I am Xena and i am missing a male Cat he is a longish hair cat he has black legs light blackish tail black face and black ears the rest is creamy he has a white flea collar it might of fallen off please call if you have seen him ask for Xena (zena)

Xena

283 1490

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Female Black and tan german shepard, and a male cream colored lab. Both puppies…about 6 months old.

Theresa

398-9894 or 335-6737

Shanon Hamrick, Executive Director of the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council was the guest speaker at Wednesday’s Kenai Chamber Luncheon. Most everyone know what the KPTMC does, but we asked Hamrick, how do they go about doing it….

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Hamrick said that their efforts aren’t only focused at outside ofAlaska

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The State Division of Oil and Gas held their annual Cook Inlet Lease Sale yesterday; we spoke to Division of Oil and Gas Director Bill Barrron

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We asked Barron where the majority of the leases were located

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The Division of Oil and Gas is calling this the second largest Cook Inlet Lease Sale in History.

The borough assembly passed additional protection areas last year to protect  anadromous streams though out the borough, and Tuesday night the assembly held public hearing on a potential change to that controversial issue. Assembly member Mako Haggerty of Homer explains the change …

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The assembly passed this by a vote of 6 to 1 with assembly member Charlie Pierce of Sterling casting the lone no vote.

The city of Soldotna, along with other area municipalities, is currently putting together the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Soldotna City Manager Larry Semmens said that there could be some good news coming for property owners in the city ofSoldotna…

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We asked Semmens if this would make the Soldotna Mill rate the lowest in the area…

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The city mil rate for Kenai is 3.85 mills, Homer has a rate of 4.50 mills, and Seward has a mill rate of 3.12 mills.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is expecting another large sockeye salmon run to the Upper Cook Inlet this year. We checked in with Pat Shields with the Commercial fisheries office in Soldotna…

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We asked Shields if the large number of fish will change the department’s management strategy …

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Shields said if that is not the case, then the management will be focused on meeting escapement goals for the Kenai and Kasilof rivers.

According to the Sport Fisheries Division, the preseason outlook is calling for Kenai king salmon runs similar or slightly improved from last year, but still considered below average. ADF&G says that Kenai River Sport Fisheries will be managed conservatively and restrictions beyond regulations adopted by the Board of Fish may be necessary to ensure adequate escapement.

Multiple groups are suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, claiming the federal agency’s incidental harassment permit granted to Apache Alaska for 3D Seismic surveying in the Cook Inlet will hurt the endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales.

Apache representative Lisa Parker explained the incidental harassment permit…

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The groups say NMFS improperly granted the permit to Apache Alaska Corp. for seismic exploration that will include what they’re calling earsplitting underwater noise that threatens the survival of the whales.

Parker said that Apache has a strong marine mammal protection plan in place…

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The groups include the Alaska Native Village of Chickaloon, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Water Advocacy.

Parker had no response to the suit that was filed against the NMFS

Well….It’s that time of year again. Our Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is just about ready to allocate funding for Borough operations in Fiscal Year 2013.  That means that the Assembly is getting ready to spend tax dollars, tax money from you and from me.

Right now the funding Ordinance is calling for an expenditure of just over $73 million dollars for general borough government operations, school operations, capital projects, health insurance and money for payment of bonds and interest. These are all legitimate expenditures for our Borough government and you may want to argue about the amount of money to be appropriated but at least most of the budget items are all good and proper uses for our tax money.

However, many of us are wondering where in the Borough budget are those expenditures which have nothing to do with the operation of our Borough Government.

For many years now our Borough Assembly has made donations of taxpayer dollars to several non-profit organizations.  The Assembly has annually in their budget given donations to the Central Area Transit System, The Kenai Peninsula College, The Economic Development District, The Small Business Development Center and the Tourism and Marketing Council. Earlier this year, outside of their budget, the Assembly donated $100,000 of your tax dollars to the Kenai Watershed Forum for what they said was for culvert restoration but they could actually spend the money any way they so desired.

Many taxpayers are concerned about the Borough Assemblies practice of making these donations to non-Borough organizations. In fact, earlier this year voters sent a resounding “No” to an Assembly promoted .1% sales tax to fund these organizations.

Many taxpayers suspect that the reason these annual donations are not listed in the current proposed Fiscal Year appropriations is that they plan to sneak it into the budget at the last moment several weeks down the line.

The big question is “How could any Assembly person, in their own mind, vote to donate our tax dollars to organizations not even under Borough jurisdiction”. Each  of these organizations have their own board of directors and agendas over whom the Borough Assembly or Borough Mayor have no control at all”?

Think About It!     JCD   5-16-2012

Long haired, cream colored. Choker collar, very friendly.

Marcy

398-8935