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GVEA shows interest in Anchorage utilityBy Amanda BohmanABOHMAN

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The possible sale of a Southcentral utility could affect energy prices in the Interior, says the head of Golden Valley Electric Association, which has filed paperwork to allow it to be involved in the potential transaction.

G V E A g e t s a b o u t

20 percent of its elec-tricity from Anchorage Municipal Light & Pow-er, which could be sold if Anchorage voters agree to do so in an April election.

A nonbinding letter of interest from GVEA CEO Corey Borgeson to ML&P General Manager Mark Johnston provides a purchase price range of $875 million to $1 billion and promises not to raise

rates or lay off employees for 24 months.

“It ’s not an offer,” Borgeson said. “This is a little bit of a defensive move. There is concern that if we lose one of our major suppliers that we may see higher costs of energy from the Anchor-age area.”

Chugach Electric Asso-ciation, a nonprofit mem-ber-owned cooperative

also based in Anchor-age, has been in talks to buy ML&P.

The letter of inter-est provides GVEA an opportunity “to work on issues and conditions of the sale,” Borgeson said.

“While CEA is an excel-lent utility, it’s important that GVEA participate in ongoing discussions to ensure that the best interest of GVEA mem-

bers and the benefits of the Railbelt system as a whole are considered during negotiations,” Borgeson said in a pre-pared statement posted on the GVEA website.

Other entities have sub-mitted letters of interest, according to GVEA, but a spokeswoman for the Municipality of Anchor-age declined to disclose which ones, citing a non-

disclosure agreement. “I am very limited with

what I can say,” said Kris-tin DeSmith, commu-nications director for Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz.

I n e a r l y 2 0 1 7 , the Anchorage Econom-ic Development Corp. put together a working group of business leaders

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Two Rivers’ Moore wins Yukon QuestBy Brad JoyalBJOYAL

@NEWSMINER.COM

WHITEHORSE,

YUKON — Wel-come to the

history books, Allen Moore.

The 60-year-old mush-er from Two Rivers won the Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile International Sled Dog Race for a third time when he crossed the finish line in Whitehorse right before 7 a.m. Alas-ka Standard Time on Tuesday.

He completed his win-ning run in 9 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes.

Wearing bib No. 23, Moore cruised into the finish chute at Ship-yards Park and immedi-ately hugged his daugh-ter, Bridgett, moments after he hopped off his sled. After repeating as champion in 2013 and 2014, Moore now joins Hans Gatt and Lance Mackey as one of just three mushers who have three or more Yukon Quest wins. Gatt and Mackey have four wins apiece.

“It’s always good to win,” Moore said. “Win-ning is always good. I don’t know, what can you say? I’ll come back

next year and go for four.”

Moore received a loud ovation as fans draped themselves over the barrier of the fin-ish chute. Even more onlookers packed a nearby hill.

Allen Moore congratulates his dog team after winning the 2018 Yukon Quest in downtown Whitehorse on Tuesday morning. Moore finished the race with all 14 dogs — a rare accomplishment — in 9 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes. To the right of Moore is his youngest daughter, Bridgett Watkins. ROBIN WOOD/NEWS-MINER

END OF THE ROAD

Allen Moore poses proudly with his lead dogs, Dutch and Commando,

after winning the 2018 Yukon Quest

International Sled Dog Race on Tuesday. ROBIN

WOOD/NEWS-MINER

QUEST » A5

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A former Rock N Rodeo bouncer testi-fied Tuesday that he heard John Kavairlook Jr. make a threatening statement shortly before going to confront the man who would shoot him to death outside the nightclub.

Kavairlook yelled “I’ve got something for you” and ran back to his truck during the confrontation, implying he was going to get a weapon to escalate the fight, former bounc-er Charles Champagne said in court Tuesday.

However, Kavairlook was not carrying a gun when Burton-Hill shot him, according to the police investigation.

Kavairlook was armed with landscaping rocks he’d picked up from a nearby planter box while running toward Bur-ton-Hill. Burton-Hill fired 13 times with a 9mm handgun.

