwest at 13 mph.

It is expected to pick up steam as it pushes out into warm waters with favorable winds, the University of Miami’s McNoldy said, adding: “Starting tomorrow, it really has no obstacles left in its way.”

The National Hurricane Center’s projected track had the storm blowing ashore midway along the Florida peninsula, southeast of Orlando and well north of Miami or Fort Lauderdale.

But because of the difficulty of predicting its course this far ahead, the “cone of uncertainty” covered nearly the entire state.

Also imperiled were the Bahamas, with Dorian’s expected track running just to the north of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama islands.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency, clearing the way to bring in more fuel and call out the National Guard if necessary, and Georgia’s governor followed suit.

Opioid settlement would use formula to split the money

By Geoff Mulvhill and Andrew Welsh-Huggins Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio— The multibillion-dollar settlement that the maker of OxyContin is negotiating to settle a crush of lawsuits over the nation’s opioid crisis contains formulas for dividing up the money among state and local governments across the country, The Associated Press has learned.

The formulas would take into account several factors, including opioid distribution in a given jurisdiction, the number of people who misuse opioids and the number of overdose deaths.

Spelling out the way the settlement is to be split could forestall squabbles over the money and avoid what some see as the mistakes made

with the hundreds of billions of dollars received under the nationwide settlement with Big Tobacco during the 1990s.

Activists have complained that precious little of the money from the tobacco industry went toward antismoking programs and too much was diverted toward state budget holes, pensions and other things unrelated to smoking’s toll.

In the case of the opioid litigation, some of the plaintiffs have said they want direct control over the money to make sure it goes toward treating and preventing addiction and covering some of the taxpayer costs associated with the deadly epidemic, including mental health services, police calls and foster care for children of addicts.

Published reports say a

“The amount of money that’s being offered in this settlement doesn’t even scratch the surface for what’s needed.”

— Ryan Hampton, a Los Angeles-based advocate

proposed $10 billion to $12 billion settlement of the opioid claims with Purdue Pharma is taking shape.

As an example of the proposed formulas, Cabell County, West Virginia, a hardhit part of Appalachia, and the local governments in it would get a total of $975,000 for every $1 billion in the settlement. Philadelphia would receive $6.5 million.

The talks are being overseen by a federal judge in Cleveland. But Purdue wants

any settlement to apply to all claims against it, according to a person familiar with the talks but not authorized to discuss them publicly. That would include the nearly 2,000 lawsuits in federal court and the hundreds of other local government and state lawsuits filed in state courts.

Under the plan now on the table, Purdue Pharma would file for bankruptcy and transform itself into a “public benefit trust corporation,” with all profits from drug

sales and other proceeds going to the plaintiffs, news reports said.

The Sackler family would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma and contribute at least $3 billion toward the total, the reports said.

The amount being described in the proposed settlement pales in comparison to the cost of the nation’s opioid epidemic, which has contributed to the deaths of some 400,000 people in the U.S. since 2000.

Government health officials have pegged the economic toll of the prescription opioid epidemic at more than $78 billion per year, according to a 2016 estimate by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The figure includes the costs of medical care, addiction treatment, lost productivity and

legal expenses.

“The amount of money that’s being offered in this settlement doesn’t even scratch the surface for what’s needed,” said Ryan Hampton, a Los Angeles-based advocate who founded the nonprofit The Voices Project to mobilize people in recovery from opioid addiction.

“This settlement deal is a complete slap in the face.

We want to see Purdue have their day in court. We know more money will come if this case goes to trial.”

Stamford, Connecticutbased Purdue declined to comment Thursday but said earlier in the week that it sees little good in years of “wasteful litigation and appeals” and believes a far-reaching settlement is the best solution.

Texas governor says ‘mistakes’ made in immigrant rhetoric

By Cedar Attanasio and Paul J. Weber Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday “mistakes were made” when he sent a fundraising mailer that called on supporters to “defend Texas” from illegal immigration, which was dated a day before a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in El Paso.

The letter was condemned

as racist and anti-Latino by the Texas Democratic Party after it surfaced last week. That was followed by Abbott coming under more criticism the next day — this time from El Paso lawmakers — for tweeting that “liberals” on the U.S. Supreme Court had required Texas to pay for schooling for students who are not in the U.S. legally.

The lawmakers called the tweet “dangerous” in the wake of the Aug. 3 mass shooting at a Walmart, which authorities

say was carried out by a gunman who posted a racist screed online that railed against an influx of immigrants to the U.S. Taken together, the mailer and tweet have put a spotlight on Abbott’s hardline rhetoric at a time when he has urged unity in the aftermath of another mass shooting in Texas.

He addressed the letter publicly for the first time before leading a meeting in

El Paso with lawmakers, gun activists and family members of those killed at the Walmart.

“I did have the opportunity to visit with the El Paso delegation and help them understand that mistakes were made,” Abbott said. “And a course correction has been made. And I emphasized the importance of making sure the rhetoric will not be used in any dangerous way. And we will make sure that we will work collaboratively.”

Speaking briefly to reporters, Abbott did not elaborate on what mistakes had been made or assign fault, and did not elaborate on what actions have been taken. Democrats, meanwhile, took note that Abbott did not explicitly apologize.

“Governor Abbott has an apology to make. The eyes of the world are on us,” said Manny Garcia, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party.

Democrats have compared Abbott’s language to the divisive words used by President Donald Trump, whose critics say has fostered the kind of anti-immigrant hatred that the El Paso gunman posted online.

Since the shooting, Trump has defended his rhetoric on such issues as immigration and denied stoking divisions that spawned the violence, contending that he “brings people together.”

Across the U.S.

Fentanyl taken in bust could kill 14 million NORFOLK, Va. — Law enforcement officials in Virginia said Thursday that they’ve taken down a multistate drug ring and seized enough cheap fentanyl from China to kill 14 million people.

The bust was announced in the wake of growing efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl from Chinese labs to the United States. The synthetic opioid often comes through the mail or across the Mexico border. It can be stronger and more lethal than heroin and is responsible for tens of thousands of American drug deaths each year.

The 30 kilograms (about 66 pounds) of fentanyl that were seized in this bust were intended for an area in southeastern Virginia known was the Peninsula, which includes the cities of Hampton and Newport News.

One of the 39 people charged is accused of ordering fentanyl from a vendor in Shanghai. The person then “had it mailed through the U.S. Postal Service to a neighborhood in Newport News,” G. Zachary Terwilliger, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said at a news conference in Norfolk.

Besides the fentanyl, authorities said they seized 24 guns, large quantities of heroin and cocaine and more than $700,000 in cash.

Ex-NYPD detectives to get probation for sex in police van NEW YORK — A judge says he’s choosing probation over jail for two ex-New York City detectives accused of having sex in a police van with an 18-year-old woman they had arrested for marijuana possession.

Eddie Martins, 39, and Richard Hall, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday to official misconduct and other

charges stemming from the September 2017 encounter.

Judge Danny Chun said he’ll sentence the men in October to five years of probation. Prosecutors wanted them jailed for at least a year. Sentencing is set for Oct. 10.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office had dropped kidnapping and rape charges against Martins and Hall in March, citing “serious credibility issues.”

The case spurred legislation to close what some called a police sex loophole.

While New York law already bars sex between prison guards and inmates, it didn’t apply to officers and those in their custody. The loophole has since been closed.

Jury deliberating in Utah case involving major opioid ring SALT LAKE CITY — A jury began deliberating Thursday in the case of a Utah man accused of running a

multimillion-dollar opioid ring that shipped potentially poisonous, fake prescription drugs across the country, causing at least one fatal overdose.

Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Aaron Shamo’s operation helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic by making hundreds of thousands of pills available to addicts and other users.

“Shamo was a master manipulator. He knew what buttons to push to get people to do what he wanted, which was to keep working for his organization and keep making more money, more money, more money,” U.S. prosecutor Vernon Stejskal told jurors.

Defense attorneys countered that Shamo, 29, wasn’t a kingpin, just a “dummy” who was desperate to make friends and ended up taking blame for the operation.

He is facing 13 counts of operating a criminal enterprise, selling drugs that caused a death and other charges.

— Associated Press

Central Peninsula Hospital Board of Directors is seeking qualified applicants for two [2] vacant position for a three-year term commencing January 2020. The CPH Board is committed to having an effective, sustainable governing board whose board members support and reflect the organizational needs and the board’s needs.

The recruitment, selection and retention of board members are based upon the current and anticipated future concerns of the Hospital. As such, preference in selection will be given to applicants with demonstrated experience and background in the following areas: • Quality & Patient Safety • Finance • Community Relations The key competency we are always looking for is LEADERSHIP Any resident of the Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area, who is at least 21 years of age, is eligible to apply for Board membership.

Applications and additional information on the Board can be obtained by calling 714- 4721, downloading copies from the CPGH Board website https://cpgh. civicweb.net or via email to tnettles@cpgh.org.

Please return the completed application to: CPGH, Inc. Attn: Terri Nettles, CEO/Board Assistant 250 Hospital Place Soldotna, AK 99669 All applications must be received by September 15, 2019.

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Funerals begin for 28 victims of Mexico bar fire

By Mark Stevenson Associated Press

COATZACOALCOS, Mexico — Anger remained high Thursday as relatives began the slow, tearful task of mourning and burying the 28 people who died horrendously when gang members set a bar on fire after blocking its exits.

The families complained that criminals are out of control and making life impossible in this southern Mexico oil town.

At least seven of the victims were buried Thursday, with the 3-year-old daughter of one woman, Xochitl Irineo Gomez, waving goodbye to her mother after her coffin was placed into the ground.

Vanessa Galindo Blas, 32,

leaned over the brown metal coffin of her common-law husband, Erick Hernandez Enriquez, 29, who had dreamed of becoming a famous deejay. He was working at the club to support his three children. “He wanted to be famous,” she sighed. “Look what they did to him.”

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the Coatzacoalcos attack “degrades us as a society, as a government, as a nation,” adding that crime and violence is the problem that worries him most.

Veracruz state, where Coatzacoalcos is located, has been one of many hot spots for that violence. Thousands have been kidnapped and disappeared in the state and in April gunmen broke into a family party and opened fire,

Rebecca Blackwell / associated press

Vanessa Galindo Blas, 32, places a rose on a photograph atop the coffin of her husband, Erick Hernandez Enriquez, 29, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, Mexico, on Thursday.

killing 13 people and wounding at least four others.

Businessmen say gangs in Coatzacoalcos demand protection money from business owners, and at least two other bars were burned down

Trump says U.S. troops to drop to 8,600 in Afghanistan Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. plans to withdraw more than 5,000 American troops from Afghanistan and then will determine further drawdowns in the longest war in American history.

Trump’s comment comes as a U.S. envoy is in his ninth round of talks with the Taliban to find a resolution to the nearly 18-year-old war. The president, who campaigned on ending the war, said the U.S. was “getting close” to making a deal, but that the outcome of the U.S.-Taliban talks

remained uncertain.

“Who knows if it’s going to happen,” Trump told Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”

Trump did not offer a timeline for withdrawing troops. The Pentagon has been developing plans to withdraw as many as half of the 14,000 U.S. troops still there, but the Taliban want all U.S. and NATO forces withdrawn.

“We’re going down to 8,600 (troops) and then we’ll make a determination from there,” Trump said, adding that the U.S. is going to have a “high intelligence” presence in Afghanistan going forward.

Reducing the U.S. troop level to 8,600 would bring the total down to about where it was when Trump took office in January 2017.

According to the NATO/ Resolute Support mission, the U.S. had 9,000 troops in Afghanistan in 2016, during the Obama administration, and 8,000 in 2017.

A Taliban spokesman also has said that they’re close to a final agreement. But even as the talks go on, there are persistent attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan, and an affiliate of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has taken root in the country and is expanding its base.

in Coatzacoalcos in July to enforce such demands.

Authorities are searching for the men who burst into the White Horse nightclub late Tuesday, taking over the entrance at gunpoint

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upside down in Mexico,” Ortiz said. “Those who carry illegal weapons go free.”

López Obrador has said “violence cannot be fought with more violence,” and has praised soldiers who have held fire even as they were disarmed by mobs. He says his programs of scholarships and apprenticeships will eventually attack the root causes of crime.

