Nine years ago Bob Sizemore, golf pro Tom Walsh and the Birch Ridge Golf Association brought the first Hook a Kid on Golf program to the Kenai Peninsula. Hook a Kid on Golf is a national program started some 20 years ago in Florida by Fred Engh.

Central Emergency Services and Alaska State Troopers responded Monday morning to a two-vehicle rollover and vehicle fire on Kalifornsky Beach Road. The accident has diverted traffic onto Frontage Road. At approximately 9:30 a.m. a report was received of the accident. CES Captain Lesley Quelland and crew responded to find two pickups on their side.

When I first learned of the borough's plan to tell me what I can and can't do on my lake front, on Daniels Lake, I was distraught.

As a woman who has made her living in Alaska's fisheries for decades, I find it incredible that there are those who would oppose efforts to ensure Kenai Peninsula Borough streams remain healthy habitats for salmon. Yet that is just what is going on. Two years ago, the Borough Assembly wisely adopted an ordinance in 2011 establishing 50-foot setbacks along all salmon lakes and streams under its jurisdiction, expanding protection ordinances passed in 1996 and 2008 that covered the Kenai River and its tributaries.

In Tuesday, June 11, Clarion page A-6, the ad for the Alliance had a misleading "Fact." The referendum signature campaign is not to repeal SB 21. It is to place SB 21 on the ballot for a vote by the people of Alaska. Why is this a bad idea? I suspect any organization that is against putting any issue of such importance to a vote of the people. I did not get to attend either function and missed the hotdog giveaway. I would have liked to have been there to find out what other misleading "Facts" may have been touted.

June 6th was the first Thursday of the month and the first 1st Thursday in Kenai at the new C Cups Specialty Coffee location in the Already Read Books store.

For the last seven years the community and its professional fishing guides have hosted the Wounded Warrior program on the Kenai River.

Twenty three years ago Peggy Mullen and friends decided to start an event to increase awareness about conserving the Kenai River while celebrating the abundance the river provides for so many industries in our community.

Kenai resident, Mr. Steven Ray Brewer, 35, died Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at his home in Kenai. Graveside services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 at the Kenai City Cemetery in Kenai. Mr. Brewer was born August 22, 1977 in Ardmore,

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