Around the Peninsula

Corps of Engineers relocates

The Regulatory Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District has relocated its Kenai field office to the Benco Building at 805 Frontage Road, Suite 200C, in Kenai.

The field office will continue to provide wetland delineations, jurisdictional determinations, preapplication coordination, permitting and enforcement services. The office serves an area from an eastern limit that is the confluence of the Moose and Kenai rivers, south to Reeder Avenue near Mile 116 of the Sterling Highway, west to Cook Inlet and north to Nikiski, including Kenai, Soldotna, Nikiski, Kasilof, Cohoe and parts of Sterling.

The office can be reached by phone at 283-3519, by fax at 283-3981 or by sending mail to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 805 Frontage Road, Suite 200C, Kenai, AK 99611-7755.

The Alaska District Regulatory office headquartered in Anchorage may be reached by calling toll free at (800) 478-2712.

Alliance to meet

The Alliance- Kenai Chapter will meet at noon today at Paradisos Restaurant. Jack Hartz, senior reservoir manager of Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will be the featured speaker. Reservations are encouraged. The cost is $11 per person. For more information or to make a reservation, call (907) 563-2226.

Alumni hoops event slated

The Kenai Central High School annual alumni basketball games will be held today through Thursday at the school.

The game schedules are as follows: Alumni boys from 6 to 8 p.m. today — registration begins at 5 p.m.; girls alumni games from 6 to 7 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. Wednesday — registration begins at 4 p.m.; championships games will be girls at 6 p.m., boys at 7 p.m. and the "old-timers" game, or those 10 years or more out of high school, at 8 p.m. Thursday. For more information or to register, call Carrie Lee Steiner at 283-7799.

Skyview pool sets holiday schedule

The Skyview pool will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of Christmas. For a complete list of activities and times, call 262-7675.