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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 102

In the news Wasilla teen charged in shooting death of 18-year-old man PALMER — A Wasilla teenager has been charged with manslaughter in the death of another youth. Alaska State Troopers say 18-year-old Jordan Flowers fired a shot that killed another 18-yearold man. Flowers also is charged with two counts of felony assault. Alaska State Troopers at 2:30 a.m. Sunday took a call of a shooting at a Wasilla home. Investigators determined Flowers had pointed a loaded pistol at the second 18-year-old man and pulled the trigger. The second teen was struck in the neck. His name was not immediately released.

Snowplow strikes, kills pedestrian on Anchorage street ANCHORAGE — A snowplow operating on an Anchorage street near Merrill Field struck and killed a pedestrian. Anchorage police just after 11 p.m. Sunday responded to the accident on Fifth Avenue, the main inbound street to the city from the north. A state snowplow operator told officers he saw something dark in the roadway and swerved to avoid it. He turned the plow around to see what it was and discovered a man in a traffic lane. Emergency responders declared the man dead at the scene. A witness told police the man had been seen in the roadway seconds before the plow hit him.

Man dies in rollover crash on Anchorage’s Minnesota Drive ANCHORAGE — A man died Monday morning in a rollover crash on a main thoroughfare on Anchorage’s south side. Anchorage police say a pickup rolled multiple times on Minnesota Drive. The crashed closed one lane in both directions on the six-lane road between Raspberry and International Airport roads. The driver was declared dead at the scene. Police say morning snowfall covered ice and created hazardous driving conditions throughout Anchorage. — Associated Press

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Gov proposes slashing education by $20M By KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed two supplemental budget bills Monday, one of which includes a $20 million cut to education. Senate Bill 39 provides an increase for other areas of state government including Department of Corrections, the Alaska State Troopers and the Office of Information Technology. Both bills were referred to the Senate Finance Committee on Monday morning. The second bill, Senate Bill 38, would appropriate $37.7 million toward disaster relief and mitigation. Supplemental budget bills amend the current budget, which ends June 30, by moving unused funds from

Gov. Mike Dunleavy give his State of the State speech to a Joint Session of the Alaska Legislature as Senate President Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, left, and House Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, listen at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 22. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

one department to another department. In May 2018, legislators passed a $20 million appropriation to be distributed among Alaska’s school

districts during the current fiscal year. Dunleavy’s proposal essentially nixes the $20 million appropriation approved by legislators when the budget passed.

The $20 million was the first budget increase in years. It was divided among Alaska’s 53 school districts and Mt. Edgecumbe school in Sitka. According to a document from the Office of Budget and Management, the reason for the proposed education cut is, “The additional funding created a situation in which education was funded beyond the statutorily required amount while other programs were underfunded. This reduction is required to meet other obligations of the state.” Rep. Andi Story, a freshman from Juneau who spent 15 years on the Board of Education, said she has never seen a move like this. “That would be unprecedented to make a cut midyear when school boards

have already planned and made budgets, and worked with parents, and made contracts on those allocations,” Story said. “I want teachers, and parents and staff to focus on outcomes. Not the budget. They should be focused on kids right now and I don’t want them to have to worry about budget. It’s not the appropriate time to do it.” Lisa Parady, executive director of the Alaska Council of School Administrators, said this proposed cut from the Dunleavy Administration was “not unexpected” but also “disappointing.” The Council of School Administrators represents superintendents, principals and other administrators but not teachers. “The school districts

See $20M, page A2

Returning from govt shutdown, Peninsula officials ask federal workers pick up pieces fisheries board to rescind By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

The longest shutdown in U.S. history ended Friday when President Donald Trump signed a bill to reopen the government for three weeks. Nearly 700 emails and 60 voicemails awaited Amy Milburn when

she returned to work after being furloughed for 35 days. Milburn is the area director for the United States Department of Agriculture and Rural Development office in Kenai. The office is home to only two employees, including Milburn. She said the impact of the partial federal government

shutdown went beyond herself and her coworker. “It was hard knowing how many people were affected,” Milburn said. Without a regular paycheck, and with the uncertainty of when back pay will come, Milburn said she had to cut costs for her fam-

See GOVT, page A2

decision, reschedule vote By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Citing concern over a lack of public notice, peninsula officials have asked the Alaska Board of Fisheries to rescind its decision to move the location of the

2020 Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting from the Kenai-Soldotna area back to Anchorage, and to revisit it at a later date. Soldotna City Manager Stephanie Queen, Kenai City Manager Paul OsSee FISH, page A3

‘Polar vortex’ freezes US Sudden Arctic warming sends frigid temperatures south By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — It might seem counterintuitive, but the dreaded polar vortex is bringing its icy grip to parts of the U.S. thanks to a sudden blast of warm air in the Arctic. Get used to it. The polar vortex has been wandering more often in recent years. It all started with misplaced Moroccan heat. Last month, the normally super chilly air temperatures 20 miles above the North Pole rapidly rose by about 125 degrees, thanks to air flowing in from the south. It’s called “sudden stratospheric warming.” That warmth split the polar vortex, leaving the pieces to wander, said Judah Cohen, a winter storm expert for Atmospheric Environmental Research, a com-

parts of Minnesota, according to the National Weather Service. The unusual cold could stick around another eight weeks, Cohen said. “The impacts from this split, we have a ways to go. It’s not the end of the movie yet,” Cohen said. “I think at a minimum, we’re looking at mid-February, possibly through mid-March.” Americans were introduced to the polar vortex five years ago. It was in early January 2014 when temperatures dropped to minus 16 degrees in Chicago and meteorologists, who used the term for decades, started talking about it on social Morning commuters face a tough slog on Wacker Drive in Chicago on Monday. (Rich media. Hein/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) This outbreak may snap some daily records for cold mercial firm outside Boston. By Wednesday morning, forecast calls for a low of and is likely to be even more “Where the polar vortex one of those pieces will be minus 21 degrees in Chi- brutal than five years ago, goes, so goes the cold air,” over the Lower 48 states for cago and wind chills flirting especially with added wind See ARCTIC, page A2 Cohen said. the first time in years. The with minus 65 degrees in

Sarah Palin’s son gains release from halfway house By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Track Palin, the elder son of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, has won an early release from custody after his conviction for assaulting his father. Palin reported to an Anchorage halfway house in December to serve a year for the 2017 attack on his father. But he was released after a judge granted a motion Thursday for credit for time spent on electronic monitoring. Palin, 29, was released

Soldotna couple accused of stealing, selling car to dealership By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

In this Oct. 3, 2018, file photo, Track Palin, left, talks with his lawyer Patrick Bergt before a hearing in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Rachel D’Oro, File)

Thursday evening, according to Trey Watson of the correctional management firm the Geo Group,

which operates the halfway house. TMZ.com first reported See TRACK, page A3

Two people from Soldotna are charged with trading in a stolen vehicle at a dealership and committing thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit card purchases, according to an affidavit filed at the Kenai court. Arlyn Query, 29, and Shawn Schmalzried, 35, allegedly stole a vehicle and several credit cards. According to the Jan. 25 affidavit, the alleged victim called Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers

on Jan. 11 to report fraud and theft. The man told troopers that Query and Schmalzried had been living with him but had recently moved out. When the man received a statement for his credit card for the month of December, he noticed more than $6,000 in unauthorized transactions. The alleged victim told troopers that the couple had broken into his safe where he kept his credit cards while he was on vacation in December. He also told troopers that he See CAR, page A3

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.08" Month to date ........................... 0.35" Normal month to date ............. 0.86" Year to date .............................. 0.35" Normal year to date ................. 0.86" Record today ................. 0.34" (1969) Record for Jan. ............. 3.03" (1980) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.5" Month to date ............................. 0.5" Season to date ......................... 15.4"

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Arctic air will pour into the Midwest and northern Plains today. A storm system will bring snow from New England through the Northeast and mid-Atlantic to Alabama and Mississippi.

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chill, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private weather firm Weather Underground. When warm air invades the polar region, it can split the vortex or displace it, usually toward Siberia, Cohen said. Recently, there have been more splits, which increase the odds of other places getting ultracold, he said. Pieces of the polar vortex have chilled Europe, Siberia and North America this time. (It’s not right to call the frigid center of cold air the polar vortex because it is just a piece or a lobe, not the entire vortex, said University of Oklaho-

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ily. She said she cut $600 off her food bill. “It had an effect on our economy,” Milburn said. “Neither of us were able to go out to eat, which means a server didn’t get a tip and a restaurant didn’t have a customer. I have more heartburn over people who didn’t get their tips.” She said the effect wasn’t just in food consumption, but with all of her partners in the community.

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have had this budgeted since July first,” Parady said in a phone interview. “In many cases districts in Alaska have relied on this revenue.” Parady said going back on a deal that was reached the previous legislative session, would be a “double whammy” because of a Alaska’s teacher shortage, and would only exacerbate the situation. “I think many educators are wondering whether to stay or to go,” Parady said. Parady does not believe Alaskans want this educa-

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ma meteorology professor Jason Furtado.) When the forces penning the polar vortex in the Arctic are weak, it wanders, more often to Siberia than Michigan. And it’s happening more frequently in the last couple decades, Furtado said. A study a year ago in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society looked at decades of the Arctic system and found the polar vortex has shifted “toward more frequent weak states.” When the polar vortex pieces wander, warmth invades the Arctic, Alaska, Greenland and Canada, Masters said. While the Midwest chills, Australia has been broiling to recordbreaking heat. The world as a whole on Monday was

0.7 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. Some scientists — but by no means most — see a connection between humancaused climate change and difference in atmospheric pressure that causes slower moving waves in the air. “It’s a complicated story that involves a hefty dose of chaos and an interplay among multiple influences, so extracting a clear signal of the Arctic’s role is challenging,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. Several recent papers have made the case for the connection, she noted. “This symptom of global warming is counterintui-

tive for those in the crosshairs of these extreme cold spells,” Francis said in an email. “But these events provide an excellent opportunity to help the public understand some of the ‘interesting’ ways that climate change will unfold.” Others, like Furtado, aren’t sold yet on the climate change connection. Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, who has already felt temperatures that seem like 25 degrees below zero, said there’s “a growing body of literature” to support the climate connection. But he says more evidence is needed. “Either way,” Gensini said, “it’s going to be interesting being in the bullseye of the Midwest cold.”

In Kodiak, which is a part of the office’s service area, 20 percent of the 6,000 person population was not receiving a paycheck. Several Kodiak businesses were offering discounts and IOUs. Milburn said there wasn’t as much awareness about the shutdown on the peninsula. “It’s not as widely felt in the community when it’s just two people (in our office),” Milburn said. “I didn’t see discounts at grocery stores or in restaurants.” When Milburn and her coworker were furloughed Dec. 21 last year, the office wasn’t completely shut

down. Natural Resources Conservation Services and their employees were funded and able to stay open. Milburn said this was a great thing, as they have more employees. The USDA-Rural Development office has several programs that help Alaskans become homeowners. According to their website, USDA-Rural Development provides federal assistance resources throughout rural Alaska and has invested $2.16 billion dollars in 236 rural communities in the last eight years. Milburn said all of these programs were

brought to a halt during the shutdown. Since furloughed workers can’t discuss work during the shutdown, residents concerned with the status of their loans couldn’t reach out to the USDA office for answers. “Most of the housing applicants understood it was out of our control,” Milburn said. Milburn said her office is optimistically hoping there’s not another shutdown. “We’re glad we’re back,” Milburn said. “It’s hard not being considered essential. It’s kind of degrading.”

tion cut, nor does she believe there is a will in the legislature. She referenced a recently released survey from the Republican-led Senate Majority, that says 51 percent of those surveyed think education spending is too low. “To take it back at this point is very difficult for school districts,” she added. Before Dunleavy can sign a bill, it must be passed by the Senate and House. The House remains without a majority caucus, and it cannot conduct legislative business until it does. Rep. Sara Hannon, DJuneau, said she was perplexed by this supplemental bill.

