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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 162

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By MOLLY DISCHNER Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

In the news Raising awareness

Begich reports bringing in more than $1 million

JUNEAU (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Begich has reported bringing in more than $1 million toward his re-election bid during the first quarter of this year. It’s the Democrat’s highest fundraising quarter of this election cycle. The money includes nearly $940,000 in contributions from individuals and political committees, as well as transfers from other authorized committees. Begich’s campaign says more than 1,500 Alaskans contributed to the campaign. Begich reported having $2.8 million on hand, as of March 31. Republicans see Begich’s seat as key to their efforts to reclaim control of the U.S. Senate. GOP hopefuls in the race include Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, former state Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan and Joe Miller, the 2010 Republican nominee for Senate.

Correction A story in Tuesday’s Clarion about the renovation of a former cannery in Kenai contained incorrect information. The story said the cannery had been out of operation for about 40 years. Fish preserving operations ended in 1998. The Clarion regrets the error.

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Above, Natalie Merrick, of Soldotna, waves to a passerby after giving the woman information on the Green Dot Alaska campaign Tuesday in Soldotna. Left, Merrick and Susie Stafford, of Kenai, have a laugh after joking about running into traffic to deliver materials for the campaign. The two were joined by others at the intersection of the Kenai Spur Highway and the Sterling Highway offering information about the campaign to drivers who were interested. The violence prevention initiative funded through the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault is currently being implemented in five Alaskan communities including Homer, Fairbanks, Juneau and Kenai. Photos by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

The House Fisheries Committee held a short hearing on Gov. Sean Parnell’s appointees to the Board of Fisheries today, and public testimony on the incumbents was mixed. Parnell appointed Sue Jeffrey of Kodiak, John Jensen of Petersburg and Reed Morisky of Fairbanks to the board April 2. Today, the committee heard briefly from the appointees and the public, including several fishing organizations. The hearing was somewhat rushed as the representatives had been called to the floor shortly after. Jeffrey and Jensen fish commercially and are generally considered commercial representatives on the board; Morisky is a guide and is considered a sport representative. Current Board of Fisheries chair Karl Johnstone supported See FISH, page A-14

Kenai police seek to replace totaled cruiser By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

The City of Kenai is in the process of replacing a police cruiser totaled in a traffic stop last month. On March 8, Kenai Police stopped Brealand Garrett II, 27, of Soldotna on Bridge Access Road south of Warren Ames Bridge at 7:47 p.m. Garrett was arrested for driving under the influence and three counts

of misconduct involving a nai Police Officer Casey controlled substance, acHershberger was standcording to the police ing at the open right report. rear door of the About an hour cruiser, one of two later while officers police vehicles on were still on scene, a scene. Both police southbound Honda car cars were parked off driven by Anna Nisler, the southbound side of 19, of Kenai, rear-ended the the road with the red and blue parked police cruiser with Gar- lights illuminated when the imrett inside in custody, according pact occurred, according to the to the report. report. At the time of the crash, KeGarrett, Nisler and Hersh-

Truck crash reported as airplane accident By Dan Balmer Peninsula Clarion

A Kenai man, who initially reported he had been in a plane crash near Summit Lake along the Seward Highway, was one of three people involved in a single-vehicle accident early Tuesday morning. Denis Straughn, 43, flagged down a vehicle near Mile 105 of the Sterling Highway at 3:54 a.m. and stated he had been in a plane crash, according to a dispatch report from the Alaska State Troopers. Troopers, along with the Anchorage Fire Department responded, but were unable to locate wreckage of a plane crash, said trooper spokesperson Megan Peters. Straughn was taken to Providence Medical Center in Anchorage for treatment of nonlife threatening injuries. During an interview with troopers, Straughn said he was a passenger in a pickup truck traveling from Anchorage to Soldotna,

Peters said. “He was confused and disoriented because he was sleeping at the time of the wreck,” she said. “It snowed overnight and he got out and walked in the cold for sometime.” Straughn told troopers he recalled being with another person in the truck and identified the person as Harley Davidson, according to the report. Ten minutes before 7 a.m. the Anchorage Fire Department notified troopers that crews had located a wrecked pickup truck down an embankment near Mile 99 of the Seward Highway, Peters said. Searchers found two people, a man and woman, inside. They were not seriously injured but unable to get out of the wreckage, according to the report. Responders freed both individuals and transported them to Providence with non-life threatening injuries, according to the report.

berger were all transported to Central Peninsula Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Alaska State Troopers assisted Kenai police with the crash investigation. Nisler was served a summons for overtaking and passing a parked emergency vehicle, resulting in personal injury. Kenai Police Chief Gus Sandahl said because the extensive damage sustained to the vehicle rendered it totaled, the depart-

ment would need to obtain a replacement sedan as soon as possible. Sandahl has put in a request for the purchase of a 2014 Ford Interceptor Sedan from Kendall Ford in Wasilla for $27,770. The price includes road ready package and reverse sensing, he said. An ordinance to appropriate the funds for a replacement police cruiser will be voted on at the next Kenai City Council See KENAI, page A-14

Rewrite of education bill leaves some frustrated By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — The broadranging education bill that passed the state House after hours of debate seemed to leave few representatives completely satisfied. Some, like Reps. Alan Austerman. R-Kodiak, and Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, expressed concerns with the proposed spending for education and the sustainability of that funding. Rep. Craig Johnson, R-Anchorage, said his constituents want accountability for how education money is being spent. “We are not paying for a middle-of-the-road education,” he said in floor debate late Monday. “We’re paying for a very good education and being happy with the middle of the road? I’m not happy with a C.”

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Others, including minority House Democrats, wanted more money for schools included to help districts avoid cuts and saw the bill as a missed opportunity for having meaningful, positive impact on public education. The bill, HB278, underwent significant changes during the course of a floor debate that began late Monday afternoon and culminated in a vote around midnight. Representatives added $30 million in one-time funds for schools on top of a roughly $300 increase over three years in the per-pupil funding formula known as the base student allocation. They also severed from the bill a plan to address

the teachers’ retirement system, which Gov. Sean Parnell had urged them to do. It remained unclear Tuesday just how lawmakers might yet proceed in addressing the unfunded pension obligations for both the teachers’ and public employees’ retirement systems in a session scheduled to end in less than two weeks. The bill included elements related to charter schools, teacher tenure, certain tax credits for donations to private nonprofit schools, a grading system for school performance and a call for state recommendations on salary and benefits for districts. It bore a glancing resemblance to the bill originally introduced by Parnell as a way to bring changes to the state’s education system. The bill passed 29-11, with majority members Wilson See SCHOOL, page A-14

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -9/-15

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.08" Month to date ........................... 0.08" Normal month to date ............. 0.14" Year to date .............................. 2.71" Normal year to date ................. 2.62" Record today ................. 0.17" (1952) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.8" Month to date ............................. 0.8" Season to date ......................... 43.0"

Valdez Kenai/ 36/19 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 27/9

Juneau 41/33

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Sitka 42/36

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Cool air with spotty showers and thunderstorms will affect the eastern third of the nation today. Warmth will build from the Southwest to the Mississippi Valley. Showers and cool air will settle in the Northwest.

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Who to call at the Peninsula Clarion News tip? Question? Main number.............................................................................................. 283-7551 Fax............................................................................................................. 283-3299 News email...................................................................news@peninsulaclarion.com General news Will Morrow, editor ............................................ will.morrow@peninsulaclarion.com Rashah McChesney, city editor.............. rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Jeff Helminiak, sports editor........................... jeff.helminiak@peninsulaclarion.com Fisheries, photographer.............................................................................................. ............................ Rashah McChesney, rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Kenai, courts...............................Dan Balmer, daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.com Borough, education ......... Kaylee Osowski, kaylee.osowski@peninsulaclarion.com Soldotna .................................. Kelly Sullivan, kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com Arts and Entertainment................................................ news@peninsulaclarion.com Community, Around the Peninsula............................... news@peninsulaclarion.com Sports............................................ Joey Klecka, joey.klecka@peninsulaclarion.com Page design........ Florence Struempler, florence.struempler@peninsulaclarion.com

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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have uncovered a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s little moon Enceladus. Italian and American researchers made the discovery using Cassini, a NASA-European spacecraft still exploring Saturn and its rings 17 years after its launch from Cape Canaveral. Their findings were announced Thursday. This new ocean of liquid water — as big as or even bigger than North America’s Lake Superior — is centered at the south pole of Enceladus and could encompass much if not most of the moon. Enceladus (ehn-SEHL’-uh-duhs) is about

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North Slope crude: $105.83, down from $106.49 on Friday West Texas Int.: $100.44, down from $101.14 on Friday

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High ............................................... 31 Low ................................................ 19 Normal high .................................. 42 Normal low .................................... 25 Record high ........................ 53 (1966) Record low ......................... -6 (1972)

Anchorage 34/17

Bethel 20/-7

Cold Bay 39/28

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Talkeetna 35/3 Glennallen 30/-12

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First May 6

Unalaska 42/37

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310 miles across. The data do not show if the ocean extends to the north pole, said the lead researcher, Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome. At the very least, it’s a regional sea some 25 miles deep under miles-thick ice. On Earth, it would stretch from our South Pole up to New Zealand — at the very least. Cassini’s rudimentary instru-

ments also cannot determine whether the moon’s ocean harbors any form of life. Another mission using more sophisticated instruments is needed to make that search. This latest discovery makes the interior of Enceladus “a very attractive potential place to look for life,” said Cornell University planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine, who took part in the study.

Back in 2005, Cassini detected a plume streaming from cracks in the south polar region. Scientists suspected these jets of salty water vapor and ice — containing some light organic molecules like methane — might come from a subsurface ocean. On Thursday, they confirmed its presence. Their findings appear in the journal Science.

Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 3989440. 10:30 a.m. • Pre-School Storytime at the Soldotna Public Library. Call 262-4227. 11 a.m. • Redoubt Homemakers at Nikiski Fire Station No. 1. • Wee Read at the Kenai Community Library Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Weight loss and health support group, Christ Lutheran Church. Call 362-1340. 7 p.m. • Card games, Funny River Community Center. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Clean Machine” at Central Peninsula Hospital’s Redoubt Room, 250 Hospital Place, Soldotna. Call 907-335-9456. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, 12X12 study meeting, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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Around the Peninsula Watershed forum staff share their travels Raft through the Grand Canyon with Robert Ruffner, walk the Great Wall of China with Lisa Beranek and hike through exotic Brazil with Dan Pascucci without leaving the Kenai Peninsula. Join Kenai Watershed Forum staffers for a night of pictures, stories and laughter on April 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kenai River Center. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Josselyn O’Connor at 907-260-5449 or josselyn@kenaiwatershed.org.

Recycling group meets today Re-Group will meet today in room 203 at Kenai Peninsula College at 6:30 p.m. Plans to be discussed include joining the Earth Day Celebration at KPC April 22 in conjunction with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. For more information, contact Jan at 252-2773.

Kenai gets to work on playground upgrades A work session to help plan the upgrades and expansion of Kenai Municipal Park Playground is scheduled for April 15 at 6 p.m. and should last until 7:30 p.m., downstairs at Kenai City Hall. Contact Bob Frates at 283-3692 for more information.

Take a break for fashion show Peninsula Take-A-Break is planning a Second Chance Fashion Show from 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 22 at the Solid Rock Conference Center, Mile 90.5 Sterling Highway. Cindy Ingraham will model repurposed designs for second-hand fashions. Dianne Cronin will speak to “A Journey With a Destination.” Dinner is $12. For reservations, call Susan at 335-6789.

Fly-tying demonstration on tap The Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Sportsman’s Warehouse present Bar Flies, Tie One On: An Evening of Free Fly tying Instruction and Demonstration. The presentation will be hosted by Mark Wackler, KPTU Board member and Kenai Guide at the Mainstreet Grill in Kenai, April 15, 6:30 p.m.

Community mural in the works in Nikiski North Peninsula Recreation is inviting everyone to be a part of the Nikiski Community Mural project. Community paint workshops will be offered Friday, Saturday and MOnday at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Come one come all — help is needed to paint this large mural for the community! Morning and afternoon painting sessions will be offered. Call 776-8800 for more details.

PEEPs exhibit seeks submissions The Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival’s PEEPs Young Artist Exhibit is seeking submissions. All bird-themed submissions will be on display the month of May at the Kenai Fine Arts

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Center with an Opening Reception May 2, 6-8 p.m. Awards will be announced at the Birding Festival Kickoff May 15 at the Kenai Visitors Center. The deadline for submissions is April 26. For more information on the PEEPs Exhibit or the May Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival, visit www.kenaibirdfest.com.

