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Ketchikan Pulp Cleans Up Neighbors' Water Systems KETrmK-AM A TM water tanks, disconnecting anH roof cat systems to haul water to Ae tanks the future. The action is in compliance with a Department vironmental Conservation notice. The mill's spokesman, Troy Reinhart said Friday that aluminuirfcovers are being placed atop "a few dozen" cisterns belonging to resident who live downwind of the mill a DEC environmental specialist, said Friday that the orbieS was the result of citizen tW foam rele from and found that it posed risk," said Crook. There's only a perceived problem," said Reinhart, the mill spokesman. "We're trying to take care of perceived concerns before they become problems." The cistern covers were the second of five "requests" listed in a Dec.

27 notice from DEC. Crook characterized the 'requests" as really being directives. The notice said the foam "was blown off KPC's property and contaminated drinking water systems" nearby. This is a violation of an Alaska statute that prohibits pollution and another concerning creation of a "water nuisance," according to the DEC. One nearby resident, Bud Schultz, said Friday Status of Key Legislation: San TMncisco Plays Hos 11 To Kind Oflditnrnd 'nf otii-A i "QUlVal6ntS of frnm I i ui itcy SlQTG 1 nv ILVJILI iODDVTM 1 1M ff I I 1 i i A NT C7O A Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Monday, March 4,1996, Page 3 San Francisco Plays Host One resident described the foam in as resembling snow, according TM; said foam was a mix of pulp fibers, a defoaming chemical similar to dish ote cornpounds-resulting from the mill's extraction process.

"Certainly, none of this should be anybody's drinking water" she said DEC ordered the mill to'supply nearby residents with bottled water immediately and then to do the current project. The company tested the material at Double-O Menu Tuesday: roast pork, potatoes gravy, vegetables, salad, fruited Jell-CD and milk. Wednesday: soup and sandwich, salad, chocolate cake and milk. Thursday: chicken cacciatore, vegetables; salad, pudding and milk Friday: baked salmon, rice, vegetables-salad, canned fruit and milk. ujf VO than to put in the pollution abatement that they should have.

But at least this null doesn't smell like th" 1 ave how much the list bill number, subject, what they would do, principal sponsor and status. HB 400, SB 206, Welfare Reform: Would seek to bump 10 percent of adults off welfare and into jobs within five years; At request of Gov. Tony Knowles; House and Senate Community and Regional Affairs committees. HB 398, HB 465, SB 204, Teacher tenure: Would increase the amount of time it takes teachers to gain tenure to three years; At request of Gov. Tony Knowles, HB 465 sponsored by Rep Ivan Ivan, D-Akiak; HB 398, HB 465 House Health, Education and Social Services Committee, SB in Senate State Affairs Committee HB 317, HB 368, SB 191 Campaign Finance Reform: Would curtail the influence of special interest money election campaigns; Sponsored by Reps.

David Finkelstein, D-Anchorage, Jeannette James, R-North Pole, and Sen. Tim Kelly, R-Anchorage; iij J.Lv/iii Legislature; Sponsored by million over the years to address five HB 325, Heavy Oil: Would grant petroleum companies a five-year holiday on paying state royalties for goino after certain low-grade, hard-to-drill oil reserves; Sponsored by Rep. Joe Green, R-Anchorage; House Finance Committee. HB 158, Civil Liability Limits: Would set limits on awards in certain civil lawsuits; Sponsored by Rep Brian Porter, R-Anchorage; Senate Labor and Commerce Committee SB 33, HB 449, Income Tax- Would revive a state personal income tax; Sponsored by Sen. Georgianna Lincoln, D-Rampart, and Rep Carl Moses, D-Unalaska; Senate and House State Affairs.

SB 233-237, HB 431, HB 441-445, ong-Range Financial Planning' Commission proposals: Would increase alcohol, gas and cigarette taxes raise motor vehicle license fees and eliminate exemptions for charities, and end a state mandate requiring lo- PJ1I SB 183, Lobbying Spouses: Would Salvage Timber in Chugach Withdrawn from Log Sale ANCHORAGE (AP) The U.S Forest Service has withdrawn some of the more controversial Chugach National Forest acreage originally targeted for logging under a new federal savage" law. The agency cites both public concern and economic The land eliminated makes up about 20 percent of the 5,525 acres originally identified for consideration said Fred Prange of the Forest Ser- Board Ups Sockeye Limit For Kenai, Susitna Anglers A ANCHORAGE (AP) The state Hsnenes Board Friday boosted sport fishing opportunities for Kenai Peninsula and Susitna Valley anglers. The board also made several changes in the region's personal use fisheries. The board approved a daily bag limit of six sockeye salmon for Kenai Barrow Booze Ban Back BARROW (AP) Importation of alcohol into Barrow once again becomes illegal Friday. Residents of the North Slope community voted to reimpose the ban in a special local option election Feb.

