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Applicants for District 40 seat revealed

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Applicants for District 40 seat revealed

 

The following people in District 40 have submitted their names to Alaska Democrats for consideration. The seat vacated when Rep. Dean Westlake was forced to resign will ultimately be chosen by the governor, but Democrats will offer three names from this list for Gov. Walker’s consideration :

  • Sandra J. Shroyer Beaver, Kotzebue
  • Timothy E. Gavin, Jr., Buckland
  • Rosie Hensley, Kotzebue
  • Leanna Mack, Barrow-Utqiagvik
  • Lewis J. Pagel, Kotzebue
  • Patrick Savok, Kotzebue
  • Eugene S. Smith, Kotzebue
  • Nicole N. Stoops, Kotzebue

The party received the name of Richard J. Frank, but rejected it, without specifying a reason.  Must Read Alaska has learned the party received nine applications. They must offer their final recommendations to the governor no later than Jan. 15.

Army Corps accepts Pebble permit application as complete

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DETAILS EMERGE

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced todtay the permit application submitted by the Pebble Limited Partnership has been accepted.

This formally begins the permitting process under the National Environmental Policy Act review process and other permitting efforts associated with the project.

Pebble’s application incorporates more than a decade of extensive third-party environmental research.

The application and supporting documentation can be viewed via the USACE website:

http://www.poa.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices-Section-Homepage/

Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier said the Pebble team has taken great strides in recent years to re-design its project in response to stakeholder concerns.

The project is substantially smaller than previous proposals, and presents significant new environmental safeguards, including:

  • a development footprint less than half the size previously envisaged;
  • the consolidation of most major site infrastructure in a single drainage (the North Fork Koktuli), and the

    absence of any primary mine operations in the Upper Talarik drainage;

  • a more conservative Tailings Storage Facility design, including enhanced buttresses, flatter slope

    angles and an improved factor of safety;

  • separation of potentially acid generating tailings from non-PAG bulk tailings for storage in a

    fully-lined TSF;

  • no permanent waste rock piles; and
  • no cyanide usage.

“These are very substantial improvements that we have made over the past few years in response to issues and concerns raised by project stakeholders,” Collier said. “We believe that as Alaskans become more familiar with our proposed project design and the environmental safeguards it incorporates, there will an increasing degree of support for the project, and the significant economic potential it represents for the State of Alaska.”

THE PROJECT

The Pebble Partnership is proposing to develop the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry deposit in southwest Alaska as an open pit mine, with associated on and off-site infrastructure, including:

  • a 230 megawatt power plant located at the mine site;
  • an 83-mile transportation corridor from the mine site to a port site on the west side of Cook Inlet;
  • a permanent, year-round port facility near the mouth of Amakdedori Creek on Cook Inlet; and,
  • a 188-mile natural gas pipeline from the Kenai Peninsula to the Pebble Project site.

Following four years of construction activity, the proposed Pebble mine will operate for a period of 20 years. This includes 14 years of mining using conventional drill-blast-shovel operations, followed by six years of milling material from a low-grade ore (“LGO”) stockpile. The mining rate will average 90 million tons per year, with 58 million tons of mineralized material going through the mill each year (160,000 tons per day), for an extremely low life-of-mine waste to ore ratio of 0.1:1.

