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Friday-Saturday, August 29-30 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 284

Question Do you, or does someone in your family, hunt?

Bear closure draws fire Hunters speak against proposed refuge brown bear closure

n Yes n No

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

To place your vote and comment, visit our Web site at www. peninsulaclarion. com. Results and selected comments will be posted each Tuesday in the Clarion, and a new question will be asked. Suggested questions may be submitted online or e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

In the news Fill the Boot is back

After a year hiatus, Central Emergency Services responders have brought back the Fill the Boot campaign to raise funds to help find a cure for Muscular Dystrophy Association. Firefighters will be at the Soldotna Fred Meyer parking lot Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to accept donations to help local Alaskan families affected by the neuromuscular disease, said Brad Nelson, CES Health and Safety Officer. The annual MDA fundraiser had previously been held at the Soldotna “Y” during the for the last 20 years on Labor Day weekend, but decided to move away from the intersection for safety reasons, Nelson said. A ladder truck will be on display and kids can take photos on the fire truck. Firefighters will be on hand to accept donations collected in fire boots. — Staff report

Inside ‘Destabilization of the situation and panic, this is as much of a weapon of the enemy as tanks.’ ... See page A-5

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Soldotna resident Floyd Frost testifies against the proposed closure of sport hunting of brown bears on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge at a public hearing Wednesday night at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. More than 60 people attended the hearing. A final decision by the refuge is expected to be made today.

Funny River Road resident Jim Harpring said his property at mile 31 is the first place where brown bears encounter humans. With his home at the confluence of the Funny River and Kenai River backed up against the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, he said bear sightings are frequent as they come down from the mountains to fish in the river. From his front porch he counts an average of nine bears in the summer evenings while the number of moose he has seen in the area has gone down the last few years. “I’m not a hunter but the number of bear encounters are unacceptable,” he said. “There has to be a balance.” Harpring was one of 15 people who testified Wednesday about the proposed closure of brown bear hunting on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge when the season opens Sept. 1. About 60 people attended the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service public hearing at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Three people, two representing Alaska wilderness groups, supported the proposed hunting closure on the refuge. Using Alaska Department of Fish and Game data from the last two decades, refuge manager Andy Loranger said the brown bear population has declined 18 percent on the Kenai Peninsula, due to human-caused mortalities. The service proposed a temporary closure effective Sept. 1 to May 31, 2015 as a “protective measure to ensure consistency with refuge mandates.” See HUNT, page A-10

Planning ahead Residents can place headstones early at Memorial Park By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

The Soldotna Parks and Recreation Department reviewed and made a number of changes to the Memorial Park administrative policy and fee schedule, including an amendment allowing for more ways residents can plan for their future. Residents will now be able to reserve and mark a plot at the Soldotna Community Memorial Park prior to interment. The department has received a number of requests from residents interested in placing markers on a plot beside a spouse they are interring, said City Clerk Shellie Saner in a memo to the City Council. “Current practice we do not allow plots to be marked with headstones prior to an internment,” Saner said. “We are going to a new policy that would allow that, as long as they understand that if they have not used the plot and we cannot contact them to renew the reservation, within 30 years that we will also dispose of the marker when we take back the plot.” The department went on to See PARK, page A-9

ASAP Project redesigns pipeline plans Officials take public comment, talk supplemental environmental impact statement By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

While the Alaska LNG Project has taken the spotlight lately, the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline Project, another proposed natural gas project, is still in the works. Due to some changes made after the 2012 ASAP Project design, a supplemental environmental impact statement is necessary to move forward. A 2012 environmental impact statement that was previously completed based on the origi-

nal design will be used as the foundation for the supplemental statement, which will focus on project changes. Project officials are hosting public meetings throughout the state about the project and the supplemental statement. Ann Southam, program director with third-party contractor Environmental Resources Management of Alaska, gave a presentation about the project and the design changes to a room populated primarily by other project officials at the Quality Inn in Kenai on Wednesday.

“Some of the benefits that have come from the redesign of … components of the project is it is reducing costs and risks somewhat for the overall environmental and social and economic impacts,” Southam said. Changes to the project include: shortening the length of the pipeline, widening the diameter of the pipe, lowering the operating pressure, changing gas composition from enriched gas to lean gas, reducing support facilities and making modifications to the West Dock Causeway at Prudhoe Bay.

Southam said work to West Dock was included to be able to bring in pre-built modules for the gas conditioning facility. Dredging will be done along with some widening of the dock and installing of a temporary bridge and valves and barges. “West Dock is new,” said Kalb Stevenson, environmental leader for the ASAP Project. “There will be some dredging and disposing of material but one of the things we do to mitigate against that is to have … almost all of that activity occur in the winter so we’ll be com-

ing through the ice which gives us a longer time period and a little more stability to dig all of that out.” Miles Baker, vice president of external affairs and government relations for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., said shortening and straightening the line as well as reducing the number of compressor stations and removing the straddle plant and extraction facility reduces the environmental footprint of the project. The Development Corp. is See ASAP, page A-9

Shell files revised Officials amend disclosures in Arctic drilling plan response to APOC complaint By DAN JOLING Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Royal Dutch Shell PLC has filed a revised Arctic offshore drilling plan with federal regulators but says the company hasn’t decided whether to return to waters off the coast of northwest Alaska in 2015. The revised exploration plan submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Anchorage calls for two drilling vessels to operate simultaneously in the Chukchi Sea rather than one in the Chukchi and one in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s north Coast. The presence of two vessels is required so one can drill a relief well in the event of damage from a blowout.

Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.’s revised plan calls for the return of the Noble Discoverer, which performed top hole work at the company’s Burger prospect in 2012. The second drilling vessel planned for the Chukchi is the Polar Pioneer, owned by Transocean Ltd., said Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith. “Today’s filing is not a final decision to drill next summer, but it does preserve the option,” he said by email. In 2012, Shell drilled pilot holes and dug mudline cellars in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The company was not allowed to drill into oil-bearing deposits because required response equipment was not on hand. The company experienced See SHELL, page A-10

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

The Alaska Public Offices Commission will hear three out of more than 200 complaints that in some way relate to an annual Kenai River Fishing event, but two officials have already amended their filings to correct the issue, they said. APOC accepted three complaints, and rejected another 198, that in some way relate to the Kenai River Classic. The commission will likely hear the three accepted complaints within 90 days of Aug. 27, according to APOC Executive Director Paul Dauphinais. C

For APOC to accept a complaint for consideration, it must meet technical standards, and must be something that, if the allegation is true it would be a violation, according to Dauphinais. The technical component requires that the complaint is signed, notarized, and accompanied by proof that the appropriate parties were served. The complaints filed against Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources Ed Fogels and Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Cora Campbell assert that they did not declare their participation in the Kenai River Classic, nor the gifts they received at the event, on public

disclosure forms. A similar complaint was filed against Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell for not declaring his daughter’s participation or gifts. Both Campell and Fogels have since amended their APOC reports to reflect their participation in the event, they said Aug. 28. Treadwell said his daughter did not participate. The Kenai River Classic is an annual invitational fishing event held to raise money for the Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s work in habitat restoration, and fisheries education, management and research. According to KRSA’s website, the event has raised more than $14 million during the past 20 See APOC, page A-9

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 38/31

Today

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Tides Today High(ft.)

Prudhoe Bay 40/27

First Second

7:08 a.m. (19.7) 7:20 p.m. (20.3)

1:59 a.m. (0.3) 2:09 p.m. (0.6)

5:55 a.m. (19.0) 6:07 p.m. (19.6)

12:08 a.m. (0.4) 12:18 p.m. (0.7)

First Second

5:14 a.m. (17.8) 5:26 p.m. (18.4)

11:14 a.m. (0.7) 11:39 p.m. (0.9)

First Second

3:51 a.m. (9.8) 4:04 p.m. (10.5)

10:05 a.m. (0.8) 10:33 p.m. (0.9)

First Second

10:05 a.m. (28.7) 9:55 p.m. (30.0)

4:38 a.m. (2.0) 4:41 p.m. (3.1)

Deep Creek

Variable clouds with a shower

Clouds and intervals of sunshine

Partly sunny

Hi: 62 Lo: 43

Hi: 60 Lo: 38

Hi: 60 Lo: 40

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10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

60 65 67 66

Partly sunny

Hi: 60 Lo: 44

First Sep 2

Today 6:50 a.m. 9:19 p.m.

Full Sep 8

Daylight

Length of Day - 14 hrs., 28 min., 46 sec. Moonrise Moonset Daylight lost - 5 min., 30 sec.

Alaska Cities Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

First Second

Seldovia

Hi: 64 Lo: 48

Tomorrow 6:53 a.m. 9:16 p.m.

Last Sep 15

Today 12:04 p.m. 10:03 p.m.

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

City

Kotzebue 55/43/pc 55/52/c 57/50/r McGrath 57/47/r 57/51/sh 60/46/c Metlakatla 61/50/r 48/34/r 38/31/sf Nome 54/44/pc 58/50/sh 56/38/c North Pole 64/38/r 61/48/pc 62/51/sh Northway 63/39/pc 55/51/sh 57/45/r Palmer 61/50/sh 61/47/sh 50/34/sh Petersburg 59/50/c 55/48/r 47/31/c Prudhoe Bay* 59/40/r 64/48/sh 60/45/pc Saint Paul 59/38/c 56/49/r 59/52/sh Seward 55/50/sh 61/45/c 56/35/c Sitka 61/49/r 63/39/pc 56/33/c Skagway 59/53/r 61/45/sh 51/39/r Talkeetna 57/49/r 58/46/sh 54/39/r Tanana 55/40/r 57/53/sh 59/50/sh Tok* 63/38/sh 60/56/sh 60/45/pc Unalakleet 55/48/sh 59/49/r 58/48/r Valdez 54/44/c 62/47/r 59/53/r Wasilla 61/52/c 46/42/c 47/41/c Whittier 53/49/c 64/48/sh 61/40/pc Willow* 56/49/c 60/47/r 60/51/r Yakutat 54/51/sh 59/54/sh 64/47/s Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Readings through 4 p.m. yesterday

Nome 52/38

Temperature

Unalakleet McGrath 50/35 55/32

New Sep 23 Tomorrow 1:19 p.m. 10:24 p.m.

50/43/sh 55/32/pc 59/53/r 52/38/sh 52/31/c 58/37/sh 59/43/c 55/48/r 40/27/c 57/50/c 61/45/c 59/52/r 59/49/sh 60/40/pc 52/28/pc 57/37/r 50/35/pc 54/44/r 59/38/c 57/45/pc 60/38/c 60/48/sh

City Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo, NY Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Chicago Cheyenne Cincinnati

77/63/pc 84/59/s 93/65/t 88/58/s 91/68/pc 82/69/s 97/70/t 84/70/pc 89/60/s 93/67/s 76/58/pc 90/61/s 82/71/pc 72/56/pc 82/55/pc 92/69/s 84/69/pc 92/61/s 77/67/pc 69/50/t 86/71/pc

75/58/s 85/61/pc 88/63/pc 86/60/pc 91/72/s 77/57/s 95/72/t 79/61/s 77/56/pc 94/72/s 76/53/pc 92/60/pc 70/58/s 76/63/s 81/51/t 93/74/s 89/70/pc 91/67/pc 85/71/c 77/52/pc 89/69/pc

Dillingham 60/45

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.30" Month to date ........................... 3.12" Normal month to date ............. 2.40" Year to date ............................ 12.23" Normal year to date ................. 9.29" Record today ................. 0.77" (1982) Record for August ........ 5.39" (1966) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 58/48

National Extremes

Kodiak 64/47

Sitka 59/52

(For the 48 contiguous states)

High yesterday Low yesterday

114 at Thermal, Calif. 31 at Bodie State Park,

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Ketchikan 59/53

66 at Eagle 34 at Barrow

Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Drenching showers and gusty thunderstorms will stretch from northern Texas to the Great Lakes today. Downpours will also affect the Gulf coast. Spotty showers are forecast for the coastal Northwest.

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City Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS

69/62/pc 97/61/s 81/64/pc 78/62/pc 96/74/pc 81/64/pc 72/54/pc 81/67/r 76/60/pc 72/52/pc 94/69/pc 73/63/r 76/44/s 74/53/pc 86/55/s 82/64/pc 89/52/s 89/74/pc 88/75/pc 84/66/pc 95/71/pc

80/66/pc 96/69/s 86/69/pc 74/49/s 94/76/t 87/68/pc 81/55/pc 82/67/t 77/67/c 66/58/c 93/70/pc 78/55/pc 77/47/s 81/69/c 81/52/pc 78/56/s 83/53/pc 88/74/s 91/76/t 87/69/pc 93/73/pc

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90/64/pc 93/74/pc 90/79/pc 102/76/s 92/72/pc 91/68/s 90/71/pc 95/73/pc 92/80/pc 98/73/t 71/60/pc 72/61/r 94/71/pc 93/79/t 82/68/s 84/69/pc 95/68/t 83/70/r 94/74/pc 81/72/s 106/83/s

92/73/t 82/66/t 91/85/pc 103/76/s 91/74/t 88/68/s 92/72/pc 93/75/pc 92/81/t 95/72/t 82/70/t 77/64/t 93/70/pc 88/79/pc 78/64/s 80/71/pc 90/72/t 78/63/t 92/75/t 80/63/s 107/80/s

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Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Rapid City Reno Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Santa Fe Seattle Sioux Falls, SD Spokane Syracuse Tampa Topeka Tucson Tulsa Wash., DC Wichita

74/59/s 80/63/pc 78/64/pc 72/53/s 83/60/pc 76/58/pc 79/61/c 80/56/pc 95/60/pc 92/58/pc 97/63/s 89/61/pc 85/59/pc 87/65/pc 98/76/t 96/77/t 85/73/s 80/69/pc 74/59/pc 73/60/pc 78/48/pc 80/51/pc 74/58/pc 69/56/c 74/67/r 77/62/c 83/60/pc 80/53/pc 72/59/pc 76/59/s 95/76/pc 91/77/t 95/77/pc 85/65/t 99/75/s 101/73/pc 96/70/pc 90/72/t 86/76/pc 85/69/s 81/77/t 88/66/t

Company Final Change Agrium Inc............... 94.86 +0.67 Alaska Air Group...... 46.53 +0.03 ACS...........................1.76 -0.02 Apache Corp...........101.37 -0.16 Baker Hughes.......... 69.21 -0.24 BP ............................47.92 -0.44 Chevron.................. 128.75 +0.11 ConocoPhillips......... 80.66 -0.37 ExxonMobil.............. 99.57 +0.04 GCI...........................11.22 -0.05 Halliburton................67.38 -1.10 Harley-Davidson...... 63.46 -0.28 Home Depot............ 92.51 +0.64

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City

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Acapulco 93/79/t Athens 99/72/s Auckland 55/44/c Baghdad 122/87/pc Berlin 73/45/s Hong Kong 89/83/t Jerusalem 85/65/s Johannesburg 75/50/s London 72/63/r Madrid 95/63/s Magadan 66/52/pc Mexico City 76/56/t Montreal 70/61/pc Moscow 64/48/pc Paris 72/63/pc Rome 84/70/pc Seoul 88/68/pc Singapore 83/79/t Sydney 63/50/pc Tokyo 72/68/sh Vancouver 73/61/c

Today Hi/Lo/W 90/77/t 88/73/s 61/52/c 119/84/s 72/55/t 92/82/t 82/66/s 52/31/s 69/57/pc 94/65/pc 68/50/pc 77/54/t 73/57/s 63/49/pc 73/54/pc 85/66/s 84/65/t 86/77/t 61/50/sh 77/71/r 67/55/sh

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Precipitation

Valdez Kenai/ 54/44 Soldotna Homer

Cold Bay 62/51

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High ............................................... 54 Low ................................................ 52 Normal high .................................. 62 Normal low .................................... 44 Record high ....................... 69 (2007) Record low ......................... 27 (1984)

Kenai/ Soldotna 62/43 Seward 61/45 Homer 60/45

Anchorage 60/46

Bethel 56/38

National Cities Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

From Kenai Municipal Airport

Fairbanks 56/35

Talkeetna 60/40 Glennallen 51/39

Today Hi/Lo/W

Unalaska 58/52

Anchorage

Almanac

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Seward

Anaktuvuk Pass 38/19

Kotzebue 50/43

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McDonald’s.............. 94.14 +0.30 Safeway................... 34.77 +0.10 Schlumberger..........110.16 -0.88 Tesoro...................... 64.48 +0.77 Walmart................... 75.90 +0.05 Wells Fargo...............51.15 -0.19 Gold closed............ 1289.46 +6.87 Silver closed............ 19.53 +0.07 Dow Jones avg..... 17,079.57 -42.44 NASDAQ................ 4,557.70 -11.93 S&P 500.................1996.74 -3.38 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

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North Slope crude: $99.86, DOWN from $100.38 on Monday

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West Texas Int.: $93.88, UP from $93.86 on Monday

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, August 29, 2014

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at 12:30 p.m. and bowling will began at 1:00 p.m. This league Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. To register, please call 283-8732 is great for snow birds, because you only pay when you bowl. ext. 5. Come and meet a great bunch of seniors. For more information These free classes are offered through a partnership that incall Jan at 283-7570 cludes Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District, USDA-NatMemories with Kenai Historical Society ural Resources Conservation Service and the Kenai Peninsula The Kenai Historical Society will hold its first meeting of Food Bank for the benefit of growers across the Kenai. the season at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Kenai Visitor’s Center. Practical Positive Parenting program planned Peggy Arness will speak about her early homesteading years A Practical Positive Parenting program to offer help for strugand Carol Anderson will speak about her early school days in gling families, single parent families and blended families will Equinox run in Cooper Landing Kenai. Lunch will be provided. The Kenai Historical Society start Sept. 9 from 6-8 p.m. at Peninsula Christian Center, 161 The Cooper Landing School will host the second annual encourages new members to join. Meetings are open to the pub- Farnsworth Boulevard in Soldotna. “The Glass Is Half Full” Equinox Run at 10 a.m. Sept. 20. lic. For more information, call 283-1946. The seven weekly workshops include: family dinner; activi- There will be a 5K and 10K run (walkers welcome for the 5K). ties and care for children; parent group study of family needs; The cost will be $25 which includes a T-shirt and snacks. For child development; character development and self esteem; more information, course map/profile, directions and registraGolden Oldies ready to roll family communication and communication challenges; behav- tion visit: Cooper Landing Equinox Run on Facebook or email The Golden Oldies Seniors bowling league will be starting ior changes and challenges; and positive discipline. equinoxrun@gmail.com. for the fall and winter season Sept. 2. There will be a meeting The program is presented by Alaska Christian Ministries and Southcentral Parenting at Classes start Sept. 9 from 6-8 p.m. Sterling Senior Center to hold September sale Cost of the program is $35 for the whole family. For more inforThe Sterling Senior Center is having a multi-vendor garage mation call 907-252-9082. sale September 12 and 13 form 10 am- 4 pm. Anyone interested in participating in the garage sale can rent a table for $25 for Judo club season starting soon both days. The Sterling Judo Club will be starting a new season on Sept. For further information or to reserve a table call the center at Joseph E. Hager 16. Registration for new members under the age of 13 will take 262-6808. Joseph E. Hager, known as “Smokin’ Joe,” an Alaska place from Sept. 16-Oct. 2. resident of 25 years, died March 26, 2014 in Ocean Shores, Ages 13 and up may register at any time, though registration Calling all bowlers Washington. He was 76. prior to Oct. 2 is encouraged, if possible. The Sterling Judo Club A Celebration of Life and pot luck dinner will take place Bowlers wanted to fill fall and winter leagues, Monday and meets every Tuesday and Thursday, at Sterling Elementary, from Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Soldotna Elks Club. Fridays Women’s leagues, Tuesday and Thursday Mixed leagues, 6-8 p.m. (7 p.m. leave time for younger participants). For more information contact Bob Brink at 907-242-9330 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Senior Leagues, Wednesday or obobo1a@gmail.com. Information can also be found on the Scratch League, Saturday and Sunday Youth Leagues for more information call Alaska Lanes 283-3314. Sterling Judo Club’s Facebook Page.