20 The yote was 941 to 794. The local option law becomes effective in two stages. The first stage, which bans the sale and importation of alcohol, started the first day of the month after the election was certified, or March 1. Home brewing also is illegal now under Barrow's new dry Effective April 22, it will also be against the law to possess alcohol in Barrow. Barrow's alcohol restrictions have seesawed in recent years.

In October of 1994, Barrow went from damp to dry, barring alcohol sale, import and possession. Then last October, the voted to allow all three. Then last month's election made the community dry again. STEP Aerobics Sessions Planned Community School will offer two new sessions of STEP aerobics March 4- April 26. One class will meet 6-7 p.m.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Ver- stovia Elementary School. Cost is $48. The other class will meet 5-6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Verstovia The cost is $32. Tina Kotson will teach both classes.

Registration is now open at Community School, located at Blatchley Middle School. For more information call 747-8670. Primrose Sale Set in March Advance orders for the annual Spring Primrose Sale are now being taken by the Sitka Junior Olympic Softball team. A sale is planned on two Saturdays, March 16 and 23, with the location to be announced. Advance orders are encouraged and may be made by calling Penny Brown at 747-5329 or Paul Matter at 7476821.

Congratulations Congratulations are extended to the following persons listed on the Sitka High School Team calendar. Cher Crosby, Aliza Miguel, Charlotte Candelaria and Daniel Whitson are listed with birthdays for today. River anglers. The old plan held the daily catch to three reds until 700,000 fish passed sonar counters on the Kenai River. Sport and setnet silver fishing opportunities in northern Cook Inlet gain from a new coho salmon management plan.

The plan calls for restricting the 4ritt gillnet fishery in the central part of Gcwk.inlet-in late-July-and-cldSing the fisheryforthe central district "Aug. 9 to allow more northbound sockeye and silver salmon reach their home streams. Paul Dale, president of Snug Harbor Seafoods in Kenai, buys from the inlet's commercial fishermen. He says the change will benefit lodge owners guides and land developers more than Alaska resident anglers. "It seems the board came here knew what they wanted to do and didn't waste a great deal of time getting it done," said Dale.

For personal use fisheries, the board ended gillnetting for red salmon and late-run coho on the Kasilof River, except at the mouth. The board also set a limit on personal use fishermen of one salmon per household from Cook let drainages. The old regulations allowed, five king salmon per household, plus an additional King for each family member. The sport fishery's season bag limit remains at five. The board also added restrictions on personal use dipnet fisheries.

Dip- net fisheries were restricted to July 10-Aug. 5 on the Kenai and Kasilof nvers. The old regulations also allowed for two dipnet periods in May and four in June for the Kenai and Kasilof nvers. But the board decided to allow the dipnetters to fish from boats in the two streams. Library Board To Meet March 6 The Kettleson Memorial Library Board of Library Commissioners will hold its regular monthly meeting 7 p.m.

March 6 in the library office The meeting is open to the public. School Board Set to Meet Members of the Sitka School Board will hold a regular meeting at 7 on March 4 at the ANB Hall. Leaders to Meet Girl Scout leaders will meet 7 March 6 at Blatchley Middle School Upcoming events will be discussed, including Girl Scout cookies, Girl Scout Month, window decorations day camp and fly-ups. Leaders or a troop representative are asked to attend. For more information call Kim at 747-5974.

Board to Meet The Raven Radio board of directors will hold its regular monthly meeting 7 p.m. March 5 in the Pioneers Home chapel. The meeting is open to the public. vice. To fulfil the 1995 congressional mandate, the Forest plans to allow logging.of beetle-killed and Jive green trees in the Chugach forest All of the Seattle Creek drainage identified in preliminary proposals and most of the Sixmile Creek acreage adjacent to Turnagain Arm has been eliminated from the northern Kenai sale, said Larry Hudson, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest About 400 acres that would have required a road across the popular Resurrection Pass Trail has been removed from sale consideration, said Prange.

The Ingram Creek drainage also will not be logged at this time. Sale there has been postponed "because of forest condition and stand composition," according to the agency. Hudson characterized the acreage reduction as a normal step in the Forest Service's progress down the road to any sale. But Jay Stange of the Alaska Center for the Environment called it i yiqtoty'tor citizens' 'groups f. that opposed logging some of most accessible scenic areas.

"This is seen by most of the million people who ride tour buses between Seward and Denali," Stance said Friday. Hudson agreed that "the item with the public was the aesthet- 1C but said impact on fisheries wildlife, tourism and the watershed plus economics, all were considered in deciding which acreage to offer. The so-called "salvage" law was championed in Congress last year by Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska. Young and other backers said it would allow more logging, faster, in areas where fire and insects killed trees.