Bur ton-Hi l l ’s per-c e p t i o n o f w h e t h e r Kavairlook was armed is important to the case. When the Fair-banks jur y de l iber-

ates on Burton-Hill ’s fate, they’ ll be given a self-defense instruc-tion. To return a guilty verdict, they’ ll need to conclude beyond a rea-sonable doubt that Bur-ton-Hill didn’t “reason-ably (believe) the use of deadly force (was) nec-essary for self-defense against death or serious physical injury.”

Tuesday, which would

have been Kavairlook Jr.’s 26th birthday, was the third day of testi-mony in a trial that’s expected to go through this week and into next week. Burton-Hill is charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of sec-ond-degree murder in the May 2015 killing.

Bouncer says he thought Kavairlook was going for a gun

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DENALI PARK — Look outside. There is more snow, more sun and

longer daylight hours. It must be time for the Winterfest celebration at Denali National Park. This annual event, held the last weekend of February, celebrates winter with four days of activities both indoors and outside.

The celebration begins with a special performance at Tri-Valley School by the Alaska Cello Choir, based in Fairbanks. This group of tal-ented young musicians plays a variety of popular and classical tunes. The public is invited to the show at 2 p.m. on Feb. 22. They’ll play at Nenana School earlier in the day, at 11 a.m.

Denali Education Center always kicks off the weekend with a community gathering. This year, it begins at 6 p.m. on Feb. 23 at the McKinley Community Center. The local band Iceworms starts playing at 7 p.m.

Bring an appetizer to share,

and if you are feeling creative, enter the cocktail/mocktail competition. You must be 21 or older to compete in the cocktail division. Mocktails, the nonalcoholic part of the contest, are open to all ages. Prizes are awarded for best of show, prettiest drink, most Alaskan and best mocktail. For more information, see the Denali Education Center Face-book page.

Denali National Park offers a full day of activities Saturday, from a winter bird talk and walk, and a guided snowshoe walk to snow block sculpting and youth cross-country ski rac-es. There’s also a guided ski tour leaving from the Mountain Vis-ta Rest area at Mile 13, weather permitting, and an afternoon mountain bike/fat tire bike ride there later in the day.

The historic upper Savage River ranger patrol cabin will be open for hot drinks and s’mores around the campfire from 1-6 p.m.

In Healy, a youth hockey tournament goes on all day at the local Ice Pit, and includes teams from Talkeetna, Delta, Tok, Copper Center and Fair-banks.

The celebration moves to the Tri-Valley Community Center in Healy Saturday night, with a community dinner of chili, vegetarian soup and dessert, as a fundraiser for traveling students. The native village of Cantwell will host bingo from 6-8 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., Denali Borough Mayor Clay Walker will present the mayor’s com-munity service award.

If you’re not too worn out, head back to Mountain Vista in the park and join a stargaz-ing party beginning at 8:30 p.m. Dress warmly and bring binoculars and a headlamp.

Sunday will feature another guided snowshoe walk at the

MSLC from 10 a.m. to noon. Tri-Valley Community

Library will provide a fami-ly-friendly movie night, fea-turing “Beauty and the Beast.” Join the cupcake decorating contest and then make-your-own “Beauty and the Beast” ornament for the tree that will be displayed at this year’s Motion Sensors Dance Troupe performance on March 1-3.

This event begins at 3 p.m. The movie, the 2017 live-ac-tion version, begins at 4 p.m.

Artist WorkshopsThree Denali artists-in-res-

idence will provide weekend workshops at the Murie Sci-ence and Learning Center.

Tamar Assaf will lead a class-room workshop at 6-8 p.m. on Feb. 22. She’ll show how to experiment painting impasto — thick, heavy paint — using palette knives to create unique depictions of Denali. Bring photographs to use as a guide. Sign up here: cinnamon_

dockham@nps.gov.Kris Christensen will lead a

nature journaling workshop custom-designed for winter observations, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24. The workshop will include an introduction to pur-pose-based nature journalism, journal set-up, using templates, basic sketching skills and nota-tion strategies. Plan for a 20- to 30-minute walk.

