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• Teacher of the Week: Asdid Derouen

  24-04-2017 23:41
  
  From a very young age, Asdid Derouen knew her heart belonged with kids.
  “I love what I do,” Derouen said. “This is what I was meant to do.”
  Derouen is a life-long learner and has taught kids from preschool up to 4th grade. She currently teaches 2nd grade at Swanson Elementary School in Palmer; a place that feels like a second home for her.
  “They’re my family, and I tell them everyday,” said Derouen. “I tell them, ‘you are my daytime
  
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• Seafood processor, EPA settle on Alaska clean air violations

  24-04-2017 23:02
  
  A Seattle-based seafood processor that operates in Alaska would pay a $1.3 million civil penalty under a proposed settlement of clean air violations.
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Westward Seafoods also would be required to spend $1.1 million on air pollution reduction projects and $800,000 on emissions monitoring at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
  Westward Seafoods self-reported that three employees turned off air pollution controls from 2009 to 2011 at a processing plant. The three plead
  
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• Newscast – Monday, April 24, 2017

  24-04-2017 22:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/04/20170424.mp3In this newscast:
  Woman found dead in Juneau duplex
  Alaska dentist charged for extracting tooth while on hoverboard
  Weather for April 24.
   
  
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• How plastic impacts Alaska’s seabirds, how to reduce your use

  24-04-2017 22:38
  
  A recent study of Alaska’s seabirds found they are ingesting plastic that has found its way out to the oceans. Specifically, they are eating what is known as “microplastic.”
  Veronica Padula, a graduate student of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Alaska Anchorage, says the research began as a way to understand why the populations of seabirds in the Bering Sea were declining.
  Padula said the
  
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• Sealaska Corp. adds to seafood investments

  24-04-2017 21:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sealaska Corp. recently purchased a majority interest in Odyssey, a Seattle-based seafood processor that owns this building. (Photo courtesy Sealaska Corp.)
  Sealaska officials say investments in two seafood processors will help drive future earnings.
  But a critic of Southeast’s regional Native corporation doubts they will make much money.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/04/17FishBuy.mp3Sealaska’s latest investment is Seattle-based Odyssey Foods.
  It sells a variety of seaf
  
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• Study: Man-made extreme weather has hit all over the world

  24-04-2017 21:43
  
  A new study finds most people on Earth have already felt extreme and record heat, drought or downpours goosed by man-made global warming.
  In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers looked at weather stations worldwide and calculated that in 85 percent of the cases, the record for hottest day of the year had the fingerprints of climate change.
  Heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels made those records more likely or more intense.
  Climate change’s influence was spotted 57 percent
  
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• Port of Nome may face negative revenues if rates aren’t increased, analysis shows

  24-04-2017 21:22 via ktoo.org
  
  The Port of Nome Small Boat Harbor. (Photo by Lauren Frost/KNOM)
  The Port of Nome could face negative net revenues by 2035 if it doesn’t begin increasing rates annually, according to a new analysis from Cordova Consulting.
  The consultants laid out three scenarios for the future:
  no vessel traffic growth,
  2 percent annual growth,
  5 percent annual growth.
  Though the timelines differ for each scenario, each one eventually shows negative revenues when depreciation is considered.
  
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• State funding cuts to University of Alaska could deeply impact rural campuses

  24-04-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  University of Alaska’s community campuses, such as University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham, Alaska, could face dramatic changes as the university faces further funding cuts from the state. (Creative Commons photo by J. Stephen Conn/Flickr)
  University of Alaska campuses are bracing for change as the university system faces up to $22 million in cuts from the state.
  University administration are entertaining several different long-term options to reduce the
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-25-17

  24-04-2017 20:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Tuesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host;
  We’ll talk with W. Mitchell about his Pillars of America presentation
  Sarah Campen will be here to highlight the One Hundred Voices Community Arts Showcase;
  We’ll talk with Elaine Schroeder about 350 – the climate change organization;
  And Riverbend teacher T J Cramer will be here to discuss the production, Lost in the Woods
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music & more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN; an
  
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• Trump administration to issue new Syria sanctions

