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Best. Finish. Ever. Christmas Story Contest Winners • 4 Finalists, 2 Champs for Kayhi, Announced, See Page 6 Page 2 Best. Finish. Ever. Christmas story contest winners • 4 finalists, 2 champs for Kayhi, announced, See page 6 Page 2 46º/42º Weather, page 3 $K1.00 ETCHIKAN MONDAY, DEC. 15, 2014 TWITTER.COM/KDNNEWS DAILY N WWW.KETCHIKANDAILYNEWS.COMEWS 12 PAGES Walker talks Shipyard marks start to ferry project $101.5M deal budget, lawsuit to last 4 years By NICK BOWMAN closely, but I'll need to confer with my Daily News Staff Writer legal counsel on what the state is By MATT ARMSTRONG Gov. Bill Walker had no comment going to do on that.” Daily News Staff Writer on Ketchikan’s education lawsuit Walker chose his law partner of The Ketchikan Shipyard marked the while in the more than 10 dawn of a new era for its operations as First City on years, Craig Gov. Bill Walker, other state officials Saturday. Richards, as and Vigor Alaska held a laying of the After his his attorney keels ceremony Saturday afternoon for speech during general. the two new Alaska Class ferries that the Ketchikan T h e will be built at the facility over the Shipyard lay- K e t c h i k a n next four years. ing of the keels Gateway Bor- Vigor Alaska — which operates the ceremony on ough filed a Alaska Industrial Development and S a t u r d a y , l a w s u i t Export Authority-owned shipyard — Alaska’s new against the was awarded the four-year, $101.5 mil- governor dis- state in Janu- lion contract in September by former cussed the ary seeking to Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration. state’s ongoing strike down a Keel laying ceremonies mark the budget crisis, statute that start of a ship’s his relationship requires mu- construction, with the nicipalities to and laying the Alaska Legisla- Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks Saturday pay a portion two ferry INSIDE: keels “is the ture and the ed- during a laying of the keels ceremony at of their ucation suit. school dis- realization of The ferry project by the Ketchikan Shipyard in Ketchikan. a shared goal the numbers, “I have been Staff photo by Taylor Balkom trict’s annual advised by my o p e r a t i n g to keep state Page 3 attorney general that I need to defer to costs. spending and my attorney general on those things,” In November, Ketchikan Superior jobs” in Alaska, Walker told the Daily News at the Court Judge William Carey sided with according to a Vigor news release. shipyard. “I did speak on it … during the borough on a key section of its Adam Beck, president of Vigor the campaign, and I will watch it See ‘Walker,’ page 2 Alaska, sai d that, while there is a his- tory of shipbuilding in this region that dates to the early 1900s, Saturday’s event was “about the future” of ship- building. Medicaid expansion “Now, in addition to beginning the life of the new ferries, what this proj- ect does is it brings four years of stable State looking at July start date work to Ketchikan and the Ketchikan By BECKY BOHRER Shipyard,” Beck said. “This allows us Associated Press to build our work force, to build our JUNEAU — State health commissioner Valerie Davidson said it could be July efficiency, our productivity, (and it) po- before the state is in a position to begin enrolling Alaskans under expanded sitions us to be ready for the next op- Medicaid coverage. portunities that are coming as we look Davidson said issues need to be worked out with a Medicaid eligibility system to recapitalize the Alaska fishing indus- as well as with a Medicaid payment system that has been plagued by problems try, as well as what’s on the horizon for since going live in 2013. Both are being converted from one technology system the oil and (other extraction indus- to another, she said. tries).” “We want to make sure that we are successful on day one. And in order to do Walker, during his comments, said that, we have to have systems that are capable of accepting new Medicaid ex- that he uses Ketchikan as an example pansion enrollees,” Davidson said in an interview with The Associated Press. of what Alaska is capable of when he “So we’re thinking probably we’ll be ready in July.” goes to other parts of the state. He also The state in September filed an administrative complaint against the vendor talked about the first time he toured it had hired to implement the new Medicaid payment system. That matter is the shipyard “some years ago.” pending. “I thought I had rediscovered As of earlier this month, there were about 230 defects in the system, down Alaska,” Walker said. “I went to a from nearly 870 last December, but some of those were resulting in claims not Chamber of Commerce meeting, and being paid or not being paid correctly, Davidson said. In addition