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5 feared dead after crab boat sinks Weigh in By Becky Bohrer and Martha Bellisle Associated Press
JUNEAU — Five fishermen missing after a crab boat sank in the frigid waters off Alaska were feared dead after authorities called off a search for those working in the one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S. Two other crew members were rescued after the disaster Tuesday, telling authorities they were the only ones who made it into a life raft, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Dean Gribble Jr., who’s appeared on the Discovery Channel documentary series “Deadliest Catch,” and John Lawler suffered hypothermia but have been released from a hospital.
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Impaired driving trend isn’t slowed by campaign ANCHORAGE — Police in Anchorage issued a December challenge to community members to not drive while intoxicated. To highlight the campaign, they erected a Christmas tree and said they would tie on a blue ribbon for every arrest for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or marijuana. The challenge was not heeded, Anchorage television station KTVA reported. The tree was quickly adorned, and police ran out of blue ribbon. Through Dec. 14, Anchorage police placed 59 ribbons on the tree. Numbers continued to trend the wrong way after that. The department made 36 arrests for operating under the influence from Dec. 15 to Dec. 21. “That’s 36 more ribbons on the tree,” the department said in a statement. “We ran out of blue ribbon (so did Costco) so we switched to plaid and had to start tying bows on the side because the front is full. This is no good. Don’t drive drunk or high. It just isn’t worth it.” Final arrest numbers for December will be available next week, said Kendra Doshier, a department spokeswoman. The department made 130 OUI arrests in December 2016. That climbed to 139 in 2017 and 150 in December 2018. The upward trend is frustrating for police. See news, Page A6
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The Coast Guard said it used helicopters, planes and a boat to look for the missing crew members for 20 hours before ending the search late Wednesday because they were not likely to have survived. The agency didn’t release any details Thursday on what caused the boat to sink, saying that talking to the survivors is part of the investigation. The boat, named the Scandies Rose, was carrying a load of crabbing pots for the start of the winter season, Dan Mattsen, a partner in the vessel managed by SeattleBased Mattsen Management, told the Seattle Times. Crabbing boats endure perilous conditions in Alaska waters that have been immortalized in See boat, Page A2
on new LNG permit
By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion
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A ball cap with the name of the crab fishing boat Scandies Rose rests at the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial on Thursday in Seattle. The search for five crew members of the Scandies Rose in Alaska has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said after two other crew members of the vessel were rescued after the 130-foot crab fishing boat from Dutch Harbor sank on New Year’s Eve.
Showing their depth
The public comment period is open for a new permit application for the Alaska Liquid Natural Gas project. The Alaska LNG project involves the construction of a gas treatment plant on Alaska’s North Slope, a new liquefaction facility near Nikiski and an 807-mile long pipeline to connect the two facilities. The pipeline would run through multiple specially designated areas, including Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali State Park, Minto Flats and Susitna Flats state game refuges. The permit application, submitted by the Alaska Gasoline Development Corporation, is in regards to the waterways that would be affected by the construction of the project. The application is being reviewed by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and See permit, Page A2
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Stephanie Cox (left) shows some of her artwork on display Thursday at the Kenai Fine Art Center. January’s exhibition is titled “Rough Around the Edges” and features the work of Cox and another local artist, Anna Widman. For more information, go to https://www.kenaifineart.com
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In the wake of an assault on a local advocate for the LGBTQ community, peninsula residents have organized a town hall to address public safety. This Saturday at the Soldotna Library at 2:30 p.m. organizers for Soldotna’s annual Pride in the Park event will host a town hall that will feature testimonies from LGBTQ
individuals who have experienced targeted harassment or violence. The meeting is also intended as a call to action for local law enforcement and elected officials. The town hall is open to the public, but organizers said there will be ground rules established at the beginning in order to deter any threatening behavior or harassment. The town hall was organized after Tammie Willis, an employee of Kenai Peninsula College and
By Peter Segall Juneau Empire
one of the organizers for Pride in the Park, was assaulted in her home by an unknown assailant on Dec. 9. In the month leading up to the assault Willis also experienced other forms of harassment — she received a threatening note referencing her sexual orientation and had her truck vandalized. Willis is gay, and she and the other Pride organizers said they fear other
After having its application for a recall petition denied, the Recall Dunleavy campaign is gearing up for court. The campaign is slated to have oral arguments in Anchorage Superior Court on Jan. 10 before Judge Eric Aarseth. Recall Dunleavy Campaign Manager Claire Pywell said the campaign’s general counsel and former Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth and Susan Orlansky from Anchorage law firm Reeves Amodio will argue in court why the petition should not have been denied. Pywell called the 10th a “big day” and said the campaign was looking forward to it. “Our allegations reinforce in so many ways he is the wrong man for the job,” she said in a phone interview Thursday. “Alaskans deserve a governor that will faithfully execute the laws under the constitution.”
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See recall, Page A3
Town hall to address violence against LGBTQ community By Brian Mazurek
Recall effort gears up for court
Tourism marketing council to make case to assembly By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
In hopes of receiving a $150,000 grant from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly , the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council will on Tuesday present their plan to bring tourists to the peninsula. The $150,000 would be appropriated from the borough general fund balance to the tourism marketing council for the purpose of promoting tourism in areas of the borough outside the cities, according to
an ordinance sponsored by Brent Hibbert and approved Dec. 3. The grant money came with conditions, which require the council to present objectives on how the council plans to use the money to promote local tourism. The assembly will consider a resolution sponsored by Hibbert that will be introduced in Tuesday’s agenda supporting the council’s objectives and awarding the grant. The resolution states the council’s objectives are to develop and implement strategies for attracting online
impressions and conversions, and tracking conversions of impressions to sales in the tourism markets and to promote significant increases in tourism during the shoulder seasons. No other presentation materials or plans from the council were provided in the resolution, but the council’s interim director, Debbie Speakman, said she will be attending the assembly committee meeting and the regular assembly meeting on Tuesday to answer any questions assembly members have. “We’re taking things slow, but we’re
getting excited about the coming year,” Speakman said. The tourism marketing council submitted a grant application to the borough in February 2019 for $100,000. Hibbert’s ordinance allows the council an opportunity to update its grant application to include an outline of proposed projects. The ordinance also requires the council to present program objectives to the assembly for approval, before the grant will be awarded. The council See tourism, Page A3
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“Deadliest Catch.” Workers face dangers like huge waves, harsh weather and massive crab pots that could crush them. Gary Knagin of Kodiak, the brother-in-law of the boat’s captain, Gary Cobban Jr., told The Associated Press that he doesn’t think the five crew members will be found alive. “We know the risks involved in this profession, and I’m not holding out hope,” said Knagin, who worked on a crab boat for 30 years in Alaska’s Bering Sea. “I’ve seen this too many times. There’s
a 13-hour window in those conditions, and they passed that.” Also missing are the captain’s son David Lee Cobban, Arthur Ganacias, Brock Rainey and Seth Rousseau-Gano, the Coast Guard said. The boat was traveling in an area with warnings about strong winds and heavy freezing spray, said Louise Fode, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The conditions didn’t seem to worry the boat’s captain, his ex-girlfriend told the Anchorage Daily News. Jeri Lynn Smith said Gary Cobban called her in North Carolina about two hours before the
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boat sank to wish her a happy new year. “When I talked to him, he told me the boat was icing and it had a list to it, but he didn’t sound alarmed. He didn’t sound scared,” Smith said. “The boat ices. The boat ices every winter. It’s just something they deal with. I didn’t worry about it.” Ashley Boggs of Peru, Indiana, also said Rainey, her fiance, called her New Year’s Eve and said the conditions were bad. She hasn’t given up hope. “I’m just praying and hoping they find him on land or something,” Boggs told AP. The 130-foot boat sent a mayday distress call, and the Coast Guard launched
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a rescue. The vessel’s last known position was 170 miles southwest of Kodiak Island, near the southern tip of Alaska, and it sank about 10 p.m. Tuesday, the agency said. Rescue crews arrived about 2 a.m. Wednesday and battled winds of more than 40 mph, 15- to 20-foot seas and visibility that was limited to a mile, Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa McKenzie said. “That’s rough conditions,” she said. McKenzie said the air temperature was about 10 degrees. The estimated water temperature was 43 degrees, the weather service said. Rescuers saw a faint light in one life raft, but a medic lowered from a helicopter found it empty, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Another faint light was spotted about a half-mile away, where searchers found the two survivors. The men told
rescuers that they were able to get into survival suits and didn’t know if the other five crew members did, the newspaper reported. The suits offer some flotation and hypothermia protection. David Otness, a retired crab fisherman in Cordova, who spent more than 50 years in the industry, said it’s dangerous work. “It’s known for its loss,” he said. “We can count the years when that isn’t the case. It’s quite a life, but it’s a labor of love and fear and respect for the world around you.” The sheer size of the crab pots, which weigh about 700 pounds each, can pose problems in stormy weather, Otness said. They can get covered with ice, which makes the boat top heavy, he said. “It’s a dance, a ballet that transpires,” Otness said. “Your center of gravity is so quickly disrupted.” The National Institute for
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the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The Corps will review the project to ensure it meets the standards of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, according to their public notice released on Dec. 30. The EPA and ADEC will determine if the project meets the standards of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The proposed project, according to the public notice, would result in the permanent loss of 10,323.78 acres of waterways,
More info Comments regarding the Public Notice should be submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers by email to regpagemaster@ usace.army.mil or by mail to the following address: Regulatory Division (1145) CEPOA-RD P.O. Box 6898 JBER, Alaska 99506-0898 Comments regarding proposed project features that would be located within Denali National Park and Preserve should be submitted to the EPA by email to R10_ Wetlands_and_Oceans@epa.gov or by mail to the following address:
Occupational Safety and Health calls commercial fishing one of the country’s most dangerous occupations. It said there were 179 deaths in Alaska fisheries between 2000 and 2014, the most recent numbers available. From 2010 to 2014, there were 66 vessel disasters in Alaska waters, including sinkings and fires, that killed 15 people, the agency said. Leading causes of fatal disasters were instability and being hit by large waves, it said. Samantha Case, an epidemiologist at the agency’s commercial fishing research program, said steps have been taken to make crab fishing safer in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. That includes Coast Guard stability checks for vessels; changes in fishery management that reduced some risks like competitiveness; and increased marine safety training.
including wetlands. AGDC also identified a total of 8,730.26 acres of waterways that would be temporarily impacted during construction. The application includes information on how AGDC proposes to avoid, minimize or compensate for impacts to waterways. The requirements for compensation and mitigation will be determined by the EPA and ADEC. Anyone who wishes to submit comments on the proposed project can do so until Feb. 28. All comments should include the reference number for the Public Notice, POA-201500329. Supplemental project information can be found at the Army Corps of Engineer’s website, www.poa.usace.army.mil. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 1200 Sixth Avenue Mail Stop 19-C04 Seattle, Washington 98101-3140 Attn: Ms. Linda Storm Comments regarding all other features of the project outside of Denali National Park and Preserve should be submitted to ADEC by email to dec-401cert@alaska.gov or by mail to the following address: Department of Environmental Conservation WDAP/401 Certification 555 Cordova Street Anchorage, Alaska 99501-2617
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has 45 days to send in an updated application, which will also be presented to borough administration. The council is working to promote the shoulder season — which takes place in spring and early summer and fall, Speakman said, especially after the Swan Lake Fire curbed tourism on the peninsula last summer. Speakman said the council is also working toward better analytics in an effort to better show the organization’s success in bringing people to the peninsula, which has been a sticking point with borough administration at past assembly meetings. The grant money comes after several attempts to fund the council. Mayor Charlie Pierce has vetoed the grant money twice. The first veto was during the FY 2020 budget process when Pierce zeroed out the $100,000 tourism marketing council funds provided in years past. The money was amended back into the budget by the
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Chief Assistant Attorney General Margaret PetonWalsch will be making arguments on behalf of the State of Alaska, according to Cori Mills, senior assistant attorney general with the Department of Law. Mills said the DOL could not comment further on the case due to the ongoing litigation. On Nov. 4, the Department of Law denied the campaign’s application for a recall petition of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, saying the application was “both factually and legally insufficient to meet the statutory grounds for recall.” Attorney General Kevin Clarkson said in a statement at that time that a recall cannot be based on “disagreements with the elected official’s policies.” The recall application met all the technical requirements and received a total of 49,006 signatures, well over the 28,501 required
assembly, but was successfully vetoed by Pierce in June. An ordinance funding a $150,000 grant to the council was passed by the assembly in November. Pierce attempted to veto the funds, but was overridden at the December assembly meeting. In a December letter announcing the veto, Pierce said the grant was a special appropriation outside of the budget cycle that is $50,000 more than the original $100,000 that was proposed in the borough’s FY 2020 budget, which is “setting bad precedent.” In his letter, Pierce said the council’s impact on the tourism industry is highly speculative. He said in his letter that he has not seen any data showing they have increased tourism in the borough. Since the 1990s, the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council has been funded by the borough. In FY 2019, the borough provided the council with $100,000. In the FY 2018 budget, the borough supported the council with $305,980 in funds, and $340,00 in FY 2017.
by law. It alleged four legal reasons Dunleavy should be recalled: he showed neglect, incompetence and lack of fitness for office. Those allegations include violating the state constitution by using state funds for political advertisements and violating the separation-ofpowers by using his veto power to attack the Legislature and Judiciary On Nov. 27, the campaign filed a motion against the Division of Elections, which oversees the recall process, following the Division’s refusal to certify the application for recall. “The allegations by the recall group are not legitimate reasons to overturn the outcome of the statewide election held barely a year ago,” Dunleavy said in a statement following the application’s denial in November. “My priorities continue to be making Alaska safer for all Alaskans, growing the economy and enacting a solution to the state’s budget deficit.”
