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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six Alaska House seats currently held by men are set to be held by women next year, bringing the overall number of women in the chamber to 21. This will be the first time in the state’s history that one of the legislative chambers is majority women. The women elected to the Alaska House bring a variety of experiences and perspectives to the chamber. Ten of them are Republicans, including four newly elected this year. Nine are Democrats — including three who are newly elected. Two are independents who caucus with Democrats. There are also five women in the state Senate, a number that remained unchanged in this year’s election, bringing the total number of women in the Alaska Legislature to 26 out of 60, a new record for the state. The previous record of 23 was set in 2019. Nationally, around a third of legislative seats were held by women this year, according to researchers at Rutgers University. Nearly two-thirds of women legislators are Democrats. In Alaska, women serving in the Legislature are largely evenly split between the major political parties. Before this year’s election, only seven states had ever seen gender parity in one of their legislative chambers. They include Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon. California is set to join the list after this year’s election. Three of the women slated to serve in the Alaska House next year are Alaska Native — also a record. Two of them were elected for the first time: Robyn Burke of Utqiagvik , who is of Iñupiaq descent, and Nellie Jimmie of Toksook Bay, who is of Yup’ik descent. They join Rep. Maxine Dibert of Fairbanks, of Koyukon Athabascan descent, who was elected in 2022. The historic increase in representation of women came in Alaska even as voters did not reelect U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, the first woman and first Alaska Native person to represent the state in the U.S. House. Peltola was voted out in favor of Republican Nick Begich III. Women come to the Alaska Legislature from diverse professional backgrounds, but a disproportionate number of them will arrive with some experience in public education. Three of the newly elected lawmakers — Burke, Jubilee Underwood of Wasilla and Rebecca Schwanke of Glennallen — have served on their local school boards, helping oversee the North Slope Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Copper River school districts, respectively. The three bring different perspectives on public education. Burke said she is looking forward to working with a bipartisan caucus that is set to have a majority in the Alaska House this year, with a focus on increasing education funding and improving the retirement options for Alaska’s public employees, including teachers. Schwanke and Underwood, on the other hand, have indicated they will join the Republican minority caucus, which has shown an interest in conservative social causes such as barring the participation of transgender girls in girls’ school sports teams. The increase in the number of women serving in the Alaska Legislature comes as public education funding is set to be a key issue when lawmakers convene in January. Burke said she and the other newly elected women bring different policy perspectives to the topic of education, but their shared experience in serving on school boards reflects a commitment to their children’s education. “With so many parents and so many moms, I hope that there will be really good legislation that supports working families and children and education,” Burke said. ©2024 Anchorage Daily News. Visit at adn.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Jimmy Carter: A brief bioMITCHELL – It’s the time of the year when gifts are given, blessings are counted, and employees from Performance Pet Products compete to outgive each other with donations to the local food pantry. Employees from Performance Pet gathered at the Mitchell Food Pantry on Friday, Dec. 27, to unload four pallets of bottled water and three pallets of food, totalling 8,992 pounds of food and a matching check of $8,992. ADVERTISEMENT Every year, Farmers Union Industries, which owns Performance Pet, runs a company-wide food drive across their various divisions. Farmers Union Industries matches the employee’s pound donation with a monetary donation with a dollar for each pound of food donated. The competition drives morale at the Performance Pet Products plant, and employees look forward to seeing the leaderboard each day. “This year I offered to buy the number one team pizza on my dime,” Performance Pet Products complex manager Jari Mahoney said. “The excitement in our company over this food drive is absolutely amazing. It created a team atmosphere–the enthusiasm when our teams saw how close we were to the other divisions.” Mahoney set the employees in teams of four employees each to compete against each other to see which team could gather the most food for the food pantry. As the teams outdid each other, the pet food plant started to outdo their other divisions in pounds raised for food pantries, and eventually beat the other divisions outright. “We are incredibly proud of our employees for their generous hearts...” said Dale Bednarek, Farmers Union President and CEO. “Not only do they show up day in and day out for work, but they also show up in supporting their community. Without them, this wouldn’t be possible.” Mahoney shared that they work from their values of GRIT, a company acronym which stands for generosity, relationship, integrity, and teamwork. Mike Lauritsen, CEO of the Mitchell Area Development Corporation and Chamber of Commerce, was on hand to support the food pantry and praise the culture of Performance Pet Products. ADVERTISEMENT “We preach culture because that’s how you keep employees,” Lauritsen said. “The culture within their organization is to give back to the community.” What is donated to the food pantry is what families in need will be eating. “We give what we get,” Pooley said. The Mitchell Food Pantry serves about 1,000 people in the area, with about 400 of those being children. These families and individuals are 185% below the federal poverty line, which means individuals who make less than $2,321.75 or a family of four who makes less than $4,810 can qualify for aid from the food pantry. On top of that, they are the distribution center for senior boxes, which is a U.S. Department of Agriculture program to feed those 60 years old and older with a box of food once a month. Regular food donations for the Mitchell Food Pantry can be brought to 812 N. Rowley St., Suite C, during business hours. Please call 605-990-3663 with any questions or check its social media pages for hours. 