“Instead of being an addition, you’re taking away money,” Hannan said. “If this bill if went through as the governor proposed it, (School districts) may be three-fifths of through the fiscal year before you ask for this money. That’s the part that really throws me.” Senate Bill 38 This is a disaster relief bill to help make repairs in Southcentral Alaska following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Anchorage in November. This disaster relief bill would provide a $6.5 million to match a federal grant of $46 million. This would be a forward payment for fiscal 2020.

The bill would add another $21.9 million to the state’s disaster relief fund. As the governor pointed out in a memo attached to the bill, “The full damage to highways may not be known until spring.” The state may have to spend more money repairing earthquake damage. Another $1 million would go to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to make repairs that were not covered by insurance. This bill would also appropriate $7.9 million to the Department of Natural Resources for the purpose of wildland firefighting and related activities.

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Helen M. O’Brien March 15, 1925 - January 18, 2019 After many years of living in Nikiski, Helen M. O’Brien died, Friday, January 18th, 2019 at her home. She was 93 years old. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 29th at the North Star United Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 N. Spur Road in Nikiski. Pastor Bailey Brawner will officiate. A potluck will immediately follow the service. Helen was born on March 15th, 1925 in Tomahawk, Wisconsin to Arthur and Grace Faren. She lived and raised nine children in Wisconsin where she worked as a custodian for the Wausau School District. After briefly moving to Ketchikan, Alaska in 1967 Helen eventually moved to Kenai in 1968 where she would work for the KPBSD until May of 1986 when she retired in Nikiski. Helen was an avid reader who loved to fish for silvers in the fall, crochet blankets for her many grandchildren and work her crossword puzzles. She was always baking pies for her church and making homemade jam from the raspberries out in her garden that she shared with her beloved husband Shannon O’Brien. Mrs. O’Brien was preceded in death by her husband Shannon O’Brien and her children Carlos, Darwin, Nile, and Nita Metcalf. She is survived by her children and their spouses Sandra Bise, Carlon and Lark Metcalf, Nila and Ed Shinton, Rea Borzych and Lynnette and Mike Carroll; her sister Marilyn Opyd; her stepchildren Patrick and Juanita O’Brien, Michael O’Brien, Kathleen and Peter King, Timothy and Roberta O’Brien, Shawna and Jeff Smith of Nikiski; 23 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren and great-greatgrandchildren; 17 step grandchildren and many great and great-great step-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. O’Brien’s memory to Hospice of the Central Peninsula, 35911 Kenai Spur Hwy #9, Soldotna, AK 99669. Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.

Services announcement Robert H. “Bob� Breakfield, Sr. Longtime Alaskan and Soldotna resident Robert H. “Bob� Breakfield, Sr., 91, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2019 at Riverside Assisted Living in Soldotna. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Soldotna Community Memorial Park. Arrangements are with Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

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Palin’s release over the weekend. Palin’s attorney, Patrick Bergt, and prosecutors did not immediately comment Monday. Palin, who served a year in Iraq, was previously enrolled in a veterans’ therapeutic court program for the assault on his father. But he was dismissed from the program following new assault charges in September.

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trander and Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce all signed a letter addressed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries outlining their disappointment with the board’s actions leading up to its vote to move the location of the Upper Cook Inlet 2020 Finfish meeting. On Friday, Jan. 18, in an unexpected vote, the board decided to move the regulatory meeting from the Kenai

In that case, a female acquaintance said Palin told her she couldn’t leave his Wasilla house, took her phone and then hit her in the head. Misdemeanor charges including assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct are pending in that case. In December 2017, Palin was accused of breaking into his parents’ home and leaving his father, Todd, bleeding from cuts on his head, authorities said. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal trespass.

—Riverside Band, lunchtime entertainment, Monday, Feb. 25 at 11:30 a.m. Free —Hidden Gems 2 trip to Farmhouse Gypsy and NoHost to Firefly Cafe, Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. $5 ride fee Annual Winter Wine Tasting & Auction —Council on Aging, Thursday, Feb. 14 at 4:30 p.m. Hospice of the Central Peninsula’s 23rd Annual Win—Kenai Senior Connection Board Meeting, Friday, ter Wine Tasting & Auction will take place on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 9:30 a.m. Feb 9. Must be at least 21 years old to attend. Contact the Hospice Office for tickets. 907.262.0453

Around the Peninsula

Quilts of Valor meeting

Local Food Directory Deadline

Quilts of Valor will host a “sew day� on Feb. 2 at the Funny River Center. Quilts of Valor is a national group March 1 is the deadline for farmers, fishers, local food that makes quilts for veterans affected by war. For more businesses and sponsors to sign up to be included in the info call 907-252-4173. 2019 Kenai Loves Local Food Directory. The directory is published annually by Kenai Local Food Connection and Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District. For more Al-Anon support group meetings information, go to www.kenaisoilandwater.org or call Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the CenHeidi Chay at 283-8732 x 5. tral Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second

KPC Showcase and Kenai Local Food Connection present: Symphony of the Soil A new documentary from the director of The Future of Food, Symphony of Soil will be screened at 6:30pm, Feb. 7, at the Kenai Peninsula College KRC McLane Commons. This film examines our human relationship with soil, the use, and misuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil’s key role in ameliorating the most challenging environmental issues of our time. Filmed on four continents, featuring esteemed scientists and working farmers and ranchers, Symphony of the Soil is an intriguing presentation that highlights possibilities of healthy soil creating healthy plants creating healthy humans living on a healthy planet. This event is free and open to the public.

KPBSD budget meetings

floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 2520558 for more information.

LeeShore Center monthly board meeting The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly Board meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further information call 283-9479.

Alaska Food Festival & Conference Registration is open for the 4th semi-annual Alaska Food Festival & Conference, which will take place at Land’s End Resort in Homer on March 8 and 9. Session topics will cover Alaska’s vast and diverse food system: farmers market issues, food security, policy, production, harvesting, business, education, community, tradition, sovereignty, fermenting, subsistence, growing, and more! Chef demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendor booths, and a Friday night social round out the event. This event is sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council and the Alaska Farmers Market Association. For program and registration information, go to https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil.org/2019-conference/.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District requests input from staff, parents, and community members at the districtwide KPBSD budget development meeting, scheduled at the following locations: —Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 6:00 p.m. in the Homer High School Library —Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Soldotna High School Library —Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. in the Kenai Central Ammo Can Coffee Open Mic High School Library Ammo Can Coffee will host open mic nights from 7-11 —Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Seward High p.m. on February 1/2, 8/9, 15/16, 22/23 and March 1/2. School Library As new budget information becomes available, it will be posted here: http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/departments.aspx?id=38. If you have questions, please call Grief support group Natalie Bates at 714-8888. Hospice of the Central Peninsula will facilitate an eight-week grief support group, “Grief is as individual as a snowflake,� beginning Feb. 6 at the Hospice office at Kenai Senior Center February 5:30 p.m., 35911 Kenai Spur Hwy, Soldotna. For ques—Waffles served in dining room Fridays from 8-10 tions or additional information, please contact Lee at 262a.m., Feb. 1, 8, 15, 11. Free 0453. Our services are free. Pre-sign-up requested. —Super Bowl party, Friday, Feb. 1, at 11:30 a.m. Free —Anyone Can Draw, 4-art beginning drawing lass taught by Carolyn Reid, Mondays, Feb. 4, 11,25 and Rehanna Thelwell and Maria Allison in March 4 at 1 p.m. Free concert —Winter Blues bereavement presentation, Monday Feb. 4 at 12:30 p.m. Free The Performing Arts Society will present mezzo/contral—Riverside Band, lunchtime entertainment on Mon- to singer, Rehanna Thelwell, and pianist Maria Allison in day, Feb. 4 at 11:30 a.m. Free concert on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ —Fred Meyer Shopping, Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. Free Lutheran Church. Tickets are $20 general admission and —Movie and Popcorn Night, Letters to Juliet on $10 for students. Thursday, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Free —M&M knitting group, Thursday, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28 AK CESCL training from 1-2 p.m. Free The Kenai Watershed Forum will be hosting a 2-day AK —Kaleidoscope Performance, songs and valentines, CESCL training on Feb. 11-12 at the Cook Inlet AquaculMonday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. Free ture Association in Kenai. With a 1-day refresher course on —No Host Dinner to King Salmon Restaurant, Tues- Feb. 13. The 2-day training explains the erosion process day, Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. $5 and how to obtain and comply with the EPA NPDES Con—Card Making with Kimberley, Tuesday, Feb. 12 at struction General Permit. Register online at www.kenaiwa1 p.m. Free tershed.org. —Social Security, Wednesday, Feb. 6 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free —Valentine’s Day party and volunteer lunch, Thurs- Irish music concert day, Feb. 14 at 11:30 a.m. Free Please join Kenai Peninsula College again this year for —Riverside Harmony lunchtime entertainment, Thurs“A Winter Concert of Traditional Irish Music,� featuring day, Feb. 14 at 12:15 p.m. Free John Walsh, Pat Broaders, and Rose Flanagan at 7 p.m. Fri—Closed for President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 18. —Kenai Peninsula Caregivers Group, Monday, Feb. day, Feb. 1 in the Ward Building of the Kenai River Campus. This event is open to the public and is a food drive 19 from 1-3 p.m. Free —Birthday lunch, Thursday, Feb. 20 at 11:30 a.m. $7 event for the food pantry at the KRC Residence Hall. Please suggested donation or free if celebrating birthday this bring a nonperishable food item. In lieu of food items cash donations will also be welcome. month and more than 60

turn the vehicle, and he later realized that his vehicle title was also missing from the safe. Query was located on Jan. 18 in Anchorage driving a newer Chevy Tahoe that she told Anchorage police she had just recently pur-

chased. Troopers discovered that the Tahoe had been purchased on Jan. 16 by a couple matching the description of Query and Schmalzried at the Kendall Volkswagen dealership in Anchorage. The manager of the dealership informed troopers that

the reportedly stolen Subaru Forester was at the dealership and had been traded in by Query and Schmalzried to purchase the Tahoe. Troopers also received security footage from the Kenai Safeway and Walmart that allegedly showed Query and

Schmalzried making purchases with the stolen credit cards on several different occasions. Query was arrested in Anchorage and Schmalzried has a warrant issued for his arrest. Query and Schmalzried face three counts of second-

degree theft of access devices, three counts of fraudulent use of access devices, one count of first-degree vehicle theft, one count of first-degree forgery, one count of first-degree burglary, and one count of second-degree theft.