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Fishing regs up for discussion next week By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
Local fisherman and hunters concerned with upcoming proposals being presented to the state Board of Fisheries and Board of Game this year can learn more and share their thoughts at Monday and Tuesday’s Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee meeting. The proposals to be discussed at the meetings will affect all commercial, sport and personal fishing in the Upper Cook Inlet, which stretches from the Matanuska Valley area south to Ninilchik. Mike Crawford, who oversees the meeting, said the Upper Cook Inlet fishery
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LGBTQ individuals may be the targets of similar forms of harassment. Organizers said they wanted to spread awareness about the issue with the hope that local lawmakers will do more to acknowledge the issue of violence toward the LGBTQ community. “I’m hoping that the LGBTQ community will feel more comfortable and confident that they’re represented,” Leslie Byrd, Pride organizer and friend of Willis, said on Wednesday. “And I’m hoping our elected
is one of the most active and contentious fisheries in the state. He said coming to committee meetings is a good opportunity for residents to share their opinions and thoughts on proposals with the advisory committee. The meeting, hosted at 6: 30 p.m., both Monday and Tuesday in the Cook Inlet Aquaculture building on Kalifornsky Beach Road, will be a public opportunity to learn more and discuss local issues relating to Upper Cook Inlet proposals and Board of Game proposals. The committee held a meeting Dec. 31 to discuss proposals for sockeye management plans and Kenai River sport fishing proposals, Crawford said.
Monday’s meeting will focus on more sport fishing proposals and Board of Game proposals. Tuesday’s meeting will pick back up with sport fishing, then discuss commercial fishing and the king salmon fishery plan. The proposals discussed at next week’s meeting will be on the agenda at the Board of Fisheries meeting taking place Feb. 7-19 at the Egan Center in Anchorage — the same meeting that takes place every three years and was slated to take place on the central peninsula, but was shifted to Anchorage last year. The Board of Fisheries, which is part of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is accepting written
comments on the proposals until midnight Jan. 23. Comments can be submitted by letter, at P.O. Box 115526, Juneau, AK 99811, or through their website at adfgcomments.psmfc.org/ Meeting/Details/1086. For anyone who has never attended a Board of Fisheries meeting, but plans to in February, Crawford recommends attending a training being held during the lunch break on the meeting’s first day, which will go over the board’s meeting processes. The training is at 12:10 p.m., Feb. 7 at the Egan Center in Anchorage. Crawford said anyone who has questions or wants more information about the meetings can contact him at 907-252-2919.
officials will walk away thinking that this is a group of people that they need to support.” Michele Vasquez, who also helped arrange the town hall, said that she has reached out to all of the local and state elected officials and asked them to be in attendance. As of Thursday, Kenai Peninsula Borough assembly members Hal Smalley, Kelly Cooper and Brent Johnson have confirmed that they will be present, Vasquez said. A representative from the Soldotna Police Department will also attend, Vasquez said. “We want to send the message that what happened to Tammie is unacceptable
and will not be tolerated in our community,” Vasquez said. “This is the start of what I think will be several conversations.” The event will be moderated by Suzie Smalley, who agreed to do it after Vasquez and the other organizers reached out to her. “Because this is so important, unless I was bleeding from an open heart wound, I couldn’t say no,” Smalley said on Wednesday. Smalley said that she has been studying advocacy re s o u rc e s including Teaching Tolerance and Not in Our Town to prepare for the town hall. “This is going to make the
whole community stronger,” Smalley said. “Not just for one group.” Smalley said that after the town hall the organizers will be taking action. Examples Smalley and the other organizers gave for the next steps include asking the borough assembly to pass a resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month, as well as asking state legislators to change Alaska’s hate crime statute, which does not currently recognize sexual orientation or gender identity as protected classes. “It’s not like we’re all going to get together and share and then walk away feeling better about ourselves,” Smalley said. “We have a plan.”
around the peninsula Cook Inlet Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Cook Inlet Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse will hold its annual meeting at 2 p.m. on Jan. 16 at the Kenai office at 10200 Kenai Spur Highway. The purpose of the annual meeting is to elect the board officers. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend.
Sterling Judo Club member registration Sterling Judo Club member registration for this school year will be open Jan. 7, 9, 14 and 16. Registration is only available two times during the school year. Teens, adults of all ages and youngsters starting at age 8 may enroll. Come to the Sterling Elementary School on the Sterling Highway next to the Sterling Fire Station between 5:45 and 8 p.m. on any of these four scheduled practice nights to register. Class instruction and practices occur every Tuesday and Thursday during the school year from 6-8 p.m. There is an annual U. S. Judo Federation registration fee of $80 but class instruction is free. For more information you can check the Sterling Judo Club Facebook pages or contact one of the four volunteer teachers. The teachers are Bob Brink, head sensei (242-9330), Bob
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Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee The Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting at the KBRR Building at 2181 Kachemak Drive on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 6 p.m. Agenda topics will include elections for expired seats and other business as necessary. For more info contact Dave Lyon at 399-2340 or contact ADF&G Boards Support at 907-267-2354.
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In face of hate, Americans must focus on understanding
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he list of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area in December is appalling, a litany of hatred that calls out to be condemned and countered. Starting with the death of three people at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, more than a dozen incidents have been reported. These include a 65-year-old man who was punched and kicked while his assailant yelled anti-Semitic slurs and a 34-year-old woman who was walking with her son when she was hit on the head as her attacker called her a “f——— Jew.” The latest assault happened on Saturday (Dec. 28), when a man wielding a large blade barged into a rabbi’s home and stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration. The man, who was charged Monday with a hate crime, allegedly searched online for nearby Jewish temples and for “Why did Hitler hate the Jews.” The rash of attacks is even more troubling when you consider that it is hardly unique. Close to 1,900 incidents of anti-Semitism were reported in 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League. AntiSemitic homicides reached their highest level ever last year after the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh left 11 dead, FBI statistics show. And even while white supremacists led the chant of “Jews will not replace us!” at a 2017 Charlottesville, Va., rally, anti-Semitism can come from across the political spectrum. “What we’re finding about various attacks is that they don’t fill any one single narrative. Perpetrators are from different backgrounds, expressed different politics,” Kari Dunn Saratovsky, CEO of Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, told the editorial board. “What they share is a hatred of Jews.” This hatred is not limited to the United States, either. Around the world, ugly incidents of bigotry and discrimination are becoming all too common. In France, where 500 anti-Semitic attacks were reported in 2018, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated this month — swastikas spraypainted on dozens of gravestones. In Germany, where a recent survey found that 1 in 4 hold anti-Semitic beliefs, a gunman attacked a synagogue during Yom Kippur, killing two people. This rise in anti-Semitism must be met with a greater force, one that we must all contribute to spreading. Houston is a diverse city with a thriving Jewish community that deserves and welcomes support. “It takes all of us to stand up together and unite against this hate and perpetual violence,” Saratovsky said. “We can’t remain silent here. We have to call for action, and that’s on all of us.” Anti-Semitism is virulent and pervasive. Its tropes are used not only by racists but sometimes unwittingly reside along with calls for tolerance in many Americans’ Twitter feeds and thoughts. While Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., rightly asked after the string of recent attacks that no one be “targeted because of their faith, race or ethnicity,” her previous tweets tied Jews to money and loyalty to Israel. President Donald Trump, who did the right thing Monday by condemning the attack in a tweet that called on Americans to “eradicate the evil scourge of anti-Semitism,” has at other times relied on harmful tropes, too. He called Jews “brutal killers” when it comes to business deals at an Israeli American Council conference. This reminds us all that side by side with our compassion and our condemnations of anti-Semitism, we should strive for understanding. Groups such as the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston engage in regular education efforts and interfaith community outreach, but if we are all in this together, the effort should go both ways. This can begin as easily as visiting the newly reopened Holocaust Museum, which teaches the dangers of prejudice and apathy, or spending time at the Jewish Community Center, which offers the chance to experience activities and meet new people. The only way to fight hate is through love. Meeting one another, and understanding one another, is a great way to start. — The Houston Chronicle, Dec. 31
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Take heed of history Sen. Jeff Flake, Republican and U.S. senator representing Arizona from 2013-2019, wrote an op-ed recently addressing his party’s support of Donald Trump. The article stated, in part, “My colleagues, the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows that president off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth.” It might be beneficial in the long-term for Alaska’s congressional members to give serious consideration to that statement. The old fable about lemmings blindly following their leader to a point of self-destruction might well apply here. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s propaganda chief. Goebbels is credited with saying that if you repeat a lie often enough people believe it, not that it becomes the truth. Numerous nationally recognized sources have exposed over 10,000 lies and half truths credited to Trump. “Fake news,” “perfect phone call,” “I have done nothing wrong,” et al. Sound familiar? Dean Hill Sterling
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n Sunday (Dec. 29), the kind of news no one wants to see slid across the landscape. There was a shooting at a church in White Settlement outside of Fort Worth, and there were casualties. But as we delved into the details, we will admit feeling first a sense of relief that the loss of life was not larger — two innocent lives were lost along with the assailant — and then a sense of gratitude. Our gratitude, which was also felt by Gov. Greg Abbott, comes from the knowledge that this mass shooter would have likely incurred a lot more mayhem except for the fact that a good man and a volunteer member of the church’s security team immediately shot back. In response to the era of mass shootings that we are in, Texas specifically enacted a law to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons in church (and elsewhere, unless specifically prohibited at that location). That law saved
lives this weekend in North Texas. Regardless of whether people like this fact, it remains true that there have been at least two church shootings in Texas in recent years that ended because law-abiding citizens had the means and willingness to fight back. The second occurred two years ago in Sutherland Springs, and unfortunately resulted in the loss of many more lives. But as in this most recent shooting, in that incident the assailant did not survive after good men responded with force. The truth is that there isn’t one solution that will bring an end to all mass attacks, which is one reason we’ve supported such things as creating a federal center to evaluate local, state and federal laws to find the cracks violent criminals exploit to obtain firearms. But it is also true that part of the set of solutions will have to involve enabling innocent people to protect themselves and each other up to and including
fighting back. If that’s tough to consider, there is another hard reality cast into sharp relief by this latest shooting. As in many other incidents — whether it’s a knife-wielding attacker on a Jewish community in New York or a synagogue, church, mosque or other shooting — the attack in North Texas was an assault on a community, on a group of people freely associating with each other and working toward common purpose. These attacks are pernicious and act with particular purpose to destroy communities. They seek to kill more than individual lives. They seek to kill social bonds that bind us together. They seek to divide and isolate, to leave survivors feeling alone or unsafe in any common space. So it is all the more important for us to stand together in defense against hateful, divisive and evil purpose. It is civil society itself that’s under attack. — The Dallas Morning News, Dec. 30
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Democrat Julián Castro drops out of 2020 presidential race By Paul J. Weber Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro, the only Latino in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, ended his campaign Thursday after a yearlong run in which he pushed his rivals on immigration and took big swings in debates but struggled to break through with voters. “I’m so proud of the campaign we’ve run together. We’ve shaped the conversation on so many important issues in this race, stood up for the most vulnerable people and given a voice to those who are often forgotten,” Castro said in a video announcing his exit. “But with only a month until the Iowa caucuses, and given the circumstances of this campaign season, I have determined that it simply isn’t our time.” Castro, who launched his campaign last January, dropped out after failing to garner enough support in the polls or donations to qualify for recent Democratic debates. A former San Antonio mayor who later became President Barack Obama’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Castro had stalled for most of his campaign, hovering around 1% in polls, and never came close to raising money like his better-known challengers. He had not yet released his endof-year fundraising numbers, but by October had raised less than $8 million total. As Castro exited the field, Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he brought in more than $34.5 million in the previous three months alone. Castro’s departure reflects the increasing lack of color in a Democratic field that began as one of the most diverse in history. Between Sen. Kamala Harris of California dropping out and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey also lagging, the
sixth and final Democratic debate of 2019 had no black or Latino candidates onstage. Last month, Castro said women and candidates of color were being pushed aside in the race because of what he called “the media’s flawed formula for ‘electability.’” He also ran an ad in majority-white Iowa, arguing that the state should no longer vote first in Democrats’ nominating process because it doesn’t reflect the diversity of the party. “There is a strategic disadvantage when you don’t have a very diverse population or electoral base in those states,” said Jeronimo Cortina, a political science professor and associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston. “You can see that minority candidates have a harder time to run in these primary election seasons.” Castro, 45, was among the youngest in the running at a moment when the party’s ascendant left wing is demanding generational change. And as the grandson of a Mexican immigrant, Castro said he recognized the meaning of his candidacy in the face of President Donald Trump’s inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric and hard-line policies on the U.S.-Mexico border. But he labored not to be pigeonholed as a single-issue candidate. He made Puerto Rico his first campaign stop, recited the names of black victims killed in high-profile police shootings and was the first in the field to call for Trump’s impeachment. He also was a leading voice in the field on poverty and ending hunger. But his sagging poll numbers never budged. Early on, he was often eclipsed by another Texan in the race who dropped out this fall, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and another young former mayor, Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. His campaign and supporters, meanwhile, grumbled
that he didn’t get due credit for taking out-front positions. Castro’s former challengers said his voice would be missed. “Secretary Castro brought a firm, clear, moral voice to this primary,” Elizabeth Warren said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “I’m very sorry that he’s not part of this, but I know he has an important voice in American politics and that we’re going to hear a lot more from him both in 2020 and in years to come.” Trying to show he could go toe-totoe with Trump, Castro swung for big moments on debate stages, and he flirted with a much-needed breakout in June after confronting O’Rourke over not supporting decriminalization of illegal border crossings. But turning his sights on Joe Biden on a later stage brought swift backlash. During the September debate in Houston, Castro appeared to touch on concerns about Biden’s advancing age and added a parting shot at the then-76-year-old former vice president. “I’m fulfilling the legacy of Barack Obama, and you’re not,” Castro said. Castro denied taking a personal dig at Biden as others in the field condemned the exchange. Three days later, Castro lost one of his three backers in Congress, Rep. Vicente González of Texas, who switched his endorsement to Biden. In October, Castro had warned supporters in a fundraising appeal that failing to make the November debate stage would spell the end of his campaign. He needed to hit at least 3% polling in four early state or national polls but didn’t get even one. What is next for Castro is unclear. Back home in Texas, Democrats had long viewed Castro as their biggest star in waiting, and some have urged him to run for governor as the state trends more diverse and liberal.