Haines artist Katie Ione Craney will teach different ways of approaching and remembering landscape in a workshop 1:30-3 p.m. on Saturday. Plan a short walk to “frame the surrounding land-scape using small, hand-held viewfinders.” Remember those scenes and recreate them using recycled materials. All ages are invited to this class, although ages 12 and under should be accompanied by an adult.Reach columnist/community editor

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Alvida Craft Dickerson

A former longtime resident of Alaska, Alvilda Craft Dick-erson, passed away Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 31, 2018, in Hilo, Hawaii from complications during surgery.

Alvilda was born June 10, 1923, in Pelion, South Carolina, to Wil-liam Thomas and Maggie Black-well Craft. Due to the untimely death of her mother in 1936, young Alvilda was embraced by foster parents, Clyde and Mildred Taylor, and their family of Cayce, South Carolina.

After graduating with hon-ors from Brooklyn-Cayce High School, she attended Furman University, graduating in 1946 with a Bachelors of Science in English. She then attended South Carolina Baptist Hospital Nursing School in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated in 1949. That same year she went to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for a year before mar-rying John T. Dickerson on Aug. 5, 1950.

The newly wed couple returned to Fort Worth, Texas, where John continued seminary, and mother was a registered nurse for Harri-son Hospital until John graduat-ed in December 1952.

Alvilda, John and their two baby daughters, Deborah Lynn and Alice Amelia, arrived in Fair-banks in February 1953. Alvilda nursed at St. Joseph’s Hospital while John was pastor of the Native Baptist Mission. Their third child, John Jr. was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital the next year.

She obtained her secondary teaching license in 1960 from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In

November, Alvilda was encouraged to go “home” for the birth of their fourth child because of anticipated com-plications. Bryan Taylor was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in December of that year.

For years, in and out of Alaska, Alvilda taught high school — English and choir — during the school year and nursed during the summer. John was a church planter in Alaska and moved often, pastoring churches in Fairbanks, Palmer and Sitka, as well as in South Carolina and New York. With her skills, Alvil-da always worked in a profes-sional capacity no matter when or where the family moved. With endless energy, she also excelled as a pastor’s wife, teach-ing Sunday School, singing in the choir and teaching English to community members who had recently moved to the Unit-ed States. English as a second language was a particular pas-sion of hers.

While in Sitka from 1973-76, she taught English for Mt. Edgecumbe School, a BIA board-ing school. Through the years she’d kept in touch with many of her students and loved to tell sto-ries of their many get-togethers and sleepovers.

Finally, in 1995, Alvilda and John retired to upstate South Carolina. Alvilda took a position teaching English as a Second Language to elementary stu-dents in several schools around Pickens, South Carolina. She and John continued to serve their church as Sunday School teach-ers, and Alvilda sang in the choir in Pickens First Baptist Church;

then, later at First Baptist Church of Easley. Alvilda actively participated in the Women’s Mis-sionary Union in the local church and statewide. After she stopped teaching, Alvilda took great joy in editing books for friends. Alvilda and John happily shared stories and programs about their life and work in Alaska as the first Southern Baptist Home Missionaries to Alaska.

Surviving her are daughters, Deborah Lynn Dickerson, and her husband, Manuel R. Marques III, of Pahala, Hawaii; and Ame-lia Dickerson Savinova, and her husband, Alexandr Savinov, of Kongiganak; her sons, John T/ Dickerson Jr., of Chugiak; and Bryan T. Dickerson, and his wife, Shari Sirkin, of Portland, Ore-gon; sisters-in-law Edna Hamlin, of Greenville, South Carolina; and Ruth Dickerson, of Easley, South Carolina; and grandchil-dren Carey Seward, Avery Kris-tiansen and Reid Kristiansen.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Jack Craft and Tommy Craft, sisters, Inez Shumpert and Elva Cox; her husband, John T. Dickerson Sr.; infant son, David William Dick-erson, and grandson, Kyle Lee Dickerson-Lockwood.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering in care of First Baptist Church, 200 East Ave., Easley, South Carolina 29640.

