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    Kodiak’s annual clean up day won’t be for another two weekends, but several groups are gearing up already. At Thursday’s borough assembly meeting, two members of the Solid Waste Advisory Board briefed the assembly members about the preparations.
    Scott Arndt, vice-chair of the SWAB, said he’s spoken with employees at the landfill and came away with some suggestions for this year’s clean up.
    “We’re basically are recommending looking to recommend that during the two clean up weekends you not charge for metals going out to the dump," he said, adding that the intent is not to open it up to automobile drop offs at no charge.
    Cindy Harrington also reported on a SWAB subcommittee about its outreach efforts, saying, “We’re also working on messages for display adds and radio ads that will start up in may."
    She also gave a shout-out to several other groups in Kodiak that are taking on clean up activities around town, including the ad hoc "Project Clean Up" group, which meets on Sundays to tackle a specific clean up; the Girl Scouts and KUBS, the Kodiak Unified Bear Subcommittee, which she said was preparing a campaign focusing on cleaning up to avoid bear problems.
    Clean Up Day on base will be on Friday, May 3rd, and elsewhere around the borough the next day, May 4th. The City of Kodiak, which in the past provided roadside trash bag pick up, will not be doing so this year.

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 Last night at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting Assemblyman Mel Stephens had his first opportunity to speak on the record about last week’s full exoneration of financial reporting violations brought against him by Borough Mayor Jerome Selby.
    Selby had filed a complaint against Stephens, claiming he did not report income made while representing a local woman in a lawsuit against the borough. The Alaska Public Offices Commission met on April 1st and found that Stephens did not earn any money in that case during a period that needed reporting on his financial disclosure forms. The staff of the APOC recommended dismissal of the complaint and the full commission agreed on April 8th.
    Stephens spent about 10 minutes lining out the events that prompted Selby’s complaint, and feels the mayor’s actions and those of the borough attorney, Cheryl Brooking, were intentionally meant to smear him.

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    This weekend hundreds of Kodiak High Schoolers will suite up in their most formal attire and flood the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center for Prom 2013. The junior class usually hosts the event, which typically serves as a last hurrah for seniors. And while every prom is different, many things, like getting the right dress and making reservations for your pre-dance dinner, are fairly universal. KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs caught up with some local girls and asked them about prom, which will be held Saturday.

Coming up this week, the king quota is down again in Southeast while a small Petersburg salmon packer is getting substantially bigger, and the Business of Fish. We had help from KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein in Petersburg, KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham and KHNS contributor Tara Bicknell in Haines.