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Obituary

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The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. Pending service/Death notices are brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. The fee for obituaries up to 500 words with one black and white photo ranges from $50 to $100. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion with prepayment, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. The deadline for Tuesday – Friday editions is 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

CIRCAC plans council meeting

Nikiski Pool to close for maintenance, switch to winter hours

Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (Cook Inlet RCAC) will hold its Council meeting at the Kodiak Best Western Hotel (236 W. Rezanof Drive) in Kodiak beginning at 9 a.m. on Sept. 12.The public is welcome to attend. For more information or an agenda, please call 1-800-652-7222 or 907-283-7222. Board materials will be available online just prior to the meeting.

The Nikiski Pool’s annual maintenance closure this year will be Sept. 1-Sept. 29. Nikiski Pool Winter Hours beginning Sept. 30 are Tuesday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m.; Friday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. with the waterslide all day on Fridays; Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. with the waterslide open both days. For more information please call 776-8800.

Free gardening classes at Food Bank

Spinning, golf simulator at Nikiski rec center

Square Foot Gardening instructor Lark Ticen will teach sesSpin bicycle classes and Full Swing Golf are available at the sions of “Square Foot Gardening 101” Sept. 2, 5:30-7 p.m. at Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Call 776-8800 for more the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. Ticen will also teach a “How information. to Winterize Your Garden” class on Sept. 4, 5:30-7 p.m. at the

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 9:45 a.m. • TOPS #AK 196 meets at The Grace Lutheran Church, in Soldotna. Call Dorothy at 262-1303. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 12:30 p.m. • Well Elders Live Longer exercise (W.E.L.L.) will meet at the Nikiski Senior Center. Call instructor Mary Olson at 907-776-3745. 8 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It Works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • AA 12 by 12 at the United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. • Twin City Al-Anon Family group, United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road in Kenai. Call 907-953-4655. Saturday 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai

Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 9 a.m. • Al-Anon book study, Central Peninsula Hospital’s Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 907-953-4655. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Homemade soup, Funny River Community Center. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai.

8 p.m. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. 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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Time for the fish board to meet on the peninsula A measure going before the Kenai

Peninsula Borough Assembly, as well as city councils around the peninsula, encourages to Alaska Board of Fisheries to meet in the Kenai-Soldotna area when it next considers Upper Cook Inlet finfish issues in 2017. We second that motion. It’s been 15 years since the full fish board deliberated Kenai Peninsula issues on the Kenai Peninsula, and a return to this community is long overdue. “Holding the meeting on the Kenai Peninsula would show local residents, businesses and communities that the Board of Fisheries listens, cares about and understands the local impacts of its decisions,” Joint Resolution No. 1 reads. Kenai City Manager Rick Koch notes that 80 percent of the proposals taken up by the fish board during an Upper Cook Inlet meeting deal with Kenai Peninsula issues. “Peninsula residents are involved from every facet whether they are sport fishermen, setnetters or drifters,” Koch told the Clarion in a recent interview. But with the meetings in Anchorage over the past 15 years, the fish board’s proceedings have become less and less accessible to the people directly impacted by board decisions. The Upper Cook Inlet meetings, which take place once every three years, are typically two-week affairs. While many peninsula residents are able to take a long weekend to attend a public testimony session, the expense and time required makes it difficult for most to stay to the bitter end. Glenn Haight, executive director for the board, said that with people coming from the Mat-Su region, Anchorage was seen as a middle ground. While we appreciate the sentiment, the argument just doesn’t hold water. People interested in participating in the process can commute from the Valley in an hour or less; that option doesn’t exist for central Kenai Peninsula residents. And being present for the whole meeting does make a difference. At the conclusion of this year’s meeting in Anchorage, board chairman Karl Johnstone told the Clarion that people who submitted proposals but were not present at the meeting to defend or explain themselves could be less effective than those who were present. “I don’t know why they’re not here to support their proposals, there’s a lot of legitimate reasons I’m sure. If they’re not here then we can’t hear them,” Johnstone said. The Kenai-Soldotna area meets all the criteria necessary to host a board meeting. There are multiple venues that fit the bill. There’s commercial airline and road system access. There’s clean, comfortable lodging and plenty of dining options. There’s adequate Internet access. More importantly, the people with a direct interest in the vast majority of the proposals that will be considered are here, too. The only thing missing is the board.

Letters to the Editor Service areas need public participation To all central peninsula service area residents: Does the recently passed $50,000 property tax exemption really save you enough to offset your fire insurance rates or property taxes? Do you know what requirements it takes to enable CES, or other service areas, to acquire the necessary resources to adequately provide service to their area, and how it can affect you? A part of the property tax mill rate for taxpayers in the CES Service Area goes to pay for CES services. Every budget year, CES has been required to absorb increases in general operating expenses to maintain a “status quo” budget. But over the course of the last 10-plus years, the mill rate portion for CES has been reduced from 2.85 to the current 2.65. It is not possible for the high level of service you believe to be available will actually be there in the future. Your input is needed to determine how we should focus our decreasing resources to meet the needs you are expecting. The recent Funny River Fire should be a wake-up call to review local resources. State and federal resources will not be available for initial response. Volunteers can be the key element in providing initial response, especially in more rural areas. There may be other resources that residents can bring attention to. I have served on the CES Board many years. Every year we see the growth and the need for increased service. Each month I am very disappointed, as very rarely will any community member attend the Board meetings, to understand or familiarize themselves, or others, on how your Service Area operates. Even though most service area board members are elected from their respective areas, service area boards are advisory only to the borough administration, with no administrative authority or compensation! Many of you in the Funny River and Kasilof areas attended special community meetings to bring these later stations on line, and with overwhelming area wide support, but that is only for certain projects.

ing himself to be held accountable, and providing answers that are real and bold. Bill stands ready to build a future of success for Alaska; a future that holds promise for our children. For me, most politicians are uninspiring. I feel as though, on any number of subjects, I can predict what a Democratic or Republican politician’s position will be based on whether they have a “D” or an “R” next to their name. In my opinion, Republican Sean Parnell has and will continue to fail us by allowing the oil companies to run this state and while I think Democrat Byron Mallott is a good man I know he is not equipped to dig us out of the trench Sean has dug for us. Please join me in voting Walker/Fleener on November 4th. Karen Gillis Anchorage

Walker, Fleener a good team for Alaska

Rescuers go above and beyond on Kenai River

I believe Alaska needs a governor with the capability to make things happen, someone who will work tirelessly to boost our fiscal security. We need someone with the background and expertise to change our current path. I want a governor who will lead us toward innovative ideas, that will reverse the downward course this state is headed. I want a governor with integrity and decency, someone who understands the value that Alaska’s first people bring to the table. I want a governor who brings honor to the office of The Governor of Alaska. For me, the only candidate who is willing to meet my high standards is Bill Walker. Bill’s running mate, Craig Fleener, is another reason why Bill has earned my vote. I’ve worked alongside Craig for nearly 20 years and I am a firsthand witness to his character, intelligence, and values. Bill and Craig are a perfectly matched team and together they offer the best option for us as Alaskans. Bill is not beholden to the special interests that fuel his party. As an Independent candidate for Governor he doesn’t have big business steering his campaign. Bill is someone with the capability to design, implement, and enact a way out of today’s fiscal free-fall. I see Bill challenging the system, showing up with solutions, offer-

On July 16, my son, daughter in-law and myself were involved in a boating accident on the lower Kenai River. When the accident occurred there were several people that went above and beyond to come to our rescue and help when needed. We would like to thank the Kenai Police, the commercial fisherman, the Kenai Fire Department, and the others involved in this rescue. Thank you so much for all that you have done. Also, wear a life jacket as it saved our lives. Greg Dabney Fairbanks

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Do you understand the budgetary process? Are you aware of the protection capability in your area, and does your assembly representative know? We don’t know what is important to you if you don’t speak up! CES, and most likely, other service area boards would greatly appreciate more community involvement. A Master Plan for CES was developed several years ago by a group of residents, along with a 20-year Operations Plan. The CES Board attempts to update the Master Plan each year, but the board needs your assistance to review and update these plans, and present recommendations to the borough administration and the borough assembly so that our stretched financial resources can cover the level of services you expect. Jim Chambers Soldotna

Fax: 907-283-3299 Questions? Call: 907-283-7551

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Oldtimers have a blast Please accept our sincere thanks to all the people attending the Oldtimer’s party last Thursday. Thanks also to the newspapers for announcing our event and to Merrill Sikorski for his efforts, the staff at the Senior Center, kitchen cooks and helpers for all your extra work. I hope you all enjoyed the memories. Next summer, Aug. 20, 2015 will be the 20th anniversary. Please mark your calenders and hope to see you all there. Peggy Arness and Joanna Hollier

By GARRY TRUDEAU

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Nation & World

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Russia accused of sending in tanks, armor By DALTON BENNETT, JIM HEINTZ, and RAF CASERT Associated Press

NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of entering its territory with tanks, artillery and troops, and Western powers said Moscow had “outright lied” about its role and dangerously escalated the conflict. Russia dismissed the allegations, describing the fighters there as “Russian volunteers.” The Kremlin has repeatedly denied arming and supporting the separatists who have been fighting Ukrainian troops for four months in the gravest crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. NATO said at least 1,000 Russian troops are in Ukraine and later released what it said were satellite photos of Russian self-propelled artillery units moving last week. Two columns of tanks and other equipment entered southeastern Ukraine at midday, following heavy shelling of the area from Russia that forced overmatched Ukrainian border guards to flee, said Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s national security council. “Russian forces have entered Ukraine,” President Petro Poroshenko said in Kiev, canceling a foreign trip and calling an emergency meeting of his security council. He urged Ukrainians to remain calm. “Destabilization of the situation and panic, this is as much of a weapon of the enemy as tanks,” Poroshenko told the council. U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and both leaders agreed Russia must face consequences for its actions. “We agree — if there was ever any doubt — that Russia is responsible for the violence

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In this photo taken Wednesday, local residents stand near the building where they live after a shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Two columns of Russian tanks and military vehicles fired Grad missiles at a border post in southeastern Ukraine, then rolled into the country Thursday as Ukraine’s overmatched border guards fled, a top Ukrainian official said.

in eastern Ukraine,” Obama said. “The violence is encouraged by Russia. The separatists are trained by Russia, they are armed by Russia, they are funded by Russia.” He added that Russia “has deliberately and repeatedly violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and the new images of Russian forces inside Ukraine make that plain for the world to see.” But Obama ruled out a military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia. He said Russia’s activity in Ukraine would incur “more costs and consequences,” though these seemed to be limited to economic pressure that will be discussed when Obama meets with European leaders at a NATO summit in Wales next week. At an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, Western representatives expressed outrage. “Now we see irrefutable evidence of regular Russian forces operating inside Ukraine,” said British Ambassador Mark Lyall

Grant. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said Russia “has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has outright lied.” Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin offered a spirited defense, saying Kiev “is waging war against its own people.” He did deny not the Russian presence, saying “there are Russian volunteers in eastern parts of Ukraine. No one is hiding that.” But Power countered: “A Russian soldier who chooses to fight in Ukraine on summer break is still a Russian soldier.” Churkin questioned the presence of Western advisers and asked where Ukrainian troops were getting weapons. He said he wanted to “send a message to Washington: Stop interfering

in the internal affairs of sovereign states.” Russian stock markets fell as Switzerland joined the European Union in imposing restrictions on Russian state banks and fears grew that the U.S. and EU could impose more sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals in response to the military escalation. Russia’s MICEX index dropped nearly 2 percent on Thursday, and major Russian state banks VTB and Sberbank dropped more than 4 percent. The strategic southeastern town of Novoazovsk, which has come under shelling for three days, appeared to be in the control of separatists, creating a new, third front in the war. That raised fears they want to create a land link between Russia and

the Crimea Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in March. The town lies along a road connecting the peninsula to Russia. Lysenko said the missiles from Russia were fired at Ukrainian positions about 11 a.m. About 90 minutes later, two columns, including tanks and other fighting vehicles, began an attack, entering Ukraine from Veselo-Voznesenka and Maximovo in the Rostov region of Russia, he said. A senior NATO official said the estimate of 1,000 Russian troops in Ukraine was a conservative one, adding that another 20,000 Russian troops were right over the border. The troops who entered Ukraine had sophisticated equipment, he said. “The hand from behind is becoming more and more overt now,” Brig. Gen. Nico Tak said at NATO’s military headquarters. Russia’s ultimate aim was to stave off defeat for the separatists and turn eastern Ukraine into a “frozen conflict” that would destabilize the country indefinitely, he said. Russia’s ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, told the BBC that “NATO has never produced a single piece of evidence” of Russian troops

operating in Ukraine. He said the only active duty Russian soldiers in Ukraine were the 10 captured this week, who Moscow insists had mistakenly wandered across the border. Speaking in Casteau, Belgium, Tak said that in the past two weeks, “we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine.” “Russia is reinforcing and resupplying separatist forces in a blatant attempt to change the momentum of the fighting, which is currently favoring the Ukrainian military,” he added. NATO also produced satellite images to provide what it called additional evidence that Russian combat soldiers, equipped with sophisticated heavy weaponry, are operating inside Ukraine’s sovereign territory. The grainy images of the terrain near Krasnodon, Ukraine, showed what appeared to be a convoy of military units with artillery, and NATO said it had “confidence the equipment is Russian.” “This is highly sophisticated weaponry that requires welltrained crews, well-trained command and control elements, and it is extremely unlikely that this sort of equipment is used by volunteers,” Tak said.

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Jihadists kill dozens of Syrian soldiers ZEINA KARAM and RYAN LUCAS Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group killed more than 160 Syrian government troops seized in recent fighting, posting pictures Thursday of terrified young conscripts stripped down to their underwear before meeting their deaths in the arid Syrian countryside. The slayings were the latest massacre attributed to the extremist group, which has terrorized rivals and civilians alike with widely publicized brutality in Syria and Iraq as it seeks to expand a proto-state it has carved out on both sides of the border. In southern Syria, meanwhile, gunmen detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the United Nations said. It added that another 81 peacekeepers were trapped in the area by heavy clashes between rebels and Syrian troops. The mass killing of Syrian soldiers is part of a stepped up campaign by Islamic State mili-

tants targeting President Bashar Assad’s forces. Until recently, the group had been focused on eliminating rivals among the rebels fighting to topple him, systematically routing Western-backed opposition fighters and other Islamic factions from towns and villages in northern and eastern Syria as it expands. More recently, the jihadists have turned their attention to Assad’s forces, seizing a series of military bases in northeastern Raqqa province. In the process, they have killed hundreds of pro-government forces, beheading some and later displaying their severed heads on poles and fences and posting the pictures online. Most of the dozens killed over the past 24 hours were rounded up Wednesday near the Tabqa airfield three days after Islamic State fighters seized the base. The government troops were among a large group of soldiers from the base who were stuck behind front lines after it fell to the jihadi fighters. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said around 120 captive govern-

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Armored vehicles from the U.N. peacekeepers of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF wait to cross from the Israeli controlled Golan Heights to Syria, Thursday.

ment troops from Tabqa were killed near the base. Islamic State fighters also killed at least another 40 soldiers, most of whom were taken prisoner in recent fighting at other bases in the Hamrat region near Raqqa city, the group’s stronghold. A statement posted online and circulated on Twitter claimed the extremists killed

about 200 government prisoners captured near Tabqa. It also showed photographs of what it said were the prisoners: young men stripped down to their underwear marching in the desert, some with their hands behind their heads. The photos could not immediately be verified, but correspond to other AP reporting.

The group also posted a video showing Islamic State fighters forcing the barefoot men to march through the desert. Another video later showed dozens of bodies piled in the desert, alongside others lying motionless — apparently dead — in a row in the sand. While the videos could not be independently confirmed by the AP, they appeared to illustrate the claims made online by the Islamic State group and Syrian opposition activists about the mass killing. There was no immediate comment from the Syrian government, which has been tightlipped on the massive death toll incurred by its soldiers at the hands of Islamic State fighters in the past two months. In its rise to prominence over the past year, the extremist group has frequently published graphic photos and videos of everything from bombings and beheadings to mass killings and images of jihadis taunting and humiliating terrified troops or other opponents. In Iraq, the group killed nearly 200 men — most of

them Iraqi soldiers — in late June near the northern city of Tikrit, human rights groups and Iraqi officials say. It published photos online showing dozens of men dressed in civilian clothing lying face down as militants aimed rifles at their backs. A final set of photos showed their bloodied bodies. Earlier this month, Islamic State fighters shot hundreds of tribesmen in eastern Syria who had risen up against the group. Some were beheaded. Last week, they posted a video showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley. The release of gruesome photos and videos documenting the slayings underscores how the extremist group uses violence — and images of violence — to instill fear in its opponents at home and win recruits abroad. In Washington, President Barack Obama played down the prospect of imminent U.S. military action against strongholds of the Islamic State group in Syria, saying “we don’t have a strategy yet” for confronting the militants.

