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Schools briefs for the week of March 4, 2019

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Schools briefs for the week of March 4, 2019

What’s happening this week

A sign supporting the field house proposition sits inside local cafe, Everything Bagels, in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Soldotnans to vote on field house Tuesday

Soldotnans to vote on field house Tuesday

Three Peaks Supper Club will host dinner parties in community homes on the central peninsula. (Photo provided by Joe Spady/Three Peaks Supper Club)

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Community supper club shares love of food

Three Peaks Supper Club aims to bring local chefs and cooks into the community

Dr. Kristin Mitchell presenting to students at Kaliedoscope School of Arts and Sciences. (Photos courtesy of Debbie Boyle/Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Sciences)

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Kaleidoscope School flag hitches ride to Antarctica

The flag was created in September as part of the school’s Lens Time

Cinderella’s Closet seeking formal wear donations

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Cinderella’s Closet seeking formal wear donations

The program has provided formal wear to more than 850 people in the last 11 years

The Kenai Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic is closed until further notice after the building was found to be structurally unstable, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai VA clinic closed due to structural damage

The staff was asked to evacuate last week, and appointments were canceled on Friday

Many residents voiced their support for education funding at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Betty J. Glick Assembly Chambers where a town hall with R-Sen. Peter Micciche (Kenai/Soldotna) and R-Rep. Ben Carpenter (Nikiski) took place on Saturday, in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Budget, taxes discussed at crowded town hall

The event was standing room only

Kalie Klaysmat, President and co-founder of Quilts for Heroes, delivers over a dozen quilts to peninsula veterans undergoing chemotherapy on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Quilted with love

New nonprofit provides quilts for heroes

Community member Kalliste Edeen offers an invocation at the Jan. 8 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly OKs funds for ACLU bill

Assembly approved appropriations of $70,400 to pay toward the balance of ACLU-Alaska’s legal fees

Mayor Charlie Pierce speaks at a Kenai Peninsula Borough meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough enacts new whistleblower protection policy

Policy protects borough employees to report matters of public concern without fear of retribution

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will be hosting a budget forum on Thursday in Kenai for the public to better understand the district’s budget on Nov. 2, 2018, at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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District to host public budget forums

Residents can attend a forum on Wednesday, Feb. 20, Thursday, Feb. 21 and Tuesday, Feb. 26.

The Kachemak Selo Middle-High School building sits against a backdrop of the ridge separating the village from the Kenai Peninsula Borough road system Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018 in Kachemak Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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School board focuses on capital projects in K-Selo, Nanwalek

A six-year plan outlines the most important infrastructure projects in local schools from 2021–2026

A team from the Kenai Peninsula were the first Alaska team to compete in a Western National Roundup Quiz Bowl competition, where they placed sixth among nine teams across the country. (Photo courtesy of Cassandra Rankin)

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Local 4-H team competes nationally

The team was the first Alaska Livestock Team to compete at a National Livestock Quiz Bowl

Rep. Gary Knopp speaks to a sold-out Joint Chamber Breakfast On Friday, in Kenai. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Knopp addresses concerns with budget at Chamber Breakfast

Knopp said his goal was to create a functioning House

Escape Route, a road connecting the towns of Kenai and Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, is photographed on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough may swap roads with state

Borough would trade ownership and maintenance of nine state-maintained roads for Escape Route road

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Sean Dusek waits to talk and answer the public’s questions in the back room of Veronica’s Cafe in Kenai on Friday. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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District begins search for new superintendent

A successful candidate will have outstanding educational leadership and advocacy skills

Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Kenai, and Rep. Dave Talerico, R-Healy, sit next to each other after Knopp voted not to confirm Talerico as Speaker of the House on Tuesday. (Alex McCarthy | Juneau Empire)

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District 30 asks Knopp to organize or resign

Knopp said he is definitely not going to resign

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks with his cabinet members at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Dunleavy releases budget

Proposed cuts could impact university system, public schools

District employees leave the Betty J. Glick Borough Assembly Chambers during the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Education Board meeting in Soldotna, Alaska on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, to rally for a fair contract. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Educators call for action

District staff rally at school board meeting, talk of a strike

After construction workers removed siding from the facade of the Kenai Municipal Airport, a mural with iconic Kenai images like fishing nets, the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox chapel and a dog musher, was revealed on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 in Kenai, Alaska.(Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Airport mural to be immortalized in photos

The mural depicts peninsula icons, like a Russian Orthodox Church, a dog musher and a fishing net.