Get the buzz on beekeeping An Introduction to Beekeeping workshop, part of the Neighbor to Neighbor series, is scheduled for 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday. Topics include an introduction to the fascinating world of bees, hives and honey. Keeping bees in Alaska is a great way to learn about pollination, plants, food production, and then enjoy the sweet success of insect labor, honey. This free class will introduce you to hive construction, feeding and what it takes to become a beekeeper. Taught by Sarah Sauder a successful beekeeper, attendees will come away ready for spring and looking forward to hearing the friendly buzz of insect activity. Space is limited. Call the Cooperative Extension Service at 262-5824 to reserve your seat.

Tri the Kenai registration open Registration for the Tri the Kenai triathlon is open. The triathlon, scheduled for June 8 at Skyview High School, includes a sprint triathlon (500-yard pool swim, 10-mile road bicycle ride, 5-kilometer trail run) and, new this year, an intermediate length triathlon (1,000-yard pool swim, 20-mile bike, 10-kilometer trail run). Also on tap is a kids triathlon for ages 6-14 (100-yard swim, 4-kilometer trail bike, 3-kilometer run). The sprint triathlon and kids triathlon are open to relay teams. Timing this year will be done with a chip-based system. Adult registration is $75 through April 14; $85 from April 15-June 1. Team registration is $150 through April 14; $175 from April 15-June 1. Youth registration is $20 through April 14; $25 from April 15-June 1. Youth team registration is $60 through April 14; $70 from April 15-June 1. Registration for all events closes June 1. The charity focus for this year’s event is Hospice of the Central Peninsula. For more information or to register, go to www. trithekenai.com.

Kids’ activities sought The Clarion is seeking information for its annual Just Kidding section with listings of summer events for youth. Organizations, businesses, individuals or churches planning summer events open to area youth May through August may submit activities. Information needed: Name or group or organization; age of youth who may attend; time of activity; date of activity and deadline for registration; place activity will be held including address; cost of activity and/or fees; contact name and phone number for people to call; email address (optional); Web address (optional); and a brief description of the activity. The deadline to submit information is April 30. Emailed submissions are required. Email Just Kidding information to news@peninsulaclarion.com. In the subject line write Just Kidding. For more information, call Will Morrow at 907-335-1251 or email will.morrow@peninsulaclarion.com.

Juneau firefighters win 960 rolls of toilet paper JUNEAU (AP) — Juneau firefighters got an unexpected delivery: 960 rolls of toilet paper. The gift was from toilet paper maker Charmin, which donated a year’s supply for 20 firefighters to one firehouse in every state. KTOO reports, the Auke Bay Fire Station was the offi-

cial winner for Alaska, but the prize is being divided among all Juneau firehouses. Entries were made online, and the Capital City Fire and Rescue Department didn’t know it won until the package arrived. Assistant Chief Ed Quinto says it would cost the department $1,200 to buy that amount

of toilet paper. ate the softer, residential type There’s another benefit. of toilet paper that was delivQuinto says the donated rolls ered. are not the industrial type the department usually buys in bulk. He says firefighters appreci-

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What Others Say

Pay now, not later Using a quarter of your savings to

pay down an ever-growing debt makes sense, but it’s hard not to pause when you’re paying $3 billion. That’s the plan Gov. Sean Parnell has put forward to address the state’s growing unfunded liability to the public employees’ and teachers retirement systems, better known as PERS and TRS. The rationale behind the move is that by injecting $3 billion from state reserves now, future payments will be smaller and easier to manage without breaking the piggy bank. The money will go into a trust fund account so the interest along with starting balance would pay off benefits owed by 2037. Considering the alternatives on the table, the governor’s proposal makes the most fiscal sense. Without it, the state will pay billions more over the next few decades as annual contributions continue to climb. Alaska’s contribution for this year is expected to be nearly $1 billion, according to a February report by Buck Consultants. The retirement system has been compared by some to mortgage payments, and the governor wants to use state reserves as a lump-sum down payment. The big winners in this scenario are the employers, namely municipalities, who contribute to the retirement systems. With that said, everyone who benefits from local government — all of us — wins. Without the cash injection, municipalities will see their payments balloon out of control during a time when municipal budgets, including school funding, are being slashed. Using a quarter of the state’s savings may put some on edge, but it’s the only way to ensure the payments don’t bankrupt municipalities in decades to come. Some have argued that with oil production steadily declining and the state cutting back on spending, now isn’t the time to pilfer reserve funds — Alaska may need that money in the future. We believe the state needs to pursue this option to pay down its unfunded liability while it still has options on the table. Kicking the can down the road for someone else to deal with is irresponsible and places the burden on future generations. Alaska can afford putting $3 billion toward resolving this issue. What it can’t afford is to do nothing. — Juneau Empire, April 3

Quotable “There have been no further contacts with any transmission and we need to continue that for several days right up to the point at which there’s absolutely no doubt that the batteries will have expired.” — Angus Houston, retired Australian air chief marshal heading Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search operation, on search crews failing to relocate ‘pings’ heard earlier by equipment searching for the plane’s black boxes.

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

Letters to the Editor Measure infringes on personal choice I have grave doubts whether I’ll change any minds here. Too many of us have subjugated our alleged minds to the narratives of paid professional activists and their righteous social agenda(s). The truth is what they say it is and to disagree and oppose will certainly brand us as politically incorrect cretins. Unfortunately, far too many of our elected officials now march jackbooted behind these crusading “saints for the public good” all the while proclaiming their dedication to less government, personal liberty and responsibility; the general ideals of conservatism. Our marchers are currently carrying a banner emblazoned with SB109. A statewide smoking ban. For those of you who haven’t ventured out of house for 20 years; we already have a ban in 99 percent of public places listed for regulation in this legislation. This feat was accomplished by choice of owners, local ordinance or government edict in their own buildings. The problem at hand is that some municipal ordinances failed to pass through councils. Not that they are opposed to the existing 99 percent ban in public enclosures; they see no reason to ban in stand alone bars with no restaurant facilities. That’s the intent here. 99 percent compliance is not sufficient, the marchers demand 100 percent. The goal was unattainable piecemeal and so they have fallen back on the blanket approach. I can go with the 99 percent ideal. As a polite smoker, I don’t want to discomfort those who don’t smoke. But do I believe that my smoking is killing them? Absolutely not. That’s the pretense that they’ve promulgated in their agenda on. More specifically, a 1993 EPA study that was performed so unscientifically it was thrown out by a U.S. District Court in 1998. Our own Congressional Research Agency came along and upheld the ruling. The EPA study cited 3,000 deaths from second hand smoke, not the 53,000 these public provocateurs cite. Junk science and social engineering and I will never win. Nobody has to come into my bar. It’s your choice. Smokers are adults, not kids, and they deserve to have their informed choices respected by others. All my bartenders smoke as do 80-90 percent of my patrons. They are blue collar, working class folks that exactly mirror Nikiski’s makeup. They enjoy coming, having a beer or two, socializing and maybe even lighting up. Who are we harming? Do I retain a choice in this matter? Well, I should but it seems that private property rights are irrelevant. This is a taking and make no mistake, I will be economically harmed by this action. This is Nikiski, not Anchorage or even Kenai or Soldotna, where loss of business could questionably be supplemented by white collar professionals and/or government workers. Will the marchers continue to make my payroll, pay my insurance, utility bills, and taxes when my margins are squeezed even fur-

ther? This legislation is arrogant and control based. The general public has no idea what we contend with by regulators and enforcers. So when Rep. Lindsey Holmes, the sponsor of the House side of this intrusion says “we have no intent of doing stings,” I feel reassured because the President said I could keep my insurance and doctor too. In other words, there are mechanical problems with enforcement that I guess they won’t find out about till they pass it. This is quite simply, government overreach, bad pubic policy based on lousy science wrought with utter disregard of personal choice. Why can’t we be left alone to enjoy ourselves in the last refuges for smokers in the state? There is no valid answer. There is only elitism. Think they’re marching over me? Keep your eyes peeled. There’s always a new banner to pick up and march forward — toward you. Gary Superman Nikiski

Reader takes issue with dipnet fee proposal In the article entitled “Kenai adjusts dipnet fees,” appearing in the April 7 Clarion, the Honorable Mayor of the City of Kenai is quoted as recommending the city attorney look at what the city can offer residents to access the (dipnet) fishery for free, while the council is looking at how much they can gouge other users of the fishery. After having lived in both Juneau and Anchorage, I moved my family here in the fall of 1978 because a Trooper friend of mine advised that the Kenai-Soldotna area was the best place in Alaska to raise children. We purchased our first home in Kenai in 1980, and we still own it as a rental. We later purchased the adjoining lot. We purchased my office condo in 1990, and later purchased the adjoining condo for my wife’s business. After the kids grew up we moved North to a place where would could

grow a large garden, raise fruit trees, have honey bees and ducks and be separated from the neighbors by trees and space, and our dogs would not bother anyone. My wife and I have participated in the dipnet fishery since it’s inception. We don’t take many; just enough to fill the jars we will eat that winter with a few for the barbecue, which is often less that the head of house amount. Each year the dipnet fishery becomes more of a hassle and more expensive, and being in my early 70s, more difficult. Each year for the past several we have read a comment in the paper from the same “recreational” set net fisherman, who is a recognized expert in his real profession, about how bad the dipnet fishery is, and how greedy we are, and in the recent past he complained (how ghastly) about a bird dropping fish entrails in his yard. (Apparently he hires someone to clean the thousands of fish he catches for sale, while we clean a couple of dozen to eat.) So even though my wife and I have paid real property taxes to the City of Kenai for three improved properties and one vacant lot starting 34 years ago, and I have collected and paid over sales from my business for 36 years, and my wife for nearly that long, the Honorable Mayor is now seeking a way to gouge us more for participating in the dipnet fishery, while proposing that anyone who lives in Kenai, whether or not they pay any taxes, can bring out their kids and grandkids and roar around in loud 4-wheelers and create more stress, and have the cost associated with their use paid by me and others in the area who just don’t happen to live in Kenai. I hope this isn’t a big city ploy to buy favor at election time. How about the idea used at the Nikiski Pool. If you own property and pay the taxes which it takes to run the facility, you don’t pay to play? Phil N. Nash Nikiski

Don’t be fooled (again) by phony support In the Superman comic books of my youth, “Bizarro World” was a parallel universe where everyday was Opposite Day. Up meant down, bad meant good, the world was a cube, and Bizarro Superman and Bizarro Lois Lane looked like the Addams family on a bad hair day. In the Bizarro World that is the Alaska Legislature, we find ourselves in a situation where the only right vote on ANY minimum wage bill introduced by the House Majority late in the session is NO. Even to those accustomed to cynicism and insincerity in the Legislature, the sudden interest in passing a minimum wage law that would preempt the voter initiative is breathtaking in the contempt and disrespect for the intelligence of Alaskan voters it demonstrates. Protestations by House Majority Leader Lance Pruitt notwithstanding, his Majority would only pass a bill identical to the initiative for two reasons, neither having anything to do with the best interests of Alaskan workers. The first would be to avoid bringing out lowincome voters who might not vote as the Majority would prefer in statewide races or on other ballot measures. The second is to come back next year and repeal key provisions of the law before they take effect, as was done in 2003. In 2001, bills to increase the minimum wage and index it to inflation were stalled in the legislature. The AFL-CIO gathered 50,000 signatures for an initiative mirroring Governor Knowles’ bill, which was approved for the November 2002 ballot. As with the current initiative, polls showed 70 percent support for the measure. After trying to move a bill without indexing, which they were advised would not meet the test of “substantially similar” legislation required to block the vote, the Legislature passed a bill identical to the initiative, sponsored by House Speaker Pete Kott, in May 2002. Kott was asked if the bill had been passed only to keep the initiative off the ballot and curb turnout by low-income C

is being disingenuous — at best — when he dismisses valid concerns of initiative oices supporters. A young man with likely statewide ambitions, he should consider finding of a better role model than Pete Kott. If a minimum wage bill is introduced, laska Alaskans need to let legislators know we won’t be fooled again. They should stop E d F lanagan playing games and insulting our intelligence, and let the people vote on the initiavoters who might lean Democratic. Here’s tive. At least the Majority would then have what he told the Associated Press on May to wait two years to thwart the will of the 16, 2002: people. “Rep. Pete Kott, R-Eagle River, has said that was not his motivation for sponsorEd Flanagan is chair of Alaskans for a ing the bill. Kott had proposed a smaller Fair Minimum Wage (www.AlaskaNeedincrease in 2001 but changed his bill to saRaise.org), the sponsor of the minimum match the ballot initiative. He has said it wage initiative which has been certified for is better for the Legislature to address the the August election as Ballot Measure 3. measure than leave it to voters. That way, He served as labor commissioner under if legislators decide to change the inflation Governor Tony Knowles from January provision, they can do so next year, Kott 1999 to December 2002. said. If the change were made through a ballot initiative, they’d have to wait two years.” Kott knew what he was doing and was, in this case, true to his word. In May 2003, E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com the Legislature repealed the indexing provision in a bill signed by Frank MurkowsWrite: Fax: ki. Seventeen Majority legislators who had Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: voted for the bill in 2002 voted to gut it in Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 2003. Had they left the indexing provision in The Peninsula Clarion welcomes place, Alaska’s minimum wage would be letters and attempts to publish all $9.53 today, rather than $7.75, a huge difthose received, subject to a few ference in the lives of thousands of hard guidelines: working Alaskans. n All letters must include the writer’s A move is afoot to pull the same cyniname, phone number and address. cal stunt this year, preempting the minin Letters are limited to 500 words mum wage initiative already approved and may be edited to fit available for the August ballot as Ballot Measure 3. space. Letters are run in the order While House Majority Leader Lance Pruitt they are received. claims it is wrong to assume history will n Letters addressed specifically to repeat itself, representatives of the hospianother person will not be printed. tality industry work the halls with a top n Letters that, in the editor’s judglobbyist seeking support for legislation to ment, are libelous will not be do just that. Is Pruitt really unaware that printed. one in four of current Republican legislators voted to gut the 2002 bill in 2003? He

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Online publication buys state’s largest newspaper By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion

Bird bath

After a late spring snow storm covered the Kenai River bank the night before, a variety of water fowl could be found bathing in the icy waters Tuesday morning beside Soldotna Creek Park.

