We would like congratulate all of the 197 participants in the senior Olympic games, and medal winners of each of the 15 games. A special thank you to the Peninsula Clarion for their excellent coverage and front page coverage of this very popular annual event held in February.

With the overconfidence fed a subservient press, the federal government has discovered, at long last, that there are limits to where it can push the states and the people. The issue is self-defense, as in guns and firearms. We can already see how the current federal dictator and his Congressional lackeys are attempting to extract themselves from an issue that is proving as prickly as a porcupine. The shop-worn media techniques, like photo ops with guns, are so transparent now that it has created the opposite effect: not a suckered electorate, but increased resistance.

Regarding the proposed reconfiguration of Soldotna area schools:

First issue: Cost — Converting three schools costs money. This money will go to fund renovations, mascots, paint jobs, jerseys, and busing 9th graders to and from the high schools every day. This money will come from the community through taxes. Taxes which could be used more efficiently to improve our roads, parks, or offer kids more programs to inspire them into different career possibilities.

Meetings have been held to inform parents of the proposed changes that ten administrators in the Soldotna area have been looking at. While the changes are intended to create a more logical feeder system for the high schools, it seems the main focus has been on advanced classes, mascots and the school traditions of the two schools.