The family will receive friends from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, at First Baptist Church in Easley, followed by funeral services at 3:30 p.m. with the Rev. Dr. John Adams officiating. Entombment will follow at Hill-crest Memorial Park Mausoleum in Pickens.Please visit www.legacy.com/obituaries/

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Marcia L. Giinther,

66, of Fairbanks, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, sur-rounded by her loving family at her home. A

full obituary will be published at a later date. In lieu of flow-ers, donations may be made to Alzheimer’s

Resource of Alaska; alzalaska.org. Online condolences may be made at blanchardfam-ilyfuneralhome.com.

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who urged the city to consider consolidating ML&P with Chugach Electric, according to a news release from the Anchorage mayor’s office.

L a s t m o n t h , t h e Anchorage Assem-bly decided to put it to a vote. Proposi-tion 10 asks voters to authorize the city to negotiate a final con-solidation agreement with Chugach Electric, which is promising to “lower long-term elec-tric rates,” “no property tax increase” and “no layoffs at either util-ity,” according to the Chugach website.

Anchorage voters will decide on the $1 billion deal in the municipal election in less than two months. Final terms of a sale would reportedly be brought t o t h e A n c h o r a g e Assembly to review and adopt. The sale would allow the Municipality of Anchorage to pay off about $525 million in debt and invest mon-ey in a city trust fund, according to the city news release.

B o r g e s o n s a i d GVEA is interested in buying components o f M L & P, n a m e l y gas wells in the Cook Inlet, a new power plant near Eagle River and the Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Project of which GVEA owns a 17 percent share.

ML &P is GVEA’s largest supplier of

g a s - f i r e d e n e r g y. GVEA spent $21 mil-lion purchasing elec-tricity last year from the Anchorage utility, resulting in millions of dollars of savings to electricity ratepayers in the Interior.

Borgeson said the sale of ML&P is good for the Railbelt util-ities, including the Matanuska Electric Association, providing opportunity for coop-erat ion among the power providers and “a chance to address all of the issues and try to build a better working group.”

The GVEA board of directors was advised of the letter of interest in November and has taken no action on the matter, according to Borgeson.

GVEA serves about 100,000 res idents in Fairbanks, Delta Junc t ion , Nenana, Healy and Cantwell along with residents out to Mile 48 Steese H i g h w a y, M i l e 1 1 Elliott Highway and Mile 26 Chena Hot Springs Road.

A major utility sale t o o k p l a c e i n t h e city of Fairbanks 22 years ago when vot-ers agreed to sell the Municipal Utilities S y s t e m , i n c l u d i n g water, wastewater, s team heat , power and telephone, to a consortium of four private companies for $160.3 million.Contact staff writer Amanda

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Retired Army sergeant names mountain peak in Alaska

ANCHORAGE — A mountain peak in Alaska has been named Gold Star Peak to honor families who

lost members in the Iraq War.The effort to name the

Chugach Mountains peak was led by retired U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Kirk Alkire, who spotted the peak while climbing Mount POW/MIA, KTUU-TV reported Sunday.

Alkire hikes with 53 dog tags to

remember the paratroopers and soldiers who died serving with him in Iraq.

The process to name the peak took more than a year. Alkire first applied for a state grant and sought permission from the Eklutna Tribe. From wire reports

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Hall, Neese, Reitan finish 1,000-mile run in WhitehorseBy Brad JoyalBJOYAL

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WHITEHORSE, YUKON —

Matt Hall won his first Yukon Quest a year ago by finishing the 1,000-mile race from White-horse, Yukon, to Fair-banks in 10 days, 1 hour and 7 minutes.

This year, Hall, from his Smokin’ Ace Kennels in Two Rivers, went the opposite direction and completed the Quest in 10 days, 2 hours and 24 minutes. His journey was only 1 hour, 17 min-utes longer than a year ago, but it didn’t mat-ter much as nobody was catching Allen Moore, who captured the third title of his career after arriving at the White-horse finish line in 9 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes.

Although many won-dered i f Hall ’s team could become the first to repeat as champion s ince Moore accom-plished the feat in 2013 and 2014, Hall was hap-py to take home second place after finishing the fourth Quest of his career.

“This is the Quest. It’s not all about winning,” Hall said. “It’s about get-ting out here with your team and seeing what you can do and what the dogs can do. Being here right now, it doesn’ t matter who wins. Sure, that’s nice, but I just had a great run with an amazing dog team and that’s all I can ask for.”