to working the room was packed. I thought I had out the payment issues, the state expects to get a corrective plan from the ven- rediscovered Alaska. I had not seen dor by the end of this week that it will then review for possible approval, she See ‘Ferry project,’ page 3 said. To accept expanded coverage, Gov. Bill Walker’s administration also will need Vigor Alaska president Adam legislative approval to receive and spend accompanying federal dollars, she Beck addresses a crowd Saturday said. For states that have opted for expansion, the federal government is ex- during a laying of the keels cere- pected to cover the cost through 2016 and the bulk of the cost indefinitely, with mony in the Ketchikan Shipyard. the states contributing. Staff photos by Taylor Balkom See ‘Medicaid,’ page 2 Forecast is Rein Mouse ‘avatars’ used to test cancer drugs Personalized cancer treatment By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Scientists often test drugs in mice. Now some cancer patients are doing the same — with the hope of curing their own disease. They are paying a private lab to breed mice that carry bits of their own tu- mors so treatments can be tried first on the customized rodents. The idea is to see which drugs might work best on a specific person’s specific cancer. The mice may help patients make what can be very hard choices under dif- ficult circumstances. Studies can suggest a certain chemotherapy may help, but patients wonder whether it will work for them. Often there’s more than one choice, and if the first one fails, a patient may be too sick to try another. So Above, Poco, a 12-year-old reindeer, stands amid hundreds of people have made “mouse avatars” over the last few years to test twigs and branches Sunday at the Alaska Rainfor- chemotherapies. est Sanctuary. At left, Amy Johnson holds Sophia “What I’m doing is personalized cancer treatment. It’s the wave of the future,” Johnson, 2, up so she can feed Poco at the Alaska said Eileen Youtie, a Miami woman using mice to guide care for her hard-to- Rainforest Sanctuary. The Sunday event invited treat form of breast cancer. “Part of this is trying to eliminate chemos that are children to feed Santa’s reindeer. It was co-spon- not going to work on me. I don’t want to waste time taking them and poison sored by the Alaska Wildlife Foundation, and also my body.” offered a tour of the historic Herring Bay Lumber But there are no guarantees the mice will help. Co., sawmill. Participants were invited to bring “There’s not a lot of science” to say how well this works, and it should be canned food as part of a food drive. considered highly experimental, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical Staff photos by Taylor Balkom officer of the American Cancer Society. See ‘Personal cancer tests,’ page 3 Ketchikan, Alaska SPORTS • WORLD • ALASKA • NATION Today’s Trivia: Who has state Rep. Dan Ortiz hired for his ©2014 Page 3: OceansAlaska to appear before Assembly VOL. 86 NO. 292 legislative staff? (USPS 293-940) www.ketchikandailynews.com Answer, Page 2 Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 KETCHIKAN DAILY NEWS LOCAL/ALASKA 3 OceansAlaska meeting with Assembly on Monday By NICK BOWMAN the past year. tentially, outfits along the West Coast. The borough contracts the company There are several other items on the building, which requires an architect as Daily News Staff Writer He also supported OceansAlaska’s re- Two financial reports from September to clear the septic systems in the bor- Assembly’s relatively busy Monday a subcontractor to the main contractor, OceansAlaska will make its first ap- quest for a loan before the Assembly. and October included in the meeting ough. All homeowners pay into the pro- agenda: Wisewood Inc. The change order would pearance before the Ketchikan Gateway The terms of the loan are being negoti- agenda are available at the borough’s gram, but about half refuse the service, • A public hearing is set for a potential increase the cost of the contract by Borough Assembly since a $600,000 ated by the borough and OceansAlaska website, borough.ketchikan.ak.us, under according to the borough. rezone of 12.9 acres of property in the $20,339. loan to keep the nonprofit afloat was ap- this fall, and the positions, while already the “government” tab. As a result of increased costs, the As- White Rock Estates Subdivision, in the • A $346,062 increase to the proved. offered, depend on the loan agreement OceansAlaska’s current operations are sembly will consider raising sludge Point Higgins area, from the Future De- Ketchikan School District’s spending au- Tomi Marsh, president of being approved by Borough Manager being funded with an existing borough pumping fees by $5 per quarter.
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