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HOPE PHOTOS PHOTOS HOPE HISTORIC POINT HISTORIC One dollar and fifty and dollar One cents A4 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Sunday, August 9, 2020 NATION/WORLD From the Manhattan Project, a national burden Japan’s Abe Joseph Ditzler side of the nuclear weapons gram, Rosner said. It created the up decrees, damage awards renews calls to TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE programs, whether it’s on ener- world’s very first power reactor, and the burden of nuclear gy or on computing or on any the Experimental Breeder Reac- weapons themselves. The bomb-bay doors on the number of scientific areas. They tor, at Argonne West, now the As the Cold War ended, pub- abolish atomic B-29 Superfortress Bockscar still maintain a high caliber of Idaho National Laboratory. lic attention came to bear on swung open over Nagasaki, research in the national inter- Three national laboratories health risks to workers at Los weapons at Japan, a little before noon on est,” said Steven Aftergood, a are still primarily devoted to Alamos and other sites; the Aug. 9, 1945, and at 11:58 a.m. freedom-of-information advo- the work of nuclear weapons, accumulation of toxic waste, one 10,800-pound bomb fell cate for the Federation of Amer- including their non-nuclear documented or not; poor Hiroshima away. ican Scientists. “I wouldn’t want components. Los Alamos, Law- management; and a culture of Minutes later, a 5,300-pound to overlook that.” rence Livermore National Lab- secrecy. ceremony sphere of high explosives On top of its work as a weap- oratory in Livermore, Calif., and The worst example, the Han- imploded inside the bomb cas- ons designer, Los Alamos Sandia National Laboratory in ford Nuclear Reservation, is By Isabel Reynolds ing. The blast squeezed a soft- National Laboratory, where the Albuquerque, N.M., fall under what remains of the dirty work TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE ball-sized, 13.6-pound plutoni- critical work of the Manhattan the authority of the National of bombmaking: 586 square um core to the size of a tennis Project took place, today engag- Nuclear Security Administra- miles that include nine decom- Japanese Prime Minister ball, a super-critical mass that es in basic research in myriad tion. missioned reactors that pro- Shinzo Abe renewed calls to started a chain reaction. topics, from black holes to cloud duced weapons-grade plutoni- abolish atom- The resulting nuclear explo- computing and climate change. Model teamwork um and a “staggering” amount ic weapons sion killed approximately The lab is also using genomics The Manhattan Project of radioactive waste, according and warned of 39,000 people and injured to diagnose cases of the corona- employed as many as 130,000 to the Northwest Power and a worsening another 25,000, according to virus. people and cost nearly $2 bil- Conservation Council. global security the online Atomic Archive. It When the Cold War ended, lab lion, about $28.6 billion today. About 53 million gallons situation on the was the second use of a nuclear experts also turned their exper- Work at Los Alamos alone cost of chemicals used to sepa- 75th anniversa- weapon in war and the first to tise to helping the former Sovi- taxpayers about $74 million, or rate plutonium from uranium ry of the atom- employ a plutonium implosion et Union dismantle its nuclear $1.06 billion today, according to remains stored in 177 under- ic bombing of Abe device, still a mainstay of nucle- weapons. the Brookings Institution. ground tanks, of which 70 are Hiroshima, at ar weapons technology. Los Alamos laboratory may The Energy Department in leaking and sending a radioac- a ceremony scaled back due to Scientists and engineers of the be the most famous Manhattan fiscal year 2019 budgeted $2.9 tive plume toward the nearby the coronavirus. Manhattan Project, the top-se- Project site, but it wasn’t the billion for Los Alamos Nation- Columbia River, according to Elderly survivors, diplomats cret World War II nuclear weap- only one and it wasn’t even the al Laboratory, of which 66%, or the council. The site, one of the and politicians sat at social- ons program, fused raw science first. That distinction belongs $1.9 billion, was