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Connor Bedard may not have a particularly effusive personality, but there has always been an unmissable element of defiance beneath his polished, polite public persona. Right now, deep into the biggest slump of Bedard’s NHL career to date, that defiance is undetectable. The Blackhawks star seems extremely discouraged. Really, he — for the first time — seems like a genuine 19-year-old, subject to ebbs and flows of mood. “I could name 100 things [I could be doing better],” Bedard said Friday. “I don’t know, man. It has been frustrating, for sure. I just don’t feel like I’m really doing anything. So [I’ll] just keep chipping away at it, I guess, and hopefully find my game again. “It has been a tough stretch. You just feel like you don’t have it or whatever, and you lose a bit of confidence. And [it] just kind of goes on.” Bedard has gone 11 straight games without a goal and has scored just three goals in 20 games this season, although he has added 12 assists and still leads the team in points. Although the Hawks snapped their losing streak Thursday with a 3-1 win over the Panthers, Bedard was held without a shot on goal for the first time all season; the Panthers outshot the Hawks 10-0 during his five-on-five ice time. He actually didn’t even attempt any shots. Many factors are contributing to Bedard’s slump, most of all his own performance, of course. He’s struggling to get to dangerous-enough areas to unleash his unique shot, for instance. But the factor that should be easiest to address is Bedard’s linemates. Coach Luke Richardson’s resistance to committing himself to figuring out what works best for Bedard in that regard has become thoroughly perplexing. On one hand, it made sense to move Bedard to wing and put him next to Jason Dickinson, the Hawks’ truest center. Dickinson, whom Richardson expects to play Saturday against the Flyers despite missing practice Friday, has proven he can play with anyone, even high-skill offensive players. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense to keep Joey Anderson, who always excels defensively alongside Dickinson but offers very little offensive ability, on the opposite wing. Anderson admitted Friday that “the moment I start trying to force plays to [Connor] is when I’ll start really looking bad.” On one hand, since Anderson is still there, it makes sense to continue deploying that line against opposing teams’ best lines. As usual, they did a fairly good job with those shutdown duties Thursday against Aleksander Barkov, with even Bedard demonstrating his much-improved defensive instincts. “I’m not doing much offensively at all, so I’ve got to find a different way to be productive,” Bedard said. “That [defensive role] was obviously different for me, but it’s good to do that.” On the other hand, those difficult matchups provide Bedard even fewer opportunities to break out of his offensive drought. And at this point, what’s best for his morale and long-term development matters far more than what gives the Hawks the best chance to win on any random night. On one hand, Richardson desperately needs to stop shuffling his lines after every single loss. The entire roster, Bedard included, needs to be given time to build chemistry and establish consistency. On the other hand, perhaps one more shuffle — to one especially logical combination — would make a difference. The Hawks signed Teuvo Teravainen and Tyler Bertuzzi to complement Bedard, and their respective skill sets should theoretically do just that, but the three of them have spent just 48 seconds together all season. Granted, they didn’t click in a few preseason games together, but that’s hardly reason to abandon the idea forever. Richardson brushed off a question Thursday about uniting them, only conceding it’s “a possibility at some point.” Why not try it now? It surely wouldn’t hurt.The re-establishment of the Nigeria Sports Commission (NSC) has been welcomed by various stakeholders in the nations sport, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is upbeat about the new prospects for the growth of the sector, even as he has expressed implicit confidence in the competence and capacity of the NSC leadership, Shehu Dikko, the Chairman, and the DG, Bukola Olapade, to deliver. In the past few weeks, the duo have been rejigging the direction and framework of our sports to Reset, Refocus and Relaunch the sector as a veritable asset for national development, and with more professional administration and management. As has been revealed by Shehu Dikko, “The strategic approach of the Renewed Hope Agenda and Shared Prosperity aims to establish sports as a vital pillar of Nigeria’s economy and a unifying factor for national development.” The repositioning covers the entire sports eco-system with the target of improving on sports infrastructure across the country, eliciting mass participation, greater and more gainful youth engagement, generation of about three million direct, indirect and induced jobs, attainment of about 5% share in global sports export, attraction of foreign direct