A look at US and European sanctions on Russia By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With Russian tanks apparently crossing into southeastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama is suggesting the possibility of more sanctions on Russia. The sanctions imposed so far have not deterred Russia, but uncertainty over their long-term impact has caused economic growth forecasts to plummet, prompted investors to pull money out of the country at almost twice the pace as last year and forced its central bank to raise rates to defend the Russian currency. Russian stock markets dived on Thursday as Switzerland joined the European Union in imposing restrictions on Russian state banks and fears grew that

the U.S. and EU could impose further sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals. Obama said that sanctions already announced have had some impact, yet he conceded that they have not forced Russia to resolve the crisis diplomatically. “I think there are ways for us to deepen and expand the scope of some of that work,” he said. A look at sanctions the U.S. and Europe have imposed on Russia

U.S. sanctions In mid-July, the United States imposed sanctions on lucrative Russian energy and defense entities, as well as major banks. The penalties significantly expanded on previous U.S.

sanctions, which hit Russian individuals and companies with travel bans and asset freezes. But the new sanctions stopped short of fully cutting off key Russian economic sectors, a card that U.S. officials said they were holding in case Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine or took similar provocative actions. The Treasury Department sanctions targeted two major Russian energy firms, Novatek and Rosneft, and a pair of leading Russian financial institutions, Gazprombank and VEB. The sanctions restrict the entities’ ability to access U.S. capital markets, officials said. Eight Russian firms responsible for the production of small arms, mortar shells and tanks were also hit with sanctions. Also included on the sanc-

tions list were four individuals: Putin adviser Igor Shchegolev, Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov, Ukrainian separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai and Sergey Beseda, an official with Russia’s Federal Security Service, the intelligence agency that replaced the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

EU sanctions In late July, the European Union imposed widespread sanctions on Russia that ranged from freezing the assets and imposing travel banks on rich Russians to prohibiting banks controlled by the Russian government from selling bonds and shares on the EU market. The EU, Russia’s biggest trading partner, also banned the

export of certain oil exploration equipment — action intended to hamper long-term development of Russia’s oil industry. Moreover, the EU banned exports and imports of weaponry and other military goods to and from Russia. The EU also has imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 95 Russian officials or pro-Russian Ukrainians held responsible for the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula or the destabilization of eastern Ukraine. They include three Putin associates: his former judo partner, Arkady Rotenberg, and the two largest shareholders of Bank Rossiya, Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov. In addition, 23 companies and institutions were sanctioned, including the subsidiary of the Russian state-owned

Aeroflot airline that operates between Moscow and Crimea, and Almaz-Antei, which the EU said makes anti-aircraft missiles that separatists in Ukraine have used.

Russia retaliation After the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia, Moscow responded with a one-year ban on food products, such as meat, fish, fruit, vegetables and milk, from the U.S. and Canada; all 28 EU countries, plus Norway and Australia. Although the U.S., Canada and the European Union together are expected to take a more than a $17.5 billion hit from the one-year ban, Russian consumers were expected to feel it more than Western farmers.

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Europe seeks role in postwar Gaza

Around the World UN: Ebola is accelerating in West Africa and could sicken as many as 20,000

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press

GENEVA — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new road map for containing the virus, and scientists are fast-tracking efforts to find a treatment or vaccine. Ebola has menaced Africa for 40 years, but previously struck in remote villages and was contained fairly quickly. This time, it has spread to major cities in four countries, provoking unrest as whole neighborhoods and towns have been sealed to the outside. An experimental vaccine developed by the U.S. government and GlaxoSmithKline will be tested on humans starting next week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced Thursday. The NIH trial will use healthy adult volunteers in Maryland, and British experts will simultaneously test the same vaccine in healthy people in the U.K., Gambia and Mali. Preliminary results on the vaccine’s safety — not its effectiveness — could be available in months. Scientists also announced that they have mapped the genetic code of this strain of Ebola to better understand how it kills. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers traced an explosion of cases in this outbreak to a single funeral in Guinea in May.

JERUSALEM — European nations are offering to help enforce the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a scenario that could provide key international backing for maintaining the peace and step up the pressure on Hamas militants to relinquish power. The European plan remains vague, and it is unclear whether Israel or the Palestinians will agree. But a European presence in Gaza could go a long way toward meeting two key demands: the Palestinians’ insistence on freer movement in and out of the territory, and the Israeli requirement that Hamas be kept in check. French President Francois Hollande laid out the case for European involvement on Thursday, telling international diplomats that Europe could help oversee the destruction of tunnels used by Hamas militants and monitor the territory’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt. “It is necessary to move toward an end to the blockade and a demilitarization of the territory,” he said, indicating that international supervision could help pave the way for a return of Hamas’ rival, the Palestinian Authority, to Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the authority, is eager to regain a foothold in Gaza, seven years after Hamas violently overran the territory. With the international community shunning Hamas as a terrorist group, Abbas would be likely to operate Gaza’s borders and oversee internationally funded reconstruction efforts. The French proposal, Hollande said, would “finally give the Palestinian Authority the means to respond to the humanitarian crisis and to begin reconstruction.” Earlier this month, while the fighting was still raging, the European Union expressed its readiness to contribute to a “sustainable solution” for Gaza, offering help in postwar reconstruction and monitoring efforts. Among other things, it mentioned the possible revival of an operation that helped operate Gaza’s volatile border crossing with Egypt. Israel and Hamas militants battled for 50 days this summer before reaching a truce on Tuesday. More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, including hundreds of civilians. Seventy people on the Israeli side, including six civilians, died. An estimated 100,000 Gazans have been left homeless, and

High school buddies followed similar path into militant Islam — and met the same end MINNEAPOLIS — Two high school buddies who loved to shoot hoops and crack jokes with their friends both converted to Islam in early adulthood and were somehow recruited by terror groups to leave the United States and die for jihadist causes on separate continents. It wasn’t immediately clear how Douglas McAuthur McCain and Troy Kastigar were drawn into radicalism after their initial conversion to the Muslim faith or whether they might have influenced one another along the way. But the two best friends went down similar paths and met the same end. Both young men attended Robbinsdale Cooper High School in Minneapolis. Kastigar was in the class of 1999, though he left school in February of that year without a diploma, according to school records. McCain went to Robbinsdale from 1997 to 1999, before transferring to nearby Armstrong High School. He did not graduate either. Address records show McCain lived at Kastigar’s house for a period from 2000 to 2001, although that could not be independently verified. “They were really funny guys. They were goofy. They were just always laughing, hanging out together, joking around. They were just nice,” said Alicia Adams, a former classmate who was friends with both McCain and Kastigar in high school.

Oklahoma: Inmate in troubled execution died from lethal drugs, not heart attack

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OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma death row inmate who writhed, moaned and clenched his teeth before he was pronounced dead about 43 minutes after his execution began succumbed to the lethal drugs he was administered, not a heart attack, after the state’s prisons chief halted efforts to kill him, an autopsy report released Thursday says. Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton had said inmate Clayton Lockett died from a heart attack several minutes after he ordered the execution stopped. But an independent autopsy performed for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says all three execution drugs Lockett was administered were found throughout his system. The report, performed by the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at Dallas, concluded that the cause of death was “judicial execution by lethal injection.” But it does not answer why the execution took so long and why Lockett writhed on the gurney. — The Associated Press

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A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of Omar Ibn Abed Al-Aziz mosque, which was hit by an Israeli strikes in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday. The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort of tie, with both Israel and Hamas claiming the upper hand. Their questionable achievements have come at a big price, especially to long-suffering Palestinians in Gaza.

reconstruction is expected to take years. The cease-fire brought an immediate end to the warfare — the third round of heavy fighting between the two sides since Hamas came to power in 2007 — but left key matters unresolved. While Israel agreed to loosen a longstanding blockade to allow humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials into Gaza, many of the border restrictions will remain in place. Hamas, meanwhile, rejected Israel’s demands that it disarm. These deeper issues are to be addressed in indirect talks in Egypt next month. Hollande’s comments also reflected a European desire to take a bigger role in Mideast diplomacy, an area traditionally dominated by the U.S. “It is Europe that does so much to rebuild, develop Pales-

tine. It is Europe that also must pressure each one and not just be an echo chamber for complaints,” he said. Whether the sides are ready to accept external involvement is unclear. Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said that the country is ready to consider any proposal but must be convinced that monitoring will work. Israel’s main concern, he said, is to prevent Hamas from smuggling more weapons through reopened border crossings. Europe’s border-monitoring operation, EUBAM, halted its operations after Hamas overran Gaza in 2007. “We’re not saying no to anything. But it has to be something that’s workable,” Hirschson said. Complicating matters is that the European Union, like Israel

and the U.S., considers Hamas a terrorist group and has no direct contact with the organization. At the minimum, an international presence in Gaza would require Hamas to allow Abbas’ forces to help operate the border crossings — something it has expressed a willingness to do. But it would also step up pressure on Hamas to give up its military capabilities, such as the network of tunnels used to smuggle weapons and stage attacks on Israel. In Gaza, Hamad al-Rakeb, a Hamas spokesman, described Hollande’s proposal as “mixing poison in the honey.” Riyad Mansour, Abbas’ ambassador to the United Nations, on Thursday welcomed the idea of international monitors as a “useful deterrent” to more fighting. He acknowledged, however, that disarming Hamas is “not realistic.” Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Thursday that international aid must be conditioned on Hamas disarming. During the war, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel. “They want to rehabilitate Gaza, they need to understand that they will have to disarm. Residents of the south cannot continue to live this way,” Lapid said. Donor nations are scheduled to meet in October for a conference on funding reconstruction of Gaza, with the expectation that hundreds of millions of dollars in aid will be channeled through Abbas. Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli deputy foreign minister, said Europe’s readiness to help could prove vital in reopening Gaza’s borders and returning Abbas’ government to power there. He said while demilitarization would be difficult, it would be impossible without international pressure. “If all the parties support it, and there is no reason for Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to reject it, how can Hamas really reject it? Only by violence,” he said. “It’s difficult to understand them, but it is unlikely that they will turn against the Europeans now.”

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Religion

Going through the motions won’t do the job

ne day in July became increasingly challenging. First, the water pump in the well was producing only a trickle. Then the fuse on the nearby transformer pole blew, cutting off power to our house. No water, no power. We were back to heating water on the stove after carting it from another place. Fortunately both water and power were restored in less than twenty-four hours. You don’t miss something as much as when it is no longer available. To lose something valuable and essential or to have something break that you need means spending time looking for it or getting it fixed. The Bible tells of a young man who was chopping wood when

plish what needs to get done. I don’t want that to be the case oices of with my family or my faith. I want a continuous growth relationship in eligion both areas. It was a dark day figuratively and M itch G lover literally for the disciples when Jesus the axe head flew off and sank in a was crucified on the cross. His death pool. To make it worse, the axe was seemed to be the end of all they borrowed. When the prophet Elisha hoped for. Their hearts and minds learned of it, he tossed a stick in the were probably filled with “if only” water. As the stick floated, so did the thoughts regarding their own actions metal axe head! The woodcutter was and for the situation they faced. able to replace it and continue his What rejoicing when they learned work. the reality of the resurrection. Jesus How foolish to continue swingis alive! He is conqueror of death and ing the axe handle with no cutting the grave! edge. Nothing is accomplished except Jesus departed after showing working up a sweat. Just going himself alive to over five hundred through the motions won’t accompeople for forty days. Two men in

Church Briefs Mass schedule to change at Our Lady of Perpetual Help

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white, apparently angels, appeared to the followers of Christ to tell them that Jesus will return in the same way he went, in clouds of glory. “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” The disciples made “a Sabbath day’s journey” from the Mount of Olives to an upper room in Jerusalem. It was a trip well worth the time and effort. God’s Spirit came to those who waited for his promise to come to pass. Both the ancient prophecy of Joel and the promise of Jesus were fulfilled in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. Though Jesus was gone physically, the Spirit of God came to fill the lives

ties, songs, prizes, and message. Following a.m. to 12 noon. Thank you for your supthe service a meal will be provided to all port. families and friends who come. Door prizes will be drawn at that time. For more information, call 262-7240 or visit sterlingpente- United Methodist Church provides food pantry costalchurch.com.

As of September 1, the weekend Mass Schedule will change for Our Lady of Per- Catholic Church to hold petual Help Catholic Church, 222 West ReRCIA classes for Inquirers doubt Avenue, Soldotna. On Saturday, Reconciliation will be available from 4:15-4:45 Classes for anyone interested in the p.m.; and Vigil Mass at 5 p.m. On Sunday Catholic Church will be held at Our Lady Mass will be at 10 a.m. of Perpetual Help in Soldotna starting Sept. 3. The classes will be held in O’Neill Nikiski Aglow to Hall, 238 W. Redoubt Avenue, from 6:308:30 p.m. each Wednesday during the begin Bible study school year. Those attending will learn Nikiski Aglow meets each Saturday about the teachings of the Church based morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Nikiski New on the teachings of Jesus Christ to His Hope Christian Fellowship, Mile 23 North disciples. This process is called the Rite Road. All are welcome to attend. Aglow In- of Christian Initiation of Adults or RCIA. ternational is founded on prayer and comFor more information, please call Shirpassionate outreach. It is global in ministry ley at 262-9654 or Marlys at 262-5542. vision, yet rooted in small groups. As Jesus said to His disciples: “Come and Beginning Sept.20,2014 Nikiski Aglow See.” Refreshments will be served. Please will host the DVD teaching of Graham contact one of the names listed above for Cooke with “Game Changers.” The five information. themes are: 1.How you are known in heaven; 2.Establishing your internal overcomer; Food Pantry open weekly 3.Mind of Christ; 4.Reinventing your walk in the fruit of the Spirit; 5. Law of the Spirit The Soldotna Food Pantry is open evof Life in Christ. ery Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for For information call Bev at 776-8022 or residents in our community who may be 398-7311 or Paulette at 252-7372. experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 Join Sterling Pentecostal South Binkley Street. Non-perishable for Kid’s Day food items or monetary donations may Sterling Pentecostal Church has sched- be dropped off at the church Tuesdays 10 uled a Kid’s Day on Sept. 21. The 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. service will focus on kids with activi- p.m. or 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 9

The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church office at 283-7868 or email kumcalaska@gmail.com.

Clothes 4 U at First Baptist Church First Baptist Church Soldotna, located at 159 S. Binkley Street, is re-opening its Clothes 4 U program. It is open on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All clothing and shoes are free to the public.

Clothes Quarters open weekly Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels Church is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-2834555. Submit church announcements news@peninsulaclarion.com.

of his followers with power, change, and divine presence. This experience has happened to countless numbers since that day. Rather than lose it or miss it altogether, follow the advice of Hebrews 6:12 (New Living Translation); “Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God’s promises because of their faith and endurance.” Mitch Glover is pastor of the Sterling Pentecostal Church located on Swanson River Road at Entrada. Services on Sunday include Bible classes for all ages at 10:00 a.m. and worship at 11:00 a.m. Thursday Bible study is at 7:00 p.m. (sterlingpentecostalchurch.com)

Pope to honor dead from WW I By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will honor the dead from both sides of World War I during a visit next month to northern Italy that witnessed some of the decisive final battles of the conflict — and where his own grandfather battled. On Sept. 13, Francis will lay a wreath at the Austro-Hungarian cemetery in Fogliano di Redipuglia, near Gorizia on Italy’s border with Slovenia. He will then celebrate Mass at the nearby Fascist-era memorial to 100,000 Italian dead. The Vatican said Thursday that Francis would pray for the victims of all wars during the visit, his main commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. While Italy was technically part of the Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany at the start of the war, it remained neutral until declaring war on Austria-Hungary in May, 1915 after a series of secret negotiations with Britain and France. More than 600,000 Italians were killed over the next three years, with the Battle of Caporetto in October, 1917 one of the deadliest of the entire war. Francis has previously said he recalls hearing “many painful stories from the lips of my grandfather,” who fought in the war. The pope’s paternal grandfather, Giovanni Carlo Bergoglio, was drafted into the war at the age of 30 with a regiment along Italy’s border with Slovenia, according to documents unearthed by the newspaper and TV station of the Italian bishops’ conference. The elder Bergoglio fought in several battles during the subsequent years and at the war’s end obtained a certificate of good conduct and 200 lire. He returned to civilian life in Piedmont, but immigrated to Argentina a decade later, as Italy’s post-war economy struggled to recover.

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the sponsoring agency of the proposed ASAP Project. According to the current design, the project proposes construction of a 727-mile, 36-inch diameter, 1,480 pounds-persquare-inch pressure pipeline for utility grade lean gas for instate markets. The pipeline will be buried except for fault and elevated stream crossings. The project would include a natural gas conditioning facility near Prudhoe Bay and connect with

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years. Participation in the classic cost $4,000 in 2014, and the complaints assert that the value ranges from $4,000-$5,000. The fee is typically waived for public officials, including those against whom the complaints were made. Campbell said in an Aug. 28 that she had initially reported her participation to her ethics supervisor as required by the state’s Ethics Act. More recently, she has amended her 2011 filing to APOC to include the classic, she wrote the email. Fogels said Aug. 28 that he is working on his response to APOC, and has filed an amended APOC disclosure reflecting his participation. Like Campbell, he said he had reported her attendance to his ethics supervisor, and thought that was adequate. He also noted that he thought the event was a valuable experience, and he thought it was in everyone’s

ENSTAR’s distribution system, terminating near Big Lake. A 29-mile branch-off line to Fairbanks is also included in the project design. Construction is estimated to take three years and cost about $8 billion. The Development Corp. is currently participating in advancing both the ASAP Project and the Alaska LNG Project, which proposes an 800-mile 42-inch liquefied natural gas pipeline from a Prudhoe Bay gas treatment plant to an LNG facility in Nikiski. Alaska LNG is expected to be constructed in five to six years and has a price tag of $45 to $65 billion.