He has spoken of addressing Mexico’s crime problems with “hugs, not bullets,” and has insisted that Mexicans are “happy, happy, happy.”

Officials of his administration have even begun talks with vigilante groups, many of which are linked to drug cartels, though Lopez Obrador says he disapproved of those talks.

Yemen wants halt to UAE airstrikes Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s president urged Saudi Arabia on Thursday to rein in the United Arab Emirates after warplanes from his former ally staged airstrikes on Yemeni government troops, killing and wounding dozens as they headed to retake the key southern port city of Aden from separatists backed by the UAE. In a rare statement, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi condemned the UAE, a former ally, for “blatant intervention” in Yemen by providing “support, money and plans” for separatists who aim at “dividing up” the country.

His government called upon the United Nations

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and dousing it with gasoline and setting the bar afire.

The attack was apparently carried out by the Jalisco drug cartel in retaliation for the bar owner’s refusal to pay extortion demands.

But the state governor has acknowledged that authorities had several of the suspects in custody earlier on other crimes — but allowed them to be released.

Relatives of those killed at the White Horse bar said they have lost trust in authorities.

“We don’t want a war, but we do want more firm action,” Miguel Angel Ortiz said Wednesday as he waited for official confirmation that his mother, cleaning woman Rocio Gonzalez Ramos, 53, was among the dead.

“The justice system is

Security Council to condemn the attacks.

The development raises concerns about the future of a Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels since 2015 and adds another complex layer to the civil war that has ravaged the Arab world’s most impoverished country.

Infighting has raged for weeks between forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the southern separatists, backed by the UAE — all ostensibly allies in the coalition.

Col. Mohamed al-Oban, a commander of the government’s special forces in Abyan province, said the troops were on the road, headed from Abyan toward

Aden on Thursday, when the strikes took place, killing at least 30.

The UAE issued a statement acknowledging its fighter jets carried out the airstrikes, saying that they were targeting “terrorists” and that the strikes came in response to attacks on the coalition.

According to the Yemeni Defense Ministry, a total of 300 troops were killed and wounded in a series of airstrikes, without breaking down the number of killed and wounded.

At least six raids were carried out by Emirati warplanes around the temporary capital, according to government military sources who asked to remain anonymous.

Around the World

North Korea blames West for meddling UNITED NATIONS — North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its “selfdefensive measures for arms modernization,” saying the West will make “no greater mistake” than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure

peace. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. allies condemning Pyongyang’s “repeated provocative launches” of ballistic missiles.

Political foes unite

ROME — Days after stepping down, Italy’s ex-premier accepted the role of premierdesignate Thursday in a bid

to cobble together a new coalition of long-time political foes aimed at blocking a power grab by Matteo Salvini, the right-wing leader whose anti-migrant crackdowns and euroskeptic provocations have dominated Italian politics for more than a year.

But even if Giuseppe Conte, a 55-year-old law professor, succeeds in building a new majority between the grass-roots 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, political analysts warn it may not last.

— Associated Press

Today in History

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Today is Friday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2019. There are 123 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date: In 1862, Confederate forces won victories against the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, and the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.

In 1945, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters.

In 1963, the “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

In 1983, Guion (GY’-un) S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger.

In 1986, Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American officials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York. (Both men were later released.)

In 1989, a federal jury in New York found “hotel queen” Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion, but acquitted her of extortion. (Helmsley ended up serving 18 months behind bars, a month at a halfway house and two months under house arrest.)

In 1997, Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed (DOH’-dee FY’-ehd), and their driver, Henri Paul. (Because of the time difference, it was August 31 where the crash occurred.)

In 2002, With just hours to spare, baseball averted a strike; it was the first time since 1970 that players and owners had agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement without a work stoppage.

In 2005, a day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floods were covering 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.

In 2007, in a serious breach of nuclear security, a B-52 bomber armed with six nuclear warheads flew crosscountry unnoticed; the Air Force later punished 70 people.

In 2012, Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House with a rousing, personal speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, proclaiming that America needs “jobs, lots of jobs.”

In 2017, the former Hurricane Harvey completed a U-turn in the Gulf of Mexico and rolled ashore for the second time in six days, hitting southwestern Louisiana as a tropical storm with heavy rains and winds of 45 miles an hour.

Floodwaters began to recede in Houston, where thousands of homes were flooded.

Ten years ago: Voters in Japan ousted the country’s conservatives after more than a half century of rule and put the untested Democratic Party of Japan in control. The space shuttle Discovery docked at the international space station, delivering a full load of gear and science experiments. Chula Vista, California, came up big late to win the Little League World Series, defeating Taoyuan, Taiwan, 6-3.

Five years ago: The U.S. military said fighter aircraft and unmanned drones had struck Islamic State militants near Iraq’s Mosul (MOH’-sul) Dam. Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers escaped their besieged outpost in the Golan Heights after a seven-hour gunbattle with Syrian rebels. The St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL. One year ago: A Los Angeles man was arrested and charged with making a series of phone calls threatening to kill journalists at The Boston Globe for what he allegedly called “treasonous” attacks on President Donald Trump.

(Robert Chain later pleaded guilty to seven counts of making threatening communications; he is scheduled for sentencing in September.) The president told Congress that he would be canceling pay raises that were due in January for most civilian federal employees, citing budget constraints.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Elizabeth Ashley is 80. Actor Ben Jones is 78. Actor John Kani is 77. Cartoonist R. Crumb is 76. Olympic gold medal skier Jean-Claude Killy (zhahn-KLOHD’ kee-LEE’) is 76. Comedian Lewis Black is 71. Actor Timothy Bottoms is 68. Actor David Paymer is 65. Jazz musician Gerald Albright is 62. Actor Michael Chiklis is 56. Actress Michael Michele is 53. Country musician Geoff Firebaugh is 51. Country singer Sherrie Austin is 48. Rock singer-musician Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) is 48. Actress Cameron Diaz is 47. Rock musician Leon Caffrey (formerly w/Space) is 46. TV personality Lisa Ling is 46. Rock singer-musician Aaron Barrett (Reel Big Fish) is 45. Actor Raul Castillo is 42. Actor Michael Gladis is 42. Rock musician Matt Taul (Tantric; Days of the New) is 41.

MLB pitcher Adam Wainwright is 38. Tennis player Andy Roddick is 37. Singer Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) is 34. Rock musician Ryan Ross is 33. Actress Johanna Braddy is 32. Actor Cameron Finley is 32.

Thought for Today: “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” -- Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (1912-2010).

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Ignore internet’s illusions of beauty

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ave you been on the internet recently?

Have you noticed all the good-looking people you can discover on Facebook and Instagram?

Many have noticed and continue to do so. It can lead to what psychologists are now labeling Snapchat Dysmorphia.

Snapchat Dysmorphia is what happens when we see the beautiful people on the internet and wind up losing our self-esteem. We began to feel inadequate. We look at our faces and bodies in a mirror in the real world and what we see in the glass doesn’t measure up to what we see on the computer screen. Psychologists warn us this can spiral down into a serious disorder.

Here are two pieces of advice. First, don’t trust what you see on the computer screen. As a

student of Photoshop and digital photography I can share what I’ve learned from several sources about portrait photography. After you take the picture, go into the computer and remove a few wrinkles from the face. Don’t remove them all because then the picture will look unrealistic. People don’t want that. But if you remove a few and if you soften the picture a little, people will consider you a good photographer.

And you don’t need to master Photoshop to edit your face. If you’re submitting your own photo into the digital world just search the App store. You’ll find help from such apps as Fotogenic: Photo Editor, Prettifier, and the $30 InstaBeauty Pro. And such editing isn’t reserved for the internet. One source noted that plastic surgery

church briefs Revival services The Soldotna Pentecostals are having Revival Services with evangelist Rev. Eli Hernandez on Wednesday-Saturday, Aug. 28-31 and Sunday, Sept. 1 at 11 a.m. Located in the Structures Building upstairs. 224 #201 Kenai Ave., Soldotna.

Contact Mike Mendenhall at 252-9889 or look us up online at Soldotnapentecostals@ yahoo.com.

Our Lady Of Perpetual Help holding classes Classes for anyone interested in the Catholic Church will be held each Wednesday evening starting Sept. 18.

The classes will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Church

Community Room. During the school year those attending will learn about the teachings of the Church based on the teachings of Jesus to His disciples. This process is called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).

For more information or to sign up please call Shirley at 262-9654.

Kasilof Community Church Food Pantry Ka s i l o f C o m mu n i t y Church Food Pantry starts Wednesday, June 5 and every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The pantry is located in the church office building next to the Kasilof Mercantile, about mile 109 on the Sterling Highway.

increased 13% from 2016 to 2017.

So don’t let what you see make you feel inadequate.

Don’t trust what you see on the computer and even in real life.

Second, concentrate on your inner beauty, not your outer beauty.

Peter writes in the Bible that our beauty should not be the result of wearing the right clothes or of having enough bling. He says in I Peter 3:4 “Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” And, yes, he is writing to a specific group of wives because of the culture he was dealing with, but everyone agrees that the advice applies equally well to men as well as to women. Forget the bling; work on the spirit.

All are welcome.

Non-perishable food items may be dropped at this same location Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Contact the church office for more information at 262-7512

Clothes Quarters open Wednesdays Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-283-4555.

United Methodist Church Food Pantry The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from 12:30-3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys

The only beauty of great worth is one’s inner beauty.

God looks at the inside, not the outside. And the people whose opinions matter to you should be those individuals who do the same.

It’s time to heal from Snapchat Dysmorphia and start concentrating on the only beauty that will truly last.

Let’s face it: Our entire life we will grow wrinkles and Photoshop and plastic surgery can only take us so far. But our entire life we can also grow on the inside. It’s time to rediscover a deep truth: Living a better life is what those who matter will call beautiful.

Rick Cupp is minister at Kenai Fellowship. Sunday Bible classes for all ages 10 a.m. Worship 11:15 p.m.

Wednesday meal 6:15 p.m.

Worship and classes at 7 p.m. Call 283-7682.

and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church at 907-283-7868.

KP Young Adult Ministry meetings KP Young Adult Ministry is available at Ammo Can Coffee Thursday nights at 7 p.m. KP Young Adult Ministry is geared toward fostering the healthy Christian Community for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. For more information contact us through our Facebook Page KP Young Adult Ministry.

Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in the

South Dakota’s ‘In God We Trust’ law gets boost Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Legislation requiring South Dakota schools to display the “In God We Trust” motto will get assistance from the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, a group that has been working to pass such laws in all 50 states.

South Dakota’s law took effect last month and requires all public schools in the state’s 149 districts to paint, stencil or otherwise prominently display the national motto, the Argus Leader reported .

Supporters said the requirement was meant to inspire patriotism in the state’s public schools.

Displays must be at least 12-by-12 inches and must be approved by the school’s principal, the laws ays.

Critics say the law confuses patriotism with piety.

Republican Sen. Phil Jensen said he introduced

community who are experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street, and all are welcome.

Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. For more information call 262-4657.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal and fellowship and blood pressure checks to anyone interested. The meal is the second, third and fourth Sunday of each

the legislation after seeing “In God We Trust” window decals on vehicles in his home district of Rapid City.

Jensen said the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation has been working on similar laws nationwide and invited the nonprofit religious organization to help with the legislation in South Dakota.

The group, whose members include lawmakers in Congress and statehouses across the country, would help defend the state if the law is challenged, Jensen said.

“In God We Trust” model bills are part of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation’s “Project Blitz” legislative playbook that includes model bills on topics such as requiring schools to teach about the Bible, favoring sex between married men and women, and talking points against laws that add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to civil rights laws.

month, from 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall, located on campus at 222 West Redoubt Avenue, Soldotna.

The Abundant Life Assembly of God church, Sterling, will be joining us in this ministry and providing a hot meal on the second Sunday of the month at 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall.

The Soldotna Church of the Nazarene will offer the meal on the third Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help will offer on the fourth Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help would like to invite other churches to perhaps pick up one of the other Sunday evenings in the month. Call 262-5542.

Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.com. Submissions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For more information, call 907-283-7551.

