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Dog musher School board asks to add bond and requested that the assembly move community and educational needs,” the requested assembly community and educational needs,”said. the to putthat thethe bond proposalmove on the ballot. school board’s resolution School board to add bond to fundasks improvement projectsand to to put the bond proposal on the ballot. school board’s resolution said.

District Superintendent John O’Brien About a quarter of the district’s what organized the House, couple years, ” Johnston said.

By Peter Segall hurt in to fund improvement projects to ballot.

District Superintendent O’Brien About a quarter ofyears the district’s announced and the John bond proposal was in 50 older, we also believe it’s whatschools “Weare need to getor back towhile oper-80% Juneau Empire ballot. announced bondatAlaskan’s proposal in schools are years are or while 80% thethe works the Feb. was 3are school board of 50 schools than 30 years old. crying out for ating asolder, amore government and crash with By Victoria Petersen Theus and district met Identified projects span the of works atHouse the Feb. 3borough school board more than 30 years old.

Co-chairs themeeting. to do,” Kopp saidofinschools a pressare an operating body andacross to do the districtwide together to develop the met list of school

By Victoria Petersen meeting. The borough and district Identified projectsThere across the Rules committee Wednesday conference.

“This is the prin-peninsula. that we span needare to two address the snowmobile projects at athe Feb.list 4 joint work session. projects, one ofdistrictwide which will address peninsula.

There are two together to develop of school submitted a bill that would ciple the House organized dividend.”

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to ensure the “secuThe school board is asking theprojects Kenai at a “We’ve crossed the billionprojects, mark aged Feb. 4 joint workover session. one technology of which will address

limit the to amount stateoverin around, not overdrawing therity challenges Kopp said that under thisand ANCHORAGE — A is dog Peninsula Borough Assembly put a the in valuation assets for our schools andtechnology schools face today” The school board asking the Kenai “We’ve crossed the billion mark aged to ensure the “secucould spend on the Alaska earnings reserve and paying a bill, funds in the Constimusher participating in million bond package this is an important bondand that directly upgrade building Peninsula $30 Borough Assembly to puton a theinOctovaluation in assets for our schools rity challenges schools face automation today” and controls Permanent Fund dividend. we can afford. ” building tutional Budget Reserve an$30 event near Galena was ber ballot.

The bond money fund to prevent system failures and reliable connects bond todividend thethat protection of that million bond package on the Octo- will this is an important directly upgrade automation controls House Bill 306, sponsored Kopp and Johnston both wouldn’t be drawn injured when she was projects school in our community, ber ballot.capital The bond moneyinwill fund buildings connects investment to the protection of that ” school to preventheating systemsystems. failures and reliabledown

by Reps. Jennifer Johnston said this”Tauriainen bill was heating meant to Building to critical levels until struck by aprojects snowmobile. across the board member Jason said at systems. control systems are2029. outdated capital in district. school buildings investment in our community, school During Monday’sand Kenai Peninsula Monday’s boardthe meeting. havesystems “exceeded useful life” at Chuck Kopp, Anchorprotect future of theand Kirsten Bey, 64, of Nome, Under Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s across the district. board member Jasonschool Tauriainen said at Building control are their outdated Borough School of Monday’s Educa- who The $29,940,000 proposal Central School, Permanent byhave notKenai was flown Galena to District ageBoard Republicans chair proposed budget Duringfrom Monday’s Kenai Peninsula school board meeting.bondFund and “exceeded theirHigh useful life” which at Skyview tackles 19 school projects areand tion meeting, the school board passed Middle School and Nikiski Boroughwith School District ofthe EducaThe $29,940,000 bond proposal Kenai Central High School, Skyview drawing the ERAthat down Fairbanks what AlaskaBoard Rules Committees, allocated funds for aMiddle/High PFD of VICTOrIA PeTerSen / PenInSuLA CLArIOn FILe a “priority and to School$3,170, a resolution identifying capital projects Damage can be seen VICTOrIA in a corner on the insideCLArIOn of the Kachemak tion meeting, thecalled school boardwould passed tackles 19considered school thatending arecritical Middle and Nikiski Middle/High State Troopers split the annual draw projects effectively the annual would have drawn the PeTerSen / PenInSuLA Peter Segall / FILe Juneau Empire and improvements district key infrastructure SCHoolS, A3 can Selo School inaNov. 12, on 2019. a resolution identifying capitaltofrom projects considered a “prioritydebate and critical to for both Damage be seen in corner the inside of the Kachemak “significant” injuries. thebuildings earnings maintaining reserve surrounding the size CBR down toSee $540 million.Page Rep. Jennifer Johnston, R-Anchorage, speaking with reporters and improvements to district buildings maintaining key infrastructure for both See SCHoolS, Page A3 Selo School Nov. 12, 2019.office on Wednesday. Johnston and Kopp Bey on Sunday night was account of the Permanent of the dividend.

Additionally HB 306 would in Rep.inChuck Kopp’s “The dividend has hijacked create a Permanent Fund are co-chairs of the House Rules committee and submitted a bill participating in the Serum Fund between 80% for state services and 20% for PFDs. a lot of our conversations Run. After leaving Ruby, that would limit the amount the state could spend on the Alaska “This bill is consistent with here in Juneau for the last See PFD, Page A3 Permanent Fund dividend. she was hit about 5 miles outside of Galena.

Another participant in the Serum Run transported her to Galena by snowmobile.

Troopers received word of the crash Monday. The driver of the snowmobile who struck Bey later contacted troopers and is cooperating with the investigation, troopersBy said.

Peter Segall

Biden resurges Super TuesdayDeath BudgetBiden Death resurges on on Super Tuesday Budget Biden takes 9 states, Sanders notches win in California toll from OK’d Biden takes 9 states, Sanders notches win in California toll OK’d City looks from California declares statewide without virus without for new virus PFD emergency after virus death revenue, PFD reaches 9 reaches 9 Police release investment names of 2 killed Juneau Empire

By Peter Segall

By Gene Johnson Alaska House of Repreand Carla K. Johnson

By Gene Johnson sentatives Alaska House of Repre-members and Carla K.Associated JohnsonPress passed a budget TuesAssociated Press sentatives members

By Victoria Petersen SEATTLE — Tensions over how afterTuesan hourslong passed a day budget to contain the coronavirus session on the floor, and Peninsula Clarion SEATTLE — Tensions over how escaday after an hourslong lated in the escaUnited States will now go to to contain theTuesday coronavirus session onthe thebudget floor, and as the death toll climbed to nineitself and the Senate.

The city of Kenai it keeping the budget will now go to lated Tuesday in the United States lawmakers expressed doubts about the The budget included busy.

Kenai Mayor Brian Gabriel ANCHORAGE — The as the death toll climbed to nine and the Senate. government’s ability to ramp up testroughly $4.5 billion of andexpressed City Manager Paulthe Ostrander two people killed Monday lawmakers doubts about The budget included ing fast enough toof deal crisis. state dollars, presented a State the Citythe address in roughly a head-on crash onof House government’s ability to ramp upwith test$4.5 billion All of the deaths have occurred in Finance Commiting fastat enough to deal withKenai the crisis. dollars, House Wednesday’s Chamber thestate Seward Highway Washington state, and most were resitee Co-chair Rep. Neal All ofLuncheon, the deathsand havewalked occurred inaudience F i naafather n c e and C odaughmmitthe were dents of a nursing home in suburban Foster, D-Nome, told Washington state, and most were resiCo-chair Rep. Neal through theofcity is focused ter,teeAnchorage police Seattle.everything The number infections in the body, which was dents of a nursing home in suburban Foster, D-Nome, told on — from looking at cutting announced. the U.S. overall climbed past 100,costs scatroughly the equivalent of Seattle.within The number of infections in the body, which was hall new for Paul Matson, 66, and tered city across at to least 15 incentives states, with 27 the governor’s proposed the U.S. overall climbed past 100, scatroughly the equivalent of local business owners.alone.

Lea Matson, 25, diedin inDecember. the cases in Washington budget the police governor’s proposed tered across at leaststarted states, 27 in the Gabriel thewith conversation crash, said.

“What is15happening now “This budget does not cases in Washington alone. budget in December.

United States may beginning fundwith sending with a discussion onbe thethe city’s budget.

Patrol officers the prisoners “What ofis what happening now inabroad, the ” said “This budget does is happening out ofDepartstate,”not Foster said.

On the revenue side, about 54% of Anchorage Police United States may be the beginning fund sending prisoners AP PhOTO/ChrIS CArLSOn) Dr. Nancy Messonnier ofcity the Centers He highlighted some money coming into the is from ment shortly after 10:30 of what is happening abroad, ” said out of state,” Foster said.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally for tax Disease Control and Preventhings it does fund, sales revenue from the 3% sales a.m. He Monday responded AP PhOTO/ChrIS CArLSOn) Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Dr. Nancytion, Messonnier of theinCenters highlighted some noting that China, criminal prosDemocratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally tax inside the city. saidwhere there to things a call of aitincluding crash Mile for Disease Control andGabriel Prevendoesat fund, the outbreak began more than two ecutors, Village Public Tuesday in Los Angeles. has been a “steady upward trend” in 102including Seward Highway near tion, noting that in China, where criminal prosmonths ago, older and sicker people

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL in California that ensured he — and for America’s future, were battling for Safety Officers, public sales tax revenue.

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Stafanie Dazio/ Associated Press the outbreak begantwice moreasthan ecutors, Village Public his embrace of democratic socialism delegates as 14 states and one U.S. are about likelytwo to become radio and the Alaska WEISSERT LosBy Angeles Eric Garcetti speaks in at California a news— conference that announced six new cases ofwere thea series coronavirus “We’re seeing growth in are thatyounger regard,” Investigators STEVEMayor PEOPLES and WILL that ensured he — and that for America’s future, battling months ago, older sicker people Safety Officers, public System. territory held offor high-stakes Associated Press would drive the Democrats’ nomiseriously illand as those who MarinedeterHighway in Los Angeles County, where there wasfor one previously, the steps county ofU.S. Gabriel said. mined sportAlaska util- the have are about twice as likely to become his embrace of democratic delegates asof14the states andHall one radiothat anda However, the WEISSERT nation fight thesocialism foreseeableon future. elections that marked the most signifiand healthier.

Most cases have been bill been confirmed in downtown LosAAngeles Wednesday, Associated Press — —on would drive thesuddenly, Democrats’the nomiterritory held series of high-stakes seriously mild. ill assaid those He thewho cityare sawyounger $244,238,321 in ityMarine vehicleHighway driven north WASHINGTON resurgent Joe And Democratic cantaday of voting in the party’s 2020 passedSystem. by the HouseAdministration did However, the into bill nation for the foreseeable future. elections that marked the most signifiand healthier.

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by Paul Matson slid Biden scored victories from Texas tofight Party’s presidential field, which presidential nomination fight. nursing home outbreak not include an allocation WASHINGTON — ADazio resurgent Joe Tuesday, And suddenly, the Democratic dayemergency of voting intake the party’s mild. last by for thean House did ByMassachusetts Stefanie six new cases, including a medical an declaration would year.seeded the first case in North thepassed southbound lane and on Super featured more than a half cant dozen It could weeks 2020 — or months ently Alaska Permanent Biden scored victoriesaPress from Texas to Party’s which presidential nomination outbreak apparnot include an allocation Associated screener at Los Angeles Internahelp — them forone a possi“Thathome kindauthorities of number, that’sAsignifistruck a pickup. revitalizing presidential bid that was presidential candidates a field, week ago, transformed for theprepare party fight. to pick of them toThe nursing Carolina, said.

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A Wake FundLea dividend, days earlier.— ButCalifornia’s histhat rival,was Berniecandidates SandSanders, lifelong—poliWashington nursing home tested call theleading bill incomplete.

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By Rachel D’Oro concerns for his health, a spokes- hospital bed with the words, “Curve ing area. with Carpenter and other launch Winter conditions thru system setinupApril. in a hospital park- Kevin The bill passed were 23-16 Associated Press woman for the Iditarod told The ball.”

Thirty-year-old firefighter members of the House

By Rachel D’Oro concerns Associated for his health, a The spokesing area. Grimstad with Carpenter and other minority hospital the words, “Curve When it took comes a factor in theRepublican crash, police caretoofthe twoexpendipatients Press. race will start bedAwith separate Facebook posting from Associated Press woman for the Iditarod told The ball.”

Kevin members caucus of the voting Houseagainst the tures offirefighter the said.

Jan. side 29 at Life Carebudget, Center inOstrander Kirkland.

ANCHORAGE — Emergency Sunday north of Anchorage. his kennel, Husky Homestead Tours,Thirty-year-old Associated Press.

The race start separate posting from took care of two Republican Bysurgery Beckyhas Bohrer chief medical officer, Dr.will Anne Zink,at Athe prioritized for people considered atGrimstad said the city is looking at He is among 10constantly frompatients the Kirkland Fire bill. minority Following the vote sidelined a four-time Messages left with King saidFacebook King began to feel ill Monday Jan. 29 ways at Department Lifeto Care in Kirkland.Last caucus voting against the was the ANCHORAGE Emergency Sunday north of Anchorage. kennel, Husky hospital and his cellphone were who developed sympon the bill itself, winner of—Alaska’s famed Iditarod night an IditarodAssociated Press briefed legislators Wednesday onhis not higher risk shortly ofHomestead beingafter ableTours, to spread beCenter more efficient. year He is among 10after fromcalls thean Kirkland Fire facility. bill. Following vote Messages leftZink withurged King calm at theandsaidthe King beganShe toevent feel surgery has sidelined four-time returned. to the nursing vote tothe draw funds from affiliated inMonday Anchorage Trail Sled Doga Race days before he immediately preparations. illness. saidillshe has spokenand thetoms city started efficiencies initiaandand his encouraged cellphone were not posted who developed symp- to evalon the bill itself, was the winner ofwas Alaska’s Iditarod afterinan Iditarod- stateDepartment to famed compete in his 30thhospital race.

