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LOCAL NEWS FOR ALASKA’S EMERALD ISLE
VOL. 81 NO. 95 50¢
KodiaK daily MirrorTUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019
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Around 90 elk have escaped from the Kodiak Game Ranch in Narrow Cape, a private-ly owned 20,000-acre ranch. Due to the escape, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed the area to elk hunting by an emergency order on Sun-day at 11:59 p.m., according to a news release.
According to ranch owner Christine Burton, the fence was breached intentionally to allow local hunters to take the elk.
The herd is comprised of domesticated Rocky Mountain elk, which are a distinct species from the Roosevelt elk popu-lation that exists on Afognak and Raspberry islands. How-ever, the elk are similar in appearance.
John Crye, a wildlife biol-ogist with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game, said the Narrow Cape region of Kodiak Island is usually open to elk hunting because some elk swim to Kodiak from Afog-nak and Raspberry islands, where there are free roaming elk herds. However, in the past 10 years, only three elk have been legally harvested on Kodiak Island, he said. When
elk swim to Kodiak, they are usually spotted in the Kupre-anof Peninsula area, near the village of Port Lions.
Crye said the Rocky Moun-tain elk were seen outside their grazing enclosure in a portion of the registered elk hunt area within the Kodiak Road Sys-tem Management Area. Seven of the escaped elk were har-vested last week, according to Crye, who added that the har-
vest is considered legal since it was done within a designated elk hunt area.
According to Crye, the elk escaped through a hole in the fence. The area surrounding the ranch has been closed to hunting in an effort to allow the Burton family, which owns the Kodiak Game Ranch, to capture the remaining escaped
Domesticated elk escape ranch,
leading to hunting closure
By IRIS [email protected]
The Kodiak Island Bor-ough Assembly discussed state and federal program and capital improvement pri-ority lists at its Thursday work session. The lists will be further discussed, refined and voted on at the Nov. 7 assembly meeting.
The borough’s state pro-gram list includes 12 items and was created with con-sultation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, the borough assembly and state lobbyist Mark Hickey, who is contracted to support the borough’s state agenda.
The list includes, by order of priority, Peterson Elemen-tary School roof replacement
and repairs; M/V Tustumena replacement vessel construc-tion; Otmeloi Way recon-struction; East Elementary traffic flow improvements; drainage improvement for Chiniak Highway and Sar-gent Creek Intersection; safe pathways to North Star Elementary School; service area road improvements and paving; Kodiak Island trail
improvements; Anton Lars-en Bay Road extension to ice free water; Anton Larsen dock, launch ramp and park-ing improvements; and Mill Bay Beach access and recre-ation upgrade.
Hickey spoke with assem-bly members by phone during Thursday’s meeting to advise
Assembly discusses state and federal capital improvement priority list
Total rainfall over the weekend reached up to almost 5 inches — almost half of this month’s total rainfall, accord-ing to the National Weath-er Service. As of 4:28 a.m. Monday, the weather service recorded a record high tem-perature of 55 degrees, tying the record set in 2013.
The heavy rain caused numerous mudslides on the Kodiak road system Sunday
and some traffic delays while crews worked to clear out the rock and mud, according to the Department of Transpor-tation.
As of Monday afternoon, Department of Transportation officials were advising caution near milepost 22 on the Chin-iak Highway which had a one-lane closure.
According to the Alaska
Heavy
rains cause
flooding,
mudslidesBy SARAH LAPIDUS
The weekend’s heavy rains spelled disaster for a Bells Flats resident who returned home from breakfast Sunday morning to find his home flooded.
Longtime Kodiak resident Larry Evans said water went up about 4 feet in his yard and his daughter floated on a barrel to collect some of their belongings before the items could float away.
“We came home because we heard (the rain) was flooding Sargent Creek,” he said. “It was rushing straight towards Russian Creek Road into the back of my house.”
Although he said he will have to replace the walls in the bottom level of his house, the damage was less than the damage caused by a previous flood two years ago that cost him $25,000 to fix.
“This time it only went up 8 inches instead of 16, and leaked through doors, the garage, and underneath any crack you could find,” Evans said.
Although the borough was in charge of a project to redirect Russian Creek away from homes, it was never com-pleted, possibly due to lack of funding, said Dave Evans, the engineering and facilities director at the Kodiak Island Borough. Dave is of no rela-tion to Larry.
TOP: A culvert that collapsed on Chiniak highway by milepost 43 over the weekend. (Courtesy of Betty Odell)
RIGHT: Russian Creek overflows as heavy rains pour down near Leta Street in Bells Flats. (Sara Schaefer/Kodiak Daily Mirror.)
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Nathaniel Bruce Ballard was born at 5:20 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2019 to Isabella Marie Jahssehand Riley Bruce Ballard. He weighed 6 pounds, 4ounces and measured 18.75 inches long.
His parents are originally from Kodiak. His father works at K9 Kuts.
Proud grandparents are Edwin Ballard of Kodiak and Rekiya Jahasseh and Christopher Jahsseh from Seabrook, Texas.