Peninsula to Anchorage. The meeting was originally going to be held in Anchorage, but a March 2018 vote moved the meeting to the Kenai-Soldotna area. According to the letter, the vote — held on Jan. 18 during the Arctic-YukonKuskokwim finfish meeting — was taken without reasonable public notice and after peninsula officials were assured that no action would be taken. At the start meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15, board chair Reed Moriskey mentioned that the Upper Cook Inlet meeting location

would be discussed. On Friday, the board reversed their March 2018 decision with a 4-3 vote, bringing the 2020 meeting back to Anchorage. “(The letter) is pretty explicit about what we feel was a flawed process. I think that if we’re going to increase people’s trust in government then this is the kind of thing that can’t happen,� Ostrander said. The letter argues that, prior to the meeting, there was no advance notice given to the public that the meeting location would be revisited. Beyond the bureaucratic failures cited by the peninsula officials, the letter also claims the vote was taken despite personal assurances from Moriskey that no vote would be taken Friday. Ostrander, who went to the Jan. 18 meeting with Queen, said that they were told that the vote would be postponed because of a lack

of public notice. “That sounded reasonable,â€? Ostrander said. “The fact is that this had been brought up after public testimony had been closed, with no formal public notice. The only reason we knew was because we got a text message.â€? Ostrander and Queen stayed at the meeting until about noon, he said, before asking Moriskey again if a vote would be taken. “He assured me twice that they would not be holding the vote that day, that it would be held at a later date,â€? Ostrander said. “We left Anchorage at about 1 p.m. and they voted on it at about 1:45 p.m‌ My initial reaction was shock and disbelief, frankly. When we pulled into Soldotna we got a call and we were told they had a vote. I honestly didn’t believe it, so, clearly, I was disappointed in the actions

of the board. I did feel deceived and immediately knew that we would have to respond in some manner.� The letter asks that the board rescind its decision and reschedule the issue to be considered at a later date. “Regardless of the outcome of the eventual vote, we hope Board members recognize the need to reassure all Alaskans in the fairness of the public process,� according to the letter. “Addressing the location of the

2020 UCI Finfish meeting at a future date would also allow the Board to consider the decision within the context of the current policy establishing rotating meeting locations.� The letter from Queen, Ostrander and Pierce joins a press release from the peninsula delegation released last week.

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When snap judgments go viral, everyone loses It’s worth thinking about the rush

Trump lost shutdown fight. Now what?

The first thing that needs to be said about President Trump’s decision to sign a measure re-opening part of the federal government without getting money for the wall he demanded is that his experience as a New York businessman was no help. Perhaps he failed to recognize that Democrats are the party of government and no one guards the power, cost and perks of government better than they do. As long as Democrats stuck together — and they did (Republicans should learn a lesson) — he was bound to lose. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were justified in their smirking reaction. Schumer bragged, “This agreement endorses our position.” Of course a wall, or barrier or something, is needed to stem the tide of those who enter the country illegally, and some border patrol agents agree. “Absolutely” helpful, Brian Hastings, a U.S. Border Patrol chief of law enforcement operations, said back in November, as the immigrant caravan inched its way toward our border. Aren’t these agents on the front lines more knowledgeable than career politicians playing their annoying games in Washington? Does anyone expect promised “negotiations” between Senate and House Republicans these next three weeks to produce anything that successfully contributes to real border security? Democrats, flushed with at least a short-term victory, are not about to anger their base by compromising, and some in the Republican base are upset by the president’s socalled “cave” to Democrat demands.

In a Rose Garden announcement of his decision to re-open government, the president held out the possibility of declaring a national Cal Thomas emergency if Democrats continue to refuse funding for his barrier wall. We know where that will lead, don’t we? Democrats will likely go to a liberal federal judge, probably named by President Obama, and get a stay on the order. Any appeal process could take months, adding more fuel to the chaos stoking anger among many on the left and the right. One way to get Democrats to focus might be to steer those entering illegally with criminal backgrounds to the states and districts where members of Congress who oppose the wall reside. Cynical, I know, but in Washington, since the 2016 election, cynicism reigns supreme. There are solutions to almost any problem, but it appears politicians prefer the immigration issue to run on as a means of raising money, garnering votes and harnessing power. It’s all about politicians and rarely about the rest of us, their claims about “the American people” notwithstanding. President Trump made building a wall (and getting Mexico to pay for it) the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign and the first half of his term. If it doesn’t happen, with or without the help of Congress, he must find

to harshly condemn a Kentucky high school student on the basis of some cellphone images and his red MAGA hat. The episode, which has produced threats of violence, is both a sign — and a cause — of our country’s powder keg of political division. Even the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, which exists to protect the Bill of Rights, quickly tweeted out its disapproval. The ACLU assumed the students from Covington Catholic High School had committed “racial intimidation.” Yet, as the ACLU well knows, displaying political slogans (including those of our noxious president) and “taunting” are forms of expression protected by the First Amendment (if, indeed, taunting occurred). The teen who came in for the most vilification was savaged for smiling — quickly labeled a “smirk” — at a Native American activist who was drumming and singing. Our goal here is not to assign blame but to suggest that perhaps no one who joined the cacophony of voices at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday had malign motives. Maybe none of them deserve the virtual tar and feathers. We’re all for holding the powerful accountable, especially the cowering politicians riding the coattails of President Donald Trump’s demagoguery and race-baiting. But can’t we stand up for what we believe without tearing each other apart? Surely, we can grant kids (even kids wearing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats) some slack. The snap judgments were based on a provocative image. But as more video became public and news reporters had time to work, a fuller picture emerged that made the harsh condemnations look premature, simplistic and a massage for preexisting beliefs and biases. The Native American activist, Nathan Phillips, 64, … said that he walked into the crowd of students, while earlier accounts on social media suggested the students, waiting for a bus to take them home, had mobbed Phillips. Somehow social media strips any benefit of the doubt. People shared vile conclusions, even before hearing the students’ accounts. Compassionate people who in person would probably engage a young Trump supporter in a spirited respectful conversation were happy on social media to throw the kids like chum to sharks, inflaming the kind of people who threaten schools. The Diocese of Covington, which sent teenage boys to march against the rights of adult women as part of an annual anti-abortion rally, quickly conLetters to the Editor demned its own students — including for making the anti-abortion march look bad. That all this unfolded on the long weekend when we celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Let nature take its course us in the community have heard a Jr. should remind us that King, a warrior for husteady stream of reports consistent Spending taxpayer dollars to with poor interpersonal and leaderman rights, also extended the hand of peace to his hold off erosion of the Kenai bluff’s ship skills, recent headlines appear enemies. … — The (Kentucky) Lexington Herald-Leader, Jan. 21

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valuable view property has been attempted in Alaska for generations. Most recently, in the states of northern coastal villages, to no effect. Preventing natural erosion, with costly delaying tactics, is not the answer. A few big storms, a few 7.9 quakes, or bigger, will wipe out efforts to keep the bluff in place that the city can come up with. The bluff property owners should have no real complaints as they have been able to enjoy the view for centuries — John A. Anderson, Kenai

Public servants must lead by example What sadness to read the recently published front-page news of the lawsuit against Kenai Peninsula mayor, Charlie Pierce, and allegations against his former chief of staff, John Quick. While many of

to demonstrate sizeable, deeply established fault lines in his relatively new administration. We realize the prerogative and right of any elected official in directing key people within their administration. But instead of seeing the fruits of inspired leadership, we’re seeing what appears as the opposite. If bullying or dishonesty is unbefitting our children, how can it be justified in our leaders? The mantle of responsibility invested in higher-level leadership is predictably a challenge. However, that’s never an excuse for ethically compromised behaviors or strongarm tactics. Good leaders recognize their greatest assets leave at the end of their work shifts. It appears we need to bring clarity back to that equation. As is appropriate, many more eyes will be focused on the words and deeds of Mr. Pierce and his administration. For the sake of bor-

another way to do it that the courts will allow and that his base will accept. If he doesn’t his re-election chances may be hurt, assuming Democrats don’t come up with a hard-left candidate. Maybe the president will do all these things. I hope he does. The alternative is likely a socialist government offering high taxes and even more debt, which would end the economic boon that has benefited a record number of new U.S. workers. The Republican National Committee released a statement that said: “Although this bill does not provide wall funding, President Trump remains firmly committed to securing funding during ongoing negotiations. President Trump will not budge on building the wall.” Speaker Pelosi remains just as committed not to fund a wall. The power center has shifted to her, no matter what some other House Democrats are saying about their support of a fence or other barrier. As of Friday she was still refusing to confirm a date for the State of the Union address. It’s all phony. Each time I travel internationally I must go through immigration and customs at the airport. If I attempted to re-enter this or another country illegally, I would be arrested. What’s the difference when Pelosi, Schumer and many other Democrats won’t stop non-citizens from sneaking into America? This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

ough employees, our community and your legacy, Mr. Mayor, please lead through inspiration instead of intimidation and compromise. — Todd Pollock, Kasilof

Dunleavy corrections policies moving in the wrong direction Gov. Dunleavy is doing a superlative job by creating job security for corrections officers: By promulgating recidivism and eliminating a reentry program that had the audacity to help felons get employment and stay off the dole. Then by dropping the internal investigation unit to enable C.O.s to fabricate reports and ignore their own policies without consequence. Genius. Got to pay off the 4,000-a-vote he bought. Public safety is overrated, huh? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. — Garrett S. Fitzgerald, Wildwood Pretrial Facility

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5 House freshmen get seats on panel probing WH

In this photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, laugh as they wait for other freshman Congressmen to deliver a letter calling to an end to the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By LAURIE KELLMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s known as “the theater committee” for its high profile, high-drama role investigating President Donald Trump’s White House. And now, five of the fieriest Democratic freshmen in the House are players on that stage. Alexandria OcasioCortez, Katie Hill, Rashida Tlaib and others now have seats on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee — a sign that Democratic leaders want

their social media savvy and star power front and center of investigations into the Trump administration. In return, the new members get a platform on which to polish their good-government bona fides. And the bet among senior Democrats is that more experienced committee members will help harness the newcomers’ energy, fame and know-how as the blandly-named panel turns its spotlight on the White House ahead of the 2020 elections. “I consider myself to be a little bit of a justice and truth-teller,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.,

referring to her background as a prosecutor. “I think I’m in good company.” On the mission, yes. But the newcomers’ styles will depend in part on how solidly they won their districts in the November elections. “Mine is going to be a very fact-based approach,” said Hill, a liaison to Democratic leaders who will serve as Cummings’ vice chairman and flipped a Republican stronghold in California. “I am not going to go in there with a set agenda as much as seeking the truth.” Added Rep. Harley Rouda, a former Republican who also represents a swing California district: “We have an obligation as members of Congress to provide appropriate oversight regardless of whether it’s Republicans or Democrats or otherwise,” he said. Rouda called himself “somewhat centrist, and I’m going to carry that into that committee as well.” It’s an apt home for the outspoken new members. Real-time drama — on matters ranging from former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Hurricane Katrina and steroids in sports — was the panel’s trademark long be-

fore Trump and the Democratic freshmen came to Washington. “You walk in here, into the back room, you muster your righteous indignation and you step out on the stage and ask somebody: ‘How could you? What were you thinking? When did you first know?’” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a committee member and outspoken conservative who was appointed to the panel when Barack Obama was president. “You can make a grandma feel bad about making cookies for her grandkids.” Though theatrical, the committee has real power to “at any time conduct investigations of any matter,” according to its charter, using as tools subpoenas and the fact that lying to Congress is a crime. And the new chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is promising serious probes that could have consequences for Trump and administration officials who saw relatively little oversight under the Republican-led House. Cummings has promised to look at conflicts of interest within the administration and is one of several chairmen who will lead investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia.