Coghill: Little support to act on minimum wage bill JUNEAU (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Coghill says there’s probably reluctance among senators to move forward on a bill to raise Alaska’s minimum wage. Coghill chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and last month held a hearing on two of the initiatives qualified for this year’s ballot, including

a proposed minimum wage hike. He told reporters initiative supporters expressed clearly their desire to allow voters to decide the issue. He said that has given the Senate some pause in moving forward with a bill. A House committee last week introduced a minimum

wage bill that tracks closely with the initiative. The Legislature can preempt a ballot initiative by passing substantially similar legislation. That happened in 2002, and a year later, lawmakers gutted the law. Supporters of the initiative fear that could happen again.

Senate Finance backs ‘no sell’ proposal

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The state Senate Finance Committee has backed a $5 million proposal that includes establishing a list of people who would be banned from buying alcohol in Anchorage. The “no sell” proposal by the Fairview Business Association also calls for comprehensive treatment and case management for the city’s most problematic drinkers. The Senate committee included the project in the $1.9 billion capital budget that was unveiled Monday, the Anchorage Daily News (http://is.gd/ xgGIep) reported. The proposal

would also have to pass the full Senate and state House, and win approval from Gov. Sean Parnell. The group has not finalized details on how the ban would work, but envisions the city determining who would be on the list and police enforcing it. Under the proposal, services would be overseen by Akeela Inc., a nonprofit organization providing services for the treatment and prevention of alcohol and substance abuse in Anchorage and other Alaska communities. “I was almost in tears and dancing in my office this morn-

ing,” said Christopher Constant, an Akeela administrator and a board member for the Fairview Business Association. Constant said his group is seeking feedback on setting the criteria for a ban on alcohol sales to people who would be on the list. Approving the criteria could fall to the Anchorage Assembly. The no-sell list would be citywide.

ANCHORAGE — An online competitor announced plans Tuesday to buy Alaska’s largest daily newspaper. Alaska Dispatch Publishing LLC, the parent company of the online newspaper the Alaska Dispatch, will purchase the Anchorage Daily News from The McClatchy Co. for $34 million. The sale is expected to close in May. “This is a chance for us to get even more reporters on the ground and do more journalism,” said Tony Hopfinger, Alaska Dispatch’s co-founder, executive editor and president. The Anchorage Daily News will continue to be printed seven days a week, and there are no plans at this time to change its name, he said. Plans are to integrate the two websites — www.alaskadispatch.com and www.adn.com — into one site within six months. There also are no changes planned to the staffs at either site, beyond the retirements of Daily News Publisher Pat Doyle and Editor Pat Dougherty, Hopfinger said. “The Anchorage Daily News and the Alaska Dispatch play vital roles in our great state,” Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff said in a statement. “By merging these operations, we can serve as a stronger, even more comprehensive resource for Alaskans for their news and information.” Rogoff said the goal of the merged operations is to “offer a level of coverage never before seen in Alaska history, and to offer it to readers across the state through a variety of mediums.” The Anchorage Daily News’ printed edition has a daily cir-

‘This is a chance for us to get even more reporters on the ground and do more journalism.’ — Tony Hopfinger, Alaska Dispatch culation of 57,622, and 71,233 on Sundays. The newspaper was first printed Jan. 13, 1946. Two years later, it went from being printed weekly to six days a week, and added Sunday editions in 1949. In 1979, McClatchy Newspapers bought 80 percent of the Anchorage Daily News, which had a heated rivalry with another daily newspaper, the Anchorage Times, until the Anchorage Times went out of business in 1992. The Anchorage Daily News won Pulitzer Prizes for public service in 1976 and 1989. “This is a bittersweet moment for all of us at McClatchy. We are extremely proud of the Daily News and its employees, their exceptional service to Alaska’s diverse communities and all of their contributions to McClatchy over the years,” Kevin McClatchy, the company’s chairman, said in a statement. “However, this sale not only makes sense from a local ownership perspective, but it also allows McClatchy to focus more resources on accelerating our digital transformation to better serve our communities.” After the sale, McClatchy’s operations will include 29 daily newspapers, including the Fort

Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram; The Sacramento Bee; The Kansas City Star; the Miami Herald; The Charlotte Observer; and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Hopfinger started the Alaska Dispatch in 2008 with Amanda Coyne and Todd Hopfinger. In 2009, Rogoff, wife of financier David Rubenstein and a former chief financial officer of U.S. News and World Report, became the majority owner. An upside of the merged staffs is that they no longer will spend time chasing the same story, which will allow reporters to write enterprising, investigative stories, Dispatch officials said. Tony Hopfinger plans to reestablish a Washington, D.C.based reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, and aspires to have fulltime reporters based in Alaska hub communities. The purchase includes the newspaper, its website and the newspaper’s headquarters in Anchorage. The Dispatch intends to sell the real estate holdings to a local buyer, and the newspaper will continue to be housed in its current location in East Anchorage as a tenant. The sale of the Anchorage Daily News comes after other high-profile newspaper purchases lately. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post last year for $250 million. Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 31 small- and mediumsized daily newspapers. It has bought most of those newspapers since 2011 at bargain prices. Including weekly papers and other publications, Berkshire owns 70 newspapers.

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US bacon prices rise after virus kills baby pigs By M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — A virus never before seen in the U.S. has killed millions of baby pigs in less than a year, and with little known about how it spreads or how to stop it, it’s threatening pork production and pushing up prices by 10 percent or more. Scientists think porcine epidemic diarrhea, which does not infect humans or other animals, came from China, but they don’t know how it got into the country or spread to 27 states since last May. The federal government is looking into how such viruses might spread, while the pork industry, wary of future outbreaks, has committed $1.7 million to research the disease. The U.S. is both a top producer and exporter of pork, but production could decline about 7 percent this year compared to last — the biggest drop in more than 30 years, according to a recent report from Rabobank, which focuses on the food, beverage and agribusiness industries. Already, prices have shot up: A pound of bacon averaged $5.46 in February, 13 percent more than a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ham and chops have gone up too, although not as much. Farmer and longtime veterinarian Craig Rowles did all he could to prevent PED from spreading to his farm in Iowa, the nation’s top pork producer and the state hardest hit by the disease. He trained workers to spot symptoms, had them shower and change clothing before entering barns and limited deliveries and visitors. Despite his best efforts, the

deadly diarrhea attacked in November, killing 13,000 animals in a matter of weeks, most of them less than 2 weeks old. The farm produces about 150,000 pigs each year. Estimates of how many pigs have died in the past year vary, ranging from at least 2.7 million to more than 6 million. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the die-off has had a hand in shrinking the nation’s pig herd by 3 percent to about 63 million pigs. Diarrhea affects pigs like people: Symptoms that are uncomfortable in adults become life-threatening in newborns that dehydrate quickly. The best chance at saving young pigs is to wean them and then pump them with clear fluids that hydrate them without taxing their intestines. But nothing could be done for the youngest ones except euthanasia. “It’s very difficult for the people who are working the barns at that point,” Rowles said. “... No one wants to go to work today and think about making the decision of baby pigs that need to be humanely euthanized because they can’t get up anymore. Those are very hard days.” PED thrives in cold weather, so the death toll in the U.S. has soared since December. The first reports came from the Midwest, and the states most affected are those with the largest share of the nation’s pigs: Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina and Illinois. The disease also has spread to Canada and Mexico. Some states now require a veterinarian to certify that pigs coming in are virus-free, while China, which has seen repeated outbreaks since the 1980s, has

asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to similarly vouch for animals shipped overseas. Companies are racing to develop a vaccine, but the federal government has yet to approve one. While the mass deaths have been a blow for farmers, the financial impact to them may be limited because pork prices are

rising to make up for the loss of animals. It takes about six months for a hog to reach market weight so the supply will be short for a while. Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest pork processors, has cut some plant shifts to four days per week in North Carolina, and those in the Mid-

west are likely to do so later this spring, said Steve Meyer, an Iowa-based economist and pork industry consultant. Smithfield Foods declined to comment. In the end, consumers will be most affected, Meyer said, with pork prices likely to be 10 percent higher overall this sum-

mer than a year ago. “We’re all used to: ‘We’ve got plenty of food, it’s cheap. We’ll eat what we want to,’” Meyer said. “We Americans are very spoiled by that, but this is one of those times that we’re going to find out that when one of these things hits, it costs us a lot of money.”

Get ready for the first eclipse of the year By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year— in color. Next Tuesday morning, the moon will be eclipsed by Earth’s shadow. This total lunar eclipse will be visible across the Western Hemisphere. The total phase will last 78 minutes, beginning at 3:06 a.m. EDT and ending at 4:24 a.m. EDT. The moon will be rising in the western Pacific, and so only the last half of the eclipse will be visible there. In much of Europe and Africa, the moon will be setting, so there won’t be much, if anything, to see. Even though the moon is in the Earth’s

AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu

This combination of Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 photos shows different stages of the moon during a lunar eclipse as seen from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

shadow, it should appear a bit colorful, some shade of red or orange. That’s from light around the edges of the Earth — essentially sunrises and sunsets — splashing on the lunar surface and faintly lighting up the moon, said Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. On April 29, the Southern Hemisphere

will be treated to a rare type of solar eclipse. In all, four eclipses will occur this year, two lunar and two solar. Tuesday’s lunar eclipse may damage a NASA spacecraft that’s been circling the moon since fall. But no worries: it’s near the end of its mission.

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Around the Nation Messages for ‘Cuban Twitter’ program overtly political; poked at Castros WASHINGTON — Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like network that the U.S. government secretly built in Cuba were overtly political and poked fun at the Castro brothers, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. The messages conflict with claims by the Obama administration that the program had no U.S.-generated political content and was never intended to stir unrest on the island. Disclosure of the messages, as described in internal documents, came as the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Congress in sometimes- confrontational testimony Tuesday that his agency’s program was “absolutely not” covert and was simply meant to increase the flow of information. An AP investigation last week found that the program, known as ZunZuneo, evaded Cuba’s Internet restrictions by creating a text-messaging service that could be used to organize political demonstrations. It drew tens of thousands of subscribers who were unaware it was backed by the U.S. government. At an oversight hearing Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah that the program was “cockamamie” and not adequately described to Congress. USAID, known worldwide for its humanitarian work, has repeatedly maintained it did not send out political messages under the project. Leahy asked Shah whether the project’s goal was to “influence political conditions abroad by gathering information about Cuban cellphone users” or “to encourage popular opposition to the Cuban government.”

