By Dorothy ChomiczDCHOMICZ

@NEWSMINER.COM

A woman deliberate-ly drove her car into the Chena River at Grae-h l L a n d i n g a t a b o u t 2 p.m. today, according to Fairbanks police.

The car floated about a quarter-mile downriver until coming to a stop across from the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center.

The woman climbed out of the car and was sitting on its roof when Fairbanks police and Fire Depart-ment rescuers arrived.

Police flagged down a passing boater, who took

them to the car. The woman was rescued

and taken to Fairbanks

Memorial Hospital.

By Rod BoyceRBOYCE

@NEWSMINER.COM

R e v e r e d A l a s k a Native elder Poldine Carlo, a co-founder of the Fairbanks Native Association, has died at age 97.

“It is with great sad-ness that we inform

our community of the passing of our found-ing member and Elder representative, Poldine Carlo,” reads a notice on the Fairbanks Native Association website. “As you know, Poldine was an honored member of our organization and

By Erin GrangerEGRANGER@NEWSMINER.COM

Rep. David Guttenberg, D-Fairbanks, announced Wednesday evening he will not run for re-election this year.

“I don’t own the job and the people deserve the b e s t t h e y c a n g e t ,” Guttenberg said. “Right n o w i t ’ s time to step out.”

G u t t e n -berg said he is not retir-i n g f r o m the Legis-lature for a health rea-son.

“ T h i s i s t h e f i r s t two things that come t o p e o -ple’s minds down here. My health is fine, and I don’t have any legal issues hanging over my head, like the sexual harassment stuff that’s been so prevalent down here,” he said. “I just haven’t seen a spring in Fairbanks in 20 years.”

By Amanda BohmanABOHMAN@NEWSMINER.COM

A special Board of Educa-tion meeting has been called for noon Monday, and member Wendy Dominique said she is hoping the panel will agree to spend $3.3 million from reserves to save 33 jobs.

The nontenured teaching, support staff and administrative jobs are getting cut under the

2018-19 recommended budget, according to an email Tuesday from Superintendent Karen Gaborik to the school board.

Notifications for nontenured teachers are scheduled for May 18, the day after schools gets out, district spokeswoman Sharice Walker said.

Dominique wants the school board to meet and move to retain the employees before the layoff notices go out. Her priority is to keep the teachers, she said, but added: “I would prefer to keep everybody.”

“The morale is low. We’ve got teachers resigning,” Dominique said. “I just want to stop the pink slips from going out. I think it

would be in good faith to do that this year.”

The school district has 900 teachers, 170 of whom are non-tenured.

The meeting was scheduled after Dominique shared the idea at Tuesday’s regular school board meeting and put in a request to board President Heidi Haas. Otherwise, the next school board meeting was scheduled for May 21 after many of the layoff notic-es would have been sent.

Two school board members reached Wednesday by the News-Miner said they wanted to explore the idea of retaining the employees.

The district is cutting more

than $8 million this year and shedding jobs. About 60 employees are retiring.

“I think it would be irresponsi-ble for us not to be able to come together and do a quick reassess-ment of what we are doing at the district,” board member Sean Rice said.

Tim Doran said he is willing to explore the idea but has ques-tions.

“I like avoiding disruption in people’s lives,” the former school principal said. “What are the ripple effects to the rest of the budget? I want to have the full picture.”

Dominique said the district has a four-year plan to draw

down its reserves. Maybe the district should spend some of the money now and change the plan to three years, she said.

Haas said she is unsure of whether Monday’s meeting will have a quorum. She charac-terized Dominique’s request to change the recommended bud-get at this time as unusual.

State law and employee con-tracts require the school district to notify employees of doubtful status every year before the dis-trict knows its amount of state funding, the district spokes-woman said.Contact staff writer Amanda Bohman

at 459-7587. Follow her on Twitter:

@FDNMborough.

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VICTORY DAY

The Ben Eielson High School Jr. ROTC performs the Posting of the Colors at the Victory Day ceremony in front of the Lend-Lease Memorial on Wednesday morning in Griffin Park. Victory Day commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 during World War II. The Lend-Lease Memorial honors the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, which enabled the U.S. to provide food, oil and equipment to the major Allied nations during World War II. In Fairbanks, the transfer of Lend-Lease aircraft and goods was overseen by the U.S. Army’s Air Transport Command and the Soviet Purchasing Commission. At the height of Lend-Lease, about 300 Soviets were stationed at Ladd Field and flew the planes from Fairbanks over the Bering Straight to Russia. ERIC ENGMAN/NEWS-MINER

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