Cohen agrees to talk to House intelligence committee Feb. 8 By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has agreed to talk to the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 8, opting for closed-door testimony after pulling out of a separate public hearing due to security issues. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Monday that Cohen will be appearing voluntarily and that the panel will work with law enforcement to make sure he is safe. Cohen last week postponed testimony he was supposed to give the House Oversight and Reform Committee, blaming threats from Trump and the president’s attorney-spokesman, Rudy Giuliani. Cohen has not detailed the threats, nor has his lawyer. But Trump and Giuliani have publicly urged the Justice Department to investigate Cohen’s father-in-law, insinuating he was part of some unspecific criminal

In this file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, steps out of a cab during his arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)

activity. Trump, for example, told Fox News this month that Cohen “should give information maybe on his father-in-law, because that’s the one that people want to look at.” Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is a central figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Trump’s campaign. Cohen also played a pivotal role in buying the silence of a porn actress and a former Playboy Playmate who both alleged they had sex

with Trump. The president has denied their claims. Cohen pleaded guilty last year to campaign finance violations and other offenses connected to the payments, and he is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence in March. Federal prosecutors have said Trump directed Cohen to make the payments during the campaign. Schiff, D-Calif., said Cohen had relayed “legitimate concerns” about his safety and the safety of his family.

“Efforts to intimidate witnesses, scare their family members, or prevent them from testifying before Congress are tactics we expect from organized crime, not the White House,” Schiff said. “These attacks on Mr. Cohen’s family must stop.” Cohen is also scheduled to talk to the Senate Intelligence Committee next month, in compliance with a subpoena. That interview is scheduled for Feb. 12, according to Lanny Davis, one of Cohen’s lawyers. Also Monday, Cohen’s lawyers announced a shakeup on his defense team as he continues to cooperate with Mueller and prepares for the congressional testimony. Cohen’s legal team announced that two attorneys from Chicago, Michael Monico and his partner Barry Spevack, will represent him, replacing New York-based attorneys Guy Petrillo and Amy Lester. Cohen’s legal team described Monico as one of the “premier criminal defense attorneys in the country.”

Officials urge vaccinations amid Northwest measles outbreak By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Public health officials scrambling to contain a measles outbreak in the U.S. Northwest warned people to vaccinate their children Monday and worried that it could take months to contain the highly contagious viral illness due to a lowerthan-normal vaccination rate at the epicenter of the crisis. The outbreak near Portland has sickened 35 people in Oregon and Washington since Jan. 1, with 11 more cases suspected. Most of the patients are children under 10, and one child has been hospitalized. Health officials say the outbreak is a textbook example of why it’s critical to vaccinate against measles, which was eradicated in the U.S. after the vaccine was introduced in 1963. In recent years, however, the viral illness has popped up again from New York to California and sickened hundreds. Clark County, Washington, has a vaccination rate of 78 percent, well below the level necessary to protect those with compro-

mised immune systems or who can’t get vaccinated because of medical issues or because they are too young. Misinformation is circulating on social media, said Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County public health director. “What keeps me up at night is eventually having a child die from this completely preventable situation,” he said. “It’s still out there, even though it’s been debunked, that the measles vaccine results in autism. That’s nonsense.” Before mass vaccination, 400 to 500 people in the United States died of the measles every year, 50,000 people were hospitalized and 4,000 people developed brain swelling that can cause deafness, Melnick said. One to three cases out of every 1,000 are fatal, he said. People may have been exposed to the disease at about four dozen locations, including Portland International Airport and a Portland Trail Blazers game, officials said. They announced Monday that others could have been infected at the popular Oregon Museum of Science & Industry in Portland and

This file photo, shows a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

a Wal-Mart Supercenter in the bedroom community of Vancouver, Washington. Thirty-one of the confirmed patients had not been vaccinated against measles. The vaccination status of four others who were infected is unknown. The vaccine has been part of routine childhood shots for decades, and measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. But measles is still a big problem in other parts of the world, and travelers infected abroad can bring the virus back and spread it, causing periodic outbreaks. Last year, there were 17 outbreaks and about 350

cases of measles in the U.S. Officials still are not sure where the Northwest outbreak began. The first known patient sought medical care on Dec. 31, but it isn’t known if other people may have gotten sick before that and did not seek treatment. Children receive the first vaccine between 12 and 15 months old and the second vaccine between ages 4 and 6. One vaccine provides 93 percent immunity from measles, and two shots provide 97 percent protection. But the vaccine is less effective in those under a year old and is generally not given to infants.

Around the Nation US charges Chinese tech giant Huawei, top executive WASHINGTON — The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Monday against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive, who are accused of misleading banks about the company’s business and violating U.S. sanctions. The company is also charged in a separate case with stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors are seeking to extradite the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, and allege she committed fraud by misleading banks about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran. She was arrested on Dec. 1 in Canada. U.S. prosecutors charge that Huawei used a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Huawei had done business in Iran through a Hong Kong company called Skycom and alleged that Meng mislead U.S. banks into believing the two companies were separate, according to the Justice Department. Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of network gear used by phone and internet companies and has long been seen as a front for spying by the Chinese military or security services. Prosecutors also allege that Huawei stole trade secrets, including the technology behind a robotic device that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, prosecutors said. A jury in Seattle ruled that Huawei had misappropriated the robotic technology from T-Mobile’s lab in Washington state. The Huawei case has set off a diplomatic spat with the three nations, which has threatened to complicate ties between the U.S. and Canada. President Donald Trump said he would get involved in the Huawei case if it would help produce a trade agreement with China and told Reuters in an interview in December that he would “intervene if I thought it was necessary.”

Dems fear Trump re-election if ex-Starbucks CEO Schultz runs SEATTLE — The most powerful super PAC in Democratic politics is promising to make former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz “a target” if he launches an independent presidential bid. Democrats across the political spectrum lashed out at the billionaire businessman on Monday after he teased the prospect of an independent 2020 bid, a move Democrats fear would split their vote and all but ensure President Donald Trump’s re-election. “If Schultz entered the race as an independent, we would consider him a target… We would do everything we can to ensure that his candidacy is unsuccessful,” said Patrick McHugh, executive director of Priorities USA. The super PAC spent nearly $200 million in the 2016 presidential contest, much of it to support Democrat Hillary Clinton. “The bottom line,” he said, “is that I don’t think Americans are looking for another selfish billionaire to enter the race.” Democrats conceded that they had few tools to dissuade Schultz from launching an independent campaign — as he told “60 Minutes” he was considering — though many were skeptical that he would actually follow through. No presidential candidate in the modern era has run a successful independent campaign. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered Schultz a direct message based on his own experience. “The data was very clear and very consistent. Given the strong pull of partisanship and the realities of the electoral college system, there is no way an independent can win. That is truer today than ever before,” Bloomberg, who is considering a Democratic 2020 bid, said in a statement. He continued: “In 2020, the great likelihood is that an independent would just split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the president. That’s a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can’t afford to run it now.” Tina Podlodowski, the Democratic chairwoman in Washington state, where Schultz has lived for decades, also blasted the potential of an independent campaign. “Howard, if you want to run for President, run as a Democrat,” she said in a statement. “If you want to rely on your money to get elected instead of talking with voters, run as a Republican. But a billionaire buying his way out of the entire primary process does not strengthen democracy; it only makes it more likely that our democracy will be further strained under another four years of President Donald Trump.” Trump himself weighed in on Monday, tweeting that Schultz “doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!” Schultz indirectly addressed the uproar in a video posted on social media Monday. “At this time in America when there’s so much evidence that our political system is broken — that both parties at the extreme are not representing the silent majority of the American people — isn’t there a better way?” Schultz said, noting that he’d be traveling the country in the coming weeks and months meeting with voters. “And what better expression of our democracy than to give the American people a choice that they deserve.” The 65-year-old Seattle billionaire launched a tour Monday to promote his latest book, “From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America.” He has stops this week in New York; Tempe, Arizona; Seattle; and San Francisco — but no dates listed for the early voting states of Iowa or New Hampshire. He’s been mentioned as a potential candidate many times before, and he’s done little to quell speculation about his presidential ambitions since saying when he retired from Starbucks last June that his future could include “public service.” On paper, Schultz offers a number of qualities that might appeal to voters. He grew up in public housing in New York City’s Brooklyn borough and became the first person in his family to graduate from college. — The Associated Press

World

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Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press

HAVANA — Neighborhood brigades and teams of government workers hacked at fallen trees and hauled chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes Monday as the Cuban capital attempted to recover from what officials called the strongest tornado to hit Cuba in nearly 80 years. Three people were dead and hundreds injured, at least 12 in critical condition, after the tornado touched down with estimated winds of 200 mph (320 kph) in three neighborhoods across eastern Havana. Members of the Provincial Defense Council of Havana said 90 homes collapsed completely and 30 suffered partial collapse. A quarter of the city’s roughly 2 million people were without power Monday afternoon and more than 200,000 people had lost water service because of a broken main and power cuts that left pumps out of service. Some 100 underground cisterns close to the coastal section of Havana were contaminated by seawater.

Three electric substations were knocked out by the tornado, the strongest to hit Cuba since Dec. 26, 1940, when a Category F4 tornado hit the town of Bejucal, in what is now Mayabeque province, officials said. It also appeared to be the first tornado to hit the capital in at least as many years. Residents of the three relatively poor boroughs hit by the tornado were bracing for further calamity once the tropical sun started to dry sodden buildings, which can often lead to structures shifting and collapsing. Julio Menendez, a 33-year-old restaurant worker, said his neighborhood in Havana’s 10 de Octubre district looked “like a horror movie.” “From one moment to the next, we heard a noise like an airplane falling out of the sky. The first thing I did was go hug my daughters,” who are 9 and 12, he told The Associated Press. Driver Oster Rodriguez said that amid a fierce storm, what looked like a thick, swirling cloud touched down in the central plaza of the Reparto Modelo neighborhood “like a fireball.” He saw a

Amid mass arrests, Maduro won’t touch rival Guaido

People survey the destruction left behind by a tornado in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/ Ramon Espinosa)

bus blown over, though he said the driver escaped unharmed. Miguel Angel Hernandez of the Cuban Center for Meteorology said the tornado was a Category F3, with winds between 155 and 199 miles per hour, produced when a cold front hit Cuba’s northern coast. Other meteorologist told state media that the tornado may have been even stronger. Some of the heaviest damage from Sunday night’s rare tornado was in the eastern borough of Guanabacoa, where the twister tore the roof off a shelter for dozens of homeless families. Cubans enduring long

waits for government housing often live in such multifamily shelters for years. Dianabys Bueno, 31, was living in the shelter with her husband and son after they were forced to relocate by the collapse of their home in Central Havana. Much of the housing in Havana is in dire condition due to years without maintenance, and building collapses are routine even in ordinary storms. “This has already happened to us once,” Bueno said. “I’m not going anywhere.” Around Havana, cars were crushed by fallen light posts and vehicles were trapped in floodwaters.