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from being overwhelmed. has said steps one can take to help the city produced a one-time savings Crum said the Dunleavy admin- prevent contracting the flu or a cold of $29,000, annual savings of $63,000 istration is working on ways to help also help prevent getting COVIDand more than 1,000 employee hours. people get early refills on prescrip- 19, including washing hands often, “All city employees are essentially tion medications in case those are avoiding people who are sick, asked to look at how they do things, needed as part of individual prepa- avoiding touching one’s face with why they do them that way and if rations. Zink said tests for COVIDunwashed hands andexecutive staying home and Export Authority last year entered Tom Boutin, director of travel expenses.

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State prepares for changes in food stamps program new rules set to take effect April 1, a state public assistance official said.

Shawnda O’Brien, director of the state Division of Public Assistance, said an estimated 80,000 people in Alaska received food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as of January.

if they don’t meet work or work program requirements or fall within an exception, such as being pregnant or medically certified as unfit for employment.

States have been able to seek waivers in areas with high unemployment or limited jobs. Alaska, until October,

seek waivers.

The new rules tighten standards for states seeking waivers. The Trump administration sees the planned changes as encouraging more people to work. But Eve Van Dommelen, policy and advocacy manager with the Food Bank of Alaska and manager

in parts of Alaska.

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Juneau 33/17 36/26

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Lawmakers onaCapitol Hill crossing expressed Oneclosure lab wason already testingHighway for coronaEagle River while three-lane is road the Glenn in skepticism aboutsouth, U.S. health officials’ 2018 virusdubbed in Washington state and aby second installed heading The Anchorage “Bridgepocalypse” those was scheduled to begintraffic doingjam. so Tuesday. claims thatreported testing Tuesday. for the new virus caught Daily News in the massive should be widely available soon.

CDC Amidyear’s the rising fears, a school district The project will likely cause delays for This construction will create two From From Page Page A1 A1 north of Seattle closed for training on test kits delivered to states and cities in morning and afternoon commutes on northbound and two southbound lanes January proved faulty. conducting remote via computer traffic during summer construction is the highway, which officials say currently of traffic sharing thelessons northbound bridge Grimstad, his wife and 6-month-old Authorities in case schools to bedivider. shut down expected to cause disruptions that one handles about have 55,000said carslabs per across day. the and separated byhave a concrete son have taken turns recovering from for an extended period, while a private country should have the capacity to run official said will seem like a monster.

The “Carzilla” moniker was an attempt Work is expected to be completed by fevers, congestion. all to asput many as 1 millionspin tests theisend of late school said would conduct “It’s coughs going and to be ‘Carzilla,They’re ’” Alaska a lighthearted onby what likely 2020 onitthe project, whichonline-only is officially feeling better,ofbut wish they knew more going the week. classesPhase through endGlenn of March.

Department Transportation Central to be a summer of headaches for called II the of the Highway about the virus.Chief Jim Amundsen said commuters “We dotonot feel itCapacity is prudent to wait But testingpassing so far has facedEagle delaysRiver and Artillery Region Design through Hiland Improve“It’s crazy. couple of weeks ago,in it on missteps, and to “I’m hearing health ment until there is a known case to take action,” during a townAhall meeting Saturday their way and from from Anchorage, Project. professionals that’s unrealistic,” Demo- thePhase school, Eastsideconstruction Prep in the Seattle seemed like a foreign thing and now Amundsen Chugiak. said.

I included of the Pattywe Murray Washington we’re tested, Grimstad said. “If I cratic suburb of Kirkland, said across on its website.

Thegetting state plans to”reroute southbound “WeSen. figured mightofas well get a new northbound bridge the Eagle was exposed a month ago, thethe problem is laugh state said hearing.

A Department of Homeland Glenn Highway traffic onto northoutat ofait,Senate ” Amundsen said, adding River Valley and was completedSecurity in 2015. more widespread than we know. ” the that The chief of the Admin- Construction facility just south of Seattle instructed all bound Glenn Highway bridge across the name is Food a nodand to Drug a short-term on Phase II began last fall.

In the nation’s capital, officials moved istration, Dr. Stephen Hahn, said the FDA its employees to work from home after a on a number of fronts. has been working with a private company worker became ill after visiting the nursA bipartisan $7.5 billion emergency to get as many as 2,500 test kits out to labs ing home at the center of the outbreak. bill to fund the government’s response by thecommunity end of the week. kit should An Amazon in Seattleequiptested got it through to aEach statement from Dr. Grant andemployee wore protective to the outbreak worked its way through positive for the new virus, The Seattle enable a lab to run about 500 tests, he transmission, according Tarling, the chief medi- ment at work, the homeTimes reported, a message from Congress. said.

But healthofofficials were careful to the state Department cal officer for the Carnival land citing security statement The Federal the Health. about making promises.

“I am optimisthe company.

Corp., which operates the said. The person is being Public More than From Page A1 Reserve announced biggest interest-rate cut in over a500 decade butbeen I want to remain humble, ” said Dr. Elsewhere around the world,with the peopletic, have tested.

Grand Princess.

Any current quarantined at home to try resources to fend off damage U.S.elderly Annepatient Schuchathad of the passengers CDC. crisis continued to ebb in China, where and quickly.to theThe who were also mild symptoms.

The patient economy from thethe factory shutdowns, Washington patients wereatreleased from He announced move underlying In health condi- state, on theresearchers February triphundreds will be of last worked the airport travel restrictionsafternoon and other disruptions believe the virusinmayscreened. have beenNewsom circu- said hospitals dropped to Wednesday tions and died at a hospital the and on new Feb.infections 21 and began feelaround the globe.

On Wall Street,Roseville, stocks near just 125 on ing Tuesday, the lowest in several latingSacramento, undetected forcruise weeks.

That hasthousands during a news conference, ship, with cold-like symptoms on rallied briefly thepatient’s news, then went into raised fearsCounty that there could be hundreds weeks. the crisis shift westhours after on the according to Placer of people aboard, will beBut Feb. 29, seemed officialstosaid.

The anotherin steep slide, with the Dow Jonesofficials. of undiagnosed casesheld in theoffshore area. until passenward, with patient’s alarmingly fast-growing clusdeath Placer County health The person doctor tested them Industrial Average losing 785 points on identified.

But some people who want betested. tested ters of infections and deaths in South was announced.

Newsom was not Officials gers cantobe for coronavirus on March 1. the day, 2.9%. for the virus in the state“The are encounterand Italy. said theor state is particularly said the Placer County resiship will notKorea, comeIranNBC News first reported the “We have seen a centers, broader spread of ingpositive confusion, a lackon of testing options Worldwide, 92,000 people focused on senior dent tested for the shore until we appropricasemore of thethan airport screener. the virus.homes So, we saw risk to the econand other problems asately health authorities have been and 3,100 have died, nursing anda other virus Tuesday. assess the passengers, ” sickened Symptoms of COVID-19 omy and we chose to act, ” Fed Chairman deal with he thesaid. crisis. the vast majority of them in China.runny Most care facilities where people Health scramble officials to believe can include fever, Jerome Powellin said. across my state are is really cases have nose, been mild. live together light of the both cruise“The shippeople patients The CDC working with cough and breathAlso, the Food and Drug and Adminscared.while I’m hearing people who are “What showsMost is that early outbreak in Washington were exposed they from California authorities to China ing trouble. develop istration to ease akilled shortagewere of face sick, whoPrincess want to getcontact tested and don’t containment and identification of some cases state thatsought has already on the Grand other passengers only mild disease. But masks by giving health care workers thefromknow where to to go,” from Murray “It’s trip, canCDC work, but we now need tothose implement 10 there. cruise San Francisco thesaid. previous people, usually with OKThe to use an industrial type of respirator unacceptable that people in my state that in other countries, ” said Dr. Nathalie cruise ship is now Mexico from Feb. 11 to Feb. Director Robert Redfield other medical complicamask designed to protect construction can’t even get an answer to whetherat aMacDermott, infectious-diseases under investigation as the 21. said as Wednesday White tions,andevelop more severe crews from and debris. not they arethan infected. ” expertatat King’s Collegeincluding London. pneuCenters fordust Disease Control Newsomorsaid more House briefing. “We’re symptoms, and Prevention probe a half of 2,500 aboard the the very beginning of that, monia, which can be fatal. “small cluster” of corona- February cruise, which looking at the manifest to In all, more than 94,000 virus patients who were docked in San Francisco, are make sure that we under- people have contracted the later. response concerns they had raised aboard, according to the California added residents. stand who has gotten off to virus worldwide, according An email seeking comment how about contract andHealth at Dunleavy’s cruise line. Another passenNewsom said California the cruiseon and where theythe to the World Organimuch had been paid request he zation, had directed the Department ger who contracted the will be flying thousands of under got offthe thecontract cruise,” Redfield with more than 3,200 From Page A1 virus is now in test kits out sotofar sent of Lawisto review theWHO matter.reports Law spokesCOVID-19 thewas ship.

Theto Karsten said. TheRodvik, airportascreener deaths. that spokesman Industrial woman Maria Bahr said by email that stable condition at a hospi- tests can be conductedfor in the a Alaska a contractor for the Departthe COVID-19 virus is more creating a brighter future for Alaska, Development and Export the department is continuing the review. tal in Sonoma County, north San but Francisco Bay Area lab. mentAuthority. of Homeland Security fatal than the common flu. at this I will be stepping away“There’s from Jeff Turner Fields, an Anchorage Democrat, of San time Francisco. a Dunleavy reason thatspokesman we this contract effective immediately.

My said Penney had notified the governor’s said he considered it a victory “that we It was unclear if the didn’t want the ship in the hope is the good work we started that he was airport medical screener Portwill of Sanoffice Francisco and in ending his contract. aren’t going to be squandering any more continue.” the virus through the state ofAttorney General contracted California at this Kevin Clarkson told money” on the contract. But he said an “I will be doing all I can from the sideReps.

Zack Fields and Jonathan Kreiss- answer still is needed on who directed their work at the airport time,” Newsom said. lines to help our great State grow, ” hePlacer Tomkins a letter last month that in the contract. or from so-called commuThe Countyinperson nity transmission, accord- had symptoms as early as ing to a statement from the Feb. 19, according to Placer U.S. Department of Home- County Health Officer including in 1993 in only his fourth race. other dogs were injured near the checkland Security. No travelers Aimee Sisson.

Emergency other wins came in 1996, 1998 and ing point in the village of Nulato. The screened at the Los Angeles personnel His were called to the 2006. King has finished 20 times in the man ended up pleading guilty to felony airport have tested positive person’s home in Rocklin, 10. (180 kilocriminal mischief and misdemeanor for the virus. miles From Page A1 Earlier Wednes- about 110top King wasof leading day, officials in Los Angeles meters) northeast San the 2014 race until he charges of assault, reckless endangerwent to aannounced hospital with abdominal pain. got a blizzard County that the Francisco, on lost Feb.in27, when near the last check- ment and driving under the influence.

He later underwent emergency surgery just aboutto22 miles from the end He was given a six-month sentence. airport screener and five the personpoint, was admitted for a hernia and perforated intestine.

His total career earnings in the other new cases of the coroa hospital.of the 1,000-mile race and had to scratch.

“Unfortunately, this does mean that Two years later, King was one of two Iditarod are $967,789. When the race navirus had been confirmed, The cruise ship is at sea but Jeff will notone be on the runners heading competitors targeted by a man who was experiencing financial problems up from previously. is expected to skip its next to Nomewho this year, ” the posting said. droveto a snowmobile Several tested positive port and return San Fran- into their dog teams. in 2010, King donated $50,000 for the King has won the race four times, One of King’s dogs, Nash, was killed, and winner’s purse. for the virus in California cisco by Thursday, according

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Public hearing on emergency services area looms

By Megan Pacer Homer News

Residents of Ninilchik and Anchor Point have a chance to weigh in on the possibility of an official emergency response services area being formed in Ninilchik at a Kenai Peninsula Borough meeting Monday.

The borough is hosting the public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday at the Kenai Peninsula Fair Grounds in Ninilchik. The purpose is to gather input on whether the community would like to have an official services area for fire and medical

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spending time looking for food now,” she said.

New standards for waivers include labor data showing an unemployment rate of more than 10% over a year or unemployment of no less than 6% over two years. O’Brien said Alaska proposed working under the latter and chose a time-frame of November 2017 to November 2019.

O’Brien said the federal government on Monday approved Alaska’s request for a waiver that would exempt 21 of the state’s 29 boroughs or census areas from the new rules. Prominent population centers, including Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Juneau and the Fairbanks North Star Borough, would not be exempt, she said.

Van Dommelen said a period could have been chosen that would have included Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. O’Brien said the state tried to be as equitable as possible while putting forward a plan that exempted more areas than had been since October.

Last year, anticipating a change in the rules, the state sought a waiver it thought would be comparable to the new rules, to prepare people, O’Brien said. Under that approach, 17 boroughs or census areas were exempted, she said.

There still may be general work requirements that individuals in this group have to meet, such as registering for work.

Alaskans Choose Respect awareness event The LeeShore Center cordially invites you to join us for the 11th Annual Alaskans Choose Respect awareness event Thursday, March 26 in support of statewide efforts to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault. We will meet at noon in Kenai on the Frontage Road in front of the gazebo at Leif Hansen Park at noon and walk to the Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center.

Refreshments will be served. For more information contact the Education and Training Assistant at 283-9479.

Ladies’ luncheon Peninsula Take-A-Break luncheon will take place Saturday, March 21, 12-1:30 p.m. at Solid Rock Conference Center, Mile 90.5 Sterling Highway, Soldotna. Inspiration speakers: Heather & Heather, “Friends, faith and finding success.” For reservations call Susan at 335-6789 or 440-1319.

Reservations need to be made by Wednesday, March 17.

The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, March 14 and Saturday, March 28, from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. The Menu includes bacon, ham, sausage, pancakes, scrambled eggs, and biscuits and gravy. Adults $10, children $5.

Everyone Welcome. For further information call 262-6808.

KPC Showcase: Megafauna fossils Habitat Speaker Series, brought to you by The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership, Kenai Watershed Forum and Kenai Peninsula College Showcase, will take place on Tuesday, March 10 from 6-7 p.m. at KPC @ McLane Commons.

