On behalf of the Kenai Police Department, I wish to thank the Kenai Elks Lodge members for your continued support of the DARE program. The Kenai Elks Lodge is the sole financial support for the DARE program in the Kenai schools for the 2012 school year. Your contributions make it possible to supply hundreds of Kenai students with the DARE materials necessary to participate in this program. DARE students are able to learn about drugs, how drugs affect the body, friendships, peer pressure, advertising, ways to be in charge, and, most importantly, how to make good choices.

Thanks to the Street Department Employees of the City of Kenai for the tidy job they are doing clearing our streets of snow...and especially the berms on the sides of the streets without tearing up lawns. There appears to be a rather unique piece of equipment they are using for the fine tuned edging. When summer comes our town residential areas will look better with nice green parking strips. Keeping sand to a minimum is also helping keep our driveways and garages floors cleaner.

The LeeShore Center would like to express our deep gratitude to The Sportsman's Warehouse for donating silent auction proceeds to our agency from their 1st Annual Ladies Night event in February. And thank you Cold Stone Creamery for donating proceeds from ice cream sold at the event to LeeShore as well. A total of $2,499 was donated to our agency, which helps tremendously in our work to provide safe shelter and services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in our community.

The denigration of both Sandra Fluke and the health and well being of women by Rush Limbaugh on his radio program was over the limit of atrociousness. His stated apology is about as sincere as Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook." The recent reports that the advertisers were canceling their support of his program made my day. In my opinion the perpetuation of ignorance and hatred should be stopped and he should lose his radio program. I applaud the advertisers that have pulled their advertising from his program.