Effort to keep Skyview pool open appreciated

05/08/14 - 7:39am

Thank you to the Soldotna City Council and Mayor Nels Anderson and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board and Dr. Steve Atwater for their supporting the operation of the Skyview Pool for the 2014/15 year. It is hoped that this valuable health and safety resource will be utilized to its full potential throughout the years and provide education, therapy and recreation to all.

Skyview pool a valuable community asset

01/21/14 - 8:25am

Hopefully, KPBSD Superintendent Steve Atwater’s suggestion to close the Skyview High School pool as a cost cutting measure will be examined thoughtfully and rejected for three important reasons.

1. Closing a Borough asset that addresses a health and safety issue is unthinkable. The drowning rate in Alaska is ten times higher than the overall U.S. rate and drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths among children ages 1-19.

Reader disagrees with use of chemical

10/28/11 - 7:43am

Oct. 14's Clarion Refuge Notebook on "Pike Stoppers" needs clarification regarding the use of the toxin rotenone to kill unwanted pike in lakes and streams.

1. Rotenone at undetectable levels is used in laboratories to cause Parkinson's disease in lab rats. (Obviously there have been no lab tests on humans to gauge human levels needed to induce Parkinson symptoms.)

Pike-killing toxin a concern for humans

06/03/11 - 7:55am

Your recent article on Stormy Lake and the pike “infestation” (Peninsula Clarion, May 27) bears correction. (I did attend one of the meetings regarding Stormy Lake.)

The use of the toxin, rotenone, was presented as a means of killing the pike in Stormy Lake. In your article, rotenone was cited as being “non-toxic to mammals and birds” and not a threat.” To the contrary, rotenone is used to introduce Parkinson’s disease in lab animals. Undetectable amounts were found to cause symptoms of this disease.

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Effort to keep Skyview pool open appreciated

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