The Legislature has funded both the ASAP Project and Alaska LNG through fiscal year 2015. At the upcoming session, discussion about the projects is expected, Baker said. “The idea is to pick the one that is in the best long-term interest of the state,” Baker said. “And people have different interpretations of what that means but trying to get energy to Alaskans, maximize the value of the resource, create jobs, economic development. We just don’t know enough yet really about either project to make an either or decision yet.” Officials with the ASAP Project are about halfway done

with their public meetings, but citizens can also comment on the project at asapeis.com; asapeiscomments@usace.army. mil; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, CEPOA-RD, Mary Romero, P.O. Box 6898, JBER, AK 99506-0898. The comment period ends on Oct. 14. The next public input period will be in the spring of 2015 when the draft of the supplemental statement is complete. The final supplemental statement is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2015.

best interests for officials to continue attending and seeing the Kenai River — parts of which are a park managed by the Department of Natural Resource’s state parks arm. Treadwell said that the complaint was not accurate, and his daughter and friends paid a guide service to take them out fishing after the 2013 classic, but did not participate in the actual event. “Natalie was not there, she was not with us on the boats fishing,” Treadwell said. The complaint was based on information provided by KRSA that said Treadwell’s daughter participated. KRSA was not able to immediately explain the discrepancy. Treadwell noted that Natalie did eat one meal — a taco — when her visit to the area overlapped with the classic, but that he had been told the value of that was not high enough to include on his disclosure form. The complaints were filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, or APOC, Aug. 25, and published on the commission’s website Aug. 27. According to Dauphinais, the commission will be ready

for hearings on each of the complaints in about 45 days, and generally tries to hear each issue within 90 days of accepting the complaint. That timeline can vary based on the commission’s meeting schedule and because individuals have the opportunity to ask for extensions, he said. For now, each of the officials must respond to APOC by Sept. 11. APOC staff also has 30 days from Aug. 27 to complete its investigation and issue a staff report. Once the report is prepared, each official has 15 days to respond. Then the commission will have a hearing on each complaint. The complaints were filed by three different Kenai Peninsula residents. Homer resident Elaine Chalup filed the complaint against Fogels. Kasilof resident Benjamin Clare filed the complaint against Treadwell. The complaint against Campbell was filed by Homer resident Garland Blanchard. The complaints also note that gifts given to event attendees, in addition to the comped participation fee.

For 2011, the year Campbell attended, KRSA estimated the value of the gifts given to each of the officials in 2011 at $5, elaborating that it was unclear if every attendee received them. The list of gifts included a gear bag, turtle neck, baseball cap and gloves, each with KRSA’s name or logo on them, which the organization reported devalues the items. For 2013, the year Fogels attended, KRSA’s financial disclosure estimated the value of the gifts it provided at $6. Those included a gear bag, quarter zip shirt, baseball cap, softshell jacket and gloves, with a reduction of value because they had KRSA’s name or logo on each of them. The attendee list for the 2011 and 2013 Kenai River Classics included several legislators, fisheries managers and other public officials. KRSA has advocated for fisheries management in Juneau, as well as at the Board of Fisheries Upper Cook Inlet meeting in 2014 and other past board meetings.

Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@ peninsulaclarion.com.

Molly Dischner can be reached at molly.dischner@ alaskajournal.com.

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made to the policy. The rest were further clarifications of current operations including language distinguishing between a monument and a marker or headstone. “A monument would mark a family plot, (four or more plots purchased together) and are the only structure allowed over 48 inches in height,” according to the policy. “A marker would be placed on individual plots.” Monuments higher than the maximum allowance will now be required to undergo a foundational assessment, according to the policy. The hours remain the same for pedestrian visitors, which have access to the park at all times. In the summer months the vehicle gate is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily from May 1 through Sept. 30, and will be closed depending on weather and, or road conditions from Oct. 1 through April 30.

clarify additional policies including hours of access for vehicles, Saner said. Prior to the revision it was posted that the gate would be closed through out the winter months. Now it will be posted that one lane will remain open in the park weather permitting, Saner said. This was how operations have been handled through the majority of the season, but was not accurately reflected in the administrative policy. An addition was also made stating the city is not responsible for any items left or placed on or around any internment, according to the policy. Anything that does not qualify as a decoration may be viewed as abandoned property and could potentially be disposed of by the city upon removal from the Kelly Sullivan can be park. Saner said these were the reached at kelly.sullivan@penmost substantial amendments insulaclarion.com

Parnell vetoes bill to seal some court records FAIRBANKS (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell vetoed a bill Thursday that would have deemed criminal court records in cases where charges were dropped or the defendant acquitted as confidential documents. Parnell said Senate Bill 108 “summarily swept all such cases under the cloak of confidentiality in an unnecessarily broad manner.” The governor said he found the law would have needlessly restricted access to criminal court records, and that could adversely affect the ability of Alaskans to defend themselves. State Sen. Fred Dyson, a Republican from Eagle River, sponsored the bill. He said easily accessible online court records are not fair to people who are ultimately found not guilty. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, which editorialized against the bill, reports Parnell acknowledged those concerns, but said the public’s right to know trumped them.

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Conservation of Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said if the state was concerned about the brown bear population, it would close the hunt when the harvest total reaches 67 bears or 15 adult sows. “What is missing from the discussion is the requests from the public to respond to increasing brown bear populations and negative interactions,” Vincent-Lang said. “The refuge is more on management philosophy and ethics than resource conservation. … No definition of natural diversity is offered. I don’t believe the intention of Congress was to allow the federal government to hold such power over fish and wildlife that have been recognized as a state resource.” He said policy regulations set by the Board of Game to allow bear baiting helped hunters identify the sex of a bear and selectively harvest boars

and preserve sows. Soldotna resident Ted Spraker, chairman of the board, said it is out of character for a board member to testify but he felt it was important to clarify the decisions the board made on hunting regulations. Out of seven proposals the board passed in 2013, the refuge vetoed six of them, a move he said felt unprecedented. “We often hear bears have low reproductive potential but it seems to me they never finish the sentence,” he said. “They also have a high survival rate of cubs and are long-lived animals.” For the 2015 Board of Game meetings in Anchorage, Spraker said they would take a close look at the cap of 70 bears and 17 females. Elaina Spraker, who is a clinic director for Women on Target hunting group, said the expanded hunt in 2013 gave more opportunities to connect

female hunters and her family with the outdoors. She said she questioned refuge biologists changing the study area to determine the brown bear population. “This is equivalent to counting bees in a beehive on a sunny day when they are out pollinating flowers,” she said. “This is our land and federal employees are paid by our tax dollars. We deserve better.” In 1998, the state listed the Kenai brown bear population as a population of special concern. Homer resident Dr. Davis Raskin, representing Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, spoke in support of the proposed closure. He said if the trends continue to decline, it could cause irreparable harm. “When taking brown bears over bait was first legalized last spring, 40 of the 52 killed at bait stations,” Raskin said.

“With this potential overharvest, action is needed to provide adequate protection. It is clear the wisest regulation should be based on science and not anecdotal unscientific speculations.” Several people at the hearing cried federal overreach by the refuge. Spencie Netschert, president of the Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Safari Club International, said hunters are conservationists and no species has ever gone extinct because of hunting. She gave the refuge a letter from U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who also expressed her concerns that the refuge actions could set a dangerous precedent that undermines future wildlife management. “I find it distressing and shameful the refuge would make scientific baseless decisions,” Netschert said. “The refuge should be for all people. We own it, you only manage it.” Jessee Bjorkman, a teacher and hunting education instructor at Nikiski Middle-High School, said he resents the opinion that all hunters are killers. “I don’t kill for sport. Hunters are enjoyers of wildlife,” he said. “Let’s be honest about our data please. Let the Board of Game do their job and let the process work.” Floyd Frost, a retired Department of Corrections officer, said he is an avid outdoorsman and can read bears mannerisms well. “Most brown bears are natural born bullies,” he said. “I believe what you’re doing is wrong.” While the majority of people who testified expressed frustration with the possible action to override Fish and Game, one person offered a suggestion to protect the bear population. Ed Schmitt, who repre-

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if it wants to send its drill fleet north again. Besides obtaining necessary permits, Smith said, there has to be a resolution to the legal cloud hanging over the 2008 Chukchi lease sale. A federal appeals court in January ruled that the

federal government conducted a flawed environmental review before selling $2.7 billion in Chukchi leases. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is conducting supplemental environmental work. In a statement, Greenpeace

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More liberal hunting regulations were enacted in 2012 by the Alaska Board of Game and as a result 168 brown bears, including 42 adult sows, have been killed in the last three years, said refuge supervisory biologist John Morton. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used DNA mark re-captures at baiting stations to estimate the peninsulawide brown bear population at 582. Using a model that projects brown bear population growth at 3 percent per year, and then factors in the harvest rate, refuge biologists estimated the brown bear population could drop to 492 in 2015. “In a small population, if you kill a lot of bears, it will have an impact,” Morton said. “This is why a cautious approach is warranted. The refuge is mandated by Congress to conserve wildlife population and that includes brown bears.” In 2013 the hunting season was extended and hunters were allowed to take bears over bait on the refuge. Loranger said 71 bears were taken during that hunting season. Last October, the Wildlife Service implemented a 30-day emergency closure on the refuge. To date this year, 54 brown bears have been killed, including five adult sows, 52 through hunting. Fish and Game has set a cap to not exceed 70 bears and that adult sow mortalities not exceed 17. Many people who testified said the Fish and Wildlife Service is overstepping Fish and Game management control with a proposed closure on the refuge. Doug Vincent-Lang, director of the Division of Wildlife

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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Manager Andy Loranger (left)and deputy manager Steve Miller listen to public testimony in response to the proposed closure of sport hunting of brown bears on the refuge at a public hearing Wednesday night at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

sented the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, said a majority of visitors to the state want wildlife to be viewed and not hunted. The Board of Game is the only place in the country that hunts wolves and bears out of airplanes and uses conservation dollars for an anti-predator approach, he said. A more balanced approach would be worthwhile, he said. “The Board of Game does have a good tool you could utilize called a moratorium,” he said. “Maybe instead of going through this and being insulted by everyone in the room, you could impose a moratorium.” Joe Hardy said he felt like he was wasting his time coming to testify because a hunting closure is already a foregone conclusion. The refuge was established in 1941 as the Kenai National Moose Range, almost two decades before Alaska was granted statehood. It was created to protect the Kenai Peninsula’s world-famous moose population, which had steadily declined for years due to factors of habitat loss and hunters. Hardy said he found it ironic a proposed brown bear hunt closure would come during moose season. “We are protecting bears but nothing is done to increase moose numbers,” he said. After receiving verbal and written testimony, the refuge is expected to announce a final decision today, Loranger said. “Our legal responsibilities include conserving a healthy brown bear population in its natural diversity to continue the opportunity for visitors to hunt and view brown bears in the future,” Loranger said. “Brown bears are a valuable resource and maintaining a healthy population benefits us all.”

tional offshore supply vessels and an extra helicopter. The company is taking a methodical approach in making decisions, he said. “We have to have total confidence we can execute a program safely,” Smith said.

Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

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Oilers fundraising gets off to slow start By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

A major fundraising push by the Peninsula Oilers board of directors and concerned community members to save the 2015 season and the organization itself has gotten off to a slow start. On Aug. 13, the Oilers fundraising committee had a meeting open to the public where many of those in attendance agreed to branch out into the community and try to raise funds to combat the serious short- and longterm financial issues the Oilers face. Michael Tice, the president of the

board, said the Oilers need to raise about $170,000 to get through next season. Wednesday, the group reconvened at the clubhouse at Coral Seymour Memorial Park. Eight were present and despite some contacts made in the community, very little money had been raised. “The reality is we raised $300 in the past few weeks,” Tice said after the meeting. Several factors have come up since the Aug. 13 meeting to make matters tougher for the Oilers. At that meeting, Tice said preliminary talks with the bank indicated the

Oilers had $65,000 to $85,000 left to borrow against the value of their bingo hall. But the day after that meeting, Tice learned the bank had changed its tune due to the Oilers financial situation. “They can’t see how they would loan us any money as of right now,” Tice said during the meeting. Tice said that was a major factor that led to a special meeting of the board Tuesday that ratified the decision of the executive committee to let general manager James Clark go. “It was not what we wanted to do,” Tice said after the meeting. “It was completely an economically based de-

cision.” After the Aug. 13 meeting, Clark said he had increased sponsorship each year. When the Oilers let their field and building maintenance employee go before the 2013 season, Clark assumed those tasks in addition to his general manager tasks. Prior to the 2014 season, the Oilers sold the condo where coaches would stay, so Clark put them up in his home and lent them his personal vehicle. “In the capacity of general manager and ballpark and field operations, he was awesome,” Tice said after the meeting. But Tice said the Oilers could

not afford the approximately $5,000 per month that it took to keep Clark around. In addition, Diana Tice, Michael Tice’s wife, will be leaving her administrative assistant position with the Oilers on Friday. “As of Friday, everything that is done by the Oilers has got to be done by the board,” Michael Tice said. Tice said that the Oilers, who have played 41 seasons, played 31 of those seasons without a paid general manager. He said the board will have to figure out a way to do that again. “I think several people will take See OILERS, page B-3

SoHi to play on new turf Thunder Mountain looks to spoil Stars’ big party By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

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Amber Walters practices setting the ball Thursday during the Kenai Central High School girls varsity volleyball practice at Kenai Central High School.

Spikers are ready for season By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Don’t look now, but there is a storm brewing on the Kenai Peninsula this fall. As the prep volleyball season gets set to begin, local teams are sharpening their talents in the gym, and with the recent merger between Soldotna and former Skyview high schools, the much anticipated Soldotna-Kenai rivalry should receive a healthy boost. In a somewhat ironic twist, former Skyview coach Sheila Kupferschmid has taken the reigns at Soldotna. Considering the many intense bouts that Kupferschmid’s Skyview squads had with the teams from Soldotna coached by the retired Bruce King, the hands of fate have certainly worked in mysterious ways. “I wanted to be a part of bringing that together,” Kupferschmid said about the merger between Skyview and Soldotna. “Once the district

said that this was the way they were going, I just thought I probably would be the best individual to mesh these two programs together.” Kupferschmid said the early practices have been nearly seamless at SoHi, and after playing Kenai Central in three close games in last weekend’s championship match at the Homer Jamboree, Kupferschmid is looking forward to the coming years. “They’re big and fast, they’ve been training all summer,” Kupferschmid said. “In our area, it’s gonna be Kenai (as contenders). “But I foresee a rivalry with Kenai, they’re gonna be tough.” Kenai coach Tracie Beck added that her team has increased its depth in a big way, saying that she has never had a bench quite as full as she does now. “But we’re not playing Soldotna, we’re playing Skyview and Soldotna,” Beck said.

Heidi Perkins crouches low to get under the ball Thursday at Kenai Central High School.

“When you combine those two, it’s a tough matchup. That’s so exciting for us.” Last year, Kodiak took hold of the Class 4A Northern Lights Conference and won the regular season at 10-0, while Palmer was 8-2, SoHi was 5-5, Colony was 4-6,

Wasilla was 2-8 and Kenai was 1-9. The top three spots from the conference tournament earn a trip to state. The top three teams in the Class 3A Southcentral Conference tournament also go to state. The tourney will be held See SPIKE, page B-2

The current prep football standings may look a bit jumbled with the assortment of conference and nonconference matchups scattered across the first two weeks. But soon, the cream will rise to the top. The Kodiak Bears lead the Northern Lights Conference after fending off Homer to win their home opener last Saturday, and Soldotna and Kenai Central sit in the middle of the standings with zeros still on their conference record. This weekend, Kenai will begin its Northern Lights Conference schedule with a Saturday game against Kodiak, while Soldotna will play its thirdstraight nonconference contest to start the year (although Thunder Mountain is at least sorted into the medium-schools division). Homer will see its second small-schools opponent in three weeks with a long road trip up to Barrow. In small-schools play, Barrow leads the Greatland Conference standings with two wins, both conference matchups. Eielson is right behind Barrow with one Greatland win, while Valdez has split its season schedule thus far to sit third in the standings. Nikiski is 2-0 overall, but has not yet played a conference game, and behind the Bulldogs are Seward, Voznesenka and Monroe, all teams that have one Greatland loss on their record. After this weekend, all the Greatland teams will have played at least one conference game, so the standings are sure to receive a shakeup. Thunder Mountain at Soldotna, 2 p.m. Saturday After two weeks on the road, the Stars return to play their first home game of the season, and will do so on the new turf at Justin Maile Field. A rededication ceremony will be held prior to kickoff against the Thunder Mountain Falcons, a mediumschools opponent from the Southeast Conference.

“We’re excited to finally get the community in on it,” said SoHi coach Galen Brantley Jr. The Soldotna football team is familiar with the new field with all the practices they’ve had on it, but now it will see real competition for the first time. The Stars will continue the trend of playing nonconference opponents, and Thunder Mountain continues its trend of facing Peninsula opponents. The Falcons were beaten 42-19 in week 1 by Nikiski, but rebounded with a 54-7 pummeling of Sitka last Saturday. “Even though they’ve stumbled out of the box, they’re not without talent,” Brantley Jr. said. “They’re capable of moving the ball, and the challenge will be on our defense.” No doubt, the SoHi defense will need to brace itself for the hulking frame of Thunder Mountain junior Tevita Maka, who managed to put 137 rushing yards on Nikiski two weeks ago. “We’re gonna have to gang tackle and tackle well,” Brantley Jr. said. “We do what we kind of always do, we spent the week focusing on corrections, tightening things up, dialing it in.” Even after SoHi took largeschools opponent Palmer to school last Saturday in a 33-0 win, coach Brantley Jr. still believes there are things to fix and tweak on the Stars defense, which should have other schools shaking in their cleats. “We are not anywhere we wanna be on an execution standpoint,” he said. “But to the kids’ credit, they’re not complacent. They can make the changes.” Brantley Jr. commended the efforts of inside linebackers Austin Crowder and Drew Fowler in the win against Palmer, two players that will be crucial in stopping the ground game that Thunder Mountain uses. The SoHi offense looks to be running smoothly early in the season, with a total of 725 rushing yards split between two games. See PREP, page B-4

Will rain stop in time for a few rounds of stellar autumn golf?

ummer isn’t over, summer isn’t over, summer isn’t over. … I’m hoping if I say that enough times it will be true. The weather has been disheartening of late, but August showers typically precede September sunshine and some of the best golf of the season. If historical form holds true we’ll all have a fantastic finish to the golfing year. Last weekend put a wrap on the busiest section of the 2014 tournament calendar. Birch Ridge hosted the Bassackwards Scramble, Serenity Scramble and the Ladies Pro-Am over the weekend. Pat “The Irish Hammer” Cowan paired with his wife Myrna, Gene Diamond and myself to take a second-straight Bassackwards Scramble crown, narrowly defeating Darell Jelsma, Steve Hammarstrom, Bruce

King and a ringer from Anchorage in a playoff! Bill Engberg and his damsels paired to win the Ladies Pro-Am, edging Tommy Carver and the headturners from Kenai Golf Course in a three-hole card-off. The Ladies ProAm was played in a bathtub this year. That happened. When is football season? Old Folks Golf Nine golfing veterans, hardened from years of lost balls and wayward provisionals, journeyed to Birch Ridge on Monday morning to experience the adrenaline rush accompanying fierce competition one last time. Darell Jelsma, Tom “Boomerang” Boedeker and Sid “Vicious” Cox were equals, finishing T-1 with a trio of net 31s. Jelsma separated himself from the field by capturing both

B irch R idge G olf R eport N olan Rose closest tos, leaving his opponents to wallow in misery. Tuesday Morning Ladies League Tuesday was the lovable ladies season finale and what a year it was! Somehow the women managed 15 consecutive weeks without rain. Apparently, the golf action on Tuesday mornings this summer was so hot the rain evaporated! Awards were handed out to golfers that posted birdies, chip-in’s, closest to’s, fewest putts, etc. … Chiya Bazan continued her torrid pace of late, pairing with Beth Roseberry, Trena “The Cookie Queen” C

Richardson and Leona Jackson for top team honors. Don’t let the “season finale” fool you, I’m sure a lady or two will be back out there next Tuesday. Thursday Night Couples The lovebirds participated in a scintillating golf competition last Thursday leading to more than a few murmurs from the ladies. Both the men and women would hit a tee shot. Then bam! The guy played the ladies ball in and lady played the man’s ball in. That meant there was a lot of pressure on the men to hit fairways, unless of course they were OK with sleeping on the couch that night! Darell and Susan Jelsma navigated the turmoil beautifully to post a winning net 83. The Murphys, Dan and Linda, were just two shots back to finish a respectable, marriage-saving

second. Golf Joke of the Week The room was full of pregnant women and their partners, and the Lamaze class was in full swing. The instructor was teaching the women how to breathe properly, along with informing the men how to give the necessary assurances at this stage of the plan. The teacher then announced, “Ladies, exercise is good for you. Walking is especially beneficial, and gentlemen, it wouldn’t hurt you to take the time to go walking with your partner!” The room really got quiet. Finally, a man in the middle of the group raised his hand. “Yes?” replied the teacher. “Is it all right if she carries a golf bag while we walk?!”