Religious Services Assembly of God

Church of Christ

Church of Christ

Church of Christ

Soldotna Church Of Christ

Mile 1/4 Funny River Road, Soldotna

209 Princess St., Kenai 283-7752 Pastor Stephen Brown Sunday..9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday.................6:30 p.m. www.kenainewlife.org

Peninsula Christian Center

161 Farnsworth Blvd (Behind the Salvation Army) Soldotna, AK 99669 Pastor Jon Watson 262-7416 Sunday ....................... 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday..................6:30 p.m. www.penccalaska.org Nursery is provided

The Charis Fellowship Sterling Grace Community Church

Dr. Roger E. Holl, Pastor 907-862-0330 Meeting at the Sterling Senior Center, 34453 Sterling Highway Sunday Morning ........10:30 a.m.

262-2202 / 262-4316 Minister - Nathan Morrison Sunday Worship ........10:00 a.m.

Bible Study..................11:15 a.m.

Evening Worship ........ 6:00 p.m.

Wed. Bible .................... 7:00 p.m.

Kenai Fellowship Mile 8.5 Kenai Spur Hwy.

Church 283-7682

Classes All Ages ........10:00 a.m.

Worship Service.........11:15 a.m.

Wed. Service ................ 7:00 p.m. www.kenaifellowship.org

Episcopal

50750 Kenai Spur Hwy (mile 24.5) 776-7660 Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m.

Fellowship Meal....... 12:30 p.m.

Afternoon Worship ... 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m

Nazarene

Connecting Community to Christ (907) 262-4660 229 E. Beluga Ave. soldotnanazarene.com Pastor: Dave Dial Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Dinner & Discipleship 6:00 p.m.

Funny River Community Lutheran Church

North Star United Methodist Church

Andy Carlson, Pastor Missouri Synod 35575 Rabbit Run Road off Funny River Rd. Phone 262-7434 Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. www.funnyriverlutheran.org

St. Francis By The Sea

110 S. Spruce St. at Spur Hwy. - Kenai • 283-6040 Sunday Services Worship Service.........11:00 a.m.

Eucharistic Services on the 1st & 4th Sundays

283-6040

Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA)

Mile ¼ Kenai Spur Box 568, Soldotna, AK 99669 262-4757 Pastor Meredith Harber Worship ............11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

Sterling Lutheran Church LCMS 35100 McCall Rd. Behind Sterling Elementary School Worship: Sunday .... 11:00 a.m.

Bill Hilgendorf, Pastor 907-740-3060

Non Denominational

Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Hwy, Nikiski “Whoever is thirsty, let him come”

776-8732 NSUMC@alaska.net Sunday Worship ..........9:30 a.m.

300 W. Marydale • Soldotna 262-4865 John Rysdyk - Pastor/Teacher Sunday: Morning Worship ................9:30 a.m.

Sunday School....................11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Worship ..6:00 p.m.

Star Of The North Lutheran Church L.C.M.S.

You Are Invited! Wheelchair Accessible

Lutheran

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Methodist

Dustin Atkinson, Pastor Sponsor of the Lutheran Hour 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai 283-4153 SUMMER SCHEDULE Worship Service.........10:00 a.m.

Nikiski Church Of Christ

Catholic 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna Oblates of Mary Immaculate 262-4749 Daily Mass Tues.-Fri. .................... 12:05 p.m.

Saturday Vigil ........... 5:00 p.m.

Reconciliation Saturday................4:15 - 4:45 p.m.

Sunday Mass ............ 10:00 a.m.

Mile 91.7 Sterling Hwy. 262-5577 Minister Tony Cloud Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship ....... 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Service Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m

Lutheran

Southern Baptist Non Denominational Kalifonsky Christian Center

Mile 17 K-Beach Rd. 283-9452 Pastor Steve Toliver Pastor Charles Pribbenow Sunday Worship .......10:30 a.m.

Youth Group Wed. ..... 7:00 p.m.

Passion for Jesus Compassion for Others

Kenai Bible Church

604 Main St. 283-7821 Pastor Vance Wonser Sunday School..............9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m.

Evening Service .......... 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Service .... 6:30 p.m.

North Kenai Chapel Pastor Wayne Coggins 776-8797 Mile 29 Kenai Spur Hwy

Sunday Worship...................10:30 am Wed. Share-a-Dish/Video.....6:30 pm

College Heights Baptist Church

44440 K-Beach Road Pastor: Scott Coffman Associate Pastor: Jonah Huckaby 262-3220 www.collegeheightsbc.com

Sunday School .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m.

Morn. Worship .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Evening - Home Groups.

Nursery provided

First Baptist Church of Kenai

12815 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai 283-7672 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship ......10:45 a.m.

Evening Service .......... 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer ..... 6:30 p.m.

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By Joey Klecka Peninsula Clarion

The relentless push of the Swan Lake Fire has reshuffled the football schedule and put other high school sports events scrambling to reschedule or cancel events due to travel restrictions and unhealthy air quality.

The Kenai Central football team was forced to cancel its Saturday home game with Lathrop due to the unpredictable nature of the wildfire’s impact on Sterling Highway closures, leaving the Kardinals idle for a second straight week.

With no choice for rescheduling because of the lack of upcoming off weeks, that means Kenai will

contest no more than six varsity games this regular season.

Meanwhile, the Soldotna football team, which was scheduled to host South Anchorage for its home opener Friday night, will fly up to Anchorage for a 4:30 p.m. Saturday clash on South Anchorage’s field.

The Nikiski and Homer football teams scrambled to put on a Friday night game at Nikiski after their respective Week 3 opponents decided to opt out for travel concerns. Nikiski was scheduled to host Valdez, while Homer was supposed to play at Monroe Catholic, but both Monroe and Valdez changed course and will face each other this weekend.

Friday’s contest at Nikiski will be

a nonconference game, while their Week 7 meeting will count toward the Peninsula Conference standings.

In volleyball, Seward postponed both weekend games at Kenai and Homer due to travel difficulties through the Cooper Landing area, while the Soldotna Stars are still on to host Kodiak Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

In coed soccer, the Cook Inlet Academy Eagles had one game canceled and is holding out hope for another. CIA head coach Kenny Leaf said Delta is still expected to arrive for a 5 p.m. Friday game, but Saturday’s match with Holy Rosary is canceled.

In cross-country running,

Seward is planning to compete at the Bartlett Preview meet in Anchorage unless that meet is canceled due to potential unhealthy air quality. On the peninsula, Homer, Kenai, Nikiski, Soldotna and Nikolaevsk are planning to compete Saturday on the Homer Spit, although the fate of that meet will be decided noon Friday, depending on air conditions. Also in running events, Saturday’s Mariner Triathlon is postponed to Sept. 14.

While the football schedule has been chaotic for central peninsula teams, Seward has been able to avoid postponements due to its

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Soldotna’s Hosanna Van Hout and Trayce Lyon go up for the block against Nikiski on Thursday at Soldotna High School in Soldotna. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

SoHi netters sweep Nikiski After a string of competitive matches between Soldotna and Nikiski in recent seasons, the Stars were able to come out swinging Thursday night in a 3-0 sweep over the Bulldogs at Soldotna High School.

SoHi won with scores of 25-17, 25-13 and 25-15, officially starting the year 1-0 overall and giving new head coach Luke Baumer his first career varsity win at SoHi. “We knew Nikiski wasn’t going to be easy,” Baumer said. “We know they’re 3A state champs, and this is a great opportunity for the girls to see where they’re at, and see what kind of matchup we can hold up against them.”

The Class 3A Bulldogs are the reigning state champions and have won two of the last three titles in their conference, so when Nikiski has had the chance to face the Class 4A Stars, it’s often been a competitive, high-energy clash.

Thursday, Nikiski showed that it still has the talent to compete with a larger opponent, but couldn’t find a way to crack SoHi’s dominant front line.

Baumer stressed the importance of a team-first philosophy by praising the defensive collaboration the Stars showcased on the floor against an equally tough Nikiski defense.

“They all (stepped up),” he said.

“It’s not one person, it’s everybody.

Everybody’s got to be together and pick each other up when we’re in those droughts and those sticky moments when we can’t get out of serve-receive. Tonight they had an A-plus performance on them, I could not ask for a better showing.”

Nikiski failed to record a single ace against Soldotna, something that stood out to Bulldogs head coach Stacey Segura as she reviewed her team’s progress.

“It shows that Soldotna has a great serve-receive,” Segura said.

“We’ve had to relearn how to play with this new group, and I feel like

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we got a lot of glimpses of what we’re capable of.”

Segura credited her defense for keeping Nikiski in the game throughout, even as mistakes were being made on the front line.

“They were playing for every single point,” Segura said. “It’s always nice to play Soldotna, that extra competition is nice to have. It helps speed things up for us.”

After winning the first set, Soldotna turned up the wick even more in set two, rolling out eight straight points midway through the game to claim a dominant 20-7 lead to help the Stars breeze to a 2-0 match lead. Bailey Armstrong helped lead the way with a string of kill points and stuff blocks at the net to stymie the Bulldogs.

Armstrong was joined by seniors Kylie Ness and Ituau Tuisaula in the offensive push in set three, as the Stars raced out to a lead of 5-1, but Nikiski kept close once again with a four-point run to cut the lead to 9-8.

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By Joey Klecka

By Joey Klecka

Out of the Office

he first time I reported on the Swan Lake Fire, I didn’t even mention it by name.

On June 6 – 84 days ago as of Thursday – I wrote an article titled “Wednesday thunderstorms spark 5 fires on the Peninsula.”

At that point, the biggest concern for the folks in charge was the Tustumena Lake Fire, which had reached 121 acres overnight.

They got that one under control fairly quickly, and looking back now I don’t think anyone really knew what was around the corner.

The last paragraph of the article bears repeating here, and personally I think it should be the new textbook example of “burying the lede.”

The paragraph reads like this: “According to akfireinfo.com, the other four fires on the peninsula are burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Fire managers are currently assessing what actions to take, if any. These fires are no more than an acre in diameter each and are in remote areas.”

One of those tiny, remote fires would eventually be known as the Swan Lake Fire, which is now over 160,000 acres in size and is anything but remote.

Fast forward to today, and the notion of the Swan Lake Fire growing only 121 acres overnight would be cause for celebration. I come in to the office every morning with my fingers crossed, hoping and praying it hasn’t gotten any closer to Cooper Landing or Sterling. But it continues to grow every day, often by thousands of acres at a time, and it’s nothing short of a miracle that no one has lost their lives or their homes.

I, along with my co-workers and other Alaska journalists, have written dozens, if not hundreds, of stories documenting the fire’s journey. We’ve talked to people who have driven through the flames and people who have lived through fires their whole lives.

We’ve interviewed Red Cross volunteers preparing emergency shelters and grocery store managers who have dealt with late deliveries. I’ve met seasoned firefighters from Colorado and stranded tourists from Minnesota.

We’ve worked through the weekends and late into the evenings, because the fire doesn’t stop growing when we’re off the clock.

And on days when I get tired of the daily updates, or I start to complain about having to come in on a Sunday and report on the latest developments, I quickly remind myself that I have it easier than just about anybody.

My home is in Nikiski, so the worst impact I’ve felt out there is a couple of smoky mornings. I’ve had no reason to drive to Anchorage, so the highway closures haven’t ruined any of my plans.

Most importantly, I get the luxury of writing about the fire and looking at the latest maps from the

Season preview: All eyes on Nikiski In the months since breaking an 18-year state championship drought in volleyball, the Nikiski Bulldogs and head coach Stacey Segura have had time to celebrate, hang a banner and soak up the glory that comes with earning the top step of the podium.

Segura returns to coach Nikiski’s varsity program for an eighth season, but winning the Class 3A state title last November with a close-knit group of juniors and seniors has set up a season that will have all opponents giving the Bulldogs their best.

“It’s a little intimidating,” Segura said about the pressure to repeat. “It’s not too bad really, it’s kind of exciting. It puts a lot of pressure on the girls.”

Segura said she felt that pressure starting last weekend at the season-opening Homer Jamboree, where the Bulldogs fended off the host Mariners to win the tournament. With the championship target squarely on their back, Segura said a changed group of players at Nikiski will need to bring their A-game every time they step on the court to face an opponent.