Mine Site Facilities and Operations

  • Mine site facilities will include: an open pit; a TSF; a LGO stockpile; overburden stockpiles; quarry sites; water management ponds; milling and processing facilities; and, supporting infrastructure, such as the power plant, water treatment plants, camp facilities and storage facilities.
  • The open pit will be developed in stages with final dimensions of ~6,500 feet in length, ~5,500 feet in width and depths between 1,330 and 1,750 feet. A total of 1.2 billion tons of material will be mined, including 1.1 billion tons to be processed through the mill and 100 million tons of waste rock.
  • Non-PAG waste rock will be used as a construction material for on-site roads and TSF embankments. The minority of waste rock considered PAG will be stored in a lined LGO stockpile until mine closure, at which time it will be back-hauled to the open pit for permanent sub-aqueous storage.
  • Mineralized material will be processed via conventional froth flotation. On average, the process plant will produce ~600,000 tons of copper-gold concentrate each year, containing ~287 million lb copper, ~321,000 oz gold and 1.6 million oz silver, and ~15,000 tons of molybdenum concentrate each year, containing ~13 million lb molybdenum.
  • A single TSF located in the North Fork Koktuli drainage will store 1.1 billion tons of tailings generated over 20 years of mine operations. About 88% will be non-PAG bulk tailings; the remaining 12% will be pyritic (PAG) tailings, which will be stored sub-aqueously in a separate, fully-lined cell within the TSF.
    A total of four TSF embankments ranging from 600 (main embankment) to 60 feet (east embankment) in height will be developed, with center-line or downstream construction methods used for all external embankments, and a conservative 2.6:1 (horizontal:vertical) slope applied to ensure safety and stability under all operating conditions (including maximum possible flood and seismic events).

    Transportation Corridor

  • Pebble has proposed an 83-mile transportation corridor from the mine site to a port site on the west side of Cook Inlet. The proposed road corridor has been designed to minimize impact on wetlands, minimize stream crossings and avoid areas of known subsistence and recreational use.
  • The transportation corridor includes: a 30-mile private, 30-foot wide gravel road from the mine site to a ferry terminal on the north shore of Lake Iliamna; an 18-mile crossing of Iliamna Lake using a custom- designed ice-breaking ferry; and a 35-mile private, 30-foot wide gravel road from the south shore of Iliamna Lake to a port site at Amakdedori. Spur roads will connect the Pebble transportation system to the villages of Iliamna, Newhalen and Kokhanok.
  • Daily transportation of mineral concentrate, mining equipment and supplies will require up to 35 round trips by truck each day, and one round trip by ferry.

THE PORT

  • A permanent, year-round port facility constructed at Amakdedori on the west side of Cook Inlet will facilitate the direct loading of mineral concentrate onto Handysize bulk carrier vessels, as well as the delivery via barge of mining equipment and supplies.
  • The port will include shore-based facilities to receive and store containers and fuel, as well as two two- megawatt natural gas power generators, associated infrastructure and facilities. The port’s marine component will include a causeway extending out to a marine jetty in 15-feet on natural water depth to facilitate roll-on/roll-off barge access and a separate berth for Handysize vessels. A dredged channel will be required to access the berth for Handysize ships.
  • Port operations will facilitate up to 25 concentrate shipments via Handysize bulk carrier vessels each year, and up to 30 marine barge loads of mining equipment and supplies.

    Power Plant & Natural Gas Pipeline

  • To meet the mine’s power requirements while providing sufficient peaking capacity and N+1 redundancy, a 230 megawatt power plant utilizing a high-efficiency combustion turbine or reciprocating engine generators operating in a combined-cycle configuration will be built at Pebble. Waste heat from the power plant will be used to heat mine buildings and supply process heat to water treatment plants.
  • The mine site power plant, as well as smaller generating facilities at the port site and ferry landing sites, will be supplied by a 188-mile pipeline to connect with existing natural gas supply infrastructure near Happy Valley on the Kenai Peninsula.

From Happy Valley, a buried steel pipeline will travel south for nine miles to a compressor station near Anchor Point, which will feed a 94-mile subsea pipeline across Cook Inlet to come ashore at the Amakdedori port site. From the port site, the natural gas pipeline will traverse 81 miles to the mine site in three sections. It will be buried in a trench adjacent to the road prism on the south and north sides of Iliamna Lake, and run under Iliamna Lake for a distance of 18 miles between ferry landing sites.

WATER MANAGEMENT

  • Pebble has proposed a comprehensive water management plan to provide sufficient water for mine operations, to minimize the volume of water diverted from natural flows, to discharge surplus waters captured at the mine site in a strategic manner to optimize downstream habitat conditions for salmon and other species, and to ensure water quality is maintained in all local streams.
  • The Pebble mine will employ two water treatment plants to ensure that surplus water discharged into nearby streams meets applicable water quality standards, and is properly conditioned for aquatic life. Sufficient water storage, pumping capacity and treatment plant redundancy has been incorporated into the design to ensure that water management goals can be achieved under all operating conditions.