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this year at Grace Christian. SOLDOTNA STARS Kupferschmid spent 15 seasons as Skyview’s volleyball coach. In those years, Kupferschmid guided Skyview to six state berths, with a runner-up finish at the 2001 Class 4A state tournament as the highwater mark. Last year, Skyview ended its era with a third-place finish at the Class 3A state tourney. This year, it may feel different wearing a dark blue uniform, but the jelling of the two “sides” has been very consistent. “The kids are adjusting to what I feel is important on the floor,” Kupferschmid said. “I really like the chemistry of the team, I really like my players.” Kupferschmid said she is coaching two former Skyview starters from 2013 — Hayley Ramsell and Taylor Wilson — but the rest are previous Soldotna players. “That’s a process that takes time,” Kupferschmid said about working with many different players. “The players are getting to know me and vice versa, and I’m taking my time to see what’s best.” Kupferschmid said she is using early tournaments like the Homer Jamboree and the Chugiak Invite to see what will work best. So far, the veteran coach is looking at a 6-2 court rotation, where six hitters and two setters are utilized, and on any given “play,” three hitters are available. “Hopefully they will pick up my system quickly,” Kupferschmid said. “Another thing is trust. They have to trust what I’m doing. You can’t hurry that process.” The varsity squad will include seniors Bailey Rosin, Alex Ashe and Skylar Shaw, juniors Mackenna Rosin, Lindsey Wong and Kirsten Yarnes, and sophomore Judah Aley. Kupferschmid

named Rosin and Aley as middle hitters, and said Aley has proven to be a powerful player. The rest of the roster, says Kupferschmid, will be players that can be plugged in wherever they are needed. “I like all my kids, to be honest,” Kupferschmid said. “I think one of our strengths is chemistry on our team. I think these kids mesh pretty well, and if I can get the athletes working together and working for each other, that’s the biggest team issue that teams can have, and we’re looking good.” At the Chugiak Invite this weekend, Soldotna will get first round matchups of South, Palmer and West. The Stars’ home opener is slated for Tuesday against Seward. KENAI KARDINALS Tracie Beck returns for third year as coach, and according to her, this may be the best one yet. This comes after a 2013 season in which the Kardinals struggled with consistency to finish 1-9 in the conference, “The beautiful thing is depth,” Beck said. “When you’re building a program, while you’re in the midst of a tough part, you’re always thinking how is this all gonna work out? “All the hard work and extra time, these hard-working kids have paid off. Just seeing these seniors, it’s so fulfilling. I can’t explain how proud I am of these kids, and when you’re in a program that keeps getting thumped on, it makes you assess, are we moving in the right direction?” Part of the senior leadership that Beck is expecting to see a lot of production out of is middle hitter Kiana Harding, outside hitters Becky Dragseth and Sierra Hall, libero Heidi Perkins, setter Jamie Bagley and Kyla Whannell, who Beck said could play anywhere. Perkins started as libero last year and Bagley was a JV libero. Both are strong players in the back. Junior right side hitter Alli Steinbeck, junior Alexis Baker, sophomore middle hitter Abby Beck and Amber

Walters — a setter from Wyoming — will add valuable experience as well. Coach Beck said a lot of her players traveled to Gonzaga University this summer to attend a volleyball camp, and received knowledge and rave reviews from sophomore outside hitter McKayla Ferris, who said if the Kardinals make it to state, she will be coming up to watch them compete. “Those little things go a long way,” Beck said. NIKISKI BULLDOGS After missing last year’s Class 3A state tournament following a 4-6 season in the Southcentral Conference, Nikiski coach Stacey Segura is hoping to have her Bulldogs back on track in 2014. In her third year coaching the team, Segura said this year’s group has the most mental fortitude. “Volleyball is super mental, and you need to have mentally strong girls,” Segura said. “Everybody needs to be moving and communicating together for it to work. “I’ve been able to coach some of the younger ones into that mentality, and everyone is enjoying playing with each other. They’re willing to work hard, and I don’t think that if we end up losing, the scoreboard is gonna show the whole story.” Competing at the 2012 state tournament was an exciting time for Nikiski, Segura said, and so missing out last year has left a bitter taste in the returning member’s mouths. “I bring up state in every single practice,” Segura said. “I make sure they’re well aware of that. Some of the older girls have gotten a taste of it. “That first year, I had a lot of talent, but not a lot of chemistry.” The good news is that Nikiski is returning a couple of key cogs in the machine. At the setter position is senior Rachel Thompson, who Segura said is one of her strongest players overall. Senior Laura Hufford returns as libero, juniors Brittany Perry and Hannah Love are defensive specialists as outside hitters,

sophomore Ayla Pitt is a returning middle hitter and Brianna Vollertson is an opposite hitter. Segura added that since middle hitter Jodi Cook graduated in the spring, she decided to bring up freshman Melodie Sexton. Segura admitted that the team’s hitting still needs some work, but defensively, the Bulldogs are a stronghold. “We held a lot of open gyms,” she said. “Every open gym had a decent amount of girls show up, and even some eighth- and seventh-graders worked with us, so it was good to see interest.” Nikiski took third at the Homer Jamboree last weekend, losing a pair of matches to Soldotna, splitting with Kenai and sweeping Homer. Nikiski lost to Kenai in the semifinal round. Nikiski opens for business tonight at home against ACS, a perennially tough opponent, although Seward proved smaller teams can overcome the Anchorage teams. “I’m really excited to see how they’re going to react in a home game environment,” Segura said. HOMER MARINERS Beth Trowbridge returns for her 13th year as head coach of the Homer varsity, and will be getting help this year from assistant coaches Lauren Childers and Chris Gorny. Gorny is a former BYU standout. There are currently 30 girls on the roster, according to the Homer Tribune, and the team opens their season at home tonight against Seward. Setters Larsen Fellows and McKi Needham, Jane Rohr and Kyla Pitzman all looked strong at the Homer Jamboree last weekend in games against heavy hitters Soldotna, Kenai Central and Nikiski. SEWARD SEAHAWKS The Seahawks finished 5-5 in Southcentral play last year, but a changeup has left them as a bit of a wild card. Seward will be working with a new head coach this season, as Jamie Fred-

erickson replaces Carri Fisher, who stepped down due to a work conflict. “It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, being first year as head coach,” Frederickson said. “We have a new athletic director, we’re having to learn as we go, so we’ve had to hit the ground running. We didn’t even have a JV coach until this week.” Frederickson is a longtime Seward resident, and graduated from Seward High School in 2002 after four years of playing on the Seahawks volleyball team. Since then, she has added coaching stints on the JV team in 2007 and 2008. “Seward was solid back then, we had a great coach with Angie Hammer,” Frederickson recalled. “We’ve always been pretty small, and small in height. “I remember a year where the middle hitter was 5-foot-2. She could get up there but we didn’t have the big blocker like most teams.” Frederickson added that owning previous experience with the team and holding lifelong friendships with many Seward residents has been a major morale boost. “It’s a testament to the previous coach that the varsity team is rolling with it,” she said. “They already know what I’m talking about, and that’s been great.” With zero offseason open gyms, camps or additional work, Frederickson is pleasantly surprised at how the team has quickly adapted to the season regimen. Frederickson said she is utilizing a 6-2 rotation this year, led by libero Paige Carter-Kurtz. Returning junior Jessica Honebien could also be a libero, but will be used as a setter for now. Two seniors return as middle hitters, Kiana Clemens and Misha Johnson, and seniors Maria Jackson and Carrie Anderson return as outside hitters. “It’s great, we have six seniors, so I get a team that’s established,” she said. “I’m thinking about this year and next year, I’ll be losing a whole starting rotation next year, so it’s really nice to have them know what they’re doing. They take some tips from me and work with the rest of the team.”

Browns’ Gordon can’t play in Canadian Football League CLEVELAND (AP) — Josh Gordon can’t run a deep pass route into Canada and play. The Cleveland Browns’ suspended star wide receiver wanted to play in the Canadian Football League during his indefinite suspension, but CFL rules prohibit him from doing so. Gordon, whose season-long suspension by the NFL was upheld on Wednesday, asked the Browns

for permission to play for the Calgary Stampeders, a person familiar with the Pro Bowler’s situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. However, a CFL rule that has been in place since 2006 bars any suspended NFL players under contract from playing. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks. CFL spokesman Jamie Dykstra said the only

Aggies collect road win By The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Kenny Hill broke Johnny Manziel’s single-game passing record with 511 yards and No. 21 Texas A&M beat No. 9 South Carolina 52-28 on Thursday night, ending the Gamecocks’ 18-game home win streak. Hill’s performance in his first career start proved there is plenty of life in the Aggies’ offense without Manziel, a Heisman Trophy winner and first-round selection in the NFL draft. Hill finished 44 of 60 with three touchdowns. Hill was steady and confident in the pocket, leading Texas A&M (1-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) to a 31-14 halftime lead and finishing with the most passing yards ever allowed by South Carolina. No. 18 MISSISSIPPI 35, BOISE STATE 13 ATLANTA — Bo Wallace threw four touchdowns passes in a sloppy season opener, and Mississippi pulled away in the fourth quarter. Shaking off Wallace’s three first-half interceptions, the Rebels (1-0) got the victory before a sparse crowd in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. But it was hardly the sort of convincing performance they were hoping for entering the season with their highest ranking since 2009. Ole Miss led only 7-6 entering the fourth quarter before finishing off Boise State (0-1) when Wallace threw for TDs on three consecutive throws, ruining the debut of new Broncos coach Bryan Harsin.

No. 19 ARIZONA STATE 45, WEBER STATE 14 TEMPE, Ariz. — D.J. Foster ran for 147 yards and three touchdowns, Jaelen Strong had 10 catches for 146 yards, and Arizona State opened its season with a rout. The Sun Devils’ young defense was sharp in its debut, harassing Weber State quarterback Billy Green and stuffing the Wildcats’ running game before the starters came out. C

way Gordon could play in the league is if he was released by the Browns and became a free agent. Former Indianapolis wide receiver LaVon Brazill, serving a four-game NFL drug suspension, signed last week with Toronto after being cut by the Colts. The CFL’s board of governors adopted the rule eight years ago after suspended running back Ricky

Williams played one season for Toronto. Gordon will miss the entire 2014 season after another violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse program. He appealed the yearlong punishment, but arbitrator Harold Henderson agreed with league’s initial ruling. The league said Gordon’s eligibility for reinstatement will be determined after the season.

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Sports Briefs Goodell outlines domestic violence policy NEW YORK — NFL players will be subject to a six-week suspension for a first domestic violence offense and banishment from the league for a second under a new policy outlined by Commissioner Roger Goodell. In a letter and memo sent to all 32 teams owners Thursday, and obtained by The Associated Press, Goodell says he “didn’t get it right” in giving Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice a twogame suspension for allegedly hitting the woman who is now his wife. Goodell told teams to distribute to all players the memo in which he writes: “Domestic violence and sexual assault are wrong. They are illegal. They are never acceptable and have no place in the NFL under any circumstances.” The memo says that violations of the league’s personal conduct policy “regarding assault, battery, domestic violence and sexual assault that involve physical force will be subject to enhanced discipline.” The personal conduct policy is not subject to collective bargaining with the players’ union, and the commissioner has leeway to impose punishments for such off-field violations.

USC coach Sarkisian shares in blame LOS ANGELES — Southern California coach Steve Sarkisian believes he shares blame with the athletic department for publicizing cornerback Josh Shaw’s fictitious story about injuring his ankles while saving his nephew from drowning. Sarkisian also said Thursday that the suspended Shaw could “potentially” return to the Trojans at some point this season, news that was welcomed by Shaw’s attorney. “Obviously there’s some other things that need to take place,” Sarkisian said Thursday after USC’s practice. “But in the meantime, he’s got to take care of his health and take care of himself, and when the time is right to bring him back, we will.”

Stewart to return to Sprint Cup CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus taken after he struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race. The three-time NASCAR champion has not raced since his car hit Kevin Ward Jr. at an Aug. 9 sprint car event in upstate New York. Stewart pulled out of the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen the next morning, then skipped races at Michigan and Bristol Motor Speedway. Stewart, who was described by police as “visibly shaken” the night of Ward’s death, has been in seclusion ever since. StewartHaas Racing executive vice president Brett Frood has said the emphasis was on giving Stewart time needed to get him “in a better place than he is.” — The Associated Press

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this and run with it,” Tice said. “Other people will probably just run.” An immediate problem is that Clark was to serve as the point person for raising funds. Dan Gensel, a board member and the voice of the Oilers, said this must be rectified at the Sept. 13 board meeting. Gensel suggested hiring a sales and

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Howie Kendrick drove in Albert Pujols with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the Los Angeles Angels opened a two-game lead atop the major league standings with a 4-3 victory Thursday night over the Oakland Athletics, who finished the game under protest over a ninth-inning obstruction call. Josh Hamilton had a 10thinning single as the Angels won the opener in a four-game series between the AL West clubs who hold the majors’ two best records. Pujols drew a leadoff walk from Ryan Cook (1-2) in the 10th, and Hamilton moved him to third with a bouncing hit up the middle. Kendrick’s long fly to right drove in the slow-footed Pujols, setting off a playoff-worthy celebration by the Angels, who have won 12 of 16. Fernando Salas (5-0) pitched a perfect 10th for the Angels. He has retired 38 of his last 41 batters. GIANTS 4, ROCKIES 1 SAN FRANCISCO — Yusmeiro Petit set a major league record when he retired his 46th batter in a row, and the Giants earned their third straight win. Petit (4-3) got the first eight Colorado hitters, establishing the mark by striking out Charlie Culberson. That broke Mark Buehrle’s record of 45 straight with the Chicago White Sox in 2009. Petit’s streak covered eight games, six of them in relief. He also surpassed Jim Barr’s NL record of 41 in a row with the Giants

marketing director to work solely on commission, and getting somebody in the office part-time. “We can’t raise money if there is nobody in the office and nobody on the street,” Gensel said. “We’re not going to be in the office because we all have jobs and we’re not going to be on the street because we all have jobs.” Tice did say that anyone with fundraising ideas or offers can still call the office at 283-7133 and the voice mail will be checked regularly. The Oilers also started a drive on

in 1972. The sellout crowd of 41,017 at AT&T Park gave Petit a standing ovation after he fanned Culberson. The string ended two pitches later when the next batter, Rockies starter Jordan Lyles, doubled to left field. Charlie Blackmon followed with a single to drive in Colorado’s only run.

ORIOLES 5, RAYS 4 BALTIMORE — J.J. Hardy singled in the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning, and Baltimore beat Tampa Bay to lengthen its lead in the AL East. Steve Pearce homered for the Orioles, who took three of four from the sinking Rays. The victory, combined with the Yankees’ loss to Detroit, put Baltimore seven games ahead of New York with 30 games remaining. With the score 4-all in the seventh, Nelson Cruz doubled with two outs off Kirby Yates (0-2). After Chris Davis received an intentional walk, Hardy hit an oppositefield bloop to right that gave the Orioles their first lead.

TWINS 11, ROYALS 5 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Minnesota’s Jordan Schafer tied a career high with four RBIs, including a two-run single in the 10th inning. Bruce Chen (2-4), the sixth pitcher for the AL Central-leading Royals, gave up five hits and walked two in the 10th. Eduardo Nunez singled home the go-ahead run and Brian Dozier added a two-run double. Kurt Suzuki capped the burst with an RBI double for his third hit of the game. Schafer had three hits and extended his hitting streak to eight games.

gofundme.com, which can be accessed at oilersbaseball.com, but as of Thursday, the drive had raised just $300. Another blow to the Oilers fundraising prospects came with the cancellation of the Peninsula Pucks and Balls event, which was to be put on by Kassik’s Brewery in October. The event was to raise money for the Oilers and Kenai River Brown Bears. Tice said it was his understanding that it was canceled because the Oilers could not be a reliable partner because of their current problems.

