Empire Back to top 2. Pokemon is not welcome at Kilbuck Elementary in Bethel. Paraphernalia has been banned, and the Pokemon logo is discouraged. Pokemon is the latest Japanese-animated craze to strike kids across the world. Elementary school-aged kids know more about the more than 150 Pokemon critters than most Generation Xers knew about Dungeons and Dragons.
Paraphernalia comes in the form of trading cards, T-shirts, lunch boxes and action figures.
The cards have not only become a distraction in the classroom, they are also viewed as a form of gambling, some teachers say. The Aleutian Canada goose has become a conservation success story, thanks in large part to the efforts of Kenai Peninsula biologists. The rare bird, a subspecies of the common Canada goose, was thought to be extinct in the mid 20th century. Current human actions brought it back. The far-flung refuge, headquartered in Homer, includes all the goose's nesting sites and had taken a lead in the complex recovery project.