After Hall, 26, crossed the finish line, Moore approached him to con-gratulate him on his performance. The Two Rivers mushers shared a laugh as Hall joked to Moore that the leader was supposed to leave a trail behind.

He was referencing the commute down Lake Laberge — the origi-nal trail the Quest used until the mid-1990s. Teams were forced to run on the race’s orig-inal trail after leaving B ra e b u r n , t h e f i n a l checkpoint, because of a lack of snow on the old Dawson Overland Trail, which is also known as the TransCanada Trail.

On Tuesday, the front

of the pack had plenty of snow. It flew from the sky when Moore arrived at the finish line and continued as Hall made the 77-mile trip from Braeburn.

But after finishing, Hall was much more re f lec t ive about the w e a t h e r t h a t t e a m s saw on the Alaska side of the trail. They were met with temperatures that plummeted to near 50 below Fahrenheit, and it didn’t warm up unti l they were well across the border.

“The first two thirds of this race was really, really cold,” Hall said. “There was one point coming into Dawson where there was prob-ably a 20 mile per hour headwind at 40 below. Whatever that works to, probably an 80, 90, 100-below wind chill. It was really rough.”

D e s p i t e t h e f r i g i d temperatures, Hall said he and his team had a blast. Although he will prepare to run his first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska next month, he already has his sights set on return-ing to the Quest.

“Every year, by the time I’m two days into the race, I say, ‘I’m never doing this again,’” Hall said. “But here I am now saying I’ll be back again next year.”

Tuesday’s other finishers

Laura Neese, 21, fin-ished third after cross-ing the finish line in 10 days, 4 hours, 18 minutes. At the fin-ish line, Neese, who is from Nature’s Kennel in McMillan, Michigan, spent time reflecting on the beauty she took in during the 1,000-mile run from Fairbanks.

“ S u m m i t i n g R o s e -bud was beautiful,” she said, referencing Rose-bud Summit, located 15 miles past the Two Riv-ers checkpoint. “It was daylight and I had nev-er been up there during the dayl ight before . Moments like that kind of take your breath away. They remind me why I’m so crazy to do this.”

A big part of Neese’s success came during the second half of the race

after she left Dawson City, the first checkpoint on the Canadian side. After occupying sixth place when she finished her mandatory 36-hour layover in Dawson City, Neese made up ground to ultimately crack the top three.

She said her late surge wouldn’t have been pos-sible if it wasn’t for her two 5-year-old siblings, Maple and Elmer, who led the team into White-horse.

“We definitely would not have been third if it wasn’t for (Maple),” Neese said. “She led for 750 miles. Elmer really stepped up to the task in the second half to part-ner with Maple. He real-ly grew up a lot, so I’m happy for him and his future.”

Another 21-year-old, Vebjorn Aishana Reitan, from HulaHula Kennel in Kaktovik on Alaska’s North Slope, finished in fourth place. Reitan was named Rookie of the Year after complet-ing the trail in 10 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes.

Like Neese, Reitan said the highlight of his race came during a

climb, though his choice was reaching American Summit ’s 3,420-foot peak after leaving Eagle.

“Going over Ameri-can Summit was really beautiful,” he said. “I did it at nighttime and there was no wind. It was real-ly calm and I could see for a long ways. It was a really beautiful trip over there.”

A l t h o u g h i t w a s Reitan’s first 1 ,000-mile race, he said his approach helped him gain confidence as the race went on.

Instead of looking at the complete 1 ,000-mile trail as an obstacle, he stuck to a game plan that helped him manage his expectations.

“It was one of those things that you don’ t think about the finish right away,” Reitan said. “Just think about the first checkpoint, OK good, the second check-point, OK even better. Once I was in Dawson, I thought I’d probably finish.

“I just kept building up expectations for myself, but I kept it small and kept achieving smaller goals.”

E l e v e n t e a m s remained on the trail as of Tuesday night. Thir-teen mushers e i ther scratched or withdrew from the race, which saw 26 teams start in Fairbanks on Feb. 3.