Historian Janet Klein and geologist Dick Reger will present on Megafauna fossils found on Southwestern Kenai Peninsula. Since 1958, 19 fossils of ice-age mammals had been found on the western Kenai Peninsula. In 2015 Janet and Dick presented those findings and now have an update on fossils found from Clam Gulch south to Homer. Free to the public.

The Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee The Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting in Homer at the KBRR Building at 2181 Kachemak Drive on Tuesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. Agenda topics will

Dividend Task Force to review the impacts of the PFD. However, that task force wouldn’t be created until 2026 and would only exist for just under a year, enough time for it to complete its report.

Under the budget just passed by the House earlier this week, a 20% of the CBR draw would be approximately $900, according to members

there’s some way they can do them better,” Ostrander said.

Ostrander said the city’s clerk found a more effective solution for delivering

Feb. 6 community meeting was that the Anchor Point Fire & Emergency Services area could expand south to include Ninilchik, forming one large service area with a larger tax base to draw funds from. Borough service areas operate on funding taken from taxes on property within a given area through a mill rate that people in that area vote on. This includes residential properties and industrial and business properties, such as land owned by oil and gas companies. Voters also elect members of a service area board to represent their interests.

of Kopp’s staff.

That’s a bit low for some lawmakers who have traditionally supported a larger PFD. “I think it’s kind of counterproductive,” said Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage. “I think they’re gonna struggle to get it passed, maybe they went so low so they can negotiate up to a 30-35 (percent split).”

Pruitt said if a bill with such a low PFD were to pass, there would most likely be a referendum in an attempt to repeal it. Any decrease to the PFD needs to be coupled with a spending

webcasts and video archives to the public, resulting in an annual $17,000 savings for the city.

Deferred maintenance continues to build up on city properties. The city has been able to fund about $400,000 annually in capital projects on their own, but with

include a report on the Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fish meeting, and a moose update from ADF&G staff. For more information contact ADF&G Boards Support at 907-267-2354.

A Place at the Table A Place at the Table is now expanding to the four Sundays of every month, beginning on March 1, with the addition of Christ Lutheran Church joining our endeavors to host a free hot meal and conversation from 4-6 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Fireweed Hall, located at 222 West Redoubt Avenue, Soldotna. We are still looking for a fifth church to join our endeavors, on the fifth Sunday of the month. Please call the office for info: 262-5542.

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staff member) and the volunteer assistant chief.

Following a heated public meeting, the members of the board of directors all stepped down and have been replaced. Chief Dave Bear and Assistant Chief Grace Huhndorf were reinstated.

At a town hall meeting held in Ninilchik on Feb. 6, several attendees brought up the idea of voting to form an official borough service area.

The last time this came up was a few decades ago, and it was voted down at the ballot box.

One of the suggestions made at the

The meeting this Monday will be live streamed on the Anchor Point Fire & Emergency Services Facebook Page, according to the meeting description posted on Facebook by the borough.

Those who plan to attend can send questions they would like to have addressed at the meeting ahead of time to Brenda Ahlberg, Community and Fiscal Projects manager for the borough. Questions must be submitted by no later than noon on Thursday and can be sent to bahlberg@kpb.us. Questions will also be addressed in person at the meeting.

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emergency response formed under the wing of the borough. The Ninilchik area is currently the only one on the Kenai Peninsula without an official borough services area and is currently served by a volunteer fire department run by a nonprofit board of directors.

The idea of a service area was raised after a recent restructuring of the volunteer fire department, Ninilchik Emergency Services. Members of the Ninilchik community were outraged when members of the former board of directors fired the department’s chief (the only paid

Friends & Family of Duffy are hosting another community conversation, Responding to Trauma. Join Jay Bechtol and Dave Eckwert with South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services for this free discussion on trauma and responding to trauma, Thursday, March 12, 5:30-7pm, Islands & Ocean Visitor Center seminar room. For more information, 907-435-7969.

Invest in Kenai Join City Manager Paul Ostrander and City staff on March 10 at 6 p.m. at the Kenai Senior Center to discuss how the FY21 budget supports the city services and projects that matter most to you.

Your input will be taken into consideration in the proposed budget Administration presents to the Kenai City Council.

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cap, preferably in a constitutional amendment, he said.

“A lot of people will see the creep of the cost of government,” Pruitt said. “Just a few years ago (Gov. Bill) Walker was taking 50/50.”

Johnston and Kopp did acknowledge there was still work to be done, noting that other bills addressing the PFD were also in the works. The House Finance Committee, which Johnston is also co-chair of, will be considering those bills in the coming weeks, she said.

“We’ll be discussing the governor’s

shrinking state assistance, the city will need to find more revenue to address maintenance needs.

“We’re going to continue to strive for efficiencies and we’re going to make cuts where we can, but additional revenues are going to have to be part of the solution,” Ostrander said.

When it comes to public safety, Gabriel said the city is addressing issues with recruitment and retention at the Kenai Police Department. He said the city council

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class in Homer, Alaska on March 14, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. at the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, 708 Smoky Bay Way. The cost for the class in $95 for commercial fishermen and $175 for all others. Interested mariners may register online at www.amsea.org or call 907-747-3287.

Kenai Fine Art Center March show The Kenai Fine Art Center’s opening for March features local art juried by contemporary visual artist and muralist, James Temte. You can see his work on the outside west wall of Anchorage Museum’s SEED LAB (109 West 6th Ave) called “THINK NEXT OVER NOW.” An artist and climate change adjunct professor with APU, James is making an impact in Alaska’s largest city.

The Biennial show features all types of media, but we will see what pieces make the cut. All art will be selected/juried to make it in this show. Prizes will be awarded. Free and open to the public with food and refreshments available opening night March 5, 5-7 p.m. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www. kenaifineart.com The Biennial Juried show will hang until March 28.

Refuge Accepting Applications for Youth Conservation Corps Jobs Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is accepting applications for Youth Conservation Corps jobs.

Youth 15-18 years of age and who live in or have lodging available in the local commuting area are eligible. Applications may be picked up at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, Alaska Employment Service Office in Kenai, or from local high school career counseling offices. Applications are being accepted March 9th through April 17th. All applications must be received at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road by close of business on April 17.

The positions will be filled in a random selection process and selected applicants will be notified by phone no later than April 24. Youth will work 40 hours each week from June 8 through July 30 and receive $11.25 per hour. Job duties will include trail maintenance, cabin restoration, campground cleanup, litter collection, biological assistance, and visitor information services. For more information, call the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge at 262-7021.

bill to pay back dividends,” Johnston said. “Hopefully we can create a picture and modeling of all of those bills so that we can land on the right statute going forward.”

“It’s the governor’s policy is to not comment on proposed legislation until it passes the legislature,” Dunleavy spokesperson Jeff Turner said in a statement. “That said the governor believes the people be involved in any change to the PFD program.”

But as the Legislature debates the future of the Permanent Fund and

worked to offer more incentives to incoming officers.

Two new officers were sworn in last week, Gabriel said, and one vacancy remains.

“This will be the first time in quite awhile that we will be fully staffed,” Gabriel said.

The city’s airport remodel is winding down. The work was projected to end in January, but weather and other factors have slowed the progress. Gabriel said the airport’s siding is going up soon.

Ostrander highlighted some new incentives for

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the dividend, the fund itself lost roughly $2.8 billion between Feb. 21 and 28 due to market sell-off driven by concern over COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, according to a press release from the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.

Despite the massive sell-off the market has recovered some and as of March 3, the fund was up $496 million, according to APFC spokesperson Paulyn Swanson.

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entrepreneurs looking at developing their business in Kenai, including no lease payments for up to five years and potential lease-to-own contracts. The city has more than 300 parcels of raw land available. Ostrander said the city is developing a business guide that locals can pick up to learn more about the specifics of setting up shop in the city. Most of the parcels are located in the “core business area of Kenai,” around the airport.

“One of the city’s biggest assets is our land inventory and we’re committed to utilizing those lands to spur responsible economic growth,” Ostrander said.

The audience also got an update on the city’s No. 1 capital priority for the last 30 years: the bluff erosion project. The city is waiting for approval from the federal government. Ostrander said the city is hopeful they will see that approval in

the “very near future.” The project is contingent on federal funding as well as a $5 million match from the city. The project, which will harden the rocks on a 1-mile stretch of city-owned bluff to prevent further erosion of Old Town Kenai, could begin as early as next year.

However, Ostrander said it could be a couple of more years before the city sees the project started.

“It is likely this project will slip into 2022,” Ostrander said.

“But we are making consistent, albeit much slower, progress than we have hoped.

We are closer than we’ve ever been.”

The city officials invited the audience and public to attend their Invest in the Kenai event. The event will feature a presentation about the city and its budget and take feedback from community members. Invest in the Kenai is 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 10 at the Kenai Senior Center.

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Paid sick leave could slow spread of coronavirus

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he Federal Reserve did what it could Tuesday to offset the growing economic impact of the coronavirus by announcing a supersize reduction in its benchmark interest rate — the first time the Fed has acted between its regularly scheduled meetings since the financial crisis in 2008.

But the Fed is ill equipped to limit the effect of a global pandemic alone. Lower interest rates may eventually soothe financial markets and help to hold down borrowing costs, but the Fed can’t speed the reopening of Chinese factories or reverse Facebook’s decision to cancel an annual developers conference that last year brought 5,000 visitors to San Francisco.

“A rate cut will not reduce the rate of infection. It won’t fix a broken supply chain. We get that,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed’s chairman, conceded at a news conference on Tuesday.

The real work falls on the rest of the government. The first step should have been simple: ensuring that testing for the coronavirus was readily available and, better yet, free. But even after weeks of lead time for the virus’s inevitable arrival, access to testing remains woefully inadequate as the domestic death toll rose to nine on Tuesday.

At this point, the crisis also demands unorthodox solutions. To restrict the spread of the coronavirus, the government needs to put limits on commerce. The best way to protect people, and the economy, is to limit economic activity. That is an unfortunate but inescapable truth.

Public health officials will need to impose quarantines, businesses will need to cancel meetings. And most of all, the problem now and going forward is making sure that sick workers stay home. That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.

Congress can help by mandating that workers receive paid time off if they fall ill, or if they need to care for an ailing family member. Such a policy is necessary both to impede the spread of the virus and its economic harm.

Roughly one-quarter of workers in the private sector — about 32 million people — are not entitled to any paid sick days. Absent legislation, they face a choice between endangering the health of co-workers and customers and calling in sick and losing their wages and perhaps also their jobs.

The current system is practically devised to spread infectious disease. Among the people least likely to have paid sick days, and therefore most likely to work through illness, are low-wage service workers like restaurant employees and home health care aides. (Those workers also are less likely to have health insurance, which compounds the problem.)

Most developed nations require employers to provide some form of paid sick leave, and the United States should do so, too. Some states already mandate sick leave, and a recent study found that the adoption of such laws reduced cases of influenza by 11% in their first year. Whatever the course of the coronavirus, mandatory sick leave for American workers would improve the lives of families and insulate the economy against pandemics.

If Congress cannot bring itself to do the right thing, however, it still could help by mandating sick leave specifically for this coronavirus. A 2013 study of workers in Allegheny County, Pa., estimated that allowing them to take up to two paid “flu days” would have reduced workplace transmission of the flu by roughly 39%.

Employers sometimes argue that sick leave policies encourage malingering. But studies show that even accounting for workers who play hooky, society still benefits.

The government could defray the cost of emergency sick leave for employers, for example by allowing businesses to claim a one-time tax credit. There is also a good case for providing broader help, particularly to smaller companies that cannot easily weather a loss of revenue.

The Italian government, for example, announced Sunday that it would issue tax credits to businesses that reported declines in revenue of 25% or more — in effect shifting the losses from private balance sheets to the government’s balance sheet.

Also seeking to help smaller businesses, the Chinese government has announced that banks can defer the receipt of loan payments from smaller companies that were due during the first half of the year without being required to report such loan payments as overdue. In hard-hit Hubei province, the leniency applies to larger companies, too.

The Trump administration so far has shown little interest in tailored responses. President Trump reacted to the Fed’s announcement by demanding further rate cuts. He has insisted that the United States should have the world’s lowest interest rates; the European Central Bank’s benchmark rate currently sits below zero, at -0.5%.

Mr. Trump also has said that Congress should pass a payroll tax cut.

If the federal government fails to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and the economic outlook darkens, such a broad-based stimulus may well become necessary. But targeted policies — like sick days — are likely to remain the most effective form of response.

— The New York Times, March 3

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Bloomberg’s hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific

By Michelle L. Price and Fili Sagapolutele Associated Press

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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands with lush vegetation and stunning coastlines some 7,200 miles from where he once served as New York City’s mayor.

Bloomberg’s lone primary victory in American Samoa, population 55,000, was an unorthodox and inauspicious culmination to a much-hyped but short-lived Democratic presidential campaign marked by unprecedented spending designed to make a splash in Super Tuesday states.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, he did it.

Bloomberg on Tuesday won half of the 351 Democrats voting in the American Samoa caucus, picking up five delegates before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who was born in American Samoa, received one delegate. Bloomberg’s decisive win over the localborn Gabbard was startling, but the Hawaii congresswoman had a late start campaigning in the territory compared with the billionaire.

Bloomberg installed seven full-time staff members in American Samoa in recent weeks — more than any other campaign — and bought up billboards and ads on television, online, in print and on the radio — including Samoan language ads.

He even picked up an endorsement Monday from Samoan Chief Fa’alagiga Nina Tua’au-Glaude, who cited Bloomberg’s work spending millions to fight climate change that

the chief says will be devastating to the islands.

Patrick Ti’a Reid, a local Bloomberg staffer, said the campaign set up voter events where they pitched his policy plans to locals and helped organize a trash cleanup at a local coastal park over the weekend.

Bloomberg tweeted a photo of two people in campaign T-shirts doing the work.

“Our incredible team in American Samoa, who calls themselves ‘Protectors of the Earth,’ not only got out the vote but took time out of their day to clean up a park,” Bloomberg wrote Tuesday, hours before getting disappointing results in other Super Tuesday contests.

Nathaniel Savali, a Democrat and staunch Bloomberg supporter, said he was most impressed by Bloomberg’s decision to place staff on the island and make a serious effort to win support.