RECLAMATION AND CLOSURE

  • The Pebble Project has been ‘designed for closure’, in order that facilities can be removed and land reclaimed in such a way that it can be returned to a stable and productive state.
  • Reclamation and closure activities will include: removal of mill and other facilities not required in the post- closure period; hauling of PAG waste rock into the open pit for sub-aqueous storage; recontouring of disturbed areas and placement of overburden for revegetation; installation of water management features to provide for long-term water quality monitoring and treatment.

Prior to commencing construction, a Project Reclamation and Closure Plan must be approved and an associated financial assurance mechanism be put in place to ensure that the required financial resources are available at all time to fund costs associated with physical closure of the project and long-term post- closure monitoring, water treatment and site maintenance.
By regulation, Pebble’s Project Reclamation and Closure Plan must be updated every five years to address any changes in closure and post-closure requirements, and associated financial obligations.

WORKFORCE

The Pebble Project will directly employ ~2,000 workers during its four-year construction phase, and ~850 workers during its 20-year operations phase.

The Pebble Deposit is an important statewide economic asset, located on State of Alaska land designated for mineral exploration and development. The area was acquired by the State of Alaska in 1974 via an historic land exchange with the federal government and Cook Inlet Region, Inc. With the growing worldwide consumption and dependence upon technical products powered by critical minerals such as copper, the expanding demand for renewable energy technologies, and the development of projects with strategic national significance, the Pebble Deposit has the potential to generate hundreds of millions in annual economic activity for Alaska, as well as significant revenues for state and local governments. It will also create high-wage, year-round jobs and training opportunities in Southwest Alaska, and supply and service contracts for local businesses.

Quote of the Day: ‘I have no intention of resigning’

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Quote of the Day: ‘I have no intention of resigning’

“I have no intention of resigning because I have done nothing wrong. I welcome the national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace and will use every power at my disposal to ensure that harassment is not tolerated in the Alaska Legislature. This is not an issue that should be politized, but that’s exactly what Rep. Wilson is doing. Rather than playing politics, House leadership is responding forcefully to the issue of harassment by updating our policy, and encouraging anyone who has been the victim of harassment to come forward.” – Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, in response to a call for her resignation made earlier today by Rep. Tammie Wilson of North Pole.

LeDoux is the Chair of the House Rules Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislative staff during legislative sessions. In that role, Rep. LeDoux has made the upcoming sexual and other workplace harassment training mandatory for all lawmakers and staff. This comes on the heels of her ignoring the complaint of a staff member of Rep. Scott Kawasaki last year, who in March submitted a letter to House leadership complaining about Rep. Dean Westlake. Westlake has since been forced to resign.

[Read: Lawmakers call for outside investigation]

[Read: Take the training or your staff is fired]

[Read: Rep. Tammie Wilson calls on LeDoux to resign]

 

Eagle River man gunned down defending property

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Eagle River man gunned down defending property

An Eagle River man who went outside his home on Regency Drive to check on a possible prowler was shot and seriously injured by a man parked in a vehicle nearby. The incident occurred at about 3:30 am on Thursday. The gunshots were heard throughout the neighborhood.

Anchorage police say the victim had confronted a suspected prowler, who is described as a white male, about six feet tall, wearing a gray hoodie and jeans. The person who is believed to have shot the victim drove off in a red compact vehicle, which also may be maroon in color and may be a Dodge 4-door sedan.

Police responded with K-9s and searched the area.

Talk show host and Anchorage Assembly member Amy Demboski asked that residents in the area check their home security cameras to see if they can spot such a vehicle. She said it appears the prowler was checking car doors and may have done so throughout the area, and the driver may have been his accomplice. If so, the pair may show up on surveillance cameras.