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Inaction deemed ‘regulatory failure’ Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays. The accumulation of Superfund projects that are ready to go except for money comes as the Trump administration routinely proposes funding cuts for Superfund and for the EPA in general. The fourdecade-old Superfund program is meant to tackle some of the most heavily contaminated sites in the U.S. and Trump has declared it a priority even while seeking to shrink its budget. “There hasn’t been a sense
of urgency,” said Violet Donoghue, who has lived for 31 years on Bon Brae Street in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Toxic PCBs have poisoned some local soil, water and fish at nearby Lake St. Clair, and the neighborhood is one of the 34 Superfund sites where cleanup projects languished for lack of money in 2019. “I feel many people have been harmed, but that’s only my opinion,” Donoghue said. She said the last word from the EPA was that soil would be removed from the front of her house. “Now when they say they’re cleaning it, I say, ‘OK, give me the date,’ ” she said. The unfunded projects are in 17 states and Puerto Rico. They range from abandoned mines that discharged heavy metals and arsenic in the West to an old wood pulp site in Mississippi and a defunct dry cleaner that released toxic solvents in North Carolina.
Congress created the Superfund program in 1980 after the Love Canal episode and other notorious pollution cases. Its intent is to hold polluters responsible for cleanup costs or provide taxpayer money when no responsible party can be identified. Trump “is focused on putting Americans first,” EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a Senate environment committee early 2019. “There may be no better example than our success in the Superfund program.” “We are in the process of cleaning up some of the nation’s largest, most complex sites and returning them to productive use,” Wheeler said then. But two former EPA officials whose work dealt with Superfund oversight said the growing backlog of stalled Superfund projects under the Trump administration,
and steady or ebbing numbers of cleanup construction projects completed, point to a different picture. “They’re misleading Congress and the public about the funds that are needed to really protect the public from exposure to the toxic chemicals,” said Elizabeth Southerland, who worked for 30 years at EPA, including as director of science and technology in the water office, before retiring in 2017. “It’s detrimental.” This is a “regulatory failure,” said Judith Enck, who served as the EPA’s regional northeastern U.S. administrator under President Barack Obama. Given the growing numbers of unfunded cleanup projects, “EPA should be knocking on the door of Congress and saying, give us more money to deal with the sites,’’ Enck said.
‘Millions of sparks’: Weather raises fire danger Associated Press
SYDNEY — Navy ships plucked hundreds of people from beaches and tens of thousands were urged to flee Friday before hot weather and strong winds in the forecast worsen Australia’s already-devastating wildfires. More than 200 fires were burning, and warnings of extreme danger to come Saturday set in motion one of the largest evacuations in Australian history. Thousands have already fled at-risk coastal areas, creating traffic gridlock in places, and firefighters escorted convoys of evacuees as fires threatened to close roads. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrew declared a disaster across much of the eastern part of the state, allowing the government to order evacuations in an area with as many as 140,000 permanent residents and tens of thousands more vacationers. “If you can leave, you must leave,” Andrews said. South Australia state’s Country Fire Service chief officer Mark Jones said the weather conditions were cause for concern because some fires were still burning or smoldering. “The ignition sources are already there,” he said. “There are millions of sparks out there ready to go if they break containment lines.”
The early and devastating start to Australia’s summer wildfires has made this season the worst on record. About 5 million 12.35 million acres of land have burned, at least 19 people have been killed, and more than 1,400 homes have been destroyed. This week, at least 448 homes have been destroyed on the New South Wales southern coast and dozens were burned in Victoria. Ten deaths have been confirmed in the two states this week, and Victoria authorities also say 28 people are missing. Fires are also burning in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The navy was evacuating hundreds from the Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota, which has been cut off for days by wildfires, forcing as many as 4,000 residents and tourists to shelter on beaches. Landing craft ferried people to the HMAS Choules offshore. Choules Commander Scott Houlihan said 963 people had signed up for evacuation by sea and more had been airlifted to safety. A state of emergency was in place in New South Wales and a total fire ban. State Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner Rob Rogers said strong winds and high temperatures Saturday will make the fire danger worse in many areas and
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Wildfires rage under plumes of smoke Monday in Bairnsdale, Australia. Thousands of tourists fled Australia’s wildfire-ravaged eastern coast Thursday ahead of worsening conditions as the military started to evacuate people trapped on the shore further south.
urged those who can flee to do so. “We know people have got a little bit of fire fatigue. They’ve been dealing with this now for months,” Rogers said. “But we need people to stay focused. Tomorrow is not the day to drop your guard. Take it seriously. If you’re in those areas where we put those maps out, do not be there.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited the township of Bairnsdale in Victoria and received a warmer
welcome than a day earlier in New South Wales. Morrison cut short a visit to the town of Cobargo when locals yelled at him, made obscene gestures and called him an “idiot” and worse, criticizing him for the lack of equipment to deal with the fires in town. In a radio interview Friday, Morrison said he understood the anger of people affected by the fires.
Powerful Iran general killed in U.S. strike By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Zeina Karam Associated Press
Baghdad — The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region. The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the region and spiral into a far larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond. The Defense Department said it killed Soleimani because he “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also accused Soleimani of approving the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared three days of public mourning for the general’s death. Also, an adviser to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned President Donald Trump of retaliation from Tehran. “Trump through his gamble has dragged the U.S. into the most dangerous situation in the region,” Hessameddin Ashena wrote on the social media app Telegram. “Whoever put his foot beyond the red line should be ready to face its consequences.” Iranian state television later in
a commentary called Trump’s order to kill Soleimani “the biggest miscalculation by the U.S.” in the years since World War II. “The people of the region will no longer allow Americans to stay,” the TV said. The airport strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, and five others, including the PMF’s airport protocol officer, Mohammed Reda, Iraqi officials said. Trump was vacationing on his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, but sent out a tweet of an American flag. The dramatic attack comes at the start of a year in which Trump faces both a Senate trial following his impeachment by the U.S. House and a re-election campaign. It marks a potential turning point in the Middle East and represents a drastic change for American policy toward Iran after months of tensions. Tehran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone and seized oil tankers. The U.S. also blames Iran for a series of attacks targeting tankers, as well as a September assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry that temporarily halved its production. The tensions take root in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, struck under his predecessor, Barack Obama. The 62-year-old Soleimani was the target of Friday’s U.S. attack, which was conducted by an armed American drone, according to a U.S. official. His vehicle was struck on an access road near the Baghdad airport. A senior Iraqi security official said the airstrike took place near
the cargo area after Soleimani left his plane and joined al-Muhandis and others in a car. The official said the plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. Two officials from the PMF said Suleimani’s body was torn to pieces in the attack, while they did not find the body of al-Muhandis. A senior politician said Soleimani’s body was identified by the ring he wore. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give official statements. It’s unclear what legal authority the U.S. relied on to carry out the attack. American presidents claim broad authority to act without the approval of the Congress when U.S. personnel or interests are facing an imminent threat. The Pentagon did not provide evidence to back up its assertion that Soleimani was planning new attacks against Americans. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Trump owes a full explanation to Congress and the American people. “The present authorizations for use of military force in no way cover starting a possible new war. This step could bring the most consequential military confrontation in decades,” Blumenthal said. But Trump allies were quick to praise the action. “To the Iranian government: if you want more, you will get more,” tweeted South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. For Iran, the killing represents more than just the loss of a battlefield commander, but also a cultural icon who represented national pride and resilience while facing U.S. sanctions. While careful to avoid involving himself in politics, Soleimani’s profile rose sharply as U.S. and Israeli officials
blamed him for Iranian proxy attacks abroad. While Iran’s conventional military has suffered under 40 years of American sanctions, the Guard has built up a ballistic missile program. It also can strike asymmetrically in the region through forces like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The U.S. long has blamed Iran for car bombings and kidnappings it never claimed. As the head of the Quds, or Jersualem, Force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of its expeditionary forces and frequently shuttled between Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Quds Force members have deployed into Syria’s long war to support President Bashar Assad, as well as into Iraq in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, a longtime foe of Tehran. Soleimani rose to prominence by advising forces fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and in Syria on behalf of the embattled Assad. U.S. officials say the Guard under Soleimani taught Iraqi militants how to manufacture and use especially deadly roadside bombs against U.S. troops after the invasion of Iraq. Iran has denied that. Soleimani himself remains popular among many Iranians, who see him as a selfless hero fighting Iran’s enemies abroad. Soleimani had been rumored dead several times, including in a 2006 airplane crash that killed other military officials in northwestern Iran and following a 2012 bombing in Damascus that killed top aides of Assad. Rumors circulated in November 2015 that Soleimani was killed or seriously wounded leading forces loyal to Assad as they fought around Syria’s Aleppo.
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Some flavors exempt in plan to curb teen vaping WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials will begin cracking down on most flavored e-cigarettes that are popular with underage teenagers, but their plan includes major exceptions that benefit vaping manufacturers, retailers and adults who use the nicotine-delivery devices. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will prohibit fruit, candy, mint and dessert flavors from small, cartridge-based e-cigarettes favored by high school and middle school students. But menthol and tobaccoflavored e-cigarettes will be allowed to remain on the market. The targeted flavor ban will also entirely exempt large, tank-based vaping devices, which are primarily sold in vape shops that cater to adult smokers.
Family of attack victim calls for end of hatred NEW YORK — The daughter of a man gravely wounded in an attack on a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City made an emotional plea Thursday to end hatred and anti-Semitism, saying she hopes her father regains consciousness “to a changed world.” “We want our kids to go to school and feel safe,” Nicky Kohen, the daughter of Josef Neumann, told reporters in front of her home in Rockland County. “We want to go to synagogues and feel safe. We want to go to grocery stores and malls and feel safe.” Neumann, 72, has been unconscious since Saturday when an attacker with a machete rushed into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, and wounded five people during a Hanukkah celebration. Neumann remained in intensive care at Westchester Medical Center and was undergoing surgery Thursday morning, she said. The family released a statement this week saying Neumann, a father of seven, may have permanent brain damage.
