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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 125

Question Do you agree with the University of Alaska Regents’ decision to raise tuition? n Yes, it’s appropriate given the anticipated budget shortfall. n No, it’s not fair to students.

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Former nominee under investigation Maw faces residency questions By DJ SUMMERS Morris News Service-Alaska/ Alaska Journal of Commerce

Gov. Bill Walker’s shakeup of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is off to a rough start. Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is currently investigating Roland Maw — nominated by Walker to a seat on the board to replace former chair Karl John-

In this July 21, 2013 file photo former Board of Fisheries nominee Roland Maw takes notes during a hearing. Maw withdrew his name from consideration and is now facing an investigation into his residency status in Alaska.

stone — over holding resident licenses in Montana while drawing the benefits of Alaska residency, including Alaska Permanent Fund dividends and resident fish and game licenses. Alaska Department of Fish and Game communications coordinator Candice Bressler on Tuesday said the department will provide Alaska State Troopers with certified copies of Maw’s Alaska licensure.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/ Peninsula Clarion

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K-Beach task force making progress

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In the news Fairbanks lawmaker proposes making July Alaska Peony Month

JUNEAU (AP) — A Fairbanks representative has proposed designating July 2015 as Alaska Peony Month. HCR 6, from Democratic Rep. David Guttenberg, would proclaim this coming July as Alaska Peony Month to increase awareness of Alaska’s peony industry and mark the achievements of those who work in Alaska’s peony industry. The resolution states that researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks began to study peony cultivation in Interior Alaska in 2001 and that in the last 11 years, Alaska has seen significant growth in the industry.

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In this May 17, 2014 file photo Ted Nichols, 12, and his father John Nichols, of Chugiak, dig for razor clams at Whiskey Gulch. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the beaches on the east side of the Cook Inlet to clamming after data indicated a nearly 80 percent drop in the average number of clams in the population.

Beaches closed to clamming Fish and Game cites drop in razor clam population numbers By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula’s east side razor clam population has crashed, according to Fish and Game abundance data. The Sport Fish Division of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday announced that the Cook Inlet’s east shore will be closed to clamming during 2015. The closure will apply to all beaches between the mouth of

the Kenai River and the southern end of Homer Spit. A Fish and Game news release announcing the closure cited Fish and Game’s 2014 abundance studies, which found that average razor clam numbers were 80 percent lower than averages recorded between 1990 and 2012 at Ninilchik’s South Beach, and 94 percent lower than averages recorded between 1998 and 2008 at Clam Gulch.

“Any razor clam harvest in 2015 will likely delay recovery of the Eastside Cook Inlet razor clam populations,” said Carol Kerkvliet, Fish and Game Area Management Biologist in Homer. Previously, Fish and Game decreased the clam bag limit from 60 to 25 on all east-side Cook Inlet beaches in 2013 and 2014, and in 2014 closed clamming on a portion of Ninilchik beach. Fish and Game officials do

not know the cause of the declining clam population, but in the news release said it may be due to “poor spawning and/or settling success.” A new abundance study will take place on Ninilchik Beach in April and May 2015, and samples will be taken from other east side beaches between May and August. Reach Ben Boettger at ben. boettger@peninsulaclarion. com.

The K-Beach High-Water Drainage Task Force is targeting five streets in Kalifornsky Beach subdivisions affected by surface-water flooding as potential culvert construction sites. Buoy Avenue, Patrick Drive, Lori Jo Street and Scott Avenue, Dana Bayes Street, Mistral Street and Farr Street were identified and approved during the task force’s fourth meeting Monday. Task Force co-chair Jim Munter, a retired state hydrologist, said the project is a significant step for addressing the flooding. Each installed culvert is one small step to remedy a much larger issue, he said. “There is a persistent pattern of culverts not being put in,” Munter said. “It is frankly devastating for people.” The Local/Small Scale Subcommittee, one of two subcommittees formed under the task force’s organizational umbrella, will be responsible for managing the study and analysis of the sites, Munter said. If approved, they will likely require approval through the Kenai Peninsula Borough, he said. Attendees decided to attend Tuesday’s assembly meeting to speak as a group about the issue during the section for public comment. Assembly member Kelly Wolf was in attendance See FLOOD, page A-12

Trial for former Nikiski Revenue commissioner talks music teacher delayed By RASHAH MCCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

A former Nikiski teacher accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting one of his students has had his trial pushed back to mid-August due to his lawyer’s busy schedule and a pending request for more information about the victim. During a Tuesday omnibus hearing, assistant public advocate DinaMarie Cale told Kenai Superior Court Judge Carl Bauman that she couldn’t see the case going to trial before the “end of summer.” Former Nikiski Middle-High School music teacher Jeremy Anderson faces 16 counts of sexual abuse in varying degrees. The charges include allegations of more than a dozen sexual en-

counters over a 6-month period in 2013 and 2014. Anderson was charged after a May 8 phone call to Alaska State Troopers regarding a suicidal male and allegations that Anderson had been sexually assaulting a female student. Cale said she had several high-profile cases to argue over the summer, including a murder trial and another sexual assault of a minor case involving a Sterling woman. The victim’s mother was visibly upset when Cale, who appeared telephonically, asked for the trial to be pushed back by several months. “My issue is, we want closure. We would like to see this trial happen, it has already been over seven months,” she See TRIAL, page A-12

about gas pipeline project

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker plans to continue to push the major liquefied natural gas project that Alaska has been pursuing with oil and gas and pipeline companies, Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck told legislators Tuesday. Hoffbeck said that while an alternate gas project recently proposed by Walker would be a competing project, it lags behind the other project in terms of development and essentially would act as a backup as long as the major project, known as Alaska LNG, continues to move forC

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ward. The comments came during Hoffbeck’s confirmation hearing before the House Finance Committee, in which lawmakers sought clarity on Walker’s gas line plans. Walker caused a stir with an opinion piece last week in which he called for increasing the size of a smaller, in-state gas project to give the state another option as it pursues Alaska LNG with BP, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp., TransCanada Corp. and the

Alaska Gasline Development Corp. Whichever project is first to produce a “solid plan,” with conditions acceptable to the state, will get the state’s full support, Walker wrote in the piece, which was posted on several newspaper websites. He also noted the two projects also might be combined at some point. Some lawmakers worried Walker’s proposal would create an atmosphere of uncertainty over efforts to bring Alaska’s gas to market. A major gas project is seen by many as this oil-dependent state’s next best shot for significant revenues as oil See GAS, page A-12

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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Daylight Length of Day - 10 hrs., 2 min., 15 sec. Daylight gained - 5 min., 34 sec.

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Kenai/ Soldotna 37/12 Seward 38/22 Homer 40/24

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From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.38" Normal month to date ............. 0.77" Year to date .............................. 0.87" Normal year to date .................. 1.73" Record today ................. 0.76" (1996) Record for Feb. ............. 2.80" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date .............................. 1.2" Season to date ......................... 15.6"

Valdez Kenai/ 40/20 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 35/22

Juneau 42/33

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Kodiak 42/29

Sitka 43/36

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Drenching rain and snow will expand over the South today. As arctic air expands over the Midwest and aims toward the Northeast, snow will reach from Montana to Iowa. Much of the West will be dry and sunny.

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Who to call at the Peninsula Clarion News tip? Question? Main number.............................................................................................. 283-7551 Fax............................................................................................................. 283-3299 News email...................................................................news@peninsulaclarion.com General news Will Morrow, editor ............................................ will.morrow@peninsulaclarion.com Rashah McChesney, city editor.............. rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Jeff Helminiak, sports editor........................... jeff.helminiak@peninsulaclarion.com Fisheries, photographer.............................................................................................. ............................ Rashah McChesney, rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Education, Borough ................. Kelly Sullivan, kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com Kenai......................................... Ben Boettger, ben.boettger@peninsulaclarion.com Soldotna................................................. Ian Foley, ian.foley@peninsulaclarion.com Arts and Entertainment................................................ news@peninsulaclarion.com Community, Around the Peninsula............................... news@peninsulaclarion.com Sports............................................ Joey Klecka, joey.klecka@peninsulaclarion.com Page design........ Florence Struempler, florence.struempler@peninsulaclarion.com

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High ............................................... 38 Low ................................................ 21 Normal high .................................. 31 Normal low .................................... 12 Record high ........................ 47 (1963) Record low ....................... -27 (1971)

Anchorage 32/19

Bethel 28/21

Cold Bay 38/27

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Talkeetna 37/13 Glennallen 29/3

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Nome 29/27

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Today’s activity: Low Where: Auroral activity will be low. Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau.

Prudhoe Bay 19/11

Anaktuvuk Pass 12/5

Kotzebue 29/22

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Man convicted in ‘American Sniper’ deaths By JOHN L. MONE and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

STEPHENVILLE, Texas — A former Marine was convicted Tuesday in the deaths of the “American Sniper” author and another man at a shooting range two years ago, as jurors rejected defense arguments that he was insane and suffered from psychosis. The trial of Eddie Ray Routh has drawn intense interest, in part because of the blockbuster film based on former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s memoir about his four tours in Iraq. Since prosecutors didn’t seek the death penalty in the capital murder case, the 27-yearold receives an automatic life sentence without parole in

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the deaths of Kyle and Kyle’s friend, Chad Littlefield. Routh showed no reaction in court, even when family members of Littlefield addressed him. “We’re so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight,” Littlefield’s mother, Judy Littlefield, said at a news conference outside the courthouse.

Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, had left the courtroom earlier in the day and had not returned when the verdict was read. Prosecutors and defense attorneys did not immediately comment. The prosecution painted Routh as a troubled drug user who knew right from wrong, despite any mental illnesses. While trial testimony and evi-

dence often included Routh making odd statements and referring to insanity, he also confessed several times, apologized for the crimes and tried to evade police. Criminal law experts said the verdict hinged on whether the defense could prove Routh was insane and did not know the killings were wrong at the time they were committed.

Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Obituary Earnest W. ‘Bill’ Wilkes

Kenai Central classes of the 1970s reunite

Sterling resident Earnest W. “Bill” Wilkes, 61, passed away Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 at his home. A celebration of his life will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Sterling Senior Center. Bill was born Jan. 14, 1954 in Hermiston, Ore. He grew up in the Hermiston area and moved with his family to Alaska in 1968. He had resided in Fairbanks and Anchorage before moving to Sterling. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and most things outdoors. He taught most of his nieces and nephews to fish and they admired him for that. He was admired by his family for his loving and caring spirit. Bill is survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Elaine and John Huessy of Oregon City, Oregon, and Alice and Deryl Beckel of Soldotna; and numerous nieces and nephews. Flowers may be sent to the Sterling Senior Center. Arrangements were by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

A mass reunion for Kenai Central High School classes of the 1970s will take place Aug. 1-2 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. The Aug. 1 activities are from 5-11:30 p.m. and include a no-host bar, finger foods and a band. On Aug. 2, a barbecue is planned starting at 11:30 a.m. at the back portion of the arena or inside in the event of inclement weather. Advance registration for the event is $25, or $26 through Paypal. The cost will be $30 at the door. The deadline to pay in advance is June 1. Volunteers are needed for check-in and for the barbecue. Organizers are also looking for help locating classmates. Send organizers the name you went by in high school, and the year you did or would have graduated. Members of the classes of the early 1980s interested in attending also are welcome. For more information, contact Sherrie Dahlen at sad@ alaska.net, or Anna Carlson at 907-469-0490 or annasherpa@ gmail.com.

Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: 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. We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: 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: The Clarion charges a fee to publish obituaries. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. Obituaries up to 300 words are charged $50, which includes a one-year online guest book memoriam to on Legacy.com. Obituaries up to 500 words are charged $100, which also includes the one-year online guest book memoriam. Tax is not included. All charges include publication of a black and white photo. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. How to submit: Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. Pre-payment must accompany all submissions not already handled by a funeral home or crematorium. Deadlines: Submissions for Tuesday – Friday editions must be received by 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. Copyright: All death notices and obituaries become property of the Clarion and may not be republished in any format. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

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day and Friday from 7:15-8:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints located on Marydale Ave. in Soldotna (next to the hospital). Includes aerobics and strength training. For more details, call Sally at 262-6637.

LeeShore schedules monthly board meeting The LeeShore Center will hold its February Board Meeting on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. This meeting will be held in the large conference room at The LeeShore Center and is open to the public. For more information call 283-9479.

Micciche to provide legislative update Please join Sen. Peter Micciche at a Town Hall meeting March 6 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers in Soldotna. Pizza and drinks will be available. Sen. Micciche will provide a mid-session legislative update and will welcome suggestions from constituents.

Diabetes support group to meet

On March 2, a type one diabetes support group will by held at Soldotna Hospital in the Denali room from 5-6 p.m. for type one diabetics of all ages and their friends or family. Women’s exercise group forming For more information, contact Mariah Prosterman at mariah. Early morning exercise for women each Monday, Wednes- prosterman@g.kpbsd.org.

5:30 p.m. • Weight loss and health support group, Christ Lutheran Church. Call 362-1340. 7 p.m. Today • Card games, Funny River Community Center. 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Clean Machine” at Central Peninsula Hospital’s Redoubt Room, 250 Hospital Place, SolHighway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. dotna. Call 907-335-9456. 10:30 a.m. • Bouncing Babies Storytime at the Soldotna Public Library. Call • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, 12X12 study meeting, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 262-4227. 8 p.m. 11 a.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the • Redoubt Homemakers at Nikiski Fire Station No. 1. Borealis Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. • Wee Read at the Kenai Community Library. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. • TOPS group AK 222 Soldotna meets at Christ Lutheran Church, name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com. 128 Soldotna Ave. Call 260-1662.

Community Calendar

LIO Schedule Wednesday 1:00 p.m. The House Judiciary Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 79 Marijuana Regulation; Controlled Substance; Crimes; Defenses. Testimony by invitation only. Thursday The House Special Committee on Fisheries public hearing to discuss HB 103 Boards of Fish / Game Regulation Authority has been postponed. Thursday 3:00 p.m. The House Health & Social Services Committee will

sponsor a public hearing for a Presentation: Division of Public Assistance - Director Ron Kreher & Other Invited Guests and to discuss HB 59 Marijuana Concentrates. Testimony will be taken on HB 59. Friday 1:00 p.m. The House Judiciary Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HJR 15 Honor Ted Stevens; Discipline Prosecutors and HB 79 Marijuana Regulation; Controlled Substance; Crimes; Defenses. Testimony will be taken.

Friday 3:15 p.m. The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 32 Workers Comp: Controlled Substances Tests and HB 116 Extend Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. 3 minute testimony limit. All teleconferences are

held at the Kenai Legislative Information Office, 145 Main Street Loop No. 217, Kenai, unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov. To watch online go to http:// alaskalegislature.tv/.

