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Tilton, who has been sidelined by illness, said his feelings go beyond appreciation. “Until you have been in my situation, you can’t begin to understand what it means to have so many people come forward to help.” Nature’s Coastal Holiday is scheduled to open to the public at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, and remain open through Christmas night. The lights will be on from 5 to 9 p.m. every night. Admission is $1 for adults;
children 12 and under are free. Admission includes hot cider and cookies. For groups hoping to host an evening in the park, contact Moira Fossum at 541661-5126. A crew of seven people is needed for each evening, in either two-hour or four-hour shifts.
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A firefighter uses an ax to open the smashed hood of a car involved in Friday’s accident.
Brookings woman hurt in head-on wreck An 83-year-old Brookings woman was in critical condition Friday night from injuries she received in a headon collision with another car on Highway 101 in Harbor. Barbara Burke-Schmitz was driving north on Highway 101 at 2 p.m. when
The air bags in both vehicles deployed. Although it was raining, Smither said weather did not appear to be a factor in the accident. Burke-Schmitz was transported to Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City and then airlifted to Oregon Health and Science University, where she was listed in critical condition late Friday night.
BHHS Knowledge Bowl teams remain undefeated By Arwyn Rice Pilot staff writer The Bruins Knowledge Bowl teams are still undefeated after Thursday’s Marshfield Invitational Tournament in Coos Bay. Both Brookings-Harbor High School teams went 4-0 in competition and were designated first and second place by points scored. The combined team, which consists of two teams of five students, now has a combined record of 16-0 in Knowledge Bowl competition.
“We have a really great team,” senior Meredith Horel said Friday. “We’re dedicated, we want to be at the top.” The team has a chance to go undefeated if they continue to study and focus on their goal, Horel said. The team continues to produce Knowledge Bowl superstars, and several new members have shown promise to continue the tradition. “It amazes me,” she said. “In Brookings we seem to have a concentration of talent. I don’t know why.” However, there is one team
that will eventually ruin their perfect record. The Bruins themselves. “Our teams have not met each other in league play,” Knowledge Bowl coach Robert Wilson said. Team match-ups are determined through random drawing, and eventually the teams will probably face each other, Wilsons said. Although the A team is made up of students with stronger academic trivia skills, essentially the varsity team, with younger developing players on B team could give them
a run for their money, he said. Knowledge Bowl is a competition that pits teams of four students against each other in a game-show style tournament featuring academic trivia. The Bruin Knowledge Bowl team won the regional Knowledge Bowl championship for the last three years, in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The next Knowledge Bowl tournament will be on Dec. 8 in Reedsport. BHHS will host several schools for a Bruin tournament on Jan. 12.
Video: ‘The video said that democracy is wrong’ See Video, Page 3A
“I’m really bothered by this,” Gordon Clay said. “The video said that democracy is wrong.” Clay went on to add that the video had a heavy-handed bias and mis-defined the form of democracy used in the U.S. Other speakers described the video and the method of marketing of the video as “sneaky” and “promoting the atmosphere of fear.” Board Chair Bob Horel was contacted by a citizen and contacted Superintendent Brian Hodge regarding the allegations. Horel was provided a link to the video. “It was difficult to watch after the first few minutes,” Horel said. Horel and the board directed Hodge to review the district policy and procedures regarding the selec-
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Chew also has an open door policy, she said, and welcomes parents who have any questions about what their child is doing in her
class. It was not made clear how the four speakers learned of the video being used in the class.
in that election, with the top three finishers winning council seats. Hewitt had finished fourth with 276 votes, just four fewer than the 280 received by Caroline Clancy. “John filed with the Secretary of State on Tuesday. The Secretary of State notified us. We held the re-count on Wednesday. The result was exactly the same,” Higgins said. That recount will cost Hewitt $204.65. “It would have had to be within one vote difference for
an automatic recount,” Higgins said. Had it been an automatic recount, the county would have picked up the cost. The 77 percent of registered voters casting ballots in Curry County compared to a statewide average 70 percent turnout, Higgins said. The Curry County turnout compares to 76.23 percent in the governor’s general election four years ago and 87.5 percent from the presidential election in 2008.
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GOLD BEACH — There were no changes in Curry County’s November general election results when the ballots were certified this week. “The results remain the same as far as the percentages go,” Curry County Elections Official Connie Higgins said Thursday. The certified result in the race for County Commissioner Position 1, the only countywide race, showed David Itzen of Brookings the winner over Lucie La Bonté of Gold Beach 4,961 to 4,707 or 50.95 percent to 48.34 percent. There were 69 write-ins. The five-year county law enforcement measure was defeated 7,311 to 2,872 votes, or 71.80 percent to 28.20 percent. There were 10,493 ballots cast in the Curry County election, with 13,622 registered voters, for 77.03 percent. That added 32 votes to the total counted on election night, Nov. 2. Although mailed-in votes that arrive after 8 p.m. on election day are not counted, county residents can return their ballots to other counties while polls are still open. Those ballots are
then returned to the proper county before elections are certified. The County Clerk’s office has 20 days after polls close to certify the election, including the votes that come in from other counties. Higgins said the election was certified on Monday, well ahead of the Nov. 22 deadline. She said that immediately after the certification, John Hewitt, a Port Orford city council candidate, asked for a recount. There were five candidates
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See the video: The video clip used in the class can be found at www.neok12.com/Government.html The full version of the video, with attribution, is available at www. youtube.com/watch?v=F_ ciT1psaPc. tion of material used in class. Hodge, Chew and Azalea Principal Sheryl Lipski expressed frustration that no one contacted them regarding concerns about the video. Inquiries from the Curry Coastal Pilot, which received a news tip about the video earlier in the week, was the first time anyone at the school knew about the issue. “My phone is always there and my door is always open, Hodge said.
she drifted into the center median for an unknown reason and struck the front of a car in the median waiting to turn left onto Floral Hill Drive, said Oregon State Police Trooper Brandon Smithers. The driver of the second car, Heidi Blagden, 38, of Brookings, refused treatment at the scene, but later went to the hospital complaining of whiplash, Smithers said.
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