Turkish lawmakers authorize sending troops to fight in Libya ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament on Thursday authorized the deployment of troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival government seeking to capture the capital. Turkish lawmakers voted 325-184 at an emergency session in favor of a one-year mandate allowing the government to dispatch troops amid concerns that Turkish forces could aggravate the conflict in Libya and destabilize the region. The Tripolibased government of Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj has faced an offensive by the rival regime in the east and forces loyal to commander Gen. Khalifa Hifter. The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violent chaos rivaling the 2011 conflict that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Nike: Avenatti wants to make it a villain at trial NEW YORK — California attorney Michael Avenatti wants to portray Nike as a villain and himself a hero at his extortion trial later this month, the company said in a court filing made public Thursday. The sportswear maker said in court papers that Avenatti’s attorneys want five Nike sports marketing employees to testify at the Manhattan federal court trial that starts with jury selection Jan. 22. The company asked U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe in papers dated Tuesday but filed publicly Thursday to deny Avenatti’s request, saying the employees have no knowledge about the extortion and honest services fraud charges lodged against him. Gardephe directed Avenatti’s lawyers to respond by Monday. Avenatti has pleaded not guilty to the charges and said he is being prosecuted unfairly by a U.S. Justice Department beholden to a president he has criticized on social media and in numerous television appearances. — Clarion news services
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Minister’s message | Pastor Roger Holl, Sterling Grace Community Church
A new year and new beginnings W
ell, here we are again. It is a new year. Perhaps some of you have made New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions are the promises we make to ourselves to better our lives. But somehow, most of us never fulfill those New Year’s resolutions of losing weight, getting fitter, becoming more prosperous, being happier or giving up some undesirable trait or habit. Year after year, we shrug off the frustration and disappointment of not making those needed changes happen in our lives. Often our New Year’s resolution has to do with the need to change
an undesirable trait or habit. We often treat these issues as separate issues from the core person we really are. We want to fix the problem, not change who we are and how we think and live. But the Book of Proverbs tells us “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” We often try to put an ineffective band aid on a life-altering wound instead of treating the underlying cause. There has to be a more proactive way to effect positive change in our lives. Many years ago, President Calvin Coolidge said: “Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil.
Our great hope lies in developing what is good.” What is remarkable is that God has made a way to do that. It is found in the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:33, when He said: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Christ is telling us to make God our number one priority in life above everything else. Only then will “all these things be added to you.” Seeking God’s kingdom is not seeking for a location; it is seeking His love, dominion and sovereign rule in our lives. It is to seek first His influence, His Word and His love in our lives. It means living in
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church briefs Kasilof Community Church pantry Kasilof Community Church Food Pantry is every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The pantry is located in the church office building next to the Kasilof Mercantile, about mile 109 on the Sterling Highway. All are welcome. Non-perishable food items may be dropped at this same location Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Contact the church office for more information at 262-7512.
Clothes Quarters hours 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.
Awana Kids Club Awana Kids Club, hosted by Calvary Baptist Church, meets regularly on Sunday evenings at Kenai Middle School. Children 3 years old to sixth grade are invited to attend this free weekly club. Contact Pastor Jon Henry for more information at pastorjon@ calvarykenai.org.
Equipping grandparents Sterling Grace Community Church is presenting “Equipping Grandparents,” a series on how to be a more involved as a grandparent. The series teaches how to know your grandchild better, how to influence the lives of your grandchildren, how to speak
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.
Christ into their lives, and how to leave your spiritual legacy to them. We will also discussing obstacles to relationships with grandchildren. Parents can also benefit from this series. The series is held Wednesday evenings at the Sterling Senior Citizen Center at 6 p.m. Call Dr. Roger Holl at 862-0336 for more information.
Soldotna Food Pantry
KP Young Adult Ministry KP Young Adult Ministry is available at Ammo Can Coffee Thursday nights at 7 p.m. KP Young Adult Ministry is geared toward fostering the healthy Christian Community for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. For more information contact us through our Facebook Page KP Young Adult Ministry.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table
The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents 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.
Christ Lutheran Sunday schedule Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna Sunday morning service will be starting at 11 a.m. for the winter.
A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal and fellowship and blood pressure checks to anyone interested. The meal is the second, third and fourth Sunday of each month, from 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall, located on campus at 222 West Redoubt Ave., Soldotna.
United Methodist food pantry
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
The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from 12:30-3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church at 907-283-7868. Submit items to news@peninsulaclarion.com. Submissions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For more information, call 907-283-7551.
more. 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us: “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold new things have come.” Can a person really change and find contentment and joy in life this New Year? The answer is yes, but don’t try to do it alone. Find fellowship in a bible teaching church for a very Happy New Year! Roger Holl is pastor of Sterling Grace Community Church. The church meets at the Sterling Senior Center for Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m. and for a study on “Equipping Grandparents” on Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome.
His will and authority. That creates a changed heart. That changes who we are. We spend much less time dealing with the dissatisfaction and distractions of life because we are proactively living in Christ and allowing God to provide all that is good. We are looking to heaven as we live Godly, holy lives. Colossians 3:2-3. Do you want a new beginning in 2020? Romans 12:2 says: “be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect”. Don’t settle for just one New Year’s resolution. God offers so much
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“There’s just so many other things you can do other than get behind the wheel of that car and potentially end your life or the life of someone else,” said Renee Oistad, police department spokeswoman. Local bar owners agreed. “We don’t want over-consumption,” said Matt Tomter, owner of Matanuska Brewing Co. At the company’s three locations, he said, employees are instructed to look out for the safety of customers. “We want everyone to have a good time, get everybody home safe, encourage people to take an Uber or Lyft if they’ve been drinking at all,” he said. All designated drivers receive free nonalcoholic drinks, he said.
Alaska files documents opposing Eklutna tribal gaming push ANCHORAGE — The state of Alaska has filed documents opposing a tribe’s push to open a gaming hall north of Anchorage. Officials with the Alaska Department of Law said in the documents filed Tuesday that other Alaska tribes would open similar operations if the Native Village of Eklutna prevails, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Colin Cloud Hampson, an attorney representing the Native Village of Eklutna, said he had not yet reviewed the state filing that came in response to a lawsuit filed in August by the tribe seeking approval for the gaming hall. The Eklutna lawsuit seeks to overturn a 2018 ruling by the Department of the Interior that a particular parcel of land near Chugiak is not “Indian lands” and is ineligible to host a tribal gaming hall. “A ruling that the opinion is invalid may open the door to (Indian Gaming Rights Act) gaming on other properties across Alaska,” assistant state attorney general Lael Harrison wrote in the new filing. The case extends beyond Indian gaming, she added. “It is about the territorial jurisdiction of Alaska tribes in general,” Harrison said. The state requests that it be allowed to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the federal government. Eklutna is a Dena’ina community within the municipality of Anchorage. The Native Village of Eklutna is a federally recognized tribal government. According to the tribe, the proposed facility would be limited to games such pull-tabs, bingo and lotteries and possibly electronic versions of those games. The facility would not offer blackjack and slot machines that are not authorized under state law. Eklutna’s lawsuit did not make statewide jurisdiction claims. Harrison, however, wrote that the 2018 ruling by the Department of the Interior is about territorial jurisdiction of Alaska tribes in general. — Clarion news services
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
Methodist
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
You Are Invited! Wheelchair Accessible
St. Francis By The Sea
110 S. Spruce St. at Spur Hwy. - Kenai • 283-6040 Christmas Service December 25 at 3:00 pm Sunday Services Worship Service.........11:00 a.m. Eucharistic Services on the 1st & 4th Sundays
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Sterling Lutheran Church LCMS 35100 McCall Rd. Behind Sterling Elementary School Worship: Sunday .... 11:00 a.m. Bill Hilgendorf, Pastor 907-740-3060
“Whoever is thirsty, let him come”
776-8732 NSUMC@alaska.net Sunday Worship ..........9:30 a.m.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help 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.
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
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.
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
Lutheran
Non Denominational
Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Hwy, Nikiski
Star Of The North Lutheran Church L.C.M.S. Dustin Atkinson, Pastor Sponsor of the Lutheran Hour 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai 283-4153 Sunday School........ 9:30 a.m. Worship Service.........11:00 a.m.
Nikiski Church Of Christ
Catholic 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna Rev. Patrick Brosamer 262-4749 Daily Mass Tues.-Fri. .................... 12:05 p.m. Saturday Mass ........... 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation Saturday................3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Sunday Mass .............. 9:30 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
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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Bears ready for 2nd half of season By Jeff Helminiak Peninsula Clarion
Even when the Kenai River Brown Bears were on break for the holidays, signs of success keep happening. Since a 5-4 shootout loss at the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets on Dec. 21, the Bears have lost defenseman Bryan Huggins to the Muskegon (Michigan) Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League and saw forward Theo Thrun earn a Division I commitment to Western Michigan University. Huggins is the second defenseman to leave the Bears for the USHL this season, following Robert McCollum. The Bears play in the North American Hockey League, the only Tier II junior league in the United States. The only junior league better is the Tier I USHL. “Coming into the year, that’s what we were hoping,” Kenai River head coach Kevin Murdock said. “We were hoping guys would earn
themselves the opportunity to go up. We’re certainly not going to hold them back.” Another thing on the wish list is Division I commitments, and Thrun’s signaling of Western Michigan means there are now five Bears listed on the NAHL website with Division I deals. Huggins is committed to Lake Superior State, but is leaving Kenai River. Skylar Gutierrez, Zach Krajnik and Porter Schachle, all Alaska players, have all committed to play their college hockey for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Murdock said he could not be happier that Thrun’s star has risen so quickly. His 37 points rank him tied for sixth in NAHL scoring and his 17 goals have him tied for third in the league. “I’m really excited for Theo to earn that opportunity,” Murdock said. “I think realistically, he’s earned a lot of it. “When we started talking last spring, I don’t know if anyone
thought he’d be committed to Western Michigan at Christmas. It shows his work ethic, focus and the way he shows up ready to go each day.” Thrun is one of many Brown Bears whose rise has allowed the team to have tremendous success this season. Entering Friday and Saturday games at the Amarillo (Texas) Bulls, Kenai River is 22-8-1-3 and in first place in the Midwest Division. The Bears are in fourth place in the league, while Amarillo (23-61-2) is tied for second. Kenai River is just one win from matching last season’s win total and the franchise record of 31 wins in the 2011-12 season is definitely within reach. A big part of the turnaround has come on offense. Last season, Kenai River scored just 139 goals and was second last in the league. This season, the Bears are second in the league in scoring and must score just four more times to match
last season’s total. “We’ve been fortunate enough to have some good pieces that came back from last year,” Murdock said. “We’ve been fortunate enough to make some moves for guys with junior experience. And then we’ve gotten guys like Theo. “We’ve also been fortunate enough to build some chemistry with lines.” Krajnik leads the team with 39 points and is back after totaling 50 points for the Bears last season. Thrun is second on the team in points, while the third member of the line, Logan Ritchie, is third with 31. Ritchie had just 12 points last season for Kenai River. Schachle has 30 points this season after just 10 points last season for the Bears, while next on the list is Peter Morgan with 29 points. Morgan had prior NAHL experience and was acquired at the beginning of the year. Finally,
Thursday boys Whalers 55, Mariners 47 Homer 2 15 17 13 —47 Barrow 11 18 16 10 —55 HOMER (47) — Munns 0, Beachy 11, Etzwiler
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Heat shut down Raptors
MAVERICKS 123, NETS 111 DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 15 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter, helping Dallas beat Brooklyn. Seth Curry finished with 25 points while keeping the Mavericks even with the Nets with Doncic sitting late in the third quarter and Nos. 2 and 3 scorers Kristaps Porzingis and Tim Hardaway Jr. out with injuries. Maxi Kleber scored a seasonhigh 18 points to help the Mavericks avoid their first three-game losing streak in the opener of a sixgame homestand, their longest of the season.
NUGGETS 124, PACERS 116 INDIANAPOLIS — Michael Porter Jr. scored a career-high 25 points and Jamal Murray added 22 in Denver’s victory over Indiana. The Nuggets have won three of four and earned this one despite having Nikola Jokic in serious foul trouble all night. Jokic finished with 22 points, 12 in the fourth quarter, and seven rebounds.
CLIPPERS 126, PISTONS 112 LOS ANGELES — Montrezl Harrell scored 23 points and Los Angeles survived without Paul George in the second half to beat Detroit, winning consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 13. George didn’t return after halftime because of left hamstring tightness. He finished with 12 points. Lou Williams added 22 points and Kawhi Leonard had 18 in three quarters for the Clippers, who had alternated wins and losses for nearly
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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler, right, is fouled by Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday in Miami. The Heat won 84-76. At left is Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby (3). (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Spencer Dinwiddie led Brooklyn with 19 points.