intended for most dangerous and polluted ly distanced spaces in front of and practical engineering to to Argonne National Laborato- weapons programs. in the U.S., includes 1,700 indi- the bombed-out remains of the create the implosion bomb at ry, on the outskirts of Chicago, At its height during World vidual waste sites and about iconic domed exhibition center Project Y, the Los Alamos lab- that grew out of physicist Enrico War II, Los Alamos employed 500 contaminated buildings. that was kept as a memorial of oratory in New Mexico. The Fermi’s search at the University about 5,000 people. “Today At Los Alamos, self-ap- the world’s first nuclear attack. Hanford Engineer Works along of Chicago for the first sustained there are over 12,000 people in pointed watchdog Greg Mel- A minute’s silence was held at the banks of the Columbia River nuclear reaction. the lab, just the lab,” Rosner said lo, founder of the Los Alamos 8:15 a.m., the time when the in central Washington produced “They were trying to figure out during a phone interview July Study Group, has documented bomb fell in 1945. the plutonium. The bomb was what the critical mass is, how 15. decades of worker health prob- Abe urged dialogue between tested at an isolated desert flat much uranium 235 fissile core In addition to the raw and lems, industrial accidents and countries to decrease security near Alamogordo, N.M., known … do you actually need to start applied sciences the labs pro- toxic waste. He also campaigns threats. He added that Japan as Trinity Site. a chain reaction,” said Robert duce, they preserve a model for against a program underway to would uphold its stance of not Rosner, former Argonne lab integrating scientists, engineers expand the lab to make pluto- possessing, making or intro- National franchise director. and other experts across a vari- nium pits for a new generation ducing nuclear weapons. The two-year crash effort to Argonne is one of 10 national ety of fields that is not widely of nuclear warheads. “As the only country to suffer build the bomb that encom- laboratories under the Depart- practiced in the commercial “There’s been a pretty high nuclear attacks, it is our duty passed a handful of locations ment of Energy’s Office of Sci- world, Rosner said. cost across the warhead com- to advance efforts to realize a nationwide has grown into 17 ence. While some, like Argonne, “Integrated teams are the plex for pursuing the nucle- world without nuclear weap- national laboratories and doz- Hanford (today the Pacific secret behind national labora- ar arms race,” Mello said by ons,” he said. He added that ens of affiliated sites overseen by Northwest National Laborato- tories,” he said. “Universities phone July 28. Hiroshima’s recovery from its the Department of Energy on a ry) and Oak Ridge, have roots in traditionally cannot do this, and Drawing on reports from ordeal renewed his determina- budget this year of more than the Manhattan Project, they no the reason is that we’re a silo. We the Department of Labor and tion to overcome the virus. $34 billion. longer work primarily on weap- have a physics department, a by investigative journalists, he The attack by the U.S. on They continue to design new ons development. The Pacific chemistry department – there’s estimates the federal govern- Hiroshima, which is estimat- weapons and maintain the Northwest lab, for example, a math department.” ment has paid out billions for ed to have killed 140,000 peo- nation’s nuclear arsenal, but played a part in the detection of 1,599 death claims at Los Ala- ple, was followed on Aug. 9 most of their work is geared gravity waves in 2015. Toxic chapter mos alone from its beginnings by the dropping of a second toward basic science that yields Argonne, originally known The uglier legacy left by the through June 2016. nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. amazing discoveries. by its code name, the Metallur- Manhattan Project and the “This is a technology that Japan’s then-Emperor Hirohito “There’s a lot of impressive gical Lab, became the home of weapons labs is written in has had horrible effects,” Mello declared defeat in World War II work going on at the lab out- the civilian nuclear power pro- starker terms, including clean- said. on Aug. 15.