investments and foreign exchange earnings, and provision of an enabling environment for private sector participation and investments to compliment Government efforts. The target is to steer the sports sector to contribute about 3% to the National Gross Domestic Product and for our national teams to achieve more respectable podium finish in international competitions. The strategies include institutional repositioning through the restructuring of the sports sector framework, already began with the establishment of the NSC and the ongoing upscaling of the establishing Act to meet global best practices as an enabler for sustainable growth, the restructuring of the sports federations for greater efficiency and effectiveness, and the deepening of Grassroots and Schools Sport to strengthen the foundation of the sector through wider access to sports for the discovery, nurturing and grooming of elite athletes. The goal is ambitious, bold and daring. It is taking the road less travelled, but the strategies already outlined by the NSC gives assurance of its attainment as it is deliberate and focused. The most critical success factor, perhaps, is the will of the Government under the overall vision of the Renewed Hope Agenda to take sports more seriously than before, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with his natural boldness and vision for the future, has served notice of his willingness, not only by the reclassification of sports as a national asset and critical driver of economic development, national cohesion and image building, but especially also with the deliberate capital allocation of over N78 billion to sports in the 2025 Budget proposal, the highest in about 60 years. The proposed budget is directed at accelerating sports development and growth through the establishment, construction, reconstruction and revival of various capital and critical sports assets, as well as programmes to set the foundation of a robust and virile sports economy in Nigeria. These include the full rehabilitation of the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja, to set the framework for its eventual concession and transformation to a sports city, together with the completion of its 200 room Athletes’ Hostel, abandoned for over 15 years, but which now will be commercialised after it’s completion to rake in revenue. The reset programme also includes the rehabilitation of various other federal government’s stadiums across the country, the construction of mini sports centres across various communities; the construction and equipping of the High Performance Centre in Abuja; the rehabilitation and upgrade of the Sports Hospital/Clinic which also would be commercialised and open to the public; and the development and equipping of a world class Anti-Doping Laboratory intended to rake in foreign exchange to reverse capital flight, as the nation and most of African countries currently take samples overseas for analysis. Interesting also is, in addition to normal budget line for sporting activities, there is now a specific and separate budget line to take care of preparations for events like the Olympics, Commonwealth, African Games, World and Continental Championships, the Paralympic and other Para-Sports competitions, the World Cup and AFCON qualifiers and support for NUGA Games, School Sports and others. Added to this is a deliberate reserve budget line for international competitions in the service wide vote for the participation of national teams in international competitions. This means that when Team Nigeria qualifies for any international event, funding would be drawn from the vote, as against the old fire brigade approach of having to start seeking for funds after each qualification. The agenda also includes the provision of funding support for the stabilisation of sports federations, and part of the strategy is the acquisition of sports contents from the federations for production, aggregation and monetization. This will also entail the setting up, equipping and training of personnel for the operation of a sports media production unit. The scope of work is wide, deep and challenging, but it is the ultimate game changer we have craved, and it is reassuring that the NSC also understands the need and has plans to recruit and train more hands to cascade its operations across the geographical zones, states and local governments. With President Tinubu having set the agenda and demonstrated willingness, and the vision and direction now clearly articulated by the leadership of the NSC, the next critical success factor is the support of the citizenry, especially the sports and corporate communities, by joining hands in making our bed how we would want to lie in it.

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AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:56 p.m. ESTRICE_Dickmann 31 pass from Warner (Horn kick), 12:33. USF_Wright 1 run (Cannon kick), 9:14. RICE_Jackson 12 run (Horn kick), 7:44. RICE_FG Horn 25, :22. RICE_Connors 23 pass from Warner (Horn kick), 6:32. RICE_FG Horn 25, :12. USF_S.Atkins 16 pass from Archie (Cannon kick), 12:22. RICE_Chiaokhiao-Bowman 33 pass from Warner (Sykes pass from Warner), 6:26. USF_K.Singleton 28 pass from I.Carter (Cannon kick), 3:09. USF_Brown-Stephens 32 pass from I.Carter (Cannon kick), 2:25. RUSHING_South Florida, Wright 6-35, Keith 3-31, Archie 10-21, Joiner 9-19, I.Carter 2-5. Rice, Francisco 12-42, Jackson 5-40, Connors 17-40, Chiaokhiao-Bowman 1-2, Warner 5-(minus 11). PASSING_South Florida, Archie 19-35-1-227, I.Carter 5-6-0-93, (Team) 0-1-0-0. Rice, Warner 27-42-0-437. RECEIVING_South Florida, Atkins 7-110, K.Singleton 7-107, Brown-Stephens 6-80, Singletary 2-5, Hardeman 1-12, Yaseen 1-6. Rice, Sykes 7-118, Connors 4-91, Chiaokhiao-Bowman 3-58, K.Campbell 3-52, G.Walker 3-45, Mojarro 3-16, Dickmann 2-36, B.Walker 1-12, Francisco 1-9. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Rice, Horn 41, Horn 39.