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Safer energy transportation should be a priority America, and the world for that matter, uses lots of energy. The energy source used more than any other in the United State is oil - at 36 percent of the energy consumed in this country. In the American energy portfolio, natural gas is next at 27 percent, coal at 19 percent, renewable energy at 10 percent, and nuclear at 8 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The oil is produced — pulled from underground rock and reservoirs — wherever those reserves are. Before being used, oil must be refined. To get from production area to refinery, obviously, it must be transported. In the United States, 70 percent of crude oil is shipped by pipeline, the safest and most efficient of all methods of oil transportation. Twenty-three percent is shipped on tankers and barges over water, while 4 percent is trucked, and only 3 percent, amazingly, is shipped by rail, according to James Conca writing in an April 2014 Forbes column. Each method of transportation has its own unique problems and benefits. None is without risk. Amid a North American energy boom and a lack of pipeline capacity, Conca reported, oil shipping by rail has sharply increased. “The trains are getting bigger and towing more and more tanker cars,” Conca wrote. “From 1975 to 2012, trains were shorter and spills were rare and small, with about half of those years having no spills above a few gallons. Then came 2013, in which more crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents than was spilled in the previous 37 years.” With Monday’s train derailment, Montgomery, W.Va., now joins the list of places — Lac Megantic, Quebec; Lynchburg Virginia; Pickens County, Ala.; among others — that have seen dramatic and dangerous oil tanker fires involving the volatile Bakken crude. Considering the increase in oil transport, the CSX Corp. and other railroads need to do a much better job — obviously — on safety. Shorter trains, upgraded tank cars, lower speeds, and better track maintenance are among improvements railroads can and should make even before greater pressure from regulators and lawmakers begin. In the bigger picture, however, the nation needs to develop a long-term, cohesive and realistic national energy strategy — something that has been talked about since the 1973 energy crisis but never fully developed. That strategy needs to encourage rapid development of an integrated network of modern, safe and more efficient underground pipelines to carry the energy we rely on. — Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail, Feb. 18

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

Rudy’s love hatefulness

I think we’ve missed one possible explanation for Rudy Giuliani’s behavior: Maybe he’s concealing the fact that he suffered a blow to the head severe enough to cause lasting damage to his prefrontal cortex. For those who haven’t done a Web search as I have, so I can now pretend to know what I’m talking about, the prefrontal cortex is the high-function part of the brain that controls, among many things, the ability to inhibit impulses, allowing us to regulate what we say and do. Actually, chances are that it’s not that at all, that Giuliani is continuing his very calculated effort to stay relevant by appealing to the ugliest emotions of the Republican Party’s base. You decide what caused him to say what he did at a New York dinner: “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.” So he knows it was a horrible thing to say but he said it anyway. So that eliminates the insanity defense. And he’s not backing down. And why should he? The extremists actually aren’t all that extreme in today’s GOP. The party has encouraged the birther notion, which is to say that Barack Obama wasn’t even born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president. The accusation persists despite having been disproven every which way but Sunday. The demagogues continue to peddle that idea, along with the poisonous claim that the president is not the

Christian he claims to be, but is actually a closet Islamist. All of this revolves around the outrage by many conservatives that Obama got elected chief executive in the first place — oh, and in the second Bob Franken place, four years later. Still, they simply cannot accept the idea that the country’s leader — whose middle name is “Hussein” and doesn’t look like most of them (and you know what that means) — is really “one of us.” So let’s dismiss this as simply Rudy being Rudy, but what’s galling about it is that the administration wimpily found it necessary to respond. No, I’m not talking about press secretary Josh Earnest telling reporters, “I feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani today.” That would be appropriately dismissive. It was President Obama who made it a point to tell the Democratic National Committee that the party agenda is “about making this nation we love more perfect.” The White House will claim that POTUS often talks about how he “loves” America. But clearly, he or his handlers needed to make sure he said it while Giuliani’s invective was bouncing around the political darkness. Certainly we have to wonder why the

Rudy Giuliani comments get any circulation whatsoever. We can attribute that to the simple-minded, incendiary sound bite nature of policy debate this days. Frankly, that’s on us in journalism. What we have spawned is a society that is almost incapable of comprehending nuance and complexity. So we come up with terms like “American exceptionalism” and the mindless argument that if someone doesn’t believe that the United States is inherently superior in every way, he or she is unpatriotic. It’s a descendant of “America: Love it or Leave It.” Critics of the U.S. of A. can just ship out. Never mind that we trail the developed world in a number of essential metrics that measure education and medical care, and never mind that our missteps have made bullying the planet’s other countries no longer possible. So when President Obama tries to be evenhanded, he is fair game for the demagogues who exploit the desire for a return to the America that was, although that was largely a fiction, too. And that’s what Rudy Giuliani is: a demagogue whose hateful rants are amplified by media who thrive on hateful rants. Shame on him. Shame on us for paying attention. We should have our heads examined. Bob Franken is a longtime broadcast journalist, including 20 years at CNN.

Pulling together to strengthen family, community Fortifying Alaska’s families and building community are priorities of mine as I serve with great honor and deep gratitude as Alaska’s First Lady. As the honorary chair of the Alaska Children’s Trust, I am thankful for the important work being done by this and other organizations to prevent child abuse and neglect. Toni Mallott and I recently cochaired a fundraising event that generated over $50,000 in donations to support the Trust’s efforts to combat this crisis. As a result of the generous ticket purchases and sponsorships of the statewide inaugural balls, we are also making contributions to emergency shelters and other deserving non-profits. Other opportunities to host private fundraising drives for organizations experiencing diminished public funding are in the works. It is assuring to see individuals and businesses step up to help carry the financial load we all are shouldering in these challenging financial times. It is not only with our treasure that I encourage Alaskans to pull together to help fill the resources gap, but also with our time and talents. Since the First Lady Volunteer Awards were founded by Bella Hammond a quarter century ago, hundreds of Alaskans have been honored for their volunteerism which is the backbone of our communities. In fact, the very first time I met Mrs. Hammond was in 1978 when she came to Valdez to present one of these awards. I am proud to continue this tradition of thanking Alaska’s volunteer army and recognizing a few extraordinary individuals who give their all. I invite you to participate by going to volunteerawards.alaska. gov and nominating someone in your community who demonstrates a personal commitment to long-term volunteer service, and who has had a significant impact on the lives of Alaskans. The nomination period ends March 2nd. Awardees are chosen C

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A laska D onna Walker by a committee of Alaskans and will be honored at a luncheon and ceremony at the Governor’s House in May. To support and encourage our volunteers, I look forward to serving alongside them year round as I travel the state. Won’t you join me in the soup lines, shelters, hospitals and senior centers as we offer a hand up and encouraging word? Or consider being a role model as a coach, classroom aide, church nursery worker or take an elderly neighbor a meal or carry their trash can down the slippery driveway. Just think what a difference we could make if every Alaskan volunteered just one hour a week! And when I think about strengthening our communities, the Bridge Builders organization always comes to mind. Established in 1996, this grassroots, award winning program helps to build “a community of friends” among all racial and cultural groups in Anchorage. As we build on the Walker/Mallott administration’s “unity” theme, another of my goals in my service to Alaskans is to take the proven success of Bridge Builders statewide in order to strengthen the unity in community. We will start in Juneau this month as a number of community and cultural leaders meet with me and Bridge Builders’ board members to develop a strategy for strengthening the Juneau community while celebrating the many things that make us unique, yet uniquely Alaskan. Over Fur Rondy weekend, on Saturday, February 28, from 11 to 4 pm, Bridge

Builders of Anchorage will welcome everyone to the Anchorage Museum for the 9th year of “MEET THE WORLD IN ANCHORAGE.” It is an excellent example of a gathering that may be adapted to celebrate the diverse spectrum of families in most Alaskan cities. Approximately 40 different cultural heritages will host informational tables and over twenty music and dance groups will make this a joyous and welcoming time. I will have a table too and have invited every mayor in Alaska to attend and stop by my table. I extend that invitation to everyone. We can assist you in connecting with the cultural groups in Anchorage who have interested friends and relatives in your community. Part of all of our assignment is to craft ways we can improve life in Alaska – even as we downsize budgets. A large element we can impact is how Alaskans of all cultural backgrounds work together to make this a better state for ourselves and our children. Donna Walker is married to Governor Bill Walker. She is a mother, grandmother, attorney and businesswoman who has served in many community, school and church volunteer roles.

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Lost crab pots still catching king crab

KODIAK (AP) — Derelict crab pots lost on the bottom of a Kodiak Island bay are capturing significant numbers of its king crab, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Abandoned pots, the traps used by fishermen to catch crab, could be killing 16 to 37 percent of the red king crab with shells longer than 40 millimeters in Womens Bay, they concluded in a study. Biologists Peter Cummiskey and Eric Munk and analyst Chris Long studied movements of 192 king crabs between 1991 and 2008. They attached acoustic tags and tracked them with hydrophones, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported. When crabs stopped moving, Cummiskey and Munk would dive to find them. They found 32 crabs caught in “ghost” pots, Long told a meeting of the Kodiak/Aleutians Subsistence Regional Advisory Council. Twelve were dead and 20 released alive by the divers. The divers found 162 pots during the study and cut or wedged them open so they could not continue catching crab, Long said. Extrapolating the number to determine the total number of pots abandoned would be difficult, Long said, but, “Womens Bay is not very big, and that’s a lot of pots.” Pots likely were lost when lines were cut by boat propellers, commercial barge towing bridals or ice, the researchers concluded. They also could be lost if floats tied to the pots sank. Crabs are drawn to pots even when bait is gone, Cummiskey said by email. Pots are supposed to be equipped with “biodegradable escape mechanisms” that rots quickly and give a king crab a path out of lost pot. Escape rings allowing undersized crabs to escape are required. Of the pots found by divers, 62 percent did not have biodegradable release mechanisms and many lacked rings.

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The Montana department has not contacted Fish and Game, but has confirmed it is cooperating with the Alaska State Troopers. Alaska State Trooper information officer Megan Peters said the department cannot confirm the subject of an ongoing investigation until charges are filed. Alaska law prohibits anyone from collecting a PFD if they are also drawing residency benefits in another state. When asked for records of Maw’s licensing history, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks assistant chief of enforcement Mike Korn said he could not provide any information, as the former executive director of the United Cook Inlet Drift Association is currently the principle in an investigation by that body. According to public records, Maw has applied for an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, or PFD, every year since 2002. The state can release applicants’ names but is prohibited from releasing whether an applicant received a dividend. Between 1996 and 2003, Maw purchased resident class fishing, hunting, or combination licenses from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In 2003, he qualified for and purchased a Permanent Identification Card, which is issued to Alaska senior residents for free hunting, fishing, and trapping. The card is void if the holder receives any benefits from another state, including resident licenses, voting rights, or tax breaks. Walker said at a press conference on Feb. 24 that he has not yet had time to speak to Maw about the investigation, as he has been in Washington, D.C. Like Alaska and Montana law enforcement, the governor says he cannot comment on an ongoing investigation. Walker will now have two vacant Board of Fisheries seats to fill as Orville Huntington’s term is also expiring. “I’ve seen what the media has written on it,” said Walker. “I haven’t really had any contact with him. Because it’s an investigation I don’t really weigh in. I don’t think it would be appropriate.” Walker named Maw to the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Jan. 20, replacing Chairman Karl Johnstone, who resigned

when Walker told him he wouldn’t be reappointed following public and gubernatorial scrutiny of the board’s actions at the Fish and Game commissioner nominee selection meeting on Jan. 14. Maw had unexpectedly withdrawn his name from consideration for the board on Feb. 20 following scrutiny from the media and legislature, despite favorable public support and desirable credentials for Walker’s desired scientific fisheries management. Maw’s resignation came just before his confirmation hearing’s conclusion. On Friday morning, the day his Senate confirmation hearing was scheduled to resume and aspects of his former employment brought before the Ethics Committee, Maw had a quiet conversation with someone in the governor’s office, according to Board and Commissions director Karen Gillis. By the end of the conversation, Maw tendered a letter of withdrawal from confirmation consideration. The letter gave no reason for the withdrawal. Maw accepted a call from the Journal on Feb. 20 confirming his withdrawal but declined to comment as to why he had withdrawn. Gillis said she can’t remember an appointee having ever withdrawn his name from consideration, much less on such a tight timeline and with the broad public support Maw had in his favor. The office received more than 25 letters of support for Maw, and the public commentary at his confirmation hearing with the Senate Resource Committee was largely positive. “The circumstance is unusual,” said Gillis. “We went into Friday (Feb. 20) thinking that things were going quite well (for Maw). He could’ve wrapped up his hearing on Monday (Feb. 23). He had a tremendous amount of support.” Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, chaired Maw’s confirmation hearing with the Senate Resources Committee. She says the Montana investigation explains why Maw would drop from consideration, which seemed strange considering his public support. “I can certainly see how that (investigation) would be the reason he withdrew his name,” said Giessel in a phone interview. “Before that, I had no idea why. I would say that out of 50 emails I received about (Maw), all but five were positive and expressed support.”

Some in the legislature said the votes in Juneau didn’t mirror the positivity the public expressed for Maw, and that the governor’s nomination was doomed from the beginning considering Maw’s commercial fishing past. Sen. Bill Wielechowski, DAnchorage, said the legislature, many of whom have heavy dipnetting and sportfishing constituencies, were nervous about altering the Board of Fisheries’ balance, which would have given commercial representatives a majority of the sevenmember board had Maw been confirmed. “I think Roland did the right thing by stepping down,” Wielechowski said. “I heard people say he would have been lucky to get 10 or 15 of the necessary 31 votes to confirm him.” Maw’s residency issues are not uncommon in Alaska politics. In 2012, Sitka fishing guide Tom Ohaus was charged with illegally obtaining state fishing licenses due to accepting Massachusetts residency tax exemption benefits. He had been vying for the Alaska resident position on the International Pacific Halibut Commission. The Alaska Democratic Party scoured tax breaks Sen. Dan Sullivan received for his Maryland home during the 2014 elections. Johnstone himself faced scrutiny over his residency, as he spends much of his time in Prescott, Ariz., while serving on the Alaska Board of Fisheries from 2009-15. Prior to the investigation being revealed, Maw’s critics had already leveled several charges they felt disqualified him from serving on the board. His past commercial fishing advocacy while employed with the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, a small violation while a commercial fisherman, residency issues, and a book he contributed to while working in Canada were all brought up as ammunition by members of the legislature and Alaska media. “You have been a very tenacious supporter of the Cook Inlet fish world, especially the commercial world,” said Alaska Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, to Maw at the opening of the hearing. “It seems to me that there are folks on the northern end who think ‘we’ll never be able to get this guy to think our way.’” Questions came from Wielechowski and Stoltze, both of whom echoed Cog-

hill’s concern over commercial interests. Wielechowski grilled Maw over two UCIDA 2011 Board of Fisheries proposals that would have limited Kenai and Kasilof river dipnetting and reduced the number of personal use Upper Cook Inlet sockeye from 25 per head of household to 10, maintaining the 10 for each additional household member. Maw has tried to neutralize his UCIDA connections by denying he had a working role in the commercial group’s proposals and lawsuit. Maw responded with his mantra of “science first,” and replied that he had never been on the board of directors for the United Cook Inlet Drift Association and had no say in what kind of proposals or lawsuits it submitted, a position he would repeat throughout the hearing that Wielechowski later characterized as less than believable. “I think it was pretty obvious to people that he was the executive director (of UCIDA),” said Wielechowski. “He was involved with their lawsuits and with their proposals.” Sen. Bill Stoltze, R-Chugiak, questioned Maw over the UCIDA-filed lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2013 that alleged mismanagement of the Cook Inlet salmon fishery. Maw’s involvement with the lawsuit was to be heard before the Department of Law and Ethics Committee on Feb. 20, the same day as his confirmation continuation. Maw says the suit has been mischaracterized as UCIDA asking for more federal oversight when in fact UCIDA was only suing to bring state management up to the existing fishery management plans in place under the national guidelines of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The act was first passed in 1976 and governs all federal fisheries in the U.S.