  24-04-2017 17:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials say the Trump administration will issue new sanctions against Syria as early as Monday as part of its ongoing crackdown on the Syrian government and those who support it.
  Two officials say that the sanctions are part of a broader effort to cut off funding and other support to Syria’s President Bashar Assad and his government amid the country’s escalating civil war.
  The officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the d
  
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• At least global warming may get Americans off the couch more

  24-04-2017 17:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – A new study says global warming’s milder winters will likely nudge Americans off the couch more in the future, a rare, small benefit of climate change.
  With less chilly winters, the study forecasts that Americans will be more likely to get outdoors, increasing their physical activity by as much as 2.5 percent by the end of the century, especially in the nation’s northern tier. But hotter summers mean parts of the deep south and desert southwest would exercise
  
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• Astronaut breaks record for most time in space by American

  24-04-2017 16:04
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Astronaut Peggy Whitson has another record under her space belt.Early Monday, the International Space Station commander surpassed the record of 534 days, two hours and 48 minutes for most accumulated time in orbit by an American. That record was set last year by Jeffrey Williams.
  Whitson already was the world’s most experienced spacewoman and female spacewalker and, at 57, the oldest woman in space. By the time she returns to Earth in September, she’
  
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• Fairbanks recycling center project $150,000 over budget

  24-04-2017 15:57
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – The Fairbanks North Star Borough is seeking out additional funding to start up a recycling program, as the project is facing a $150,000 cost overrun.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the borough is looking to open a community recycling center at a warehouse in Fairbanks by July 1, when the Fairbanks Rescue Mission is scheduled to end its recycling program. The goal is to consolidate all current recycling programs in the borough so residents can drop off their
  
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• Kodiak Borough legalizes commercial pot; city ban remains

  24-04-2017 15:53
  
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) – The Kodiak Borough Assembly has voted to lift its commercial marijuana ban, although it is still illegal in the city’s jurisdiction.
  The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports the assembly voted Thursday 4-2 in favor of lifting the ban.
  It is unclear how soon people who have applied for state licenses will be ready to open their businesses, but the regulations are set in place.
  There is an excise tax of $10 per ounce or 20 percent of the state’s excise tax, whichever
  
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• Employee injured in shooting at Anchorage grocery store

  24-04-2017 05:56 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a grocery store employee in Anchorage was shot and wounded as he tried to keep a group of teens from trashing the inside of the store.
  Officers had responded Saturday morning after police say the teens were fighting inside the store, breaking merchandise and urinating in the aisles.
  Police say the employee approached the group and asked them to leave before one of the teens pulled out a gun and shot the employee.
  The employee was hospitalized with i
  
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• Trump awards purple heart in first visit to Walter Reed Military Hospital

  24-04-2017 05:34 via ktoo.org
  
  President Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Alvaro Barrientos, after awarding him with a Purple Heart , as first lady Melania Trump, right, stands with Tammy Barrientos second from right, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Saturday. Alex Brandon/AP
  President Trump awarded the Purple Heart to Sgt. 1st Class Alvaro Barrientos at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
  Barrientos was wounded in Afghanistan on March 17
  
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• Indiana University bars applicants with sexual violence history from competition

  24-04-2017 05:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Student athlete applicants with histories of domestic or sexual violence will no longer be eligible to play at Indiana University.
  Dottie Day/Flickr
  Indiana University will no longer allow prospective student-athletes with a history of sexual or domestic violence to compete.
  In a statement, the school says that applicants who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to “a felony involving sexual violence” or have “been found responsible for sexual violence”
  
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• ‘I dreamed of Africa’ author and conservationist, shot in Kenya

  24-04-2017 05:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Kuki Gallmann, a conservationist best known for her book I Dreamed of Africa, was ambushed and shot while she drove across her conservancy in Kenya Sunday morning.
  Gallmann, 73, was shot in the stomach and “severely injured” while surveying her property with rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service, according to her brother-in-law Nigel Adams and a press release from a farmers’ association of which she’s a member.
  She was flown to a hospital in Nairobi for treatment, and was
  
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• Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate

  24-04-2017 03:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg says he wants to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
  The former New York City mayor addressed his intensifying focus on climate change an interview with The Associated Press.
  Last week, he released a new book, “Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet,” co-authored by Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope.
  The Trump administration is debating whether to abando
  
