Kenai’s city council addressed two ongoing issues at its Wednesday meeting — trees near the airport and management of the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center.

The KVCC will now be operated by the newly formed Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center, which was created by the merger of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and the Kenai Convention and Visitors Bureau. The KCVB formerly operated the KVCC for the city, with the city paying the KCVB and taking care of most building maintenance issues. 

Buccaneer Energy, the Australian-independent working near Wal-Mart, is continuing its natural gas exploration and development efforts with seismic studies throughout Kenai.

Weems Geophysical is overseeing Buccaneer's seismic efforts on the central Kenai Peninsula. Heliportable work, which uses a helicopter to move a drill from one location to location to another, began last month. John Land, from Weems, said his company is still finishing the permitting process for work on the city's roads.

Everyone on the Kenai Peninsula has a good moose story lately – there are moose walking through coffee hut drive-thrus, getting stuck to chairs, hanging out at the entrance to Safeway and otherwise causing shenanigans around the Peninsula.

Funny or not, the real story of those tales is something not so light-hearted: a cold, snowy winter that makes for hungry, sometimes aggressive, moose.

Wildlife personnel are swamped with moose-related calls, and it’s rarely good news.

Raising a reindeer isn’t all games.

Friday afternoon, about a week-and-a-half after Scene of the Crash moved to Nikiski, Jenna Hansen and her mom Hara worked to help him adjust to being around people.

Jenna held a rope, while Hara stomped in the snow near the 7-month-old reindeer.

Training is, initially, about “trying to desensitize it,” Hara said.

Jenna said its a lot like training a horse, something she’s done before, which focuses on release.

She holds him tightly, and releases a little when he is behaving, giving him some slack.