“They were mindful of our sensitivities to cultural preservation and relayed back to the campaign headquarters the concerns of our people,” Savali said. “They also offered solutions with the promise that the U.S. territories would not be forgotten under a Bloomberg presidency.”

Tony Langkilde, who helped campaign for Gabbard, said her campaign began in earnest there just three days before Super Tuesday.

“I got a call from Tulsi’s father in Honolulu,” Langkilde said. “We actually started Friday to work on a local campaign.”

Langkilde said he met with Gabbard’s brother, who lives in American Samoa, and began putting together print and radio ads in both English and Samoan. They printed shirts, visors and launched a social media campaign that Langkilde said

garnered a lot of attention. Gabbard sent a video to rally her supporters.

“During the caucus, there were supporters there coming in to support a local girl, but it’s just that we started late,” Langkilde said. “If we started campaigning much earlier, I think the response would have been much greater.”

It’s not the first time the islands have delivered a win to someone other than the candidate who boasted a cultural link to the Pacific. In 2008, Hillary Clinton gained Democrats’ support in American Samoa over Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii and whose roots supporters played up.

The islands between Hawaii and New Zealand include a land area roughly the size of Washington, D.C., where tuna fishing and processing is a major driver of the economy and most residents are bilingual, Christian and Pacific Islander.

The territory’s residents are U.S. nationals but not citizens, which leaves them unable to vote in presidential elections but allows them to participate in presidential primary contests run by political parties.

Though no White House hopeful made a campaign stop in the islands and its capital of Pago Pago, at least an 18-hour flight from Washington, D.C., Joe Biden visited four years ago.

While serving as Obama’s vice president in 2016, Biden made a brief stop in Pago Pago while his plane was refueling as he headed from Hawaii to Australia and New Zealand. Biden was met by a local delegation led by the governor, shook hands and posed for photos.

The 90-minute visit doesn’t seem to have helped his campaign much four years later. He placed fourth in the territory’s caucuses Tuesday.

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Democrats eye more gains after Texas stars on Super Tuesday

By Paul J. Weber Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Democrats’ plans to win Texas in 2020 sharpened into focus Wednesday amid the familiar uncertainty of whether the party’s presidential nominee will work as hard in the giant red state in November as on Super Tuesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s Texas win over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders helped revive his campaign and shaped how rejuvenated Texas Democrats will plot their own comeback this fall. For Republicans, the risk of surrendering the Texas House for the first time in 20 years is real enough, although a loss for President Donald Trump there remains a longshot.

A pivotal U.S. Senate runoff was finalized Wednesday in a race where whoever emerged will also be an underdog against Republican incumbent John Cornyn.

But any path back to power for Texas Democrats depends on historic turnout. And despite expressing elation over a primary that cast more than 2 million Democratic votes — at least a 45 percent increase over 2016 — there are also worries about whether Bernie Sanders or Biden are now all but done focusing on the Lone Star State.

Trump won Texas by 9 points in 2016, and the daunting odds here

often leave Democrats drawing up easier paths to the White House.

“I don’t have confidence in that,” said Zack Malitz, a Democratic strategist who was field director for Beto O’Rourke’s narrow Texas Senate loss in 2018 and is backing Sanders.

“That’s a real question that Texans should be asking the eventual nominee is whether they’re going to run a real battleground operation.”

One question that was finally answered a day after Super Tuesday was who would emerge in the marquee Texas Senate race. Royce West, a longtime state senator, edged into a runoff against Democrat MJ Hegar, an Air Force veteran long seen as a front-runner to challenge Cornyn in November.

West beat out liberal activist Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, who has been endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the liberal firebrand from New York. Had she prevailed, it would set up an ideological clash at the top of the ticket over what kind of Democrat in Texas could win a Senate seat for the first time since the 1970s. But West has scoffed that running left is a winning gambit in Texas, while Hegar has campaigned on building a coalition with disaffected Republicans.

Whoever wins will likely have their work cut out against Cornyn, who is seen as a heavy favorite and has never faced a serious reelection

challenge since joining the Senate in 2002.

Like elsewhere, Democratic voters in Texas were driven by beating Trump, with more than 8 in 10 voters saying they considered it highly important, according to an AP VoteCast survey. But it’s in the Texas Capitol where Democrats feel they have their best shot, needing just nine seats to claim a majority in the House chamber for the first time since 2001.

The stakes to win control of statehouses is high across the country, with the ability to redraw voting maps next year on the line in November.

State Rep. Celia Israel, who is leading the efforts by Texas House Democrats to flip the chamber next year, expressed optimism Wednesday that the national party and presidential nominee would spend money this year to boost candidates further down on the ballot.

“The message I’m getting is they’re not going to gloss over Texas like they have in the past,” she said. “They’re not just going to come and drag the bag, fill it with money and take that money to the Midwest.”

Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak, who also suspects the GOP is facing a rare but real threat in the Texas Capitol, doesn’t see it.

“Trump is going to win Texas,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot more other places where they need to deploy resources.”

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China’s virus slowdown offers hope

By Lindsey Tanner Associated Press

The slowdown in coronavirus cases out of China offers a sliver of hope that the global outbreak can be controlled, but whether that can happen anytime soon without drastic measures remains to be seen, public health authorities say.

With China accounting for the overwhelming majority of the world’s 94,000 infections and 3,200 deaths since the virus first surfaced there in late December, it’s hard to see the country as a success story. But some experts believe the easing of the crisis — there are now more new cases being reported outside China than inside it — suggests containment is possible.

World Health Organization outbreak expert Maria Van Kerkhove, who recently traveled to China as part of a team from the U.N. health agency, said the international experts noted a drop in cases there since the end of January.

“We scrutinized this data and we believe this decline is real,” she said, adding that the extraordinary measures undertaken in China — including the unprecedented lockdown of more than 60 million people — had a significant role in changing the direction of the outbreak.

“We believe that a reduction of cases in other countries, including Italy, Korea, Iran, everywhere, that this is possible,” she said.

But the path to containment outside China is sure to be rocky, and no one is predicting when the outbreak might end.

There is some consensus among public health experts: The virus is likely to be around for quite some time, perhaps many months,

United is first to cut U.S. flying due to outbreak United Airlines will reduce flights, freeze hiring and ask employees to volunteer for unpaid leave as the airline struggles with weak demand for travel because of the new virus outbreak.

United said Wednesday that starting in April it will reduce passenger-carrying capacity 20% on international routes and 10% in the U.S. — the first airline to cut domestic flying. United officials said they will temporarily ground an unspecified number of planes.

The moves by United are the clearest sign yet of the financial harm to U.S. airlines from the virus, which has already led them to suspend flights to China and reduce service to other countries.

United announced the cuts shortly after several airline CEOs met at the White House with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The administration is seeking the airlines’ help in tracing travelers who might have come in contact with people ill with COVID-19.

— Associated Press

and will continue to spread to many places, but it can probably be controlled with standard public health measures, though not as quickly as in China.

There is another consensus: China’s outbreak has given other countries the advantage of knowing what they’re up against. The virus was an unknown entity when it appeared in China, and authorities there discounted the possibility of human-to-human transmission.

The Chinese experience has bought other countries time to prepare and knowledge to better understand the nature of the virus.

But Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said there is a more ominous message from the Chinese outbreak: “Authoritarian, free-speech restricting, individual rights-violating policies can panic populations, make conditions in an outbreak zone worse, and still fail to contain

worldwide spread of a virus of this nature.”

Emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, said widespread quarantines, lockdowns and travel bans of the sort ordered

by China’s regime are unlikely to be used in other countries. How those less-aggressive approaches will play out is unclear, she said.

As China’s numbers have stabilized, “we are seeing this rapid escalation around the world. At this point I believe things will get much worse before they get better,” Wen said Tuesday, “and we have no idea what the trajectory will look like now that there is person-to-person transmission around the world.”

While the crisis appears to be easing in China, alarming clusters have turned up in Italy, Iran South Korea and Japan. The U.S. has more than 120 cases in at least 15 states, with 11 deaths, all but one of them in Washington state.

Warren reassesses path after Super Tuesday

By Will Weissert and Zeke Miller Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren huddled with her campaign advisers on Wednesday to determine if there was a reason to stay in the Democratic presidential race after a dismal Super Tuesday that saw her finishing no higher than third in any state — including her own.

An aide to the Massachusetts senator said she was speaking to staffers and assessing the path forward. The aide spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign moves.

The disappointing results in Massachusetts — and a decidedly underwhelming showing in other Super Tuesday contests — marked a striking collapse for the onetime favorite of progressives who was known for having a plan for nearly everything. Warren had built an impressive campaign infrastructure stretching across much of the country, but it didn’t help her much in the 14 states that went to the polls on the biggest day on the Democratic primary calendar.

On top of mediocre showings in the first four contests — she never finished higher than third place there, either — Warren trailed significantly in the delegate count. Tuesday’s results could speed her exit from the race.

Warren finished well behind former Vice President Joe Biden, who won the Massachusetts primary, and fellow progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who attracted 10,000plus people to a rally last weekend on Boston Common — mere miles from Warren’s home near Harvard University.

Sanders said Wednesday afternoon that he had spoken to Warren earlier in the day, though it was unclear whether she would endorse him — or anyone else — should she leave the race.

On Super Tuesday, as results were starting to come in, Warren appeared set on remaining in the race. Speaking to supporters in Detroit ahead of next week’s Michigan primary, she introduced herself as “the woman who’s going to beat Donald Trump.” The senator encouraged supporters to tune out the results and vote for the person they believed would be the

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the National Action Network South Carolina Ministers’ Breakfast in North Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 26.

best president, saying: “Prediction has been a terrible business and the pundits have gotten it wrong over and over.”

“You don’t get what you don’t fight for. I am in this fight,” she added.

Warren’s campaign had all the early markers of success — robust poll numbers, impressive fundraising and a national organization — but she was squeezed out by Sanders, who had an immovable base of support among progressives she needed to win over. Ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Warren’s campaign said it was betting on a contested convention — though with a quickly consolidating field, that was no sure bet, and she appeared set to enter that convention trailing at least two candidates significantly in the delegate count.

Trump, who follows the Democratic nomination fight closely and enjoys stoking divisions within the party, sought to blame Warren for Sanders’ lackluster Super Tuesday showing.

“Wow! If Elizabeth Warren wasn’t in the race,

Bernie Sanders would have EASILY won Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas, not to mention various other states,” he tweeted. He added: “She may very well go down as the all time great SPOILER! He weighed in on the Democratic field again during a meeting at the White House later Wednesday, calling Warren “selfish” for staying in the race.

Warren’s lagging performance threatened to force out from the race its last top female contender — only Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard remains, and she has earned just one delegate, from her native American Samoa.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out Monday, joining Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to endorse Biden’s surging candidacy. It marked an unexpected twist in a party that had used the votes and energy of women to retake control of the House, primarily with female candidates, just two years ago.

Defense leaders: Taliban peace deal results mixed

By Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Just hours after the U.S. military launched an airstrike targeting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, top defense leaders told Congress that the results of the peace deal signed on Saturday have been mixed, but the insurgent group is abiding by much of the accord.

The American airstrike was triggered by a spike in violence by the Taliban against members of the Afghan security forces.

The exchange of violence came not long after President Donald Trump described what he called a “very good talk” with a Taliban leader on Tuesday, and insisted the group wants to cease violence. It underscored the fragility of the U.S.-Taliban peace accord and the murky nature of what the U.S. may or may not do to try to enforce or encourage it.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper told a Senate panel Wednesday that the Taliban are honoring the agreement by not attacking U.S. and coalition forces, “but not in terms of sustaining the reduction in violence.” He added that, “keeping that group of people on board is a challenge. They’ve got their range of hard-liners and

soft-liners and so they’re wrestling with that too, I think..”

Other U.S. officials said Wednesday’s airstrike was meant to send a message to the Taliban that the increased attacks against the Afghans over the last two days was unacceptable.

Esper, who was in Kabul on Saturday with Afghan leaders while the peace agreement was signed in Doha, said the document allows the U.S. to act in defense of the Afghan forces. “It’s the commitment I made to the Afghans when I was there on Saturday. We would continue to defend the Afghans,” he said.

The peace deal calls for a comprehensive nationwide cease-fire to be negotiated in talks between Afghans on both sides of the conflict, and it says the U.S. must begin withdrawing more than 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the next week or so. It does not, however, say that the truce or completion of a peace accord are required conditions for the American withdrawal.

Instead, the agreement signed in Doha says the phased drawdown of U.S. and allied troops is dependent on the Taliban entering those negotiations and taking them seriously, and requires that the insurgent group meet its counterterrorism commitments, including a rejection of

al-Qaida and other groups.

Officials agree that fueling the increased Taliban violence is the Afghan government’s refusal thus far to agree to release thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of the all-Afghan talks that are supposed to begin next week. And officials insist that the burst of violence would not necessarily crater the agreement and that they had always expected implementation would face challenges. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations about the agreement.

Although the “reduction in violence” agreement that had preceded Saturday’s signing ceremony had been expected to be respected in the meantime, the U.S. had not agreed to halt defensive or counterterrorism operations. Officials said that Gen. Scott Miller, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has the authority to order strikes on the Taliban if he deems it necessary.

According to one U.S. official, Wednesday’s strike was a move to convince the Taliban to scale back the attacks against the Afghans that have ramped up over the last 24 to 48 hours.

The official said the Taliban had managed to keep attacks at a low level during the seven-day reduction in violence, and the expectation was that the low level would continue.

briefly

Ex-wrestler sues university over doc’s assaults DETROIT — A college wrestler from the 1980s sued the University of Michigan on Wednesday, alleging that a doctor molested him dozens of times despite the university knowing that he was a threat to athletes.

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit is the first since victims of late Dr. Robert E. Anderson began to emerge two weeks ago.

The man, identified only as John Doe, accused the university of failing to remove the doctor despite complaints about him.

Doe said he was a U-M student from 1984 to 1989. Anderson was a physician for various sports at the school from 1966 until his retirement in 2003. He died in 2008.

“One illustrative incident is when plaintiff scratched his arm while wrestling on the mat during a summer training session, and he was told by leadership to see Anderson about the bleeding,” the lawsuit states.