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“My understanding is that UCIDA was asking the federal government to help with managing some of the issues in the Cook Inlet,” Maw told the committee in response to a question from Stoltze. Maw said the commercial organization was asking for assistance from the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and that any perceived antagonism between the drift association and the state board did not reflect his personal agenda. Maw said his name was only attached to it by virtue of his employment at UCIDA. “I, Dr. Roland Maw, hereby declare as follows,” the lawsuit reads. “I am over 18 years of age and not a party to this action.” Maw also faced scrutiny in the media. Alaska Dispatch News columnist Craig Medred published an article on Feb. 4 alleging that Maw lied about discovering a new species of fish, bull trout. Maw categorically denied the charges of academic dishonesty and claims Medred’s column amounted to a personal attack. Maw claims he never claimed to have discovered bull trout and merely published that it was previously unrecognized as separate from Dolly Varden trout at the time in that part of Canada. Maw wrote a response to Medred’s column, but the Alaska Dispatch News did not publish it. “I believe his attack on my integrity was malicious, and primarily intended to advance his personal campaign to discredit members of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry,” wrote Maw to the Senate Resources Committee. DJ Summers can be reached at daniel.summers@alaskajournal.com.

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Nation

Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency. Obama offered no indication of whether he’ll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change. Instead, Obama sought to reassert his authority to make the decision himself, rebuffing GOP lawmakers who will control both the House and Senate for the remainder of the president’s term. “The presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously,” Obama said in a brief notice delivered to the Senate. “But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people.” Obama vetoed the bill in private with no fanfare, in contrast to the televised ceremony

Republican leaders staged earlier this month when they signed the bill and sent it to the president. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans were “not even close” to giving up the fight and derided the veto as a “national embarrassment.” The move sends the politically charged issue back to Congress, where Republicans haven’t shown they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers needed to override Obama’s veto. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, the bill’s chief GOP sponsor, said Republicans are about four votes short in the Senate and need about 11 more in the House. Although the veto is Obama’s first since Republicans took control on Capitol Hill, it was not likely to be the last. GOP lawmakers are lining up legislation rolling back Obama’s actions on health care, immigration and financial regulation that Obama has promised to similarly reject. “He’s looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don’t have the

‘He’s looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don’t have the votes to override. If he vetoed this, he’s going to veto many others that are out there.’ — Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma votes to override,” Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama’s climate change agenda, said in an interview. “If he vetoed this, he’s going to veto many others that are out there.” First proposed more than six years ago, the Keystone XL pipeline project has sat in limbo ever since, awaiting a permit required by the federal government because it would cross an international boundary. The pipeline would connect Canada’s tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil. Republicans and the energy industry say the $8 billion project would create jobs, spur

growth and increase America’s independence from Mideast energy sources. Democrats and environmental groups have sought to make the pipeline a poster child for the type of dirty energy sources they say are exacerbating global warming. For his part, Obama says his administration is still weighing the pipeline’s merits, and he has repeatedly threatened to veto any attempts by lawmakers to make the decision for him. Environmental groups said they were confident Obama’s veto was a prelude to a full rejection of the pipeline. But TransCanada, the company proposing the pipeline, said it “remains fully committed” to building. And the Canadian

government said it was not a matter of if, but when. The GOP-controlled House passed the bill earlier in February on a 270-152 vote, following weeks of debate and tweaks in the Senate to insert language stating that climate change is real and not a hoax. Republican leaders in Congress delayed sending the bill to the White House until they returned from a weeklong recess, ensuring they would be on hand to denounce the president when he vetoed the bill. The veto forced Republicans, still reveling in their dramatic gains in the midterm elections, to confront the limitations of being unable to turn their ideas into law without the president’s consent — despite the fact they now control both chambers of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate would start the process to try to override Obama’s veto by March 3. Republicans were also considering inserting Keystone into other critical legislation dealing with energy, spending or infrastructure that

Obama would be less likely to veto, said Hoeven. Obama last wielded his veto power in October 2010, nixing a relatively mundane bill dealing with recognition of documents notarized out of state. With the Keystone bill, Obama’s veto count stands at just three — far fewer than most of his predecessors. Yet his veto threats have been piling up rapidly since Republicans took full control of Congress, numbering more than a dozen so far this year. The president has said he won’t approve Keystone if it’s found to significantly increase U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. A State Department analysis found that the tar sands would be developed one way or another, meaning construction of the pipeline wouldn’t necessarily affect emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month called for that analysis to be revisited, arguing that a drop in oil prices may have altered the equation.

Chicago deciding Mayor Emanuel’s re-election fate By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel hoped to avoid being forced into a runoff Tuesday as voters weighed his record on schools, crime and jobs in deciding whether to award the former White House chief of staff a second term. Emanuel was poised to get the most votes after having raised millions of dollars, plastering the airwaves with ads and winning an endorsement from his former boss, President Barack Obama. However, his four challengers say Emanuel’s tenacious style and handling of some major city issues have left voters wanting a change. He needs more than 50 percent to win re-election outright in the nonpartisan race. Otherwise, he’ll have to go head-tohead with the runner up, which could be embarrassing for Emanuel, who enjoys not only a huge financial advantage but the backing of business leaders and the endorsement of the

city’s major newspapers. The key will be turnout, which election officials had hoped would rival numbers four years ago when Mayor Richard Daley retired after more than two decades and the race was wide open. But turnout was light throughout Tuesday’s voting, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesman James Allen said. He said they were expected to be below levels four years ago, despite the roughly 20 increase in early voting, which was pushed by all the candidates. The cold and wind may have had an impact. The temperature was 8 degrees with a wind chill of 8-below when polls opened, though temperatures were expected to rise through the day and election officials said there could be an evening rush. Chicago voters also are deciding several contested aldermanic races. Several voters casting ballots in the South Side neighborhood of Englewood said they were supporting Emanuel because he

is positive on issues such as job creation, education and safer neighborhoods. “Rahm has all (those) contacts and he is getting those corporations here, so he is giving people hope they can get a good job,” said Willie King, a 56-year-old retired janitor. But others said they remain angry about the school closings. Joyce Rodgers, who is retired, said she believes they cost Emanuel the trust of the African-American community — and possibly the president’s. “There is total disappointment (in Emanuel),” she said. “I believe that Obama’s been let down, too, he’s just not going to say it.” Emanuel has campaigned on the idea that his tested leadership is what the city needs. “You gave me a chance to make the tough decisions this city needed, and we’ve im-

proved our schools, our infrastructure, and our public safety,” he told supporters in an email Monday. “But there’s more work to be done, and I’ll need your help to make sure we can continue the progress we’ve made.” The Democrat is facing Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia, Alderman Bob Fioretti, businessman Willie Wilson and perennial candidate William Walls. They’ve put Emanuel on the defensive over his handling of a contract dispute that led to Chicago’s first teachers’ strike in 25 years, the closing of nearly 50 neighborhood schools and a spike in violent crime. They have also criticized his sometimes-combative style. “In Chicago neighborhoods, people are largely turned off,” Garcia said. “They have found him to be distant and uncaring,

not really engaging in neighborhoods.” A public-school performing arts teacher said she has been disappointed in the way Emanuel has treated arts education. “He made some pretty big promises about getting all four fine arts represented in every single school in the city by certified arts teacher when instead what he’s doing is pushing for drive-by arts education ... getting private arts organizations to come in after school for two weeks,” said Grace Martinez, 35. “And the kids never see them again.” Several South Side vot-

ers disagreed, saying they felt Emanuel was compelled to close underperforming schools and schools where enrollment had declined. “If they ain’t performing, what are you going to do? Keep them going?” said Ernest Hudson, a 49-year-old unemployed maintenance worker. “You can take that money and spend it somewhere else where it can do some good.” Emanuel took a neighborhood-focused approach to the campaign trail, including talking up his push to increase the city’s minimum wage, from $8.25 to $13 by 2019.

Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Around the World With shutdown looming, Republicans offer to vote on Homeland Security funding WASHINGTON — A partial agency shutdown looming, Senate Republicans offered on Tuesday to permit a vote on Homeland Security funding legislation stripped of immigration provisions backed by conservatives but strongly opposed by President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats. “We could have that vote very quickly,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said as his party struggled to escape a political predicament of its own making involving an agency with major anti-terrorism responsibilities. McConnell said he did not know how the Republicancontrolled House would respond if a stand-alone spending bill passed the Senate. Underscoring the realities of divided government, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada initially said he wouldn’t agree to the proposal unless it had the backing of House Speaker John Boehner. With many House Republicans still returning to Washington after a weeklong vacation, Boehner’s office issued a statement that neither accepted nor rejected the proposal that McConnell outlined after weeks of gridlock. “The speaker has been clear: The House has acted, and now Senate Democrats need to stop hiding. Will they continue to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security or not?” said a spokesman, Michael Steel.

28 injured when California commuter train crashes into truck left on tracks, 3 cars derail OXNARD, Calif. — A commuter train slammed into a truck stuck on the tracks early Tuesday, sending three rail cars tumbling onto their sides and injuring 28 people in the fiery crash in California. The accident occurred around 5:45 a.m. about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Four people, including the train engineer, had critical injuries. The truck driver was found disoriented 1 or 2 miles away, said Jason Benitez, an assistant chief of the Oxnard Police Department. The crash occurred at a spot where the tracks cross an avenue just before an intersection. The driver was making a right turn from the avenue onto the cross-street but ended up on the tracks, Benitez said. The driver, identified only as a 54-year-old from Arizona, was cooperating and was not under arrest, Benitez said. The driver was hospitalized in stable condition.

After surface similarities, many things different in Williams, O’Reilly cases NEW YORK — Two prominent television personalities are accused within weeks of each other of misrepresenting their wartime reporting experiences in ways that made those experiences seem more dangerous than they actually were. That’s what Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly have in common as each man is besieged with questions about his credibility. Most everything else about their episodes diverge, from the responses to the consequences. NBC News suspended Williams for incorrectly saying he rode in a helicopter hit by an enemy grenade while reporting in Iraq in 2003. O’Reilly, Fox News Channel’s prime-time star, is accused of claiming he had reported in a combat zone for CBS News during the 1982 Falklands War when he was more than a thousand miles from the front. C

Ukrainian disputes rebel claim they are beginning a heavy weapons pullback ILOVAYSK, Ukraine — Russian-backed separatists moved some heavy weapons well back from the front line Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government disputed the rebels’ claim that a real pullback had begun. A peace plan worked out in marathon talks on Feb. 12 aims to create a wide buffer zone between the two sides’ artillery, part of efforts to end the conflict that has left nearly 5,800 dead since April. Heavy weapons are to be pulled back 25 to 70 kilometers (15 to 45 miles) from the front line, depending on their caliber. The disagreement over a weapons pullback came as the fragile peace deal for Ukraine was discussed in Paris by the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France. — The Associated Press

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Pills can help prevent HIV By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer

SEATTLE — For the first time, a study shows that a drug used to treat HIV infection also can help prevent it when taken before and after risky sex by gay men. The results offer hope of a more appealing way to help prevent the disease beyond taking daily pills and using condoms, although those methods are still considered best. The study, done in France and Canada, is the first to test “on demand” use of Truvada, a pill combining two AIDS drugs, by people planning to have risky sex. The uninfected men who took it were 86 percent less likely to get HIV compared to men given dummy pills. “That impressed me,” Dr. Scott Hammer said of the size of the benefit. He is an AIDS specialist at Columbia University in New York and heads the Retrovirus Conference going on in Seattle, where the results were discussed Tuesday. Daily Truvada pills are used now to prevent HIV infection in people at high risk for it, and studies show the drug helps even when some doses are skipped. Health officials have been leery of billing it as a

“chemical condom” out of fear that people will not use the best prevention methods, but many won’t use condoms all the time or take daily pills. The study of Gilead Science’s Truvada was led by the French national HIV research agency. Men were given fake or real Truvada and told to take two pills from two to 24 hours before sex, a third pill 24 hours later, and a fourth pill 48 hours after the first dose. The men also were given condoms and disease prevention counseling. The study was stopped early, in November, after 400 men were enrolled and researchers saw that the drug was working; there were two new HIV infections among those on Truvada and 14 in those on dummy pills. The two infections in the Truvada group were in men who stopped using the pills after more than a year in the study. The drug was safe, but nausea and diarrhea were more frequent among men who used it. Only one stopped using it because of side effects. Dr. Susan Buchbinder, an AIDS specialist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, called the results exciting but warned that it can’t

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In this May 10, 2012 file photo, a doctor holds Truvada pills at her office in San Francisco. A study released Tuesday shows that the drug, used to treat HIV infection, also can help prevent it when taken before and after risky sex by gay men. The study, done in France and Canada, is the first to test “on demand” use of Truvada, a pill combining two AIDS drugs, by people planning to have risky sex. The uninfected men who took it were 86 percent less likely to get HIV compared to men given dummy pills.

be assumed they would apply to male-female sex, because different types of sex expose partners to differing amounts of virus. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends daily Truvada pills for prevention, and many men in the French study ended up taking them nearly that often

because of how frequently they had sex, said the CDC’s HIV prevention chief, Dr. Jonathan Mermin. “We need all the options we can get” for preventing HIV infection, Mermin said. “People choose different prevention methods. What we want is for them to choose effective ones and to use them regularly.”

Suspect in Vegas mom killing smoked pot By KEN RITTER Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Police knew a 19-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed a neighborhood mother of four smoked marijuana before he surrendered during a standoff last week, and investigators questioned him while he was high, a defense lawyer said Tuesday. Erich Milton Nowsch Jr. smoked pot while he talked by telephone with Las Vegas police during the Thursday standoff at his home, attorney Augustus Claus said. “Not only did they let him, but they watched him do it,” Claus told The Associated Press. “They were trying to talk him down.” Claus said the drug use might have calmed his client and avoided a violent SWAT entry into the house. But he said it cast doubt on anything Nowsch told investigators once he was in custody. “There’s a good argument that you can’t use whatever you get,” he said. “People tend to say things that aren’t entirely credible when they’re under the influence.” Police referred questions to

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, who didn’t immediately respond to messages about the case marked by stunning revelations and conflicting accounts from authorities and the family of the slain woman, Tammy Meyers. Nowsch made an initial court appearance Monday, and his lawyers and Meyers’ husband, Robert Meyers, said they don’t think the case involved road rage, as originally believed. Wolfson has called the slaying a “senseless, stupid act of murder,” and characterized the investigation and prosecution as “not a straightforward case.” Nowsch faces a preliminary hearing March 10 to determine if he should stand trial on charges of murder, attempted

murder and firing a weapon from a vehicle. Wolfson would then decide whether to seek the death penalty. Claus said his brother and co-counsel in Nowsch’s case, Conrad Claus, believes Nowsch can claim self-defense because Tammy Meyers had her 22-yearold son, Brandon Meyers, fetch his gun and go driving around the neighborhood with her before the Feb. 12 shooting. Tammy Meyers, 44, was wounded in the head and died on Valentine’s Day after two days on life-support. Initially, the family said Tammy Meyers was confronted by an angry motorist after a late-night driving lesson with her teenage daughter at a neighborhood school, and was shot

after they were followed home. It’s unclear if Nowsch and Tammy Meyers recognized each other during the shootings. Robert Meyers has said his wife and Nowsch sometimes encountered each other in a neighborhood park, and that Nowsch had been to the Meyers family home. Nowsch also was probably familiar with the family’s Buick, Meyers said, but might not have seen it since the windows were tinted dark last summer. Robert Meyers said this week he thinks his wife realized she was in danger, and died trying to lure a motorist who threatened her away from her home.