Pistorius wails, weeps while testifying on fatal shooting at South African murder trial

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A subdued Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday described dinner at home, chatting and looking at cell phone photos with Reeva Steenkamp on the last night of her life. Then he erupted in anguished howls and heaving sobs while testifying at his murder trial about the moments when he says he realized he shot his girlfriend through a closed toilet door. The shocking spectacle of what appeared to be a tormented man highlighted the drama of Pistorius’ inspirational rise and sudden fall. The South African double-amputee runner captured the world’s attention when he successfully fought for permission to run in the 2012 Olympics on his carbonfiber prostheses. The very next year, he was facing charges for killing the woman he said he loved. The court in Pretoria, the South African capital, adjourned because of the star athlete’s breakdown, ending a day in which Pistorius spoke of the loving aspects of his relationship with Steenkamp in testimony designed to counter a prosecution picture of him as temperamental and overbearing, and then outlined his version of the final hours before the shooting. “I sat over Reeva and I cried,” Pistorius said, telling how he broke open the stall door in his bathroom in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013 to discover his bloodied girlfriend slumped in the cubicle. “I don’t know how long I was there for.” Pistorius has said in statements that he shot Steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder in his bathroom. Tuesday marked the first time he has spoken publicly about the details of the fatal shooting. Prosecutors call Pistorius’ story an intricate lie and maintain he intentionally killed his 29-year-old girlfriend, a model and reality TV show star, after an argument. — The Associated Press

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US will cut nuke missile force by 50 By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will keep its current force of 450 land-based nuclear missiles but remove 50 from their launch silos as part of a plan to bring the U.S. into compliance with a 2011 U.S.-Russia arms control treaty, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The resulting launch-ready total of 400 Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles would be the lowest deployed ICBM total since the early 1960s. The decisions come after a strong push by members of Congress from the states that host missile bases — North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana — to not eliminate any of the silos from which the missiles would be launched. Fifty silos will be kept in “warm” status — empty of missiles but capable of returning to active use. Sen. John Tester, a Montana Democrat, called the Pentagon’s announcement “a big win for our nation’s security and for Malmstrom Air Force Base,” home of the 341st Missile Wing with 150 Minuteman

3 missiles. “ICBMs are the most costeffective nuclear deterrent, and keeping silos warm is a smart decision and the kind of common sense Montanans expect from their leaders,” Tester said. The decision to put 50 of the missiles in storage but not eliminate any of their launch silos meant the Pentagon had to make steeper reductions in the Navy’s sea-based nuclear force in order to comply with the New START, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, by 2018. The Navy will reduce the number of deployed and non-deployed submarine-launched ballistic nuclear missiles to 280 from the current 336. The Navy has 14 Ohio-class submarines armed with missiles but only 12 will count as deployed because two will be undergoing long-term maintenance at a given time during the 10-year life of the New START treaty. The Navy is embarking on a multi-billion dollar program to build a replacement for the current fleet. The other “leg” of the U.S. nuclear force, the Air Force strategic bombers, will be trimmed from the current deployed total

of 93 to 60, with an additional six available in a non-deployed status. The 60 will be comprised of 19 B-2 stealth bombers and 41 B-52H Stratofortress heavy bombers. Thus the administration will remain within the New START limit of 700 deployed strategic nuclear weapons with 400 ICBMs, 240 sub-launched missiles and 60 bombers. Russia already is well below the 700-deployed weapon limit; at the most recent reporting period, last October, Russia had 473; the U.S. had 809. The 400 deployed ICBMs would be the lowest total since 1962, according to a history of the force by Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists. He says the U.S. had 203 deployed ICBMs in 1962, with the force expanding rapidly to 597 the following year and topping 1,000 in 1966. It has been between 550 and 450 since 1991. The Obama administration spent months figuring out how to apportion the reductions required to comply with the New START treaty. In the meantime, the ICBM force came under

heavy scrutiny for a variety of problems, including low morale, leadership failures and investigations over exam-cheating and drug use among launch officers. Some question the value of retaining ICBMs, although President Barack Obama has committed to keeping them as part of the nuclear “triad” of forces that can be launched from land, sea and air. In addition to the 450 ICBM silos currently in use, the Air Force has four at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., used only for test launches. They will remain. The Pentagon said Tuesday it probably will cost about $300 million to implement all the announced changes required to comply with New START by 2018. About two-thirds of the cost will be for altering some of the missile tubes aboard Navy submarines so they can no longer launch ballistic missiles. The nuclear sub fleet is far more costly to operate than either the land-based missiles or the bombers, but its strategic advantage is the relative invulnerability of the submarines while at sea, and thus their ability to survive a first strike.

Male stripper did show at NY nursing home By FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — An 85-year-old woman with dementia had a male stripper gyrate in front of her against her will at her suburban New York nursing home, according to a lawsuit filed by her family but the facility’s lawyer said Tuesday the performance had been requested by its residents. John Ray, the attorney for Bernice Youngblood and her family, said the woman’s son found a photograph of a man in white briefs dancing in front of his mother when he visited her in January 2013 at East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The photo, which Ray distributed to reporters, shows Youngblood putting money into the dancer’s waistband. Ray said Youngblood had been

urged to participate and did so against her will. Franklin Youngblood, who attended the news conference outside the Long Island facility, said he immediately went to a nursing supervisor for an explanation. The lawsuit claims the nurse attempted to grab the photo from him. Ray said Bernice Youngblood, who herself had worked as a health aide for the elderly when she was younger, had her dignity taken away when “nursing home employees subjected her to this disgraceful sexual perversion.” Bernice Youngblood, who attended the news conference in a wheelchair with some of her relatives at her side, mumbled in a barely audible voice that she felt “terrible” and “ashamed” about what happened, but had no specific recollection of the

details of the incident. Ray said he has yet to determine who took the photograph, or how it got in the woman’s bedroom drawer. Howard Fensterman, an attorney representing the facility, said a 16-member resident committee had requested the September 2012 performance and the nursing home paid the $250 fee. Fensterman said the facility’s management reserves the right to reject a request by the residents’ committee, particularly if the activity were deemed detrimental. “But in this instance these are adults who wanted to have this activity, they requested it, they voted on it and the nursing home approved of it,” he said. The claims and counterclaims came during a sequence of heated news conferences out-

side the facility in West Babylon. Reporters and cameramen jostled in a large scrum around Fensterman and Ray when they briefly became embroiled in an argument after Ray presented his counterpart with a copy of the lawsuit complaint. Fensterman said the girlfriend of one of Youngblood’s sons had taken her to the stripper show, and not nursing home employees. Ray said Youngblood’s son disputed that claim and, in any case, that does not mean Bernice Youngblood was not harmed by what she saw. Fensterman also chided Ray for claiming that Bernice Youngblood was suffering from dementia, while at the same time noting the woman signed a power of attorney document claiming she was competent to sign it.

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World

Ukraine tries to quell pro-Moscow uprisings By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities moved to quell pro-Moscow uprisings along the Russian border with mixed results Tuesday, retaking one occupied regional headquarters and watching protesters consolidate their hold on another. In a third city, Luhansk, Ukraine’s Security Service said separatists armed with explosives and other weapons were holding 60 people hostage inside the agency’s local headquarters. Those occupying the building issued a video statement saying they want a referendum on the region’s status and warning that any attempt to storm the place would be met with armed force. In the video, posted by Ukrainian media, a masked man identified the occupiers as Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and said that if authorities try to retake the building, “Welcome to hell, then!” The Ukrainian government and the U.S. have accused Moscow of fomenting the unrest as a pretext for another Russian military incursion like the takeover of Crimea last month. Up to 40,000 Russian troops are massed along the Ukrainian border, according to NATO. All the cities affected by the uprisings are in Ukraine’s industrial heartland in the east, which has a large population of ethnic Russians and where hostility is strong toward the government that took power in February after the ouster of Kremlin-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych. European Union envoy Catherine Ashton said she will meet with U.S., Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers next week

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Pro-Russian activists sleep at a barricade in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, as the makings of an improved self-appointed government began to take shape, with demonstrators dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters.

to discuss the situation — the first four-way meeting since the crisis erupted. In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry threatened tougher economic sanctions against Moscow. “What we see from Russia is an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives across an international boundary,” Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry called the demonstrations in eastern Ukraine a “contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in Crimea.” Earlier Tuesday, Ukrainian authorities battled pro-Russian protesters and regained control over a government building in Kharkiv, the country’s secondlargest city, evicting the protesters and detaining dozens. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told Parliament that several police were injured during the Kharkiv clashes with what he termed separatists.

In Donetsk, a city 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Kharkiv, protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began forming their own parallel government.

Serhiy Taruta, the governor of Donetsk, scoffed at the shifting events in his city. “I call this a theater of the absurd,” he said. “It is just artists performing, but the main thing is that there is an everdwindling audience.” There was little sign Tuesday afternoon that Ukrainian government forces had any immediate plans to clear the regional administration building, and Taruta insisted he wanted to see the situation resolved peacefully. The city has been the site of weekly rallies and marches, but Sunday saw an escalation of that strategy when masked men carrying batons burst through police lines to take over the building. By Tuesday, 6-foot walls of car tires wrapped in razor wire had been erected against any attempt to storm the place. On Monday, the demonstrators declared the creation of a sovereign Donetsk Republic and called for a referendum on the issue to be held no later than May 11.

Despite claims by the demonstrators to represent the entire Donetsk, a region of more than 4 million people, rallies outside the administration building since the weekend have drawn crowds of only a few thousand. While none of the leading figures in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic movement have said they want the region to join Russia, they have declined to rule out the option. Their initial priority, they say, is to secure autonomy, after which the population will be asked whether it wishes to become part of Russia. White House spokesman Jay Carney said this week there was strong evidence some proRussian protesters in eastern Ukraine were hired and were not local residents. People in the corridors of the Donetsk building — many of them wearing masks and carrying sticks — invariably identified themselves as being from Ukraine when questioned. Similarly, representatives of the Donetsk Republic movement dismissed claims of Rus-

sian support, saying volunteers had arrived from all across the Donetsk region. “I live in Mariupol, I have three children there, and I came here so that my children could have a normal life in the future,” said Sergei Renin. Renin said he was proud to be a Ukrainian but concerned over what he described as attempts by the “Nazi government” in Kiev to trample the rights of Russian speakers. Even Taruta expressed doubts that Russia was orchestrating the unrest. Still, authorities have said that overwhelming numbers of Russian citizens were visiting Ukraine on recent weekends that saw spikes in anti-government rallies. The Kremlin has pushed for constitutional reform in Ukraine that would turn the country into a federation, with broad powers for each of its regions. The demands reflect Russia’s desire to maintain influence over its neighbor and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.

Queen hosts Irish president on state visit By JILL LAWLESS and SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press

LONDON — Amid regal pomp at Queen Elizabeth II’s Windsor Castle home and thunderous applause from British lawmakers, Ireland’s president began a state visit to Britain laden with symbolism for two nations that share a troubled history. President Michael D. Higgins is making his country’s first state visit to Britain since Ireland’s hard-fought independence nearly a century ago. His trip underscores how much Northern Ireland’s peace process has transformed relations between the two longtime adversaries since the 1990s, when IRA car bombs were still

detonating in London. Higgins, delivering the first speech by an Irish president to the joint Houses of Parliament, said Tuesday that both nations had attained “a closeness and warmth that once seemed unachievable.” Previous Irish presidents had toured England and met the queen in several official trips since 1993 as part of early peacemaking efforts. But a formal state visit with full honors had been repeatedly postponed because of security and diplomatic sensitivities. Higgins, a left-wing politician, poet and human rights activist who was elected to the ceremonial post in 2011, said the two nations’ relationship had gone “from the doubting eyes of estrangement to the trusting eyes of partnership and, in

recent years, to the welcoming eyes of friendship.” “Our two countries can take immense pride in the progress of the cause of peace in Northern Ireland,” he said. “There is of course still a road to be traveled, the road of a lasting and creative reconciliation.” Earlier, a military band played Ireland’s martial national anthem, “The Soldier’s Song,” as the queen and her husband Prince Philip welcomed Higgins and his wife, Sabina, into the castle quadrangle. Outside, Irish tricolors and Union Jacks lined the streets of Windsor for the start of Higgins’ four-day tour of England. The most striking symbolism was coming later Tuesday at a Windsor Castle banquet hosted by the queen. M Y

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Russia oil talks pose new hurdle to Iran nuke pact By BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Reports of multibillion-dollar oil talks between Iran and Russia are emerging as the latest obstacle to a comprehensive pact eliminating the threat of an Iranian nuclear arsenal. The Obama administration is weighing potentially deal-breaking sanctions if a contract is completed. The Russian business daily Kommersant has reported Russia plans to buy 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, shattering an export limit under the interim nuclear agreement world powers and Iran reached last year. Moscow and Tehran are far from finalizing the contract, the newspaper said, but the U.S. has expressed alarm. A senior U.S. official said the administration had no information suggesting the oilfor-goods contract had been reached. The arrangement would break the interim agreement reached in November in Geneva and potentially trigger U.S. sanctions, said the official, who was not authorized to be quoted

by name and briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. But the official didn’t say the deal would force the U.S. to slap new economic sanctions on Iran — a move that would likely wreck the entire diplomatic process with Tehran. Critics of the Obama administration’s outreach to Iran want a clear marker outlined. In a letter to the president Monday, Congress’ leading sanctions drafters said the U.S. must re-impose all penalties on Iran suspended under the interim pact if Russia and Iran move forward. “We urge you to put Iran on notice,” said Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s top Republican, said Iran and Russia were testing America’s resolve. “The administration must be prepared to restore all sanctions if Iran cheats,” he said. The six-month interim agreement, which went into effect in January and expires in July, allows Iran to continue exporting a total of 1 million barrels a day of oil to six countries: China,