“Everyone wants to prove something to us, but everyone notices the girls when they walk in the gym,” Segura said. “They want to play us and beat us.”

Nikiski has earned a spot at the 3A state tournament for three years running, a tough feat considering only a quarter of the Southcentral Conference field is guaranteed of making it to the big dance.

Kenai Central, Nikiski, Homer and Seward all reside in Class 3A, which only selects two teams from the eight-team Southcentral Conference field to play at the state tournament. The 3A state tournament also chooses one at-large team, which would

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A stork nest rests on an artificial nest platform atop an electrical pole in Poland. (Photo courtesy of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

his last month I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Poland with my family. The trip was organized by my father-in-law, Henry, who lived in Poland until he was 17. Henry has been looking forward to showing his grandsons the places of his youth and sites important in family history.

We started in the northern city of Gdansk on the Baltic Sea with a couple rental cars.

One car was navigated by Google Maps and the other by reading road signs and childhood recollection.

Having a guide fluent in

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the local language is really great, and live traffic updates can be helpful. Visiting the northern towns of Henry’s childhood brought us to charming small towns and through vast farmlands that reminded me of the Midwest, with fields of wheat waving in the wind.

We were way off the tourist grid, but people have been here for thousands of years creating a rich and interesting history.

While driving down a

country road, I saw an enormous nest with two equally large cranelike birds in it.

I pulled over like a tourist in Alaska spotting a moose along the road.

It took a few seconds of looking at this big white and black bird with a long red beak to identify a bird of childhood lore, a white stork.

The nest was larger than most eagle nests I have seen, at least 6 feet wide and more than 3 feet thick.

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location. The Seahawks traveled to Valdez last week and then hit the road Thursday to play Redington in The Dome in Anchorage, where Seward lost 50-14. Thursday’s loss dropped the Seahawks to 0-3 overall this year.

The following is closer look at Week 3 in prep football:

Homer (0-1) at Nikiski (0-1), 7 p.m. Friday Instead of Valdez, the Bulldogs will be facing a conference opponent this week in Homer. Because the Mariners and Bulldogs will face each other again Sept. 28, Friday’s game will not count toward Peninsula Conference seedings.

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However, that would be as

That sets up a unique opportunity for both teams to gain better insight to the others’ play calling and schemes in advance of the Week 7 meeting, something that Nikiski head coach Paul Nelson pointed out as a positive.

“This’ll definitely help out with planning for Week 7,” he said. “But I also guarantee that they’ll have some wrinkles we don’t see. They transform greatly through the season to when we get to the second game.”

Coming off a 30-12 loss to Redington in Week 1, the team’s first loss to the Huskies, Nelson said the Bulldogs have struggled to improve with the fire situation forcing sports team practices indoors. Nelson said the team got three days outside last week and just one this week “It’s hard, because it doesn’t feel like football practice,” he said. “The kids are upset the schedule’s been

close as Nikiski got the rest of the way. Ness helped power the Stars to a 12-4 run that all but sealed the win and match victory.

Senior setter Kaitlyn

altered, and we’re really glad the (Week 3) schedule worked out, but it’s been a rough week or so. But you do what you can.”

Homer lost 28-14 to Kenai in Week 1, but head coach Justin Zank said after that game that playing a Division II opponent helped get the Mariners program up to speed.

Soldotna (1-0) at South (2-0), 4:30 p.m. Saturday After a week off due to the wildfire situation, the Stars will face a week of heavy travel, starting Saturday morning with a flight to Anchorage to play the team that’s ranked second in the weekly Division I coaches poll.

After playing South, the Stars will get back on the plane Sunday night for a trip down to San Diego, California, where they will spend five days preparing for Christian High

Johnson helped keep the Bulldogs humming with a well-rounded game, turning out five assists and six digs to go with five kills. Co-captain and senior America Jeffreys

School.

SoHi head coach Galen Brantley Jr. said the amount of fundraising the Stars did this summer helped the team save up for the unexpected Anchorage trip, which the team was tentatively planning to use last week to get to Fairbanks for the team’s Week 2 clash with West Valley.

“It worked out OK for us,” Brantley Jr. said.

The last time SoHi met South was the 2015 season opener, when the Stars held off the Wolverines 21-17 at home to break the Alaska state record win streak of 30 games.

Now, with a little less on the line, Brantley Jr. said the team is prepared to face the Division I powerhouse again.

“I think this game needed to happen,” he said. “It’s two of the top teams in the state at any level that are going to be on the field. We’re

also provided 15 digs, while Angela Dreusedow had five assists.

Senior middle Kaycee Bostic notched four kills and three blocks while Lillian

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excited they figured out a way to make it happen, and as much as we’d like it to be a home game, we already lost a game, so the kids are motivated and ready to go.”

Brantley Jr. also thanked Soldotna city manager Laura Queen for allowing the team to utilize the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex for indoor workouts when the school district restricted outdoor activity. Brantley Jr. said he hopes that will have the Stars better prepared for a highstakes game Saturday.

“It’s one of them weird things,” Brantley Jr. said about the scheduling reshuffling. “Our administration is doing everything they can to keep the kids safe, checking air quality and I even downloaded the app on my phone.

“We’re just being as flexible as we possibly can, and when it comes to the safety of our players, it’s a nonnegotiable.”

Carstens had three kills and four blocks.

Homer 3, Kodiak 2 The Mariners held off

the Bears in nonconference play Thursday night in Homer.

Homer won with scores of 25-18, 25-18, 21-25, 24-26 and 15-9.

Etienne stars, Clemson blows past Georgia Tech in opener CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Travis Etienne spent all offseason trying to ignore the national attention headed his way. He’ll have a harder time doing that after the show he put on in No. 1 Clemson’s opener.

Etienne, the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, rushed for a career-high 205 yards and three touchdowns, including one from 90 yards out, as the Tigers overpowered Georgia Tech 52-14 Thursday night for their 16th straight victory in the opener for both ACC teams.

Etienne started slowly and had a first-quarter fumble to end a drive by the Tigers. The next time he touched the ball, the junior bounced to the left and outraced the Yellow Jackets to the end zone to tie the longest TD run in Clemson history.

Etienne added 14- and 48-yard rushing scores as Clemson went up 35-0. He averaged better than 17 yards on his 12 carries.

Still, Etienne brushed aside what this game might mean for him individually when Heisman Trophy voters are looking for performances like

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safety of my office.

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of firefighters right now camping out in the rugged Alaska wilderness. They work 10-, 12-, 14-hour days and don’t get to go home at the end of their shift. They’re literally on their hands and knees digging containment lines and mopping up areas of heat that you can only find by sticking your hand in the duff.

Most of those firefighters are not from Alaska. They left their families and friends in the Lower 48 on less than a moment’s notice to protect total strangers and communities they’d never heard of until their first morning

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along we saw several more nests on power pole and rooftop platforms. There was an obvious mutual tolerance between storks and locals.

Frankly, I don’t think I would care for a giant bird nest on my roof.

Henry explained the storks have long been considered to bring good luck and prosperity. They directly benefit farmers by eating locusts and grasshoppers during the summer. Storks are excellent mousers too, and can be seen walking behind grain combines catching them.

This unique cultural tradition of protecting the stork in Poland dates back several centuries. Records of people caring for storks in their homes during the winter are found in manuscripts from the 1400s.

The practice of building nest platforms has been well documented for over 200 years. A common folk belief was that having a stork on your homestead brought good fortune to the inhabitants.

It was also thought that storks had the power to bring natural disasters, such as fire, hail and floods, to those who treated them poorly. People who harmed storks were ostracized from

this.

“I really don’t try to worry about who’s out there watching,” Etienne said. “I try to play the best for my team and just try to get to 1-0 every week and be there for my brothers.”

Etienne was certainly there to lead the Tigers during a lackluster game for Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

The 6-foot-6 sophomore, so poised and polished in leading the Tigers to a 15-0, titlewinning season, threw two interceptions in the first half. Lawrence had just four picks all last year.

Still, Lawrence had his moments. His hustle after a bad interception knocked defensive back Tre Swilling out of bounds at the Clemson 3, and the Tigers defense kept the Yellow Jackets from scoring. Lawrence opened things with a 6-yard rushing score and threw a perfect pass to Tee Higgins for a 62-yard touchdown.

Lawrence finished 13 of 23 for 168 yards.

Lawrence knew when he released the ball that Swilling would pick it off. But he went back to his football training, took a good angle and made the

briefing. The fact that they are actually risking their lives every day should inspire everyone to keep going.

After I think about the firefighters on the ground, I think about the people from Sterling and Cooper Landing who have to worry about whether their home is going to be there the next morning. There hasn’t been an order to evacuate Cooper Landing, but if I lived there I would have left a long time ago.

The smoke is so bad that the kids can’t go to school. Parents have to go about their daily lives while constantly checking the news for an evacuation notice. Hotel owners and professional guides have had bookings canceled and their livelihoods threatened.

And when they’re not dealing

communities.

Storks have long been believed to be harbingers of human fertility. This may come in part from the old German myth of storks delivering babies. I just thought the tale was a way for parents to avoid the birds and bees talk.

Starting in April, over 50,000 storks return to Poland, approximately 20% of the global breeding population. Their return is a herald of spring and a welcome sign that winter is over.

They announce themselves by chattering their bills together. The sound is amplified by a throat pouch.

Males arrive first to claim a nest. Larger nests tend to produce more fledglings and are sought after. A nest can weigh up to one ton, making the act of building a nest platform to encourage nesting on your roof all the more impressive.

The female produces one brood a year with an average clutch size of three to four eggs. The eggs are white and about twice the size of a chicken egg.

Incubation takes about 35 days and both parents take turns feeding and caring for the chicks. They are relatively long-lived birds. The oldest wild stork was recorded to be 39 years old.

In the fall, the storks begin to migrate south to eastern Africa. They overwinter in

play. He said his teammates were cheering his hustle play.

“They weren’t happy I threw an interception, but just happy he didn’t score,” Lawrence said.

Georgia Tech, changing its offensive and defensive styles under first-year coach Geoff Collins, struggled on both sides. It committed four turnovers and gave up more than 500 yards of offense.

Early on, the Yellow Jackets muffed a punt that set up Clemson near its goal line for its first score.

Swilling’s pick set Tech up with a first-and-goal on the 3, but it could not score.

“We’ve just got learn to finish those things,” Collins said.

THE TAKEAWAY Georgia Tech: The Yellow Jackets have some work to do to get all the option out of their system.

Many of their offensive plays, especially in the first half, looked like the quarterback runs of former coach Paul Johnson.

with hazardous smoke conditions, Cooper Landing residents have a line of hundreds of cars idling in their little highway hamlet as people try to navigate a road that’s seemingly on fire every other hour.

Finally, I think about what my responsibility in all this is as someone who writes for the local newspaper. While watching one of the many community meetings through a live stream on Facebook, I noticed that one woman had commented, “Why isn’t this national news?”

She’s right. I haven’t met any CNN or Fox News reporters at the incident command post, and my friends and family down in Florida only know what they hear from me. If national outlets have covered this fire, it’s probably gotten less coverage than the

savanna from Kenya to the southern cape of Africa.

Their large wingspan and broad wings are highly adapted to soar along the thermals. They are one of the world’s highest flying birds, soaring as high as 16,000 feet.

To take advantage of the land thermals, they migrate east of the Mediterranean Sea and travel the coastline through the Middle East.

Their migration south takes about 25 days, and twice as long to travel back. This is due to tailwinds and few places to stop for food on the way south.

Storks prefer open grasslands and shallow wetlands.

Populations benefited from the agricultural clearing of forests and scrublands during the Middle Ages. However, changes in agricultural practices in the last century led to a decline in populations, triggering conservation and reintroduction programs.

The success of these programs was largely attributed to the cultural tradition of protecting and conserving the stork. All those power pole platforms offer a great example of this.

Over the course of their association with humans, storks have shown a preference for nesting on platforms and man-made structures such as power poles, possibly because tree branches tend to break more frequently

Clemson: There were sloppy moments on both sides of the ball. But performers like Etienne, Lawrence and Higgins overshadowed any problems the Tigers might have.

POLL IMPLICATIONS Clemson came out fast and never let up.

