Cindy Littell worries that in time her grandchild will not remember his mother, only the one act that tore her from his life.

“It was the last thing I expected,” Littell said.

Tuesday rolls forward another year from the date, May 14, 2011, when her 37-year-old daughter pulled her partner’s handgun from under his truck’s seat and fatally shot herself through the chest.

Littell, of Soldotna, stood by a table in the Soldotna Sports Center after the rest of the room had left for Saturday’s Out of the Darkness Walk, a fundraiser for suicide prevention and awareness.

Even without the gigantic Boeing C-17s Globemaster IIIs or the bulbous, four-propellered Lockheed C-130 Hercules, it’s still a good time. Even the Blackhawks don’t need to be there to have fun.

And for this year’s 13th Annual Kenai Peninsula Air Fair and Poker Run, they won’t be, Kenai Municipal Airport Manager Mary Bondurant said. Federal sequestration, she said, has chased off the normal military planes, helicopters and personnel. She said the military band won’t even be able to make it.

But she is not worried.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is for the first time revising its fire management plan environmental assessment in accordance with national policy. The refuge will take public comments on the draft document until May 31.

“Basically (the plan) will show the public what our general plans are for using fire on the landscape and the types of treatment that we would do in and around the refuge lands near those communities,” said Doug Newbould, fire management officer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

This story contained an error. The Johnson Lake campground is currently open. Half the campground will close in mid-July. The Clarion regrets the error.

The Cooper Landing boat launch will be closed until June 10 for maintenance.

The Kenai and Prince William Sound Division of Parks & Outdoor will use the time to repair an edge of the ramp where gravel has eroded, correct a drainage near the ramp’s gate and relocate signs that have become obstacles for boats when the Kenai River has been high, said Jack Blackwell, division superintendent.