A-8 Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

World

Dozens of Christians abducted by militants By ZEINA KARAM and RYAN LUCAS Associated Press

BEIRUT — The Islamic State militants struck before dawn, staging house-to-house raids in a cluster of villages nestled along the Khabur River in northeastern Syria. They abducted at least 70 Christians — many of them women and children — while thousands of others fled to safer areas. The captives’ fate was unclear Tuesday, a day after they were seized, and relatives said mobile phone service was cut off and land lines also were not going through, adding to the fear and uncertainty about their loved ones. Heavy fighting was reported in the area. The Islamic State group has a history of killing captives, including foreign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish militiamen. Most recently, militants in Libya affiliated with the extremist group released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. The group’s bloody campaign in Syria and Iraq, where it seeks to form a self-styled caliphate, has repeatedly targeted religious minorities since it took control of a third of both countries. The United States and coalition of regional partners are conducting a campaign of airstrikes against the group. The militants struck near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province, an area predominated by Assyrian Christians. Most of the captives came from Tal Shamiram and some from Tal Hurmiz. Nuri Kino, the head of a group called A Demand For Action, said between 70 and 100

Assyrians were taken captive. About 3,000 people fled and have sought refuge in the cities of Hassakeh and Qamishli, he said, adding that his activist group based its information on conversations with villagers who fled the attack and their relatives. His group focuses on religious minorities in the Middle East. “Have they been slaughtered? Are they still alive? We’re searching for any news,” said an Assyrian Christian woman from Tal Shamiram who now lives in Beirut. The woman said she has been trying to find out what has become of her parents, her brother and his wife and their children, but couldn’t reach anyone in the village. “I feel so helpless, I cannot do anything for them but pray,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of endangering relatives believed to be held by the militants. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which also reported the abductions, put the number of Christians held by the Islamic State group at 90. The Observatory relies on a network of activists inside Syria. Both groups said that most of the captives come from Tal Shamiram, located some 85 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of the provincial capital of Qamishli, and nearby Tal Hurmiz. At least four civilians, including a 17-year-old, were killed in clashes later Monday, a relative of one of the victims said on condition of anonymity. The extremists could use the Assyrian captives to try to arrange a prisoner swap with the Kurdish militias it is battling in northeastern Syria. Last year, IS militants ab-

ducted more than 150 Kurdish boys and held them in a school in Aleppo province where they subjected them to daily instruction on militant ideology for five months before releasing them in batches. The group has also released Turkish truck drivers and diplomats after holding them for months. It was not known whether a prisoner deal was struck in those instances. Hassakeh province is strategically important because it borders Turkey and areas controlled by IS in Iraq. Kurdish militiamen from the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, backed by the coalition airstrikes, have made advances in the province in a new offensive launched this week. Heavy fighting broke out in the province Monday as Kurdish fighters and IS militants battled for control of villages near the Iraqi and Turkish borders. The Kurds have been one of the most effective foes of IS, a reputation they burnished in recent months by repelling an assault by the extremists on the town of Kobani on the Turkish border. The coalition carried out hundreds of airstrikes that helped the Kurds break the siege in January. On Tuesday, heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and IS militants raged near Tal Tamr. The Assyrian woman in Beirut said that before Monday, clashes would occasionally break out near Tal Shamiram, but that IS militants were mostly on Mount Abdulaziz, some

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In this June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Assyrian Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of villages in northeastern Syria, two activist groups said Tuesday.

25 kilometers to the south. “My family visited me last month and returned to Syria. There were clashes, but it was normal, nothing exceptional,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion. The Islamic State group’s online radio station, al-Bayan, said Tuesday that IS fighters had detained “tens of crusaders” — the term it frequently

uses for Christians — and seized 10 villages around Tal Tamr after clashes with Kurdish militiamen. It reported an intense movement of coalition planes over Hassakeh. The U.S. Central Command said the coalition carried out 10 airstrikes near Hassakeh on Monday, striking at nine IS tactical units and destroying two

of their vehicles. The Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria said on its Facebook page that the militants had moved the captives to the village of Umm alMasamir on Mount Abdulaziz, some 25 kilometers south of Tal Shamiram. That raised fears, the network said, that IS could use them as human shields against Kurdish militiamen.

Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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9 dead including gunman in Czech restaurant shooting By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press

PRAGUE — A gunman opened fire inside a small-town restaurant in eastern Czech Republic Tuesday, killing eight people and seriously wounding a waitress before he fatally shot himself, officials said. It was the worst shooting attack in the young country’s history. The gunman was a local man aged around 60, said Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod. Czech public radio said the perpetrator called a local television station before the attack, complaining that police weren’t solving his problems and threatening that he would “take things into his hands.” Interior Minister Milan Cho-

vanec, who arrived at the scene, said the man had a gun license. “It was not a terrorist attack” he said. The gunman was armed with two pistols and opened fire at the approaching police officers, Chovanec said. The Czech Republic became an independent nation in 1993 after the split of Czechoslovakia. The attack shocked the town of 17,000 that lies 300 kilometers (185 miles) southeast of Prague, the capital, and is home to the Ceska Zbrojovka gun plant. “Nobody believed anything like that could happen in such a small town,” Kuncar said. “I can hardly imagine what consequences it will have for the future life in this town.”

The victims have been identified and were all from the region, Chovanec said. The country’s chief police officer, Tomas Tuhy, said authorities wouldn’t reveal more information immediately because of the ongoing investigation. Petr Gabriel was in the restaurant’s bathroom when the shooting began. “That saved my life,” Gabriel told Czech public television. He stayed in the bathroom for two hours until he was found by police. The waitress was shot in the chest and had hour-long surgery, said Dana Lipovska, spokesman for the hospital in the nearby town of Uherske Hradiste. Her condition was “very serious,” Lipovska said. The Czech Republic has

strict gun control laws, but hunting is popular in the eastern European nation. “I am shocked by the tragic attack in Uhersky Brod,” Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in a statement while on a trip to South Korea. He offered his condolences to the victims’ relatives and President Milos Zeman did the same. German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a telegram expressing her condolences to the Czech prime minister. “It is with great distress that I found out about the horrible attack in Uhersky Brod, which killed many people,” the chancellor wrote. “It fills me with deep sadness if people become victims of random violence. I’m convinced that the people of Uhersky Brod

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Policemen secure the area near the restaurant where a gunman opened a fatal fire before killing himself in Uhersky Brod, eastern Czech Republic, Tuesday.

and of the entire Czech Republic will react with great solidarity to this tragic event.” In a tragedy of a similar scope in the then-communist

Czechoslovakia, a female truck driver intentionally hit a group of people waiting for a tram in Prague in 1973, killing eight. She was later executed.

Head of UN climate panel steps down amid harassment case

NEW DELHI (AP) — The leader of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change stepped down on Tuesday amid an investigation into a colleague’s allegations of sexual harassment. Rajendra K. Pachauri, 75, an Indian citizen, had chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002 and accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on its behalf. The IPCC “needs strong leadership and dedication of time and full attention by the chair in the immediate future, which under the current circumstances I may be unable to provide,” Pachauri wrote in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He did not elaborate, but pointed to his withdrawal from a meeting in Nairobi this week to attend to what the IPCC called “issues demanding his attention in India.” Pachauri is being investigated in India after a 29-year-old woman accused him of sexually harassing her while they worked together at the New Delhi lobbying and research organization he heads, The Energy Resources Institute. A police report said the

woman gave police dozens of text messages and emails that she alleged had been sent by Pachauri. A Delhi court on Monday ordered Pachauri to cooperate in the investigation. Pachauri denies the allegations and has said he is “committed to provide all assistance and cooperation to the authorities.” Police said they would question a second woman who also accused Pachauri of sexual harassment but had not filed a police report. The spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, said Ban thanked Pachauri for his dedicated leadership of the expert panel. “Over the past 13 years, Dr. Pachauri’s leadership has been critical in increasing the world’s understanding of the true nature of climate change,” Dujarric told reporters. The IPCC said its vice chairman, Ismail El Gizouli, will serve as its acting chairman, and a vote on a new head was already scheduled for October. Pachauri’s second term as chairman was due to end then, and he had said that he wouldn’t run for

a third term. Pachauri said in his resignation letter that he “would be available for help, support and advice to the entire IPCC in its future work in whatever manner I may be called on to provide.” He has also taken leave from his position at the lobbying

group, it said in a statement Tuesday. The accusations against Pachauri have caused outrage in India, where women face a stigma against discussing issues such as sexual harassment in the workplace. Several recent high-pro-

file cases suggest, however, that women are beginning to feel more comfortable going public with reports of sexual assaults — an important breakthrough in a country where men feel emboldened to commit crimes because they know women experience

such a stigma. In 2013, an editor of an Indian magazine known for exposing abuses of power was arrested after a young female colleague accused him of sexually assaulting her in a hotel elevator during a conference.

Brazil detains alleged deforestation king of Amazon RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil has detained a land-grabber thought to be the Amazon’s single biggest deforester, the country’s environmental protection agency said. The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources said Ezequiel Antonio Castanha, who was detained Saturday in the state of Para, operated a network that illegally seized federal lands, clear-cut them and sold them to cattle grazers. The agency blames the network for 20 percent of the deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon in recent years, though the statement issued Monday did not pro-

vide the estimated scale of the devastation. It quoted the agency’s head of environmental protection, Luciano Evaristo, as saying he hopes Castanha’s arrest will “contribute significantly to controlling deforestation in the region.” Castanha will face charges including illegal deforestation and money laundering, and could be sentenced to up to 46 years in prison, the statement said. Officials said late last year that 1,870 square miles (4,848 square kilometers) of rain forest were destroyed between August 2013 and July 2014. That’s a bit larger than the U.S. state of Rhode

Island. In addition to holding around onethird of the planet’s biodiversity, the Amazon is considered one of the world’s most important natural defenses against global warming because of its capacity to absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide. Rain forest clearing is responsible for about 75 percent of Brazil’s emissions as vegetation is burned and felled trees rot. The Amazon extends over 3.8 million square miles (6.1 million square kilometers), with more than 60 percent of the forest within Brazil.

A-10 Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Sports

No. 6 Villanova clinches share of Big East title By The Associated Press

VILLANOVA, Pa. — Darrun Hilliard scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half, JayVaughn Pinkston added 16 points, and No. 6 Villanova clinched at least a share of its second straight Big East regular-season title with an 89-61 rout of No. 25 Providence on Tuesday night. Ryan Arcidiacono added 13 points and four assists for the Wildcats (26-2 overall, 13-2 Big East), who shot 53 percent from the field and 52 percent from 3-point range en route to their ninth straight win. Tyler Harris led Providence (19-9, 9-6) with 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting. Before the game, Hilliard and Pinkston were honored for Villanova’s senior night ceremony. Tuesday’s game

was the Wildcats’ last of the season at the Pavilion, their on-campus gym where they’ve won 26 straight dating back to the 2012-13 season. No. 14 MARYLAND 59, No. 5 WISCONSIN 53

SYRACUSE 65, No. 9 NOTRE DAME 60 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — B.J. Johnson scored 19 points, Rakeem Christmas added 14 despite being in foul trouble and Syracuse held Notre Dame to 35 percent shooting in a victory. The Irish trailed by 10 in the first half and by seven with less than 2 minutes left, but managed to cut the lead to 59-57 when Jerian Grant sank a pair of free throws with 39 seconds remaining. The Orange put the game away with a fastbreak dunk by Johnson and a free throw when he was fouled.

North Carolina State beat North Carolina, earning its first road win in the series in a dozen years. Trevor Lacey and Ralston Turner each added 14 points for the Wolfpack (1711, 8-7 Atlantic Coast Conference), who earned a second marquee road victory this month in pursuit of a fourth straight NCAA tournament trip. N.C. State didn’t shoot particularly well, but it played with toughness and composure while frustrating the Tar Heels (19-9, 9-6) just about all night.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Dez Wells scored 26 points, and Maryland held off Wisconsin, ending the Badgers’ 10game winning streak and ruining their bid to clinch a share of the Big Ten regularseason title. No. 18 ARKANSAS 81, TEXAS Melo Trimble added 16 points for the second-place Terrapins (23-5, 11-4 Big A&M 75 Ten), who blew an 11-point halftime lead FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Bobby but finished the game with a 12-6 run. NORTH CAROLINA STATE 58, Portis scored 22 points and Arkansas won The victory improved Maryland’s home its seventh straight game with a victory No. 15 NORTH CAROLNA 46 record to 17-1. The Terrapins are 9-0 in games over Texas A&M. decided by six points or fewer, and they’ve CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — AnThe win solidifies the Razorbacks (23won their last three by a total of 17 points. thony “Cat” Barber scored 15 points and

5, 12-3 Southeastern Conference) hold on second place in the SEC heading into a showdown with No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday. It also gives Arkansas, which has won 10 of 11 games overall, 12 wins in SEC play for the first time since the 199495 season.

No. 20 WEST VIRGINIA 71, TEXAS 64 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Devin Williams scored 14 points to lead West Virginia to a win over Texas. Daxter Miles Jr. and Jonathan Holton added 12 points apiece and Jevon Carter had 10 for West Virginia. Their outside scoring helped the Mountaineers (22-6, 10-5 Big 12) break open a close game in the second half and end a four-game losing streak to the Longhorns (17-11, 6-9).

Warriors beat Wiz with Curry By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Stephen Curry returned from a onegame absence to lead all scorers with 32, Klay Thompson added 17 more and the Golden State Warriors defeated the Washington Wizards 114-107 Tuesday night. Curry missed Sunday’s loss at Indiana with a sore right foot and played nearly 34 minutes, hitting 11 of 18 field goal attempts, including five of nine from 3-point range. Marreese Speights added

16 points off the bench for the Warriors, who have won five of six. Paul Pierce led the Wizards with 25 points, 18 in the second half. Marcin Gortat added 16 points and 11 rebounds, while John Wall chipped in 16 nd 11 assists. CAVALIERS 102, PISTONS 93 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Love tied a career-best

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AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File

In this Feb. 10, 2015, file photo, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose (1) drives past Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore (23) as Jason Thompson (34) watches during an NBA basketball game in Chicago. Rose will have surgery on his right knee for the second straight season. The team announced Tuesday night that Rose was feeling pain in his knee, and an exam and MRI confirmed a medial meniscus tear.

Third time still not the charm Bulls star Rose diagnosed with another knee injury, will miss time By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO — Derrick Rose’s knee has failed him again. The Chicago Bulls star will have surgery on his right knee for the second straight season, casting doubt on whether the once dynamic point guard will ever be the same after a series of injuries. The team announced Tuesday night that Rose was feeling pain in his knee, and an exam and MRI confirmed a medial meniscus tear. The 2011 NBA MVP played in only 10 games last season before he had surgery for the same injury in Novem-

ber 2013, shelving him for the year, but the Bulls said a timetable for his return will be determined after the operation. It’s unclear when Rose reinjured the knee. He appeared to be rounding into form last month, averaging 22.6 points over his final 14 games before the All-Star break, but he had struggled since returning to the court after the time off. Rose became the latest NBA star to be sidelined for a significant period within the past few days. Chris Bosh will miss the rest of the season after the Miami Heat announced blood clots were found on one of his lungs. Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (left knee sur-

gery) won’t return this season, either. Thunder star Kevin Durant had surgery on his right foot, and Pelicans big man Anthony Davis has a sprained right shoulder. Both are expected back this season. Rose’s status remains to be seen. Rose had eight points on 1-for-13 shooting while playing almost 33 minutes in Monday night’s 87-71 victory over Milwaukee. He averaged 10.7 points on 23.5 percent shooting in Chicago’s first three games after the break. It’s a big blow for the surging Bulls (36-21), who have won six of seven and appeared to be picking up steam after a

tough stretch. They lead the Central Division by a halfgame over Cleveland, but any extended absence for Rose will make it quite difficult for Chicago to hold off LeBron James and the Cavaliers. “Man feel bad for D.Rose! Keep your head up homie and stay strong G!” James tweeted after the injury was announced. James was one of several NBA stars who took to social media to express their support for Rose, who has been dogged by injuries since he won the MVP award. All-Star teammate Jimmy Butler posted a picture of him and Rose with the message: “my point guard. my brother.”