US envoy: ‘Agreement in principle’ on Afghan peace talks By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Negotiators for the U.S. and the Taliban insurgents have reached “agreements in principle” on key issues for a peace deal that would end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. envoy said Monday. The statement by U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad followed six days of talks last week with the Taliban in Qatar, where he urged the Islamic insurgent group to enter into direct negotiations with the government of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani on Monday assured Afghans that their rights will not be compromised in the name of peace with the Taliban, who have been staging near-daily attacks against Afghan forces, causing scores of casualties every week. Their offensive has not let up despite the severe Afghan winter and the insurgents now hold sway over nearly half of the country. Khalilzad said in an interview with The New York Times that an agreement in

In this photo released by the Afghan Presidential Palace, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, speaks to U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, third left, at the presidential palace in Kabul. Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 28. (Afghan Presidential Palace via AP)

principle was reached with the Taliban on the framework of a peace deal “which still has to be fleshed out” that will see the insurgents commit to guaranteeing that Afghan territory is not used as a “platform for international terrorist groups or individuals.” He said the deal could lead to a full pullout of U.S. troops in return for a ceasefire and Taliban talks with the Afghan government. In his statement released by the U.S. Embassy, Khalilzad said, “We made

progress on vital issues in our discussions and agreed to agreements in principle on a couple of very important issues. “There is a lot more work to be done before we can say we have succeeded in our efforts but I believe for the first time I can say that we have made significant progress,” he said. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said he has been briefed on the talks and described them as encouraging, but he also told reporters that the de-

partment has not been directed to prepare for a full withdrawal from Afghanistan. Speaking before a meeting at the Pentagon with Shanahan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said any discussion about the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan would be premature. He said Khalilzad had briefed NATO allies on the talks weeks ago. “We are in Afghanistan to create the conditions for a peaceful negotiated solution,” Stoltenberg said. “We will not stay longer than necessary, but we will not leave before we have a situation that enables us to leave or reduce the number of troops without jeopardizing the main goal of our presence and that is to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for international terrorists once again.” He added that he believes it’s too soon to speculate on withdrawal because “what we have to do now is to support the efforts to try to find a peaceful solution. We strongly support those efforts.”

Rescuers search in deep mud after Brazil dam breach, 60 dead By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and PETER PRENGAMAN and ANNA JEAN KAISER Associated Press

BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Brazilian firefighters and Israeli rescue workers carefully moved over treacherous mud — sometimes walking, sometimes crawling — during their search Monday for survivors or bodies following a dam collapse that buried buildings for an iron ore mining complex and inundated nearby neighborhoods with ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 60, with 292 people still missing, according to the fire department in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, where the dam is located. The death toll was expected to grow “exponentially” on Monday after no one was found alive Sunday, the department said. That stood in contrast to the first two days of the disaster, when helicopters whisked people out of the mud. Search efforts were extremely slow because of the treacherous sea of reddishbrown mud that surged

out when the mine dam breached Friday afternoon. The mud was up 24 feet (8 meters) deep in some places, forcing searchers to carefully walk around the edges of the muck or slowly crawl onto it so they would not sink and drown. Rescue teams Monday morning focused their searches on areas where a bus was immersed and the cafeteria of mining company Vale, where many workers were eating lunch when the dam ruptured. Vale SA is the world’s largest producer of iron ore, the raw ingredient for making steel. The Brazilian company’s American depository shares plunged 18 percent Monday on the New York Stock exchange. At the scene of the disaster, helicopters looking for bodies took off and landed nonstop. On the ground, dozens of rescuers with tracking dogs were searching for bodies through the mountains of mud. The Associated Press witnessed a helicopter rescue of three bodies that arrived at the search center. More than 100 Israelis equipped with specialized rescue technology joined the 200 Brazil-

Around the World

Firefighters pull a body from the mud days after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

ian firefighters in the search. Rescue efforts were suspended for about 10 hours Sunday because of fears that a second mine dam in Brumadinho was at risk of failing. About 24,000 people were told to get to higher ground, but by afternoon civil engineers said the second dam no longer posed a risk. Areas of water-soaked mud appeared to be drying out, which could help firefighters get to areas previously unreachable. Still, it was slow going for the search teams, residents were on edge and some started searching on their

own for relatives. A Catholic priest for a church now being used as a command center for rescuers said of the church’s parishioners are believed to be buried in mud. “It’s going to be difficult to rebuild our hearts,” said the priest, Rene Lopez. “This won’t take a month or a year. It’s an open wound for all of the people in Brumadinho.” There was mounting anger directed at Vale amid questions about the area’s largest employer following an apparent lack of a warning siren ahead of Friday’s collapse.

CARACAS, Venezuela — More than 700 opponents of President Nicolas Maduro have been arrested during the latest push by Venezuela’s opposition to oust the socialist leader. But there’s one anti-government activist security forces notably haven’t touched: Juan Guaido, the lawmaker who declared himself interim president in a direct challenge to Maduro’s rule. Maduro’s refusal, at least so far, to order Guaido’s arrest reflects mistrust in his own security forces as well as the Trump administration’s warning that any harm to the man the U.S. recognizes as Venezuela’s legitimate leader would be crossing a dangerous red line. The U.S. administration reiterated that threat Monday in announcing sweeping sanctions against Venezuela’s state oil company. Any actions taken against U.S. diplomats, Guaido or the National Assembly he presides over would be considered a “grave assault” that “will be met with a significant response,” U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said. While he didn’t specify what actions the U.S. might take, he reaffirmed that all options for dealing with Venezuela’s crisis remain on the table, including use of the military. “They won’t dare touch Guaido,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “There’s a new dynamic at play. Even while Maduro’s government continues to brutally repress the poor and invisible, they won’t harm Guaido because he has so much international support.” Maduro’s government on several occasions has threated to arrest the 35-year-old lawmaker, accusing him of violating the constitution and acting as a “puppet” of a U.S. coup attempt. But every day that Guaido is allowed to move freely around Caracas, holding rallies and building a parallel government complete with foreign ambassadors and a presidential-looking office from which he delivers videotaped messages, he looks statelier and undermines Maduro’s authority in the eyes of ordinary Venezuelans, Vivanco said. On Monday, a consular officer in Miami joined Venezuela’s military attache in Washington, Col. Jose Luis Silva, in ditching support for Maduro and recognizing Guaido. “I’m always at the service of my beloved country. I’ll continue to provide consular services in Miami,” Scarlet Salazar said in a video announcing her allegiance to Guaido as she stood in front of a Venezuelan flag. “This is our country’s moment.” It’s not clear what security precautions Guaido is taking to avoid arrest. But he’s not exactly been hard to find. — The Associated Press

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2019. There are 336 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York. On this date: In 1820, King George III died at Windsor Castle at age 81; he was succeeded by his son, who became King George IV. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s famous narrative poem “The Raven” (“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...”) was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1856, Britain’s Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross to reward military acts of valor during the Crimean War. In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. In 1863, the Bear River Massacre took place as the U.S. Army attacked Shoshone in present-day Idaho. The New York Stock & Exchange Board changed its name to the New York Stock Exchange. In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. In 1963, the first charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio (they were enshrined when the Hall opened in September 1963). Poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88. In 1975, a bomb exploded inside the U.S. State Department in Washington, causing considerable damage, but injuring no one; the radical group Weather Underground claimed responsibility. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced in a nationally broadcast message that he and Vice President George H.W. Bush would seek re-election in the fall. In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) In 2002, In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said terrorists were still threatening America -- and he warned of “an axis of evil” consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Ten years ago: Declaring that ending pay disparity is not just a women’s issue, President Barack Obama signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, giving workers more time to take their pay discrimination cases to court. The Illinois Senate voted, 59-0, to convict Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich) of abuse of power and throw him out of office nearly two months after the second-term Democrat’s arrest on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Five years ago: The state of Missouri executed Herbert Smulls for the 1991 slaying of jeweler Stephen Honickman in suburban St. Louis. One year ago: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a target of frequent criticism and accusations of bias from President Donald Trump, abruptly stepped down from his position ahead of his planned retirement in the spring. Alex Azar, a former drug company executive and official in George W. Bush’s administration, was sworn in as Trump’s second health secretary. The Cleveland Indians announced that they would remove the Chief Wahoo logo from their uniforms in the coming baseball season, after decades of protests and complaints that the grinning, red-faced caricature was racist. Today’s Birthdays: Writer-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse is 88. Feminist author Germaine Greer is 80. Actress Katharine Ross is 79. Feminist author Robin Morgan is 78. Actor Tom Selleck is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette is 73. Actor Marc Singer is 71. Actress Ann Jillian is 69. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 66. Rhythm-and-blues/funk singer Charlie Wilson is 66. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 65. Actor Terry Kinney is 65. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 63. Actress Diane Delano is 62. Actress Judy Norton (TV: “The Waltons”) is 61. Rock musician Johnny Spampinato is 60. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 59. Rock musician David Baynton-Power (James) is 58. Rock musician Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) is 58. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 57. Rock singer-musician Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 55. Actor-director Edward Burns is 51. Actor Sam Trammell is 50. Actress Heather Graham is 49. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is 49. Actor Sharif Atkins is 44. Actress Sara Gilbert is 44. Actress Kelly Packard is 44. Actor Justin Hartley is 42. Actor Sam Jaeger is 42. Writer and TV personality Jedediah Bila is 40. Actor Andrew Keegan is 40. Actor Jason James Richter is 39. Blues musician Jonny Lang is 38. Pop-rock singer Adam Lambert (TV: “American Idol”) is 37. Country singer Eric Paslay is 36. Thought for Today: “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” -- Robert Frost, American poet (born 1874, died this date in 1963).

Sports

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Warriors rout Pacers, win 11th straight By The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Stephen Curry scored 23 of his 26 points in the first half, DeMarcus Cousins added 22 and the Golden State Warriors extended the league’s longest winning streak this season to 11 with a 132-100 rout of the Indiana Pacers on Monday night. Kevin Durant had 16 points for the Warriors, who have won a league-best 10 consecutive road games and got their first sweep on a five-game road trip since November 2014. And Draymond Green didn’t even play. Myles Turner scored 16 points and Bojan Bogdanovic had 15 but Indiana dropped its second straight since losing All-Star guard Victor Oladipo to a seasonending knee injury. The Pacers also played without Tyreke Evans, Oladipo’s replacement, because of a sore back. But even at full strength, the Pacers would have had difficulty weathering the Warriors’ flurry. Curry scored eight straight to break a 16-16 tie midway through the first

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quarter and Golden State never looked back. The Warriors closed the quarter on a 24-6 run to make it 4022 against the league’s top scoring defense. NUGGETS 95, GRIZZLIES 92 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Nikola Jokic scored 24 points and made a go-ahead basket with 28.9 seconds left, and Denver overcame a 25-point, secondhalf deficit to beat Memphis. Will Barton’s 3-pointer with 43 seconds remaining gave the Nuggets their first lead of the game at 91-89. After a 3-pointer from Memphis’ Justin Holiday, Jokic scored inside to put Denver ahead to stay. Malik Beasley had 18 points, 13 in the fourth quarter to key Denver’s rally. Barton had 20 points, and the Nuggets moved to 34-15, the best start in franchise history. Marc Gasol led Memphis with 28 points and nine rebounds, and Mike Conley had 23 points and 11 assists. It was the largest deficit that Denver has overcome this season.

