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Council split on new member AMANDA LINARES The World

COQUILLE — After multiple failed votes, the Coquille City Council on Monday agreed it would table a motion to appoint a new city council member following the resignation of former Councilman Mike Layton.

The council will reconsider the motion at its next regularly scheduled meeting which is set to take

place on Monday, July 6. Last month, Layton submitted his resignation letter to the council, in which he cited that he was no longer able to fulfill his duties as a city councilor.

As previously reported in The World, the City of Coquille issued a public notice on May 19 announcing the vacancy and its search for residents looking to serve the remainder of Layton’s term, which was set to end Dec.

31, 2022.

Four candidates were interviewed at Monday’s meeting — Coquille residents Paul Reconzone, Maria Haskett, John Cooper and Dave Chappelle. The candidates talked about their interest in joining the council and provided council members their qualifications for the job.

After hearing from the candidates, the council voted via paper ballot

on which candidate they wanted to appoint to Layton’s seat. Councilmen Kyle Wirebaugh and Matte Rowe voted for Chappelle while Councilwomen Julie Nighswonger, Anna Parker and Mayor Kathryn Simonetti voted for Reconzone. Councilman Hugh Pinkston was not in attendance.

With a split decision, the council discussed the reasoning behind their

individual votes with the hopes of coming to a consensus on selecting a candidate. During deliberations, Reconzone withdrew his candidacy and told councilors that he’d like to throw his support to fellow candidate John Cooper.

In a second vote, Wirebaugh and Rowe once again voted for Chappelle and Nighswonger, Parker and Simonetti voted for Cooper. A third vote

was made by the council which yielded the same results.

A motion was made

by Wirebaugh to table the appointment of a new city council member to the next meeting as a way to give the council more time to consider the candidates and to allow for Pinkston, who was absent, to cast a vote.

All the candidates will be reconsidered and a vote is likely to occur in July.

Council speaks out on racism

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Coos Bay Police Department makes moves to address bias CHERYL UPSHAW The World

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Iowa Schauer, of Coos Bay, tends to her garden plot at the Lady Bug Landing on Tuesday afternoon in Coos Bay. The community garden, which is one of four community gardens in the county, was created to provide educational opportunities to people interested in learning more about gardening. Through its Master Gardeners Association program, community members are given the chance to learn about various gardening techniques and skills from experienced gardeners.

GOP to propose changes in ‘Justice Act’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are proposing changes to police procedures and accountability with an enhanced use-offorce database, restrictions on chokeholds and new commissions to study law enforcement and race, according to a draft obtained by The Associated Press.

The “Justice Act” is the most ambitious GOP policing proposal in years, a direct response to the massive public protests over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans.

The package is set to be introduced Wednesday by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the GOP’s lone black Republican, and a task force of GOP senators assembled by Republican leadership.

The 106-page bill is not as sweeping as a Democratic proposal, which is set for a House vote next week, but it shows how swiftly the national debate has been transformed as Republicans embrace a new priority in an election year.

The GOP legislation would beef up requirements for law enforce-

ment to compile use of force reports under a new George Floyd and Walter Scott Notification Act, named for the Minnesota father whose May 25 death sparked worldwide protests over police violence, and Scott, the South Carolina man shot by police after a traffic stop in 2015, no relation to the senator.

It would also establish the Breonna Taylor Notification Act to track “no-knock” warrants. Such warrants used to be rare, but the 26-year-old was killed after police in Kentucky used a no-knock warrant to enter her Louisville home.

To focus on ending chokeholds, it encourages agencies to do away with the practice or risk losing federal funds. Many big city departments have long stopped their use. It also provides funding for training to “de-escalate” situations and establish a “duty to intervene” protocol to prevent excessive force.

“We wanted to make sure that we listened to everyone because there is the false dichotomy, this binary choice between law enforcement and communities of color, and

that’s just a false choice,” Scott said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.”

“You can actually serve America and bring the two groups together.”

As the contours of the package emerged in recent days, Democrats panned it as insufficient, as their own bill takes a more direct approach to changing federal misconduct laws and holding individual officers legally responsible for incidents.

But the GOP effort seeks to reach across the aisle to Democrats in several ways. It includes one long-sought bill to make lynching a federal hate crime and another to launch a study of the social status of black men and boys that has been touted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Republican package — dubbed the “Just and Unifying Solutions To Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act of 2020” — also includes a bipartisan Senate proposal to establish a National Criminal Justice Commission Act and extends funding streams for various federal law enforcement programs, including the COPS program important to

states.

The package includes a mix of other proposals, including tapping the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to create law enforcement training curriculum on “the history of racism in the United States.” Another closes a loophole to prohibit federal law enforcement officers from engaging in sexual acts with those being arrested or in custody.

Expenditures for the bill would be considered on an emergency basis, so as not to count against federal deficits.