Expect the Tigers to remain No. 1, no matter how many points No. 2 Alabama or No. 3 Georgia hang on opponents this weekend.

TEACHING TIME Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was grateful for the win — and grateful he and his coaches will have their players’ attention after some sloppy mistakes. Swinney said there were plenty of errors on all sides of the ball that will have to get fixed before No. 12 Texas A&M comes to Death Valley in 10 days. “We can give them some truth,” Swinney said. “They have to receive the truth and we’ve got to get better.”

president’s latest tweet.

So if there’s one thing this fire has showed me, it’s how important the local news outlets are in situations like these. Without local radio, newspaper and television, the No. 1 fire in the nation would barely be a blip on the radar. The only people who would know about it would be the ones who could see the flames from their backyard.

People in the community rely on us to convey the latest fire activity in a way that’s easy to understand.

People want to know if they should be worried about their property or what the smoke conditions will be like for the day, and not everybody has the time to dig through all the data posted on agency websites.

When this fire first started, no one knew what was on the horizon. Now that we’re three months

under the great nest weight.

Unfortunately, storks were getting electrocuted on the power poles. In the 1990s, power companies started to construct nest platforms to prevent mortality by electrocution. This explains all the power pole nest platforms we were seeing.

The stork is a common

in, I don’t think anyone knows how this is going to end. With a record drought on the peninsula, the “season-ending” precipitation that was supposed to put this fire out weeks ago never came.

We got a couple inches of rain over a couple days, and we naively believed that would be enough.

But in the face of overwhelming uncertainty, what can any of us do but keep going?

As long as that fire is out there, I’ll be on the phone with incident commanders and emergency managers making sure that people know exactly what’s going on. But like I said, I’ve got the easy job in all of this. To the folks on the ground, whether you’re fighting the fire directly or you’re living in its shadow, you all are the heroes of this story. I’m just here to make sure that story gets told.

motif in Polish poetry and art, and a frequent theme in lawn art and household ornaments. During World War II, when many Poles were driven from their homes, it was a symbol of their love for their country and longing to return. The endearing white stork is magnificent in many ways and it is easy to

understand why the bird is so loved in Poland and other places in Europe.

Mark Laker is an Ecologist at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Find more Refuge Notebook articles (1999–present) at https://www.fws.gov/ refuge/Kenai/community/ refuge_notebook.html.

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scoreboard Baseball AL Standings East Division New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore Central Division Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Kansas City Detroit West Division Houston Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle

W L 88 47 77 58 72 62 54 81 44 89

Pct GB .652 -.570 11 .537 15½ .400 34 .331 43

82 51 79 55 60 73 47 88 39 92

.617 -.590 3½ .451 22 .348 36 .298 42

87 48 77 56 65 70 64 71 57 78

.644 -.579 9 .481 22 .474 23 .422 30

Thursday’s Games Cleveland 2, Detroit 0 Oakland 9, Kansas City 8 Minnesota 10, Chicago White Sox 5 Tampa Bay 9, Houston 8 Seattle 5, Texas 3 Friday’s Games Oakland (Anderson 10-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-8), 3:05 p.m.

Houston (Miley 13-4) at Toronto (Thornton 4-8), 3:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Plesac 7-4) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 3:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 12-6) at Detroit (VerHagen 4-2), 3:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Nova 9-10) at Atlanta (Fried 14-4), 3:20 p.m.

Seattle (Gonzales 14-10) at Texas (Allard 2-0), 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Means 9-9) at Kansas City (Skoglund 0-0), 4:15 p.m.

Boston (Eovaldi 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Suarez 2-5), 6:07 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 9:05 a.m.

Houston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 3:15 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Atlanta, 3:20 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 4:05 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 5:07 p.m.

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NL Standings East Division Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central Division St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Pittsburgh West Division Los Angeles Arizona San Francisco San Diego Colorado

W L 81 54 74 58 69 63 67 66 48 85

Pct GB .600 -.561 5½ .523 10½ .504 13 .361 32

73 72 68 63 57

59 61 65 70 77

.553 -.541 1½ .511 5½ .474 10½ .425 17

88 68 65 62 59

48 66 68 71 76

.647 -.507 19 .489 21½ .466 24½ .437 28½

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 12, Pittsburgh 3

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qualify based on record against fellow 3A opponents throughout the regular season and region tournaments. The at-large team is the school that finished third in the Aurora, Southcentral or Western conference tournament brackets, or the runner-up from the Southeast tourney.

Soldotna is the only peninsula school competing at the Class 4A level, which qualifies three teams from the Northern Lights Conference to the eightteam state tournament.

The 3A and 4A state tournaments will be held together Nov. 14 to 16 at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage.

Soldotna’s challenge at the 4A level will be seeing how well the senior-laden Stars mesh under the guidance of a new, but familiar, head coach. Former S oHi assistant Luke Baumer takes over the varsity program after four years under the departed Sheila Kupferschmid, who stepped down after five seasons at the helm of SoHi and 20 seasons on the peninsula.

Baumer said after seven years assisting with high school volleyball teams at Skyview and SoHi, his vision of becoming a head coach has becom e reality.

“The biggest thing was I always knew I wanted to coach a varsity program,”

Football standings Cincinnati 5, Miami 0 Washington 8, Baltimore 4 Chicago Cubs 10, N.Y. Mets 7 Atlanta 9, Toronto 4 Boston 7, Colorado 4 L.A. Dodgers 6, San Diego 4, 10 innings Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, N.Y. Mets 1 Miami 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Pittsburgh 11, Colorado 8 San Diego 5, San Francisco 3 Arizona 11, L.A. Dodgers 5 Friday’s Games Milwaukee (Anderson 6-3) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 11-8), 10:20 a.m.

Miami (Hernandez 3-5) at Washington (Sánchez 8-6), 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 9-7) at Philadelphia (Nola 12-4), 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Nova 9-10) at Atlanta (Fried 14-4), 3:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bauer 10-11) at St. Louis (Hudson 13-6), 4:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Agrazal 3-3) at Colorado (Senzatela 8-8), 4:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 2-1) at Arizona (Gallen 2-4), 5:40 p.m.

San Diego (Lamet 2-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-8), 6:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cincinnati at St. Louis, ppd., 1st game Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m., 2nd game Chicago White Sox at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

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Baumer said. “It was the end goal for me. Volleyball has been a big part of my life.”

Baumer’s track record in volleyball is impressive — he holds 10 years playing experience including two USA Volleyball open national tournaments for Team Alaska and the Midnight Suns.

Baumer, who currently works as a functional strength and conditioning coach at Train for Health in Kenai, was hand-picked by Kupferschmid to help out with the Skyview volleyball program before that school closed and reopened as a middle school in 2014.

Having coached with the Skyview swim program, Baumer put his athletic prowess to use by helping train the SoHi program, which has gone to state in three out of the last five years.

Baumer has spent the last four seasons coaching the JV squad under the tutelage of Kupferschmid, and now will put his knowledge of the game to the ultimate test as one of the smallest schools competing at the 4A level.

“Our region is super tough,” Baumer said. “No team has it in the bag.”

Back at the 3A level, Kenai Central returns Tracie Beck as head coach and a slew of seniors that bulked up on experience last year on a team that didn’t have any seniors. Kenai missed out on state last year after losing the SCC third-place game to Homer.

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Thursday’s Games N.Y. Jets 6, Philadelphia 0 Indianapolis 13, Cincinnati 6 Buffalo 27, Minnesota 23 Carolina 25, Pittsburgh 19 Atlanta 31, Jacksonville 12 Baltimore 20, Washington 7 Miami 16, New Orleans 13 Cleveland 20, Detroit 16 L.A. Rams 22, Houston 10 Green Bay 27, Kansas City 20 Tampa Bay 17, Dallas 15 Tennessee 19, Chicago 15 N.Y. Giants 31, New England 29 Denver 20, Arizona 7 Seattle 17, Oakland 15 L.A. Chargers 27, San Francisco 24 College scores EAST Buffalo 38, Robert Morris 10 Delaware 31, Delaware St. 13 Stony Brook 35, Bryant 10 UConn 24, Wagner 21 SOUTH Austin Peay 41, NC Central 10 Cent. Arkansas 35, W. Kentucky 28 Charlotte 49, Gardner-Webb 28 Chattanooga 24, E. Illinois 10 Clemson 52, Georgia Tech 14 E. Kentucky 53, Valparaiso 7 Morehead St. 44, Union (Ky.) 7 Murray St. 59, Pikeville 20 North Alabama 26, W. Illinois 17 Richmond 38, Jacksonville 19 SE Louisiana 35, Jacksonville St. 14 Tulane 42, FIU 14 UAB 24, Alabama St. 19 UCF 62, Florida A&M 0 UT Martin 42, Northwestern St. 20 MIDWEST Bowling Green 46, Morgan St. 3 Cent. Michigan 38, Albany (NY) 21 Cincinnati 24, UCLA 14 Minnesota 28, S. Dakota St. 21 SE Missouri 44, S. Illinois 26 SOUTHWEST Lamar 65, Bethel (Tenn.) 16 Texas A&M 41, Texas St. 7 FAR WEST Arizona St. 30, Kent St. 7 N. Arizona 37, Missouri St. 23 San Jose St. 35, N. Colorado 18

Transactions

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES -- Optioned RHP Tayler Scott to Norfolk (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS -- Placed OF Khris Davis on paternity leave. Designated LHP Wei-Chung Wang for assignment. Selected the contract of INF Sheldon Neuse from Las Vegas (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS -- Sent 3B Brandon Brennan to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES -- Placed RHP Chris Stratton and RHP Yefry Ramirez on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Parker Markel and RHP Montana DuRapau from Indianapolis (IL).

MIAMI MARLINS -- Sent RHP Tayron Guerrero to New Orleans (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS -- Sent 2B Jed Lowrie to Syracuse (IL) for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS -- Released OF Drew Robinson.

SAN DIEGO PADRES -- Optioned C Austin Allen

“We’re just trying to get the chemistry down,” Beck said. “We have a lot of returners, so that gives us a lot of hope.”

Homer’s chances of making a return trip to state lie in the hands of new head coach Stephanie Carroll, who takes over as the program’s sixth coach in six years. Since Beth Trowbridge stepped down following the 2014 season, the Mariners have cycled through one-and-done coaches Pam Rugloski, Kristie Mastre, Erin Brege and Sara Pennington.

Carroll has been a Homer resident since 1995, and her husband Weston Carroll is the school’s boys basketball coach. As Homer’s C-team and varsity assistant coach for the past three years, Carroll said she has developed a level of consistency with the current players.

“It’s definitely new for me,” Carroll said about her new responsibilities as head coach. “But mostly I did it because I wanted these girls to have that consistency. The current seniors I’ve had since they were freshman.”

The following is a closer look at peninsula volleyball teams in 2019:

NIKISKI BULLDOGS As reigning 3A state and Southcentral Conference champions, the Bulldogs will have all eyes on them throughout the season.

Nikiski has won two of the last three SC crowns and finished second the

Kenai Peninsula High School Sports at home and on the go

and OF Nick Martini to El Paso (PCL) and RHP Trey Wingenter to Amarillo (TL). Recalled LHP Nick Margevicius from Amarillo. Transferred 2B Ian Kinsler to the 60-day IL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS -- Optioned C Spencer Kieboom to Harrisburg (EL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA -- Suspended Brooklyn F/G Wilson Chandler 25 games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS -- Promoted Kirk Lacob to executive vice president/basketball operations, Mike Dunleavy to assistant general manager, Kent Lacob to director/team development and Jacob Rubin to assistant video coordinator. Named Zaza Pachulia consultant and Ralph Walker director/ team security.

NBA G League WESTCHESTER KNICKS -- Traded the returning player rights to G Billy Garrett and a 2019 secondround draft pick to Maine for returning player rights to F Andrew White III. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS -- Traded OL Korey Cunningham to New England for a 2020 sixth-round draft pick.

BUFFALO BILLS -- Traded G Wyatt Teller and a 2021 seventh-round draft pick to Cleveland for 2020 fifth- and sixth-round draft picks.

CAROLINA PANTHERS -- Placed DT Destiny Vaeao on IR. Waived/injured G Norman Price and LB Jonathan Celestin. Signed LS Andrew DePaola.