Anthony Swarzak (3-1) picked Minor (6-8) had an RBI single up the victory. in the second for the game’s first run, and then doubled and scored in the eighth. TIGERS 3, YANKEES 2 Minor was perfect for four innings before Lucas Duda led off DETROIT — Alex Avila hit an RBI single with two out in the bot- the fifth with a single that just tom of the ninth, lifting Detroit to barely touched the glove of leaping shortstop Andrelton Simmons. the win. The Mets didn’t have a runner A day after David Price gave up nine straight hits, the Tigers sent in scoring position until Travis Kyle Lobstein to the mound for his d’Arnaud opened the eighth with first major league start. The rook- a double. Eric Campbell followed ie performed well, allowing one with an RBI single, finishing Minor. earned run in six innings. Then Detroit’s bullpen held off New York until the Tigers scored in ASTROS 4, RANGERS 2 the ninth off Shawn Kelley (2-5). HOUSTON — Jason Castro Victor Martinez led off with a double through a shifted infield, and hit a grand slam for Houston, and then Kelley walked J.D. Martinez Collin McHugh threw seven solid before striking out Nick Castella- innings. McHugh (7-9) earned his third nos and pinch-hitter Torii Hunter. straight win, allowing two runs and eight hits while striking out six. INDIANS 3, WHITE SOX 2 In his six August starts, McHugh CHICAGO — Cleveland’s Car- gave up eight runs over 37 2-3 inlos Carrasco pitched into the sev- nings. Castro snapped an 0-for-20 enth inning, and Michael Bourn had two triples among his three slump with a single in the second. In the fifth, he wiped out Texas’ hits. Jason Kipnis and Michael 2-0 lead with his second career Brantley each singled in a run for grand slam, a drive off Ramon the Indians, who have won four of Mendez (0-1). Tony Sipp worked the ninth for five and 11 of 16 overall to remain his second save. in the hunt for an AL wild card. Alexei Ramirez had two hits for the White Sox, and John Danks (9REDS 7, CUBS 2 9) pitched six solid innings. Carrasco (6-4) improved to 3-0 CINCINNATI — Billy Hamilwith a sparkling 0.73 ERA in four ton stole his 51st base and Cincinstarts since he returned to the rotanati swiped six in all. tion. He struck out seven in 6 2-3 Zack Cozart and Todd Frazier innings while holding the White each stole two bases, and KristoSox to one run and four hits. pher Negron added one more. The Reds had six steals in the first four innings, using six hits BRAVES 6, METS 1 and four walks to build a 6-0 lead ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Mike against Jake Arrieta (7-5). Minor took a two-hit shutout into Cincinnati’s Dylan Axelrod (1the eighth inning after hitting a 0) struck out eight while pitching double and single himself. five scoreless innings.

“It’s unfortunate, and we’d like to apologize to the Brown Bears,” Tice said. The clock is ticking on putting together a season for 2015. There was an Alaska Baseball League meeting Thursday, and Tice said that with Clark gone, board member Mike Baxter represented the Oilers at the meeting and told the league of the Oilers tentative situation. The Oilers annual elections are in October, so Tice doesn’t see an official decision on 2015 coming until then.

Tice said the ABL could wait until the end of the year, but the Oilers would need to get coaches and players before then. “The executive structure could change at the October meeting, so based on that I don’t see action coming until October,” Tice said. Despite all the hurdles, Tice remains optimistic and hopes the worst is behind the Oilers. “I hope that we can come together after everything that’s gone on and focus on nothing but having a season,” he said.

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“We want to perform well in front of our home crowd,” Brantley Jr. said. “We haven’t been home yet and the folks haven’t seen us yet. We can’t wait.” Kodiak at Kenai, 3 p.m. Saturday An 0-2 start to the season is not what Kenai Central coach John Marquez envisioned. Perhaps a fresh start will help the Kards. Kenai begins its Northern Lights Conference schedule in Week 3 with a matchup against Kodiak. The Bears come in with a 1-1 record, after a blowout loss to Chugiak and a close win against Homer thus far. “Breaking it down, I think it’ll be like it has been the last three years or so,” Marquez said. “When we play each oth-

er, they come swinging for the fences, and so do we.” The Kardinals and Bears met twice last year; Kenai edged Kodiak 22-21 in Week 4 (a game decided by a failed extra-point attempt), then routed them 47-6 in the medium-schools state quarterfinals. Kenai’s trip up to Fairbanks last weekend proved that the Kards can compete with the big boys if things go right. The only problem was things went almost right. The Kards ended the first half with a fourth-down stop against Lathrop on what Marquez called the “inches line,” and the game stayed scoreless up until the first play of the fourth quarter, when Chase Logan scored on a long touchdown run. “I could not be any prouder of our team,” Marquez said. “The way they played against Lathrop. That’s a very good team, very physical, and you talk about adversity on the defense side of the ball. My boys deserved to win that game.”

Peninsula high school football standings Reported games only

Northern Lights Conference League Overall W L Pct. W L Pct. Kodiak 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 Soldotna 0 0 .000 2 0 1.000 Kenai 0 0 .000 0 2 .000 Homer 0 1 .000 0 2 .000 Week 2 Soldotna 33, Palmer 0 Kodiak 22, Homer 20 Lathrop 7, Kenai 6 Week 3 Thunder Mountain at Soldotna, 2 p.m. Saturday Homer at Barrow, 2 p.m. Saturday Kodiak at Kenai, 3 p.m. Saturday Greatland Conference League Overall W L Pct. W L Pct. Barrow 2 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 Eielson 1 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 Valdez 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 Nikiski 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Seward 0 1 .000 1 1 .500 Voznesenka 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 Monroe 0 1 .000 0 2 .000 Week 2 Nikiski 16, Houston 6 Eielson 51, Seward 0 Valdez 44, Voznesenka 8 Barrow 56, Monroe Catholic 6 Week 3 Seward at Ketchikan, noon Friday Valdez at Houston, 6 p.m. Friday Nikiski at Monroe Catholic, 1 p.m. Saturday Voznesenka at Eielson, 1 p.m. Saturday Homer at Barrow, 2 p.m. Saturday

Unfortunately for Kenai, 66 seconds after the Logan touchdown, the Malamutes responded with a touchdown of their own that put them ahead 7-6, and that decided the game. Marquez also added that a missed PAT attempt by Kenai was his to blame, saying kicker Josh Jackman was out with a concussion, and therefore a two-point conversion would have been a more ideal option. “We were dashing them on that drive,” Marquez said. “We know 100 percent that we lost a game that we should’ve won, but it was a large school we were playing, and we know we can play with anybody.” Kenai’s offense has had success. Logan leads Peninsula athletes with 252 rushing yards after two games, and teammate Kyle Foree has backed that up with 131 rushing yards of his own. Marquez also stayed jubilant after the “high-tempo” practice the team had on Wednesday, and said the rough start to the season has only motivated his squad further. “Yes there is added pressure, but we’re going into it like we did with an 0-1 record, or 0-0,” Marquez said. “We go into every game knowing that we can win if we can execute.” Against Kodiak, the Kards will be facing a much bigger ground threat, a contrast to the passing attack that Lathrop features. Kenai’s defense has allowed a mere 215 rushing yard in two games this year, which is ranked the best among Peninsula teams. “That’s our forte (on defense),” Marquez said. “Come at us, we’ll hit you in the teeth.”

Riddall’s squad, the chance of retaining their heavyweight title belt is good. The last time these two teams met was Oct. 19, 2013, when Nikiski rallied back from a first-half deficit to claim the state small-schools title in a thrilling 36-28 battle. “It’s kind of easy to say last year was last year, but they got us early in the year and basically cost us a conference championship,” Riddall said. “We definitely can’t be looking past those kids, they know how to win.” When Nikiski and Monroe met in the state title game, the Rams only suited up around 15 players, impressive for a team in the hunt for a state crown. The Rams are tending to wounds suffered (figuratively) in last weekend’s 56-6 loss to Barrow. But Riddall knows better than to only look at the numbers. “If you’ve been up in Barrow, you know things can go south on you pretty quickly,” Riddall said. “That doesn’t tell the story. With turnovers and such, that’s a problem for anyone.” Riddall said the key factor against this year’s Monroe team will be containing the outside threats, and with a hefty running back, it may not come easy. “I’ve been preaching to our kids to be ready,” he said. “We’ve been working on sustaining blocks, the linemen getting initial contact and actually holding the blocks.” Christian Riddall did not play last week in a 16-6 win over Houston due to a minor leg injury suffered against Thunder Mountain in week 1, and coach Riddall said he hopes to get him time this week with a crucial Nikiski at Monroe, 1 p.m. conference match on the line. Saturday Riddall compiled 141 rushing A state championship re- yards in Week 1. match with the Monroe Catholic Rams is on the line SaturHomer at Barrow, 2 p.m. day in Fairbanks, and if things Saturday go right for Nikiski coach Ted

Peninsula high school football stats

TEAM OFFENSE Team G Pts Rsh Pas Tot 1. Soldotna 2 86 725 99 824 2. Nikiski 1 42 402 118 520 3. Kenai 2 21 456 40 496 4. Homer 2 36 235 148 383 TEAM DEFENSE Team G Pts Rsh Pas Tot 1. Nikiski 1 19 223 100 323 2. Soldotna 2 6 235 141 376 3. Kenai 2 35 215 364 579 4. Homer 2 63 605 19 624 PASSING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Com Att Yds TD Int 1. Hutt, Hom 2 10 23 148 1 0 2. Anderson, Nik 1 6 11 118 2 1 3. Furlong, Sol 2 6 12 99 3 0 4. Baker, Ken 2 5 23 40 0 1 RUSHING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Att Logan, Ken 2 37 Gibbs, Sol 2 17 Fenton, Sol 2 18 Riddall, Nik 1 14 Fisk, Hom 2 24 Foree, Ken 2 25 Castro, Nik 1 13 Blumentritt, Sol 2 11 Johnson, Nik 1 10 Chavez, Sol 2 9 Hutt, Hom 2 28 Carstens, Nik 1 5 Welborn, Ken 2 11 Baker, Ken 2 11 Seay, Hom 1 3 Winter, Sol 1 2 Prior, Sol 1 3 Jones, Sol 1 3 Furlong, Sol 2 16 Swoboda, Hom 1 5 Lowe, Hom 1 2 Lueth, Hom 1 1

Yds Avg TD 252 6.8 1 242 14.2 5 206 11.4 2 141 10.0 1 134 5.6 3 131 5.2 1 122 9.4 2 114 10.4 2 108 10.8 0 91 10.1 0 72 2.6 0 46 9.2 1 23 2.1 1 20 1.8 0 19 6.3 0 16 8.0 0 16 5.3 0 16 5.3 0 15 0.9 1 9 1.8 0 5 2.5 0 2 2.0 0

Seward at Ketchikan, noon Friday The Seahawks are venturing outside of the Greatland Conference for a date with the Kings, a medium-schools opponent. Ketchikan is tied for second in the Southeast Conference, which is led by North Pole. The Kings topped Monroe 51-12 in Week 1 and lost to North Pole 45-26 last weekend, effectively marking them as a tough team. Seward is also 1-1 overall this year, beating Houston 14-7 in Week 1 but getting shut out by Eielson last week 51-0 in a Greatland Conference contest. Voznesenka at Eielson, 10 a.m. Saturday The Cougars are coming off their first game of the season after coach Justin Zank decided to skip the first week in order to be better prepared for the year. Voznesenka opened with a 44-8 loss to Valdez, leaving the Cougars near the bottom of the Greatland Conference standings. Voznesenka was playing with six freshman on defense and seven on offense, leaving Zank to rely heavily on running back Kiril Sanarov and quarterback Gavril Kalugin. “It definitely showed,” Zank said on Saturday. “That and the travel wore on us, I think.” Eielson is soaring high after a 51-0 win over Seward left them near the top of the Greatland standings with a 1-0 record (2-0 overall). Barrow leads with a 2-0 conference mark.

Scoreboard Tennis

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kind of teams Barrow has put together over the years. “I’ve been in Homer twelve years coaching, and I kinda have the luxury of knowing their team,” he said. “Getting their game film is hard, they don’t always come to the annual coaches meeting, so it may be a big question mark for other teams.”

After weathering a daunting ferry ride to Kodiak last weekend, the Mariners nearly pulled off a first in school history — winning a “ferry ride” game, according to Homer coach Josh Fraley. “We almost did it last week,” Fraley said. “We were a few fumbles away from it.” Homer lost to Kodiak 22-20 in rainy and windy conditions Saturday, a game which Homer turned the ball over three times within 10 yards of the Kodiak end zone. Afterward, the Mariners caught a 20-hour ferry ride back to Whittier, before carpooling back to Homer. “It was kind of rough,” Fraley said. “But I was pleased with what I saw on the field, I thought we were vastly improved compared to Eielson.” Homer lost to Eielson 41-16 in Week 1, but Fraley said the loss to Kodiak had him feeling optimistic, even if the score wasn’t the desired result. “The tackling was really good, (quarterback) Sheldon (Hutt) did really well with the ball, he had no interceptions,” Fraley said. “Our backs and our line started gaining that cohesiveness that you look for. “The weather was horrendous, we couldn’t kick, the wind was blowing, rain was coming down and it was really tough on special teams. We only threw the ball like six times, instead of the usual twenty or so.” Hutt leads all Peninsula teams with 148 passing yards, and with the 134 rushing yards that Josh Fisk has, a multiheaded threat has emerged for Homer. Fortunately for Homer, which is trying to avoid the kind of loss it received from small-schools opponent Eielson in Week 1, Barrow features a road trip similar in length to Kodiak, meaning the home team may not have the advantage they think. The Whalers did beat Monroe last week 566, but Fraley has a long history of coaching, and has seen the

Cooper, Nik 1 1 Jackson, Nik 1 1 Anderson, Nik 1 1

U.S. Open Seeds

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RECEIVING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Rec Yds Avg TD Seay, Hom 2 2 42 21.0 1 Holloway, Nik 1 2 40 20.0 1 Broussard, Nik 1 1 37 37.0 1 Cotney, Hom 1 2 34 17.0 0 Gibbs, Sol 1 1 31 31.0 1 Logan, Ken 2 2 31 15.5 0 McKenna, Hom 1 1 29 29.0 0 Fowler, Sol 1 2 29 14.5 0 Fisk, Hom 1 1 23 23.0 0 Riddall, Nik 1 2 21 10.5 0 Lowe, Hom 2 2 21 10.5 0 Walden, Sol 2 2 21 10.5 2 Johnson, Nik 1 1 20 20.0 0 Duke, Sol 1 1 18 18.0 0 Swoboda, Hom 1 1 7 7.0 0 Gillies, Ken 1 1 5 5.0 0 Foree, Ken 1 2 4 2.0 0 Alborn, Hom 1 1 -8 -8.0 0 SCORING LEADERS Player, school TD FG PAT2 PAT1 Gibbs, Sol 6 0 0 0 Fisk, Hom 3 0 0 0 Castro, Nik 2 0 0 0 Seay, Hom 2 0 0 0 Blumentritt, Sol 2 0 0 0 Walden, Sol 2 0 0 0 Fenton, Sol 2 0 0 0 Foree, Ken 1 0 1 0 Riddall, Nik 1 0 1 0 Logan, Ken 1 0 0 0 Holloway, Nik 1 0 0 0 Welborn, Ken 1 0 0 0 Carstens, Nik 1 0 0 0 Broussard, Nik 1 0 0 0 Ackerman, Sol 0 0 0 6 Furlong, Sol 1 0 0 0 Hutt, Hom 0 0 2 0 Swoboda, Hom 0 0 1 0 Jackson, Nik 0 0 0 2 Fowler, Sol 0 0 1 0 Jackman, Ken 0 0 0 1

Pts 36 18 12 12 12 12 12 8 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 4 2 2 2 1

Local Sports Briefs Twin Cities to host Saturday races The Kenai Peninsula Racing Lions - Circle Track Division will hold races Saturday at 6 p.m. at Twin City Raceway. Gates open at 3 p.m. and qualifying begins at 4 p.m. The rain makeup, if necessary, will be Sunday at 1 p.m. Racing will be in stock cars, late models, legends and sprints, depending on participants. Military veterans get in free, as do GCI account holders bringing a bill or invoice. Seniors and students pay $5 for general admission, while general admission for adults is $10. The raceway is located at Mile 6.5 of the Kenai Spur Highway, across from Beaver Loop Road.

Seward netters sweep ACS Seward opened up its Southcentral Conference volleyball schedule Thursday night in Seward with a clean sweep of Anchorage Christian Schools. The Seahawks won with game scores of 25-12, 25-21 and 25-15. Seward moved its overall season mark to 1-1, after a home opener loss to Kenai on Tuesday. New Seward coach Jaime Frederickson lauded the play of her servers, senior Maria Jackson and junior Jessica Honebien. Frederickson added that libero Paige Carter-Kurtz provided excellent digs and passes. Senior Kiana Clemens had seven blocks, three kills and five hits, while teammates Carrie Anderson provided 11 hits and three kills and Misha Johnson had seven hits. — Staff report

Thursday At The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center New York Men Second Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. Milos Raonic (5), Canada, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Andy Murray (8), Britain, def. Matthias Bachinger, Germany, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), France, def. Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Kei Nishikori (10), Japan, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-4, 6-1, retired. John Isner (13), United States, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2. Tommy Robredo (16), Spain, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, 5-7, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. Philipp Kohlschreiber (22), Germany, def. Michael Llodra, France, 6-2, retired. Leonardo Mayer (23), Argentina, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (28), Spain, lost to Sam Querrey, United States, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Fernando Verdasco (31), Spain, lost to Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.<l Women Second Round Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Vania King, United States, 6-1, 6-0. Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Republic, def. Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2. Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4. Ana Ivanovic (8), Serbia, lost to Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-4. Flavia Pennetta (11), Italy, def. Shelby Rogers, United States, 6-4, 6-3. Carla Suarez Navarro (15), Spain, def. CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, 6-3, 6-3. Victoria Azarenka (16), Belarus, def. Christina McHale, United States, 6-3, 6-2. Ekaterina Makarova (17), Russia, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-2. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (23), Russia, lost to Nicole Gibbs, United States, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3. Sam Stosur (24), Australia, lost to Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8). Madison Keys (27), United States, lost to Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-5. Casey Dellacqua (29), Australia, def. Wang Qiang, China, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (30), Czech Republic, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Football

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67 98

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia Dallas South New Orleans Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay North Minnesota Detroit Green Bay Chicago West Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

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Thursday’s Games Atlanta 24, Jacksonville 14 Green Bay 34, Kansas City 14 Detroit 23, Buffalo 0 Cincinnati 35, Indianapolis 7 Philadelphia 37, N.Y. Jets 7 Miami 14, St. Louis 13 N.Y. Giants 16, New England 13 Carolina 10, Pittsburgh 0 Washington 24, Tampa Bay 10 San Francisco 40, Houston 13 Baltimore 22, New Orleans 13 Denver 27, Dallas 3 Minnesota 19, Tennessee 3 Cleveland 33, Chicago 13 San Diego 12, Arizona 9 Oakland 41, Seattle 31

College Football Scores EAST Bryant 13, Stony Brook 7 E. Kentucky 29, Robert Morris 10 SOUTH Charleston Southern 61, Point (Ga.) 9 Charlotte 33, Campbell 9 Lindsey Wilson 44, Campbellsville 40 Louisiana-Monroe 17, Wake Forest 10 Mercer 45, Reinhardt 42 Mississippi 35, Boise St. 13 Missouri St. 34, Northwestern St. 27 Murray St. 73, Union (NY) 26 Pikeville 62, Bluefield South 40 Tennessee Tech 33, Kentucky Christian 7 Texas A&M 52, South Carolina 28 MIDWEST Akron 41, Howard 0 Cent. Michigan 20, Chattanooga 16 Minnesota 42, E. Illinois 20 N. Illinois 55, Presbyterian 3 S. Illinois 45, Taylor 0 SE Missouri 77, Missouri Baptist 0 Valley City St. 31, Jamestown 7 W. Illinois 45, Valparaiso 6