Cook Inlet Academy swept Ninilchik in a pair of Peninsula Conference matchups Tuesday night in Ninilchik. The CIA boys defeated Ninilchik 76-54, while the CIA girls topped the Wolverines 35-27. Timmy Smithwick dropped a game-high 41 points for the CIA boys, who avenged a loss to Ninilchik in January. Smithwick’s freshman brother, Johnny, chipped in 10 points as well. Sam Mireles led Ninilchik with 19 points, and teammate Austin White added 17. The Wolverines led early with a 14-13 lead, but the Eagles rebounded with a 22-point second quarter to lead 35-30 at halftime. CIA led 52-45 after three quarters, then outscored Ninilchik 24-9 in the fourth to ice the game. Senior captains Madison Orth and Ashleigh Hammond combined for 31 points to propel the CIA girls to the win over conference opponent Ninilchik. Orth scored a game-high 20 points, while Hammond netted 11. Melissa Ehlers led Ninilchik with 12 points, and went 7-for8 from the free throw line. After scoring only three points in the opening quarter

of play, CIA trailed Ninilchik 16-14 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Eagles outscored the Wolverines 12-5 to take the lead and held off Ninilchik the rest of the way. CIA coach Kenny Leaf said with Danielle Hills back on the court, after missing a few weeks with an injury, the CIA defense is a much more efficient unit, and the results showed it. Ninilchik scored only 11 points in the second half. Tuesday boys

Eagles 76, Wolverines 54 CIA Ninilchik

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CIA (76) — A. Hammond 3 0-3 6, B. Hammond 3 0-0 6, R. Smithwick 3 0-2 6, Miller 0 0-0 0, Barlow 2 0-0 4, J. Smithwick 4 2-2 10, Solie 1 0-0 3, T. Smithwick 15 10-10 41. Totals 31 12-17 76. NINILCHIK (54) — Koch 1 0-0 2, Appelhanz 0 1-2 1, Presley 2 3-5 9, Mireles 9 1-5 19, Geppert 3 0-0 6, Schultz 0 0-0 0, Bartolowits 0 0-0 0, Fidow 0 0-0 0, Pasqua 0 0-0 0, McGinnis 0 0-0 0, White 8 0-1 17. Totals 23 5-13 54. 3-point goals — CIA 2 (T. Smithwick 1, Solie 1); Ninilchik 3 (Presley 2, White 1). Fouled out — Bartolowits.

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Eagles 35, Wolverines 27 CIA Ninilchik

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CIA (35) — Delon 0 0-0 0, Taplin 0 0-0 0, Hills 2 0-1 4, Lyons 0 0-2 0, Hammond 4 3-5 11, Orth 6 6-10 20. Totals 12 9-18 35. NINILCHIK (27) — Delgado 1 0-0 2, Appelhanz 0 0-0 0, Cooper 0 0-0 0, Sinclair 2 0-0 5, Goins 0 0-0 0, Ehlers 2 7-8 12, Finney 4 0-0 8, Me. Clark 0 0-0 0, Mi. Clark 0 0-0 0. Totals 9 7-8 27. 3-point goals — CIA 2 (Orth 2); Ninilchik 2 (Sinclair, Ehlers). Fouled out — none.

Canucks score late, hold on to beat struggling Bruins By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Zack Kassian broke a 1-1 tie with a goal early in the third period and Eddie Lack preserved the lead with 13 of his 40 saves in the final period for the Vancouver Canucks in a 2-1 win over the struggling Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Daniel and Henrik Sedin both picked up assists on the tiebreaking goal 6:47 into the third as the Canucks beat the Bruins for the second time this month. Ryan Stanton had Vancouver’s other goal, beating Tuukka Rask on a slap shot 3:28 into the game to tie it 1-1 and end a very brief lead for the Bruins. Daniel Paille scored 1:05 into the game for Boston’s only goal despite getting 41 shots. The Bruins are 1-6-2 in their past nine, including a 5-2 loss at Vancouver on Feb. 13.

broke a scoreless tie 3:00 into the third period and Cam Talbot made 21 saves. Derick Brassard forced a turnover by defenseman Dennis Wideman in the Calgary zone and made a pass from the left circle to the right circle to Hayes, who snapped in his 12th goal in his first game since cutting his long hair.

Islanders 5, Coyotes 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Matt Martin and Johnny Boychuk scored less than a minute apart early in the third to break a tie. Martin’s eighth goal of the season snapped a 1-1 tie before Boychuk added his seventh at 4:15. The win kept the Islanders atop the Metropolitan Division.

Sabres 4, Blue Jackets 2

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Zemgus Girgensons had a goal and an assist before leaving with a leg injury. Cody Hodgson, Mark Pysyk and Chris Stewart also scored Rangers 1, Flames 0 for the offense-starved Sabres, who had NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Hayes gotten just one goal in five of their previ-

ous six games. They hadn’t had as many Conference leaders with 78 points, but has as four goals in their last 13 games. surrendered the first goal in eight consecuMichal Neuvirth had 45 saves, sty- tive home games. mieing the Blue Jackets on their final 28 shots. Predators 5, Avalanche 2

Hurricanes 4, Flyers 1 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Justin Faulk had a goal and an assist in the 500th NHL game for Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward. Ward, who earned the Conn Smythe Trophy when Carolina won the Stanley Cup in 2006, made 23 saves. Jeff Skinner, Jordan Staal and Jay McClement also scored for Carolina. Alexander Semin added two assists.

Canadiens 5, Blues 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Calle Jarnkrok, Craig Smith, Roman Josi and Filip Forsberg scored to help Nashville. Pekka Rinne made 18 saves in his NHL-best 35th win, and the Predators padded their lead atop the NHL standings with 89 points. Nashville also clinched the season series with its Central Division rival at 3-1 with a game remaining.

Oilers 2, Wild 1

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Benoit Pouliot scored twice, Ben Scrivens made ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alex Galchenyuk 33 saves and the Oilers snapped the Wild’s and Brendan Gallagher had two goals three-game winning streak. apiece and Carey Price set a franchise record with his ninth straight road win. Jets 4, Stars 2 Montreal held onto the top spot in the Eastern Conference. WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Adam David Backes and T.J. Oshie scored for Lowry put in his own rebound to break the Blues, who wrapped up a 1-3 home- a second-period tie. Bryan Little, Dustin stand. St. Louis is among the Western Byfuglien and Michael Frolik, with an C

empty-netter, also scored for Winnipeg. Michael Hutchinson made 26 saves for Winnipeg and has points in his last six starts (4-0-2).

Blackhawks 3, Panthers 2, SO CHICAGO (AP) — The Blackhawks lost Patrick Kane to an injury in the first period and then blew a two-goal lead before escaping. Jonathan Toews scored in regulation and the tiebreaker, helping Chicago stop a three-game losing streak. Kris Versteeg scored his 13th goal in the second period, and Scott Darling made 34 saves through overtime.

Kings 1, Red Wings 0 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonathan Quick posted his fourth shutout of the season, Justin Williams scored a power-play goal early, and the surging Kings got their eighth straight victory. The defending Stanley Cup champions handed the Red Wings their third shutout loss of the season.

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Sports Briefs Davis, Bartel run second in Iron Dog Soldotna veteran Scott Davis and teammate Aaron Bartel of Anchorage pulled into Nome in second place Tuesday in the 32nd Iron Dog snowmachine race. Nome is the unofficial halfway point of the Iron Dog race. From there, riders will ride back on a return route that eventually splits from the inbound trail and ends in Fairbanks. Davis and Bartel arrived in Nome at 6:38 p.m., about 17 minutes behind race leaders Scott Faeo and Eric Quam. According to reports, Davis suffered a crash outside of White Mountain that resulted in his sled flipping on top of him. Online photos from Iron Dog officials showed Davis’ Ski-Doo sled without a front windshield. Davis’ 26-year-old son, Cory, arrived in Nome in sixth place with teammate Ryan Simons at about 9:10 p.m. Former Soldotna resident and race rookie Ashley Wood arrived in Unalakleet in 24th Tuesday night with teammate Rachel Kidwell of Anchorage, where they took their eight-hour layover. Wood and Kidwell are the only two women in the race and are attempting to become only the second all-female team to finish an Iron Dog. Soldotna veteran Mark Carr — a four-time Iron Dog champion — has scratched out after McGrath with teammate Micah Huss.

Gessert scores at Top Prospects tourney Kenai River Brown Bears forward Jack Gessert scored in a 5-3 victory for Midwest over the North team Tuesday at the NAHL Top Prospects Tournament in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gessert’s goal came with 1 minute, 18 seconds, remaining in the second period and pushed Midwest’s lead to 4-2. Gessert ended with six shots on goal. Brown Bears teammates Maurin Bouvet and Tyler Andrews are also on Midwest but did not record a point Tuesday. Bouvet did have four shots on goal. In other game action Tuesday, the NAHL Selects edged Team USA 17U in a shootout 3-2, and Central beat South in a 5-1 rout. The Selects outscored their opponents 2-0 in the shootout. Brown Bears forward Tanner Schachle recorded two shots on goal in the game for the Selects. The game was the final tilt of the tournament.

Kane suffers broken collarbone CHICAGO (AP) — Blackhawks star Patrick Kane left their game against the Florida Panthers after he was checked into the boards in the first period. It looked as if Kane slammed his left shoulder into the boards after he was cross-checked by Alex Petrovic with 12:11 left. Kane stayed down on the ice for a short time while a few of his teammates rushed over to confront Petrovic, and Kane then skated to the bench and went straight to the locker room. The Blackhawks announced before the start of the second period that Kane would miss the rest of the game with an upper body injury.

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with eight 3-pointers for 24 points and LeBron James added 19 points and 11 assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied in the second half. Love fell just one short of teammate J.R. Smith’s record of nine 3-pointers against Detroit. M Love missed both his two-point attempts. K James nearly had an odd tripledouble, turning the ball over nine times, one short of his career high. Kyrie Irving added 18 points for Cleveland, which has won 17 of its last 19 games. Reggie Jackson had 22 points, nine assists and eight rebounds in his second game with Detroit, while Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 21.

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basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 37 20 Brooklyn 23 31 Boston 21 33 Philadelphia 12 44 New York 10 45 Southeast Division Atlanta 44 12 Washington 33 24 Miami 24 31 Charlotte 22 32 Orlando 19 39 Central Division Chicago 36 21 Cleveland 36 22 Milwaukee 31 25 Detroit 23 34 Indiana 23 34

Pct GB .649 — .426 12½ .389 14½ .214 24½ .182 26 .786 — .579 11½ .436 19½ .407 21 .328 26 .632 — .621 ½ .554 4½ .404 13 .404 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 41 14 Houston 38 18 Dallas 39 20 San Antonio 34 22 New Orleans 29 27 Northwest Division Portland 36 19 Oklahoma City 32 25 Utah 21 34 Denver 20 36 Minnesota 12 43 Pacific Division Golden State 44 10 L.A. Clippers 37 20 Phoenix 29 28 Sacramento 19 35 L.A. Lakers 14 41

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Tuesday’s Games Golden State 114, Washington 107 Cleveland 102, Detroit 93 Oklahoma City 105, Indiana 92 Dallas 99, Toronto 92 Wednesday’s Games Miami at Orlando, 3 p.m. Dallas at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. New York at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Brooklyn at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Washington at Minnesota, 4 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Houston, 4 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 5 p.m.

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South Florida 74, Cincinnati 44 SOUTHWEST TCU 73, West Virginia 63

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Buffalo 67, Akron 62 Niagara 82, Canisius 71 Pittsburgh 71, Boston College 65 Villanova 89, Providence 61 West Virginia 71, Texas 64

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SOUTH Alabama 59, South Carolina 51 LSU 84, Auburn 61 Maryland 59, Wisconsin 53 NC State 58, North Carolina 46 MIDWEST Bowling Green 76, Ohio 65 Cent. Michigan 72, E. Michigan 56 Creighton 75, DePaul 62 Miami (Ohio) 86, Kent St. 81, OT Missouri 64, Florida 52 Syracuse 65, Notre Dame 60 W. Michigan 53, Ball St. 48

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 60 39 16 5 83 162 133 Tampa Bay 62 37 19 6 80 203 167 Detroit 59 33 15 11 77 173 154 Boston 60 29 22 9 67 158 158 Florida 60 26 21 13 65 145 169 Ottawa 57 24 23 10 58 163 161 Toronto 60 24 31 5 53 167 183 Buffalo 61 18 38 5 41 114 204 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 62 40 20 2 82 200 173 N.Y. Rangers 59 37 16 6 80 186 145 Pittsburgh 60 34 17 9 77 172 149 Washington 61 33 18 10 76 181 152 Philadelphia 61 26 24 11 63 162 178 New Jersey 60 25 26 9 59 136 158 Columbus 59 26 29 4 56 155 184 Carolina 59 22 30 7 51 134 159

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Arkansas 81, Texas A&M 75 McNeese St. 77, Cent. Arkansas 60 Texas A&M-CC 67, Abilene Christian 44

Central Division Nashville 61 41 13 7 89 186 143 St. Louis 60 38 18 4 80 188 151 Chicago 61 36 20 5 77 180 146 Winnipeg 62 31 20 11 73 173 168 Minnesota 60 31 22 7 69 169 158 Dallas 61 27 25 9 63 191 202 Colorado 61 26 24 11 63 161 175 Pacific Division Anaheim 61 38 16 7 83 182 171 Vancouver 60 35 22 3 73 171 156 Los Angeles 59 29 18 12 70 162 152 Calgary 60 32 24 4 68 171 157 San Jose 61 30 23 8 68 171 174 Arizona 61 20 34 7 47 134 206 Edmonton 62 18 34 10 46 142 206 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

FAR WEST Boise St. 76, New Mexico 65 Utah St. 83, UNLV 65

Women’s College Scores EAST Canisius 65, Niagara 59 NJIT 70, Md.-Eastern Shore 41 Quinnipiac 82, Manhattan 71 SOUTH Campbell 78, Coastal Carolina 69 High Point 74, Gardner-Webb 58 Liberty 91, Winthrop 71 Presbyterian 56, Charleston Southern 48, OT Radford 50, UNC Asheville 47 Tulsa 65, Memphis 62 UCF 59, Houston 38 MIDWEST Iowa St. 59, Texas Tech 47 Michigan 81, Purdue 50 Nebraska 74, Minnesota 50

Tuesday’s Games Chicago 3, Florida 2, SO Vancouver 2, Boston 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Arizona 1 N.Y. Rangers 1, Calgary 0 Carolina 4, Philadelphia 1 Buffalo 4, Columbus 2 Montreal 5, St. Louis 2 Nashville 5, Colorado 2 Edmonton 2, Minnesota 1 Winnipeg 4, Dallas 2