India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey. Washington pledged no financial penalties against them as long as they weren’t boosting purchases. But the promise didn’t apply to Russia, which wasn’t an existing customer of Iran’s petroleum industry. And the Obama administration has been raising its concern with Moscow for months about any moves that would lessen the economic pressure on Iran, including in discussions between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Any concrete progress on the oil-for-goods proposal would put President Barack Obama in a bind. If he publicly threatens too forceful a response, he risks opening up a new rift with Russia at a time the two countries are trying to maintain cooperation on nuclear and other matters even as they go through one of the worst crises in decades related to Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. But if the president and his administration fail to dissuade Russia and Iran from moving forward, the interim agreement

American the latest airline to tweak their flier program By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer

DALLAS — Airline travelers are adjusting to constant turbulence in frequent-flier programs. American Airlines is the latest to tinker with its program. The Dallas-based carrier on Tuesday announced changes that make it tougher to redeem miles for a flight during busy travel periods, and to check a bag without a fee. The changes aren’t as dramatic as Delta Air Lines Inc.’s recent switch to basing rewards on money spent, not miles flown, but they are just the latest example of airlines giving away less as executives increasingly focus on growing profits. Gary Leff, a travel blogger and co-founder of frequent-flier website MilePoint, said airlines are lowering the value of miles because planes are full and they would rather sell the seats than give them away. During the Great Recession, when airlines were struggling and many planes were halfempty, airlines lavished miles on customers who signed up for credit cards or made other purchases. Now the big airlines routinely fill more than 80 per-

cent of their seats. “There’s a real trade-off between giving the seat to a frequent-flier redemption versus cash,” Leff said. “Right now the pendulum is swinging toward less generosity rather than more. Much of this is cyclical and economic.” Still, American isn’t reducing the value of miles as much as United Continental Holdings Inc. did in November for international trips in first- and business-class, travel experts say. But American’s moves will make its program more complicated and could make it easier for the airline to effectively raise prices without consumers noticing. Some experts also expect American to eventually copy Delta’s approach, which will benefit high-spending business travelers but hurt vacationers who hoard miles earned on discount fares. American and US Airways merged in December and between them have 110 million members in American’s AAdvantage — the granddaddy of airline loyalty programs — and US Airways’ Dividend Miles. Among the biggest changes announced Tuesday and taking effect for all travel starting on or

after June 1: — No more blackout days for redeeming miles on US Airways, matching the policy at American. — For U.S. travel on or after June 1, American members can redeem miles for an unrestricted “AAnytime” award at 20,000 miles, 30,000 miles or 50,000 each way instead of the current 25,000-mile flat rate. The lessflexible “MileSAAver”awards will continue to start at 12,500 miles. — Mile requirements will change on many international trips. — There will be no more free checked bags for American Airlines passengers traveling on miles they earned or who paid full price for an economy seat. — Some elite-level frequent fliers on both airlines will get to check one less free bag than before. — The charge for a second checked bag on trips to South America is being dropped. Suzanne Rubin, a vice president at American Airlines Group Inc. who oversees the loyalty programs, said in an interview that the changes will increase revenue, but she declined to give a figure.

that forms the basis of America’s ongoing diplomacy with Iran would be undermined. The U.S. and the United Nations say Iran is living up to its commitments thus far, and officials have expressed increased belief a final deal may be taking shape, averting the possibility of a future military confrontation. The Russian-Iranian oil deal could provide Tehran with billions of dollars, according to experts, softening the blow of years of U.S. and international sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy and helped end more than a decade of deadlock in nuclear negotiations. Iran insists its program is solely for peaceful power production. Mark Dubowitz, a leading sanctions proponent with the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the barter should trigger immediate U.S. sanctions

against Russia and Iran. Dubowitz said his understanding was that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed earlier this year not to move on the deal until August, after the interim agreement would in theory be replaced by a final accord. But he said Putin’s assurance came before the Crimean crisis and may no longer hold. If the Obama administration were to unblock suspended sanctions or adopt new ones, nuclear diplomacy with Iran likely would fall apart. For that reason it opposed an effort earlier this year by Menendez, Kirk and other senators to adopt new, conditional sanctions on Iran to go into effect if Iran violated the interim agreement or let it expire without a follow-up accord. U.S., Iranian and international negotiators will start drafting a final agreement next month, the senior U.S. official

said last week in a surprisingly optimistic assessment. The official said negotiators hoped to clinch the pact before July 20, without need for a further sixmonth extension of the interim agreement, as many had envisioned. Citing unidentified sources close to the Russian government, Kommersant said a Russian-registered oil trader without an international presence would be tasked with purchasing the Iranian oil. The objective would be to limit Russia’s exposure to U.S. economic pressure that could be applied to a global player like statecontrolled oil giant Rosneft. Still, it would be difficult for Russia to gain immediate access to the petroleum since most Iranian oilfields are far from the Caspian Sea through which the oil could be shipped, and lack the infrastructure to ensure deliveries.

Spanish Parliament rejects Catalonia bid for independence By CIARAN GILES Associated Press

MADRID — Spain’s Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a petition by the powerful northeastern Catalonia region to allow an independence referendum, a decision that is likely to increase the divide between both sides. The request was voted down, 299-47, with one abstention, after nearly seven hours of debate. Catalonia’s pro-independence sentiment has exploded recently amid objections over how the region is treated by the central government. Many in the region located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula are convinced that independence would benefit them economically. But the issue is politically fraught, with many lawmakers arguing that Catalonians alone cannot decide something that affects all of Spain. The referendum has stirred debate about whether Spain’s 1978 Constitution should be reformed to devolve more power and to calm territorial unease.

Conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy reiterated that it simply wasn’t possible to grant permission for a vote, which he said was prohibited by the constitution. “The door is wide open for those who are not happy with the way things are: Start with reforming the constitution,” Rajoy said. However, Catalonian lawmaker Joan Herrera argued that a “no” vote would only “increase the difference” between Catalonia and Spain because Catalonians were not being allowed to exercise what they see as their right to decide their future. Catalonia, with a population of 7.5 million, represents roughly a fifth of Spain’s 1.1 trillion euro ($1.5 trillion) GDP. Like other regions in Spain, it has its own language as well as Spanish, and substantial autonomy. Catalonia regional President Artur Mas, who did not attend the session, insists the poll will be held regardless. It remains to be seen if he can, or whether Spain will prevent it from happening. Mas began pushing for the independence poll after he failed to clinch a better financial pact for Catalonia in 2012.

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Sports

UConn women complete perfect year

In clash of unbeatens, Huskies top Fighting Irish to finish year 40-0 and match own men’s team DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Geno Auriemma and UConn reached the top of women’s college basketball in unprecedented fashion. After winning a record ninth national championship — they stand alone. The Huskies reached the pinnacle in style, routing Notre Dame in the first NCAA basketball championship game featuring undefeated teams. Auriemma and his Huskies now have one more title than Pat Summitt and Tennessee for most all-time, and they did it in the Hall of Famer’s backyard. The Huskies had struggled recently against the Irish, but

not Tuesday night, cruising to a 79-58 win. “It means we’ve done something no one else has ever done,” Auriemma said. “Flattered and grateful and all the things that come with this kind of accomplishment. ... I’m more proud of the legacy that exists and what Connecticut basketball is as opposed to the number of championships.” Breanna Stewart, who was The Associated Press Player of the Year, scored 21 points to lead the Huskies (40-0) while Stefanie Dolson added 17 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists. Auriemma took out his senior center with a minute left and the game well in hand with the pair

embracing in a long hug. “We beat a great, great team,” Auriemma said. “Notre Dame is a great team. For them to have the season they had and lose their starting center and to do what they did, I can’t say enough about their players, coaching staff and it took everything we have. I knew if we played great we’d have a chance to win.” The victory also meant that UConn is now the center of the college basketball world with both the men’s and women’s teams winning the championship in the same year again. The men’s team beat Kentucky in the title game Monday night. This pair of victories came a decade after the Huskies be-

came the only Division I school to accomplish the feat. “I couldn’t be prouder of what the men did last night,” Auriemma said. Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw congratulated the UConn coach when they shook hands after the game. “I said something like, ‘I thought we were playing the Miami Heat for a while you guys are just that good.’ What a great season, you know things like that,” McGraw said. “I thought ... LeBron was the only thing they were missing.” AP Photo/John Bazemore While the names change at Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma holds the net after UConn, from Rebecca Lobo to Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore the second half of the championship game against Notre Dame and now Stewart, Auriemma in the Final Four of the NCAA women’s college basketball tourSee UCONN, page A-11 nament, Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn. Connecticut won 79-58.

Caps win with Ovechkin magic The Associated Press

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Kenai River Brown Bears’ Gustav Berglund tries to outmaneuver Fairbanks Ice Dog’s Colton Wolter during their game Tuesday at the Soldotna Sports Complex in Soldotna. The Ice Dogs won 5-2 to take a 2-1 series advantage.

Ice Dogs take game 3 Fairbanks beats Kenai River to stake 2-1 playoff series lead By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Fairbanks Ice Dogs put the Kenai River Brown Bears on the brink of elimination with a 5-2 victory Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. The Ice Dogs now lead the best-of-five, first-round series 2-1. Game 4 is tonight at 7 p.m. at the sports complex, while Game 5, if necessary, is Saturday in Fairbanks. “I thought we played pretty well from the first period through the third period,” Ice Dogs head coach Trevor Stewart said after avoiding losing two straight for a fifth time this season and a first time against the Bears. “In the second period, they had momentum and we were fortunate to come out

ahead 3-2. “We know it’s going to be intense tomorrow night.” The teams have now played 19 times this season, with the Ice Dogs coming away with 15 victories. From such a large sample size has emerged a pattern. When Fairbanks scores first, Kenai River has a tendency to get away from its systems. “There’s no doubt that guys try to take matters into their own hands, get off course and don’t stay on task,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “That’s what has happened every time we have suffered a big loss. Guys go on their own page. We need to play as a team.” When teams play individual hockey against the

Ice Dogs, the team with the best record and most goals in the North American Hockey League regular season, lopsided games result. The Ice Dogs are now 13-0 when scoring first against Kenai River. The Bears have lost 10 games by three or more goals this season, and nine of those games have come to the Ice Dogs. The full depth of Fairbanks’ offensive power was on display Tuesday, as 11 players had a single point, with Duggie Lagrone notching a pair of assists. And this was without Tayler Munson and Kyle Lee in the lineup. Munson, first on the Dogs in scoring, and Lee, tied for fourth on the team in scoring, both left recent games against the Bears with injuries.

Stewart did not say why they didn’t play Tuesday, or if they will play today. Beauparlant said his team started the game playing OK, with Dogs goalie Kevin Aldridge making a pointblank save on Zack Zulkanycz just 40 seconds in. With 7:46 left in the first, Wyatt Ege, who has had a knack for scoring on Bears goalie Zach Quinn from distance this season, floated a shot from the blue line through traffic and into the net. “They scored, and it’s kind of been the same old song,” Beauparlant said. “The next shift, we are vulnerable, and sure enough it was 2-0.” The Bears committed a turnover in their own zone and Yannick Vedel pounced for a See BEARS, page A-11

ST. LOUIS — Alex Ovechkin became the 11th player in NHL history to score 50 or more goals in a season five times, and the Washington Capitals kept their slim playoff hopes alive by beating the slumping St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Tuesday night. Ovechkin, who added two assists, beat Ryan Miller with a one-timer from the left circle at 17:54 of the first period for his 50th goal overall and 23rd on the power play, both league highs. It is Ovechkin’s first 50goal campaign since 2009-10, when he scored 50. His singleseason high is 65 in the 200708 season. Nicklas Backstrom scored twice and Mikhail Grabovski added another goal for the Capitals, who have 85 points and are still on the outside of the Eastern Conference playoff picture looking in with three games remaining.

Richards scored two power-play goals, and the playoff-bound New York Rangers improved their chances for home-ice advantage in the first round with a victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Richards scored in the first period to tie it and then stretched New York’s lead to two goals in the second period with his 20th of the season — the 10th time he has reached the mark in the NHL. Martin St. Louis had his best game with the Rangers with three assists, and Benoit Pouliot and Derek Stepan also scored.