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NFL Standings W 3 2 2 1

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Tulsa 38, Tulane 31, 2OT

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Miami New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo South Houston Tennessee

Jacksonville Indianapolis North Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland West Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

96 83

New Mexico St. 28, Cal Poly 10 San Jose St. 42, North Dakota 10 Utah 56, Idaho St. 14

Baseball AL Standings

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Baltimore 76 New York 69 Toronto 67 Tampa Bay 65 Boston 58 Central Division Kansas City 74 Detroit 72 Cleveland 68 Chicago 60 Minnesota 59 West Division Los Angeles 80 Oakland 78 Seattle 72 Houston 57 Texas 52

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Thursday’s Games Detroit 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Minnesota 11, Kansas City 5, 10 innings Houston 4, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 3, 10 innings Friday’s Games Minnesota (May 0-3) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 6-7), 3:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 1-3) at Toronto (Buehrle 11-8), 3:07 p.m. Boston (Ranaudo 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 8-6), 3:10 p.m. Cleveland (Salazar 4-6) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 10-6), 4:10 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 11-11) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 5-8), 4:10 p.m. Texas (Undecided) at Houston (Oberholtzer 4-9), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Lester 13-8) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 14-7), 6:05 p.m. Washington (Zimmermann 9-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 13-4), 6:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 9:07 a.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 9:10 a.m., 1st game Minnesota at Baltimore, 3:05 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 3:10 p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City, 3:10 p.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 3:10 p.m., 2nd game Texas at Houston, 3:10 p.m. Oakland at L.A. Angels, 5:05 p.m. Washington at Seattle, 5:10 p.m. All Times ADT

NL Standings

East Division W Washington 75 Atlanta 70 Miami 65 New York 62 Philadelphia 61 Central Division Milwaukee 73 St. Louis 71 Pittsburgh 69 Cincinnati 65 Chicago 59 West Division Los Angeles 76 San Francisco 71 San Diego 62 Arizona 55 Colorado 53

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Thursday’s Games Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 2 San Francisco 4, Colorado 1 Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Friday’s Games Cincinnati (Leake 10-11) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 11-7), 3:05 p.m. Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 6-7) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 6-6), 3:10 p.m. Miami (Koehler 9-9) at Atlanta (E.Santana 13-7), 3:35 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 5-1) at St. Louis (S.Miller 8-9), 4:15 p.m. Colorado (Bergman 1-2) at Arizona (Collmenter 9-7), 5:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Haren 11-10) at San

Diego (Cashner 2-6), 6:10 p.m. Washington (Zimmermann 9-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 13-4), 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 15-8) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-9), 6:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 10:15 a.m., 1st game Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. Miami at Atlanta, 3:10 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 3:10 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:40 p.m. Milwaukee at San Francisco, 5:05 p.m. Washington at Seattle, 5:10 p.m. All Times ADT

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Kuroda, Betances (8), Kelley (9) and McCann; Lobstein, B.Hardy (7), Chamberlain (8), Coke (9) and Avila. W_Coke 2-2. L_Kelley 2-5.

Orioles 5, Rays 4 TB 200 020 000—4 7 Bal. 200 020 10x—5 11

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Hellickson, Beliveau (5), Yates (7), Jo.Peralta (7) and J.Molina; B.Norris, Brach (7), A.Miller (7), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph. W_A. Miller 4-5. L_Yates 0-2. Sv_Z.Britton (29). HRs_Tampa Bay, Longoria (17). Baltimore, Pearce (16).

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Carrasco, Rzepczynski (7), Shaw (8), Allen (8) and R.Perez; Joh. Danks, Belisario (7), D.Webb (7), Cleto (9) and Flowers. W_Carrasco 6-4. L_Joh.Danks 9-9. Sv_Allen (18).

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Tepesch, Mendez (5), Klein (7), Sh.Tolleson (8) and Chirinos; McHugh, Fields (8), Sipp (9) and J.Castro. W_McHugh 7-9. L_Mendez 0-1. Sv_Sipp (2). HRs_Houston, J.Castro (13).

Twins 11, Royals 5, 10 inn. Min. 200 201 000 6—11 14 KC 200 110 100 0—5 12

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Milone, Pressly (6), Burton (7), Fien (8), Duensing (9), Swarzak (9), Perkins (10) and K.Suzuki; Guthrie, Bueno (7), Frasor (7), K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9), B.Chen (10) and S.Perez. W_ Swarzak 3-1. L_B.Chen 2-4. HRs_ Kansas City, A.Gordon (17).

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Arrieta, W.Wright (5), Rosscup (7), Fujikawa (8) and Jo.Baker; Axelrod, Villarreal (6), Ondrusek (8), Ju.Diaz (9) and Mesoraco. W_Axelrod 1-0. L_Arrieta 7-5.

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Lyles, Belisle (7), Nicasio (8) and Ja.Williams; Y.Petit, Machi (7), Romo (8), Casilla (9) and Susac.

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Minor, D.Carpenter (8), Varvaro (9) and Laird; Niese, C.Torres (8), Matsuzaka (9), Eveland (9) and d’Arnaud. W_Minor 6-8. L_Niese 7-10. HRs_Atlanta, Doumit (4).

Angels 4, Athletics 3, 10 inn. Oa. 000 021 000 0—3 7 1 LA 030 000 000 1—4 9 1 Gray, Gregerson (8), Otero (9), Abad (9), Cook (9) and G.Soto; C.Wilson, Morin (6), Jepsen (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9), Salas (10) and Iannetta, Conger. W_Salas 5-0. L_Cook 1-2. HRs_Oakland, Donaldson (26).

Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Claimed INF Jayson Nix off waivers from Pittsburgh. Activated LHP Scott Downs from the the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Liam Hendriks. Recalled RHP Michael Mario from Omaha (PCL) and placed him on the 60-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Acquired LHP Josh Outman from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named or cash. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Claimed OF Nolan Reimold off waivers from Toronto. CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Dylan Axelrod from Louisville (IL). Optioned RHP Daniel Corcino to Louisville. NEW YORK METS — Placed 2B Daniel Murphy and RHP Vic Black on the 15-day DL. Activated RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka from the 15-day DL. Promoted INF Dilson Herrera from Binghamton (EL). Renewed their player development contract with Las Vegas (PCL) for two years through the 2016 season. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Announced president and CEO David Montgomery is taking a medical leave of absence. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Announced the signing of a twoyear player development contract extension with Auburn (NY-Penn) beginning in 2015. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Dallas S Jakar Hamilton for the first four regularseason games for violating the league’s policy on substance abuse. Fined Denver QB Peyton Manning $8,268 for taunting Houston S D.J. Swearinger in a preseason game last week. DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived CB B.W. Webb. Signed RB Phillip Tanner. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Portland D Norberto Paparatto one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for serious foul play which endangered the safety of an opponent in an Aug. 24 match against Seattle. COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA — Announced the NCAA cleared senior DT Ethan Farmer to play after resolving an unspecified eligibility issue. SOUTHERN CAL — Announced senior RB Anthony Brown quit the football team.

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Fast fishing Author’s note: This week’s column first appeared Nov. 13, 1987, in “The Tides,” a Clarion supplement.

y looking back, we can see how different people helped to shape us and make us the way we are today. And speaking of different people, if it hadn’t been for Dick “Gitch” Larson, I’d have never learned to fish fast. I met Dick (his nickname came later) in Anchorage, during the early 1970s. Having just migrated south from Fairbanks, I needed someone to show me how and where to fish. Dick was that someone. The place was the Kenai River. Dick was an ambitious young salesman, and selling fit his competitive nature well. As goal oriented as a guided missile, he’d go after a sale until he made it. Having worked with him, I knew this, but not until our first fishing trip together did I discover that he’d adapted his aggressive traits to what for most people is a relaxing pastime, fishing. Dick took me and two other novices, Ron and Paul, to a fishing hole near Eagle Rock, where he assured us we’d “get our limits of silvers.” While Ron put the anchor over the side, Paul and I started rigging up our rods. Thus occupied, the three of us were startled when Dick shouted, “Fish on!” We watched enviously as he brought in the salmon. One of us muttered something about not having a chance to get our lines in the water, but the remark went unacknowledged. All business, Dick had a big silver in the boat in nothing flat. Hands shaking with excitement, the rest of us went back to rigging up. We’d just started, when we heard, “Fish on!” Again, we put down our rods and waited while Dick reeled in another silver. Thus occupied, he didn’t even notice the words we used in describing him and his ancestors. Instead, he grinned and said, “You guys better get your lines in the water. I’ve almost got my limit, already.” Our mumbling took on an ominous tone as we netted his fish and brought it aboard. I was stowing it in the bag when the dreaded words came again: “Fish on!” “Not again!” Paul said. “Over my dead body!” Ron said. To a chorus of abuse, Dick pulled in his third salmon. Like the other two, it was quivering on the floorboards before it knew what had happened. At least now that he has his limit, I thought, we’ll have a chance to fish. But faster than I thought possible, Dick changed over to trout gear and was fishing again. Finally, we amateurs started See FISH, page C-2

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ABOVE: A grizzly bear forages on Tuesday, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

TOP RIGHT: An Arctic ground squirrel stands at alert along a trail on Saturday, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. MIDDLE RIGHT: A moose walks through brush on Wednesday, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. BOTTOM RIGHT: A collared pika, shown here on Wednesday, sits on a rock below the main road through Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

Restoring snowmobile history; a place to see By CHRISTINE PETERSON Casper Star-Tribune

CASPER, Wyo. — One of the snowmobiles looks a little like a 1970s space-pod with tracks. A rider sits inside, like a car, and the roof is convertible. The power comes from one, big wide track. Another machine was made to convert a motorcycle to a snowmobile. You read that right. The wheels come off and the frame attaches with a single bar to the tracks. “I bought it from a guy in the Pedro Mountains,” said Casper snowmobile collector Scott Custer. “When I first found it, I didn’t know what it was.” The two oddities are only a few of the machines in Custer’s expansive 70-plus antique snowmobile collection. He and his older brother, Lonny Custer, spent nearly two decades buying, selling, digging up and salvaging snowmobiles made between the 1960 and the late ‘80s. Twice a year, they would drag out the best ones for shows around the state. Lonny, 51, died earlier this year after a battle with cancer, leaving behind an unfinished 1984 John Deere Sprintfire he always wanted to see restored. Custer plans to finish the machine by this weekend,

just in time to show the public. The Rocky Mountain Antique Snowmobile Association’s annual summer show in Casper, this year held Aug. 30-31 in memory of Custer’s brother. Up to 20 collectors were expected to show off their fully-restored winter machines. It’s like a car show, only the displays fit in a hotel ballroom. “Sleds used to be a winter thing, and now they’re year round. They are in tractor shows or car shows or motorcycle shows,” Custer said. “Too many get crushed up and used up and destroyed and are gone. You keep the ones that have significance to someone or interesting history.” The first snowmobile was a Ford Model T plopped on top of a track with skis in the front, said Lewis Diehl, Riverton historian and founding member of the Rocky Mountain Antique Snowmobile Association. People used it in fields in the winter to help with livestock or other farming needs “That was such a good idea, they took it down and made it smaller and used boat motors and things like that,” Diehl said. “It became so much fun they needed to make them lighter.” For the next several decades, companies popped up, made a few sleds, and mostly went defunct. At one point, more than 350 companies made snowmo-

biles in the U.S., Custer said, even though some of them may have only made 10 or 15 machines before going out of business. Companies thought of good ideas, such as snowmobiles with floatation that allows them to move easily on the top of snow, and not so good ideas, like when they put skis on the back instead of the front, Diehl said. Diehl started collecting the machines when he worked as a snowmobile dealer. About 25 years ago, he and another Riverton collector decided they should hold a show to display their unique finds and explain some of the machines’ histories. When they received enough interest from other snowmobile enthusiasts, they started the vintage snowmobile association. The shows give snowmobilers a place to see other machines, but also offers the general public a look at a piece of American history. Owners often not only restore the sleds, they also collect advertising brochures, helmets, jackets and other memorabilia. Shows aren’t museums, exactly, but they offer almost as much information, Custer said. Restoring old snowmobiles is the same as restorSee SEE, page C-2

Scottish kids help restore cabins on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

n the summer of 2006 I was fortunate enough to meet Gary Titus and so began the story of this trans-Atlantic partnership between the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and Banchory Academy in Scotland. Back in 2006 I was Depute Rector (vice principal) of Banchory Academy and I had travelled to Alaska with a group of 12 senior students to climb on the Harding Ice Field and to undertake some volunteer work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Gary, the Refuge historian and cabin restorer, was our main contact and I think he sized us up pretty quickly. One of his first questions of us was, “are you guys up for a full-on experience?” My reply was an immediate “of course” and we were off… off to Tustumena Lake and some of the most Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge amazing volunteer conservation work Scottish kids and their chaperones pose in front of a historical 4-ton steam boil- in some of the most stunning country er (once used in a lumber mill) that they moved from the shores of Tustumena I’ve known or heard of. That first visit Lake to higher ground with levers, pulleys and sweat this past summer. was such a success that it spawned two C

R efuge N otebook G raham M c D onald more in 2010 and 2014. Each trip built on the successes of the last and the projects become ever more demanding, with friendships cemented over the period. During that first summer in 2006, we worked on two projects at Moose Creek on Tustumena Lake. The first involved restoring the historical sauna at the creek’s mouth. We lifted the cabin to remove and then replace the bottom three tiers of logs. The replacement logs were fashioned with hand tools from freshly-felled trees using the same techniques as the original settlers. This was a hugely-challenging but amazingly-rewarding project that was overseen by Gary in such a way

that we all felt we had done it! We also repaired and “upgraded” the Moose Creek trail that leads to the Tustumena Bench. We returned in 2010, again travelling to Tustumena Lake to work on the cabin of Andrew Berg, a famous local trapper. We reroofed the cabin with the same tin shingles that Andrew used when he built the cabin at the beginning of the last century. Some hard work, great fun and developing friendships saw the project through to a satisfactory conclusion. We also cleared the Emma Lake Trail, from its mouth on Tustumena to the Emma Lake cabin on the Bench. This past summer followed a similar pattern, with Gary as our contact, our mentor and our field manager. As we travelled to Anchorage in late June we had an inkling of what was in store for us. We were headed back to the Home Cabin and Gary told us we were raising it up onto blocks … See REFUGE, page C-2

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Feds propose ban on rope-swinging from Utah arches BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal officials have proposed a two-year ban on rope-swinging from iconic Utah arches and other high-flying activities at two popular landmarks that have led to deaths and injuries witnessed by visitors flocking to the sites for peaceful reflection. The Bureau of Land Management says rope activities at Corona Arch and Gemini Bridges near Moab can disturb other people in easily accessible hiking areas that each receive 40,000 or more visitors a year. People often shout or scream while they swing, and in one case, a group authorized to celebrate Passover under the Corona Arch was interrupted by rope swingers above, according to a BLM report released Monday. Though the number of people who participate in the extreme activity is thought to be small, it’s become a regular occurrence and can be dangerous. A West Jordan man, 22-year-old Kyle Lee Stocking, died at Corona Arch last year after leaving too much slack in his rope. A 25-yearold New Yorker was critically injured in May. Those accidents happened in front of visitors, including children, the report says. Another rope swinger, 32-year-old Adam Jason Weber, was also killed last year swinging from Day Canyon, about 7 miles west of Moab. The pendulum-style sport is relatively new, and started to take off at Corona after a highadrenaline video was posted to YouTube titled “World’s Largest Rope Swing” two years ago. That video has gotten more than

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‘I don’t envy the position the BLM is in. They’re trying to preserve the experience for some people, and that means limiting it for others.’ — Evan Howes, Moab-based climbing guide 2 million views. “We have seen the popularity of some roped activities skyrocket in recent years,” said BLM Utah spokeswoman Megan Crandall. Signs of wear are also starting to show, including bolts bored into the rock and rope scars at both Corona and Gemini Bridges, a set of two rock spans and the head of a side canyon. The proposed ban would also affect other rope activities. That includes highlining, or balancing on taunt ropes between the two rims of the canyon, as well as ziplining and rappelling, all of which are popular at Gemini Bridges. Attempts to contact people who rope-swing in the area weren’t successful Tuesday, but Moab-based climbing guide Evan Howes said in June that the area has seen an “explosion” in extreme-sports adventurers, rendering it “Disneyland-esque.” “I don’t envy the position the BLM is in,” Howes said. “They’re trying to preserve the experience for some people, and that means limiting it for others.” The BLM is accepting written and emailed comments from the public through Sept. 25. The agency hasn’t set a deadline for a decision on the ban or when it might go into effect if it is approved. If restrictions are put in place, they would affect some

Home.” Another I remember well was “Get Your Line in the Water Before Anyone Else and Continued from page C-1 Keep It There.” I learned to tie knots and bait hooks fast. The fishing. Ron had a strike. Paul most painful lesson was “The Captain Has Enough Worhad a fish on, but lost it. I had one on for a few seconds, then ries Without Having To Pull the Anchor and Clean Up the my line broke. And that was Boat,” a lesson that eventually when Dick put down his rod stimulated me into getting my and said, “Let’s go home.” We were dumbstruck. Hav- own boat. On the fourth trip, I amazed ing spent three hours getting Dick by landing more fish than there, we’d only fished a couhe did. I wasn’t invited very ple of hours, and he was the often, after that. only one with any fish! While Oh, about his nickname. we pulled the anchor, there was mutinous talk about using Measuring fishing success by Dick for an anchor and fishing whether a limit was caught, longer, but it was his boat. We Dick asked around the ofquietly ground our teeth all the fice every Monday morning, “Gitcher limit over the weekway back to Anchorage. Several days passed before end?” It wasn’t long before he was known as “GitcherI calmed down enough to limit” Larson, “Gitch” for realize what Dick had done. short. He’d taken greenhorns with Gitch moved to Utah a him who know nothing about few years ago, but I think of fishing the Kenai, and he’d him often. Just the other day concentrated on fishing, letI was reading about one of ting his “crew” handle the those bass tournaments where netting, anchoring and other they use boats that look like shipboard duties. He’d set a goal — his limit — and met it they’re doin’ 60 when they’re still tied up to the dock, and in the fastest, most competitive way. I had to respect that where they see who can catch the mostest fish in the leastest kind of good-old American time, and I wondered if Gitch spirit. ever entered one. Those guys A glutton for punishment, wouldn’t have a chance. I went on several more trips with Dick, each one a painLes Palmer can be reached ful lesson. The first lesson at les.palmer@rocketmail.com. was “Rig Up Your Tackle At

32 acres around Corona Arch, including Bowtie Arch, and about 10 acres near Gemini Bridges. Rope activities wouldn’t be restricted elsewhere. “That’s one of the things that makes Moab so unique, it’s a great place for kids, and for high-adrenaline, more extreme activities, there’s a place to do that,” Crandall said. The twoyear period is designed to let the agency study the issue and make a decision on possible permanent restrictions.