Veteran Ed Hopkins is expected to finish fifth. He left Braeburn with 12 dogs Tuesday morning and was a little more than 10 miles from Whitehorse at press time.

Rookies Tim Pappas and Bernhard Schuchert were both a little more than 50 miles from the finish line at press time.

Veteran Paige Drobny scratched from the race Tuesday at the Carmacks checkpoint . Drobny, from Squid Acres Ken-nel in Ester, attempted to travel to Braeburn on Monday before return-ing to Carmacks and scratching.

She cited her desire to keep her team hap-py and healthy as the reason for her decision, according to a Quest news release.Contact News-Miner sports writer Brad Joyal at 459-7530. Follow him on Twitter: @FDNMQuest.

Two Rivers’ musher Matt Hall waves to spectators in Whitehorse at the finish line of the 2018 Yukon Quest on Tuesday afternoon. With a total time of 10 days, 2 hours and 24 minutes, Hall came in second behind fellow Two Rivers’ musher Allen Moore. ROBIN

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Musher (Bib #) Checkpoint in/out No. of dogs1. Allen Moore (23) Whitehorse finish, 6:59 a.m. 2/13 142. Matt Hall (7) Whitehorse finish, 1:42 p.m. 2/13 113. Laura Neese (13) Whitehorse finish, 3:54 p.m. 2/13 84. Vebjorn Reitan (21) Whitehorse finish, 7:23 p.m. 2/13 115. Ed Hopkins (19) Out of Breaburn, 7:40 a.m. 2/13 126. Tim Pappas (1) Out of Braeburn, 7:53 p.m. 2/13 127. Bernhard Schuchert (14) Out of Carmacks, 7:53 a.m. 2/13 118. Alex Buetow (24) Out of Carmacks, 7:54 a.m. 2/13 89. Luc Tweddell (26) Out of Carmacks, 11 a.m. 2/13 810. Claudia Wickert (3) Out of Carmacks, 3:30 p.m. 2/13 911. Riley Dyche (15) In Carmacks, 2:43 p.m. 2/13 912. Dave Dalton (17) In Carmacks, 8:15 p.m. 2/13 1213. Rob Cooke (5) In Carmacks, 6:21 p.m. 2/13 1314. Nathaniel Hamlyn (12) In Carmacks, 7:51 p.m. 2/13 8

Scratched:Mike Ellis (18) Mile 101, 9:30 a.m. Feb. 4Katherine Keith (11) Circle, 6:19 a.m. Feb. 5Mark Stamm (25) Central, 11 a.m. Feb. 5Ryne Olson (8) Circle, 8:28 a.m. Feb. 5Christine Roalofs (4) Circle, 10:57 p.m. Feb. 6Jennifer Campeau (16) Eagle, 11:20 a.m. Feb. 8Hugh Neff (9) Dawson City, 9:05 p.m. Feb. 9Torsten Kohnert (2) Dawson City, 9 p.m. Feb. 10Severin Cathry (20) Dawson City, 5:50 p.m. Feb. 11Paige Drobny (10) Carmacks, 9:52 a.m. 2/13

Withdrawn:Ike Underwood (22) Circle, 3 p.m. Feb. 5Jason Campeau (6) Outside of Eagle, 12:28 p.m. Feb. 8

He finished the race with all 14 dogs he had at the Fair-banks start line on Feb. 3. Leading the team were Com-mando and Dutch, two lead-ers Moore relied on through-out the 1,000-mile trek.

“They’ve been my lead dogs probably 90 percent of the time,” Moore said.

“They seemed like they’re pretty comfortable up there, so I just left them up there. They did (the Quest) when they were 2 and they did it when they were 3. Now they did it when they’re 4.”

Snow drifted from the skies as Moore, who owns and operates SP Kennel in Two Rivers with his wife, Aliy Zirkle, who is the 2000 Quest champion and a regular Idi-tarod contender, approached the finish line.

The conditions slowed his team’s pace during the final 77-mile stretch from Brae-burn, the last checkpoint on the trail. Still, even with the snow, nothing was going to hold Moore back from win-ning his third title.