massacre.” moral responsibility was will never forget how trau- returned to America that aftermath,” Thurlow said. SURVIVORS Thurlow, then Nakamu- to share our experiences matized I was during this she could be denied health “It was too painful.” Continued from A1 ra, was only 13 when with the rest of the world,” long walk home.” insurance if she disclosed Although he no longer the first nuclear bomb Thurlow said. “Most of the Harue Okino, 90, was she was a survivor. carries any resentment, have concealed the extent destroyed the military people are living with their 15 and sitting in her high Through rage and hon- Dote recalled a fresh wave of the damage and horror headquarters where she heads in the sand. But I school classroom when esty, a slow healing of sadness during the Sept. they had inflicted on Jap- worked, pinning her think it’s about time. We the first bomb dropped. As Americans living in 11, 2001 attacks. Watching anese civilians from the under the rubble until she really have to confront that She walked home with two Japan, Dote and Okino, the people running out of world – including Ameri- couldn’t move. When she reality.” friends, following the rail- who both settled in Sacra- the collapsing towers, he can civilians and soldiers. finally escaped, picking her Survivors remember road tracks because all the mento, said they were left was reminded of that “viv- About 220,000 Japa- way over dead bodies on harrowing aftermath buildings along their usual feeling particularly hurt, id and frightening” feeling nese people are estimated her way home, she found The nuclear bombs were route were burning. angry and deeply sad- he had pushing his bike to have been killed in the that eight members of her dropped more than three It was still morning, but dened. But many survivors home that August morn- two bombings, although family had been killed. and a half years after Japan the skies were dark with swallowed and worked ing in 1945. the exact number will nev- Thurlow, 88, is just one attacked Pearl Harbor and dust. People were scattered through their anger, “I see it as something er be known due to the of the dwindling remain- declared war on the U.S., on the ground and walk- believing it was the only that will always be a part thousands of people who ing survivors, or hibaku- leading the U.S. to join ing around “like zombies,” way to keep going. of myself and my story for- were obliterated on impact sha, with clear memories Great Britain and the Sovi- Okino said. Their skin was “My parents always kept ever,” Dote said. “After 92 and those who died years of the events. All are well et Union to fight Germany, browned and hanging off telling us that we had to years, I have lived through later from radiation poi- into their 80s and 90s. Italy and Japan in World their arms, their lips peeled try to put it all behind us the atomic bomb, being soning. The vast majority But by commemorating War II. It is the deadliest back so far, she could see and move forward,” Dote drafted into the Korean of the people who were the 75th anniversary of the war in world history, kill- all their teeth. said. “I knew that I did not War, 9/11 and now a global killed or wounded were bombings, activists and ing 70 to 80 million sol- “Some people were lay- have any control over the pandemic, and feel like I civilians, casualties of a survivors hope that telling diers and civilians from ing by the river saying, greater political issues. So, have seen it all.” war they hadn’t started their stories will ensure 1939 to 1945. ‘Help me, help me,’ and we just did our best to sur- Sacramento commem- and never fought in. that such horrors remain On the morning of Aug. asking for water to quench vive with what we had and orates 75th anniversary “It was a massacre,” said a lingering memory rath- 6, 1945, U.S. B-29 bomb- their thirst,” Okino recalled ‘gaman’ (a Japanese term with a warning Setsuko Thurlow, a sur- er than becoming a future er pilots dropped the first in Japanese with transla- for enduring the unbear- At 2 p.m. Sunday, sev- vivor of the Hiroshima occurrence. bomb on the town of Hiro- tion from her granddaugh- able with patience and dig- eral Sacramento-area bombing. “Indiscriminate “We concluded our shima. The official reason ter, Samantha Tsuruoka. nity).” organizations will hold a was to force the Japanese “Some people were jump- Thurlow remembered livestreamed commem- army to surrender and ing into the river and there being numbed by shock, oration to remember the Bicycle & Pedestrian end World War II. Anoth- were bodies floating in the watching with dry eyes the bombings and call for Advisory Committee Meeting er bomb was dropped on water. Some people were as the blackened, swollen international nuclear dis- Thursday, August 13, 2020 • 5-7 PM Nagasaki three days later. begging (me) to find their bodies of her older sister armament. Thurlow will WEB CONFERENCE Alfred Dote was born in family, but they weren’t and 4-year-old nephew give a speech, followed by Sacramento and moved to even recognizable. The were thrown into a shallow climate activists and poli- To access by computer, go to www.fastplanning.us/keepup/zoom Hiroshima when he was three of (us) would just say, grave. Her guilt over her ticians such as Sacramento To access by telephone, call: 1 (253) 