Anchorage police are asking those with helpful surveillance video of the suspects call APD Dispatch at 786-8900 (press “0” to speak with an operator).  To remain anonymous you may contact Crime Stoppers at 561-STOP or online at www.anchoragecrimestoppers.com. The case number is 18-488.

The victim was rushed to the hospital, underwent emergency surgery and is in the intensive care unit with extensive abdominal damage. He is expected to recover.

The incident marks the first time a resident has been shot while investigating a prowler situation in Anchorage or Eagle River. It is not known if the victim was armed or just checking on a suspicious sound.

“We can’t let the criminals win. We clearly are in a war for our city, yet most politicians refuse to say it,” Demboski said. “Stay vigilant, know the law, and be ready.” On Thursday afternoon, she was heading out for her round of community safety patrolling.

A community town hall is scheduled for Saturday at Eagle River Town Center from 2-4 pm, and a safety seminar sponsored by Rep. Lora Reinbold will follow, from 4-6 pm, with information on crime and personal safety, community patrols.

New Ted Stevens Airport manager to start January 22

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New Ted Stevens Airport manager to start January 22

SZCZESNIAK OF CHICAGO’S WINDY CITY SILKSCREENING LANDED THE JOB

A former Deputy Commissioner for Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports is the new director of the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage. His start date is Jan. 22, Must Read Alaska has learned.

Jim Szczesniak, who visited Alaska last month to complete the interview process, has been running his family’s t-shirt and silkscreen company since 2008, when he left the employment of the Chicago Department of Aviation, where he had worked for many years.

Between 2006 and 2008, he was the deputy commissioner for aviation planning, policy, environment, real estate & commercial development. His resume says he “conceived and implement projects and policies that are critical to the airport system’s future growth. Spearheaded the planning, environmental approval, bid process, and lease development for a $200M, 920,000 Sq. Ft. air cargo complex on O’Hare’s former military base. This project is projected to provide the airport with over $400M in rent revenue over the life of the lease, produce 1,200 construction jobs, 1,200 permanent on-site and 10,000 regional jobs. The project achieved LEED Silver certification.”

He was also responsible for O’Hare’s $4.1 billion, 20-year capital improvement plan and the numerous terminal, landside and airfield improvements associated with the plan. He was in that position with what some call the most corrupt airport in America for two years.

[Read: Corruption scandal loosening Mayor Daley’s grip]

[Read: Is the mob cleaning up at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport?]

Before that, he was director of aviation planning for O’Hare and Midway airports, in a role that lasted two years. He also worked as an airport operations supervisor for the airports.

Szczesniak has recently been running Windy City Silkscreening for 10 years.

He was educated at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and has a bachelor of science in aviation management, and a master of business administration degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Szczesniak replaces John Parrott, who was released from service by Gov. Bill Walker without explanation, other than an official statement from the governor’s press office that said the Walker Administration was continuing the “progression of his administration.”

Parrott had been in charge of airport operations for 10 years.

The job is a politically sensitive one, and the next governor could appoint his own choice to run one of the biggest enterprises in the state.

[Must Read Alaska’s report on Szczesniak’s candidacy on Dec. 5]

Al Gore says continental freeze part of global warming?

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CHECK OUT THE MAP FROM 1985

The most prominent living advocate of human-caused climate change, Al Gore, says that the deep freeze experienced by the continental United States is exactly the kind of weather event one can expect with global warming.

“It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis,” Gore wrote on Twitter. He linked his message to one of his nonprofit group’s articles: 

He’s hoping Americans have a short memory and confuse “weather” with “climate.”

THE DEEP FREEZE OF 1985

One of the most frigid Arctic weather events of the 20th century occurred Jan. 18-22, 1985. Every state east of the Rocky Mountains was affected by extreme cold, including new state records established: -34 degrees at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, -19 degrees at Caesar’s Head, South Carolina; and -30 degrees at Mountain Lake, Virginia.

Some 165 deaths were attributed to the cold spell and the inauguration parade for President Ronald Reagan’s second term in office had to be cancelled due to a wind chill factor in Washington, D.C. of -10 degrees.