“That probably slowed us down a lot here on this last run,” he said of the snow. “We had to have a little more diffi-cult trail because the trail up until yesterday was fantastic. We got this 2 or 3 inches of snow out there, but that just made it a little slower. But we chugged right along.”

Moore will receive $23,049.33 — this year’s purse for the win-ner — and get to keep the “poke of gold,” the 2 ounces of gold nuggets he earned as the first musher into Dawson City, the first checkpoint on the Canada side and the halfway point of the race.

Two ounces of gold is worth roughly $2,600 at today’s prices.

After completing the race with 14 dogs — a rare feat for any team — Moore was quick

to credit Zirkle for her work with the dogs.

“Not many people have arrived at the finish chute — in any position — with 14 dogs,” he said. “If I knew the answer how to do that every time, I’d be doing it. That’s a difficult one. We’ve got superb dogs. My wife Aliy is probably the best dog care person there is. With all that, it was a good year.”

Moore and Zirkle will both run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska next month. He’ll run of team of less-ex-perienced dogs, while she’ll get her own opportunity to guide the Quest champions on another 1,000-mile trail.

“She will get this team that

I just took today in this race. I just got them in shape a little bit,” Moore joked. “I’ll take the youngsters, probably 12 2-year-olds in the Iditarod. Try to train them a little bit and show them the ropes.”

Moore quickly established himself as the front-runner days into the race. His dogs didn’t see another team from Dawson City to Braeburn, when defending champion Matt Hall arrived at the final stop Monday night.

With a commanding lead, Moore said this year’s race compares favorably to the pre-vious seven Quests in which he has competed.

“This one wasn’t that diffi-cult other than the tempera-

tures,” he said. “In 2011, my rookie year, it was the toughest race probably ever. That was a tough race, but this one comparably was not as tough because the trail was great. The only thing you had to deal with was the cold.”

Moore and his team were consistently met with tem-peratures that hovered around 30 below, particularly around the final two Alaska check-points — Circle and Alaska — and the commute to Dawson City.

“If you could deal with that, it was good,” said Moore, who noted the coldest he heard it was on the trail was 50 below. “Being from Fairbanks, we’ve probably seen the cold more so

than most people.”On the final run from Brae-

burn, he traveled down the original Yukon Quest trail, heading south along Lake Laberge instead of the Dawson Overland Trail, which is also known as the TransCanada Trail. The trail was altered because of lack of snow on the Overland Trail, leaving Moore and his team to travel in whiteout conditions.

“I wish I could’ve seen Lake Laberge,” he said. “When it’s snowing like this, with my headlight I can only see a small place. I couldn’t see anything other than the dogs.”Contact News-Miner sports writer Brad Joyal at 459-7530. Follow him on Twitter: @FDNMQuest.

QUESTContinued from A1

Chena, left, and Junior, two dogs from Allen Moore’s 2018 championship team, enjoy a break in Whitehorse Tuesday morning after finishing the 1,000 Mile Yukon Quest. Moore remarkably finished the race with all 14 dogs he started with. Those dogs will get some rest before gearing up for the Iditarod, to be run by Moore’s wife, Aliy Zirkle. ROBIN WOOD/NEWS-MINER

Fans and spectators flock around Matt Hall’s dog truck Tuesday in downtown Whitehorse as his team feeds dogs and packs up after the 2018 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. ROBIN WOOD/

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INTERIOR

Burton-Hill, of San Francisco, was with a group from Anchor-age that had driven up to Fairbanks and was staying at a local hotel. Kavairlook, who didn’t previously know Bur-ton-Hill, had been in a fight with one of the men in Burton-Hill’s party inside the club and again in the parking lot.

Police spent thousands of hours investigating the case. The Fairbanks District Attorney’s Office filed charges against Bur-ton-Hill in June 2016, more than a year after the shooting.

Champagne testimony

Champagne is an auto parts warehouse worker and former bouncer with a long resume of martial arts skills. Back in 2015, Champagne worked as a bouncer at three bars including the Rock N Rodeo club.

At Rock N Rodeo, Champagne had a unique place in the security team hierarchy, report-ing directly to club owner Curtis Hatcher, unlike all the other bouncers who worked for security team manager Daniel Angelo. The state’s case against Burton-Hill involves the testimony of several club bouncers.