Sponsored by Senate and House Rules committees, HB 431 sponsored by House Health, Education and Social Services Committee; House and Senate State Affairs. HJR 56, SJR 33, Constitutional Budget Reserve Fund Changes: would ask voters to amend the state Constitution to make it easier for lawmakers to dip into the fund; Senate and House Rules; Senate and House State Affairs. HJR 55, SJR 34, Permanent Fund Amendment: Would ask voters to amend the state Constitution to increase the payments into the fund and allow lawmakers to use a percentage for government spending; Sponsored by House and Senate Rules; House and Senate State Affairs HB 45, HB 481, SB 52, Capital Punishment: Would either call for advisory votes or reinstate the death penalty some murder cases or allow Junes to sentence killers of children to death. HB 45 sponsored by Rep. Jerry Sanders, R-Anchorage.

HB 481 sponsored by Rep. Bev Masek, R-Willow SB 52 sponsored by Sen. Robin Taylor R-Wrangell; HB 481 in House Judiciary, HB 45 in House State Affairs, SB 52 in Senate Judiciary. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) If you want to run with the big dogs, you have to avoid the potholes and the speeding buses and the cable cars But whatever you do, don't miss the rest stops at the local bars. That's the motto for participants in this year's Urban Iditarod, the second-annual, only-in-San-Francisco take-off on Alaska's famous dog sled race Both races began Saturday.

"I've been to Alaska, and they've got some mighty fine dogs up there but I like to see them try to outrun a public bus or dodge a cable car," says founder "Tundra" Tommy Marsh. This race ain't no walk in the park!" In Alaska, hundreds of well-trained dogs on Saturday began pulling 60 mushers on what is likely to be a 10- day race across 1,150 miles of nature harshest terrain. Meanwhile, more than 20 "dog sled" teams consisting of people in canine costumes harnessed to shopping carts were expected to mush their way through San Francisco's nigged urban environment. The course was scheduled to start at a gentlemanly 11 a.m. in the wind tunnels that make up the city's Financial District The sled teams will wind their way through the traffic around Union up and down the killer hills of Chinatown and North Beach and, finally, find their way through the tourist hell of Fisherman's Wharf before the race ended in the gentle flats ol the Marina District.

Following the lead of the Alaska original, there were to be several mandatory rest stops all at local bars. Last year's winner finished in 2 hours and 15 minutes. The runner-up says he and his team are hungry for victory. "The field is pretty tough, but many of their barks are worse than ihejr bites," musher Roy "Big Doe" Vella said. to an Fifi Kramer commented, bach team has its own style.

Some pJay to run, some run to play and some just run around sniffing each other. It's San Francisco, after all." Th rac is put together by Tom Marsh, 29, a business student at Stanford University. Participants use whatever shopping carts they can find on the streets, then return them to the appropriate stores at the end of the day. Oddsmaker Listing Swingley, Buser, Swenson as Favorites ANCHORAGE (AP) Sure Doug Swingley's confident about his chances in this year's Iditarod Trail bled Dog race. So are Rick Swenson and Martin Buser.

But they don't have just talk to fall back on. They've got the odds. A Reno, oddsmaker has pegged defending champ Swingley the favorite at 3-1, with former champs Swenson and Buser just behind him at 5-1. Jim Conway, founder of Conway's Sports Research, said Friday that he posted the odds on his Internet site after reading the musher biographies and doing a little research on past performances. Driving Conway's effort more than anything, however, are e-mail requests from hundreds of Alaskans former Alaskans and grade school students around the country interested the race.

Anchorage Man Killed Near Starting kine of Iditarod Race ANCHORAHF A A Forest Enterprise Opportunities Workshop Set Wrangeil will host the conference, 'Forest Enterprise Opportunities in Secondary Manufacturing," on March 20-21 at the Wrangeil Community Center. Presentations featuring seven Alaskan secondary wood manufacturing businesses and a timber cruiser from the Olympic Peninsula who started his own secondary processing business. Other presentations include drying wood for secondary processins, erative business strategies, and a report on the Alternative Wood Based Industries for Sitka, a feasibility study. The conference will wrap up with a display of forest products from Southeast forests and a tour of Wrangell wood processing businesses. Leo Barlow, president and CEO of Sealaska Corporation, will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday.