From Florida to Alaska — a wild 40 years
MINNEAPOLIS — Shabazz Napier and Robert Covington each scored 20 points to help Minnesota beat Golden State in a matchup of injury-ravaged teams. Naz Reid added 13 points, Kelan Martin had 12 and Minnesota held Golden State to the lowest points total by an opponent this season. Glen Robinson III scored 16 points
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By The Associated Press MIAMI — Bam Adebayo had 15 points and 14 rebounds and the Miami Heat put together their best defensive performance of the season in an 84-76 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night. Tyler Herro and Goran Dragic each scored 13 points for Miami. The Heat are 2-0 against the Raptors this season and improved to 9-0 after a loss. Miami and Milwaukee are the only teams to not lose consecutive games this season.
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ike true superheroes, every Alaskan has an origin story. The really cool origin story might involve being born a sixthgeneration Alaskan from a sourdough ancestor who came up to work on the Alaska Railroad back when Anchorage was just a tent camp. The even cooler origin story goes to the Alaska Natives who have lived here 10,000 years or more. My Alaska origin story starts in Florida, and it began 40 years ago when I got drunk. I was born in Virginia, but my family moved to Tampa, Florida, when I was 2, so I consider myself Florida raised. I went to high school and college in Florida, and had every intention of staying in Florida. I liked Florida. I liked the warmth, I liked the sunshine, I liked the beaches, I liked the bits of wilderness still remaining and I even liked the weird people. A friend called me “Tropical Tommy,” and if not for the adventure of my friends Mark and Mo, I might have stayed forever in Florida. It was the spring of 1979. I had graduated a few years earlier from New College of Florida in Sarasota with a Bachelor of Arts in humanities and a burning desire to write professionally. At the time I worked in student affairs at New College, a job that had all the benefits of being in college without actually doing the course work. One night Mark, Mo and I got drunk. China had invaded Vietnam and the world looked like it might fall apart. “Where could we go?” we thought, and in our drunken stupor, decided, “Alaska.” Getting drunk and deciding to move to Alaska isn’t like getting drunk and getting a tattoo. When you wake up sober you’re not passed out at Anchorage International Airport; you’re still in Florida. Only the seed got planted, and danged if that summer Mark and Mo loaded up their Pontiac Trans-Am and headed north. As Florida summers go, 1979 pretty much set the low bar for me. I got laid off from a job. My roommate and I couldn’t afford the electricity for air conditioning. Sarasota dodged a few hurricanes. So when Mark and Mo wrote me letters about moose and glaciers and salmon, I began to think, “Hmm. Alaska.” That fall I got a minimum wage job printing silkscreen T-shirts and had not come any closer to my
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Kardinals boys top Huskies The Kenai boys were able to advance to the winners’ side of the ACS Pepsi Invitational on Thursday in Anchorage, while the Homer boys and Kenai girls fell into the consolation side of the bracket. The Kardinals boys notched a 44-42 victory over Kotzebue. Kenai trailed 20-14 at halftime, but led 34-28 by the end of three quarters and was able to hold off the Huskies. Evan Stockton had 12 points to pace the Kardinals, while Andrew Bezdecny and Braedon Pitsch had 11 apiece. For Kotzebue, Michael Hensley rained in 24 points and six 3-pointers. The Barrow girls defeated Kenai 51-34. The Kardinals grabbed an 11-9 lead after the first quarter, but Barrow led 27-17 by halftime and 40-23 by the end of the third quarter. Alyssa Grimes had 10 points for the Whalers, while Damaris Severson had 11 and Kailey Hamilton added 10 for the Kards. The Barrow boys defeated Homer 55-47, with the Whalers taking an 11-2 lead after the first quarter. Anthony Fruean led a balanced attack for Barrow, while Eyoab Knapp had 12 and Clayton Beachy had 11 for Homer. Today, the Kenai boys will take on Barrow at 5:30 p.m. in the semifinals, while Homer and Kotzebue face off in the consolation bracket at 10:30 a.m. The Kenai girls take on Kotzebue in the consolation bracket at 9 a.m.
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THUNDER 109, SPURS 103 SAN ANTONIO — Shai GilgeousAlexander had 25 points and Oklahoma City overcame 30 points by DeMar DeRozan to beat the Spurs, snapping a nine-game skid in San Antonio. Chris Paul had 10 of his 16 points in the final quarter to help Oklahoma City win its fourth straight. The Thunder had five players score at least 13 points, including 19 from Dennis Schroder.
TIMBERWOLVES 99, WARRIORS 84
Tales of a wildlife biologist
I Permanent and seasonal staff from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge who helped estimate the Kenai brown bear population in 2010. (Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
n 1975, as a freshman in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, I was required to take a weekly no-credit orientation seminar during my first semester. Dr. Orrin Rongstad, a well-known deer researcher, spent the first few weeks introducing my incoming class to our chosen field. It all sounded wonderful until he did us the favor of
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No. 1 Gonzaga gets past Portland By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Killian Tillie had 22 points and Corey Kispert added 18, and top-ranked Gonzaga rallied in the second half to beat Portland 85-72 on Thursday night for the Bulldogs’ 12th straight victory over the Pilots. Ryan Woolridge had 15 points for Gonzaga (15-1), which opened West Coast Conference play with its seventh straight win. The Bulldogs’ lone loss this season came in the Bahamas on Nov. 29 to Michigan.
COLORADO 74, NO. 4 OREGON 65 BOULDER, Colo. — McKinley Wright IV scored 11 of his 21 points in the final 5 minutes, and Colorado beat another ranked team, taking down Oregon. Tyler Bey added 15 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the Buffaloes (12-2, 1-0 Pac-12) improved to 9-0
all-time against the Ducks (11-3, 0-1) in Boulder.
NO. 14 MICHIGAN ST. 76, ILLINOIS 56 EAST LANSING, Mich. — Cassius Winston had 21 points and Xavier Tillman scored 19 to lead Michigan State past Illinois. The Spartans (11-3, 3-0 Big Ten) have won six straight and have won their first three conference games to stay alone in first place.
NO. 20 DAYTON 84, LA SALLE 58 PHILADELPHIA — Obi Toppin scored 20 points and Dayton used a big first-half run to cruise past La Salle in its Atlantic 10 opener. Toppin was one of five Dayton players to score in double figures as the Flyers clamped down defensively on the Explorers, holding them without a 3-pointer until midway through the second half.
Vols stun Indiana By The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tennessee scored two touchdowns in a late 30-second span, using an onside kick to help erase a double-digit deficit and holding on to stun Indiana 23-22 in the Gator Bowl on Thursday night. The Volunteers (8-5) closed out coach Jeremy Pruitt’s second season with their sixth consecutive victory and won their fourth straight bowl, first since 2016. Logan Justus missed an extra point in the third
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Anchorage’s Max Helgeson is sixth on the list with 28 points and was acquired this year as a free agent. In net, Landon Pavlisin leads the league with 19 wins and has received the bulk of the work for Kenai River. Danny Fraga has appeared in just seven games. Murdock said Pavlisin has earned all the time he’s spent in the net with impressive play. “In our minds, we’re still fighting for a playoff spot and we’re still trying to win as many games as possible,” Murdock said, when asked if Pavlisin will continue to get the bulk of the time in net. “At the same time, Danny has played well lately and earned himself some more opportunities. He works his butt off every day in practice.” Murdock also has been pleased with the way the defensemen have come together, especially in light of losing McCollum and getting just nine games out of veteran defenseman JJ Boucher due to injury. With the loss of Huggins, the Bears have traded for Adam Szubert from the Austin (Minnesota) Bruins. Szubert has one year of junior eligibility left after this season. “I think our D corps has been really good for us so far this year,” Murdock said. “With the injuries we’ve had, with JJ and Huggins out, with Robbie getting
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3, Lowney 5, Jon. Raymond 8, Anderson 0, Kuhn 0, Knapp 12, Mann 5, Jos. Raymond 3. BARROW (55) — Dias 2, Kim 5, Matthews 6, Nobleza 3, Nelson 0, Texeira 8, Mongoyak 8, Weyiouanna 2, Goodwin 0, Fruean 12, Gerke 9. 3-point goals — Homer 2 (Beachy, Knapp); Barrow 6 (Gerke 3, Kim, Nobleza, Texeira). Team fouls — Homer 15, Barrow 23. Fouled out — Dias. Kardinals 44, Huskies 42 Kotzebue 14 6 8 14 —42 Kenai 10 4 20 10 —44
quarter that turned out to be costly and was wide right on a 52-yard field goal attempt with 2:12 remaining. Justus’ kick had the distance but sailed just outside the right upright.
NO. 23 CINCINNATI 38, BOSTON COLLEGE 6 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Desmond Ridder ran for 105 yards and three touchdowns and threw a scoring pass to lead Cincinnati past Boston College in the lightning-delayed Birmingham Bowl.
called up, I think we’ve been able to give a couple of guys different opportunities, and they’ve made the most of those opportunities.” Kenai River starts the second half of the season with 12 of 16 on the road before playing seven at home and closing with three on the road. The Bears have nine games left with the Fairbanks Ice Dogs, who are one point behind Kenai River in the Midwest Division. “We’re trying to make the playoffs, so we just can’t be good at home, we have to win games on the road, too,” Murdock said. “Part of the learning curve is to stay focused after an eight-hour bus trip to Springfield.” Murdock said mental consistency is a huge part of junior hockey. Part of the reason Murdock and associate head coach Dan Bogdan are so optimistic is the Bears still have areas where they can improve, and mental consistency is one of them. While savoring the chance of playing on the road, Murdock said a big positive of the first half was the large crowds that came to the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. “We’ve had some pretty impressive crowds, like Saturday night against Fairbanks or dollar ticket night against Janesville,” Murdock said. “When Helgeson scored in the shootout against Fairbanks, I couldn’t hear myself think it was so loud. “I know the guys are loving it and we’d like to keep it going.”
KOTZEBUE (42) — Hensley 24, Williamson 5, Ivanoff 3, Booth 6, Kramer 0, Stalker 4. KENAI CENTRAL (44) — Dunham 6, McKibben 0, Kvasnikoff 2, Bezdecny 11, Stockton 12, Tunseth 2, Pitsch 11. 3-point goals — Kotzebue 8 (Hensley 6, Williamson, Ivanoff); Kenai Team fouls — Kotzebue 12, Kenai 5. Fouled out — none. Thursday girls Whalers 51, Kardinals 34 Kenai 11 6 6 11 — 34 Barrow 9 18 13 11 —51 KENAI CENTRAL (34) — Pierce 0, Hamilton 10, Hanson 5, Streiff 5, Satathite 3, Severson 11, Lauritsen 0. BARROW (51) — Kaleak 5, Grimes 10, L. Brower 2, Leavitt 2, Donovan 7, C. Brower 4, Suesue 0, Fruean 2, Chrestman-Adams 0. 3-point goals — Kenai 1 (Satathite); Team fouls — Kenai 12, Barrow 7. Fouled out — none.
Noting Stern’s accomplishments MIAMI (AP) — Nick Nurse has quite a few reasons to be thankful for David Stern. The coach of the NBA champion Toronto Raptors first encountered Stern around 20 years ago. Nurse, who was coaching in London, met Stern — then the NBA commissioner — through a mutual friend and remembers how fascinating it was to have conversations with him. Fast forward a few years, and Nurse had an idea to bring a team from what was then called the NBA Development League to his native Iowa. Stern and the NBA liked the idea. The Iowa team was born. Nurse was its first coach. The rest is history. And Nurse is one of countless people reflecting now on Stern’s impact, after the man who ran the NBA for 30 years died on Wednesday about three weeks following a brain hemorrhage. “There’s no denying how much he grew the game. He was the leader behind all that,” Nurse said. “Obviously, lots of important people play important roles there, but still, somebody’s got to lead that thing and he was doing that at a level that was unseen.”
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for the Warriors. Minnesota was missing Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, while Golden State was without D’Angelo Russell, along with long-absent stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
JAZZ 102, BULLS 98 CHICAGO — Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points and Utah held off Chicago.
For all of Stern’s accomplishments — and there are many — growth of the game may be the biggest one of all. Nurse is the perfect example. If what is now called the G League wasn’t born, at Stern’s behest, then Nurse probably wouldn’t be coaching the reigning champions right now. And if Stern didn’t push to reach out into more markets, including Canada, then the Raptors might not even exist. “This was his baby,” Toronto guard Kyle Lowry said. “He helped grow this thing into what it is today. And you’ve got to give him a lot — I wouldn’t say all — but a whole lot of the credit.” Stern, when he stepped down as commissioner, said growth of the league was his top achievement. “My greatest accomplishment was in hiring the now 1,200 people — that used to be 24 — that have taken the league to where it is,” he said. Some of Stern’s other accomplishments of note:
ALL-STAR WEEKEND Stern turned the NBA’s All-Star Game — which long predated his work with the league — into a weekend
festival. The slam dunk contest was added in 1984, the 3-point contest in 1986, what started as the rookie game arrived in 1994 and the skills contest was born in 2003.