“During his appointment for his arm, Anderson told plaintiff to drop his pants, and Anderson sexually assaulted, abused and molested” him, according to the lawsuit.

Native American journalist, activist Chuck Trimble dies Charles “Chuck” Trimble, a former leader of the National Congress of American Indians and founder of the American Indian Press Association, has died at age 84.

The Oglala Lakota journalist and activist died of natural causes Monday in Omaha, Nebraska, his daughter, Kaiti Fenz-Trimble, said on Facebook.

Trimble was born in Wanblee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and attended the then-Holy Rosary Mission boarding school. He graduated from the University of South Dakota, served in the U.S. Army and later studied journalism at the University of Colorado.

Trimble founded the American Indian Press Association in the 1970s, citing a lack of coverage of Native American issues, Indian Country Today reported. It operated a news service for tribal newspapers across the U.S.

Panel chosen to represent victims in Boy Scouts bankruptcy WILMINGTON, Del. — A lawyer for the Boy Scouts of America apologized to victims of sexual abuse by scout leaders Wednesday before the selection of an official committee to represent tort claimants in the Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy case.

Nine men who say they were sexually abused as children were selected to serve on the committee after nearly eight hours of closeddoor interviews by representatives of the U.S. trustee’s office.

The committee will represent the interests of potentially thousands of sexual abuse survivors seeking compensation for their suffering.

Roberts chides Schumer for ‘dangerous’ remarks WASHINGTON — Çhief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday criticized as “inappropriate” and “dangerous” comments that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer made outside the Supreme Court earlier in the day about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

Roberts was responding to Schumer’s remarks at a rally outside the court while a high-profile abortion case was being argued inside. “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Schumer said, naming the two appointees of President Donald Trump, according to video of the rally available online.

In a statement, Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman criticized Roberts, saying that “to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said” shows the chief justice “does not just call balls and strikes.”

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Nikolaevsk boys start tourney with win

By Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Birchwood Christian boys, Nikolaevsk boys and Lumen Christi girls picked up victories Wednesday at the first round of the Peninsula Conference basketball tournament at Cook Inlet Academy.

The fourth game of the day, between the Cook Inlet Academy and Kodiak ESS girls, was postponed when Kodiak could not get in due to weather. That game will take place at 1:30 p.m.

today.

Birchwood Christian boys 51, Cook Inlet Academy 43 No. 4 seed Birchwood Christian toppled No. 5 seed Cook Inlet Academy in the first round.

Birchwood grabbed a 17-10 lead after the first quarter, then led 36-17 at halftime and 40-27 after three quarters.

For Birchwood, Joel Swanberg had 24 points, Dalton Rogers had 14, Braden Palmer had seven, Silas McCrum had four and Daniel Bracken had two.

For the Eagles, Mason Zeigler had 12 points, James Boyd had 10 points, Josh Boyd had nine points, Cole Moore had eight points and Ethan Boyd had four points.

Birchwood moves to the semifinals against No. 1 seed Lumen Christi at 4:30 p.m. today, while the Eagles drop into the consolation bracket and play the Nikolaevsk-Ninilchik loser at 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Lumen Christi girls 27, Ninilchik 18 The No. 5 seed Archangels pulled off a minor upset

by stopping the No. 4 seed Wolverines.

Lumen led 6-5 after the first quarter, 12-11 at halftime and 17-15 after the third quarter. The Archangels then went on a 10-3 finishing kick.

Natalie Grubba had 14 points to lead Lumen, while Eliza Howard had six, Sabrina Warren had four, Emily Ross had two and Sophia Dupras had one.

For Ninilchik, Jade Robuck had nine, while Madi Cooper had six and Rachael Okonek had three.

The Archangels advance to the semifinals to face top seed Nikolaevsk at 3 p.m. today, while Ninilchik will face the Birchwood-CIA loser at 3 p.m. Friday.

Nikolaevsk boys 75, Nanwalek 40 The No. 3 seed Warriors, the defending conference champions, rolled past the Eagles and into the semifinals.

For Nikolaevsk, Justin Trail had 26, Lukah Kalugin had 18, Zachary Trail had 17, Kosta Fefelov had nine, Junior Sellers had four and

Isaak Fefelov had one.

For Nanwalek, Tikhan Kvasnikoff had 12, Marcus Wilson had seven, Seth Tanape had six, Matthias Ukatish Evans had six, Charles Moonin had five, Iverson Moonin had two and Juvenaly Evans had two.

Nikolaevsk will face Ninilchik, the No. 2 seed, at 7:30 p.m. today in a rematch of last season’s conference championship game. In the consolation bracket, Nanwalek will face the loser of Lumen and Birchwood at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Doncic breaks Mavs’ triple-double record

By The Associated Press DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 30 points and broke Dallas’ career triple-double record with his 22nd, helping the Mavericks hold off the New Orleans Pelicans 127-123 in overtime Wednesday night.

Doncic added 17 rebounds and 10 assists, and Kristaps Porzingis had 34 points and 12 rebounds in the nationally televised matchup between young stars Doncic and Zion Williamson. Williamson scored 21 points in 35 minutes in the first back-to-back of his NBA career.

Doncic broke Jason Kidd’s record for triple-doubles just five days after his 21st birthday.

Neither team led by more than three points throughout the fourth quarter or overtime until Doncic fed Porzingis for a dunk with 49 seconds left to give Dallas a four-point lead.

Doncic had hit a 3 to snap a 118-118 tie with 1:10 to play.

Williamson held up well in his first backto-back since making his NBA debut Jan. 22.

He has scored double figures in all 16 games he’s played in and has 20 points or more in his last 13.

Brandon Ingram led New Orleans with 27 points, but fouled out in overtime. Lonzo Ball added 25.

The Pelicans’ Nicolo Melli sent the game to overtime with a tying 3 with 7.4 seconds left after missing his first six 3s of the game.

BUCKS 119, PACERS 100 MILWAUKEEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 29 points, 12 rebounds and six assists and Milwaukee recovered after squandering an early 22-point lead to rout

Indiana.

The Bucks bounced back from a 105-89 loss at Miami in which they posted their lowest point total of the season. An NBAbest 53-9, Milwaukee hasn’t lost back-toback games all season.

Indiana had a four-game winning streak snapped as it fell into a tie with Philadelphia for fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings. The Pacers also lost guard Malcolm Brogdon to a sore left hip in the second quarter.

The Pacers were without Victor Oladipo for the second straight game because of a sore right knee. Milwaukee was missing reserve guards George Hill (groin contusion) and Kyle Korver (back soreness).

Khris Middleton had 20 points for Milwaukee, and Donte DiVincenzo matched a career high with 19.

T.J. Warren scored 18 points for Indiana, and and Doug McDermott had 16.

HEAT 116, MAGIC 113 MIAMI — Duncan Robinson scored 27 points, all of them coming from beyond the arc, and Miami hit a franchise-record 22 3-pointers to beat Orlando.

Goran Dragic scored 25 points and added nine assists, Kelly Olynyk scored 16 on a perfect shooting night and Jimmy Butler finished with 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. Miami won won four straight.

The previous record for Heat 3-pointers was 21, set April 5, 2017, at Charlotte. The 22 3-pointers made also tied the most allowed in a game by Orlando.

Terrence Ross scored 35 and hit a

season-high eight 3-pointers for the Magic.

CELTICS 112, CAVALIERS 106 CLEVELAND — Jayson Tatum scored 32 points and Boston beat Cleveland in a matchup of short-handed teams.

The Celtics were missing starters Kemba Walker, Jaylen Brown and Gordon Hayward, and the Cavaliers played without starters Andre Drumnond and rookie Darius Garland.

Cavaliers rookie swingman Kevin Porter Jr. left the game in the first half with a head injury and didn’t return.

Clevelannd rookie Collin Sexton scored a career-high 41 points, making 17 of 29 shots from the field. His previous career high was 32 against Utah.

JAZZ 112, KNICKS 104 NEW YORK — Donovan Mitchell and Bojan Bogdanovic each scored 23 points and Utah beat New York.

Rudy Gobert had 18 points and 14 rebounds for the Jazz. They won their third straight against a team well below .500 from the Eastern Conference.

Julius Randle had 32 points and 11 rebounds for New York.

Spike Lee was not in his seats, a day after vowing to attend no more Knicks home games this season after arguing with security guards who told him Monday he had to use a different entrance to reach his courtside spot.

THUNDER 114, PISTONS 107 DETROIT — Danilo Gallinari made a 3-pointer in the final minute and Oklahoma

City beat Detroit after blowing a 16-point second-half lead.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 27 points for Oklahoma City. The Thunder had lost their previous two games, not scoring more than 94 points in either. Christian Wood scored a career-high 29 points for Detroit.

GRIZZLIES 118, NETS 79 NEW YORK — Josh Jackson scored 19 points and Memphis ran away from Brooklyn.

Tyus Jones added 18 points to help Memphis win its third in a row. Ja Morant scored 15 points.

Taurean Prince had 15 points for Brooklyn.

TIMBERWOLVES 115, BULLS 108 MINNEAPOLIS — Malik Beasley scored 24 points, D’Angelo Russell added 19 and Minnesota beat Chicago to win both games of a back-to-back for the first time this season.

Coby White led Chicago with 26 points.

TRAIL BLAZERS 125, WIZARDS 104 PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard had 22 points in his return from a groin injury and Carmelo Anthony scored 25 as Portland beat Washington. Hassan Whiteside finished with 24 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks for Portland. CJ McCollum, like Lillard, had 22 points and five assists.

It was Lillard’s first game in three weeks after missing six with a groin strain.

Wizards guard Bradley Beal, who began the day as the NBA’s second-leading scorer, had 29 points on 10-for-29 shooting (35%) from the field.

Flyers top Caps, extend win streak to 7 games

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Travis Konecny scored just over a minute after a questionable video review wiped out a goal, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Wednesday night to extend their winning streak to seven games.

Just 71 seconds after referee Peter MacDougall said there was “no conclusive evidence” to show the puck crossed the goal line underneath goaltender Braden Holtby, Konecny hammered the puck into the back of the net for his 24th of the season. He celebrated as if he scored twice.

The Flyers scored three times in 10 minutes to flip momentum in a showdown of the top teams in the Metropolitan Division. Additional goals by Kevin Hayes and Tyler Pitlick during that run, one each

by Ivan Provorov and Scott Laughton in the third and 25 saves from Brian Elliott helped Philadelphia move within one point of first-place Washington. Lars Eller opened the scoring for Washington, and Tom Wilson set up Garnet Hathaway for its second goal of the game.

Philadelphia might be without James van Riemsdyk for some time after the winger broke his right hand after taking a puck to the right hand in the first. Coach Alain Vigneault said van Riemsdyk had an X-ray and “it doesn’t look real good.”

DUCKS 4, AVALANCHE 3, OT DENVER — Rickard Rakell scored with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime, Ryan Miller stopped 32 shots and Anaheim ended Colorado’s seven-game winning streak.

Rakell’s shot appeared to deflect off the stick of Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard and past goaltender Pavel Francouz. It was Rakell’s first goal since Jan. 31.

Sam Steel, Andrew Agozzino and Brendan Guhle also added goals to accomplish a rare feat these days — finding space between the pads of Francouz, who’s been one of the top goaltenders in the league.

Vladislav Namestnikov, Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon scored for Colorado, which picked up a point to pull to within two points of St. Louis for the top seed in the Western Conference.

Landeskog also added two assists.

FLAMES 3, BLUE JACKETS 2, OT CALGARY, Alberta — T.J. Brodie scored with 11 seconds remaining

in overtime as Calgary rallied from a two-goal deficit and beat Columbus.

Blue Jackets goaltender Joonas Korpisalo had lost his stick and was unable to get a glove on Brodie’s wrist shot from the high slot.

Elias Lindholm and Matthew Tkachuk also scored for Calgary.

Cam Talbot made 20 saves and improved to 8-3-1 since Jan. 1.

Devin Shore and Gustav Nyquist scored first-period goals for Columbus. Korpisalo stopped 34 shots.

COYOTES 4, CANUCKS 2 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Lawson Crouse scored a tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and the Arizona Coyotes tightened the playoff race in the Western Conference with a win over Vancouver.

The teams combined for five goals and two lead changes in a wild third period.

Crouse and Nick Schmaltz scored goals 2:29 apart for Arizona. Carl Soderberg had a goal and an assist for the Coyotes, who have won two in a row and three out of four. Oliver Ekman-Larsson added an emptynet goal and an assist.

Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson scored less than three minutes apart for the Canucks, who lost their fourth consecutive game.

The win moves the Coyotes into a three-way tie with Vancouver and Winnipeg in points (74) for the two wild-card playoff spots in the Western Conference.

Arizona goalie Darcy Kuemper made 36 saves. Vancouver goaltender Thatcher Demko, making his fourth start for the injured Jacob Markstrom, stopped 36 shots.

Amid reports of new deal, Brewers’ Yelich stays quiet PHOENIX (AP) — Christian Yelich is staying quiet when it comes to his contract situation with the Milwaukee Brewers.

While Yelich is brushing off questions about his new deal, his teammates are alltoo-happy to sing his praises.

The 28-year-old is reportedly on the brink of a multiyear contract that could keep him in Milwaukee for the rest of his career. The team said the 2018 NL MVP wouldn’t answer questions about the negotiations on Wednesday, and the organization also declined comment.

Yelich is guaranteed $27.75 million in the remainder of his current deal: $12.5 million this year, $14 million in 2021 and a $1.25 million buyout of a 2022 team option for $16 million. The Athletic reported his new deal would add seven years and increase the total value to approximately $215 million.

“He definitely deserves it,” Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain said. “The guy’s definitely the best player on our team. He rakes. Like I said, he got a deserving contract for sure.”

Milwaukee obtained Yelich

and Cain on the same January day in 2018. Yelich was acquired in a trade with Miami, and Cain agreed to an $80 million, five-year contract as a free agent.

The silky smooth Yelich turned into one of the game’s most feared sluggers in Milwaukee. He led the NL with a .326 batting average, .598 slugging percentage and 1.000 OPS while helping the Brewers make it to the NL Championship Series in his first year with the team.