Los Angeles 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday’s Games Calgary at New Jersey, 3:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 4 p.m. Ottawa at Anaheim, 6 p.m. All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS С Agreed to terms with RHP Joba Chamberlain on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Chad Smith for assignment. TEXAS RANGERS С Claimed LHP Edgar Olmos from Seattle off waivers. Placed INF Jurickson Profar on the 60-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS С Named Josh Lifrak director-mental skills program, Rey Fuentes Latin coordinator-mental skills program, Dr. Ken Ravizza consultant-mental skills program, Manny Ramirez hitting consultant and Kevin Youkilis scouting and player development consultant and Daniel Carte, Kevin Ellis, Greg Hopkins and Alex Levitt area scouts. Promoted Tim Adkins to midwest/ northeast crosschecker and Trey Forkerway to central crosschecker, Terry Kennedy to major league scout and Jason Parks professional/amateur scout. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS С Signed C Kendrick Perkins. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS С Signed F Jordan Hamilton to a 10-day contract. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS С Claimed F Thomas Robinson off waivers. Released G Tim Frazier from his second 10-day contract. UTAH JAZZ С Signed F Jack Cooley to a 10-day contract. Assigned G Ian Clark to Idaho (NBADL). Women’s National Basketball Association ATLANTA DREAM С Re-signed C Erika de Souza. Signed G Roneeka Hodges and C Nadia Colhado. FOOTBALL

National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS С Re-signed FB Patrick DiMarco and DE Cliff Matthews to contract extensions. NEW YORK GIANTS С Released DE Mathias Kiwanuka. OAKLAND RAIDERS С Signed K Giorgio Tavecchio. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS С Announced the retirement of LB Jarret Johnson. TENNESSEE TITANS С Announced the resignation of executive vice president of administration and facilities Don MacLachlan. Named Stuart Spears chief revenue officer and Bob Flynn head of facilities and game day operations. HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS С Signed F Jordan Nolan to a three-year contract extension. MINNESOTA WILD С Acquired F Sean Bergenheim from the Florida Panthers for a 2016 third-round draft choice. MONTREAL CANADIENS С Traded RW Jiri Sekac to Anaheim for RW Devante Smith-Pelly. NASHVILLE PREDATORS С Reassigned D Anthony Bitetto to Milwaukee (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS С Agreed to terms with D Nick Leddy on a seven-year contract. NEW YORK RANGERS С Recalled F Oscar Lindberg from Hartford (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer SPORTING KANSAS CITY С Waived MF James Marcelin. Mutually agreed to part ways with MF Jorge Claros. National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT С Acquired D Estelle Johnson from Western New York for D Toni Pressley. COLLEGE ENDICOTT С Named Kevin DeWall football coach. NEBRASKA С Named Brian Stewart defensive backs coach. TEMPLE С Named Pete Cautilli senior associate athletic director for development.

Ragan to take over for Kyle Busch CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — David Ragan will drive Kyle Busch’s car in the Sprint Cup Series this weekend at Atlanta, while 18-year-old Erik Jones will drive Busch’s car in the Xfinity Series. Busch broke his right leg and left foot when he crashed headon into a concrete wall Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. He left the Florida hospital on Tuesday and was

transferred to one in Charlotte for further treatment. Ragan will drive the No. 18 Toyota for at least the next several weeks. The move was accommodated by Front Row Motorsports, the team Ragan currently drives for, and sponsor CSX. Jones will drive the No. 54 Toyota in Saturday’s race. Busch was driving the No. 54 in the Xfinity Series opener

MAVERICKS 99, RAPTORS 92

DALLAS (AP) — Monta Ellis scored 20 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 18 as the Dallas Mavericks hit seven of their first 10 shots of the fourth quarter to defeat the Toronto Raptors. The victory was Dallas’ third straight, its longest winning streak THUNDER 105, PACERS 92 since early January, and pulled the Mavericks within one game of OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — first-place Houston in the SouthRussell Westbrook had 20 points, west Division.

when he was injured.

Tracks adding barriers CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — International Speedway Corp. is developing a plan for the installation of additional SAFER barriers at Daytona and Talladega, and will review the safety standards at its other racetracks. The renewed focus an-

nounced Tuesday by ISC President John Saunders comes three days after NASCAR star Kyle Busch broke his right leg and left foot in a crash into a concrete wall at Daytona International Speedway. Busch left a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital on Tuesday and was transferred to another facility in North Carolina for further treatment.

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extended period of time and the trial gets overturned because ‘oh, the defense attorney wasn’t allowed proper time to prepare … then we go through a new trial in a year or two and the process repeats.” Anderson is currently scheduled to go to trial August 17 and has a status hearing on April 10 at 2:30 p.m. in Kenai.

said after Bauman asked for her opinion. “My daughter deserves closure.” Bauman said that he understood the victim’s need for closure, but that Anderson had rights as well. “We could go through trial, Reach Rashah McChesney your daughter could be on the at rashah.mcchesney@peninstand in front of a jury for an sulaclarion.com.

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production declines. Hoffbeck said having an alternate project would level the playing field with the companies, which have their own competing projects, and strengthen the state’s hand in negotiations. “I think the governor needs to convince everybody that we are still negotiating in good faith, which we are,” Hoffbeck said. “But I think the initial shock of the announcement probably has set people back.” If there is an economic benefit to the companies in building Alaska LNG, there is no reason for them to not continue forward, he said. “They compete all over the world,” he said. A short-term issue for the state will be to ensure that information doesn’t leak from

one project to the other, Hoffbeck said. The hearing also touched on a range of topics, including the long-running valuation fights over the trans-Alaska pipeline system and the state’s revenue outlook. Alaska faces projected multibillion-dollar budget deficits this year and next amid the worldwide crash in oil prices. The state plans to use savings to get by, and some legislators have said they expect to propose deeper budget cuts for next year than Walker has recommended. Hoffbeck said during questioning that there will need to be a discussion within the next year on whether the state needs to look at such things as broadbased taxes, making changes to fee structures and perhaps revisiting oil and gas taxes. The committee forwarded his nomination to a joint session of the Legislature for consideration.

Around Alaska Rep writes out-of-town expenses check to education program JUNEAU — An Anchorage lawmaker says she’s writing a check for three days of her daily allowance for expenses and giving it to an early childhood learning program. Rep. Harriet Drummond says the check for Best Beginnings is for three days she plans to be in Anchorage. She began writing the check for more than $700 during a news conference. Drummond has proposed eliminating the daily allowance to legislators who leave Juneau during the legislative session. She says she wants to spur discussion on the Legislature’s budget. Most legislators receive $237 in an expense allowance for each day of the legislative session whether they’re in Juneau or not, since they have two households to maintain during the session. Juneau lawmakers receive $176.25 per day.

Move prompts temporary closure of archives research room JUNEAU — The Alaska State Archives Research Room will be closed for three weeks next month to allow staff to transfer and process material from the current facility to the new Statewide Library Archives & Museum vault. According to a news release, reference services also will be curtailed during that time, March 4 through 27. Those with pressing research and reference requests should contact the state archivist. Non-urgent requests will be processed beginning March 31. — The Associated Press

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but dissuaded the group saying it was not the right meeting to attend because the focus would be on the ordinance up for public hearing that would ban marijuana cultivation facilities in the borough’s unincorporated areas. At the Jan. 26 meeting, the task force approved a K-Beach High-Water Relief and Pre-

vention Feasibility Study put together by the Local/Small Scale Subcommittee. The document addresses flooding issues, hydraulic analysis, proposed solutions, scope of work and feasibility study, according to meeting minutes. However, Munter said he is now concerned about how much interest the project will see now that oil prices have plummeted. Munter said the task force has made connections with the Department of Natural Resources,

the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, the borough and the Army Corps of Engineers. None of them have expressed much interest, Munter said. “They all have a different story, often it is peripheral to what they mostly do,” Munter said. Things are getting done however, Munter said. Kelly Lipinski, who manages the newly formed K-Beach Flood Mitigation Project, a

non-profit that directly assists projects associated with the flooding, was in attendance. The meetings have been consistently attended, Munter said. The two subcommittees, which Munter said is a good approach to running a group with such a large task, have been producing valuable information. “There has been quite a bit of activity,” Munter said. Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly. sullivan@peninsulclarion.com.

Legalization takes place quietly By MOLLY DISCHNER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Alaska on Tuesday became the third U.S. state to legalize marijuana. But the historic day passed with little public acknowledgement in a state with a savvy marijuana culture that has seen varying degrees of legal acceptance of the drug for 40 years. Supporters said the day was a milestone, comparing it to the end of Prohibition. But unlike in Colorado and Washington state, there were no street parties and public smoking displays in Alaska’s biggest cities. Dolly Fleck-Phelps, a Kenai resident with an ancillary marijuana business, said she thought people would look back on the day as a turning point for Alaska. “Absolutely this is history in the making,” Fleck-Phelps said. “This is the opening of the door. Now it’s time for the real work to begin.” Legalization marked the end of a 43-year political battle for Bill Parker, 70. The Anchorage man, who was listed as a sponsor of the initiative, first banded together with a group of young Democrats elected to the state House of Representatives to introduce a legalization bill in 1972. “Gee, there weren’t enough votes to worry about,” the retired deputy commissioner of corrections said. Parker’s hopes for legal weed dwindled as he saw Alaska become more Republican and more conservative over the years. He said perhaps the marijuana vote marks the end of that pendulum swing. Now that pot is legal, Parker is ready to take a pause to enjoy the moment, but he said he won’t stop fighting. “Well, it makes me feel good. It’s not over, of course. The initiative passed by between 5 and 6 percent, so 40 some percent of the people voted against it. Not all of them are ready to lay down and go along,” Parker said. He plans to meet with other

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From left, Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Legislation spokesman Bruce Shulte and initiative co-sponsor Dr. Tim Hinterberger discuss the legalization of marijuana as the new law took effect in Alaska Tuesday.

initiative backers for laid-back celebrations Tuesday evening. “I think there’ll be marijuana, and I think for the first time people won’t have to feel like criminals when they use it,” Parker said. Alaska has had a complicated history with marijuana over the years. The Alaska Supreme Court in 1975 said personal marijuana possession was protected under the state constitution’s right-to-privacy clause. In 1998, voters legalized medicinal marijuana. But over the years, state lawmakers twice criminalized any possession, creating an odd legal limbo, and never created rules for medical marijuana dispensaries to operate. Placing Alaska in the same category as Washington state and Colorado with legal marijuana was the goal of the propot coalition that included libertarians, rugged individualists and small-government Republicans who prize the privacy rights enshrined in the Alaska state constitution. Legalization is expected in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. As of Tuesday, adult Alaskans can not only keep and use

pot, they can transport, grow it and give it away. A second phase, creating a regulated and taxed marijuana market, won’t start until 2016 at the earliest. That’s about the same timeline for Oregon, where voters approved legalizing marijuana the same day as Alaska did. But the law there doesn’t go into effect until July 1. Police throughout Alaska were prepared to hand out $100 citations for anyone caught smoking pot in public, but departments stretching more than 1,100 miles from Nome on the state’s western coast to Juneau in the southeast panhandle hadn’t issued a ticket during the day. “We haven’t even received a call or complaint about anybody doing it,” said Steve Goetz, deputy chief for the University of Alaska Fairbanks police department. Juneau resident Ralph Jackson said he thought the mellow response to legalization was a testament to pot’s effects— people are generally far more mellow when high than when they consume other drugs or alcohol, he said. “It’s a medicinal herb God

has put on this planet,” Jackson said Tuesday at Juneau’s Marine Park. Others remained concerned on Tuesday about the details not yet worked out regarding legalization. When the public voted last November to legalize marijuana use by adults in private places, voters left many of the details to lawmakers and regulators to sort out. Elisabeth Schafer, a Sitka resident visiting Juneau for work, said she was worried about the state developing a workable system of regulations. “I just wish we had waited longer as a state,” Schafer said. “I don’t want to blaze the way for other states.” Among the questions remaining on Tuesday were what public places consumption was prohibited in, and how the regulations for a new commercial industry would look. The initiative bans smoking in public, but it doesn’t define what that means, and lawmakers left the question to the alcohol regulatory board. There were missteps even as the board decided pot can’t be smoked in places generally accessible to the public, like parks, schools or on the street in Alaska. Board members met via a teleconference Tuesday, but it started late because organizers gave out the wrong telephone number. The call originated from the board’s Anchorage office. However, a locked gate blocked access to the meeting site. Voters in Washington, D.C., also legalized marijuana in the November election, and it was set to become legal Thursday after congressional attempts to block it failed. Adults in the nation’s capital can possess up to 2 ounces, but Congress has forbidden sales of pot there. Public use is prohibited. Washington state and Colorado voters legalized marijuana in 2012 and sales have started there.

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4 cups King Arthur All-Purpose Unbleached Flour, measured by dipping measuring cup into flour, then leveling off with the flat end of a knife (dip and sweep) 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 2 cups buttermilk Irish Soda Bread is best eaten the day it is baked, but leftovers are great toasted for breakfast or for making toasted cheese sandwiches. Kitchen Ade note: Bread Baking Bowl, made for King Arthur Flour by Emerson Creek Pottery (perfect for a 1½- to 2-pound loaf of bread) and 100 percent cotton King Arthur Flour Sack Towel, available at King Arthur Flour, www.kingarthurflour.com, 1-800-827-6836.

RIGHT: King Arthur Flour’s non-stick silicone rolling mat (left) not only stays in place when in use, but its handy measuring guides takes all the guesswork out of shaping dough into the exact size you need for your recipe. Using the guides printed on the rolling mat, dough is shaped into an 8-inch round, dusted with a little flour with the help of a flour “wand” and placed in a bread bowl, where it is scored with an “X,” helping the dough to expand as it rises and bakes. Rolling mat, flour wand and bread bowl, available at King Arthur Flour, www.kingarthurflour.com.

Place oven rack in lower third of oven. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sift the dry ingredients into the mixing bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer. On low speed, with paddle attachment, add buttermilk to form a soft dough. Do not over mix. Remove dough from mixing bowl, and place on a rolling mat or lightly floured surface. With floured hands, pat dough into an 8-inch round. Place round in a lightly greased King Arthur Flour Bread Bowl, or 8-inch round cake pan. With a floured knife, cut a deep cross in the top of the loaf. Bake the loaf until it sounds hollow when tapped, about 40 to 45 minutes. (If top of bread gets too brown before it is fully baked, top with a piece of aluminum foil.) Makes one 8-inch round loaf.