215-8782 8. He was 17 and working ‘OK, OK!’” emotionless response ate Mayor Darrell Steinberg. Meeting ID: 859 9593 9435 in the shipyards when he Both Dote and Okino say away at her for years, but Supporters of the bomb- saw a bright light moving they lost several loved ones her fury and sense of injus- ings failed to consider the Main Agenda Items Include: horizontally, followed by a that day. Dote’s 25-year- tice grew the more she human and environmen- • Non-Motorized Plan Update massive boom. Suddenly, old sister was killed in the learned about the extent tal costs, said Dr. Harry • 5th Avenue Reconstruction Project Update the city was engulfed in bombing, and one of Oki- of the U.S. government’s Wang, president of the • Lacey Street Reconstruction Stakeholder Meetings Update flames. no’s friends who walked damage. Sacramento Physicians • Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) He had no idea what home with her fell ill with “If you were in the city for Social Responsibility. Amendment #3 Update happened. He and a radiation poisoning and at that time and saw the Today, he said, countries • FAST Planning Maintenance Policy Revision schoolmate tried to ride later died. kind of human suffering … with nuclear arsenals are • Steese-Johansen Expressway Interchange their bicycles home, but it Dote’s younger brother there’s no human dignity still overlooking the price Presentation by DOT&PF was so hot that their rub- survived, but was badly in that kind of memory,” of warfare. • University Avenue Rehabilitation & Widening ber tires were melting. burned. He and his par- Thurlow said. “To be angry This ongoing blindness Presentation by DOT&PF So they pushed them on ents had to use cooking about something, that’s the makes it more important • BPAC Meeting Schedule a journey that stretched oil to heal his wounds and only natural thing.” than ever for the public to • Winter Maintenance Forum some five hours as they maggots to eat the dead Survivors said that it was commemorate the memo- • New NCHRP “Guidance to Improve Pedestrian & dodged fires and wound flesh because there were only through communing ry of Hiroshima and Naga- Bicycle Safety at Intersections” their way through devas- no hospitals available with other survivors and saki, Wang said. tation. nearby, he said. exchanging dozens of per- “It’s a mistaken allo- The public is welcome to attend. “There were so many Many survivors said they sonal, painful stories that cation of our resources,” The FAST Planning public hearing requirements agree to use the TIP development process to satisfy the public hearing requirements of Section 5307(c). The public people walking with their were pressured in the years they were able to begin Wang said. “People need notice of public involvement activities and time established for public review and comment on the TIP will satisfy the program-of-projects requirements of arms out as skin was melt- that followed to downplay moving on. Those honest to be reminded and edu- the Urbanized Area Formula Program. See 23 C.F.R. Part 450 and 49 C.F.R. Part ing off their bones and or cover up what happened conversations “liberat- cated about what are the 613 (specifically Subpart B, “Statewide Transportation Planning,” and Subpart C, “Metropolitan Transportation Planning and Programming”). The public faces, asking for help and and where they were from. ed” Thurlow and allowed environmental and human involvement process is described at 23 C.F.R. Section 450.316(b). FAST Planning water,” Dote, 92, said in Thurlow recalled some her to recognize how her costs of nuclear war.” complies with the AKDOT&PF Title VI Nondiscrimination Policy, and operates Federal Programs without regard to race, religion, color, gender, age, marital Japanese with translation people told their sons not trauma froze her as she Americans also need to status, ability, or national origin. To view the full Title VI Nondiscrimination Policy from his daughter, Mari to marry women from watched her family being reexamine the country’s or to file a complaint, go to: https://fastplanning.us/civilrights. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, and/or special modifications Shirasago. “I just remem- Hiroshima because many buried. historical narrative that to participate in this public meeting should contact Jackson Fox at (907) 205- 4276 or email: [email protected]. ber looking around and were covered in burns and “A lot of people just the U.S. used the bombs seeing dead bodies every- exposed to radiation, while refuse to look back and to scare off Russian invad- Moving and Improving Fairbanks where and it was so, so Okino’s friends and fam- examine what they experi- ers and cut the war short, F606476-1 frightening. To this day, I ily warned her when she enced on that day and the Wang said. A6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Sunday, August 9, 2020 INTERIOR/NATION Trump signs executive order on coronavirus relief sans $1,200 checks