In Florida, the state’s citrus industry suffering $2.5 billion in losses, according to reports. Homes burned through the electrical supply and water pipes burst across the South, while firefighters couldn’t put out fires due to the water freezing in their hoses.

Meanwhile, in January, 1985, Anchorage enjoyed balmy weather, with a high of 41 degrees and a mean temperature of 36 as a high and 15 as a low.

Quote of the Day: Sullivan on marijuana enforcement

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Quote of the Day: Sullivan on marijuana enforcement

“Although I did not support the 2014 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, it strongly passed and I passionately believe in democracy and the principles of states’ rights. For these reasons, I have worked with federal officials and Alaskans to try to address a number of areas where our state and federal marijuana laws are in conflict.” – Senator Dan Sullivan.

“Today’s action by the Department of Justice — which contradicts previous statements by the President that this is an issue best left to the states, and adds new confusion and uncertainty for numerous states and communities — could be the impetus necessary for Congress to find a permanent legislative solution for states that have chosen to regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana. As we move forward, I will be examining new and existing legislative proposals and working to ensure the rights of Alaskans and the State of Alaska are protected,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan’s statement followed a Justice Department memo on federal marijuana enforcement policy.

The Justice Department memoradum is here.

 

Gabby LeDoux: Take the training, or your staff is fired

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Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is mandating sexual harassment training for all legislators in the House of Representatives.

Or else.

In a letter to Rep. Tammie Wilson, Rules Chair LeDoux said that any legislator who refuses sexual harassment training will lose their staff members.

The training will be made mandatory through the existing ethics statute, LeDoux said. The Ethics Committee will meet next week to discuss the training measure.

But their decision makes no difference to her mandate, she said.

“Moreover, regardless of the Ethics Committee decision, as the hiring authority for session I want all legislative staff to have a safe working environment. In order to help establish this environment, all supervisors, including legislators, must be trained in harassment and discrimination prevention.

“ I would not feel comfortable in the current environment allowing any employees to work in an environment where their supervisor is not trained. Therefore, any legislator that is unwilling to attend the training will have their staff authorizations rescinded,” LeDoux wrote.

LeDoux did not address her own role, nor the role of House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, Majority Leader Chris Tuck, and Rep. Scott Kawasaki in covering up a complaint made last March by one of Kawasaki’s legislative aides.

Speaker Bryce Edgmon, Rep. Scott Kawasaki, and House Majority Leader Chris Tuck.

Olivia Garrett made the complaint in writing about Rep. Dean Westlake a year ago in March, but House leadership took no action for many months, until Garrett took the matter public in December.

[Read: Westlake’s woman problem grows]

After receiving no action on her complaint, Garrett made public her letter and said that Majority Leader Tuck had coached her on the proper wording for the complaint, which accused Westlake of inappropriately speaking to her and grabbing her butt in public.

Grabbing her butt would be a criminal offense.

[Read: Did Edgmon and Tuck conspire to cover up?]

Westlake has since resigned, effective Christmas Day, and Jan. 4 is the deadline for applicants who wish to serve out his term to get their resumes into the Democrats. The vetting of those applicants will be closely watched.

WAS IT A COVER-UP?

Presumably, the new training will hold legislators accountable for reporting incidences of sexual harassment, but at this stage, the Legislature’s harassment policy has not yet been updated, as it is still being reviewed by a special legislative task force. The training would be relying on old rules.

As a member of House leadership, LeDoux is in charge of all staff during session. Any complaints of harassment of staff would have rightfully been brought to her attention by Rep. Tuck and Speaker Edgmon. That’s one of the key jobs of the Rules chair. It appears that LeDoux may have looked the other way when sexual harassment occurred on her watch.

LeDoux, Edgmon, Tuck and Kawasaki have remained tight-lipped and have not issued an apology to the women who were harassed by Westlake after the original complaint was made.

But Rep. Colleen Sullivan-Leonard has asked for an independent investigation into how the complaint from Olivia Garrett was handled so badly.