The GOP proposal comes amid a crush of activity from Washington as President Donald Trump announced executive actions Tuesday to create a database of police misconduct.

Trump vowed a “big moment” if lawmakers could act to pass legislation. At a Rose Garden event for his executive actions, he declared himself “committed to working with Congress on additional measures.”

The Senate could vote as soon as next week.

Man arrested for allegedly stealing beehives BELLINGHAM, Wash.

(AP) — A man who stole dozens of beehives across the West has been arrested in Washington state, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said.

The bees could be worth more than $200,000.

“The case has the potential of over 30 victims spread across California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington,”

the Sheriff’s Office told the Bellingham Herald.

Perry David Bayes, 56, was arrested and charged with possession of stolen property in the first degree, which is a class B felony, according to officials. It was not immediately known if he has a lawyer.

The investigation began after the Sheriff’s Office received a report from a beekeeper whose

bees were taken.

“The victim went to retrieve his hives and they were gone,” Lincoln County officials said.

“The investigation soon led to some tips and the ‘sting’ was set up, resulting in the arrest and a ‘very sweet’ ending.”

A “beekeeper chop shop” is common in California and other parts of the country, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Beehives can mysteriously disappear overnight. In 2017, a man was accused of stealing nearly $1 million worth of hives from almond orchards, The Associated Press reported.

“Bees are big money,” Sgt. Arley Terrence of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office agriculture crimes unit told the AP in 2017. “There’s a lot of motive to steal.”

COOS BAY — The Coos Bay City Council decried racism at length during its regular meeting Tuesday evening.

The council committed to make the city safer following weeks of protests across the country, recent Nazi vandalism near Mingus Park and the incendiary remarks of representatives in nearby Gold Beach.

The actions the council said it would take include creating a proclamation denouncing racism in the city and undergoing training by both councilmembers and staff. Also discussed, though not formally committed to, was establishing June 19 as a day of remembrance and adjusting the planned memorial for Alonzo Tucker. Tucker’s death is the only documented lynching of a black man in Oregon. He was killed in Coos Bay back when it was still Marshfield.

A committee was formed during the meeting to draft the proposed proclamation. Councilmembers Lucinda DiNovo, Carmen Matthews and Rob Miles were all given seats on the committee. The proclamation will be brought before the council at its next meeting, which will be held July 7.

Further, Coos Bay Police Chief Gary McCullough gave an update to the actions his department has taken to address issues of racism in local policing.

Additionally, councilmembers spoke at length both about their personal experiences with racism and in support of addressing the problem of racism in Coos Bay. Coos Bay Police Department McCullough said his department had already begun work to address racism. He said the department had instituted an online training program that contains five hours of instruction, four hours of which was dedicated to civil rights. The training also addresses implicit bias. The online training allows the department to give the training at home, as there are still restrictions on travel.

The department holds daily briefings, which McCullough said were growing in length. One of the items being addressed in the briefings is accountability.

Officers, he said, were being encouraged to speak out against fellow officers who participate in misconduct and to report them to Please see Racism, Page A2

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Coquille Schools move district offices JILLIAN WARD The World

COQUILLE — Coquille School District began moving its administrative offices this week.

The change in venue started almost as soon as new guidance came from the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon Health Authority, instructing schools that there be 35 square feet per person and room for six feet to social distance. Schools have the option to come up with a model that allows the space to have children safely back in school or commit to distance learning, or compromise with a hybrid model.

“I do not want to do A Days and B Days where half the kids come in one day and the other half come in another,” said Tim Sweeney, superintendent for the district. “We want every child every day who wants to be in school.”

To try and make this happen, the district is

spreading out.

That is starting with the district offices, which have in recent years been located at Lincoln Elementary.

Now they are being moved to the Pioneer Methodist Church where Winter Lakes, the district’s alternative school, used to reside before the district built Winter Lakes High School and purchased an old private elementary school for its younger grades. “…We’re going to spread the kids out more, use our educational assistants and teachers to accommodate spreading out over larger spaces,” Sweeney said. “…We’re using every space we can at every school.”

The district has also begun a large project at Coquille High School to refurbish an old locker room, turning it into a classroom space.

“We’re (also) looking at all options for Coquille Valley Elementary,” he said.

“Any family that wants a child in school five days

a week, we will have that option. If a family wants a hybrid (model), we have plenty of opportunities to do those as well through Winter Lakes or Coquille High School. We’re trying to be as flexible as we can to meet the needs of all our families.”

Sweeney expects the district offices to be completely moved out of Lincoln Elementary by the end of the week, freeing up at least four rooms for classroom space.

Meanwhile, the refurbishing of the locker room is set to be finished by early August.

“It will be a beautiful state-of-the-art classroom when we’re done,” he said.