He hit 44 homers and won another NL batting title with a career-high .329 average

last season.

“Christian in his first two years here, you know he has done incredible things,” manager Craig Counsell said, “and I think he’s taken this challenge, and took a trade that was probably to a place that he wasn’t sure about at the outset of it and made the best of it and found a place that he really likes to play.”

Yelich was building a case for a second straight MVP award before he broke his right kneecap on Sept. 10, sidelining the outfielder for the rest of the year. He finished second to Los

Angeles’ Cody Bellinger in the MVP balloting, and the Brewers were eliminated by Washington in the wild-card game.

“Since I’ve been here and Yeli’s been here, I mean he’s been the best player I’ve ever seen,” All-Star reliever Josh Hader said. “The way he goes about his business, he does everything the right way and it’s just fun to be around him.

For him to be here, life-long Brewer, that’s exciting news.”

The new contract for Yelich comes after the Brewers shed nearly $30 million from their payroll after they reached a

team-record $132.6 million last year. Catcher Yasmani Grandal signed with the Chicago White Sox in free agency, and infielder Mike Moustakas left for the Cincinnati Reds.

Yelich’s deal shows “he believes in our culture, he believes in the guys around him, he believes in the front office and he loves playing here, he loves the fans,” Brewers pitcher Brent Suter said.

Suter said he stood up, gave some fist bumps and jumped around a little bit when he saw the news.

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No. 1 Kansas clinches share of Big 12

By The Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Udoka Azubuike walked gingerly into Allen Fieldhouse on his sore ankle and proceeded to score a career-high 31 points with 14 rebounds, leading topranked Kansas to a 75-66 victory over TCU on Wednesday night to clinch at least a share of the Big 12 regularseason title.

Azubuike was 13 of 14 from the field and also had five blocks just four days after hurting his ankle in a win over Kansas State. Devon Dotson added 18 points and he also gave coach Bill Self and about 16,000 fans a scare when he left briefly midway through the second with what appeared to be an ankle injury of his own.

Dotson returned a few minutes later, allowing Kansas (27-3, 16-1 Big 12) to begin the celebrations on Senior Night.

It was the 62nd regularseason conference title for the Jayhawks and it came one year after a third-place finish ended a run of 14 straight crowns. They can win outright with a win at Texas Tech on Saturday or with a Baylor loss at West Virginia.

The win was No. 500 for Self win at Kansas, ranking second the school behind only building namesake

Phog Allen.

Desmond Bane had 24 points for TCU (16-14, 7-10), sending him past Dick O’Neal and Carven Holcombe and into third place in school history with 1,744 career points. Edric Dennis Jr. hit six 3-pointers and finished with 18 points.

NO. 3 DAYTON 84, RHODE ISLAND 57 KINGSTON, R.I. — Obi Toppin scored 20 points and Trey Landers had 14 points and 14 rebounds for Dayton to lead the Flyers past Rhode Island for their 19th straight win.

Dayton (28-2, 17-0 Atlantic 10) matched its 1951-52 team for the school record in wins, and with a victory over George Washington on Saturday it would finish unbeaten in conference play for the first time in program history.

Jeff Dowtin scored 16 points for Rhode Island (20-9, 12-5), which has lost four of six after running off a 10-game winning streak.

NO. 7 FLORIDA STATE 73, NOTRE DAME 71 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Trent Forrest’s putback with 3.8 seconds left capped a ferocious late charge as

Florida State beat Notre Dame to move closer to an Atlantic Coast Conference title.

Forrest’s basket gave the Seminoles (25-5, 15-4) just their second lead all night.

M.J. Walker scored 16 of his 21 points over the final 8:40 as FSU charged back from a 61-48 deficit.

Forrest added 15 points and Devin Vassell scored 13 for the Seminoles.

Prentiss Hubb led Notre Dame (18-12, 9-10) with 24 points, 19 in the first half.

led Seton Hall (21-8, 13-4) with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Quincy McKnight added 16 points, six rebounds and seven assists and Myles Powell had 14 points and eight assists in their final home game.

The Pirates rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit and had a chance to tie the game with 5 seconds left, but Powell’s 3-pointer bounced off the rim.

NO. 11 CREIGHTON 91, GEORGETOWN 76

NO. 14 VILLANOVA 79, OMAHA, Neb. — Mitch NO. 8 SETON HALL 77 Ballock made a season-high NEWARK, N.J. — Saddiq Bey scored 20 points and Villanova overcame some late free-throw shooting woes to prevent Seton Hall from clinching the Big East regular-season title.

Justin Moore and Jermaine Samuels added 19 points apiece and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl had nine points and 11 rebounds as the Wildcats (23-7, 12-5) opened the possibility of the league having a three-way tie for first place.

Collin Gillespie added 12 points for Villanova, which kept the game close by missing seven free throws in the final 1:03.

Sandro Mamukelashvili

six 3-pointers and finished with 20 points, and Creighton rode one of its best shooting games of the season to a win over Georgetown.

The Bluejays (23-7, 12-5 Big East) hit a season-high 17 3s on 36 attempts after making only 4 of 27 in a 20-point loss at St. John’s on Sunday.

Marcus Zegarowski had 20 points and eight assists, Ty-Shon Alexander had 18 points and Denzel Mahoney added 14.

Georgetown (15-15, 5-12) lost its fifth straight. Jahvon Blair led the Hoyas with 22 points, Jamorko Pickett had 17, and freshman Qudus Wahab had his first doubledouble with season highs of 14 points and 12 rebounds.

TEXAS A&M 78, NO. 17 AUBURN 75 AUBURN, Ala. — Josh Nebo scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half and Texas A&M survived a frenetic last-minute rally attempt to upset Auburn.

Wendell Mitchell added 14 points and a key 3-pointer to help the Aggies (15-14, 9-8 Southeastern Conference) pick up their fifth league road win.

Samir Doughty scored 25 points for the Tigers (25-5, 12-5 Southeastern Conference), who wiped out most of a nine-point deficit over the final 46 seconds as Texas A&M struggled at the freethrow line.

J’Von McCormick buried a contested 3-pointer with 7.4 seconds left to make it 77-75. Savion Flagg made the second of two free throws before Danjel Purifoy’s potential tying 3-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the rim.

NO. 22 VIRGINIA 46, MIAMI 44 CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Kihei Clark made both ends of a one-and-one with 8 seconds left and Virginia beat Miami for its seventh victory in a row.

Six of the Cavaliers’

victories during the streak have been by a total of 13 points.

Jay Huff led Virginia with 17 points — and they were the Cavaliers’ first 17 points of the game. Mamadi Diakite had 14 points and 10 rebounds.

Virginia (22-7, 14-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) hasn’t lost since Feb. 8 against Louisville.

Miami (14-15, 6-13) lost its third game in a row and is winless in seven games against ranked teams this season. Chris Lykes led Miami with 16 points but cut his eye in a scrum with 12 minutes left and missed the rest of the game.

NO. 24 WISCONSIN 63, NORTHWESTERN 48 MADISON, Wis. — Nate Reuvers scored 11 points as Wisconsin struggled through a poor offensive performance to beat Northwestern.

The win moved the Badgers (20-10, 13-6 Big Ten) into a three-way for first place in the conference.

Pete Nance led Northwestern (7-22, 2-17) with 14 points.

Wisconsin was not effective with the ball against a team that has the 12th-worst defense in the league.

Due to virus, NHL limits employee travel BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — The NHL is not allowing its employees to make workrelated trips outside of North America in response to the global fears over the coronavirus, and if any of those employees go on their own to a country where the virus has been found they will be quarantined before being able to return to work.

NHL Commissioner Gary

Bettman said Wednesday the league has told its 31 teams they were free to adopt a similar policy, though he stopped short of saying it would be a mandate as concerns of the virus continue to grow.

“We barred all travel outside of North America for business purposes,” Bettman said on the final day of general managers’ meetings.

“People at a personal level or

Today in History Today is Thursday, March 5, the 65th day of 2020. There are 301 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

On this date: In 1766, Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to assume his duties as the first Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory, where he encountered resistance from the French residents.

In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. Johnson, the first U.S. president to be impeached, was accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” stemming from his attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the trial ended on May 26 with Johnson’s acquittal.

In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he said: “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ‘iron curtain’ has descended across the continent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe.”

In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power. Composer Sergei Prokofiev (pro-KAH’-fee-ehv) died in Moscow at age 61.

In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tennessee, along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).

In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

In 1983, Country Music Television (CMT) made its debut with the video “It’s Four in the Morning,” performed by Faron Young.

In 1998, NASA scientists said enough water was frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps, one day, a human colony.

In 2002, President George W. Bush slapped punishing tariffs of eight to 30 percent on several types of imported steel in an effort to aid the ailing U.S. industry.

In 2003, In a blunt warning to the United States and Britain, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Russia said they would block any attempt to get U.N. approval for war against Iraq.

In 2013, Fox announced its 24-hour sports cable network called Fox Sports 1, which launched Aug. 17, 2013.

Ten years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, visiting Guatemala, told reporters that demand for narcotics in the United States was fueling drug violence in Central America as she acknowledged a measure of U.S. responsibility for what she called “a terrible criminal scourge.” New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, facing a harassment complaint by a male staffer, said he was stepping down from his seat with “a profound sense of failure.” Andree Peel, 105, a member of the World War II Resistance, died in Bristol, England.

Five years ago: The U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was slashed in the face and arm by an assailant in Seoul (sohl).

Actor Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage plane on a golf course in Los Angeles after reporting engine failure shortly after takeoff.

Convicted murderer Jodi Arias was spared the death penalty as a jury in Phoenix voted 11-1 in favor of execution — not enough to send Arias to death row for the slaying of her lover, Travis Alexander.

Islamic State militants continued their campaign targeting cultural heritage sites in territories they controlled in northern Iraq, bulldozing the historic city of Nimrud. Cardinal Edward Egan, 82, the former Archbishop of New York, died.

One year ago: The Santa Anita race course in southern California canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses in the preceding two months; the track would remain closed for racing for nearly a month. Forbes magazine proclaimed 21-year-old Kylie Jenner to be the youngest-ever selfmade billionaire. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York City mayor, announced that he would not join the crowded field of Democrats running for president in 2020. (Bloomberg would reverse course and formally announce his presidential bid in November.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Paul Sand is 88. Actor James B. Sikking is 86. Actor Dean Stockwell is 84. Actor Fred Williamson is 82.

Actress Samantha Eggar is 81. Actor Michael Warren is 74. Actor Eddie Hodges is 73. Singer Eddy Grant is 72. Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 68. Actress-comedian Marsha Warfield is 66.

Magician Penn Jillette is 65. Actress Adriana Barraza is 64. Actress Talia Balsam is 61. Rock singers Charlie and Craig Reid (The Proclaimers) are 58. Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Irvin is 54.

Actor Paul Blackthorne is 51. Rock musician John Frusciante (frooSHAN’-tee) is 50. Singer Rome is 50. Actor Kevin Connolly is 46.

Actress Eva Mendes is 46. Actress Jill Ritchie is 46. Actress Jolene Blalock is 45. Model Niki Taylor is 45. Actress Kimberly McCullough is 42. Actress Karolina Wydra is 39. Singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is 38. Actress Dominique McElligott is 34. Actor Sterling Knight is 31. Actor Jake Lloyd is 31. Actor Micah Fowler is 22.

Thought for Today: “Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.” — Sir Rex Harrison, British actor (1908-1990).

people in their households are still free to do what they want to do. If you go to a place that’s on the list of countries that have an issue or while you’re there the country comes on the list, then when you come back we want you quarantined, out of the office for two weeks until we can see if symptoms develop.”

That even applies to those who work for the NHL’s central scouting service: Scouts who are in Europe are staying in Europe, and if they return to North America they will be quarantined.

Bettman said the NHL is in regular communication with the other three major North American sports leagues, as well as health experts in both

the U.S. and Canada.

Through Wednesday, there have been more than 94,000 confirmed cases of people contracting the virus worldwide, with more than 3,200 deaths.

“We’re constantly updating the clubs based on what we’re hearing from our experts and the CDC and Canada’s equivalent,” Bettman said. “It’s day by day.

We’re going to continue to monitor things. It’s business as usual. We’re going to keep everybody completely informed.”

The NHL hasn’t gone as far as the NBA did earlier this week. The NBA sent a memo to teams on Sunday suggesting that players limit

high-fives with fans and be hesitant to touch markers and items in autographseeking situations. Some NBA players have said they are stopping autographs altogether for the time being, and others are carrying their own markers to group-signing scrums.

“When it comes to that level of detail, leagues will do what they think are appropriate and necessary under the circumstances,” Bettman said “Our clubs at the medical level, th e training level and the player level are pretty informed as to what is wise and prudent conduct under the circumstances.”

The International Ice Hockey Federation said

this weekit has canceled six different tournaments — events that were to take place in March and April in Estonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Luxembourg, Poland and Spain. Pro leagues in Switzerland and China have also been affected, some games called off, others played without fans.

The NHL isn’t at that point yet with the playoffs coming up next month.

“We’re aware of and focused on all possibilities,” Bettman said. “But at this point it would be premature to pick any one of the possibilities, especially because it may or may not become necessary in North America.”

scoreboard BASEBALL MLB Spring Training Wednesday’s games Miami (ss) 2, Houston 1 Detroit 13, Boston 9 Baltimore 5, Miami (ss) 3 Philadelphia (ss) 9, Pittsburgh (ss) 7 Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 5 Atlanta 9, Pittsburgh (ss) 7 N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 1 Texas 7, Colorado 4 Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati 6 Chicago White Sox 5, Milwaukee 1 Kansas City 9, San Diego 7 L.A. Angels 2, Seattle 0 Cleveland 6, Arizona 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Philadelphia (ss) 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Francisco 0 Thursday’s games Houston vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 9:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis (ss) at Jupiter, Fla., 9:05 a.m.

Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 9:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 9:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 9:05 a.m.

Arizona vs. Texas (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

Texas (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

Colorado (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

San Diego vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 11:10 a.m.

Kansas City vs. Colorado (ss) at Scottsdale, Ariz., 11:10 a.m.

St. Louis (ss) vs. Washington at West Palm Beach, Fla., 2:05 p.m.