RED WINGS 4, SABRES 2

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Darren Helm scored the go-ahead goal 3:33 into the third period to inch the Detroit Red Wings closer to clinching a playoff berth with a win over the Buffalo Sabres. Brendan Smith, David Leg- C wand and Pavel Datsyuk, into an empty net, also scored for the Red Y Wings, and Jimmy Howard made 25 saves. Detroit moved within a point of securing one of the Eastern Conference’s two wild-card playoff spots, and extending its run FLYERS 5, PANTHERS 2 of postseason berths to 23 straight SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Claude seasons. Giroux scored two goals and the Philadelphia Flyers clinched a playoff berth by beating the FlorSENATORS 4, ida Panthers. ISLANDERS 1 Tye McGinn, Sean Couturier UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — and Vincent Lecavalier also scored for the Flyers and Steve Mason Jason Spezza scored twice and made 38 saves. The Flyers won Ales Hemsky added an insurance their second consecutive game af- goal as the Ottawa Senators topped ter losing the four previous games. the New York Islanders. Craig Anderson made 45 saves for the Senators, who will still miss LIGHTNING 3, the postseason for the first time since 2011 and just the third time MAPLE LEAFS 0 since 1996. They were making TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ondrej their first appearance this season at Palat had two goals, Anders Lind- Nassau Coliseum, and the Islandback came off the bench to make ers won the previous two meetings 25 saves, and the Tampa Bay in Ottawa. Lightning ended Toronto’s playoff hopes by beating the Maple Leafs. Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop BLUE JACKETS 4, left with 14:17 remaining in the COYOTES 3, OT first due to an undisclosed upperCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — body injury. He was hurt while lunging to his left and landing on Ryan Johansen took a stretch pass his side while attempting to glove from James Wisniewski and scored the puck. Lindback replaced Bish- on a wrist shot at 3:33 of overtime op, who is 37-14-7 this season for to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets over the Phoenix Coyotes, tying a the playoff-bound Lightning. franchise record for wins. Sergei Bobrovsky had 29 saves, RANGERS 4, Blake Comeau, Boone Jenner and Mark Letestu also had goals and HURRICANES 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Brad

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Nets win by denying LeBron gamewinning dunk MIAMI (AP) — Joe Johnson scored 19 points, Mason Plumlee was credited with a block on LeBron James’ dunk attempt in the final seconds, and the Brooklyn Nets finished off a four-game season sweep of Miami by beating the Heat 88-87 on Tuesday night. It was the third time Brooklyn beat Miami by a single point; the other win came in double-overtime. Marcus Thornton scored 16 points and Paul Pierce added 14 for the Nets, who became the first team in the last two years to sweep the Heat. Miami was the only team in the league to beat every team last season and would have repeated that feat with a win Tuesday. James had 29 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for the

Heat, who remained a halfgame ahead of Indiana, and one in the loss column, in the race for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. Chris Bosh scored 12 and Norris Cole added 10 for Miami.

game ahead of the Clippers (5523) for the Western Conference’s No. 2 playoff seed. DeMarcus Cousins collected 24 points and 14 rebounds, and Travis Outlaw scored 24 points in Sacramento’s third straight loss.

THUNDER 107, KINGS 92

TIMBERWOLVES 110, SPURS 91

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Caron Butler made all six of his 3-point attempts to finish with 23 points, and Oklahoma City started the fourth quarter on a 16-0 run to pull away for the victory. Kevin Durant scored 23 points but was never needed in the final quarter, stopping his streak of scoring at least 25 points in 41 consecutive games. Serge Ibaka added 19 points and four rebounds for the Thunder, who rested Russell Westbrook ahead of Wednesday night’s game at the Los Angeles Clippers. Oklahoma City (56-21) is one

MINNEAPOLIS — Ricky Rubio scored 23 points and Gorgui Dieng had 12 points and 15 rebounds, leading Minnesota to the win. Kevin Love had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Corey Brewer scored 14 for the Timberwolves, who have beaten Miami and San Antonio in two of their last three games. Kawhi Leonard had 11 points and six rebounds for the Spurs, who were playing without Tony Parker and have now lost two of three following a 19-game winning C

streak. Parker has a back injury, but coach Gregg Popovich said before the game he didn’t believe it was that serious. Manu Ginobili left in the third quarter with a left calf contusion, and the Spurs were just 4 for 17 from 3-point range in a listless performance.

MAVERICKS 95, JAZZ 83 SALT LAKE CITY — Dirk Nowitzki scored 21 points on 9-of11 shooting, and the Mavericks earned their fifth consecutive victory. Dallas shot 56 percent from the field and had six players score in double figures. Monta Ellis had 16 points and reserve Vince Carter added 13. Derrick Favors scored 19 points for the Jazz, who lost for the 18th time in their last 21 games. Reserve Enes Kanter added 15 points and 19 rebounds, and Richard Jef-

ferson had 15 points. Dallas opened the game by ROCKETS 145, making 17 of 18 shots. The MavLAKERS 130 ericks shot 94.1 percent (16 of 17) LOS ANGELES — Terrence from the floor in the first quarter Jones and James Harden scored alone. 33 points apiece, and the Houston Rockets kept up their playoff push PISTONS 102, HAWKS 95 with their third straight victory. Chandler Parsons scored 19 ATLANTA — Rodney Stuckey points for the Rockets, who used scored 29 points, Greg Monroe a 49-point third quarter against and Andre Drummond each had a the Los Angeles Lakers to solidify double-double and Detroit snapped their hold on fourth place in the a 10-game skid in Atlanta. Western Conference standings deAtlanta has five games left in spite their second-worst defensive the regular season and a one game performance of the year. Houston advantage over New York for the won the opener of a three-game eighth and final Eastern Conferroad trip without injured Dwight ence playoff spot. Howard and Patrick Beverley. Paul Millsap had 24 points and Steve Nash moved into third 12 rebounds for Atlanta, which had place on the NBA’s career assists won three of four. list for the miserable Lakers (25Monroe finished with 21 points 53), who tied the franchise record and 13 rebounds and Drummond for losses in a single season with had 19 points and 17 rebounds for their worst defensive performance the Pistons, who have won two of the year. straight after dropping five of six.

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has been the constant, winning nine titles in only 20 seasons — including the last two. He’s never lost in a national championship game. “Congratulations to the UConn Huskies for winning the 2014 NCAA National Championship!,” Summitt said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. “My compliments also to coach Geno Auriemma for winning his ninth national title. He has accomplished this feat in record time.” It was the fifth unbeaten season for Auriemma and UConn and the first time the Huskies went 40-0 — matching Baylor as the only schools to accomplish that feat. The victory was also Connecticut’s 46th straight dating back to last season’s NCAA tournament title run. It’s the third

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2-0 game just 20 seconds after Ege’s tally. Beauparlant immediately called timeout and the Bears settled down, with Nathan Colwell converting a Ben Campbell rebound from the slot for a 2-1 game with 2:44 left in the first. But then Fairbanks’ improved power play came to the fore. The Ice Dogs ended the season with a hot power play, but had gone seven man advantages without a score after Munson scored in the opening power play of the series Friday. Some nice tic-tac-toe passing from Lagrone to Ethan Somoza to Ross Olsson made it 3-1 with 34 seconds left in the first period. Stewart said the Ice Dogs really didn’t change anything on the power play, but Beauparlant, an Ice Dogs assistant for the past three years, wasn’t about to fall for that one. “They made some changes,” Beauparlant said. “We’re not oblivious to that type of stuff. We knew they hadn’t scored on their last seven. “We tried to counter through doing a couple things, but we were just very slow to react.” In the second period, the Bears stayed the course and some pretty passing between Albin Karlsson, Judd Loewenstein and Sebastian Fuchs led to a Karlsson tally. The lone goal of the second made it a 3-2 game headed to the third. Beauparlant credited Campbell and Loewenstein, the two defensemen with assists, with very strong games. But Kenai River had to start the third on the penalty kill, and just 48 seconds in Burgess

longest streak in school history — well short of the NCAA record 90 straight they won. The loss was Notre Dame’s third in the title game in the past four years. Kayla McBride finished off her stellar career with 21 points to lead the Irish, who were looking for their first championship since 2001. “Obviously we wanted to finish this season with a championship,” said Irish freshman Taya Reimer, who replaced Achonwa in the starting lineup. “Right now, it is hard to think about. It hurts a lot.” After proving to be no challenge for the Huskies during the first 15 years of the rivalry which began in 1995, Notre Dame had owned the series lately, winning seven of the previous nine meetings. UConn though has won the last two, eliminating Notre Dame in the Final Four last season before topping them in the championship game this year. scored for a two-goal cushion. Stewart said the goal didn’t come on a set play coming out of the locker room, but Beauparlant was of the opinion that it did. “It was obviously a very important point in the game,” Stewart said. “We had a onegoal lead going into the third period, and we were able to take advantage of the power play.” Down two goals, Beauparlant said his squad played as individuals and not a team. “We talked about it after, we played selfish hockey,” he said. “When we play selfish hockey, there is no team we are going to beat.” With 7:28 left in the third, Johnny Mueller iced the game and took all the air out of the crowd of 837 by beating Quinn. Quinn made 27 saves, while Aldridge had 22. “The fan support was great for a midweek game,” Beauparlant said. “It was loud, and it was an exciting crowd to play in front of. “We stunk up the joint. Hopefully, we’ll have the same support tomorrow night. I know we’ll be better tomorrow night.”

Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB x-Toronto 45 32 .584 — x-Brooklyn 43 34 .558 2 New York 33 45 .423 12½ Boston 23 54 .299 22 Philadelphia 17 60 .221 28 Southeast Division y-Miami 53 24 .688 — x-Washington 40 37 .519 13 x-Charlotte 39 38 .506 14 Atlanta 34 43 .442 19 Orlando 22 55 .286 31 Central Division y-Indiana 53 25 .679 — x-Chicago 45 32 .584 7½ Cleveland 31 47 .397 22 Detroit 29 49 .372 24 Milwaukee 14 63 .182 38½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division y-San Antonio 60 18 .769 — x-Houston 52 25 .675 7½ Dallas 48 31 .608 12½ Memphis 45 32 .584 14½ New Orleans 32 45 .416 27½ Northwest Division y-Oklahoma City 56 21 .727 — x-Portland 50 28 .641 6½ Minnesota 39 38 .506 17 Denver 33 44 .429 23 Utah 24 54 .308 32½ Pacific Division y-L.A. Clippers 55 23 .705 — Golden State 48 29 .623 6½ Phoenix 46 31 .597 8½ Sacramento 27 51 .346 28 L.A. Lakers 25 53 .321 30 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Wednesday’s Games Brooklyn at Orlando, 3 p.m. Charlotte at Washington, 3 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 3 p.m. Boston at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Miami at Memphis, 4 p.m. Phoenix at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Houston at Denver, 5 p.m. Sacramento at Portland, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W z-Boston 79 53 x-Montreal 79 45 x-Tampa Bay 79 43 Detroit 79 38 Toronto 80 38 Ottawa 79 34

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Florida 80 28 44 Buffalo 79 21 49 Metropolitan Division y-Pittsburgh 79 50 24 x-N.Y. Rangers 80 44 31 x-Philadelphia 79 41 29 Columbus 79 41 31 Washington 79 36 30 New Jersey 79 34 29 Carolina 79 34 34 N.Y. Islanders 79 31 37

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-St. Louis 79 52 20 7 111 x-Colorado 79 51 21 7 109 x-Chicago 79 45 19 15 105 x-Minnesota 80 42 26 12 96 Dallas 79 39 29 11 89 Nashville 79 35 32 12 82 Winnipeg 80 35 35 10 80 Pacific Division x-Anaheim 79 51 20 8 110 x-San Jose 79 49 21 9 107 x-Los Angeles 79 45 28 6 96 Phoenix 79 36 28 15 87 Vancouver 79 35 33 11 81 Calgary 79 34 38 7 75 Edmonton 80 28 43 9 65 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Chicago, 3:30 p.m. Detroit at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Columbus at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Calgary, 6 p.m. San Jose at Anaheim, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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Artem Anisimov added two assists for the Blue Jackets. It was their 41st victory to match their most in their 13 seasons.

WILD 4, BRUINS 3, SO ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mikko Koivu scored for Minnesota and Ilya Bryzgalov denied all three Boston shots in the shootout, lifting the Wild over the Bruins and clinching a wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoffs. When Bryzgalov stopped Brad Marchand’s try with his pad to end it, he pumped his arms as he skated out of the crease to celebrate with his teammates. The Wild will be the seventh seed and face the division winner with the fewest points.

STARS 3, PREDATORS 2, SO DALLAS (AP) — Tyler Seguin scored in the fourth round of a shootout and the playoff-chasing Dallas Stars eliminated the Nashville Predators from postseason contention. Seguin, who had been 1 of 6 in shootout chances, scored the winner after Predators center Matt Cullen was denied. Dallas holds the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference with 89 points, two ahead of Phoenix after the Coyotes got a point for an overtime loss at Columbus. Both teams have three games left.