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With talks for a new corona- virus stimulus package stalled, President Donald Trump signed a package of coronavi- rus stimulus measures that he will seek to implement unilat- erally by executive action. “This pretty much takes care of the whole situation,” Trump said before exiting the conten- tious event. “We’re coming back very strong,” he added. “We’re doing great with the virus.” Trump moved to extend a scaled-down emergency unemployment benefits and an eviction ban, along with relaxing rules for repaying college loans. Trump reduced the extended unemployment benefit to $400 instead of the previous $600, and ordered states to foot 25% of the bill. Trump also moved to sus- pend payroll taxes for those making $100,000 a year or less. He pointedly did not propose sending a new round of $1,200 checks to all American taxpay- ers, perhaps the most popular coronavirus stimulus measure. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Friday in Bedminster, New Jersey. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS Before actually signing the measures, Trump went into elections during the COVID-19 about taking executive action torium on payroll tax collection he has lost patience with the a rambling campaign-style crisis when millions of more to implement or extend some is unpopular. Republicans and stalled talks with Democratic speech against Democratic voters want to vote by mail. stimulus provisions after talks Democratic lawmakers alike leaders in Congress for a giant rival Joe Biden and his allies. “They want to steal the elec- with Congress hit a dead end dislike the proposal because it new stimulus package. Trump slammed Democrats tion,” Trump said. “That’s all Friday. economists say it will have little He claimed he is acting to for proposing billions in aid to this is about.” On the emergency unem- immediate boost on the trou- shuffle unspent cash from the hard-pressed states and cities Trump signed the measures ployment benefits, the pay- bled economy, and has a very previous $1 trillion CARES along with what he derided as after summoning reporters to a ment was set at $600 a week high price tag. Act. a wish list of liberal spending. rare Saturday press conference before it expired last weekend There is significant dispute Democrats passed a sprawl- “They want to bailout states at his golf resort in Bedmin- after Congress failed to reach a about the legality of any uni- ing $3 trillion plan months ago. that have been very badly man- ster, N.J., where he is spend- deal to extend it. lateral presidential action After sitting on their hands for aged for years if not decades,” ing the weekend. The room Extending the ban on evic- enacting new spending like the several weeks, Republicans and Trump said. “It has nothing to was packed with members of tions has wide support among unemployment benefit since the White House eventually do with the China virus at all.” Trump’s club, and support- Democrats, although they also the Constitution grants the hammered out a much smaller He also railed against the ers cheered the president and want emergency cash assis- power of the purse to Congress, $1 trillion package. Democratic proposals to give jeered at reporters. tance to renters. not the president. Talks for a compromise have billions in aid to states to hold Trump had already spoken On the other hand, the mora- Trump is acting to signal made little progress.

TikTok to sue Trump IN BRIEF safely, (the pilot) was forced to man who did not live at residence Plane makes land the aircraft on the Sawgrass when the gunfire erupted just after administration, NPR says Expressway,” said Lt. Yanko Reyes, midnight. emergency landing on in a statement. Her death and a lack of arrests in By Belinda Cao and Yueqi Yang Florida expressway the case have sparked widespread TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE outrage and demonstrations nation- CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — The 29-year- Breonna Taylor case: wide. Celebrities and activists have old pilot of a single-engine plane TikTok plans to file a federal lawsuit as soon as flocked to social media in protest was able to walk away from an Tuesday to challenge President Donald Trump’s Kentucky AG waiting while others have flooded the streets emergency landing on the Sawgrass executive order banning the video-sharing service with signs demanding action. Expressway in the Coral Springs, on ballistics evidence from the U.S. as unconstitutional, National Public Kentucky Attorney General Dan- Parkland area on Friday night. The delay in a decision over Radio reported. iel Cameron has said little about the The Piper PA28-140 Cherokee whether charges will be raised in the The lawsuit will be filed in the U.S. District Court case other than repeatedly vowing to took-off from Fort Lauderdale death of Breonna Taylor has been for the Southern District of California, where Tik- thoroughly investigate the matter. In Executive Airport about 9:30 p.m., caused by a wait for additional evi- Tok’s American operations are based, NPR said, a statement to ABC News on Friday, according to Flightaware. dence, which is still being tested and citing a person familiar with the matter whom it Cameron said that he is waiting for It experienced engine trouble and analyzed by federal authorities, the didn’t identify. It will argue that the president’s additional evidence, made the landing in the eastbound attorney general said. action is unconstitutional because it failed to give “Attorney General Cameron lanes just east of the University Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was