GREEN BAY PACKERS -- Signed G Dejon Allen.

Traded LB Reggie Gilbert to Tennessee for a conditional 2020 draft pick.

LOS ANGELES RAMS -- Signd G Abdul Beecham.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS -- Waived DT Jay-Tee Tiuli.

Signed DE Logan Tago and OT Will Holden.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS -- Activated QB Bo Levi Mitchell from the 6-game IL. HOCKEY American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS -- Agreed to terms with G Evan Buitenhuis and Fs Colin McDonald, Tanner Pond and J.D. Dudek.

SAN DIEGO GULLS -- Signed D Scott Moldenhauer to a one-year contract.

ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS -- Agreed to terms with D Brady Norrish on a one-year contract.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League BUFFALO BANDITS -- Signed F Cam Milligan to a one-year contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer PHILADELPHIA UNION -- Exercised their 2020 option on F Kacper Przybylko.

National Women’s Soccer League ORLANDO PRIDE -- Waived F Chioma Ubogagu.

COLLEGE NCAA -- Granted an immediate eligibility waiver to Florida Gulf Coast senior men’s basketball F Tracy Hector.

BRADLEY -- Named Leti Lerma women’s basketball video coordinator/assistant director of basketball operations.

GEORGE MASON -- Named Kristi Giddings deputy athletic director of legal, compliance and NCAA governance.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE -- Named Matt Deignan assistant sports information director.

ROWAN -- Named Marie Wozniak associate director of athletics for communications.

year the Bulldogs didn’t win. Each year the Bulldogs have played Grace Christian in the final, creating a riveting rivalry between the two schools.

Segura said 2018 was defined by a Nikiski squad that had years playing sports with each other, and the chemistry helped pave the way to a state crown.

“At that time at state, we were pretty equally matched with Valdez and a lot of other teams,” she said.

“But the love and compassion the girls had with each other played a big role, and I know that sounds cheesy, but they had it for each other.”

Nikiski lost four seniors, including a potent trio of multiple-year starters in Kelsey Clark, Bethany Carstens and Emma Wik. Clark was conference co-MVP last year while Carstens was a first-team member and Wik was a second-team member.

However, last year’s junior class that has moved up returns no shortage of experience and talent.

Leading the way is senior setter Kaitlyn Johnson, a 2018 first-team all-conference member, and senior libero America Jeffreys, both team captains.

Senior Kaycee Bostic and junior Lillian Carstens (who was moved from the outside position) will start as middle hitters, while senior Tika Zimmerman and junior Savannah Ley take over the outside spots.

Senior Angela Druesedow will take over for Wik as a setter, while Rosalie Anderson and Elora Reichert will fill in as defensive specialists. Segura said Japanese foreign exchange student Kotori Miyoshi will join Anderson and Reichert as a DS and sophomore Jaycee Tauriainen will be slotted in on the right outside.

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After coming up short of a state berth last year, Beck returns for her second consecutive year and seventh overall as head coach at Kenai.

Beck said the good news for the Kardinals is that the team didn’t have a single senior last year, setting up a strong returning core this year.

The bad news, she said, is that two starters will miss the season for personal reasons — one due to a family move and the other due to a family member cancer diagnosis that will be treated outside the state.

But it’s still a solid group

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League Overall

W L Pct. W L Pct. Soldotna 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Kenai 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Eagle River 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Kodiak 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

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Houston 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Ketchikan 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Homer 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Nikiski 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Seward 0 0 .000 0 3 .000 Week 1 Soldotna 49, West 6 Redington 30, Nikiski 12 Monroe 44, Seward 38 OT Kenai 28, Homer 14 Lathrop 42, Eagle River 14 Dimond 36, Kodiak 0 Houston 47, Valdez 0 Barrow 42, Ketchikan 16 Eielson 32, North Pole 12 Week 2 Valdez 32, Seward 6 Soldotna at West Valley, canceled Homer at Redington, canceled Eielson at Kenai, canceled Nikiski at Monroe, canceled Week 3 Redington 50, Seward 14 Homer at Nikiski, 7 p.m. Friday Soldotna at South, 4:30 p.m. Saturday

Football stats Through Aug. 17 Reported stats only TEAM OFFENSE Team G Pts Rsh Pas Tot Kenai 1 28 344 100 444 Homer 1 14 161 86 247 Nikiski 1 12 68 59 127

Doughty, Hom 1 5 15 3.0 0 Berry, Nik 1 4 6 1.5 0 Daniels, Ken 1 4 2 0.5 0 Hrenchir, Hom 1 2 0 0.0 0 Litke, Nik 1 2 -1 -0.5 0 Druesedow, Nik 1 1 -3 -3.0 0

PASSING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Com Att Yds TD Int Daniels, Ken 1 6 18 100 2 2 Truesdell, Sol 1 6 9 94 1 0 Kalugin, Hom 1 6 24 86 0 0 Litke, Nik 1 4 8 59 1 0

RECEIVING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Rec Yds Avg TD Brantley, Sol 1 5 80 16.0 1 Pitsch, Ken 1 3 46 15.3 1 Sylvester, Ken 1 1 32 32.0 1 Tennison, Hom 1 1 32 32.0 0 Eiter, Nik 1 1 29 29.0 0 Hrenchir, Hom 1 2 29 14.5 0 Murachev, Hom 1 3 25 8.3 0 Mysing, Nik 1 1 17 17.0 1 Milburn, Ken 1 1 14 14.0 1 Berry, Nik 1 2 13 6.5 0 Baker, Ken 1 1 8 8.0 0

RUSHING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Att Yds Avg TD Vann, Ken 1 16 162 10.1 1 Burnett, Ken 1 11 140 12.7 1 Medcoff, Sol 1 12 133 11.0 0 Kalugin, Hom 1 16 104 6.5 1 Truesdell, Sol 1 10 88 8.8 4 Faletoi, Sol 1 9 64 7.1 1 Mysing, Nik 1 7 48 6.8 0 Murachev, Hom 1 5 42 8.4 0 Metcalf, Sol 1 2 38 19.0 1 Baker, Ken 1 9 25 2.8 0 McCaughey, Nik 1 4 18 4.5 0 Sylvester, Ken 1 3 15 5.0 0

SCORING LEADERS Name, school TD FG PAT1 PAT2 Pts Truesdell, Sol 4 0 7 0 31 Kalugin, Hom 2 0 0 0 12 Pitsch, Ken 1 0 3 0 9 Sylvester, Ken 1 0 0 0 6 Vann, Ken 1 0 0 0 6 Burnett, Ken 1 0 0 0 6 Metcalf, Sol 1 0 0 0 6 Faletoi, Sol 1 0 0 0 6 Brantley, Sol 1 0 0 0 6 Berry, Nik 1 0 0 0 6 Mysing, Nik 1 0 0 0 6 Murachev, Hom 0 0 0 1 2

TEAM DEFENSE Team G Pts Rsh Pas Tot Kenai 1 14 161 86 247 Nikiski 1 30 298 108 406 Homer 1 28 344 100 444

returning, Beck said.

“We’ve tried everybody at every spot, figuring out who’s going to fit where,” Beck said. “The biggest thing for us is we had a great summer of practice and camps.”

The Kardinals return one first-team member from last year in junior outside hitter Bethany Morris, who will be joined by seniors Savanna Wilson and Chelsea Plagge and sophomore Andie Galloway on the outside.

The middle hitters will be sophomore Erin Koziczkowski and junior Abby Every, while the defense will be comprised of junior DS Kaylee Lauritsen, senior setter Kailey Hamilton and sophomore libero Jenna Streiff, whose senior sister Jaden Streiff will primarily work as a DS and outside.

Beck said the team also got a new player from Montana in junior Bailey Skorupa, who will likely see a mix of setting and hitting.

HOMER MARINERS After hosting the first real-game competition of the season last weekend, the Homer Mariners are looking ready for a return to state after falling to the defending champion Bulldogs in the final.

Carroll said her mission as new head coach is to keep the momentum going.

“I think their experience is going to help them a lot,” Carroll said about her team.

“They know what it takes to get there.”

Of Homer’s two allconference first-team members, one graduated and one returns. Carroll said the rest of the lineup is also returning.

The starting cast is loaded with seniors, including setter Kelli Bishop (who is making a move from the outside hitter position), outside hitter Marina Carroll, middle Karmyn Gallios and libero Kitri Classen. Juniors Laura Inama and Tonde Smude both are back as outside and middle hitters, respectively.

Carroll said in instances when Bishop is moved to the front row, she plans to have junior Hannah Hatfield fill in as setter, while sophomore Sela Weisser will come off the bench as a back row DS and juniors Amber Hull and Kaitlyn Vogl will also fill in as opposite hitters.

SOLDOTNA STARS The Stars finished fifth at state last year for a

second straight year, but as the smallest school, the team has been carrying its weight.

The Stars finished third at the NLC tournament as the last team to gain an automatic spot at state. Baumer hopes they can rely on another top-three finish this year at the tourney, preferably as NLC champs.

“We feel real good,” he said. “We’re looking strong, we’re definitely one of the top contenders in the region.”

SoHi graduated a list of key starting players, including Aliann Schmidt, Kalyn and Kodi McGillivray, Carsen Brown, Brittani Blossom and Paulyne Catacutan, along with bench player Megan Eskue, but with seven returning seniors on varsity, Baumer said the squad was able to reload with diverse weapons.

“Losing those seniors definitely hurts,” Baumer said. “They were so good for the program, and we built this program around them. They really did hold the teams together when they were out there.

“But these new seniors are having to learn to step in and help the varsity team.”

Leading the charge is outside hitter Ituau Tuisaula and middle hitter Bailey Armstrong, whose combined power Baumer said will make for a tough challenge for opponents.

Tuisaula and Armstrong will be joined by Kylie Ness, who will also get time on the back row, and bench players Serena Foglia and Trayce Lyon, both seniors middle blockers.

The offensive power will be complimented by a defense that includes senior libero Holleigh Jaime, junior setters Hosanna Van Hout and Sierra Kuntz, and senior DS Casey Earll, who returns to the SoHi volleyball program after three years away.

Baumer said said Jaime and Armstrong played sand volleyball this summer, which he hopes will lead to strong campaigns. Baumer said he’s already seen a lot at the Homer Jamboree last weekend.

“We learned a lot,” he said. “We gave girls the opportunity to play with each other and wanted them to be able to play no matter who goes in the game. Everyone should be able to play with everyone, it doesn’t matter who goes in, and we had a new lineup in every match.

“We wanted this team to be close and tight-knit.”

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How I Met How I Met Elementary “High Heat” ‘14’ (8) WGN-A 239 307 Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing With With With With Your Mother Your Mother (3:00) Labor Day Weekend Isaac Mizrahi Live! (N) New Balance x Isaac Mizrahi DaretoShareBeauty with DaretoShareBeauty with Vionic - Footwear “Footwear” (N) (Live) ‘G’ Beauty We Love (N) (Live) (20) QVC 137 317 Celebration (N) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ Live! (N) (Live) ‘G’ Shawn (N) (Live) ‘G’ Shawn (N) (Live) ‘G’ ‘G’ (3:00) “Two Weeks Notice” “A Walk to Remember” (2002, Romance) Shane West, “Two Weeks Notice” (2002, Romance-Comedy) Sandra (:03) “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005) (:01) “Two Weeks Notice” Sandra Bullock, Regina King. FBI agent Gracie Hart must (2002) Sandra Bullock, Hugh (23) LIFE 108 252 (2002) Sandra Bullock, Hugh Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote. A high-school delinquent courts Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt. A millionaire confronts his Grant. a minister’s daughter. feelings for his lawyer. save two kidnapped friends in Las Vegas.

Grant, Alicia Witt.

(3:05) “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005) Daniel Radcliffe. Volde- “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (2007, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam (28) USA 105 242 mort lays a trap for Harry at the Triwizard Tournament.

Grint, Emma Watson. Harry prepares a group of students to fight Voldemort. ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ American American Family Guy Family Guy Bob’s Burg- Bob’s Burg- “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” (1999, Science Fiction) Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” (2002, Science Fiction) Dad “Kloger” “Brothers & ‘14’ ers “Sacred ers ‘PG’ Natalie Portman. Young Anakin Skywalker begins to learn about the Force.

Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman. Obi-Wan Kenobi and his (30) TBS 139 247 Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ Sisters” ‘14’ Cow” ‘14’ apprentice protect the former queen.

“The Legend of Tarzan” (2016) Alexander Skarsgard, Christoph Waltz. Tar- “Doctor Strange” (2016, Action) Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

All Elite Wrestling ‘14’ “Law Abiding Citizen” (2009, Suspense) Jamie Foxx, Ge (31) TNT 138 245 zan must save his captive wife in the jungles of Congo.

The Ancient One introduces Dr. Stephen Strange to magic. rard Butler, Colm Meaney.

(3:00) College Football Wisconsin at South Florida. From College Football Colorado State vs Colorado. From Broncos Stadium at Mile High in Den- SportsCenter With Scott Van SportsCenter With Scott Van UFC Fight Night: Andrade (34) ESPN 140 206 Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. (N) ver. (N) (Live) Pelt (N) (Live) Pelt (N) (Live) vs. Zhang - Prelims (N) (3:00) 2019 U.S. Open Tennis Third Round. From the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Around the Pardon the Now or Never Around the SportsCenter With Scott (35) ESPN2 144 209 Center in Flushing, N.Y. (N) (Live) Horn Interruption (N) Horn Van Pelt NFL Preseason MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers. From Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. Mariners MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers. From Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. Mariners Mariners (36) ROOT 426 687 (N) (Live) Football Postgame Postgame Spotlight Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ “White House Down” (2013, Action) Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal.

“National Treasure” (2004, Adventure) Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha. A man (38) PARMT 241 241 Paramilitary soldiers take over the White House. tries to steal the Declaration of Independence.

(3:25) “Lethal Weapon” (1987, Action) Mel Gibson. A vet“Lethal Weapon 2” (1989, Action) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover. Detectives nail “Lethal Weapon 3” (1992, Action) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover. L.A. detecFear the Walking Dead (43) AMC 131 254 eran detective is paired with an eccentric partner. a South African diplomat who is a drug-runner. tives and a wild woman crush a guns-to-gangs deal.

“You’re Still Here” ‘MA’ American American Family Guy Family Guy The BoonThe BoonRick and Squidbillies Dream Corp The Eric An- Mike Tyson American Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Squidbillies (46) TOON 176 296 Dad ‘14’ Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ docks ‘MA’ docks ‘MA’ Morty ‘14’ ‘14’ LLC ‘14’ dre Show Mysteries Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ ‘14’ The Zoo “The Eagle Has The Zoo A giraffe from Indi- How Do Ani- How Do Ani- How Do Ani- How Do Ani- The Zoo: San Diego The Afri- The Secret Life of the Zoo Wild Bear Wild Bear The Zoo: San Diego The Afri (47) ANPL 184 282 Landed” ‘PG’ ana; cloud rats. ‘PG’ mals Do mals Do mals Do mals Do can Plains exhibit. ‘PG’ Rescue Rescue can Plains exhibit. ‘PG’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Coop & Cami Coop & Cami “Teen Beach Movie” (2013, Musical Com- (:45) “Teen Beach 2” (2015) Ross Lynch. Characters from a (:40) Bunk’d (:10) Raven’s (:35) Andi Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ (49) DISN 173 291 edy) Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell. ‘G’ movie musical get stuck in the real world. ‘G’ ‘G’ Home Mack ‘G’ The Loud The Loud Smarter Than All That ‘G’ American Ninja Warrior “In- “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” (2004) Anne Hathaway. A Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ (50) NICK 171 300 House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ dianapolis Finals” ‘PG’ young princess must marry or give up the throne.

(3:00) “Ice Age: Dawn of the “The Parent Trap” (1998, Children’s) Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson.

“Freaky Friday” (2003) Jamie Lee Curtis. A woman and her The 700 Club Family Guy Family Guy (51) FREE 180 311 Dinosaurs” (2009) Reunited twin girls try to get their parents back together. daughter magically exchange bodies.

‘14’ ‘14’ Say Yes to Say Yes to Say Yes to Say Yes to Say Yes to the Dress “This Is 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days “Love is a Battlefield” 90 Day Fiance: The Other The Family Chantel “The 90 Day Fiancé: Before the (55) TLC 183 280 the Dress the Dress the Dress the Dress Showtime” ‘PG’ Tim and Jeniffer clash on the first day. ‘PG’ Way ‘PG’ Fight to Get Along” ‘14’ 90 Days ‘PG’ Fast N’ Loud ‘14’ Fast N’ Loud The Monkeys Fast N’ Loud “Keeping It BattleBots “Episode 12” (N) ‘PG’ (:02) Mysteries of the Abandoned ‘PG’ BattleBots “Episode 12” ‘PG’ (56) DISC 182 278 face a dilemma. ‘14’ Shelby” ‘14’ Ghost Adventures “Mount Ghost Brothers “Rose Ghost Brothers “Old City Ghost Brothers: Haunted Ghost Brothers: Haunted Paranormal Caught on Cam- Paranormal Caught on Cam- Ghost Brothers: Haunted (57) TRAV 196 277 Wilson Ranch” ‘PG’ Hall” ‘14’ Jail” ‘14’ Houseguests ‘PG’ Houseguests (N) ‘PG’ era (N) ‘PG’ era ‘PG’ Houseguests ‘PG’ Ancient Aliens “The ReAncient Aliens Beliefs about Ancient Aliens Aliens may Ancient Aliens: Declassified Ancient Aliens “The Constel- (:03) The UnXplained (N) ‘14’ (:05) The UnXplained “Life (:03) Ancient Aliens “Islands (58) HIST 120 269 turned” ‘PG’ meteorites. ‘PG’ have visited humans. ‘PG’ “Islands of Fire” ‘PG’ lation Code” (N) ‘PG’ Beyond Death” ‘14’ of Fire” ‘PG’ Live PD “Live PD -- 08.24.19” ‘14’ Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Live PD “Live PD -- 09.22.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N Same-day Tape) ‘14’ Live PD “Live PD -- 09.22.18” Rewind No. 249” (N) ‘14’ Riding along with law enforce (59) A&E 118 265 ment. ‘14’ Hunters Int’l House Hunt- House Hunt- Hunters Int’l House Hunt- House Hunt- Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home House Hunt- Hunters Int’l House Hunt- Hunters Int’l Dream Home Dream Home (60) HGTV 112 229 ers ‘G’ ers ‘G’ ers ‘G’ ers ‘G’ ers (N) ‘G’ ers ‘G’ Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (61) FOOD 110 231 (65) CNBC 208 355 (67) FNC (81) COM (82) SYFY

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American Greed “Paul Manafort” ‘PG’ Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) Hannity (N)

American Greed “The Fyre Festival” ‘PG’ The Ingraham Angle (N)

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American Greed “Red Carpet American Greed ‘PG’ Rip-Off” ‘PG’ Tucker Carlson Tonight Hannity

Fox News at Night With Shannon Bream (N) (:10) The Of- (:45) The Of- (:15) The Office “The Re(5:50) The Of- (:25) The Of- The Office The Office The Office The Office 107 249 fice ‘14’ fice ‘14’ turn” ‘14’ fice ‘14’ fice ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ (3:08) “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009) Shia LaBeouf. Sam “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. Storm chasers 122 244 Witwicky holds the key to defeating an ancient Decepticon. race to test a new tornado-monitoring device.

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Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Ingraham Angle Fox News at Night With Shannon Bream The Comedy Central Roast “Justin Bieber” Various celebrities roast Justin Bieber. ‘MA’ (9:58) FuFuturama Futurama ‘14’ Futurama ‘14’ turama ‘PG’ ‘PG’

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(:15) “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” (2018, Fantasy) Ed- VICE News Tonight (N) ! HBO 303 504 die Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler. Newt Scamander battles devious wizard Gellert Grindelwald. ‘PG-13’ ‘14’ “Jurassic (:35) “First Man” (2018, Biography) Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong embarks on a mission to the moon. ‘PG-13’ ^ HBO2 304 505 World”

The Righ“Aquaman” (2018, Action) Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe.

A Black Lady Ballers ‘MA’ A Black Lady Real Time teous Gem- Aquaman must save Atlantis from his power-hungry brother. ‘PG-13’ Sketch Show Sketch Show With Bill Mastones ‘MA’ ‘MA’ ‘MA’ her ‘MA’ Hard Knocks: Training The Righteous Gemstones The Righ“I, Robot” (2004, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Bridget Moy- “Insidious: Camp With the Oakland “The Righteous Gemstones” teous Gem- nahan, Bruce Greenwood. A homicide detective tracks a The Last Raiders ‘MA’ ‘MA’ stones ‘MA’ dangerous robot in 2035. ‘PG-13’ Key” (3:25) “Very Bad Things” (:10) “Twins” (1988, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Life of the Party” (2018) Melissa McCarthy. (:45) “Due Date” (2010, Comedy) Robert Downey Jr., Zach (:20) “Get Him to the Greek” (2010) Jonah Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston. A genetically enhanced man A woman winds up at the same college as her Galifianakis. A high-strung man takes a road trip with an an- Hill. An executive must drag a boozy rock star + MAX 311 516 (1998, Drama) Christian Slater. ‘R’ seeks his shortchanged twin. ‘PG’ daughter. ‘PG-13’ noying stranger. ‘R’ to Hollywood.

(2:15) “Pearl Harbor” (2001) Ben Affleck.

David Bowie: Finding Fame Documentary (:05) “Hitsville: The Making of Motown” (2019, Documen- On Becoming (:45) On Becoming a God in (:35) The Affair Noah gets ac- “My Best Best friends become fighter pilots and romanfollowing Bowie’s career. tary) The birth of Motown Records amid racial tension in a God Central Florida “The Gloomyquainted with his star. ‘MA’ Friend’s Wed 5 SHOW 319 546 tic rivals in 1941. ‘PG-13’ America. ‘NR’ Zoomies” ‘MA’ ding” (3:30) “Cujo” (1983, Horror) (:05) “Revolver” (2005, Crime Drama) Jason Statham, Ray “Baby Driver” (2017, Action) Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, “Money Train” (1995, Action) Wesley Snipes, Woody Har- “Den of Thieves” (2018, Liotta, Vincent Pastore. An ex-con incurs the wrath of a ca- Lily James. A doomed heist threatens the life of a young relson, Jennifer Lopez. A transit cop’s foster brother plans a Crime Drama) Gerard But 8 TMC 329 554 Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro. ‘R’ sino owner he humiliated. ‘R’ getaway driver. ‘R’ subway robbery. ‘R’ ler. ‘R’

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Last Man Last Man Madam Secretary “Game On” Chicago P.D. A young woman Murdoch Mysteries “Wild Standing ‘PG’ Standing ‘PG’ A search for a secret bank ac- is found shot to death. ‘14’ Child” A murder linked to a count. ‘PG’ feral young woman. ‘PG’ The Listener “Lockdown” ‘14’ Blue Bloods “Blues” ‘14’ 48 Hours 48 Hours Rams 360 Pawn Stars ‘PG’ PBS NewsHour Weekend (N)

2019 FOX Fall Funny You Funny You Preview (N) Should Ask Should Ask ‘PG’ ‘PG’ Pawn Stars America’s Got Talent “Live “Spidey Cents” Results 3” Seven acts will ‘PG’ move on. ‘PG’ Consuelo Midsomer Murders DCI Mack Wealth- Barnaby’s secret past is reTrack vealed. ‘PG’

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Heartland “Out of the Shad- The First ows” Tim rallies the family to Family ‘PG’ take a ride. ‘PG’ KTVA Night- Castle Castle competes with cast Beckett’s ex. ‘PG’ Two and a Two and a Beat Shazam Newlyweds; Mike & Molly Half Men ‘14’ Half Men ‘14’ friends; a father and son. ‘PG’ ‘14’

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(2:00) “Mrs. Doubtfire” “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993, Children’s) Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan. An esMarried ...

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Person of Interest “Masquer- Person of Interest “Trigger (8) WGN-A 239 307 (1993) Robin Williams. tranged dad poses as a nanny to be with his children.