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BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 43 18 .705 — 42 19 .689 1 37 25 .597 6½ 27 34 .443 16 19 43 .306 24½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 40 22 .645 — Orlando 27 35 .435 13 Washington 22 39 .361 17½ Charlotte 21 40 .344 18½ Atlanta 19 44 .302 21½ Central Division

W L Pct GB x-Milwaukee 53 9 .855 — Indiana 37 25 .597 16 Chicago 21 41 .339 32 Detroit 20 43 .317 33½ Cleveland 17 45 .274 36 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Houston 39 21 .650 — Dallas 38 25 .603 2½ Memphis 31 31 .500 9 San Antonio 26 34 .433 13 New Orleans 26 36 .419 14 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Denver 41 20 .672 — Utah 39 22 .639 2

Toronto Boston Philadelphia Brooklyn New York

Oklahoma City Portland Minnesota

38 24 .613 3½ 28 35 .444 14 19 42 .311 22 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 47 13 .783 — L.A. Clippers 42 19 .689 5½ Sacramento 27 34 .443 20½ Phoenix 24 38 .387 24 Golden State 14 48 .226 34 x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s games Milwaukee 119, Indiana 100 Oklahoma City 114, Detroit 107 Boston 112, Cleveland 106 Memphis 118, Brooklyn 79 Utah 112, New York 104 Miami 116, Orlando 113 Minnesota 115, Chicago 108 Dallas 127, New Orleans 123, OT Portland 125, Washington 104 Today’s games Denver at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Golden State, 6:30 p.m.

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Men’s College Scores Wednesday’s games EAST Canisius 85, Marist 69 Dayton 84, Rhode Island 57 Fordham 63, George Washington 52 LIU 73, Fairleigh Dickinson 72 Marshall 94, FAU 82 Monmouth (NJ) 69, Fairfield 45 Providence 80, Xavier 74 Quinnipiac 69, Iona 68 Rider 71, Manhattan 59 Robert Morris 59, St. Francis Brooklyn 58 Sacred Heart 61, Mount St. Mary’s 59 Siena 77, Niagara 55 St. Bonaventure 89, Saint Joseph’s 73 St. Francis (Pa.) 87, Bryant 61 Tulsa 61, Temple 51 UMass 75, La Salle 64 Villanova 79, Seton Hall 77 SOUTH Charlotte 56, North Texas 43 Florida 68, Georgia 54 Georgia Tech 73, Pittsburgh 57 Louisiana Tech 76, FIU 73 Mississippi 75, Missouri 67 Nicholls 80, McNeese St. 56 Northwestern St. 95, New Orleans 73 Old Dominion 84, UTSA 59 Rice 72, Southern Miss. 57 SE Louisiana 69, Cent. Arkansas 65 Saint Louis 69, George Mason 57 Texas A&M 78, Auburn 75 UCF 61, SMU 58 UTEP 60, Middle Tennessee 56 Virginia 46, Miami 44 Virginia Tech 70, Clemson 58 MIDWEST Butler 77, St. John’s 55 Creighton 91, Georgetown 76 Florida St. 73, Notre Dame 71 Indiana 72, Minnesota 67 Kansas 75, TCU 66 Wisconsin 63, Northwestern 48 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 99, LSU 90 Oklahoma St. 69, Kansas St. 63 FAR WEST Air Force 77, Fresno St. 70 CS Northridge 72, UC Irvine 70 New Mexico 79, San Jose St. 66 Wyoming 80, Colorado St. 74

Women’s College Scores Wednesday’s games EAST American U. 57, Navy 42 Boston U. 62, Army 56 SOUTH Auburn 77, Vanderbilt 67 Clemson 71, Miami 56 New Orleans 82, Northwestern St. 76

Pittsburgh 67, Notre Dame 65 Wake Forest 83, North Carolina 73 MIDWEST Minnesota 85, Penn St. 65 Missouri 64, Mississippi 53 W. Michigan 53, E. Michigan 49 Wisconsin 71, Illinois 55 SOUTHWEST TCU 96, Oklahoma 71 West Virginia 71, Texas Tech 69 FAR WEST Idaho 91, Weber St. 57 Idaho St. 77, E. Washington 49 Long Beach St. 52, Cal St.-Fullerton 49 Montana 70, N. Colorado 55 Montana St. 81, S. Utah 65 Portland St. 68, N. Arizona 63

FOOTBALL XFL Eastern Conference W L Pct PF PA 3 1 .750 91 62 2 2 .500 67 83 2 2 .500 49 73 1 3 .250 64 74 Western Conference

W L Pct PF PA Houston 4 0 1.000 126 88 Dallas 2 2 .500 78 72 Los Angeles 1 3 .250 88 88 Seattle 1 3 .250 64 87 Saturday’s games Seattle at Houston, 10 a.m.

New York at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Sunday’s games St. Louis at DC, noon Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 5 p.m.

St. Louis DC New York Tampa Bay

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 67 42 13 12 96 220 168 Tampa Bay 66 41 20 5 87 231 185 Toronto 67 35 24 8 78 235 223 Florida 66 33 26 7 73 224 224 Montreal 68 31 28 9 71 209 209 Buffalo 66 29 29 8 66 189 208 Ottawa 67 23 32 12 58 181 231 Detroit 68 15 48 5 35 136 257 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 66 40 20 6 86 228 204 Philadelphia 66 39 20 7 85 225 192 Pittsburgh 65 38 21 6 82 211 181 Columbus 68 32 21 15 79 177 182 N.Y. Islanders 65 35 22 8 78 183 181 Carolina 64 35 24 5 75 207 183 N.Y. Rangers 66 35 27 4 74 218 206 New Jersey 66 26 28 12 64 177 219 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 67 40 17 10 90 216 185 Colorado 66 40 18 8 88 226 177 Dallas 66 37 21 8 82 178 170 Winnipeg 68 34 28 6 74 204 199 Minnesota 66 33 26 7 73 209 207 Nashville 66 32 26 8 72 208 215 Chicago 66 30 28 8 68 201 209 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 68 37 23 8 82 219 202 Edmonton 67 36 23 8 80 214 205 Calgary 68 35 26 7 77 204 208 Vancouver 65 34 25 6 74 214 204 Arizona 67 32 27 8 72 187 178 San Jose 66 29 33 4 62 174 211 Anaheim 67 27 32 8 62 174 214 Los Angeles 66 25 35 6 56 164 206 Wednesday’s games Philadelphia 5, Washington 2 Calgary 3, Columbus 2, OT Anaheim 4, Colorado 3, OT Arizona at Vancouver, late

Today’s games Boston at Florida, 3 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.

Minnesota at San Jose, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.

All Times AKST

SOCCER MLS Western Conference

W L T Pts GF GA Sporting Kansas City 1 0 0 3 3 1 Minnesota United 1 0 0 3 3 1 FC Dallas 1 0 0 3 2 0 Colorado 1 0 0 3 2 1 Seattle 1 0 0 3 2 1 Los Angeles FC 1 0 0 3 1 0 San Jose 0 0 1 1 2 2 LA Galaxy 0 0 1 1 1 1 Houston 0 0 1 1 1 1 Real Salt Lake 0 0 1 1 0 0 Nashville SC 0 1 0 0 1 2 Portland 0 1 0 0 1 3 Vancouver 0 1 0 0 1 3 Eastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GA New York 1 0 0 3 3 2 Montreal 1 0 0 3 2 1 Atlanta 1 0 0 3 2 1 Columbus 1 0 0 3 1 0 Toronto FC 0 0 1 1 2 2 Orlando City 0 0 1 1 0 0 Cincinnati 0 1 0 0 2 3 Chicago 0 1 0 0 1 2 New England 0 1 0 0 1 2 D.C. United 0 1 0 0 1 2 New York City FC 0 1 0 0 0 1 Inter Miami CF 0 1 0 0 0 1 Philadelphia 0 1 0 0 0 2 Saturday’s games Chicago at New England, 19:30 a.m.

New York at Real Salt Lake, 10 a.m.

Montreal at FC Dallas, 11 a.m.

Miami at D.C. United, 11:30 a.m.

New York City FC at Toronto FC, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 3 p.m.

Minnesota at San Jose, 4 p.m.

Houston at Sporting Kansas City, 4:30 p.m.

Orlando City at Colorado, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at LA Galaxy, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Seattle, 6 p.m.

All Times AKST

Transactions

BASEBALL Major League Baseball BOSTON RED SOX — Reasigned INF Tommy Joseph, LHP Daniel McGrath, LHP Bobby Poyner, RHP Bryan Mata and RHP Denyi Reyes to minor league camp.

Minor League Baseball Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Acquired RHP Sam Held from the Sioux City Explorers of the American Association.

FLORENCE Y’ALLS — Sold contract of RHP John LaRossa to the Milwaukee Brewers.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Traded 3B Jose Brizuela to the Florence A’alls for OF Isaac Bernard, LHP Mike Castellani and RHP Cam Hatch.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed OL John Wetzel to a one-year deal.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Reassigned G Jake Oettinger to the Texas Stars.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MONTREAL IMPACT — Signed M Victor Wanyama as a designated player.

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Best friend can’t suppress his crush on gay woman DEAR ABBY: I am a more resolved about our gay woman. My male relationship. best friend has had a We have been staying crush on me for more with my relative while we than a year. It is so search for a house in the intense that he is almost big city, so we are trapped delusional. We have in the same space, and he talked extensively about has nowhere else to go. it. He knows where I Since moving in together, stand and that it will his feelings for me have never happen, and he resurged. I no longer want Dear Abby says he accepts that. to be roommates because Jeanne Phillips But he can’t stand the of his possessiveness. But thought of me spending it would devastate him if time with a woman, even if it’s just a I left him alone here, especially since friend. He wants all of my time and it was my idea to go, and I was meant doesn’t want to share me, even with to be his support system. I feel like mutual friends.

I am trapped in his drama and canHere’s the kicker: I had invited not live my life without ruining his. him to move back to my college town Please help! — TRAPPED LESBIAN with me. We both thought that mov- IN THE WEST ing to a big city would open up more DEAR TRAPPED LESBIAN: Do not dating opportunities for us and help rent an apartment with him or buy him get over me. It was an ordeal for a house! To do so would be an expenhim, but he put in a ton of work to sive mistake. You cannot fulfill his be able to move. We planned to be needs. If you allow this to continue, housemates. This happened during a he will destroy every opportunity that time when we thought he was feeling comes your way because it will be a

threat to his fantasy.

He needs to find other living arrangements NOW, and you and your relative should insist upon it. This is not going to have a fairy-tale ending, and you probably will not remain friends as you move along with your life. But move along is what you must do, for both your sakes.

DEAR ABBY: I went out of town on a business trip with two co-workers (both females), and the trip was a success. We got along great and accomplished all of the goals we set for ourselves during our stay.

During the few outings we had off company time, however, there were moments when we all wanted to link up and do everything together but our stomachs disagreed. If I wanted to go to breakfast at 8 a.m., someone would want to go at 11 a.m., or another co-worker wouldn’t want to go at all. Another example is, we would plan dinners (after touring the city all day) at a certain time, but it was so late my stomach would growl loudly.

Crossword | Eugene Sheffer

I understand that flexibility is key, but my metabolism works overtime compared to theirs. How do I go about venturing off on my own for food without coming across as rude or looking like I’m not a team player?

— HUNGRY MAN IN NEW YORK DEAR HUNGRY MAN: Explain it to your co-workers as you have to me. If your body is signaling that you must eat something NOW, you need to do it — if only enough to take the edge off your hunger. To do that isn’t rude. Taking care of yourself is important, and it doesn’t mean you aren’t a team player. Perhaps you should carry something with you to tide you over from meal to meal.

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.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

You might hear news that is not as positive or supportive as you would like. Do not make this judgment just yet. You might realize you misread someone you could be dealing with.

Tonight: Respond to a friend’s suggestion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

HHHH You can touch base with someone and totally change his or her mental state and perceptions. Use care when dealing with financial matters as others might be unusually touchy about this topic.

Tonight: Pay bills first.

HHHH Tension might build despite your apparent attempt to do little and stay chill. You still have certain areas or issues to work through.

You could be confused by the activity that surrounds an associate or a friend. Tonight: Do not hold back.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

HHHHH News opens you up to a different perspective involving a discussion and a decision that could impact your life in a manner you had not considered. Take your time weighing the pros and cons of this issue. Tonight: Surf the web.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHH Someone might find you unusually perceptive and insightful.

You might choose to say little, but the words you choose and the tone you assume clues others in to your thoughts. Tonight: Call it an early night.

HHH Take a step back. Sometimes, no action might be more significant than a reaction. If you are not sure you have the lay of the land or know the issues around a decision, stay mellow. New information will be forthcoming. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

BAG LADY

HHHH Reach out for others.

HHHHH Reach out to a friend or person who has more knowledge than you about a topic. He or she might have solutions that you haven’t considered. Go through the suggested options with this person.

Tonight: Have an overdue chat with a child or loved one.

Dear Heloise: I was reading your article about picking up what your pooch drops. It reminded me of another use for those small bags. Many times I have a small amount of garbage after a meal, grease from the frying pan and other small amounts of refuse. I put a [clean] doggie bag in my 2-cup measuring cup and put the garbage or grease or other liquids that I don’t want to go down the drain into the bag. I tie it up and throw it in the trash bag.

It’s so much neater than throwing it in the big trash, and less smelly. — Judy M., via email

PERFECT TEA Dear Heloise: I drink black iced tea year-round, and a few years ago I discovered that if I use one extra tea bag and filtered tap water, I get perfect coldbrewed iced tea overnight in the refrigerator. This is not a concentrate, like cold-brewed coffee (no dilution needed). What makes this tea miles above hot brewed or sun tea is that it has absolutely NO bitterness — just full flavor. It heats up in the microwave

Rubes | Leigh Rubin

WALK-N-SHOP Dear Heloise: Walkers can be used as shopping carts. Just lift the seat of the walker and use the basket underneath. I also keep a cardboard carton in the trunk of my car. I put it on the seat when I buy more than will fit in the basket. Works for me! — Bernadette D., via email

SLIPPER SLEEVES Dear Heloise: Why don’t clothing manufacturers of coats and jackets line the sleeves, making it easy to get over three-quarter-length sleeves or heavy sweaters? It’s annoying trying to get an unlined sleeve over clothing. — Judy via email

HHH You have a lion’s share of work ahead of you. Your ability to zero in on an issue remains one of your strengths. Be more forthright about a money matter that could be holding you back. Expect to receive a suggestion or two. Tonight: Make it your treat.