[Read: Sullivan-Leonard: Independent investigation needed]

LEDOUX LANGUAGE POLICE

In March, while the sexual harassment scandal was being buried, LeDoux took action on other matters. She cautioned legislators that they could not use the term “slush fund” or “bureaucrats” when discussing budget cuts. Apparently, on Ledoux’s watch, the language police were on duty last year even if the anti-harassment enforcers were in hiatus.

[Read: Censored: Republicans forbidden from saying “slush fund” on House floor]

Bill McAllister: April, 1956 – December, 2017

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Bill McAllister, the former communication director and press secretary for former Gov. Sarah Palin, died on Dec. 15, 2017 in Anchorage. For several years, his health had been deteriorating and he had been unable to work for the past two years.

McAllister was a journalist who worked alongside many others in the state, including Suzanne Downing, editor of this news site, who hired him in 1999, and felt lucky to have done so.

He was one of the most accomplished journalists I’ve had the privilege of working with in Alaska, and raised the bar for his colleagues at the Juneau Empire.

“He was fair, he was no-nonsense and he was a true professional, and we are saddened for his family and their loss,” said former Empire Publisher John Winters.

Like many journalists in the small world of Alaska, McAllister went back and forth through the door of being a news reporter to working as a press secretary and back to news reporting.

“As our friend, and my former spokesman in the Governor’s Office, my family and I knew him as such a good man! Always so proud of his family; always working tirelessly in various capacities in journalism; always gracious with his calm, cool, collected demeanor. Bill was such a good example and influence. It was a pleasure working with him. My family and I have the utmost respect for Bill and his memory. God bless his family,” Gov. Palin wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

[Read: Bill McAllister’s long strange year]

He started his career in journalism in Minnesota after graduating from Hamline University in St. Paul. McAllister covered both politics and rock and roll while writing for the St. Cloud Times. He was also a music critic for Gannett News Service, and covered the opening night of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” tour.

After working at the St. Paul Legal Ledger, he moved to Juneau and wrote for the Juneau Empire for three years, then worked for KTOO TV and radio, hosted “Alaska One” for public television, and was the Capitol bureau chief for KTUU.

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took office, she offered him the position of press secretary and director of communications. Then, fate took a turn and she became the nominee for vice president. McAllister was thrust onto the national scene as he navigated the media frenzy that followed.

After one tumultuous year that involved both presidential politics and his own brush with death, he moved over to the Department of Law, and worked for Attorney General Dan Sullivan (now Alaska’s U.S. senator) and then returned to news in 2011, working for KTVA.

McAllister was deeply conservative. But he was respected by liberals in the news media for his seriousness and the quality of his work.

In 2010, Alaska Public Radio’s Steve Heimel wrote on LinkedIn, “Bill knows how to get to the point. He has a good command of the language and is able to deconstruct officialese. He has a nose for news.”

Former Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell wrote about McAllister on LinkedIn: ” Bill McAllister has distinguished himself in what might be called a trial by fire. He was a well-known and respected reporter for Alaska’s top news station, the NBC affiliate here. He was spokesperson for Sarah Palin at the time the Alaska Governor became the nominee for vice president, and continued as her spokesman after the election. He served with distinction as spokesman for our high-profile Attorney General as Alaska, under its new Governor Sean Parnell, ramped up its challenges to the federal government.

All in all, Bill has shown he can keep cool in a firestorm, work to simplify the complicated, warn of troubled waters ahead, and do his job without making himself the issue — not easy.”

He was also involved in community theater, having founded a theater in Minnesota, and acted in productions in Anchorage with Cyranos and Anchorage Community Theatre.

McAllister had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 2008, and had many subsequent health challenges, and by 2015 was using a wheelchair.

 

Survivors include his parents William A. And Mary M. McAllister of St. Louis, Mo., his birth mother Michelle Emery Newton of San Diego, Calif., and children August, Grace, and Saga.

There was no public service but memorials are suggested to Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage, or to a crisis pregnancy center of the donor’s choice.

[Read Bill McAllister’s full obituary here.]

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