AVALANCHE 4, OILERS 1 EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Erik Johnson had a goal and an assist and the Colorado Avalanche earned a victory over the Edmonton Oilers. C

San Diego (Erlin 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 0-0), 11:35 a.m., 2nd game Texas (R.Ross 0-0) at Boston (Peavy 0-0), 12:05 p.m. Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0), 3:05 p.m. Houston (Harrell 0-1) at Toronto (Morrow 0-1), 3:07 p.m. Detroit (A.Sanchez 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 0-0), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Richards 1-0) at Seattle (Elias 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

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(10 innings) Scherzer, Krol (8), Chamberlain (9), Coke (10) and Avila; Haren, Withrow (7), C.Perez (8), Jansen (9), Howell (10) and Federowicz. WСHowell 1-0. LСChamberlain 0-1. HRsСDetroit, A.Jackson (1). Los Angeles, D.Gordon (1). Brewers 10, Phillies 4 Mil. 014 100 130—10 15 0 Phi. 100 111 0 00— 4 9 3 Lohse, Duke (6), W.Smith (7), Kintzler (8), Henderson (9) and Lucroy; K.Kendrick, Rosenberg (6), Hollands (7), Lincoln (8) and Ruiz. W_Lohse 1-1. L_K.Kendrick 0-1. HRs_Milwaukee, Braun 3 (3). Giants 7, D-Backs 3 Ari. 010 100 010—3 7 0 S.F. 203 020 0 0x—7 10 1 Cahill, Rowland-Smith (4), O.Perez (6), Ziegler (7), Putz (8) and Montero; T.Hudson, Casilla (9) and Posey. W_T.Hudson 2-0. L_Cahill 0-3. HRs_San Francisco, Belt (5). Nationals 5, Marlins 0 Mia. 000 000 0 00—0 4 1 Was. 100 002 02x—5 8 0 H.Alvarez, Da.Jennings (6), A.Ramos (7), M.Dunn (8) and Saltalamacchia; G.Gonzalez, Blevins (7), Storen (7), Clippard (8), Barrett (9) and Lobaton. W_G. Gonzalez 2-0. L_H.Alvarez 0-2. Mets 4, Braves 0 N.Y. 001 000 210—4 9 2 Atl. 000 000 0 00—0 8 0 Colon, Farnsworth (8), Valverde (9) and d’Arnaud; Harang, Schlosser (7), Avilan (7), Varvaro (7), Thomas (8), Beato (8) and Gattis. W_Colon 1-1. L_Harang 1-1. Pirates 7, Cubs 6 Pit. 400 110 010—7 11 1 Chi. 013 001 100—6 10 0 Morton, Watson (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and R.Martin; E.Jackson, Schlitter (5), Grimm (7), Strop (8), Russell (8), Veras (9) and Castillo. W_Watson 2-0. L_Strop 0-1. Sv_Grilli (2). HRs_Chicago, S.Castro 2 (2). Cardinals 7, Reds 5 Cin. 310 010 0 00—5 9 1 S.L. 040 002 10x—7 13 0 Bailey, Ondrusek (6), Hoover (7), Christiani (8) and Mesoraco; Lynn, Choate (7), C.Martinez (8), Rosenthal (9) and Y.Molina. W_Lynn 2-0. L_Ondrusek 0-1. Sv_Rosenthal (3). HRs_St. Louis, Y.Molina (3).

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tract before and helps to ensure the city pays the lowest available cost. Through a competitive process, Ford dealerships across the state bid on Police Interceptors and Kendall Ford provided the city the best fleet price, he said. The new sedan will arrive if the ordinance is passed and will be fitted with the light bar and other police modifications at the city maintenance facility. Meanwhile, the totaled cruiser is currently at the city shop waiting to be relieved of its service.

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meeting April 16. Sandahl said the insurance proceeds from the driver at fault are expected to be sufficient for the replacement of the vehicle. Kenai Municipal Code 7.15.050 “allows the city to purchase equipment without giving an opportunity for competitive bidding if the equipment is purchased under the contract of another governmental agency,” according to the ordinance. Reach Dan Balmer at danSandahl said the city has pur- iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. chased police vehicles through com. the State of Alaska fleet con-

all three incumbents, praising Jeffrey’s work ethic and availability to the public, Morisky’s focus on the resource and Jensen’s long history on the board and in an array of Alaska fisheries. Certain other groups also supported all three, including the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Fish and Wildlife Commission and Kenai River Sportfishing Association, or KRSA.

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The driver of the truck was identified as Harley W. Davidson, 56, of Anchorage. Troopers determined Davidson had fallen asleep at the wheel and the vehicle went off the road and down a ravine, Peters said. Peters said troopers don’t know when the crash occurred, but received a call around 3:20 a.m. from someone who reported they received a call from a cell phone with people screaming but did not get a location or description. Thirty minutes later, Straughn was found. The two people spent

at least three hours trapped in the truck from the time Straughn was picked up to when the truck was discovered, she said. “Considering the huge delay, this is the best possible outcome,” she said. “It is important to remind people if you’re driving through the night and get tired, consider changing plans.” The case is under investigation, but Peters said troopers do not believe alcohol or drugs are a factor in the crash. She said there is no substantial evidence to contradict that the driver fell asleep at the wheel.

JUNEAU (AP) — The Legislature has pushed to April 17 a joint session to consider confirmation of appointments. The confirmation of gubernatorial appointees had been scheduled for this coming Friday. The change will allow more time for consideration of a bill that would allow for out-of-state residents to serve on the board of directors of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC. Gov. Sean Parnell appointed a Texas man and former pipeline company executive to serve on the board. Parnell has defended the appointment as within his discretion under the state constitution but critics say it’s at odds with state law requiring Alaska residents serve on boards and commissions. The sponsors of the bill establishing AGDC have said their entire was to ensure the best, most qualified members are appointed to the board.

Shadura said Jeffrey’s commitment and skills improved the board process, and praised Jensen for listening to stakeholders and working to understand the complexities of fisheries management. Ninilchik fisherman John McCombs said he attended the full board meeting in Anchorage and didn’t appreciate how the board generated and passed proposals without enough public input, or the push to make Cook Inlet management more closely mirror Bristol Bay. As a result, he opposed of-

fering the incumbents — including the commercial representatives — another term. Chris Garcia, also participating from Kenai, said he also wanted to see new blood on the board. That Alaska State House and Senate are scheduled to meet in a joint session to confirm the appointments April 17. The committee sent the nominees forward for the hearing, but Rep. Paul Seaton noted that the motion to do so did not indicate support or opposition to any of the three individuals.

Bill on AGDC appointments advances

JUNEAU — The House Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow out-of-state residents to serve on the board of directors of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. The committee introduced HB383 at the request of House Speaker Mike Chenault, who was a lead sponsor of a measure passed last year that set up the organization, power and governance of the corporation, known as the AGDC. Chenault, R-Nikiski, said it was an oversight to have not specifically exempted the Reach Dan Balmer at daniel. AGDC from a state law requirbalmer@peninsulaclarion.com ing that individuals appointed to boards or commissions of state government be registered

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KRSA Executive Director Ricky Gease praised Jeffrey for being accessible. “She is open to anybody who wants to come up and ask her questions, she makes herself available to the public,” he said. Others offered mixed reports on the three. Paul Shadura supported Jeffrey and Jensen on behalf of the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association, but said he spoke for the South KBeach Independent Fishermen’s Association when he opposed Morisky serving another term.

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and Rep. Mark Neuman of Big Lake joining minority Democrats in voting against it. The lone minority Democrat to vote in support was Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka. With the bill now before the Senate Finance Committee, Education Commissioner Mike Hanley said Tuesday that he would seek to have provisions related to residential school stipends and the repeal of the high school graduation exam added

Alaska voters. He said testimony and legal guidance at the time the bill establishing the AGDC, HB4, was being considered was that language in HB4 allowed for Alaska residents and nonresidents alike to serve as part of an effort to ensure the most qualified people are on the board. The AGDC could play a key role in the major liquefied natural gas project being pursued in Alaska. Critics of an AGDC exemption to the law regarding residency of board members say Alaskans should be making policy calls affecting Alaskans, and that nothing would prevent the AGDC from hiring an out-ofstate resident as a consultant. The residency issue came to the fore with the appointment of Richard Rabinow, a pipeline industry consultant and former

president of ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. who is from Texas. Gov. Sean Parnell appointed Rabinow to the board in September and has defended the pick as falling within his discretion. Under the state constitution, when a board or commission is at the head of a principal department or a regulatory or quasi-judicial agency, the only residency requirement is that the person be a citizen of the United States. Parnell spokeswoman Sharon Leighow has said the AGDC appointment would fall under a board at the head of a principal department. Rabinow, in a letter to Parnell last month, said he would resign if the Legislature before adjourning does not expressly permit out-of-state residents to serve on that board. A joint session for the Legis-

lature to consider appointments was pushed back from Friday to April 17, at the request of the House. The provision of HB383 that would allow public members of the AGDC board to be out-ofstate residents would be retroactive to Sept. 1, 2013, encompassing Rabinow’s appointment. House Rules further amended the bill, at the request of Rep. Max Gruenberg, D-Anchorage, to require that the governor provide a written statement explaining any future appointments of out-of-state residents to the board. There is precedent for allowing nonresidents on boards of directors: The boards of both the Alaska Railroad Corp. and the Alaska Aerospace Corp. allow for certain members to be nonresidents.

back in the bill. He said the bill doesn’t represent significant reforms but steps in the right direction, including with regards to charter school applications and allowing for students to test of our classes they’ve mastered. Ron Fuhrer, president of NEA-Alaska, a major teachers’ union, said in a statement that while he appreciated the proposed increases in the base student allocation, they don’t alleviate past years of flat-funding the formula and ongoing costs to operate schools, “leaving grave concerns regarding the future of education in Alaska.”

Hanley said any time there is a bill with this many pieces, there will be a small group that supports every one of them. He was happy to see both the retirement portion and a change in the calculation in the average daily membership to determine state aid for larger schools removed from the bill. The latter would have allowed larger schools to receive more funding under the formula. Both those pieces were added in House Finance. Parnell in his State of the State address dubbed this the “education session.” While it is still unclear what the final edu-

cation package might look like, Hanley said the conversations surrounding education this session have been “deeper and broader than we’ve had at any time in recent history.” But “we certainly can’t stop at the end of session and call it good,” he said. “We have to continue moving forward.” As part of the overall reform discussion, Hanley said schools need to be looked in the context of the communities in which they operate and the academic, social and physical well-being of children also needs to be taken into account. Children, he said, are “more than test scores.”

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Another delicious Appalachian mountain kiss from Asheville’s Tupelo HoneyCafé We’ve just been planted with another kiss from the authors of the newly released “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains.” As in 2011’s especially sweet “Tupelo Honey Café: Spirited Recipes from Asheville’s New South Kitchen,” which I referred to then as an “Appalachian mountain kiss,” Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus, a graduate of the prestigious Johnson and Wales University, once again serve up 125 mouth-watering, hyper-approachable recipes from one of the most culinary diverse areas of our country – the mountain South. Chef Sonoskus continues to triumph as the creator of scratch-made “sassy and scrumptious” dishes that has made the downtown Asheville, North Carolina Tupelo Honey Café, where Chef Sonoskus has been since it opened its doors in

or Lowcountry Boil in this region) contains scallops – an addition that was not only new to me, but to be honest – fabulous. Additionally, the book’s recipe for Maple Sweet Potato Bread Pudding is pretty remarkable, too, with the flavors of sweet potatoes and maple, as Chef Sonoskus states, “a match made in nirvana.” For information about either cookKitchen Ade book, which includes stunning Sue Ade photography of the mountains, farms and foods of the region, 2000, so celebrated – and inno- visit https://tupelohoneycafe. vative. Luckily, we can sample com/collection/cookbook. some of this innovation right at home, via cookbook recipes for Sue Ade is a syndicated food dishes such as Frogmore Stew, writer with broad experience and the quintessential “from field interest in the culinary arts. She and sea to the pot” meal that has worked and resided in the originated in the lowcountry of Lowcountry of South Carolina South Carolina – my neck of since 1985 and may be reached the woods for almost 30 years at kitchenade@yahoo.com. now. Chef Sonoskus’ version (also known as Beaufort Stew Photos by Sue Ade unless otherwise indicated

From the restaurant to the home kitchen, Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus share125 all new recipes from the just released “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains” – a follow-up to “Tupelo Honey Café: Spirited Recipes from Asheville’s New South Kitchen,” published in 2011 by Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (www.andrewsmcmeel. com). Credits: jacket design by Julie Barnes

Frogmore Stew Recipe from “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains,” by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus; photography by Brie Williams; Andrews McMeel Publishing 2014.

Got a hungry crowd to feed? Just spread some newspapers over your kitchen table and prepare to eat this “stew” with gusto. This is a favorite dish in the Carolina Low Country, where shrimp and fresh corn are a way of life. Did it first appear in Frogmore, South Carolina? Residents of that community certainly lay claim to this scrumptious fame. Regardless of where this dish got its start, we love our version with its addition of sea scallops.” – from the “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains,” by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus; photograph by Brie Williams.