EQUALITY Boston’s Bill Russell was arguably the first black player to achieve superstar status in the NBA, though Stern always wasn’t a fan. He rooted for the Knicks, not the Celtics, and thought Harry Gallatin was a better player. “That’s what fanship does,” Stern said. In the end, Russell might have become Stern’s favorite player. Stern loved Russell. He loved the way he expressed his political views. He loved his grouchiness. And when Stern saw the way Russell and Bob Cousy — a star white guard for Boston — played seamlessly together, he had a realization. “Our sport was under duress because people said it was getting too black,” Stern said in his Hall of Fame induction speech. “I remembered this guy named Russell who played with this other guy named Cousy. The best
The Jazz went on a 24-4 run in the third quarter to grab a nine-point lead and came away with their 10th win in 12 games after Chicago tied it in the closing minutes. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert each scored 17 points for Utah. Zach LaVine led Chicago with 26 points.
against Cleveland. Graham’s shot from the top of the key gave Charlotte a 106-103 lead. The Hornets came back from a nine-point deficit with five minutes to play to end a six-game losing streak.
HORNETS 109, CAVALIERS 106
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — De’Aaron Fox scored 10 of his 27 points in the final five minutes and Sacramento overcame a 20-point deficit in the first half to beat Memphis, ending an eight-game losing
CLEVELAND — Devonte’ Graham hit a 3-pointer with 26 seconds left to break a tie and cap Charlotte’s late rally
KINGS 128, GRIZZLIES 123
basketball that I think ever existed in the world and it dawned on me that we had something to teach the world.” With that, equality — all sorts of it, including racial and gender — became a passion of Stern’s. He championed the creation of the WNBA. He was Magic Johnson’s biggest advocate when the Lakers star announced he had been diagnosed with HIV in 1991. And he supported Johnson when he returned to the league after his first retirement, plus pushed for him to be part of the first Olympic “Dream Team” in 1992.
DRAFT LOTTERY The formula and the system has been tweaked a bit in recent years, but Stern also oversaw the league when the draft lottery was added and first used in 1995.
SALARY CAP Stern inherited a troubled league — some teams were in terrible financial shape — when he became commissioner in 1984, and at that time adding a salary cap was considered risky.
streak. Buddy Hield had 26 points and seven rebounds to help the Kings win for the first time since beating Golden State on Dec. 15. Richaun Holmes added 18 points and seven rebounds, and Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 16 points. The Kings allowed 42 points in the first quarter and 37 in the third but held the Grizzlies to 13 through the first 10 ½ minutes of the fourth quarter, one of the best defensive stretches of the season by coach Luke Walton’s team.
scoreboard Football Bowl Glance Thursday, Jan. 2 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Cincinnati 38, Boston College 6 Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Tennessee 23, Indiana 22 Friday, Jan. 3 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Ohio (6-6) vs. Nevada (7-5), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 4 Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Southern Miss (7-5) vs. Tulane (6-6), 7:30 a.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 6 Lendingtree Bowl Mobile, Ala. Miami (Ohio) (8-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (103), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 13 College Football Championship New Orleans Clemson (14-0) vs. LSU (14-0), 4 p.m. (ESPN) All Times AKST
Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Buffalo at Houston, 12:35 p.m. (ABC/ESPN) Tennessee at New England, 4:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 5 Minnesota at New Orleans, 9:05 a.m. (FOX) Seattle at Philadelphia, 12:40 p.m. (NBC) All Times AKST
Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 23 8 .742 -Toronto 23 12 .657 2 Philadelphia 23 13 .639 2½ Brooklyn 16 17 .485 8 New York 10 24 .294 14½ Southeast Division Miami 25 9 .735 -Orlando 15 19 .441 10 Charlotte 14 23 .378 12½ Washington 10 23 .303 14½ Atlanta 7 27 .206 18 Central Division Milwaukee 31 5 .861 -Indiana 22 13 .629 8½ Chicago 13 22 .371 17½ Detroit 12 23 .343 18½ Cleveland 10 24 .294 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 23 11 .676 -Dallas 22 12 .647 1 San Antonio 14 19 .424 8½ Memphis 13 22 .371 10½ New Orleans 11 23 .324 12 Northwest Division Denver 24 10 .706 -Utah 22 12 .647 2 Oklahoma City 19 15 .559 5 Portland 14 21 .400 10½ Minnesota 13 21 .382 11 Pacific Division L.A. Lakers 27 7 .794 -L.A. Clippers 25 11 .694 3 Phoenix 13 21 .382 14 Sacramento 13 22 .371 14½ Golden State 9 27 .250 19 Thursday’s Games Charlotte 109, Cleveland 106 Denver 124, Indiana 116 Miami 84, Toronto 76 Minnesota 99, Golden State 84 Utah 102, Chicago 98 Dallas 123, Brooklyn 111 Oklahoma City 109, San Antonio 103 Sacramento 128, Memphis 123 L.A. Clippers 126, Detroit 112 Friday’s Games Atlanta at Boston, 3 p.m. Miami at Orlando, 3 p.m. Portland at Washington, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 4 p.m. New York at Phoenix, 5 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 11:30 a.m. Toronto at Brooklyn, 2 p.m. Utah at Orlando, 3 p.m. Indiana at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 3:30 p.m. Boston at Chicago, 4 p.m. Denver at Washington, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Detroit at Golden State, 4:30 p.m. San Antonio at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Sacramento, 6 p.m. All Times AKST
Women’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 58, Vermont 49 American U. 63, Colgate 61 Bucknell 63, Army 52 Fairfield 65, Siena 35 Fairleigh Dickinson 62, St. Francis Brooklyn 57 Holy Cross 64, Loyola (Md.) 56 Iona 75, Quinnipiac 71 Lafayette 59, Boston U. 57 Lehigh 70, Navy 40 Maine 87, Hartford 73 Manhattan 68, Canisius 50 Marist 76, Monmouth (NJ) 66 Mass.-Lowell 58, New Hampshire 53 Mount St. Mary’s 78, Wagner 63 Notre Dame 60, Pittsburgh 52 Penn 90, Chaminade 39 Rider 79, Niagara 75 Robert Morris 86, CCSU 56 Sacred Heart 63, Merrimack 60 St. Francis (Pa.) 63, Bryant 60 Stony Brook 57, UMBC 45 Syracuse 90, Florida St. 89 UConn 83, Wichita St. 55 Yale 68, Mercer 60 SOUTH Belmont 69, SIU-Edwardsville 48 Charlotte 83, UAB 75 E. Illinois 73, Tennessee St. 52 Furman 62, Newberry 43 Georgia 58, Mississippi 51 Georgia Southern 64, Louisiana-Monroe 47 Georgia Tech 61, Miami 54 LSU 71, Alabama 60 Louisiana-Lafayette 75, Georgia St. 65 Louisville 75, Clemson 50 Mississippi St. 93, Florida 47 Morehead St. 67, Jacksonville St. 48 N. Kentucky 75, Youngstown St. 56 NC State 76, Virginia Tech 69 North Carolina 65, Virginia 47 Old Dominion 67, Middle Tennessee 56 SE Missouri 79, Austin Peay 66 South Alabama 81, Appalachian St. 66 South Carolina 99, Kentucky 72 Tennessee 77, Missouri 66 Tennessee Tech 60, E. Kentucky 42 Texas A&M-CC 72, Northwestern St. 59 Troy 84, Coastal Carolina 77 UT Martin 89, Murray St. 64 Vanderbilt 77, Auburn 55 Wake Forest 60, Duke 58 Wofford 82, Brevard College 34 MIDWEST Detroit 70, Ill.-Chicago 62 IUPUI 76, Oakland 41 S. Dakota St. 58, Oral Roberts 44 W. Illinois 79, N. Dakota St. 78 Wright St. 78, Cleveland St. 62 SOUTHWEST FAU 80, UTSA 53 Incarnate Word 53, Nicholls 51 New Orleans 62, Lamar 57 North Texas 61, W. Kentucky 54 Rice 81, Marshall 43 Sam Houston St. 92, McNeese St. 59 Stephen F. Austin 77, SE Louisiana 51 Texas A&M 84, Arkansas 77 Texas-Arlington 71, Arkansas St. 44 UALR 78, Texas State 66 UTEP 64, FIU 34 FAR WEST Cal Poly 100, Holy Names 35 Gonzaga 55, BYU 43 Montana 81, S. Utah 74 Montana St. 91, N. Colorado 58 New Mexico St. 57, California Baptist 56 Pacific 76, Loyola Marymount 67 Portland St. 74, Idaho 53 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 85, Pepperdine 78 San Diego 74, Portland 55 UMKC 76, Seattle 65 Utah Valley 89, Chicago St. 58
Men’s Scores EAST Boston U. 73, Lafayette 72 Brown 85, Rhode Island 75 Bryant 67, St. Francis (Pa.) 63 Bucknell 67, Army 65 Colgate 65, American U. 51 Dayton 84, La Salle 58 Duquesne 73, Saint Louis 59 Loyola (Md.) 80, Holy Cross 70 Maine 75, Columbia 72 Marshall 89, Rice 69 Merrimack 65, Sacred Heart 57 Navy 64, Lehigh 58 Northeastern 77, Elon 68 Robert Morris 89, CCSU 78 St. Francis Brooklyn 79, Fairleigh Dickinson 63 Vermont 77, Dartmouth 68 Wagner 66, Mount St. Mary’s 47 William & Mary 88, Hofstra 61 SOUTH Austin Peay 78, SE Missouri 63 Charleston Southern 89, SC-Upstate 75 Charlotte 51, UAB 44 Coll. of Charleston 81, Towson 69 E. Kentucky 74, Tennessee Tech 59 FAU 79, UTSA 64
FIU 69, UTEP 67 Gardner-Webb 67, Campbell 65 Georgia Southern 70, Coastal Carolina 67 Georgia St. 69, Appalachian St. 60 Jacksonville St. 76, Morehead St. 72 James Madison 64, UNC-Wilmington 60 Lamar 74, New Orleans 67 Liberty 59, Florida Gulf Coast 46 Lipscomb 66, Stetson 63 Louisiana-Monroe 79, Troy 63 Murray St. 89, UT Martin 76 Nicholls 76, Incarnate Word 60 North Alabama 62, Jacksonville 57 North Florida 76, Kennesaw St. 57 Old Dominion 70, Middle Tennessee 60 Presbyterian 79, UNC-Asheville 77 Richmond 84, Saint Joseph’s 52 SIU-Edwardsville 79, Belmont 69 Sam Houston St. 94, McNeese St. 75 South Alabama 60, Louisiana-Lafayette 57 Stephen F. Austin 82, SE Louisiana 71 Tennessee St. 84, E. Illinois 79 VCU 64, Fordham 46 W. Kentucky 93, North Texas 84 Winthrop 91, Longwood 67 MIDWEST Michigan St. 76, Illinois 56 N. Dakota St. 94, W. Illinois 74 Purdue 83, Minnesota 78 S. Dakota St. 96, Oral Roberts 79 UMKC 90, Seattle 86 Utah Valley 94, Chicago St. 73 SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 111, Cent. Arkansas 107 Texas A&M-CC 67, Northwestern St. 62 Texas-Arlington 73, Arkansas St. 52 UALR 72, Texas State 68 FAR WEST California Baptist 76, Rio Grande 67 Colorado 74, Oregon 65 Gonzaga 85, Portland 72 Idaho 72, Portland St. 61 Loyola Marymount 64, San Diego 58 Montana 60, S. Utah 58 N. Colorado 68, Montana St. 59 North Dakota 82, Denver 71 Pacific 59, Pepperdine 56 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 69, San Francisco 58 Southern Cal 65, Washington St. 56 Stanford 68, California 52 UC Santa Barbara 87, Westmont 66 UCLA 66, Washington 64 Utah 81, Oregon St. 69
Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 42 24 7 11 59 139 107 Toronto 42 23 14 5 51 152 135 Tampa Bay 39 22 13 4 48 139 121 Florida 40 21 14 5 47 145 137 Buffalo 42 18 17 7 43 124 133 Montreal 41 18 17 6 42 132 133 Ottawa 41 16 20 5 37 114 138 Detroit 41 10 28 3 23 89 157 Metropolitan Division Washington 41 27 9 5 59 146 122 N.Y. Islanders 39 25 11 3 53 115 102 Pittsburgh 40 24 11 5 53 138 107 Carolina 40 24 14 2 50 136 112 Philadelphia 41 22 14 5 49 131 123 Columbus 41 19 14 8 46 107 113 N.Y. Rangers 40 19 17 4 42 132 136 New Jersey 40 15 19 6 36 104 139 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division St. Louis 42 26 10 6 58 131 114 Colorado 41 24 13 4 52 151 122 Dallas 41 23 14 4 50 111 103 Winnipeg 41 22 16 3 47 128 126 Minnesota 41 19 17 5 43 126 137 Nashville 39 18 15 6 42 134 131 Chicago 42 18 18 6 42 123 139 Pacific Division Vegas 44 23 15 6 52 139 129 Arizona 43 23 16 4 50 122 110 Vancouver 41 22 15 4 48 139 124 Edmonton 43 21 17 5 47 127 137 Calgary 43 21 17 5 47 118 130 San Jose 42 18 21 3 39 112 141 Los Angeles 42 17 21 4 38 109 132 Anaheim 41 16 20 5 37 105 128 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Thursday’s Games Columbus 2, Boston 1, OT Buffalo 3, Edmonton 2, OT Tampa Bay 2, Montreal 1 New Jersey 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 San Jose 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Florida 6, Ottawa 3 Toronto 6, Winnipeg 3
Arizona 4, Anaheim 2 Calgary 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Colorado 7, St. Louis 3 Vancouver 7, Chicago 5 Vegas 5, Philadelphia 4 Friday’s Games Washington at Carolina, 3:30 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Edmonton at Boston, 9 a.m. Florida at Buffalo, 9 a.m. San Jose at Columbus, 9 a.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 10 a.m. St. Louis at Vegas, noon Pittsburgh at Montreal, 3 p.m. Colorado at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 3 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Arizona, 4 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Nashville at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. All Times AKST
Transactions
BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Announced New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán accepted an 81-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. American League BOSTON RED SOX — Signed C Kevin Plawecki to a one-year contract. Designated 1B-OF Sam Travis for assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with OF Luis Robert on a six-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Named Doug Mathis bullpen coach and Darwin Barney manager of Nashville (PCL). Signed OF Henry Ramos to minor league contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Sacramento C Dewayne Dedmon $50,000 by the NBA for public statements detrimental to the NBA and its teams. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced the resignations of defensive passing game coordinator and secondary coach Jerome Henderson and assistant defensive line coach Travis Jones. DETROIT LIONS — Announced the resignation of defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni. Announced defensive line coach Jeff Davidson is taking an indefinite leave from coaching. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Jack Del Rio defensive coordinator. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released DL Nick Usher. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled D Chris Wideman from San Diego (AHL). ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Michael Chaput to Tucson (AHL). BUFFALO SABRES — Traded D Marco Scandella to the Montreal Canadiens for a fourth-round draft pick. Acquired F Michael Frolik from the Calgary Flames for Montreal’s fourth round draft pick. DALLAS STARS — Recalled LW Joel Kiviranta from Texas (AHL). American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Assigned G Pat Nagle to Toledo (ECHL). HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Recalled F Ryan Dmowski from Maine (ECHL). Released F Dillan Fox from his professional tryout agreement. SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Signed D Emiliano Insúa. PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired M Yimmi Chara from Clube Atlético Mineiro (Brazil). COLLEGE ARMY — Named Nate Woody defensive coordinator. MISSISSIPPI — Named D.J. Durkin assistant defensive coach. NORTH CAROLINA — Announced outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Scott Boone won’t return next season. PURDUE — Named Bob Diaco defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. RUTGERS — Named Tiquan Underwood wide receivers coach.