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Shop near Madison makes chocolate from bean to bar By JANE BURNS Wisconsin State Journal MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — As people nibble a pastry or sip their coffee at Sjolinds Chocolate House, they have no idea they are sitting on top of a laboratory. In the lower-level prep area, cacao beans from around the world are being sorted and winnowed, roasting times are being finalized and flavor profiles are being chosen in what has to be the tastiest lab in town. What those experiments are producing is a relatively new sweet treat being found in a few places in the U.S.: bean-to-bar chocolate. It’s the next step in the craft chocolate movement that has been growing in the U.S. as chocolate makers start from the raw product of the bean instead of importing raw chocolate to turn into their own creations. AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Amber Arnold “When I was a pastry chef, Chocolate makers at Sjolinds Chocolate House in Mount Horeb, Wis. start with cacao beans, you were kind of limited in what such as these from Nicaragua, pictured Jan. 28, that are delivered in 66-kilogram bags. you could make with chocolate C

by the kind of chocolate you had. That’s what sort of got my brain going,” said Tracy Thompson, one of the owners of the family business that opened in 2006. “When we started buying bars from all over the place we learned there are wildly different flavors in chocolate and we got really excited about that. So this is our little play lab that we get to share with people.” Sjolinds has five products that began as beans in the basement and were turned into five different, 1 1/2-ounce bars: Dark Milk, Wisconsin Butter Chocolate, Ghana, Nicaragua and Gau’s Milk, made with goat’s milk. The niche the chocolate makers at Sjolinds — Thompson and her daughter, Melissa Thiessen — want to create is combining ingredients from the world’s chocolate-growing regions with as many Wisconsin-made products as possible. “When we opened there were maybe five people in the country roasting their own beans and

making their own chocolate from scratch,” Thompson said. “Now we count more than 50.” Pam Williams, president of the Fine Chocolate Industry Association, said she also knows of about 50 producers of bean-tobar chocolate. She said the contemporary movement to make chocolate that way in the U.S. was begun by Scharffen Berger, which made its first bars in San Francisco in 1997. “Back in the 1700s, this was how all chocolate was made,” she said. Now most of the world’s chocolate is made from about 10 producers, with chocolatiers taking the raw product and putting their own finishing touches on it to create their confections. She made a parallel with bakers to distinguish most chocolate makers from what bean-to-bar makers are doing in creating from raw materials. “We don’t expect our bakers See BEAN, page B-2

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

SPICY MEXICAN CHEESE LOG 2 8oz pkg cream cheese-room temp 12 oz pepperjack cheese, shredded 8 oz sharp Cheddar cheese, shredded 1 4 oz can chopped green chilies 1/2 tsp chili powder 1/2 tsp minced garlic 1 jar chopped pimentos, drain well 2 cups pecans chopped fine

In a blender or mixer, blend all ingredients well except pecans. Do not over beat. On wax paper or plastic wrap, dump cheese out of blender and roll into a ball or log with the help of the plastic wrap. Unwrap and sprinkle with pecans evenly. Re-roll and refrigerate. This makes a nice gift. Keeps a month in the refrigerator.

HUNGARIAN MUSHROOM SOUP This is from Susan’s Recipe Box 12 mushroom, cleaned and sliced 2 cups onions chopped 4 tbsp butter-divided 3 tblsp flour 1 cup milk 1 tsp dill weed 1 cup broccoli chopped 1 tblsp paprika 1 tblsp salt - or to taste 2 cups beef broth - divided 2 tsp lemon juice 1/4 cup parsley chopped 1/2 cup sour cream Pepper to taste. Sauté onions in 2 tblsp butter. Salt and add mushrooms, dill,

1/2 cup of beef broth, broccoli and paprika. Cover and simmer 10 minutes Melt remaining butter in a saucepan, whisk in flour and cook a few minutes, stirring constantly. Slowly add milk and cook, stirring over low heat until thickened - about 5 minutes. Stir in the mushroom, onion mixture and add the remaining beef stock. Simmer slowly 15 minutes, covered. Add lemon juice, sour cream and correct taste with salt and pepper. Stir in parsley and serve this delicious soup with a small dollop of sour cream on top.

CORN MEAL BISCUITS Mom’s recipe from Susan’s Recipe Box 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup cornmeal 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp sugar 2 1/2 tblsp butter-cold 6 tblsp milk or buttermilk (preferred) Gently cut butter into the dry ingredientsMom used 2 table knives. Add the 6 tblsp buttermilk or milk. Gently stir and form into a ball. Knead just 5 times. Pat out and cut in rounds. OR do it the easy way - butter and sprinkle with cornmeal, a 8 x 8 inch pan. Pat dough into pan and score 9 squares. Bake at 450° for 12 to 14 minutes.

A Note about Mom and her biscuits: She loved biscuits with honey, maple syrup or jam on them. Us kids loved them swimming in maple syrup Uncle Guy lived with us for several years and he liked gravy on his. He would wait until the last biscuit was left on the plate and the last dab of gravy in the bowl, then he would say to Mom, “Loretta, could I have that last biscuit and gravy?” We all knew to leave the last one for Uncle Guy and Mom always waited until he asked for it!

Dividing dough into equal pieces helps to shape biscuits of uniform size for even baking. To help biscuits rise and to keep edges soft, place biscuits close together in the baking pan before baking.

/ cup buttermilk ¼ teaspoon baking soda 2 cups White-Lily Self-Rising Flour, measured by dipping measuring cup into flour, then leveling off with the flat end of a knife (dip and sweep), plus more for dusting Pinch salt 1 3 / cup unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small bits 2 tablespoon melted unsalted butter ¼ cup cream cheese, chilled 2 3

Preheat oven to 500 degrees. In a small bowl, stir baking soda into buttermilk and set aside. Place flour and salt into a large mixing bowl. Using your fingers, “cut” in the 1/3 cup butter and cream cheese until it has the texture of coarse meal with lumps the size of peas. Do not overwork. Make well in the center of mixture and pour in the buttermilk. With your hands, or a rubber spatula, mix lightly to blend to form a wet ball. Lightly sprinkle the top of the dough with flour, then flip dough once so that the bot-

tom of the dough is now on top; sprinkle lightly again with flour. Turn dough out of bowl onto a lightly floured surface. With floured hands, pat dough into an oval and divide dough into 3 equal pieces. Pat each piece into a 3/4-inch thick round, big enough to make two cuts with a sharp edged 3-inch floured biscuit cutter. (Be sure to cut straight through dough, without twisting the biscuit cutter.) Save scraps of dough, which you will use to make another biscuit. With sides touching one another, place biscuits into the bottom of an ungreased 8-inch cake pan. (Placing the biscuits close together in the pan will help the biscuits to rise and keep the sides soft, rather than crisp.) Brush tops with 1 tablespoon of the melted butter. Turn oven temperature down to 450 degrees and bake until biscuits have risen and are golden brown, about 18 minutes. Remove biscuits from oven and brush tops with the remaining melted butter. Serve immediately. Makes 7 large biscuits.

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remember when you left Ginger at the Church?” He would hang his head and say “Yes, yes, I know.” The worst part of this story was, HE had to tell Mom! Gingers place, from then on, was in the front seat next to Dad. We never, ever, complained about it, because we all knew why!!

to own a flour mill, it’s the same thing,” she said. In Milwaukee, Tabal has been making bean-to-bar chocolate since 2012, and another business there, Indulgence Chocolatiers, has the equipment in place to begin doing so later this year. Most chocolate-makers big and small create products from finished chocolate that is made from beans grown in areas 20 degrees north and south of the equator. Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world’s largest producers of cacao (its beans are often used interchangeably with “cocoa beans”). Big companies buy large amounts and add ingredients to create consistency across the brand. Small chocolatiers buy from specific areas for a specific flavor profile. Some, like Madison chocolatier Gail Ambrosius, will travel to meet cacao farmers, producers and importers. Much of chocolate’s flavor comes from the beans, which like any crop such as coffee, grapes or tea leaves, can be affected by its geography or terroir. The beans are then fermented, which also impacts their flavor. For now, Sjolinds gets beans from Ghana and Nicaragua that are imported by a dealer in Seattle. The beans come to Mount Horeb in 66-kilogram bags, fermented, dried and ready to roast. “We look for strong personality,” Thompson said. “We’re not really attached to one particular bean at this point.” Thompson and other beanto-bar chocolate makers liken what’s happening with chocolate in the U.S. to what happened with coffee 30 years ago — a switch from buying big brands to creating smaller-batch versions and unique products by controlling the ingredients down to the bean. There are also similarities to craft beer, Thiessen said, particularly in how many American chocolate makers have favored

The following is a story Dad told over and over. A little boy was drawing a picture in Sunday School after they just finished singing “Silent Night.” He drew Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. Standing next to the manger was a rather large rotund man. “Who is that?” Asked his teacher. “Oh,” said the little boy, “That is Round John Virgin.” The Grannie Annie series is written by a 47 year resident of Alaska, Ann Berg of Nikiski.Ann shares her collections of recipes from family and friends. She has gathered recipes for more that 50 years. Some are her own creation. Her love of recipes and food came from her Mother, a self taught wonderful cook. She hopes you enjoy the recipes and that the stories will bring a smile to your day. Grannie Annie can be reached at anninalaska@gci. net Cookbooks make great gifts! The “Grannie Annie” Cook Book Series includes: “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ on the Woodstove”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ at the Homestead”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ Fish from Cold Alaskan Waters”; and “Grannie Annie’s Eat Dessert First.” They are available at M & M Market in Nikiski.

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Melissa Thiessen of Sjolinds Chocolate House in Mount Horeb, Wis. puts cracked Nicaraguan cacao beans into a winnower Jan. 28, to separate the shells from the nibs before they go into a melanger, at left. The winnower was the toughest piece of machinery for the business to find until a regular at the chocolate shop designed this one. aggressive flavors. “It fits in with the whole IPA craze with people liking things that are intense,” she said. “But it’s starting to come down a bit with people starting to make more mellow, more classic chocolate.” In many ways, the basics of chocolate-making aren’t difficult. The main ingredients are ground and liquefied beans and sugar with perhaps other things such as vanilla, cocoa butter or powdered milk. The tough parts are finding the right equipment, finding the desired flavor and getting the details right. Beans are first roasted, then the shells are cracked. Shells are removed to leave just the cocoa nibs, which are ground and liquefied in a machine Thompson calls a “melanger,” and others call a grinder or concher. At Sjolinds that step, which is when sugar or milk powder would be added, takes three days. After that, the chocolate is put

in sheets and the flavors meld for about a month. Then, for about 40 minutes, it goes into a machine to temper it — a process of heating and cooling that gives the chocolate the shine and the snap when it breaks. From there, it goes into molds, and is packaged and sold. At Sjolinds, bean-to-bar began when Thiessen ordered a 5-pound bag of beans on the Internet about seven years ago, just to give it a try. She started by roasting them on the stove top, and then with a Whirley Pop popcorn maker before finding a 3-pound coffee roaster. She then cracked the shells with a Ninja blender, a tool she still uses. The nibs were then — and still are — ground in a machine designed for grinding curry spices. The natural oil in the nibs and heat of the granite-stone grinding liquefies the chocolate. They made and sold the chocolate in small bars. Then creativity and entrepreneurship kicked in, and Thompson decided to

take chocolate-making a few steps further. “It’s part of my mom’s personality,” Thiessen said. “When she sees something, she always thinks, ‘Can I make that?’” Beyond Thompson’s curiosity, the business benefited from a bit of providence, too. There’s not much equipment being made for small-batch chocolate-making, so those who want to do it have to get creative. In their down time, Thompson and Thiessen would research equipment, always finding things were too big or too expensive. Thiessen, her sister, Erin, staff and even curious customers would sit at tables in the cafe picking the shells from the nibs. One day, a Sjolinds regular noticed what they were doing. “He saw us hand-shelling the beans one day and said, ‘There’s got to be a better way,’” Thiessen said. Ed Moen, a local motel owner with degree in mechanical de-

sign, then created a machine with PVC piping and a shop vacuum that did the trick. Eventually he made another, shinier one with food-grade stainless steel that was perfect for what Thiessen and Thompson needed. To make more chocolate, Thiessen and Thompson also knew they needed a bigger roaster. Thompson saw a coffee roaster on a pop-up ad while surfing the Web and called the business to see if it would work for roasting cacao beans. The man selling the roaster just happened to have a friend who had a chocolate shop and could get some beans to try it out. He experimented, found it would work and Sjolinds had itself a roaster. Thompson and Thiessen worked to source as many local products as they could. Local butter wasn’t a problem; local powdered milk — cow and goat — was a little trickier. With help from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, they found sources. The powders are made in Wisconsin but came with the caveat that every little bit might not be from the Dairy State. “There might be some Illinois milk in there,” Thiessen said. The business has the equipment it needs now, but Thompson and Thiessen have bigger goals. For now, the sole bean-tobar products are the bars they are selling for $4.95 at the café and also at Botham Vineyards near Barneveld, Convivio in Spring Green, Cow and Quince in New Glarus and Main Street Sweets in Mineral Point. Sjolinds buys chocolate to use for its other products, including the coating or “couverture” - on the truffles and other confections. Thompson would like all chocolate to be made in house, bean to bar. To do that, they’ll need more space and that’s the plan. Sjolinds is in the early stages of planning a “chocolate factory” in an area of development on the east edge of Mount Horeb. The new facility would also have retail and a tasting room, but the shop on Main Street would remain open.

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Project Name: S. Spruce and Third Ave. Sediment Control Structure Repair 2015 Pre Bid Meeting: 2PM Tuesday March 10, 2015 at City Hall Last Day for Questions: 5PM Wednesday March 11, 2015 Bid Due Date and Time: No later than 2PM Monday March 23, 2015 Scope of Work: Repair S. Spruce St. and the Third Avenue Sediment Control Structure. Bidders should contact the Public Works Department at (907) 283-8236 to be placed on the plans holders list. Bids must be delivered in a sealed envelope clearly marked with the project name to the Public Works Department at the address above. Bid documents can be obtained on City of Kenai website at: www.ci.kenai.ak.us or at City Hall for a non-refundable fee of $20.00 including sale tax for each set of documents. This contract is subject to the provision of Federal Davis Bacon and State of Alaska, Title 36, and Minimum Wage Rates and may require 100% performance and payment bonds. PUBLISH: 2/25, 3/2, 2015

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The Soldotna City Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 177 N. Birch St., Soldotna, Alaska, on the following items: Resolution PZ 2015-004 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission granting a Conditional Use Permit for the construction of a 1,200 square foot enclosed storage facility. The property is zoned commercial, and is located at 102 E. Marydale Avenue, Soldotna, AK. All application materials and associated documents can be viewed in the Planning Department at Soldotna City Hall. 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: 2/25, 27,2015

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Overpacking for business trip prompts questions of trust DEAR ABBY: I’m in my 40s and my boyfriend of three years is 12 years older. We are in love and our relationship is great. He travels for work and lives in another state, so he flies in to see my daughter and me every other week. Because he is older, he uses Viagra, and it’s kept at my place in a drawer. I assumed that’s where it was always kept. Abby, when he left for his trip yesterday, he took his Viagra with him! He says he grabbed the bottle without thinking and that I’m overreacting. The rest of his things are kept in his travel bag, so it’s not like he just gathered up all of his pills. They were the only ones. Now he’s upset with me because “I don’t trust him.” Can you help me get my thinking straight? I caught him lying about something when we first started dating, so he’s not all squeaky clean like he acts. — SUSPICIOUS IN VIRGINIA DEAR SUSPICIOUS: Unless your boyfriend was prescribed the Viagra for a condition other than ED, I’d say you have a right to be suspicious. Because his little blue pills were kept apart from his other medications, it took special effort for him to pack them. Talk with him further because he may have been contemplating a “party of one” during his travels

and not have been looking for adventure. DEAR ABBY: I’m in the middle of a situation that I’m not sure how to deal with. My mother’s husband made a pass at my boyfriend. My boyfriend thinks I should tell her. Abby, my mother and her husband are in their 70s, and I don’t want to cause problems Abigail Van Buren in their marriage. I’d like to write it off as a “misunderstanding,” but my stepdad has a history of doing things like this. — ANONYMOUS IN OREGON DEAR ANONYMOUS: If your boyfriend didn’t already, he should tell your stepfather the pass was unwelcome and he doesn’t want it to happen again. If it does, you and your boyfriend should talk to your mother about it and explain why she’ll be seeing less of you unless she visits you — alone. Because this isn’t the first time your stepfather has acted inappropriately, it won’t be news to her.

