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    Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre attends firefighter training on Saturday at the Homer Volunteer Fire Department Training Facility on the Homer Spit.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    November 22, 2016 7:08 pm

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    November 9, 2016 5:26 pm

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    Jade Campbell aims to toss marbles in plastic pumpkins during a game as McNeil Canyon parent Tela Bacher watches at the McNeil Canyon Elementary fall festival.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News
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    October 26, 2016 3:58 pm

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    Fresh snow covers boats and ramps at the Homer Harbor on Monday. The first snowfall of the season hit Homer on Oct. 17, causing numerous accidents on the lower Kenai Peninsula.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    October 19, 2016 3:51 pm

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    Homer City Council member and mayor pro tempore David Lewis, right, presents a fire-wise flag from Teshio, Japan, to Homer Volunteer Fire Department Chief Robert Painter, left, as Homer Police Chief Mark Robl, center, watches. Lewis recently returned from a trip to Japan where he visited Homer's sister city, Teshio. Lewis also gave Robl a Teshio police pin. "Our sister city really outdoes itself when you are there," Lewis said. "I have never been treated so well in my whole life."
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    October 5, 2016 5:19 pm

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    A bald eagle perches in a birch tree along the Anchor River last Thursday.
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    September 28, 2016 4:03 pm

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    Nadine Pence smiles at her 100th birthday party at the Homer Senior Center on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Pence's great-granddaughter - still unnamed - was born in Anchorage on her birthday.  Pence was born in Ottawa, Kansas, on Sept. 20, 1916. She came to Homer in 1933. Her late husband, Edward, was a territorial police officer. She offered some advice for living a long life. "Just keep going," she said. "Don't let 'em get you down."
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    September 21, 2016 4:55 pm

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    James Lack takes Hope Stearns for a sail in his Chesapeake Lighthouse sailing pram during the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival on the Spit on Saturday.
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    September 14, 2016 5:33 pm

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    August 17, 2016 4:33 pm

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    A Steller's jay fledgling sits on a deck railing on Diamond Ridge.
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