On the night Kavair-look died, Champagne intervened in a scuffle inside the club between Kavairlook and Damarius William Hinson, one of the men in Burton-Hill’s party. Champagne testi-fied that Hinson, who he removed from the club for being in the fight, was fairly cooperative. Kavair-look, Champagne said, was less cooperative and refused to leave the Rock N Rodeo parking lot.

Kavairlook’s party and Hinson’s party later met and resumed fighting in the parking lot, some-thing the bouncers had been trying to avoid by escorting the men out separate doors.

Champagne described this fight as a large melee with seven combatants, the three black men in Burton’s Hill’s party against four Alaska Native

people: Kavairlook, his wife Shalene and another couple.

Earlier in Tuesday’s testimony another wit-ness, a Fort Wainwright soldier who was crossing the street from the Arc-tic Bar during the fight, described seeing only three people involved in a fight, two black men attacking Kavairlook’s wife.

Champagne said he heard Kavairlook yell “I’ve got something for you” before seeing him run away from the oth-ers to the passenger side of his pickup truck, next to the Rock N Rodeo entrance. There, Cham-pagne saw Kavairlook “digging in the back seat,” of the truck presumably for a weapon.

Champagne said he was concerned that Kavairlook would “seek revenge” on Hinson and the others and told him not to get anything out of the truck.

“He told me I need to do something about it or he will,” Champagne said.

Champagne testified Kavairlook didn’t carry a gun or other weapon when he left the truck

C h a m p a g n e s a i d Kavairlook then ran off down the Walgreen’s parking lot next to Rock N Rodeo where Bur-ton-Hill’s party had run. Security camera foot-age from the drug store shows Burton-Hill and two others running down the lot, followed short-ly by Kavairlook. The security camera footage shows Burton-Hill shoot-ing Kavairlook.

Hostile witness Technically, Cham-

pagne was called as a wit-ness for the prosecution, but it was clear in his testimony he had a poor relationship with the dis-trict attorney’s office.

A s s i s t a n t D i s t r i c t Attorney Spenser Rup-pert made the case in aggressive questioning of Champagne that pros-ecutors found Cham-p a g n e ’s s t a t e m e n t s inconsistent and unreli-able.

Most notably, Ruppert said Champagne add-ed a new and significant detail to his account for the first time this month.

While he was on the witness stand on Tues-

day, Champagne said that he heard a sound of someone “racking” the slide of a gun while Kavairlook was in his truck.

Ruppert said this was a new detail and that there’s no record of Champagne mentioning the sound of Kavairlook chambering a round in all his 2015 police inter-views. Champagne said he’s been telling police about that all along.

Ruppert also implied Champagne may be prej-udiced against Alaska Natives, because he told a police officer that Native people can’t hold their liquor.

Champagne said he felt harassed by the police and district attorneys.

“ I w a n t e d t o b e approached appropriate-ly, not like someone who is on trial,” he said.

Champagne said he also felt harassed by Kavairlook’s friends and said he once had to draw a weapon in his business to defend himself from one of them.

Through his question-ing, Burton-Hill attor-ney, Jeffrey Saffold, of Cleveland, Ohio, argued Tuesday that the pros-ecutors ignored Cham-pagne’s account of what happened because it con-flicted with their narra-tive of Burton-Hill killing without justification.

As a demonstrative exhibit, Saffold wrote a list of all the times police interviewed Champagne in 2015, followed by the long gap in time to the next interview on the opening day of the trial.

“You’re like the last one to have a conver-sation with the victim — and I use that term loosely, John Kavairlook — you’re the last person to talk to him alive and nobody interviews you from May of 2015 to Feb-ruary of 2018?” Saffold asked Champagne in a string of nearly-rhetori-cal questions.

Prosec utors would have completely ignored Champagne’s account of the shooting if he hadn’t brought it up in his open-ing statement, Saffold said.

The trial continues at 8:30 a.m. in Superior Court Judge Paul Lyle’s courtroom at the Rab-inowitz Courthouse in downtown Fairbanks.

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