HHH You are unusually vibrant.

Others seem to naturally respond to your ideas and suggestions. Creativity soars as the result of a brainstorming session involving several parties. Try to separate business and pleasure. Tonight: Acting as if there is no tomorrow.

HHHH Defer to a partner who is savvier and has more knowledge about the topic at hand. You do not need to agree to this person’s solution or direction. A personal matter could come up for discussion.

Tonight: Make it easy.

to the best black hot tea I’ve ever had. My husband, who always sweetens his hot tea, finds it unnecessary with this tea. — So Cal Tea Lover, via email Aren’t teas and coffees refreshing and soothing?

Whether hot or iced, these drinks are delicious all year round. And filtered tap water can certainly brighten up the flavor, too. — Heloise

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)

hints from heloise

Wednesday’s answers, 3-4

HHHH Your words make sense to others, but do not be surprised if you need to re-explain certain concepts. You could have difficulty making your way through an unusual person’s perspective to introduce a concept or approach. Tonight: Lie low if possible.

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BORN TODAY Actress Eva Mendes (1974), comedian/magician Penn Jillette (1955), actor Kevin Connolly (1974)

Conceptis Sudoku | Dave Green

By Dave Green

SUDOKU Solution

2 1 8 6 4 3 5 7 9

7 5 9 8 2 1 6 3 4

3 6 4 5 9 7 1 2 8

8 3 6 1 5 4 7 9 2

1 2 7 9 3 6 4 8 5

9 4 5 7 8 2 3 1 6

4 9 1 3 6 8 2 5 7

5 7 2 4 1 9 8 6 3

Difficulty Level

6 8 3 2 7 5 9 4 1 3/04

5 1 8 7

9 1 5 4 6 7 4 6 1

9 Difficulty Level

B.C. | Johnny Hart

Ziggy | Tom Wilson

Tundra | Chad Carpenter

Garfield | Jim Davis

Take it from the Tinkersons | Bill Bettwy

Shoe | Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins

Mother Goose and Grimm | Michael Peters

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2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

This year, you express a high level of sensitivity and understanding when dealing with loved ones, children and matters involving your creativity. Your sixth sense tunes in to situations more frequently, helping you avoid confusion. If single, you might be more sensitive than you realize, and your feelings easily could be hurt. Some of you might put up a defensive front to protect yourself. That could make creating a relationship difficult. If attached, your sweetie probably understands you well and loves being close to you. It is almost like you can read each other’s mind. CANCER intuitively knows your vulnerabilities.

Use care as to how much you reveal.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

HHHHH How you deal with an upset friend or associate reveals a lot about you. You demonstrate understanding during a conversation.

Your attitude is appreciated more than you realize. Tonight: Speak your mind.

2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 5, 2020:

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In retirement, a time for accomplishment Kenai native Deborah Poore displays her talent through painting, quilting

By Michael Armstrong Homer News

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s a girl growing up in Kenai, Deborah Poore saw herself as an artist and wanting to learn to paint. But a career as an elementary school teacher and raising her children in Homer led her down other paths.

Now, at 67, retired and with her children grown, Poore has come home to her art.

“I think when you hit your 60s — and you’re lucky enough to hit your 60s — life is going by pretty quickly here,” she said via phone from San Diego, California. “What are the things I want to accomplish? Painting was one of them.”

If her recent work is an example, Poore has thrown herself into her art. While she had paintings in student art shows she did when taking classes with Karla Freeman, Asia Freeman and Jim Buncak at Kachemak Bay Campus, in the last six months she has done two solo shows, one in October at the Homer Council on the Arts and a show up through this Friday at Grace Ridge Brewery.

“Last summer I was in a frenzy,” Poore said on Feb. 7 at the Grace Ridge First Friday opening reception. “I was getting up early in the morning and painting two hours a day.”

Her Grace Ridge show, “Many Moods of the Wosnesenski,” includes landscapes, many of them of the Wosnesenski River and Glacier. Some are of views from her Bishop’s Beach home.

“We look at it in our view,” she said at the First Friday opening. “How can you not want to converse with those mountains?”

Poore also does quilting, an art that came out of childhood learning folk arts — sewing, quilting, embroidery and quilting — from her mother, a baby sitter and her grandmothers.

“I’m not a precision quilter,” she said. “I’m much more a folk quilter. My quilts are more rustic. I don’t care if my seams aren’t lined up. I prefer that they’re not.”

Born at the old Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Poore was raised in Kenai. The oldest of three, with a sister and brother, she first lived in a little cabin in Kenai’s Old Town and later on a small 5-acre homestead along the Kenai River near Eagle Rock.

“It was really magical back then,” she said. “… It was a precious childhood. I think all three of us were well cared for. We didn’t have some of the traumas so many people experienced.”

Her family had the modern Alaska conveniences of electricity, running water, an oil heating stove and a propane cook stove, but they lived a partly subsistence lifestyle, such as growing a big garden. Her dad worked as a framing carpenter and her mother in the office at Kenai Pipeline.

“When I went away to school, people would ask me, ‘What did your do with your family for fun?’” she said. “Well, we dug potatoes.”

A graduate of Kenai Central High School, Poore studied art with Jim Evenson, a prominent Kenai Peninsula artist. She was the only girl in her drafting class.

“My class drew the house plans for the carpentry class to build a house they then sold,” Poore said. “… It’s one thing to take a class, but to take a class to know other people will depend on you. … There’s a sense of responsibility there, but also a real sense of community, too.”

Later, she put those skills to work in building her Homer homes. One of her goals was to design and build her own home.

“I did that on Diamond Ridge and we did it again in town,” she said.

At the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Poore studied liberal arts, including a class in cartography.

“I was just sampling all kinds of things. I did a Native skin-sewing class,” she said. “I was lucky to have the freedom to do that.”

Poore spent the last two years of college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she got a teaching degree. Massachusetts and Alaska had reciprocity in

Michael Armstrong / Homer News

Deborah Poore discusses one of her paintings at the Feb. 7 opening of her show, “Many Moods of the Wosnesenski” at Grace Ridge Brewery in Homer.

“I didn’t have it in mind I would stay in Homer forever, but I never found a good reason to leave.

I love to travel, but my heart is really in Homer.”

Deborah Poore

teaching licenses, meaning with her U. Mass. teaching certificate she could work in Alaska.

“For me it was really important to get away from Alaska, to look back at it and decide it was where I want to be,” she said. “At the end of my two years back east, I was more than ready to come home.”

After college she came back to Kenai and found a job teaching in Homer. Growing up, her mother would take them to Homer every summer for a short vacation.

“We would come to Homer and enjoy a day on the beach,” Poore said. “That was back in the day you’d walk up to the seafood store.

They’d cook a crab for you. You’d eat half of it on the beach and take the other half back to make a crab salad.”

Poore taught third grade at Paul Banks Elementary School her entire career.

“I didn’t have it in mind I would stay in Homer forever, but

I never found a good reason to leave,” she said. “I love to travel, but my heart is really in Homer.”

During her years as a teacher and mother to small children, Poore did some art, such as taking painting classes with Karla Freeman in the summers.

“I didn’t really have the time or energy to dedicate myself to it in a larger sense until the kids were grown,” Poore said of her art.

“Once they were grown and out of the home, I’ve been spending more dedicated time.”

For her painting, Poore uses palette knives. A big fan of Impressionism — she really likes Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh as well as Georgia O’Keefe — using palette knives allows her to paint in broader, thicker strokes.

“It’s like spreading mud,” she said at her art opening.

Her background in drafting and cartography pushed her into

a precise, linear style.

“In order to break that pattern, it helped me to work with a palette knife,” she said. “It forced me to break my style.”

Growing up in rural Kenai, Poore came to appreciate the natural beauty of the land and the wildlife. That circles back to her art today.

“When I do my art, it’s a celebration of the things close to me that I love, whether it’s the scenery or the animals or the flowers,” she said. “It’s looking closely and thinking what a miracle this is, what a joy it is to have in our life.”

That’s a reaction she said she hopes to find from her heart — and one she’s received.

“I hope that’s what my work does: It speaks to people’s hearts and brings them some appreciation and joy for the world,” she said.

Her Homer Council on the Arts Show included mostly paintings of flowers.

“What I started hearing from people was ‘It’s so joyful,’ ” she said. “When I started hearing that from more than one person, … I thought, that one works.”

Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@homernews.com.

James Bond film release pushed back 7 months due to virus

By Lindsey Bahr Associated Press

LOS ANGELES —The release of the James Bond film “No Time To Die” has been pushed back several months because of global concerns about coronavirus.

MGM, Universal and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on Twitter Wednesday that the film would be pushed back from its April release to November 2020.

The announcement cited consideration of the global theatrical marketplace in the decision to delay the release of the film.

“No Time To Die” will now hit theaters in the U.K. on Nov. 12 and worldwide on Nov. 25.

The Bond films make a significant portion of their profits from international markets. The last film, “Spectre,” made over $679 million from overseas theaters in 2015 with over $84 million of that total coming from China.

Concerns had already been brewing around the imminent release and the global outbreak. Publicity plans in China, Japan and South Korea had previously been canceled. And on Monday, the popular James Bond fan site MI6-HQ published an open letter to the producers urging them to delay the film’s rollout.

“It is time to put public health above marketing release schedules and the cost of canceling publicity events,” the letter said.

Hollywood film release and production

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CALENDAR Events and exhibitions

Corner

Second Winter

I thought you’d gone away; please don’t think I want you to stay.

It’s time for spring to come someday.

Darkness is less, lightness is more, wonder what this season has in store.

The ground is still frozen, but I’m still glad this residence we’ve chosen.

The rivers, lakes and ocean are so cold.

They never warm up, I’ve been told.

Though snow may appear, it’s better to look forward and not to the rear.

The seasons change quick, To live to the fullest, that’s the trick.

The tides ebb and flow the most aggressive around.

Be aware of surroundings know their sounds.

Alaska is unique in all form and fashion, with God’s help, I’ll sit and imagine.

So Mother Nature, if you’re not finished with Winter; I’ll try to be happy not bitter.

— Bonnie Marie Playle

schedules have already been affected by the outbreak. Last week, Paramount Pictures halted production on the seventh “Mission: Impossible” film, which had been scheduled to shoot in Venice, Italy.

The studio also postponed the Chinese release of “Sonic the Hedgehog.”

The coronavirus outbreak emerged in China and has spread globally. In all, more than 94,000 people have contracted the virus worldwide, with more than 3,200 deaths.

■■ Got the Spruce Bark Beetle Blues? Come learn the good, the bad, and the grub-ly about these destructive little critters and how you can help keep them out of our beautiful trees. Dawn Magness of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge will be giving us so much great information on how to identify and battle these pests that you’re not gonna want to miss this! Free and open to the public. Bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Date: Tuesday, March 10, 7 -8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment), Soldotna.

Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact Cleta Elefritz at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.

■■ KPC Showcase: Megafauna fossils: Habitat Speaker Series, brought to you by The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership, Kenai Watershed Forum and Kenai Peninsula College Showcase, will take place on Tuesday, March 10 from 6-7 p.m. at KPC @ McLane Commons. Historian Janet Klein and geologist Dick Reger will present on Megafauna fossils found on Southwestern Kenai Peninsula. Since 1958, 19 fossils of ice-age mammals had been found on the western Kenai Peninsula. In 2015 Janet and Dick presented those findings and now have an update on fossils found from Clam Gulch south to Homer. Free to the public.

■■ Peninsula Take-A-Break luncheon will take place Saturday, March 21, 12-1:30 p.m. at Solid Rock Conference Center, Mile 90.5 Sterling Highway, Soldotna. Inspiration speakers: Heather & Heather, “Friends, faith and finding success.” For reservations call Susan at 335-6789 or 440-1319.

Reservations need to be made by Wednesday, March 17.

■■ Jazz up the end of winter with the final Performing Arts Society concert for the season.

Join Aaron Lohmeyer & Friends for both classical sax and a lively jazz ensemble on Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $10 for students. They are available at River City Books and Northcountry Fair in Soldotna; at Already Read Books, Country Liquor, and Curtain Call in Kenai, and at the door.

■■ The Kenai Fine Art Center’s opening for March features local art juried by contemporary visual artist and muralist, James Temte. You can see his work on the outside west wall of Anchorage Museum’s SEED LAB (109 West 6th Ave) called “THINK NEXT OVER NOW.” An artist and climate change adjunct professor with APU, James is making an impact in Alaska’s largest city.

The Biennial show features all types of media, but we will see what pieces make the cut. All art will be selected/juried to make it in this show. Prizes will be awarded. Free and open to the public with food and refreshments available opening night March 5, 5-7 p.m. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www. kenaifineart.com The Biennial Juried show will hang until March 28.

Entertainment ■■ The Flats Bistro in Kenai presents live dinner music Thursday and Friday from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursdays and Mike Morgan on Fridays. For dinner reservations (recommended) please call The Flats Bistro at 907-335-1010. Please watch this space for more music at The Flats this winter.

■■ Don Jose’s Restaurant in Soldotna presents “All-You-Can-Eat Tacos” and live music every

Thursday from 6-9 p.m. Please call Don Jose’s at 907-262-5700 for reservations and info.

■■ Mike Morgan and Friends will perform live music at Veronica’s Cafe in Old Town Kenai on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 6:30-8 p.m. Reservations are recommended; call Veronica’s at 907-283-2725.

■■ The Place Motel Bar & Grill will host soft tip blind draw Friday, March 6. Sign-up starts 6 p.m. Play begins at 7 p.m. Mardi Gras Party with karaoke on Saturday, March 7. Come enjoy some Great Cajun food, music and awesome people!

■■ Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

■■ A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski.

■■ Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725.

■■ The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887.

■■ An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m.

■■ Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.

■■ AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community.

■■ The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m.

Thursdays.