CELTICS 112, NETS 104 BOSTON — Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart each scored 21 points, and Boston beat

Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins (0) is fouled by Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis on Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Brooklyn to snap the injuryriddled Nets’ six-game winning streak. Aron Baynes had 16 points, Marcus Morris 15, and Al Horford and Terry Rozier each

had 14 for Boston, which tied a franchise record with 16 blocked shots and won for the sixth time in seven games. Horford had 11 rebounds. The Celtics played without

star guard Kyrie Irving, who was games. sidelined with a sore left hip. D’Angelo Russell led the HORNETS 101, Nets with 25 points and ShaKNICKS 92 bazz Napier had 20. Brooklyn See NBA, page A8 had won 19 of its previous 24

Davis requests trade from Pelicans By TIM REYNOLDS and BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writers

NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis wants out of New Orleans. And if a trade happens, it’ll be on the Pelicans’ schedule. The five-time All-Star has told the Pelicans that he wants to be traded to a championship-contending team and will not sign an extension with New Orleans, agent Rich Paul told The Associated Press on Monday. ESPN first reported Davis’ demand to be traded to a contender, a request he made last week. It is a move that will resonate around the league, one that will have teams trying to see how they can put together a package good enough to land Davis. But the Pelicans made clear in a written statement Monday afternoon that they’re in no rush, and will wait for the right deal. “We will do this on our terms and our timeline,” the Pelicans said, add-

ing that they will only accept a deal that “makes the most sense for our team and it will not be dictated by those outside of our organization.” Translated: The NBA trade deadline is Feb. 7, and if the Pelicans don’t get a deal they want by then, they’re prepared to wait. “He plans on playing out the season,” Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry said Monday while Davis was at the team’s training headquarters in Pelicans gear, working out and getting treatment on the injured left index finger that has kept him out of four games. “A.D. is a professional guy and he’s going to play as hard as he can once he gets well and we’re going to do the best we can to try put our team in position to win games.” The Pelicans have also asked the NBA to “strictly enforce” any tampering rules associated with the pursuit of Davis, who is having the best season of his career, averaging 29.3 points and 13.3 rebounds per game. The NBA is also looking into

the trade request itself, since making such a demand publicly would seem to have violated league rules. Davis will almost certainly become a six-time All-Star later this week when the NBA announces the full rosters for this year’s game that will be played Feb. 17 in Charlotte. It’s just unclear if Davis will be in Charlotte as a member of the Pelicans. “It’s the business of basketball,” said New Orleans guard Jrue Holiday, who said Davis is “90 percent” of the reason why he decided two summers ago to sign a five-year, $126 million contract to remain in New Orleans. The Pelicans next play Tuesday at Houston. In Indianapolis, where Golden State played the Pacers on Monday night, the Warriors’ Kevin Durant supported Davis’ trade demand. “It’s not like the president is shutting down the government. It’s just basketball,” Durant said. “As

players, we want guys to do exactly what they want to do in this league. They have a short amount of time. So why not do what you want?” Davis’ future has long been in question. He’s an elite superstar on a team that hasn’t gotten past the second round of the playoffs since he’s been in New Orleans — and in four of his first six full seasons, the Pelicans didn’t qualify for the postseason at all. They entered Monday 13th in the Western Conference standings, six games out of the final playoff spot with 32 games remaining. His telling New Orleans that he wants out is the latest power move by a star player who wants to get traded, following a path now similar to what Kawhi Leonard did when he wanted to be traded by San Antonio and what Paul George did when he decided it was time to move on from Indiana. Telling the Pelicans that he won’t re-sign with them provides a blunt message: Move me, or lose me for nothing.

Devils cruise past sluggish Penguins By The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Travis Zajac had a goal and three assists, Keith Kinkaid made 37 saves and the New Jersey Devils had little trouble in a 6-3 victory over the sluggish Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night. Pavel Zacha, Damon Severson, Brian Boyle, Blake Coleman and Kyle Palmieri also scored as New Jersey snapped a three-game skid. The NHL’s worst road team improved to 6-17-3 away

from home. Two of those wins have come at the expense of the Penguins, who have dropped four of five overall and looked a step slow following a nine-day break. Derick Brassard got his ninth goal for Pittsburgh before being ejected in the third period for elbowing. Matt Cullen and Bryan Rust added late goals after the game was decided. Matt Murray allowed six goals on 32 shots as the Penguins began the stretch run with another clunker

against the Devils. FLYERS 3, JETS 1 PHILADELPHIA — Phil Varone, Travis Konecny and James van Riemsdyk scored to lead Philadelphia to its season-high fourth straight win. Carter Hart has won all four of those games in goal for the Flyers and has been a needed spark of optimism for one of the worst teams in the NHL. He stopped 31 shots and won his seventh game since his late-December call-up.

Guaranteed money could be key in labor fight By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer

Eds: Adds filing points. With AP Photos. With BCFBN--Younger and Cheaper-Disappearing Centers Though the next labor fight between the NFL and its players is more than two years off, one issue is already clear. Avoiding a work stoppage in 2021 could depend on whether players can secure more guaranteed money in the next collective bargaining negotiations with the league. “You can’t look at it in a vacuum, because all these contracts are different,” union president Eric Winston said. “But if a guy gets 30 percent guaranteed and we can push that to 50, or a guy gets 60 and we can push it to 80, we should try to do that. It should be on the minds of everybody.” The current collective bargaining agreement expires a little more than two years after the Super Bowl

this Sunday, and some players are already expecting a lockout that could be even worse than the one that lasted 132 days before the previous agreement was signed in 2011. Though the league’s biggest stars receive hefty signing bonuses, which gives them money in pocket before they play a down, the push for more guaranteed money across the life of contracts has slowly picked up steam over the past few seasons. The contract holdouts by Le’Veon Bell and Earl Thomas this season put the issue into vivid focus. To protect against future injury, Bell refused to sign a one-year contract as Pittsburgh’s franchise player, and Thomas held out for a new contract before his current one expired. Bell never played; Thomas came back and broke his leg. If his value on the free-agent market this offseason drops precipitously, it will add fuel to the argument that NFL players, who put themselves at

greater risk than those in the NBA or baseball, deserve guaranteed contracts, the norm in those leagues. “You don’t know what is going to happen, and with the uncertainty of that, you want security,” Seahawks offensive lineman Duane Brown said. “This game is very difficult. Guys put a lot into their craft, their bodies, trying to be the best that they can be, and you can’t control everything.” The current CBA, negotiated in 2011, increased the percentage of salary cap space devoted to veteran players by creating a rookie pay scale. (Though the pay scale has decreased the payout, it has, ironically, resulted in most first-round draft picks’ contracts being fully guaranteed.) Another feature of the contract, the minimum salary benefit, also put the veterans on equal footing with younger players in regard to the salary cap. The thinking was that would make more money available to keep some of

the “middle-class” veterans playing longer. But an Associated Press analysis of rosters over the past 14 seasons showed average experience has been on a fairly steady decline — from 4.6 years in 2005 to 4.3 in 2018. It only served to widen the gap between high-profile players with leverage and those without it. The union argues it has helped all players by getting steady increases in the salary cap, which has grown from $120 million in 2011 to $177 million this season. More money for everyone, the union says, should create better opportunities for more players. Yet even with more money to go around, the guarantees remain a thorny issue for players at both ends of the salary structure. Winston says the best way to ensure more guaranteed money for players is to get them to free agency sooner. Currently, most rookies aren’t eligible until

they’ve played four years. At that point, the most sought-after free agents get the best signing bonuses. Those bonuses have been part of the NFL’s way of doing business, as opposed to the NBA and Major League Baseball, which give more annual guarantees. But Winston believes guaranteeing annual salaries isn’t the panacea some make it out to be. “We live in this world where we think, ‘If we had guaranteed contracts, I’d get six years and $120 million guaranteed.’ No. It would probably be three and 60. It’s just one of those things where I think there’s a give and a take” he said. Another sticking point in the upcoming negotiations will be over commissioner Roger Goodell’s sweeping power to discipline players, which has impacted Ezekiel Elliott , Tom Brady and others. In the last negotiation, players dropped this issue in exchange for other concessions.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kemba Walker and Tony Parker each had 15 points, Malik Monk had four clutch 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and Charlotte handed New York its 10th straight loss. Monk scored 12 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter to help ignite a 17-1 run as Charlotte improved to 17-8 at home. Kevin Knox had 19 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. 17 for the struggling Knicks, who have won one game since beat-

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LOS ANGELES — Trae Young scored 26 points, John Collins added 22 and Atlanta beat Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three years. Atlanta had lost five in a row to the Clippers dating to March 5, 2016. The Hawks earned their first win against a Pacific Division opponent this season after dropping their first five. Alex Len had 19 points and nine rebounds off the bench for the Hawks.

Harden scores at fearsome clip By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer

HOUSTON — James Harden has been scoring at a pace not seen since Wilt Chamberlain in the 1960s. He doesn’t want to talk about it, of course. He never does, whether things are going well or not. But it is clear he is enjoying this because his scoring outburst has coincided with Houston climbing the standings, back among the top teams in the Western Conference after an early-season slump. “I love to hoop,” he said. “I love to just be out there and the grind.” He scored 40 points in Houston’s win over Orlando on Sunday night to extend his stretch of consecutive 30-point games to 23, the fourth-longest streak in NBA history behind three such streaks by Chamberlain. In 13 games this month, last season’s MVP is averaging 44.1 points. He has scored at least 40 points in eight games in January, including two 50-point games and a franchise-record 61 in a win over the Knicks. “It’s remarkable,” teammate Eric Gordon said. “I’ve been around a lot of big-time players and he’s for sure the best scorer I’ve ever been around and he does it so easily. It’s a credit to him. He’s one of the best scorers ever.” It isn’t only Harden’s teammates who have been wowed by his work. Memphis coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who worked for the Rockets from 2011-16, gushed about

him. “When we left here we thought he was really good and then somehow, some way he’s gotten even better,” he said. “Last year he was the MVP and now he’s even better and it’s a credit to him, his work ethic and the passion that he plays the game with.” Harden led the league in scoring last season for the first time by averaging 30.43 points a game, but injuries to Chris Paul and Clint Capela have forced him to carry an even bigger load this year and he’s averaging in NBA-best 36.33. If he keeps this pace up for the rest of the season he would be the first player to average more than 36 points a game since Michael Jordan averaged 37.09 in in 1986-87. If the season ended today, Harden would have the seventhhighest scoring average in NBA history behind that season by Jordan, which ranks fifth, and five seasons by Chamberlain. His average is seven points higher than Steph Curry and Anthony Davis, who are tied for second with 29.3 points a game. But as much as Harden is scoring, he’s also finding ways to get his teammates involved, and his 8.2 assists a game are tied for fourth in the league. “I know the attention I draw on the court and the defense is locked on me so I try to help the guys get their opportunities to make it easier for them to score,” Harden said.

Results posted for Freezer Food Series Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Mike Crawford, Kelli Boonstra and Jayna Boonstra picked up wins in the 10th race of the Freezer Food Series on Sunday at the Slikok Trails. The race was a 5.8-mile Choose Your Weapon format, letting competitors decide to bike, run or ski on any of the two laps. Crawford toured the course in 24 minutes, 52 seconds, on the bike for first, while Todd Boonstra was second on skis at 25:45 and Nathan Kincaid was third on the bike at 28:22. Kelli Boonstra, on skis, was the first woman at 29:23, while Morgan Aldridge, skiing then biking, was second at 32:04 and Alicia Dibcoil, running and biking, was third at 55:26. Jayna Boonstra was the top youth racer. She took 36:03 on skis, while Tania Boonstra was 41:13 on skis. The Freezer Food Series will be rolled into the 15th annual Ski for Women on Sunday at Tsalteshi Trails at the Skyview Middle School trail head at 11 a.m. The main race is for women only, but a Drag Race immediately following the women’s event is for men. Online registration closes at midnight the night before the race and is $20 for Tsalteshi Trails Association members and $25 for nonmembers. Race-day registration, which starts at 10 a.m., is $35. Costumes are encouraged for the race and all proceeds go to Freedom House, a faith-based recovery residence located in Soldotna. Freezer Food Series Race 10

5.8-mile Choose Your Weapon 1. Mike Crawford (bike), 24 minutes, 52 seconds; 2. Todd Boonstra (ski), 25:45; 3. Nathan Kincaid (bike), 28:22; 4. Kelli Boonstra (ski), 29:23; 5. Joey Klecka (ski), 28:27; 6. Morgan Aldridge (ski/bike), 32:04; 7. Jeff Helminiak (ski), 30:17; 8. John Messick (bike), 31:01; 9. Tom Seggerman (ski), 31:27; 10. Jayna Boonstra (ski), 36:03; 11. Harry Lacy (bike), 37:18; 12. Carl Kincaid (bike), 36:49; 13. Tania Boonstra (ski), 41:13; 14. Michael (bike), 40:21; 15. Jordan Chilson (ski/run), 44:13; 16. Alicia Dibcoil (run/bike), 55:26; 17. Sheryl Nelson (ski), 41:55; 18. Sondra Stonecipher (run), 51:24.