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And because she has tolerated his behavior in the past, I doubt it will cause problems between them now. DEAR ABBY: My husband’s family gave us a large painting that is not our taste at all. We would love to get rid of it, but of course we feel obligated to keep it and hang it in order to not hurt their feelings. They live nearby and visit often, so putting the painting away doesn’t seem realistic. We live in a small apartment and there is nowhere “discreet” to hang it. Plus, it is too large to take to our offices. Other than staging a robbery, are there any options that would keep everyone happy? — GRINNING & BEARING IT DEAR GRINNING: Another option would be to level with your in-laws. Tell them you are grateful for their generosity, but the artwork is not your taste, and then ask if they would mind if you exchanged it. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Soldotna Chamber taps Tami Murray for executive director position

You’ll find fine crystal & art glass at Giana’s Enchanted Crystals & Antiques. Page 2

Annual Hospice Wine tasting event sets new records Page 3

As the first month of the New Year was passing away KPC’s Kenai River Campus held their 24th Career Day specifically designed to provide attendees with a wide range of potential career directions. The public, KPC students and area high school students turned out to learn from more than 60 different presenters who talked about what it’s like to work in their chosen occupations. Additionally to the individual career-focused sessions, there were more than 20 businesses and organizations set up in the Brockel and McLane commons offering information on job opportunities, internships and ca-

Former event and visitor center coordinator for the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce Tami Murray has moved into a new office, that of executive director for the Chamber. After a nationwide search and some 30 applicants vying to replace outgoing executive director Michelle Glaves the board of directors decided to hand the reigns over to Murray who has been in the community since 2003 and has also served as the executive director of the T-200 sled dog race. “It’s quite exciting and a great opportunity that I’m really looking forward to,” Murray told the Dispatch. Murray officially took the helm Monday after extensive collaboration with Glaves, “Tami was such a great choice, she already manages the visitor center staff so she already has the boss gene in her and will do great,” said Glaves who held the position for 11 years. “Michelle was a great boss and had a way of cracking the whip and

not making you feel bad and come back asking for more, so I’ve been listening and doing some serious training with her. She has some big shoes to fill, but I do have some ideas I’ll be bringing out in the future. Right now we’re looking forward to the only St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Alaska and helping Mike Sweeney with that, then Lemonade Day in May,” said Murray. Her other involvement in the community includes volunteering for Wounded Heroes, Take A Kid Fishing, Benefit for Kids, and much more! For the second year in a row Mother Nature and the lack of snow has forced the canceling of the most popular Iditarod qualifier in Alaska the T-200 and while disappointed Murray hopes that next year will be the charm. She plans on continuing her position as director of that race while assuming her new post at the Chamber. “We were very pleased with the number of applications re-

Tami Murray moves into the executive director’s office at Soldotna Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center.

ceived for the position, and the board of directors feels like we have selected a well-qualified candidate”, said Ryan Kapp, President of the Board of Directors. He also noted that the Chamber will be well served

by Tami’s knowledge of the Chamber from her tenure there, as well as her previous nonprofit and Executive Director experience. To welcome Tami to her new post and learn more about

upcoming events or introduce yourself and your business stop by the Chamber office and visitor center at the bridge in Soldotna or call 262-9814 or visit the Soldotna Chamber website and like them on Facebook.

24th Career Day at KPC’s Kenai River Campus offers in depth look at work reer training. Bryan Zak, Assistant State director of the Small Business Development Center was impressed with the turn out for the event, “It was motivating for me to see the young people turn out here looking for careers. They are our most important resource for the future so what we offer them were opportunities to think clearly about their futures now. I was able to share our projection model for small businesses with a group of young people interested in becoming entrepreneurs in the future. The technology that is available is amazing but many young people today are hitting

information overload in many ways, so having professional experts here at the Career Day to help mentor and guide them in certain career paths certainly was a help to them to navigate the mass of information in the global classroom that they have available to them,” said Zak. Kenai Peninsula College recently received a generous donation that was used to purchase critical training equipment to augment process technology and instrumentation students’ learning experiences. The BP Exploration, Inc. gift was used to procure an artificial lift trainer that helps students understand the concept

of artificial lift in Alaska’s aging oil fields. The $30,000 unit, produced by Bayport Training and Technical Center, is housed in the tools laboratory in the Career and Technical Education Center at the Kenai River Campus. At a recent Soldotna Chamber of Commerce presentation KPC director Gary Turner talked of the tremendous growth that the college is experiencing, “We are the fastest growing college in the University of Alaska system. We have a great team, great faculty and a great staff. When people start with us they stay with us because it’s a great place

to work. The process technology and instrumentation program is booming with the Institute of Social & Economic Research for UAA recently did a study looking at where UAA graduates with all the degrees offered from certificates to MA’s where they were five years later and what they were earning and believe it or not process technology graduates from KPC were at the top number one. These graduates

on average are earning $105K annually after being out of school five years and number three in that study including all 4 year and engineering degrees offered were the grads of our occupational safety & health program another two year degree KPC does in Anchorage,” said Turner. See PHOTOS CAREER DAY, page A-2

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Bryan Zak & Bunny Chun of the SBDC were busy during KPC Career Day.

Eric McGhee talks with students about career opportunities at Alyeska Pipeline during KPC Career Day.

Military career opportunities are detailed during KPC Career Day.

24th Career Day at KPC’s Kenai River Campus is a great success.

Giana opens new Enchanted Crystals & Antiques at Red Diamond Center Reminiscent of the quaint antique shops of Europe and New England Alaskan collectors now have a new antiquing experience awaiting them at Giana Pitsilionis’s Enchanted Crystals & Antiques shop on K-Beach Rd. Giana is also the owner of Vaughn’s Mini Mart and Shell station and has located her new shop right behind the Mini Mart across from the Orca Theatre. “I’ve always liked antiques and searching for them in my travels. Looking and browsing or antiquing as it is called has been a hobby of mine. It’s like treasure hunting or watching the Antique Road Show and pretend it’s happening to you with your latest find. So I decided to share the fun and open a little store to feature some of the items I’ve collected over the years as well as some beautiful handmade 18k gold jewelry I’ve brought in from Greece,” Giana told the Dispatch. Enchanted Crystals & Antiques has wide variety of items from as far away as Persia and Europe as well as traditional American items including antique crystal and art glass, Sterling Silver, rugs furniture and many fine gifts, “We have some lovely furniture and buf-

fets which I would say are the finer things that are European and decorative yet functional. The type of things a designer or decorator is searching for to give their home a unique atmosphere. We have collectable from Waterford and Lennox as well as other famous name brands and signature pieces. I have a passion for mahogany furniture but it is hard to find, but we have some as well some oak mirrors and old stained glass,” said Giana. While she has collected most of the pieces personally Giana says some consignments are welcome, “We are limited on space so we are selective with what we Reflections of the past at the new Enchanted Crystals & Anconsider to consign but under the tiques. right conditions we’ll take some things on consignment. The parents of the baby boomer generation were collectors and as they age they may have inherited some items that they are not sure of the value. We welcome them to come by and show us and Ignacio shows a fine silver tea set at Enchanted Crystals & we’re happy to research the item Antiques. for them,” she added. Enchanted Crystals & Antiques is open during the winter Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11:00am – 7:00pm but plan on extending those days and hours during the summer months.

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Annual Hospice Wine tasting event sets new records Cupid had his bow aimed at a lot of big hearts this year as it just happened that St. Valentine’s Day, February 14th fell on the second Saturday of the month, the same weekend that Hospice of the Central Peninsula traditionally schedules their Wine Tasting & Auction fund raising event. Coincidently it was also the first community event held at the new Fireweed Fellowship Hall at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Soldotna. “We were able to add five more tables than we had in the past, which allowed us to accommodate our record breaking attendance

this year and we were sold out weeks before the event,” said Gale Robison, the new executive director, “We were thrilled with the presentation at the new facility and the participation from the community in their generous bidding in the auction making it our most successful fund raising event ever. We were thrilled this year that Valentine’s Day fell on the traditional Saturday for our event. It was a perfect day because Valentine’s Day is about the month of hearts and Hospice is all about healing hearts and helping people walk the difficult path when they

have an end of life illness,” added Robison who hails from California. “I got my college education in Colorado, met my husband who was a career military officer so we traveled all over the U.S. and one of our assignments was in Alaska and we landed here in the late 70’s and never left,” she told the Dispatch. Hospice of the Central Peninsula serves the community from Cooper Landing to Anchor Point with a variety of programs one of which is known as “Five Wishes.” “It’s been around for a while and comes out of Aging with

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Dignity a national organization. We’ll be presenting our Five Wishes program at the Kenai Senior Center March, 3rd and April 13th in Sterling. It’s a simple booklet that has been approved by the national legal association as a way of presenting your family with your wishes of who you want to take care of you, how you want to be taken care of and establishes a program for your memorial service. We have found that it facilitates intimate communication among family members and proves very beneficial when end of life comes,” explained Robi-

son. Other programs are underway for the coming summer at Hospice including Camp MendA-Heart, “It’s a wonderful program that is subsidized by Central Peninsula Hospital and is all set to go August 10th – 12th at Solid Rock Camp. We are also starting a greeting group here one Thursday evening a month for widows or widowers and those who experience the loss of a loved one. Additionally we continue to be out in the community talking about the bereavement programs we have for when people just need someone to talk to. Also one

of most important programs is our lending closet. We see close to 200 families a month who come in to borrow a variety of things such as walkers, bedside commodes, shower chairs, hospital beds, lift chairs and wheel chairs at no cost to them for as long as they need it,” she said. Anyone wishing to volunteer or learn more about the programs of Hospice of the Central Peninsula may stop by their office in Soldotna on the Kenai Spur Hwy in the AK Maxi Storage building Monday-Thursday 10:00am – 4:00pm or visit their website at hospiceofsoldotna. com.

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(NAPS)—The holidays are about families gathering together to celebrate and to discuss issues of importance to everyone, including older members of the family. For this reason, an annual campaign called Home for the Holidays was established to provide families with information to help stimulate a dialogue about major issues affecting their older loved ones. This year’s campaign focuses on the risks to brain health for older adults and offers some simple strategies to help mitigate those risks. The campaign is conducted by the Eldercare Locator, a program established and funded by the Administration for Community Living (ACL) and administered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). Brain Health A Key Issue In recent surveys of people over the age of 50, worry about the ability to stay mentally sharp is consistently ranked among the top concerns, surpassing such issues as having an adequate retirement fund or the ability to meet health care expenses. Meanwhile, the number of reported cases of brain health– related conditions is expected to rise with the aging of the baby boomer population. In a 2011 survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 13 percent of respondents, age 60 and older, reported increased confusion and memory loss in

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the preceding 12 months, and of that number, over 35 percent said they experienced functional difficulties that might require services and supports now or in the future. The centerpiece of the campaign is a brochure entitled “Brain Health: You Can Make a Difference!” The information in the brochure draws from materials developed by ACL in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. Here are a few practical tips from the brochure: Eat Right Try to maintain a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean meats (including fish and poultry) and low-fat or non-fat dairy products. Monitor your intake of

solid fat, sugar and salt, and eat proper portion sizes. Get Moving Being physically active may help reduce the risk of conditions that can harm brain health, such as diabetes, heart disease, depression and stroke; it may also help improve connections among your brain cells. Older adults should get at least 150 minutes of exercise each week. Drink Moderately, If At All Staying away from alcohol can reverse some negative changes related to brain health. Think and Connect Keep your mind active by doing mentally stimulating activities like reading, playing games, learning new things, teaching or taking a class and being social. Additional tips and information on smoking risks and the dangers of falls to brain health are among the topics covered in the brochure and more than a dozen links to helpful online resources are also included. n4a CEO Sandy Markwood noted, “We recognize how critical brain health is to ensuring successful aging. The brochure was designed to help people realize that there are practical steps they can take to promote their brain health and to offer information about a wide range of healthy aging services through the Aging Network.” To order a copy of the free brochure, contact the Eldercare Locator at 800-677-1116 or visit www.eldercare.gov.

Honoring American agriculture on March 18 (NAPS)—In no other sustainable practices that country do so few people help put wholesome and produce so much food, to affordable food on tables feed so many, at such reaaround the world, every sonable prices.îóPresident day, without fail. Dwight D. Eisenhower According to the President Eisenhowerís Agriculture Council of words ring as true today America, the national as they did more than 60 organization behind years ago. National Ag Day, itís Thatís why on March important that consum18, the country will celers understand where ebrate National Ag Day, their food comes from and formally recognize and how farmers use the the efforts of nearly 2 millatest technologies and lion hardworking family agricultural innovations farmers and ranchers who to make it all posproduce much of the food sible. In fact, history has and fiber on which the shown that the vitality Learn More To find out more about and wellbeing of future world depends. National Ag Day on March 18 and generations hinges on the This yearís National learn about the accomplishments Ag Day theme is Agingenuity and producof American agriculture, visit www. riculture: Sustaining tivity of its agricultural agday.org. Future Generations. It industry. showcases the role that farmers, ranchers When President Eisenhower spoke about and agribusinesses play in providing a safe, Americaís farmers, the world population was nutritious and affordable food supply for 3 billion and each farmer produced enough nearly 7.3 billion people worldwide today for 25 other people. Today, each farmer proand the 9 billion people expected by 2050. duces enough for more than 144 people. This More important, todayís producers use demonstrates the tremendous productivity less water, land and other resources than and efficiency of these food producers and ever before. Not only are they producing the dedication of thousands of agribusiness more with less, they are using modern, companies that support them.

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(NAPS)— Here is food for thought: Just as specific foods and nutritional supplements have value in treating specific diseases, some can also encourage eye health. Eating right can help you save your own sight. Here are some suggestions: Ten Foods for Sight 1. Cold water fish (sardines, cod, mackerel, tuna) are an

excellent source of DHA, for structural support to cell membranes and to treat dry eyes and macular degeneration. 2. Spinach, kale and green leafy vegetables are rich in carotenoids, especially lutein and zeaxanthin, to protect against sun damage. 3. Eggs contain cysteine, sulfur, lecithin, amino acids and lutein. Sulfur protects against

cataract formation. 4. Garlic, onions, shallots and capers are also rich in sulfur, necessary for glutathione, an important antioxidant for the lens. 5. Non-GMO soy, low in fat and rich in protein, contains essential fatty acids, phytoestrogens, vitamin E and natural anti-inflammatory agents. 6. Fruits and vegetables con-

tain vitamins A, C, E and betacarotene. Yellow and orange vegetables, such as carrots and squash, are important for daytime vision. 7. Blueberries and grapes contain anthocyanins, which improve night vision. A cup of blueberries or huckleberry jam, or a 100-mg bilberry supplement, can improve dark adaptation within 30 minutes.

8. Wine has many important nutrients to protect the heart, vision and blood flow. 9. Nuts and berries are natureís most concentrated food sources. Grains such as flaxseed are high in the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, which help lower cholesterol and stabilize cell membranes. 10. Extra-virgin olive oil is a healthy alternative to butter and

margarine. In addition, drink six 8-ounce glasses of filtered water every day as water helps create the fluid in your eyes. Dietary Supplement Since most people canít get all those foods in the right amounts in their diets every day, vitamins and supplements can be an eye insurance policy

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908 Highland Ave. Kenai............................. 283-0454

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130 S. Willow St. #8 Kenai............................. 283-5116

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