Jesson Roger Williams was born at 12:10 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2019 to Brent Roger Williams andJustine Marie Cahaneling. He weighed 8 pounds, 4ounces and was 21.75 inches long.
His parents are originally from Kodiak (father) and Taguig Philippines (mother) and now live in Kodiak. His mother works as a seafood processor and his father works as a BAADER Technician.
Proud grandparents are Steve Williams of Kodiak; Garnet and Jerry Morey from Nikolaeusk, Alaska; Cynthia Fernandes Danao, Edison Come-dor Danao and Daneling Cahaneling from Taguig Philippines.
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Department of Fish and Game, a culvert that had been replaced to help fish passage near milepost 43 on Chiniak Highway collapsed during the heavy rain.
Kristy Campbell, who lives on Selief Lane, said her street flooded because of poor drainage from the culverts.
“It is really frustrating for us, especially water coming into the house over the years,” Campbell said. “We can’t touch the drainage ditch area. We can’t do anything around it because it’s consid-ered a salmon stream habitat.”
Selief Lane has been having issues for years, she said.
“We have been here since 2011. My husband was told in the past that the city or borough was supposed to replace the culverts on all of those houses’ drainage areas with bridges,” she said.
The city could not be reached for a response. On roads in the service areas and in Bells Flats
there was not a lot of major damage, Dave Evans said.
“It was mostly erosion from the excess water. The drainage system was overwhelmed, and water ran down roads instead of ditches,” he said. “All of that will be corrected in the next several days.”
Staff report
A search warrant was requested for a Kodiak woman who faces multiple charges after allegedly possessing methamphetamine and heroin and having prior drug-re-lated convictions, according to court documents.
Joan Pedersen, 26, is being charged with misconduct involv-ing a controlled substance in the second degree, a felony. She is also being charged with multiple misdemeanors, including three counts of violation of condition of release, misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and misconduct involv-ing a controlled substance in the fifth degree, according to the doc-uments.
On the evening of Sept. 22, a citizen notified police officers of a green vehicle parked on Mission Road that she thought was associ-ated with a home where drug traf-ficking allegedly has been occuring.
The officers spotted the car on
Mission Road, approached the vehi-cle and notified its occupants that people were concerned about drug activity. The officers asked if there were drugs inside the vehicle.
Pedersen, who was in the driv-er’s seat, and a man who was in the passenger’s seat both denied there were drugs in the vehicle.
One of the officers saw a bindle, a type of package usually used to transport drugs, on the center console and a blue zippered case with a “Dime Bags” brand logo, the documents state.
When Pedersen opened the zip-pered case following a request by the officers, foil with burn marks fell out onto her lap. The officer subsequently asked Pedersen and the man to step out of the car.
As the man got out of the vehi-cle, one of the officers saw a small package of white crystalline sub-stance in his sweater pocket. After searching the man, police also found $170 and a bag with addi-tional white crystalline substance weighing about 37 grams. Both
substances from the man tested positive for methamphetamine, the documents state.
The vehicle was seized pending approval of a search warrant, and neither Pedersen nor the man was arrested.
Following the execution of the search warrant on the vehicle, police found a pipe under the driv-er’s seat with a usable amount of substance in the pipe’s bul-bous end, a zippered case that con-tained a brown substance, which appeared to be heroin, and foil with burn marks wrapped around a straw used to help the consump-tion of narcotics, the documents state.
In the Dime Bags-branded case police also found Pedersen’s credit card and suboxone strips used in opioid maintenance therapy.
Pedersen is on conditions of release for charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance. She also has four prior convictions for misconduct involving a con-trolled substance.
Warrant requested for Kodiak womanRAINCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
SARA SCHAEFER/Kodiak Daily Mirror
A child gets her face painted at the Chief Petty Officers Association Fall Festival over the weekend at the Kodiak State Fairgrounds.
Corps extends deadline to review Pebble Mine comments
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended its deadline to review numerous comments submitted for a draft environmental review of the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.
Assistant Secretary of the Army R.D. James extended Thursday’s deadline to Feb. 28 to consid-er comments, including those from the Environ-mental Protection Agency and to draft a prelimi-nary final environmental impact statement.
In a letter to the EPA, James says the corps, the EPA and others will meet soon to resolve outstand-ing issues. These meetings will allow the corps to complete a preliminary final environmental impact statement and decision documents on the proposed gold and copper mine.
The new deadline reflects EPA’s 30-day request to review the draft statements and to consult with the corps as they develop final versions.
Anchorage police detain suspect in downtown bar shooting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police have arrested a man suspected of firing a shot that struck a bar employee trying to break up a fight.
Police say 27-year-old Reynaldo Armstead was taken into custody Sun-day on an outstanding warrant. In addition, he was held on suspicion of assault, weapons misconduct and reck-less endangerment.
Online court documents do not list his attorney.
Police shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sat-urday received a report that patrons of the Gaslight Bar on Fourth Avenue had gotten into a fight and that one of the participants had pulled out a gun.