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he guys from LA seemed to enjoy the spectacle. The silly questions. The ridiculous antics. The carnival-like atmosphere. Why wouldn’t they? It’s all new to most of them. “I’m 37 years old and I’m big-eyed right now,” said offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth, the oldest player on the Los Angeles Rams. “This is amazing. It’s something that excites you and makes you realize how special this game is.” For the other guys at Super Bowl Media Night, there might as well have been a collective yawn. The New England Patriots have been through it all before. Over and over again. Bill Belichick looked out on the assembled media — sprinkled with an array of comics, TV personalities and riff-raff — with his usual disdain. Tom Brady smiled at all the right times but might as well have been on auto-pilot. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out next Sunday. Will the brash young Rams — with a sweatsuitwearing coach, Sean McVay, who is half Belichick’s age and a quarterback, Jaret Goff, who doesn’t remember Brady’s first Super Bowl because, well, he was only 7 years old the time — find themselves overwhelmed on the big stage? Are the wily ol’ Patriots — making their ninth Super Bowl appearance in 18 seasons and already possessing enough rings to fill out an entire hand — simply too experienced to slip up against a team that has virtually no track record at this time of year to fall back on?

S ports V iews P aul N ewberry “Probably throughout the week, it gives them an advantage,” Whitworth conceded. “They kind of know this week. They know when things are a little anxious, when to kind of, hey, turn it on and get ready to play. They probably have a process and a plan for the week. “But you know what?” he quickly added. “I’m just a firm believer that when you get out there and you snap that football, at some point the nerves are going to go away. You’re going to have to settle in and be the team you are.” Those who are quick to declare that the Rams are just happy to be here, perhaps after watching McVay toss balls toward a kid hoisted onto an adult’s shoulders and wearing a goalpost-shaped hat, might want to consider all they’ve been through. A season ago, they suddenly emerged as one of the NFL’s most exciting young teams, improving from 4-12 in 2016 — their first season back in Los Angeles after two decades in St. Louis — to 11-5 and a division championship. Then, in the first-round of the playoffs, they were upset at the Coliseum by the Atlanta Falcons. “We felt like we could’ve made it (to the Super Bowl) last year,” said John Johnson III, the Rams’ second-year safety. “We were really disappointed.” This season, Los Angeles stared down a pair of off-the-field tragedies without batting an eye. There

were the wildfires that raged in Southern California, forcing them to cancel a practice and creating some anxious moments for those closest to them. There was a mass shooting that claimed 13 lives at a bar not far from their Thousand Oaks training base. They also spent a week training in Colorado Springs, preparing to play a game in the high altitude of Mexico City, only to have that contest moved back to Los Angeles on short notice because of poor field conditions at Estadio Azteca. “It was like one thing after another that we can’t control,” Whitworth said. “We really had to just settle in — even though we were worried about our families and our friends and people around us — and just play football.” They went 13-3 to capture another division title and a first-round bye. They knocked off the Dallas Cowboys for the franchise’s first playoff victory in 14 years. Then, playing in one of the league’s most hostile road environments, they rallied from an early 13-point deficit to beat the New Orleans Saints in overtime. Sure, the Rams needed a blown call in the closing minutes of regulation just to get to overtime. But considering all they had been through, there was probably a bit of karma in that outcome. Now, they face the ultimate test. Belichick, Brady and the Super Bowl-tested Patriots. New England is not unbeatable, of course. They’ve actually lost three of those eight previous Super Bowls, and every single one has been a nail-biter, the average margin barely more than four points.

But the Patriots carry themselves with a haughty aura that they’ve more than earned. A team that shows the least bit of timidity or uncertainty will likely find itself beaten before taking the field. Even with all those titles on their resume, Belichick and Brady seem as driven as ever. With his gruff-meter turned up to full blast and wearing a dark suit that would’ve worked just fine at a funeral, Belichick scoffed at a reporter who questioned, innocently enough, how he managed to avoid burnout. He brushed off a wide range of queries with his standard “I’m only focused on this game” retort. He refused to play along with any attempts to crack his grim veneer. When someone from the TV show “Extra” asked him to pick a random question from a helmet, Belichick reluctantly grabbed a slip of paper that read, “Who is Adam Levine married to?” The coach tossed it aside with disdain. “Ask me a football question,” Belichick demanded. Yep, the Patriots have been through it all before. We’ll see if that makes a difference comes Sunday. “I think experience helps. But I don’t think it will be the deciding factor. Yeah, they’ve been to this game a lot. But they haven’t played this team,” Johnson said, looking around at a group that has come so far. “Ever.” Paul Newberry is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry@ap.org or at www.twitter.com/ pnewberry1963 His work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/paul%20 newberry

Tennessee men stay No. 1 in poll RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tennessee handled its first week at No. 1 in more than a decade well enough to stay on its AP Top 25 perch. The Volunteers received 48 of 64 first-place votes in Monday’s poll to extend the program’s first stint at No. 1 since February 2008. Tennessee (18-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) has won 14 straight games — the program’s longest run since the 1922-23 season

and one shy of the school record — since suffering a neutral-court loss to Kansas in November. “To be quite honest with you, I talked to them about (how) it’s new to them,” Volunteers coach Rick Barnes said of the No. 1 ranking after Saturday’s victory against West Virginia . “They’ve earned it, but they can’t forget what got them where they are. “Is there more noise around them?

Obviously, it is. But they’ve got to be mature enough to deal with that.” STATUS QUO: The top six teams in the poll remained unchanged, with Duke sitting at No. 2, followed by Virginia, Gonzaga, Michigan and Michigan State. The Spartans stayed put despite suffering their first Big Ten loss at Purdue in a game that helped lift the Boilermakers back into the poll.

Scoreboard Basketball AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Tennessee (48) 18-1 1575 1 2. Duke (12) 17-2 1527 2 3. Virginia (4) 18-1 1473 3 4. Gonzaga 19-2 1382 4 5. Michigan 19-1 1381 5 6. Michigan St. 18-3 1235 6 7. Kentucky 16-3 1226 8 8. Nevada 19-1 1158 7 9. North Carolina 15-4 1065 11 10. Marquette 18-3 973 12 11. Kansas 16-4 972 9 12. Virginia Tech 16-3 858 10 13. Houston 20-1 795 17 14. Villanova 16-4 734 18 15. Louisville 15-5 658 23 16. Texas Tech 16-4 561 14 17. Purdue 14-6 532 — 18. Buffalo 18-2 468 14 19. LSU 16-3 435 25 20. Iowa St. 15-5 327 24 21. Maryland 16-5 280 13 22. Mississippi St. 15-4 236 22 23. NC State 16-4 203 21 24. Wisconsin 14-6 179 — 25. Florida St. 15-5 141 — Others receiving votes: Auburn 85, Cincinnati 76, Washington 75, Kansas St. 73, Oklahoma 41, Iowa 28, Wofford 10, Hofstra 9, Mississippi 7, TCU 7, Nebraska 6, Davidson 5, Syracuse 3, Minnesota 1.

Women’s AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record 1. Baylor (24) 17-1 2. UConn (2) 18-1 3. Louisville (2) 19-1 4. Oregon 19-1 5. Notre Dame 19-2 6. Mississippi St. 19-1 7. NC State 20-0 8. Stanford 17-2 9. Oregon St. 17-3 10. Marquette 18-3 11. Maryland 18-2 12. Texas 17-3 13. Iowa 16-4 14. Utah 18-1

Pts Prv 695 2 670 3 630 4 606 5 604 1 565 7 541 8 488 6 460 9 452 10 427 11 374 12 338 17 282 21

15. Gonzaga 19-2 16. South Carolina 13-5 17. Rutgers 16-4 18. Syracuse 16-4 19. Kentucky 17-4 20. Texas A&M 16-4 21. Arizona St. 14-6 22. Michigan St. 15-5 23. Iowa St. 15-5 24. Florida St. 17-3 25. BYU 17-3

269 265 256 253 222 142 127 109 106 73 47

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Others receiving votes: Miami 34, Drake 30, South Dakota 10, DePaul 7, Missouri 7, New Mexico 4, California 2, Clemson 2, Minnesota 1, Rice 1, UCF 1.

Men’s Major Scores SOUTH Alabama A&M 71, Alcorn St. 62 Alabama St. 69, Southern U. 65 Coppin St. 95, Bethune-Cookman 91 Florida A&M 72, Morgan St. 66 Howard 72, Md.-Eastern Shore 57 NC Central 82, Savannah St. 78 Texas Southern 65, MVSU 62 MIDWEST Duke 83, Notre Dame 61 SOUTHWEST Baylor 77, Oklahoma 47 Prairie View 79, Ark.-Pine Bluff 63 Texas Tech 84, TCU 65 FAR WEST N. Arizona 80, S. Utah 77, OT

Women’s Major Scores EAST CCSU 63, LIU Brooklyn 57 Fairleigh Dickinson 63, Bryant 53 Mount St. Mary’s 78, St. Francis Brooklyn 75 Robert Morris 64, Sacred Heart 46 St. Francis (Pa.) 107, Wagner 70 SOUTH Alabama A&M 87, Alcorn St. 69 Alabama St. 78, Southern U. 61 Bethune-Cookman 71, Coppin St. 65 Md.-Eastern Shore 80, Howard 73 Morgan St. 75, Florida A&M 71 NC Central 71, Savannah St. 67 South Carolina 80, Vanderbilt 69 Texas Southern 68, MVSU 50 MIDWEST Ohio St. 65, Minnesota 55 SOUTHWEST Prairie View 80, Ark.-Pine Bluff 41 West Virginia 64, Texas 58 FAR WEST N. Arizona 78, S. Utah 69

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 37 15 .712 — Philadelphia 32 18 .640 4 Boston 31 19 .620 5 Brooklyn 27 24 .529 9½ New York 10 39 .204 25½ Southeast Division Miami 24 24 .500 — Charlotte 24 25 .490 ½ Washington 21 28 .429 3½ Orlando 20 30 .400 5 Atlanta 16 33 .327 8½ Central Division Milwaukee 35 13 .729 — Indiana 32 17 .653 3½ Detroit 21 27 .438 14 Chicago 11 39 .220 25 Cleveland 10 41 .196 26½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 29 20 .592 — San Antonio 29 22 .569 1 Dallas 22 27 .449 7 New Orleans 22 28 .440 7½ Memphis 20 31 .392 10 Northwest Division Denver 34 15 .694 — Oklahoma City 31 18 .633 3 Portland 31 20 .608 4 Utah 29 22 .569 6 Minnesota 24 26 .480 10½ Pacific Division Golden State 36 14 .720 — L.A. Clippers 28 23 .549 8½ L.A. Lakers 26 24 .520 10 Sacramento 25 25 .500 11 Phoenix 11 41 .212 26 Monday’s Games Charlotte 101, New York 92 Golden State 132, Indiana 100 Boston 112, Brooklyn 104 Denver 95, Memphis 92 Atlanta 123, L.A. Clippers 118 Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Detroit, 3 p.m. Oklahoma City at Orlando, 3 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 3 p.m. Chicago at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. New Orleans at Houston, 4 p.m. Phoenix at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m. Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP Tampa Bay 49 Toronto 49 Montreal 51 Boston 49 Buffalo 48