Jim Reeb of Oregon State University Extension Wood Products team, will give a presentation on how secondary wood manufacturing firms can work together to enhance their businesses. Workers impacted by the recent downturn in Southeast Alaska's timber industry may be interested in hearing Greg Lippencott of Maple Valley Tone Woods, and a former timber cruiser, speak on his business' economic recovery from the Olympic Peninsula's declining timber industry. The conference has been organized by the Alaska Cooperative Extension with assistance from the U.S. Forest Service. The cost of the conference is 550 per person.

Conference sponsors include Alaska Cooperative Extension, First Bank and Nationa' Bank of Alaska. For information or registration details contact the Alaska Cooperative Extension-Sitka District at 747-6065 or the U.S. Forest Service-Wrangell Ranger District at (907) 874-2323. Conference dates were chosen to maximize use of the Alaska Marine Highway System. ANCHORAGE (AP) An Anchorage man was killed and another wounded after an ongoing dispute turned deadly in a downtown parking lot early Saturday morning, just hours before the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, police said.

The victims were identified as Joseph Massey, 23, and Michael Ford, 25, Fort Richardson spokesman Sgt. Patrick Tipton said. Massey was married to a Fort Richardson soldier and Ford is an enlisted cook at the post, he said. A bullet killed Massey as he sat in a vehicle at the comer of Street and Fifth Avenue at 3 a.m., police said. Ford, who was the vehicle's driver and who also was hit, drove to Fourth Avenue and Street the startino line of the Iditarod where the car SHS Class of 1976 to Meet got stuck in a snow berrn.

Ford was in satisfactory condition at Elmendorf Air Force Base hospital a hospital. Detective Linda Branchflower said police had no suspects and it's not clear what touched off the shooting. Police blocked the shooting area at Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues, forcing 10 mushers to change their side-street starting positions. Mushers numbered 12 to 21 including defending champion Doug Swingley and 1993 champion Jeff King had to. wait a few extra hours at the check-in while snow and fencing were put in place at their new positions.

However, mushers were in place by 9 a.m., an hour before the race started Niggemyer said. Officials normally like to have racers in place by 8:30 a.m., he said, adding that the delay was not a major interruption to the race. A meetin 8 or all Sitka High School 1976 graduates will be held at 10 a on March 9 at Blatchley Middle School to discuss plans for a reunion this summer. Organizers are seeking volunteers to help plan the events. For more information call Annette Blankenship at '47-6739.

This thing is getting like soccer," Conway said Friday. "It's one of those things no one ever thought of it's getting bigger and big- The odds fall off pretty sharply after that. Jeff King, 1993's winner came in the day before the start at 7-1 Tim Osmer and Kjell Risung were at But there also were some puzzling odds such as the always-dangerous Dee Dee Jonrowe at 35-1. Conway admits that the odds probably will change when the casinos in Reno and Las Vegas begin taking bets this weekend and the money begins to shift the figures. "It all blends in to one educated guess," Conway said.

"But they all do have a chance, and you hear those Cinderella stories all the time." His research also wasn't extensive enough to weed out 16 mushers who since have dropped out, although most were rookies with odds at 100-1. Conway also has posted a winning me I0 da and 11 6 hours on the and gamblers can put down money on whether the race will be faster or slower. It pays 11-10 odds, meaning, a. $5.50 bet will pay off an additional five dollars. Teleconferences On Fisheries Set The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing on HB175: Sport Fish Guide Licensing; HB329- Restitution for Certain Game Violations' and HB296: State Authority over Fish and Game at 8 a.m.

on March 6. The hearing may be heard via teleconference at the Sitka Legislative Information Office, 210 Lake St. Testimony will be taken with a three- minute limit. Also, Sen. Robin Taylor will spon- 2 nstituent work session on 6B297: Sea Urchin Fishery at 5-30 p.m.

on March 7. Those with questions can call 7476276. Water Polo Schedule Set I I TELEVISION I-- I-- I SPECIAL GRAHAM Community School will offer two divisions of water polo at the Blatchley pool. The 7- to 13-year-old group will meet 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays, March 12-April 16, and those 14 years through adult will meet 7-8 March 14-April 18.

each is $30. All partici- register with Community Registration opens 8 a.m. pants School. Feb. 26.

Forums to Resume The Sheldon Jackson College Provost's Forum Series will continue March 6 at the Stratton Library. The 7:30 p.m. program will feature Marilyn Wikstrom, visiting faculty from Buena Vista College in Iowa. New Arrivals Baby Boy Northrup Trevor Allan Northrup was bom reb. 6 in Bellingham, to former Sitka residents Tim Northrup and Yukie Gough.

At birth, the infant weighed 8 pounds, Bounces. Trevor's father was formerly Seafood Producers Co-op plant manager and his mother formerly worked tor Alaska Marine Safety Education Association. "The Gift of Salvation" WATCH TUESDAY MAR. 5 "The Day Jesus Returns".