2 tablespoons olive oil 6 to 7 large sea scallops 7 ounces kielbasa sausage, cut into 1-inch pieces 1½ cups chopped onion 1½ cups chopped celery 2 cups V8 juice 1½ cups water 1½ cups lager or other light beer 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 tablespoon McCormick Grill Mates Montreal Chicken Seasoning 1 tablespoon Old Bay Seasoning 2 small bay leaves 8 to 10 small red potatoes (¾ to 1 pound), quartered 2 ears corn, cut crosswise into 2-inch-thick pieces 10 large shrimp, unpeeled,

halved lengthwise and bay leaves and bring to a 2 tablespoons minced fresh boil. Cover, lower the heat to parsley medium-low, and simmer for 10 minutes. Raise the heat to Heat a large Dutch oven over medium-high and add the potamedium-high heat. Add 1 table- toes. Cover and cook at a gentle spoon of the oil. Add the scal- boil for 10 minutes, lowering lops and cook for about 30 sec- the heat to medium-low when onds per side, or until seared on the mixture boils rapidly. Add both sides. Transfer to a plate the corn and sausage, cover, and and set aside. Add the sausage simmer for 10 minutes. Add the slices to the Dutch oven and shrimp and parsley and simcook for 1 to 2 minutes on each mer until the shrimp is opaque, side, until browned on both about 5 minutes. Add the scalsides. Transfer to a plate and set lops and cook for 2 minutes, or aside. Add the remaining 1ta- until just opaque. Remove from blespoon olive oil to the Dutch the heat and let stand for 5 minoven. Add the onion and celery utes before serving with crusty and cook for 5 minutes, or until bread. You may also wish to the onion begins to brown and serve this over rice. is tender. Add the V8 juice, waMakes 6 to 8 servings ter, beer, lemon juice, chicken seasoning, Old Bay Seasoning,

Maple Sweet Potato Bread Pudding Recipe from “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains,” by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus; photography by Brie Williams; Andrews McMeel Publishing 2014. 1¼ pounds small sweet potatoes, or 3 large sweet potatoes 5 eggs 2 cups heavy cream 2 cups whole milk 1 cup maple syrup, plus additional for serving, warmed ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg ½ teaspoon kosher salt 1 (1 pound) loaf challah bread, cut into 1½- to 2-inch cubes (12 packed cups) Ice cream or whipped cream

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Wrap the sweet potatoes in foil and bake until tender when pricked with a fork, 50 to 60 min¬utes. Carefully unwrap the foil and let them stand until they are cool enough to handle. Remove the skins and place the cooked sweet potatoes in a bowl. Mash coarsely using a potato masher. Lower the oven temperature to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until frothy. Whisk in the cream, milk, the 1 cup maple syrup, the brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Stir in the sweet potatoes. Add the bread

cubes and stir to mix thoroughly. Let stand for 15 minutes for the bread to soak up the liquid, stirring occasion¬ally. Butter a 9 by 13-inch baking dish. Pour the bread mixture into the dish, cover tightly with aluminum foil, and bake until the pudding is set in the center, 50 minutes to an hour. Uncover the baking dish and cook until browned on top and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Serve warm, drizzled with the warm maple syrup and topped with ice cream or whipped cream. Makes 9 to 12 servings.

“Sweet potatoes are a Tupelo Honey staple. We love our Sweet Potato Pancakes. We love sweet potato fries. We love sweet potato pie. And we really love this take on bread pudding. The combination of sweet potatoes and maple is a match made in nirvana. Serve it warm with ice cream or whipped cream and pour some warm maple syrup over it all. Holy tuber.” – From the “Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains,” by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus; photograph by Brie Williams.

Tupelo Honey Appreciated for its purity and distinctive, almost buttery flavor, all-natural, unfiltered pure tupelo honey is the honey of choice for recipes containing honey in Tupelo Honey Café’s cookbooks. The only places in the world (yes, world) certified to produce pure tupelo honey commer-

Their preference for prized tupelo honey is reflective of Tupelo Honey Café’s commitment to offering scratch-made dishes prepared with the best, most wholesome ingredients possible. C

cially is along the swampy Chipola and Apalachicola river basins of northwest Florida, where the White Tupelo Gum tree grows profusely. You will pay a premium for tupelo honey – but it’s worth the price and then some.

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Grannie Annie is the author of Grannie Annie Cookbook series, featuring Alaskan recipes and stories

About Dad, the farmer Northern Colorado 1936-1955 Have you heard or read the speech that Paul Harvey gave in 1978 at the National FFA Convention? The words “So God Made a Farmer” are wonderful and very inspiring. The first thing that comes to my mind is our dad, John McClure. Dad got up at dawn or before to tend to the irrigated crops, milked cows, feed his cattle and horses, make sure they had water, pat “Old Pup’s” head, give the kitties some milk in the barn. He carried the full milk pail into the house and poured milk in the jars to be refrigerated. He ate a great breakfast that my mom had made for him and us kids, washed up and shaved, put on his Sunday goto-meeting clothes and took us all to church. We took the long way to church, as he picked up all the neighborhood kids to go with us. At one time there was 14 kids packed in that old peagreen four-door Dodge. Dad would sing his heart out driving into town and expected us all to sing with him. He would look in the mirror to see if we were singing and if we weren’t he gave us the “stink eye.” It was fun and we loved every minute of it. The memories I recall today are priceless. We were the only Irish family in a mostly German-Russian community. Dad would say “just remember you are Irish” and Mom would say in her scolding voice “now remember, you ARE Irish and don’t do anything to make your dad be ashamed of you!” That simple statement kept me out of a lot of trouble! “What would your dad think?” was pounded into our head. Actually Mom’s background was English and Austrian-German and Dad’s was Irish. But in Mom’s eyes we were all Irish and she would add “and don’t you forget it! And our last name is McClure. And don’t you forget it!” I never knew what nationality our neighbors were because during World War II, the Germans became Russians and

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after the war some switched back to German. Dad teasingly called his friends “Rooshins.” It did not matter very much to me because the kids were my friends. I got to go to their houses and eat such wonderful dishes as Kraut Burgers, a most delicious cabbage pocket. (Cabbage and hamburger wrapped in a soft bread dough and then baked.) Or go to Betty Schmidt’s house for dill pickles that were fermented down in the dirt basement in a crock — my goodness those were good! You just reached your hand in the crock and grabbed a pickle out of the brine — no matter where your (or anyone else’s) hands had been before that. Eileen Lauck’s mom was a good cook and different things on the table were so interesting and tasted so good to me. Geraldine Dietz seemed to have apple pie at her house all the time. The Winnicks were good friends of Dad’s. Their kids were older, in high school. The farm next to our farm were Italians. Tony and Mrs. Aranci, their pretty daughter JeanAnn and their son Duane, who became (and still is) a good friend of my brother John. Mrs. Aranci called her husband Anthony. We all enjoyed Anthony playing his violin. We all thought it was most fascinating! Dad would smile and clap whenever he finished a song. Dad called him Toni. He would bring his “fiddle” as Dad teasingly called it, to our house. He and I would play good music as I tried to keep up on the piano.

he series is written by a 44 year resident of Alaska, Ann Berg of Nikiski. Ann shares her collections of recipes from family and friends. She has gathered recipes for more that 50 years. Some are her own creation. Her love of recipes and food came from her Mother, a self taught wonderful cook. She hopes you enjoy the recipes and that the stories will bring a smile to your day. Grannie Annie can be reached at anninalaska@gci.net

He very patiently taught me to play along with him. He was a good teacher. He played for square dances with my piano teacher Kathryn Sutherland, in the Sutherland barn. Those dances did not last long and I do not know why. I enjoyed them so much. The last names of our farmer neighbors were Aranci. Winnicks, Schmidts, Dietz, Triples, Klings, Buderus, Strobles, Shields and Reins and of course McClures! Good hard-working friendly farmers. Dad never cut corners as he plowed, harrowed and seeded his fields. In earlier days he used three big horses, Barney, Babe and Dan. My biggest memory is Dad hefting me up on the back of one of the big draft horses and telling me to hang on, as those gentle wide backed horses took their time going to the barn after a big day in the fields. Dad would unharness them, rub them down, feed them oats, pat each one the rump as they went out to the water tank for long drinks of water. I sat on the milk stool in the barn and watched this gently man — my Dad. Always smiling, always willing to help his neighbor and always ready to tell a story or a joke with his smiling Irish eyes and big grin. He held one of his kids on his lap and scooted another up beside him and put his big arms around them. Yes, we as family, were proud of what our dad did. Because God made him a farmer! Note: I wrote this article Sunday Morning and then watched the AMC awards Sunday Evening with Bob. There on television was the very Paul Harvey poem I had written about! Bob and I were speechless — so this article mean a bunch more to me now. If you would like a copy of the Paul Harvey speech, e-mail me at anninalaska@gci.net and I will be glad to e-mail you a copy. It is priceless. Thanks to my sister Ginger I have my copy!

Vegetable, Ham &Cheese Chowder This is made with the low sodium Mother’s Maid Mixed Vegetables that I am sure so many of you have received in the Senior Boxes. This can of vegetables has the potato’s, carrots and all the other vegetables you would put in a chowder. No peeling potato’s and carrots and do not have to dice up celery. I did add diced onion. In a medium sauce pan: 1 can chicken broth 1/2 diced onion 1 cups small diced ham Simmer onion in chicken broth for a few minutes so it is transparent. Add the ham and simmer a few minutes

It is just about time to go clam digging!! Boil 3-4 medium size carrots, sliced About 8 medium potatoes-large diced Just cover with water and simmer for 15 minutes. While the vegetables are cooking, fry: 1/2 pig of good bacon, diced before fryingdrain on paper towel Sauté in bacon fat: 1 diced onion 1 cup diced celery With a slotted spoon, add bacon, onion and celery to the potatoes and carrots with liquid in pot. Add: 2 small cans minced clams - or two cups of fresh razor clams - chopped

1-12 oz pkg of frozen ALASKAN Shrimp - do not buy any foreign shrimp! Bring to simmer -do not boil - Add: 2 cans of canned milk 1 teaspoon garlic salt A pinch of red pepper 1/2 teaspoon black pepper Heat to simmer but DO NOT BOIL! Takes only a minute for the shrimp to cook and the clams to flavor the chowder. NOTE: I have added 1/2 cup canned corn to this. Enjoy with a teaspoon of butter add to the soup bowl and a sprinkle of pepper. NOTE: I thicken the chowder with 1 tbsp of cornstarch with 1/4 cup water and add to the hot milk, simmering until thick.

Dilly Beer Bread Go steal a can of Bob Beer... In a medium bowl: 3 cups self rising flour 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tablespoons of dill weed 3 tablespoon sugar 12 oz. room temp Bob Beer 1 tablespoon butter melted

Mix flour, dill weed, sugar and beer. Pour in a well oiled 9 x 5 loaf pan. Drizzle with butter and bake 350° for one hour. Turn loaf onto a wire rack to cool and serve with your favorite soup or salad. Bob Beer comes in a Blue Can. :)

DO NOT PEEK-STEW 1 pound Moose roast cubed (Ok Beef will Pepper to taste do!) Optional would be a pkg of dry onion soup 4 potatoes peeled and cubed mix. I do not use this. 4 carrots peeled and sliced Combine all ingredients in a buttered 9 x 4 stalks celery, sliced 13 baking pan-or casserole dish. Cover with 3 onions, diced aluminum foil or lid. Bake 325° for four hours. 2 cans stewed tomatoes This could easily go into a crock-pot on low 1 can 14 1/2 ounces canned beef broth four hours-check to see how tender Moose 5 tablespoons tapioca-uncooked roast is, you may have to cook longer. 1 teaspoon garlic salt Great taste!

Last week 3/4 cups milk - not 1/4 cup And for the custard only 1 /12 cups milk I made mine in a well oiled bundt pan. Turned out great.

The “Grannie Annie” Cook Book Series includes: “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ on the Woodstove”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ at the Homestead”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ Fish from Cold Alaskan Waters”; and “Grannie Annie’s Eat Dessert First.” They are available at M & M Market in Nikiski.

Bring to a simmer and add 1 tblsp cornstarch mixed into 1/4 cup water. Gently stir into hot soup liquid until nice and medium thick. Add diced or shredded Chedar Cheese - I used Velveeta with Jalapeño’s. Call Bob he will be right over!! I am proud to share my recipe with you!!

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RECIPE CORRECTION - Irish Apple Bread

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Add: 1 can (liquid included) Mother’s Maid Mixed Vegetables 1 can of milk, I prefer canned milk Garlic salt to taste and a sprinkle of black pepper. A pinch of cayenne brings out the flavor (optional)

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