With With With With ade” ‘14’ man” ‘14’ BeautyBio - Skin Care (N) Kim Gravel NOW (N) (Live) Amy’s Beauty Secrets (N) (Live) ‘G’ Shark Solutions (N) (Live) ‘G’ Tweak’d by Nature - Hair & Joan Rivers Classics Collec- Easy Solutions (N) (Live) ‘G’ (20) QVC 137 317 (Live) ‘G’ ‘G’ Body Care (N) (Live) ‘G’ tion Clearance (N) ‘G’ (3:00) “Secrets of My “Fatherly Obsession” (2017, Suspense) Molly McCook, Ted “My Evil Stepdad” (2019, Suspense) Jennifer Lafleur, Chris (:03) “In Bed With a Killer” (2019, Suspense) Jennifer Tay- (:01) “My Evil Stepdad” lor, Ryan Patrick Shanahan, Al Sapienza. A woman’s new (2019, Suspense) Jennifer (23) LIFE 108 252 Stepdaughter” (2017) Josie McGinley, Jack Turner. A woman’s landlord keeps an eye on Johnson, Addy Stafford. Ashley sets her mother up with a Davis. ‘PG’ her with hidden cameras. ‘PG’ “perfect” online match. love interest is hiding some dark secrets.

Lafleur, Chris Johnson.

(3:00) “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” (:10) “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” (2011, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Ru- “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (2016) Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Water (28) USA 105 242 (2010, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. pert Grint, Emma Watson. Harry may have to make the ultimate sacrifice. ston. Magizoologist Newt Scamander tracks down magical creatures.

“Star Wars: (:32) “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” (1983, Science Fiction) Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” (1983) Mark Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ With Saman- Hamill. Luke and his allies have a confronta (30) TBS 139 247 The Empire Carrie Fisher. Luke and his allies have a confrontation with Darth Vader. tion with Darth Vader.

Strikes” tha Bee (3:30) “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (2012, Fantasy) Ian McKellen, Martin Free- “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016, Action) Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy “The Book of Eli” (2010, Adventure) Denzel Washington, (31) TNT 138 245 man. Bilbo Baggins joins the quest to reclaim a lost kingdom.

Adams. Batman embarks on a personal vendetta against Superman.

Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis.

(3:00) College Football Boise State vs Florida State. From Football College Football Fresno State at USC. From Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Ange- SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (N) (Live) College Football Boise State (34) ESPN 140 206 TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Fla. (N) (Live) Scoreboard les. (N) (Live) vs Florida State.

(3:00) 2019 U.S. Open Tennis Third Round. From the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter College Football Final (N) Heisman SportsCenter With Scott (35) ESPN2 144 209 Center in Flushing, N.Y. (N) (Live) (N) Prev.

Van Pelt MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers. From Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. Mariners MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers. From Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. Mariners MLS Soccer Real Salt Lake (36) ROOT 426 687 (N) (Live) Postgame Postgame at Portland Timbers.

(3:00) “Coming to America” (1988, Comedy) “Grease” (1978, Musical) John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John. Disparate sum- “Dirty Dancing” (1987, Romance) Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze. A shelI Am Patrick Swayze The life and career of (38) PARMT 241 241 Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall. mer lovers meet again as high-school seniors. tered teen falls for a street-wise dance instructor.

Patrick Swayze. ‘14’ (3:30) “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992, Children’s) “Vegas Vacation” (1997, Comedy) Chevy Chase. The Gris- “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983) Chevy Chase. A “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” (1985, Comedy) (43) AMC 131 254 Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern. wolds descend upon the gambling mecca. vacationing family detours into screwball side trips.

Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Dana Hill.

Dragon Ball Z Dragon Ball Rick and Rick and Family Guy Family Guy Dragon Ball Gen: Lock Fire Force Lupin the 3rd Food Wars! Black Clover Boruto: Na- Naruto: Ship- Mobile Suit My Hero Aca (46) TOON 176 296 Kai ‘Y7’ Super ‘PG’ Morty ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ ‘PG’ ‘14’ Super ‘PG’ Part 5 ‘14’ ‘14’ ruto Next puden Gundam demia The Zoo: San Diego “WelThe Zoo: San Diego ‘PG’ The Zoo: San Diego The Afri- The Zoo: San Diego - Cali- The Zoo: San Diego “Panda- (:01) The Vet Life (N) ‘PG’ (:02) The Vet Life: Bonus The Zoo: San Diego “Panda (47) ANPL 184 282 come to our World” ‘PG’ can Plains exhibit. ‘PG’ fornia Tales (N) ‘PG’ monium” (N) ‘PG’ Tails (N) ‘PG’ monium” ‘PG’ Sydney to the Sydney to the Just Roll With Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven’s Raven’s “Descendants 3” (2019, Children’s) Dove Cameron. Mal and Big City Big City Raven’s Andi Mack ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ (49) DISN 173 291 Max ‘G’ Max ‘G’ It ‘Y7’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ her friends face an unfathomable dark force.

Greens ‘Y7’ Greens ‘Y7’ Home ‘G’ (3:53) Henry Danger ‘G’ (4:55) All SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Henry Dan- Henry Dan- All That ‘G’ Smarter Than Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ (:35) Friends (:10) Friends (:45) Friends (50) NICK 171 300 That ‘G’ ger ‘G’ ger ‘G’ ‘PG’ ‘PG’ ‘PG’ (:10) “Freaky Friday” (2003) Jamie Lee Curtis. A woman and (:15) “10 Things I Hate About You” (1999, Comedy) Heath Ledger, Julia (:20) “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002) Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas. A (10:55) “The Pacifier” (2005) (51) FREE 180 311 her daughter magically exchange bodies.

Stiles. Teens set a shrewish peer up with the new boy in town.

New York fashion designer has a secret in the South.

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Ex-wife offers to pay child support she owes to the kids DEAR ABBY: My have to settle that way if husband and I have been he chooses. He doesn’t married for 16 years. His know that I saw the letter, ex was supposed to pay and he’s lying about the child support, but didn’t. amount she’s willing to He worked in his capay. What should I do? reer for only one year af— PRESENT MRS. ter we married and since then has held menial DEAR PRESENT MRS.: jobs, which have kept his After having supported future retirement intact. husband and his Dear Abby your I have provided him children all these years, Jeanne Phillips and his children a home the LEAST you are owed for which he has never is honesty. made a mortgage payment or taxes, What you should do is discuss utilities, clothes, etc. His children this with an attorney of your own have never lacked for anything. immediately and, while you are at it, His ex now wants to resolve the raise the subject of what is and is not back child support issue by giving considered community property in the settlement amount of money to your state. the kids.

You should also determine to what I don’t feel they should get it beextent you might be responsible for cause it is owed to HIM. I’d like to see paying those high credit card balhim use it to pay off some of his credit ances should he renege. Once you card bills, which are high. have the answers, you will be better She has told the kids what she able to determine how to handle this. is offering and plans to guilt him into giving it to them. He doesn’t DEAR ABBY: Ten years ago, I was a

guest at the home of my friend “Roger” for a five-day holiday celebration.

We’ve shared this event with family and friends for years. I was the only nonfamily member out of the five adults and two teenagers staying at his home. The guest room assigned to me shared Roger’s master bathroom, which I used.

During my visit, Roger’s prescription medicine came up missing. I heard about it from a mutual friend a day after I returned home. This friend told me Roger was adamant that I took his medication and there was no need to question anyone else.

Roger would not accept my calls.

To add insult to injury, the so-called mutual friend agrees with Roger that I was the culprit! So, I have lost two friends.

How do I let go and move on?

Time hasn’t healed THESE wounds.

— ACCUSED IN OHIO DEAR ACCUSED: Roger should have confronted you when his medication turned up missing. That

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he accused you behind your back to someone makes me wonder how good a friend he really was. As to the mutual friend who contacted you the next day, be grateful.

It is my experience that we can do what we set our minds to. Start celebrating this holiday by involving yourself in travel or other activities you enjoy, and spend time with other people so you won’t be alone.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

To receive a collection of Abby’s most memorable -- and most frequently requested -- poems and essays, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH If you are not the source of unusual excitement in this present cycle, others are. In your daily life, you note an element of unpredictability in others that could force you to adjust your schedule. Tonight: Share a vision with a loved one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You can be an incredible source of ideas and creativity.

You might opt to push a heartfelt project or idea to your highest priority. Be willing to brainstorm about this topic and get feedback. Tonight: A friend could prove to be flakey.

HHH Your personal and domestic life absorbs your attention.

You have an opportunity for a new beginning in that area. For some of you, this new beginning could be emotional, whereas others might be eyeing a change in their homes.

Tonight: Express your desires.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might opt to no longer put up with a car that barely moves, an old computer and/or a cellphone that needs updating. You want to renovate your communications and the method in which you deliver them. Tonight: Off to the gym. Work off any volatile energy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You could be at your wits’ end, trying to stabilize a situation that impacts you. Decide who can help you create what you want.

Your creativity surges forward. Test out your idea on a partner or friend who has experience with your type of issue. Tonight: Splurge, party the night away!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH You are in the limelight right now. Others look to you for answers. Many of you are role models of some kind. Your serious yet

Dear Heloise: My husband wants to go on a CRUISE SHIP next year, but it sounds boring to me.

What do people do on a ship besides eat and stare at the water? — Kelsey H., Scottsbluff, Neb. Kelsey, there’s usually a lot to entertain you on a cruise. You’ll dock at various ports with enough time to do some exploring and maybe taste the local foods. You can get a massage, pedicure and manicure, go for a swim if they have a pool, or go dancing with your husband. Many cruise lines have art galleries or offer seminars and classes that are fun to take. Consult with a travel agent who can explain all the options available on each cruise line.

— Heloise

Before you go on vacation Dear Heloise: As a professional pet sitter, I have some advice for people who are leaving for a few (or several) days. Your pets will be OK if you remember

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HHHHH Reach out for others.

Do not stand on ceremony at present. You do not know what is going on within someone else. You can only guess. Try to understand what is happening with someone at a distance. Tonight: Listening to great music.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH Avoid a commitment right now, if possible, unless it is to yourself, for yourself. You might need more personal time to think through an issue that impacts your domestic life and interactions. You want to view this issue from several different moods and perspectives. Tonight: Happily head home.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH One-on-one relating draws others toward you. You have much more to share than you realize or another person thinks. Once the conversation is on an open level, you will see you have a strong connection. Tonight: Be a duo.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Your professional and personal attention helps others flourish. Often, others seek you out for your perspective. If someone is unusually soft and caring, you might not be comfortable with him or her.

Do not distance yourself for the moment. Tonight: Going for what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You feel unusually inspired and creative, as do those around you. Be smart; let others come toward you for a discussion and brainstorm session. At the same time, let others take the credit for now. Tonight: So many choices.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH A new beginning becomes possible in your public or professional life. Understand what is happening with a boss or authority figure. Your attention pleases them to no end. Tonight: Celebrating the weekend.

hints from heloise A cruise to fun times?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

diligent approach to problems works well. Tonight: A partner lets you know how much he or she appreciates what you do.

the following commonsense things to do: * If your pet is on medication, write out when and how the medication is to be taken. Make sure there is enough for the whole time you’re gone. * Write out instructions on when to walk a dog or whether or not your cat is allowed outside. We’ll need a summary of your pet’s schedule, likes and dislikes, favorite toys and foods it cannot have.

Make absolutely sure you have more than enough food and kitty litter on hand. * Leave all emergency telephone numbers taped to the front of your refrigerator. This includes your veterinarian’s contact info, and how to contact you should there be a need to get hold of you. * NEVER lock a pet in a garage, house or yard and think that by pouring some food in a bowl it’s enough and you don’t need to do anything else.

When you return from your trip, you could be facing a charge of animal abuse. * Ensure that your dog, cat or other animals have up-to-date vaccinations. —Mandy in Texas

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This year, you move to create a greater sense of connection between yourself and others. You encourage a new beginning. Helping others to act in harmony might seem impossible to many people, but you see it as a potential outcome. If single, you might mix dating with getting to know a friend. As a result, people might be confused as to your intent.

Be as clear as possible. If attached, your significant other finds you unusually attractive and pulls in closer.

Your relationship bonds on an even deeper level. A fellow VIRGO echoes your thoughts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Aug. 30, 2019: