I firmly believe we all should be good stewards of resources and lands. This is an act that I have demonstrated with my actions for the past 16 years. However, in recent months the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly chose to the pass Anadromous Streams Habitat Protection Ordinance, which is designed and authored to protect streams, lakes and watersheds of the Kenai Peninsula. On face value it sounds outstanding, right? Nothing could be further from the truth in my mind! It was back in the mid 90s when the Kenai Peninsula Borough passed the same ordinance for the world famous Kenai River.

In the back drop of Mt. Redoubt on March 17 along the east side icy shores of Cook Inlet more than a hand full of brave residents took the plunge for kids in the second annual Central Peninsula Polar plunge. Those residents were: Hunter Brooks, Andrew Jones, Zybrylle Gage, Dyan Jackson, Rylee Jackson, Tanar Jackson, Pastor Jason Evoy, Mandee Jackson, Jennifer Luckett, Ryan Genzel, Roger Lay, Megan Morse, Leslie Morcon, John Winters, Christina Glenzel, Kenneth Schwalb, Denali Glenzel, Mike Luckett. Collectively more than $3,300.00 was raised in the effort for local youth organizations.