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• BLM seeks public input on proposed Red Devil Mine cleanup

  24-04-2017 03:17
  
  The Red Devil Mine is located on the Kuskokwim near the Red Devil Creek between Crooked Creek and Sleetmute. It started mining in the ’30s, picked up steam in the ’50s and ’60s but has not operated since the 1970s. The problem is that there’s mercury, arsenic and antimony in the soils left behind by the mining, and the contamination is being released by erosion.
  The Bureau of Land Management is holding a meeting in June to educate people about the old mine and listen to t
  
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• Students sue Trump administration over climate change

  24-04-2017 03:07
  
  EUGENE, Ore. — Avery McRae has been passionate about the environment for half a lifetime, and she’s been worried about climate change since kindergarten.
  Now, at 11, she is really getting serious. She recently signed on to sue President Trump and the U.S. government.
  “Trump is not doing anything to help stop climate change,” she says. “He’s a climate change denier, and we’re gonna prove that to the world!”
  McRae is one of 21 students suing the gove
  
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• Police investigate 44-year-old Juneau woman’s death

  24-04-2017 02:56 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police Sgt. Chris Gifford keeps watch at a possible crime scene on Abby Court, where a 44-year-old Juneau woman was found dead on Sunday. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Juneau police say a 44-year-old local woman was found dead Sunday morning in her home near Vanderbilt Hill Road.
  In a brief news release, the police department says it is investigating the death and that the State Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy in Anchorage. Police did not name the woman.
  “I realize that that
  
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• Water streaming across Antarctica surprises, worries scientists

  24-04-2017 02:45
  
  In a unique study spanning the entire continent, scientists have found that water is gushing across Antarctica — more than they ever realized.
  The researchers from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have found significant drainage of meltwater flowing across the continent’s ice sheets during summer in Antarctica. Until now, these streams of water were mainly associated only with Antarctica’s far north regions.
  The discovery of widespread streams across
  
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• APD makes 1 arrest in Carrs-Safeway shooting

  24-04-2017 01:46
  
  Broken glass was seen inside the Carrs Safeway store Saturday morning. (KTVA)
  Anchorage Police say they have at least one of the persons responsible for a shooting inside a grocery store over the weekend in custody.
  Anchorage Police Lieutenant John McKinnon says 18-year-old Devon Maurice Brown has been arrested in connection to the trashing of the Carrs-Safeway on Northern Lights Boulevard, as well as the shooting of one of the store’s employees.
  Saturday morning, Anchorage Police say
  
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• Hundreds estimated at Juneau’s March for Science on Saturday

  24-04-2017 01:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Organizers estimate a few hundred people joined Juneau’s March for Science that started with a rally in front of the state Capitol on Earth Day.“I’d say most people’s estimates were between 350 and 600 … 600 is high,” said Theresa Soley.
  Soley is working toward a master’s degree in science communication and she also led the effort to hold the March for Science in Juneau. Soley thinks people came out to march because they’re frustrated with politi
  
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• Fire damages Sand Lake duplex

  24-04-2017 00:55
  
  Crews were dispatched to a house fire early Sunday afternoon in Sand Lake.
  Just after noon, 13 Anchorage Fire units were called to a duplex in the 7800 block of Fenn Street.
  Homeowner told me everyone got out of the building OK. She does not know what caused the fire. @ktva pic.twitter.com/9SfbGD1aCA
  — Eric Ruble (@e_ruble) April 23, 2017
  All occupants of the duplex were able to escape the blaze safely.
  The cause of the fire is under investigation, though one of the occupants of the reside
  
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• Girl, 4, missing from Palmer area for a month

  24-04-2017 00:45
  
  (L) Charlie; (R) Raymond Martin. (Credit: Alaska State Troopers)
  Alaska State Troopers are asking for the public’s help in locating a 4-year-old girl who’s believed to have been taken by her father.
  Troopers in Palmer says 4-year-old Charlie hasn’t been seen since March 21, and the girl was with her father, 57-year-old Raymond Martin, of Wasilla.
  Authorities say Martin failed to relinquish custody of the girl and no one has been in contact with either the girl or Martin since t
  
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