the company a chance to respond and that the U.S. remains committed to an indepen- Drive exit about 10:30 p.m., said the fatally shot by plainclothes police government’s national-security justification for the dent and thorough investigation Florida Highway Patrol. officers inside her Louisville apart- order is baseless, according the report. into the death of Ms. Taylor,” it “A mechanical issue on the plane ment back in March. Authori- Chinese-owned TikTok responded in a blog post reads. affected the flow of fuel and, not ties at the time were executing a on Friday it is “shocked” and will pursue all reme- being able to return to home base “no-knock” search warrant for a From wire reports. dies available, including in U.S. courts. A company spokesman reached by phone on Saturday declined to comment on the NPR report and referred to the earlier blog post. of Oklahoma and lat- candidate include men- attorney, has taught Alas- Trump signed executive orders on Thursday ELECTION er attended law school tal health and addiction ka Native studies and prohibiting U.S. residents and companies from Continued from A1 but dropped out due to resources, public educa- courses in the Depart- doing business with TikTok and Tencent Hold- a struggle with mental tion, climate change, eco- ment of Journalism and ings’ WeChat apps, effective in 45 days, citing the Gross was born in health. Later diagnosed nomic equity and Alaska Public Communications national-security risk of leaving Americans’ per- Juneau and raised in with schizoaffective dis- Native rights. at the University of Alas- sonal data exposed. Alaska. His father served order — a combination of ka Anchorage since 1995. as attorney general for schizophrenia and bipo- Edgar Blatchford He was born in Nome former Gov. Jay Ham- lar disorder — which he Blatchford, 70, is the and raised in Seward. After mond, and his mother now manages with medi- only self-identified Dem- graduating from Seward served as the first execu- cation, mental health and ocrat running in the High School, he gradually tive director of the Unit- adequate social service Democratic primary. received six degrees, includ- ed Fishermen of Alaska resources are a focus for In his time in local ing a bachelor’s degree and founded the League the candidate, he out- and state from Alaska Methodist of Women Voters Alaska. lines. politics, University, and Juris Doc- He now lives in Anchor- “Mental illness, addic- Blatchford tor from the University of age with his wife, Moni- tion, and disability are has served Washington School of Law, ca. The two have raised not just important planks as mayor a master’s in journalism four children in Alaska. on my platform. They of Seward, from Columbia University, shape how I experience commis- a master’s in globalization Chris Cumings life, every day,” Cumings sioner from Dartmouth College Cumings paints himself wrote in the biography of the Blatchford and a master’s in public as a no-frills candidate, a section of his website. Depart- administration from Har- Proudly representing these fine companies: progressive sans cliches Cumings, now sober, ment of Community and vard University’s Kennedy and with “legit street cred,” self-identifies as on the Regional Affairs under School of Government, as INVENTORY according to his website. Autism spectrum, noting former Gov. Walter Hick- well as a doctorate from the Cumings, 35, was born his son does as well. el, commissioner of the University of Alaska Fair- LOW! and raised “Learning to get him the Department of Com- banks. in Ket- help I never received has merce and Economic Blatchford is also a chikan by been a bittersweet expe- Development under for- recipient of the Robert B. Order a father now for Arctic Fox rience. The system is not mer Gov. Frank Murkow- Atwood statehood award. who was Raptor & Carbon guaranteed Campers & Trailers set up to make it easy for ski and chairman of the His areas of political delivery in a police families like us to get the board for the Chugach focus center on educa- 5th Wheel Spring! Wolfcreek Campers officer and help we need — and that’s Alaska Corp. tion, climate change and Toyhaulers mother a problem,” he writes. “On In 2016, Blatchford ran responsible and inclusive Cumings Montana & who was the flip side, going through for Senate but lost the immigration policy. FREE a nurse. the process has taught me Democratic nomination Contact staff writer Erin High Country storage He received a bachelor’s how to advocate, very to Ray Metcalfe, who McGroarty at 459-7544. Follow Luxury 5Ws on all Stealth Toyhaulers degree in political sci- effectively.” then lost to Sullivan. her on Twitter: purchases ence from the University Areas of focus for the Blatchford, a former @FDNMpolitics. until Coachmen Ultralight HideOut Spring! Travel Trailers Apex Nano the 24-hour reporting 431 resident cases, of COVID-19 disease. GREAT SELECTION • GREAT PEOPLE VIRUS period that ended at which 123 are listed as 7061 E. BLUE LUPINE, PALMER, AK 99645 Continued from A1 11:59 p.m. Friday. recovered. Five borough Contact Editor Rod Boyce The Fairbanks North residents have died in at 459-7585. Follow him on 907-745-7747 • www.valleyrvcenter.com The new cases are from Star Borough has had connection with the Twitter: @FDNMeditor.