W L OT Pts GF GA 37 10 2 76 199 140 30 17 2 62 174 140 28 18 5 61 154 149 27 17 5 59 143 128 24 18 6 54 140 144

Florida 48 20 20 51 19 25 Detroit Ottawa 50 19 26 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 49 29 15 Washington 50 27 17 48 28 17 Columbus Pittsburgh 49 26 17 Carolina 50 24 20 N.Y. Rangers 48 21 20 Philadelphia 49 20 23 New Jersey 49 19 23

8 48 152 170 7 45 145 172 5 43 156 187 5 63 147 122 6 60 171 162 3 59 154 146 6 58 172 152 6 54 140 149 7 49 139 164 6 46 142 170 7 45 146 167

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 49 31 16 2 64 168 137 Nashville 52 30 18 4 64 161 135 Minnesota 50 26 21 3 55 142 142 Dallas 49 24 21 4 52 126 128 Colorado 50 22 20 8 52 169 162 St. Louis 49 22 22 5 49 139 149 Chicago 51 18 24 9 45 156 190 Pacific Division Calgary 51 33 13 5 71 190 145 San Jose 52 29 16 7 65 187 167 Vegas 52 29 19 4 62 157 140 Vancouver 51 23 22 6 52 147 161 Anaheim 51 21 21 9 51 120 153 Arizona 50 23 23 4 50 132 142 Edmonton 50 23 24 3 49 144 163 Los Angeles 50 20 26 4 44 114 150 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games New Jersey 6, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 3, Winnipeg 1 Tuesday’s Games Winnipeg at Boston, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Columbus, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 3:30 p.m. All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated RHP Austin Brice for assignment. Claimed INF Jack Reinheimer off waivers from Texas. DETROIT TIGERS — Named Kirk Gibson special assistant to the general manager. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Whit Merrifield on a four-year contract. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with 2B Emilio Bonifacio and RHPs Ricardo Pinto, Casey Sadler and Luis Santos on minor league contracts. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with INFs Sean Kazmar, Luis Marte, Andres Blanco and Pedro Florimon; and OFs Ryan LaMarre and Rafael Ortega on

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Mackie Wearable Art Toni Brattin Hair Fabulous PM Style With Amy Stran Beauty Best Sellers ‘G’ 8Greens - Greener Eating Gardening Made Easy by Cottage Farms (N) ‘G’ Josie Maran Argan Oil Cosmetics (N) (Live) ‘G’ Jane’s Beauty Secrets “Beauty Month” (N) (Live) ‘G’ (7:00) Kitchen Unlimited With Carolyn (N) (Live) ‘G’ QVC in the Garden (N) (Live) ‘G’ Gourmet Holiday (N) (Live) ‘G’ Lock & Lock Storage ‘G’ Home Made Easy With Mary (N) (Live) ‘G’ QVC in the Garden “Garden Week” (N) (Live) ‘G’ La-Z-Boy (N) (Live) ‘G’ Barbara Bixby Jewelry Portfolio (N) (Live) ‘G’ La-Z-Boy (N) (Live) ‘G’ Kerstin’s Favorites Isaac Mizrahi Live! 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RoboCop Charmed ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ NBA Tip-Off (N) (Live) Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Basketball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Basketball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) Wm. Basketball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) NBA Basketball First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live Intention Football Question Around Interruption Pro Bowl Skills First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live Intention Football Question Around Interruption College Basketball First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live Intention Football Question Around Interruption College Basketball First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live Intention Football Question Around Interruption College Basketball First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live Football Alvarez vs. Kovalev Around Interruption College Basketball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) Bundesliga Soccer The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ College Basketball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. 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(:15) “Uncle Buck” (1989) John Candy, Amy Madigan. “Jaws 2” (1978, Suspense) Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary. Stooges Stooges (:15) “Jerry Maguire” (1996) Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. (:15) “Footloose” (1984, Drama) Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer. 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Overserved party guest hides mishap on sofa under pillows DEAR ABBY: I am a boarding school student, and I absolutely hate it here! I worked hard to get in, and I realize how lucky I am to have been accepted, but I just want to go home and go to school at my public high school with all of my friends and my brother. My friends Abigail Van Buren understand, but my parents think I’m over-exaggerating. I am sad all the time, and I cry at least once a day. How do I approach this to help my parents understand? -- AWAY FROM EVERYTHING DEAR AWAY: You stated that you worked hard to get into this school, but you miss being with your friends back home. The quality of education you are now receiving will prove very important when you are getting ready for college. It’s possible that with some help you can make new friends at this school. Stop crying alone and talk about your feelings with a trusted teacher or administrator. I’m sure it won’t be the first time the person has heard something like this, and the input you receive could prove helpful.

DEAR ABBY: I work at a job that requires I call several businesspeople each day. Often I need to leave a voicemail message. It has become more and more common for voicemail greetings to say, “I will call you back at my earliest convenience.” I find this very off-putting and rude, as if my call is an intrusion and they will call back “whenever.” I think the word “convenience” is best used when offering it to someone else, as in, “Call me at your earliest convenience.” I always try to return phone calls promptly, whether it’s convenient or not. Am I just old-fashioned or what? -- NOT SO CONVENIENT IN SACRAMENTO DEAR NOT SO: The individuals you are calling have the right to put any message they wish on their voicemail greeting. He or she may be on another business call or away from the office. The voicemail message is not being addressed to you personally. You ARE old-fashioned. You also appear to be overly sensitive, and I think, for your own sake, you should get over it. 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. Hints from Heloise

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pecially if you can’t change the situation. Tonight: Be impulsive. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Move quickly in the morning, before your own or another person’s mood changes. You suddenly could be concerned with a basic matter that affects your domestic or personal life. Know that a discussion is inevitable; you might as well have it now rather than postpone it. Tonight: Order in. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Make sure your bank balance reflects what you think you have before you launch into your day. You may be weighing the pros and cons of a purchase that could make your days far more agreeable. Know that you don’t need to decide immediately. Tonight: Let the good times roll. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You see a situation quite differently. You might not be able to convince someone of your vision and how right-on it is. Check out a potential offer or investment with care. Research, reflect and ask questions before you act. If you need to, wait a day. Tonight: Call someone in the know! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH As off as you feel in the early morning, you’ll feel better later. Conversations seem informative, open and animated. What is shared by a loved one or child is authentic, though you might not agree or know what to do with what you hear. Tonight: Keep talks going. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Opt to take a back seat and listen to what’s being shared. You might not want to risk or change your present set of plans. Listen more; you’ll learn a lot about those who are sharing. You don’t say a lot. Tonight: Not to be found. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH A friend feeds you a lot of information that could make you happy or pave the path to greater happiness. You see possibilities in an area in which you’d nearly given up. A suggestion becomes a high priority once you understand how to handle it. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Drop the word “impossible,” especially after the past few days and all the thought you’ve given to a difficult issue. You might want to test your ideas on someone whose mental prowess you respect. Listen to the feedback you receive. Tonight: Into the wee hours. BORN TODAY Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (1970), celebrity/actress Oprah Winfrey (1954), and journalist/inventor Thomas Paine (1737)

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WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? Dear Readers: By spring of this year, to help prevent identity theft, everyone should have received a new Medicare card with a new, dedicated number. Medicare is no longer using your Social Security number as an identifier. -- Heloise SHOE SHOW Dear Heloise: I keep my shoes organized by storing them in the original cardboard shoebox, with a photo attached to the front. -- Heather H. in Pittsburgh LAST YEAR’S CALENDAR Dear Readers: Here are some hints for using the pretty pictures from last year’s calendars: * Laminate and use as place mats. * Cut into big puzzle pieces for a fun game for toddlers. * Clip into gift tags, or fashion thicker paper into a small box. * Frame for a beautiful gallery display. * Shape and adhere to a cork form for a coaster -- Heloise STOP -- GRAMMAR TIME! Dear Heloise: I’m confused. What is the difference between “farther” and “further”? I don’t get it! -- Bethany W., age 11, in Michigan Yep, this is a tricky one! “Far” refers to physical length, so farther does, too: “The grocery store is farther from home than the convenience store.” “Further” typically means additional: “I will go to college to further my education,” or you may hear an attorney on a legal drama say, “I have no further questions.” -- Heloise LETTER OF LAUGHTER Dear Heloise: My friend took her 5-year-old son to see Santa, and afterward asked her son, “What did you ask for?” (Because she needed to know -- ha-ha!) Her son said, “Mom, it’s a secret!” I hope the little stinker got what he asked Santa for! -- Hillary B. in Texas

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019: This year, responsibilities seem to land on you. Know that you can handle it all, and you could have unusual success as a result. If you’re single, a friendship plays a big role in your life. You could discourage a potential loved one, so be careful. If you’re attached, the two of you emphasize each other and your mutual goals -- at least one of which will become reality. Happiness beams from both of you. SAGITTARIUS admires how you handle your bond. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 20-April 19) HHH Once you get going, you see a situation very differently. You often are overwhelmed by what is going on, but you could gain a new perspective quite suddenly. You also can identify more easily with what is going on and the responses of others. Discussions become lively. Many good ideas come forward. Tonight: Treat your mind to a movie or concert. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH One-on-one relating takes the edge off a problem that could be central to your well-being. Once conversations start, you might want to keep a notepad close by to jot down the many suggestions that keep popping up from out of nowhere. Listen to what might be but a whisper. Somehow, the statement is significant. Tonight: How about a friendly, chatty dinner? GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You could feel challenged by everything that’s going on. If you’re scattered, you might have difficulty prioritizing and getting past a hassle. A discussion could enlighten you to another person’s needs and priorities. Take an overview, and you’ll gain insight and success. Tonight: Do not immediately say “no” to an idea. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Your creativity still spins off into conversations or fleeting thoughts. A walk might help you ground yourself, as you could have a lot dropped on your plate and need to be on top of your day. A discussion revolving around finances and a partnership could go many ways. Listen to what the other party needs. Tonight: Get errands done first. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You could have felt bogged down and might still feel that way. You can’t seem to free yourself from the serious mood you’re in. A child or loved one helps you laugh and return to your light-hearted self. Let go of what’s been gnawing at you, es-

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DEAR ABBY: We need some advice. Recently we hosted our annual holiday party and invited all of our neighbors and friends. Our invitation stated that the party would run between 5 and 11:30 so our guests could also attend other parties that might be going on at the same time. As our party was winding down, it was noticed that one of our guests -- who had been at a previous party -- had wet themselves on our sofa and covered the spot up with throw pillows. We served wine, punch, etc. at our party, but this couple arrived pretty tipsy already. In the future, should we just not invite these neighbors? We are very distressed about this. What do you suggest? -- OOPS! IN THE MIDWEST DEAR OOPS!: The guilty party should have owned up to what happened and offered to pay for having your couch professionally cleaned rather than try to cover it up. If you are 100 percent sure it was one particular couple, not inviting them to more gatherings would absolutely guarantee that it won’t happen again. P.S. Covering your furniture in waterproof slipcovers when you entertain a crowd may be something you might want to consider in the future.

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