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Eichel converts penalty shot, Sabres win By The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jack Eichel scored on a penalty shot 1:09 into overtime and the Buffalo Sabres rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Eichel was awarded the penalty shot after Edmonton’s Oscar Klefbom interfered with the Sabres’ captain as he attempted to break in alone across the Oilers’ blue line. Eichel couldn’t get a shot off on the delayed penalty, and Oilers goalie Mike Smith made an acrobatic save to prevent Sam Reinhart from scoring from the lower right circle. Eichel then scored when he drove in on net from the left wing and snapped a shot inside the far post.
SHARKS 3, PENGUINS 2, OT PITTSBURGH — Brent Burns’ power-play goal just more than two minutes into overtime gave San Jose a win over Pittsburgh. Burns picked up his seventh goal of the season when his slap shot from high in the slot beat Tristan Jarry 2:02 into the extra period to give the Sharks only their third win in 14 games. Joe Thornton got the primary assist to move past Adam Oates for seventh place with 1,080 career assists.
BLUE JACKETS 2, BRUINS 1, OT
the Blue Jackets, tying the game two minutes into the third period. Dubois won it by finishing off a 2-on-1 rush with Seth Jones. David Pastrnak scored his 30th goal of the season for Boston, and Tuukka Rask made 31 saves as the Bruins lost in overtime or a shootout for the third time in four games.
LIGHTNING 2, CANADIENS 1 MONTREAL — Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 38 shots and Tampa Bay extended its winning streak to five games with a win over Montreal. Anthony Cirelli and Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning (22-13-4). Vasilevskiy improved to 10-1-2 all-time against Montreal. Defenseman Jeff Petry scored for the Canadiens (18-17-6), who have lost four games in a row. Carey Price made 21 saves in Montreal’s first home game after a seven-game trip.
DEVILS 2, ISLANDERS 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Nico Hischier scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 29 shots, and New Jersey beat the Islanders. P.K. Subban also scored to help the Devils win their third straight and improve to 6-2-1 in their last nine games.
PANTHERS 6, SENATORS 3
BOSTON — Pierre-Luc Dubois scored 52 seconds into overtime, Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots and Columbus beat Boston. Sonny Milano also scored for
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dream of being a bestselling science fiction novelist. Mark set the hook when he said they had a spare room in their Spenard apartment, and if I wanted to move in with them, I could. On Dec. 1, 1979, I arrived in Anchorage. My sister Helen, the old Arctic hand after several years living in Finland, got me set up with a parka and boots. I had sold many of my worldly possessions, but with flying to Alaska and getting outfitted, I think I arrived with maybe $50 and a Swiss Army knife. No matter: Mark worked then in circulation at the Anchorage
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biologists. Sure enough, I had a low point in my career shortly after graduating that reminded me of his
second power-play goal of the game to tie it at 2-all for Florida (21-14-5), and 89 seconds later Noel Acciari gave the Panthers the lead. Vatrano and Colton Sceviour scored 44 seconds apart in the final minute of the second period to put the game out of reach. Jonathan Huberdeau added an empty-net goal in the third to round out the scoring for Florida.
MAPLE LEAFS 6, JETS 3 WINNIPEG, Manitoba — William Nylander had two goals and an assist and Toronto extended its points streak to nine games with a win over Winnipeg. Kasperi Kapanen had a goal and assist, and Travis Dermott, Pierre Engvall and Mitch Marner also scored for the Leafs, who are 8-0-1 during their streak. Frederik Andersen stopped 45 shots. Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg, and Patrik Laine also scored. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 12 of 17 shots for the Jets before being replaced by Laurent Brossoit, who made 10 saves on 11 shots in the third period. The Jets have one win in their last five games (1-3-1) and have lost five straight (0-4-1) at home.
COYOTES 4, DUCKS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario — Frank Vatrano scored the deciding goal as part of Florida’s four-goal outburst in the second period. Evgenii Dadonov scored his
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Christian Dvorak triggered a three-goal third period by scoring in the opening minute, Antti Raanta stopped 27 shots and Arizona rallied past Anaheim. Lawson Crouse scored in the first
Times, and the first month I helped him out delivering newspapers in Turnagain and Spenard. My first morning in Alaska I found myself poking newspapers in blue newspaper tubes on icicle-encrusted trailers and log cabins. My first month in Alaska, Mark and I got stranded on the Portage Glacier Road when his Land Cruiser slid off the road while we were on a Christmas tree hunting expedition. We got sucked into a bank robbery when we went to pick up Mo from work at her job as a teller. Adventures happen. I got a full-time job working for the Young Adult Conservation Corps as an archaeological aide with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On Valentine’s Day
in 1980 I sold my first short story. In July of 1980, the feds sent me to work in one of the more remote corners of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I got per-diem and hourly pay to be in a place people pay thousands of dollars to visit. My life in Alaska since then has been a steady stream of amazing events only Alaska can throw at you and that I never, ever would have done in Florida. In random order, I have been to the top of the world, mushed dogs, worked on ancient archaeological digs, been charged by moose and bears, been shot at, slept outdoors in minus-30 degree cold, used an outhouse at 15 below, got lost once or twice, walked beaches from Juneau to Utgiaqvik, built a
prophetic admonition. As a temporary-hire janitor, I found myself late at night polishing the office floors of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, one of the agencies I had hoped to work for as a professional biologist. To add insult to injury, I was making $3.25
an hour. But shortly after that, in 1980, I got my first job (albeit temporary) with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I wrote a significant portion of a 715-page “handbook” on techniques to reduce the impacts of navigation and channel maintenance on
Today in History Today is Friday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2020. There are 363 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 3, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the United States was formally terminating diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. On this date: In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. In 1833, Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. (Almost 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.) In 1868, Japan’s Meiji (may-jee) Restoration re-established the authority of the emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns; the upheaval paved the way for Japan’s drive toward becoming a modern power. In 1892, J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein (BLOOM’-fahn-tayn), South Africa. In 1938, the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease. In 1959, Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation. In 1967, Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, died in a Dallas hospital. In 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula (MAHR’-kuh-luh) Jr. In 1990, ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission. In 2000, the last new daily “Peanuts” strip by Charles Schulz ran in 26-hundred newspapers. In 2008, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won the Republican caucuses. In 2013, students from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, reconvened at a different building in the town of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that had claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators. The new 113th Congress opened for business, with House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks. Ten years ago: The U.S. closed its embassy in Yemen, citing ongoing threats by the al-Qaida branch linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a U.S. airliner headed to Detroit; Britain also shuttered its embassy. A Rutgers University doctoral student breached security at Newark Liberty Airport to kiss his girlfriend goodbye, prompting a six-hour shutdown. (Haisong Jiang (hy-song gee-ong) later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, and was fined.) Five years ago: Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’) extremists kidnapped about 40 boys and young men and killed scores of soldiers in a bold attack on a multinational military base in northern Nigeria. Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black person in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died in Coral Gables, Florida, at age 95. One year ago: China’s space program achieved a lunar milestone by landing a probe on the mysterious “dark” side of the moon; a side that had been observed many times from lunar orbit but never up close. On their first day in the House majority, Democrats passed a plan to reopen the government without funding President Donald Trump’s border wall. Saudi Arabia said it would seek the death penalty against five suspects in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi (jah-MAHL’ khahr-SHOHK’-jee). Seven people, including five Louisiana children in a church van who had been headed for Disney World, were killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 75 in Florida. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Dabney Coleman is 88. Journalist-author Betty Rollin is 84. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull is 81. Singer-songwriter-producer Van Dyke Parks is 77. Musician Stephen Stills is 75. Rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) is 74. Actress Victoria Principal is 70. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 64. Actress Shannon Sturges is 52. Actor John Ales is 51. Jazz musician James Carter is 51. Contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman is 48. Musician Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) is 45. Actor Jason Marsden is 45. Actress Danica McKellar is 45. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez is 44. Singer Kimberley Locke (TV: “American Idol”) is 42. Actress Kate Levering is 41. NFL quarterback Eli Manning is 39. Actress Nicole Beharie is 35. Pop musician Mark Pontius (Foster the People) is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lloyd is 34. Pop-rock musician Nash Overstreet (Hot Chelle (shel) Rae) is 34. Actor Alex D. Linz is 31. Thought for Today: “Not all who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, English author (born this date in 1892, died in 1973).
period, but Arizona went into the third trailing 2-1. The Coyotes came out of the locker room buzzing to start the third period and cashed in on Dvorak’s goal. Brad Richardson followed with his second goal and Carl Soderberg had his 12th a minute later. Jakob Silfverberg scored his 15th goal of the season and Max Jones also scored for the Ducks, who have lost six of eight. John Gibson gave up four goals for the second straight game.
FLAMES 4, RANGERS 3 CALGARY, Alberta — Johnny Gaudreau opened the scoring and then set up the winning goal midway through the second period as Calgary snapped a five-game losing streak at home. Less than three minutes after New York tied it 3-all, Sean Monahan gave the Flames their third lead at 8:22 of the second when he neatly finished off a pretty tic-tac-toe passing sequence. Mikael Backlund and Derek Ryan also scored for Calgary (21-17-5). Cam Talbot made 24 saves to beat his former team. Jacob Trouba, Filip Chytil and rookie Kaapo Kaako scored for New York (19-17-4). Adam Fox had three assists. New York fell to 1-2-0 on a fourgame road trip that wraps up Saturday night in Vancouver.