As the man waived the gun around, a male employee tried to break up the fight.
Police say the bar employee was shot once in the upper body. He was taken to a hospital in serious condi-tion.
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35/22Atlanta 70/64/c 72/67/cBaltimore 66/53/c 70/59/cBillings 21/6/pc 29/18/sBoise 37/14/s 41/20/sBoston 58/54/c 65/60/shCharlotte 74/62/c 69/66/tChicago 44/34/pc 41/36/rCleveland 65/50/c 62/57/rDallas 56/50/sh 56/31/rDenver 18/5/sn 20/6/snDes Moines 42/29/pc 35/23/snDetroit 60/42/c 50/43/rEl Paso 76/46/s 63/30/sIndianapolis 58/43/c 54/47/rKansas City 42/32/c 36/25/rLas Vegas 64/37/s 55/33/sLittle Rock 65/54/c 63/40/rLos Angeles 73/51/s 73/47/sLouisville 67/53/pc 66/59/rMiami 89/79/c 88/78/pcMilwaukee 43/31/pc 42/34/rMinneapolis 43/23/pc 39/23/pcNashville 69/57/pc 71/61/rNew Orleans 73/70/t 82/68/tNew York City 62/58/sh 67/60/rOklahoma City 41/34/r 41/23/rOmaha 43/28/c 34/23/snPhiladelphia 66/57/sh 69/60/cPhoenix 75/47/s 70/43/sPittsburgh 70/50/pc 69/57/cPortland, OR 48/29/s 53/29/sSt. Louis 47/39/c 45/33/rSalt Lake City 30/11/sn 32/16/sSan Francisco 69/49/s 70/47/sSeattle 49/30/s 50/33/sTucson 77/42/s 69/39/sWashington, DC 68/56/pc 71/62/pc
Anchorage 49/42/c 49/39/shBethel 44/26/sh 34/24/pcBettles 39/24/c 29/14/sfCold Bay 48/38/r 49/43/pcCordova 49/38/sh 48/38/shDillingham 47/34/sh 43/32/shDutch Harbor 47/42/r 48/44/rFairbanks 41/29/c 34/21/sfFort Yukon 35/25/c 32/15/cGulkana 45/28/c 41/27/shHomer 51/39/sh 49/40/shJuneau 42/39/r 46/39/rKetchikan 47/43/c 49/40/rKing Salmon 48/37/sh 47/37/shKotzebue 33/26/sf 31/22/cMcGrath 44/30/sh 33/20/sfNome 34/22/sf 28/22/cNorthway 35/19/pc 32/16/pcPalmer 50/35/sh 44/33/cPrudhoe Bay 36/24/c 29/23/cSeward 47/38/sh 47/40/shSkagway 46/41/r 47/40/rTok 35/24/c 35/17/cUtqiagvik 32/21/c 34/28/cValdez 46/37/sh 45/38/shWrangell 45/42/c 47/42/rYakutat 51/39/r 49/37/r
Sunrise today ...................... 9:15 a.m.Sunset tonight ...................... 6:30 p.m.Moonrise today ................. 11:18 a.m.Moonset today ..................... 7:40 p.m.Daylight loss ................... 4 min, 44 sec
3:24 a.m. ........ 8.93:12 p.m. ...... 10.7
9:01 a.m. ........ 0.99:46 p.m. ....... -1.6
4:11 a.m. ........ 8.53:51 p.m. ...... 10.4
9:41 a.m. ........ 1.510:30 p.m. ..... -1.3
Kodiak through 1 p.m. yesterday.
High/low ................................ 52°/49°Normal high/low .................... 43°/32°Last year high/low .................. 46°/33°Record high ...................... 59° in 1925Record low ....................... 13° in 1976
24 hours ending 1 p.m. ............. 0.54”Month to date ........................... 9.56”Normal month to date .............. 7.51”Year to date ............................ 50.03”Last year to date ..................... 53.42”Normal year to date ................ 61.65”
Kodiak: Times of clouds and sun today with a couple of showers. Partly cloudy tonight. Cloudy tomorrow with afternoon rain.
Juneau: Periods of rain today. Periods of rain in the evening; otherwise, plenty of clouds tonight. Cloudy tomorrow with a bit of rain.
Anchorage: Cloudy and mild, a shower this afternoon. A couple of showers this evening. A couple of showers tomorrow.
Bethel: Considerable cloudiness and mild today with a couple of showers. Partly cloudy tonight. Periods of clouds and sunshine tomorrow.
Fairbanks: Cloudy today with the temperature approaching the record of 46 set in 2002. Mainly cloudy tonight. Flurries tomorrow.
Homer: Mostly cloudy and mild today with spotty showers during the after-noon. A passing shower this evening. A couple of showers tomorrow.
4849 4336Cloudy with afternoon
rainPartly sunny with showers around
51 43Brief morning showers;
cloudy
50 38Some sun with a few
showers; mild
48 39Cloudy
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