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ing old cars, trucks, or other machines, said Tony Crnkovich, president of the association. Only the costs of entry into the hobby are quite a bit lower. A restored vintage snowmobile could be as low as $1,000, with some of the nicer ones ranging between $5,000 and $6,000. Classic cars, on the other hand, can cost significantly more. Crnkovich started racing snowmobiles when many of the sleds considered vintage now were new. “When I was a kid, I remember buying a 1975 machine brand new and I loved it,” he said. “I have some newer ma-

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was Gary having some fun at our expense? We knew from before that he likes to have fun, but we knew also that Gary was serious and professional in all things associated with the history of the Refuge! After setting up camp at the nearby cabin owned and graciously shared by Jim Taylor, Gary briefed us. We were indeed going to raise the Home Cabin up onto “stilts” so as to protect it from high water. We were going to move an old steam boiler, used in a nowgone lumber mill early last century, away from the shoreline before it was lost to one of the many storms on Tustumena. We would do some further work on both the Emma Lake and Tustumena Glacier trails. With the help of a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service archaeologist, Debbie Corbett, we would also do some archaeological digging on the site of the old lumber mill to help establish its history. Gary had tools and a plan for the cabin (he’s done this type of project many times before), he had Scott Slavik and the Refuge trails crew, and he had Debbie for the archaeology. For the boiler project he

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This April 10, 2010 photo shows the Corona Arch near Moab, Utah.

chines, too, but my roots were back there.” He still has the same make and model machine he raced on as a teenager. Now it’s restored and goes to shows and races. Custer, on the other hand, started collecting a little later in life. He didn’t own his own sled until his early 20s when he moved to Casper from North Dakota. With the house he bought came a 1969 Nordic Ski-Doo

the former owner swore he planned to retrieve. A year passed, and the owner finally said he wasn’t coming back. Custer started tinkering. He put lubricating oil in the engine, tweaked parts here and there. “Eventually the guy came back and asked how I got it running,” he said. “Turns out it spent time in the bottom of the North Platte River. Someone stole it and dumped it in there.”

Custer road the machine for years, replacing parts bit by bit as they broke or wore down. Then he started going to garage sales and collecting more sleds. “It’s like a disease. It’s the same with motorcycles or cars, you keep getting drawn back in,” he said. He convinced his brother he needed to invest in a few old machines, and not long after his brother had the same addiction. Between the two, they collected more than 140 snowmobiles. Custer said it gave his brother something to focus on during his illness. It’s also how Custer ended up with the 1984 Sprintfire, one of only 288 ever made. Mechanically, the machine is together. It’s just missing a few key items including the seat.

had some tools but he left the plan up to us. Those first words of Gary’s in 2006 resonated in my head … “are you guys up for a full-on project?” We were then and we were again — anything the 2006 team could do so too could the 2014 team. A plan was hatched to move the 4-ton boiler with levers, pulleys and people power — all used to great effect as it was successfully transported to the safety of dry land away from the dangers of winter storms and rising water.

Three visits over eight years, involving 36 youngsters and five adults from Scotland. Hopefully we have made a small contribution to the Refuge and their staff. Their trust has allowed students (and staff) from Banchory Academy to have some amazing experiences with some wonderful people in a truly amazing part of the world — we feel immensely privileged. I don’t want to believe that this is the end. Gary talked about a new scheme where

companies, schools and organizations adopt areas of the Refuge so as to look after them. We’ll need to discuss this next phase in our partnership with Gary before he retires! Graham McDonald retired from Banchory Academy in Scotland and is now co-owner of Venture Force Ltd. You can find more about the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge at http:// kenai.fws.gov or http://www. facebook.com/kenainationalwildliferefuge.

‘When I was a kid, I remember buying a 1975 machine brand new and I loved it. I have some newer machines, too, but my roots were back there.’ — Tony Crnkovich, president of association

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Homer Electric Association, Inc. is seeking a highly qualified individual to fill the position of Executive Assistant to the General Manager in the Kenai office. This position works directly with the General Manager, Board of Directors and other Executive level staff acting as a liaison between the parties and providing administrative support. These duties include reviewing and responding to, or appropriately directing, correspondence, email and phone calls; M coordinating, preparing and distributing electronic board packets for the HEA and AEEC Boards of K Directors; attending Board and Member meetings, recording and transcribing all minutes to become the official and legal documents of the cooperative; maintaining and coordinating schedules for the General Manager and Directors, including scheduling regular or special meetings of the Board or HEA staff; preparing, coordinating and monitoring the General Managers budget; providing travel coordination assistance to the General Manager and Board of Directors as assigned; overseeing the maintenance of historical and permanent records. This position requires a high level of expertise in MS Office Suite, electronic document distribution, tablet maintenance/troubleshooting, network functions, strong communication skills, and document control. The successful candidate must be available to attend evening board meetings, prepare emergency materials and may be required to travel out of the service area. An Associate’s Degree in Business Administration, Office Services or a related field is preferred with at least two years of executive secretarial experience required. A high school graduate with an additional four years of executive level secretarial experience may be substituted for the degrees. Applications may be completed on line at http://homerelectric.applicantpro.com/jobs . If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Human Resources at (907) 235-3369 or hr@homerelectric.com. HEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer; Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Applications must be received by 08/31/2014 to be considered.

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General Employment CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Part-Time Eligibility Technician Responsible for conducting interviews and ongoing case management to determine eligibility for childcare subsides. Qualifications: HS diploma or GED, understanding of the ability to apply state, federal, and internal regulations and procedures. Strong organization and mathematical skills, data entry ability, excellent communication and decision making skills, ability to work with diverse population, work independently and as a team. Resume, cover letter and references to Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611 by September 3, 2014. EOE

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CMA, LPN, RN Needed for Soldotna OB/GYN office. Flexible, part-time Position. Salary DOE. Must have Phlebotomy skills. Please fax resume to (907)262-5794.

Office & Clerical

Advertising Assistant Proficiency with both Mac and PC computer using Word/ Excel and Outlook, as well as experience with other software programs desirable. Exceptional customer service and telephone skills, accuracy in data entry with a high attention to detail. Professional appearance. Ability to meet deadlines and complete multiple tasks, this individual will support the Advertising Department with office related tasks, may work directly with customers in a receptionist capacity, perform data entry on a daily basis, and learn to answer phones. Hours are Monday – Friday, 8am- 5pm. Salary DOE. Benefits available. Submit completed application attention: Leslie Talent Peninsula Clarion PO Box 3009 Kenai, AK 99611 No Phone Calls. The Peninsula Clarion is an EOE. Applications are available at our offices on 150 Trading Bay Road in Kenai, Suite 1.

Sales & Marketing OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

The Peninsula Clarion is accepting applications for an additional outside sales representative. Sales experience is a must. This position requires a dependable vehicle & an Alaskan drivers license. Position offers excellent earning potential. Benefits available.

Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Audio/Video Building Supplies Computers Crafts/Holiday Items Electronics Exercise Equipment Firewood Food Furniture Garage Sales Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery Lawn/Garden Liquidation Machinery & Tools Miscellaneous Music Musical Instructions Office/Business Equipment Vacations/Tickets Wanted To Buy

Garage Sales MOVING SALE Friday, August 22nd - Sept. 7th, (907)262-9525, (907)398-6376, Call for directions & information. Quality tools & household items. Lots of good stuff.

Garage Sales YARD & STORAGE SALE 400 South Kobuk across from Kaladi Brothers. Fridge, gas fireplace, cabinets, tools winter clothing, furniture, catering items, ski’s Aug 29 & 30 8am to ?

Garage Sales

Furniture CURIO CABINET Dark wood with glass. Medium size 5 tiers. Like new.Price $100. (907)283-9221 Deck Table & Chairs with glass top. 4 chairs have seat covers. price $200. (907)283-9221 Kincaid End Table & matching Coffee table Excellent Condition, like new. dark wood. (907)283-9221 Matching Chair & SofaFrench Provincial tapestry wood frame with bear claw leggs excellent condition (907)283-9221 TV Stand. Gray TV stand with glass doors. Excellent condition. (907)283-9221 Wood Gun Cabinet. with glass doors & bottom draw price $100. (907)283-9221

MOVING SALE Friday/Saturday 9am-5:30pm Off K-Beach Rd., Cannery to Cetacea Lane follow signs. Many years of collections. Appliances, furniture, electronics, tools, fishing items, decor items, rugs, XS1100 Yamaha restore project. Transportation

Pets & Livestock

Autos Classic/Custom Financing Motorcycles Parts & Accessories Rentals Repair & Services Sport Utilities, 4x4 Suburbans/Vans/ Buses Trucks Trucks: Commercial Trucks: Heavy Duty Trailers Vehicles Wanted

Birds Cats Dogs Horses Livestock Livestock Supplies Pet Services Pet Supplies

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Miscellaneous Send resume and/or application to: Peninsula Clarion. Attn.: Leslie Talent PO Box 3009 Kenai AK 99611 NO PHONE CALLS leslie.talent@peninsulaclarion.com or deliver to: 150 Trading Bay, Kenai.

Employment

General Employment

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CAREGIVER NEEDED For assisted living home. Call between 9am-9pm (907)262-5090.

Healthcare HELP NEEDED Live in caregiver, Experienced female preferred. All expenses paid. (907)598-1945

Financial Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgages/Loans

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Full time, experience preferred. Soldotna/ Kenai. (907)398-7201 Homer Electric Association, Inc. is seeking a person to fill the position of Engineering Technician II in the Kenai, AK office. Duties include the design of overhead and underground power lines, staking and preparing cost estimates for line extensions, new services and system improvements; system inventories, record keeping, file maintenance, and finalizing work orders; updating and maintaining maps using GIS software; inspecting distribution lines for compliance, performing periodic maintenance inspections of electrical facilities and preparing work orders as required for maintenance work. Technicians also assist in field survey work for securing rights-of-way and easements for power line as-builts, and locating line extensions and other system facilities. The successful candidate will demonstrate two years of college level staking/surveying education or training, and two years of related work experience, four years of applicable work experience can be substituted for education requirements. GIS experience is desirable.

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CITY OF SOLDOTNA

INVITATION TO BID TYPE I KKK-1822F COMPLIANT 4X4 MEDIC UNIT AND EQUIPMENT The Kenai Peninsula Borough, on behalf of the Nikiski Fire Service Area, hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for the purchase of one (1) Type I KKK-1822F Compliant 4x4 Medic Unit and equipment.

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Bid documents may be obtained beginning, August 29, 2014, at the Purchasing and Contracting Office, 144 North Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669, phone (907) 714-2260. Bid documents may also be downloaded from the web at: http://purchasing.borough.kenai.ak.us/ Opportunities.aspx Two (2) complete sets of the bid package are to be submitted to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669 no later than the date and time listed below. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: BID: Type I KKK-1822F Compliance 4x4 Medic Unit and Equipment DUE DATE: September 25, 2014 , no later than 2:00 PM PUBLISH: 8/29, 2014

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Planning + Zoning Commission Notice of Public Hearing September 3, 2014 The Soldotna City Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, September 3, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 177 N. Birch St., Soldotna, Alaska, on the following items: Resolution PZ 2014-019 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission Recommending that the Subdivision Code be Amended to Include Plat Review and Approval Procedures and Public Notice Procedures. Resolution PZ 2014-024 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission Recommending Tract A, Block 2 of the Mooring Estates Subdivision Part 12 be Rezoned from Parks and Recreation to Single Family/Two Family Residential. All interested persons are invited to attend and participate in the public discussion. Written comments may be sent to the Planning & Zoning Commission, c/o John Czarnezki, 177 North Birch Street, Soldotna, AK 99669. For further information, call John Czarnezki at 907-262-9107. PUBLISH 8/27, 29, 2014

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Builders/ Contractors SAVAGE LLC. Custom Framer Decks, trims, design & consulting. 35 years experience. License & Bonded. (907)854-4971

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at the DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 12th day of August, 2014. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE MARIANNA DAVISON

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A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case # 3KN-14-00650CI) requesting a name change from (current name) STACEY LYNN GORDER to STACEY LYNN COCKROFT. A hearing on this request will be held on September 29, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. at Courtroom 6, Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Suite 100 Kenai, AK.

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The Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office is holding a sealed bid auction for approximately 58 parcels throughout Alaska. Lots are approximately 0.5 to 7 acres in size. Information on the sale and the parcels can be viewed on the Trust Land Office's website at www.mhtrustland.org or call (907) 269-8658 PUBLISH: 8/4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 9/2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 10/1, 3, 5, 7 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 2014 1856/2285

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Firefighting facts Dear Heloise: My son’s preschool had Firefighters come to the school. I stayed for the presentation and learned stuff, too, and found it very interesting. The firefighters put on all of their gear, then went to each child and shook hands (if the kid allowed). They said they did this so that in an emergency, if they had to rescue a child, the child wouldn’t be scared because he or she would know that it was a fireman. It was something I hadn’t even thought of before that day. Firefighters can look pretty scary with the mask, gear and oxygen tank! (Heloise here: Especially from a child’s height and looking up!) Another hint was what to do if the children live in a two-story house and get stuck in their room. The captain said to open the window and throw all of the toys out on the ground. As soon as the firefighters arrive, one of them walks the perimeter. If the firefighter sees a whole bunch of toys on the ground where they don’t belong, they know that someone probably is stuck in the room above. This could work for adults, too, and I thought it was valuable information to pass along! — Shawna in San Antonio Very, very good advice, and some that I hope my readers will remember, and teach young ones! Grandparents, are you listening? — Heloise Double duty Dear Readers: I have many potted and hanging plants. Whenever I go around and water my plants, I put a plastic bag over my arm and carry scissors with me. When I see dead leaves or something that needs to be trimmed, I use the scissors to snip, and into the bag it goes. That way, I don’t have to make another trip just for that. — Heloise

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2014 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

DEAR ABBY: I am sick to death of hearing about people who have too many kids and the hardship it imposes. Common sense for the women is to use birth control, but why don’t men step up to the plate and have a vasectomy? I had one years ago and it has worked well for me. I never hear it mentioned on talk shows or read it in any advice columns, including yours. Men of America, wake up! — JOSEPH IN LAS VEGAS DEAR JOSEPH: I’m sure the word “vasectomy” has been used in previous Dear Abby columns, but I’m glad to remind my male readers. While I have never taken a poll on this subject, I’ll hazard a guess or two about why men are reluctant to have them: One, they equate it with castration; two, they think at some point they might change their mind or their partner; and three, they’re afraid it will be painful. Drumroll: For any men out there who are worried that some tragedy might wipe out your family and you will have to start over, sperm can be banked for up to 20 years and used should the need arise. P.S. There are also more options open to women than the pill. These include IUDs and, if they’re

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Did you know? Removing Those Pesky Pet Odors

More and more, pets are becoming indispensable members of the family. Because they provide unconditional love and a constant buddy to pal around with, pets enjoy a popularity in families that’s simply unmatched. That popularity, however, can be tempered by some of the less disagreeable things a pet can bring to the relationship. Perhaps the least desirable trait some pets carry with them is odor. While these odors may become less noticeable the longer you live with your pet, that doesn’t make them any less apparent to guests, who often pick up on the odors immediately. Fortunately, answering the following questions can help reduce pet odor. • What’s the cause? Why your pet suddenly smells can be the result of many things, and finding out the cause is the first step to eradicating the problem. If you have a backyard where your pet frequently plays, watch him as he plays. He could be rolling around in areas that are contributing to his body odor. Matting of fur can also lock in dirt and odor. Also, make sure you keep his outdoor play areas clean and well-groomed. For example, don’t allow fecal matter to pile up in the backyard, as the chances of your pet rolling around in it are great if you do. If the cause isn’t something outdoors, it must be something internal, be it inside your house or apartment or inside your pet, such as a virus or health condition. Be sure to clean your pet’s resting area often, and bathe your pet regularly, especially in warmer months. Also, be sure in summertime to leave windows

open when you’re not at home during the day to allow fresh air in. If you suspect the odor is resulting from a physical condition your pet is experiencing, schedule a visit to the veterinarian as soon as possible. • Are you doing your part? Even if your pet is house trained, he might become sick and urinate or defecate or even vomit indoors as a result. How you clean these accidents can have a long-lasting affect. If your home is carpeted, accidents need to be thoroughly cleaned immediately. Liquids can be effectively removed from the carpet by placing a handful of paper towels on the spot, then standing on it. By doing so, the liquids are being displaced from the carpet and onto the paper towels. Once you’ve removed as much liquid as possible, apply carpet cleaner or deodorizer to remove any lingering odors. Be careful, however, that what you use is not harmful to your pet. • Is your pet learning anything? If your pet keeps witnessing you cleaning up after him yet continues soiling the house, chances are he needs behavior training. If that’s the case, ask your veterinarian for a recommendation. Some behaviorists might specialize in treating only certain behaviors. On the other hand, if your pet is fully aware that soiling the carpet is wrong, it could be a sign of something greater, such as a urinary tract infection. Again, consult your veterinarian and decide the best course of action.

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Make The Right House Call.

When choosing a doctor you feel safest knowing he has been approved to practice medicine by a medical association within his region. When you begin searching for a new home you want to minimize as many liabilities as possible. Use a professional agent who is a REALTOR®. You have the assurance of being taken care of by a professional who is trained to help you make the best decisions in every phase of the home buying and selling process. So don’t take a chance and operate for yourself, look for local REALTORS® and let them stitch it all together for you.

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Whether you need more or less space to fit your familyâ€™s current needs, with todayâ€™s low interest rates, competitive prices and great selection of homes on the market, now is a great time to buy a home.

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There’s a reason homeownership is the foundation of the American Dream. Over time, owning your home has proved to be a good decision. And while lately the economy has presented some challenges, it has also helped us focus on what matters most. It’s reminded us that home is where we make memories, build our future and feel comfortable and secure. When you’re ready, a REALTOR®, a member of the National Association of REALTORS®, can help you find the home that’s right for you. REALTORS® are prepared—to answer your questions, show you options and guide you home.

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