AVALANCHE 7, BLUES 3 DENVER — Nazem Kadri scored twice, Nathan MacKinnon had a
cabin, built a dog sled, trained sled dogs and met hundreds of wonderful people, many of them weirder than you can find in Florida. I also have fallen in love and gotten married, seen my sister move up here, too (and marry a dang-fine Alaskan), gone to dozens of weddings and too many damn funerals, published five novels and dozens of short stories, gotten a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, and worked as a field archaeologist, faunal analyst, government hack, college instructor, and — the coolest job of all — editor of a small-town paper. I’ve learned how to ski and ice skate, run a chainsaw, chop wood, carry water, fire a shotgun, frame a house, kayak, work a setnet and
fish and wildlife of the Upper Mississippi River. A bit later, I took my second USFWS job in California, where I worked on avian damage of vineyards in Napa Valley. Then, in 1984, my third USFWS job brought me to Alaska for the first time to work on the Section 1002 studies of the arctic coastal plain. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. We radio-collared wolves, grizzly bears and musk ox. We caught molting oldsquaw ducks with underwater mistnets in Beaufort Sea lagoons. We jumped out of helicopters to tackle and collar dayold caribou calves. And so I committed to returning to graduate school to get my masters and, eventually, my doctorate degrees. Along the way, I worked for the USFWS on the YukonKuskokwim Delta, on Assateague Island off the Virginia coast, in tidewater Maryland, and on the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific. I lived at the base of a lighthouse on a barrier island to study wintering sanderlings. I drove a USFWS rig for 2,200 miles from Wisconsin to Colima, Mexico, (and back!) to help study hook-billed kites. I chased Mariana crows through jungles on Guam and Rota dressed in camouflage, wielding machete and binoculars. I banded egrets and pelicans on islands in the Chesapeake Bay. This is great stuff if you’ve ever aspired to be a wildlife biologist. Now, after 32 years with the USFWS, including 17 years as the Supervisory Biologist at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I retired earlier this week. I’m proud of the refuge’s
goal and three assists, and Colorado snapped a four-game home losing streak with a win over St. Louis. Rookie defenseman Cale Makar added a power-play goal and an assist for the Avalanche, who also ended a six-game losing streak to the Blues, including two losses earlier this season in St. Louis. Mikko Rantanen J.T. Compher also had power-play goals, and Joonas Donskoi had the other goal for the Avalanche. Samuel Girard finished with four assists.
CANUCKS 7, BLACKHAWKS 5 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Adam Gaudette scored a thirdperiod goal and Vancouver rallied from a two-goal deficit, extending its winning streak to six games. Bo Horvat had two goals, including an empty-netter, and an assist. J.T. Miller had a goal and three assists, while Elias Pettersson had a goal and two assists for the Canucks (21-15-4). Tanner Pearson had a goal and an assist and rookie defenseman Quinn Hughes also scored. Pearson has 17 points in the last 16 games.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, FLYERS 4 LAS VEGAS — Max Pacioretty scored two goals and Vegas beat Philadelphia. Shea Theodore, Jon Merrill and Cody Glass also scored for the Golden Knights. Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves, including a penalty shot, and improved to 30-19-2 against the Flyers.
find my way in the wilderness, sort of. In short, I have done many of the same things any Alaskan would do after living here five years or more. It comes with the territory. Alaska pulls people here and has been doing that since the first Alaskans walked or paddled over from Siberia. Would I have come up here without that invitation from Mark and Mo 40 years ago? Maybe. I don’t know. The irony is they left after only a year here. So here I am, a Florida boy who never thought he’d leave the Sunshine State, and that has made all the difference. Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@homernews.com.
biology program. It is one of the best in the National Wildlife Refuge System, with technical expertise uncommon among field stations in land management agencies. Our permanent staff includes a landscape ecologist, a “techie” ecologist, an entomologist, a big game pilot-biologist, and a subsistence/permit biologist who knows his birds. Perhaps 100 undergraduate interns and more than a dozen graduate students have passed through our program during my tenure. The breadth of topics we’ve addressed over the years is astounding: historic rates of spruce bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire (and their effects); climate change effects on rising treeline and drying wetlands; post1964-earthquake vegetation change on Chickaloon Flats; local perspectives on bears; earthworm invasions; population estimates for brown bears, moose, sheep, goats, wolverines and swans; soundscape modeling; Kenai Lowland colonization by American marten; dioxin in utility poles; climate envelope models of changing landcover and species distributions; drones for mapping habitats and monitoring wildlife populations; invasive plant management; and wildlife underpasses. There are three refuge endeavors I take the most pride in, in part because my full staff was needed to make them happen. In 2004, we launched an inventory to assess the diversity of birds, plants and insects across the 2-million-acre refuge. This effort yielded 1,200 species, but it spawned the use of a new genetic method called next generation sequencing that pushed the number of
species we now know occur on the refuge to well over 2,200! Estimation of the Kenai brown bear population in 2010 was risky in that we were spending big bucks to keep two helicopters airborne for 31 consecutive days over 4 million acres − and I wasn’t completely certain it was going to work! And our field crews stationed in Soldotna and Moose Pass were exposed to the safety risks inherent with using helicopters and visiting sites that bears were also visiting to leave their hair (and DNA). But it all worked out and we now know 600 brown bears existed on the peninsula that summer. In more recent years, we’ve also worked hard at not only figuring out the ecological effects of a warming climate on our fish and wildlife, but what’s needed to help them adapt. In 2011, this work earned my staff the USFWS’s Rachel Carson Award for Scientific Excellence. Today, our work is used as a case study by others thinking about adaptation to climate change. As I walk away from the USFWS, I appreciate how fortunate I’ve been to beat the odds that Dr. Rongstad laid out 45 years ago. What a great career and lifestyle I’ve been blessed with. But it’s been the opportunity to work with others who feel as strongly about conservation that has been an absolute privilege. Dr. John Morton was the supervisory biologist at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge from 2002-2019. Find more Refuge Notebook articles (1999-present) at https:// www.fws.gov/Refuge/Kenai/ community/Refuge_notebook.html.
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History of putdowns causes broken trust between in-laws DEAR ABBY: I have TEXAS been happily married to DEAR WARY: One my darling husband for would think that during 20 years. The problem is the time your sister-inhis sister. law was sniping at you, When we first met, she your “darling” husband asked my husband if I would have stepped in was “for real” because I’m and told his sister to put very outgoing and affecher knives away. After tionate. In the early years, suffering through 14 years and until about six years of her emotional battery, Dear Abby ago, she would berate me it’s no wonder you have Jeanne Phillips with abusive criticism. In trust issues where she’s most instances, her comconcerned. ments were inaccurate. If I tried to Intelligent person that you are, it’s overlook her actions and have a good likely you always will have them, so relationship, she would soon find stop blaming yourself for it. Continue something else to criticize. being the outgoing and affectionate I am normally an “it’s history” kind person you always have been, and of person when it comes to conkeep your guard up because that’s frontations and forget them quickly. what healthy people have to do when Thankfully her abuse has finally dealing with someone like her. stopped. But I’m now having trust issues because every time in the past DEAR ABBY: I love my wonderful when I let my guard down to mend neighbors of 28 years. They are 10 the relationship, she’d lash out and years younger than my parents. They put me down again. Any advice would have been like a second set of parents be greatly appreciated. — WARY IN to me. My concern is for their health.
They are in their 60s and 70s, but neither one goes to the doctor. The wife went 20-plus years ago and decided never to return after they prescribed diabetes and blood pressure medication for her. More recently, she can no longer leave the house because she has injured her arthritic knee so badly. She refuses to get it checked and claims it will heal. (She diagnosed herself via Dr. Google.) Her intelligent adult daughter is aware of all of this. I know this is a choice people make, but at this point I’m sure it’s just anxiety that is keeping her from getting the medical help she needs. She’s missing her garden, her grandchildren and grocery shopping, so I’m sure she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life like this. Her husband has no influence either and is picking up what she no longer can do. I have tried encouraging her to seek advice, but haven’t pushed her so hard as to push her away. What should I do? — SCARED FOR THEM IN MASSACHUSETTS
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DEAR SCARED: If anyone could do anything, it would have to be the woman’s husband and her daughter. I assume you have pointed out to your neighbor that with medical help she could heal more quickly, and also that there is something called preventive medicine that can help people avoid becoming seriously ill. Because you have talked until you are blue in the face and still haven’t been able to get through, my advice is to love her while you have her. 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. Abby shares more than 100 of her favorite recipes in two booklets: “Abby’s Favorite Recipes” and “More Favorite Recipes by Dear Abby.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $16 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Cookbooklet Set, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your innately flamboyant style comes through once more. Many of your associates and friends smile as they see you buck conventional thinking. You have the knowledge and training to understand what you are dealing with. Tonight: To the wee hours.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Reach out for a loved one at a distance or a friend who seems to be able to impact others with care. He or she will want to join in on your project, making it even better. Listen to suggestions. Tonight: Let it all hang out.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Understand where a boss or authority figure is coming from, but also answer to your needs. Perhaps you do not want to accept any more responsibility. Be direct in how you handle this matter. Tonight: Going to the wee hours.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH The Lion roars at the idea of an offbeat adventure. You have been giving some thought to moving in a new direction. You seem ready to accept more risk. Rest assured that you still have a good sense of when to say “no.” Tonight: Trying something new.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
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Dear Heloise: You had the recent hint about the couple who had a battery-operated doorbell to signal one another. We do, too. The wife and I are both in our upper 80s. Sometimes, one of us is sleeping in one room and the other is in a chair in another room. We also have found that a cordless doorbell is a good tool to use when help is needed. — G.B., Plymouth, Ind.
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TETANUS SHOT Dear Heloise: Recently, I stepped on a nail that went through my shoe and into my foot. My doctor said I needed a tetanus shot, which is not pleasant but very necessary. There is now a Tdap vaccine to protect people against tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria. Three in one! We may not like being stuck with a needle, but protecting ourselves and our children against these illnesses is important for all of us. — Carl Z., Eagle Pass,
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HHHHH Your ability to get past a problem causes you to be very popular. Others often want your opinion, or so they say. They also like your innate charm and clear thinking. Tonight: Accept an intriguing invitation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You are likely to tell it like it is. Someone could be most offended by your version of the truth. This person does not see the situation in the same light as you do. Be careful about pushing your view. Someone could find you most offensive. Tonight: Hang out.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Reach out for a coworker or a pal you see once in a while. This person would appreciate you touching base. Recognize what a stalwart function this person serves in your life, even if you are not close; you depend on that “hello” or interchange. Tonight: You need your beauty sleep.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
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HHH Indulge yourself. This holiday season has been hectic. If you can, do buy that one gift you did not get. Invite friends for late-day munchies to catch up on the week and Christmas. Tonight: If others want to treat, let them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21) HHHHH Reach out for a loved one or a special friend whom you often have a hoot with. Inevitably, the two of you serve as muses for each other when it comes down to enjoying life and making the most out of the moment. Tonight: The
Dear Heloise: I keep getting phone calls from someone telling me that I have money left in banks and other accounts, which they can help me get for a fee of 10%. They said there’s a ton of paperwork, but they’ll handle that for me. All I have to do is send them the 10% once they find out how much is owed to me. This sounds like a scam, but what if it’s true? — Homer T., Piedmont, Del. Homer, you don’t need them. If there is unclaimed money, you can find out for yourself without paying them 10%. You can find help at the website www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money. With so many scam artists around these days, you’re better off doing the search yourself. You also can call the AARP Fraud Watch at 877-9083360 to help you determine whether or not someone is trying to pull a scam on you. — Heloise
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HHHH Stay anchored, knowing full well your limitations. At times you would prefer a calm, solid environment. You do your best thinking in that situation. If you need to clear an issue off your chest, do so quickly. Tonight: As you like.
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HHHHH You might be thinking in terms of growth and more dynamic challenges involving a key person in your life. What might be difficult is to persuade the other party to be a positive team member! Tonight: Do not postpone a chat.
BORN TODAY Quarterback Eli Manning (1981), actor, director Mel Gibson (1956), entertainer Victor Borge (1909)
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This year, you take a new approach to problems. Though you are forthright, you often do not factor in the impact of your words when trying to speak or share with another person. Be sensitive to where this person is coming from. Acknowledge his or her ideas. If single, working on your communication helps your relationship, especially if you add some diplomacy. If attached, the two of you often have unnecessary squabbles. Make it OK to think differently. Respect your differences. If you were mirrors of each other, the relationship would become dull and boring. ARIES supports you in your uniqueness. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
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