Though the district is striving to open up for all students by making space for healthy learning, South Coast Education Service District Superintendent Tenneal Wetherell said earlier this week that districts will submit plans to the state to reopen in the fall. These plans will be

Ed Glazar, The World

Teacher Sondra Sperling works with a student at Winter Lakes School in Coquille on Sept 17. With the purchase of the former United Christian Academy, and growing enrollment numbers, the Coquille School District is set to add a Winter Lakes Elementary School to its alternative learning curriculum. reviewed by local public health and the state before being approved.

“I will tell you, I’m more than a little sad,” Sweeney said of the district offices being moved. “This is the first time since 1988 I

won’t have an office space in a school building. It’s been 32 years of being around kids every day and moving to a building that won’t have students is a little sad.”

Sweeney added that

the needs of the students outweigh everything else though as the district focuses on taking care “of our kiddos.”

The new location for the district office is 180 North Baxter Street in Coquille.

Oregon reports 278 new virus cases, 2 deaths The World PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 182, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.

Oregon Health Authority reported 278 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m.

Tuesday, bringing the state total to 6,098.

The number of new confirmed and presumptive

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their superior officers.

McCullough said, “No matter what the tenure of the officer, they need to speak up and we are reassuring that each police officer, no matter their tenure, has the same voice.”

Additionally, CBPD will begin reporting its traffic and pedestrian stop information July 1 to the Statistical Transparency of Policing Data Collection Project. STOP will assess the information it receives from CBPD and all other Oregon police departments to determine whether there are racial or ethnic disparities in how these stops are conducted.

CBPD is a smaller police department, with fewer than 24 officers. As such, they are considered a “Tier 3” department for the STOP program. The program dictates the reporting

cases is the highest the state has seen since the pandemic began. It is 94 cases higher than Monday’s number.

The new cases reported Tuesday are in the following counties: Clackamas (21), Crook (1), Hood River (1), Jackson (1), Jefferson (1), Josephine (1), Klamath (8), Lane (1), Lincoln (17), Marion (22), Morrow (2), Multnomah (42), Umatilla (1), Union (119), Wasco (1), Washington (37), Yamhill (2).

Tuesday’s increased numbers are consistent with a recent trend of more cases in the state, according to the OHA. The increase in cases is due to workplace outbreaks as well as potential spread in the community, not tied to a known case.

The 119 cases in Union County are related to the Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church in Island City, close to La Grande in Eastern Oregon. There were 99 positive or presumptive

cases in Union County on Monday. Of the 236 cases in that county, 214 were revealed after the church hosted a testing clinic, according to a press release from the Union County Center for Human Development.

A week ago, Union County had just six confirmed cases of COVID-19, but added single cases last Tuesday and Wednesday, then had five more cases Thursday, according to the

OHA. The county had 22 confirmed or presumptive cases after Saturday. All but five of the cases are considered active.

The spike puts Union County at the top in the state per capita with 236 cases, which is also the largest single outbreak the state has seen. There have been no COVID-19 deaths Union County.

Oregon’s 181st COVID-19 death is an 89-year-old man in Clack-

amas County, who tested positive on June 13 and died on June 15, in his residence. He had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 182nd COVID-19 death is an 85-year-old woman in Marion County, who tested positive on June 11 and died on June 13, at Salem Hospital.

She had underlying medical conditions.

For more information, visit https://govstatus.egov. com/OR-OHA-COVID-19.

dates for all Oregon Police departments, and Tier 3 departments did not have to begin reporting until July 1 of this year. Tier 1 departments, which have more than 100 officers, began submitting their information in 2018.

Several councilmembers said they were proud of the actions the department was taking. At the end of the Urban Renewal Agency meeting, immediately following the city council meeting, McCullough said he would take the council’s comments to his officers.

“Each and every member works to make you proud,” he said.

Matthews. The most personal account was given by DiNovo.

“I’ve had conversations with some in the community that do not believe racism is real,” DiNovo said.

DiNovo spoke about an experience with racism in Coos Bay, which occurred last year. She walked downtown with a friend of Korean descent and two men in a truck drove by.

They shouted at DiNovo and her friend, “border patrol!”

DiNovo is Hispanic. She said in the many years she has lived in Coos Bay, she had never had that experience before.

“For the first time, I felt what people who experience this on a daily basis feel,” DiNovo said. She went on to say she was proud of the work being done by CBPD and that the council would make a statement.

“Oregon is not safe for all,” she said.

Matthews spoke at length. He marched with the protesters at the June 7 Black Lives Matter demonstration. He said he wanted to be a part of the changes happening nationwide. Matthews volunteered to work with the police chief and the public to “make necessary changes together.” He also said he felt safe with Coos Bay law enforcement and felt they were fair and just.

He suggested that the council reconsider the way the city planned to memorialize the death of Alonzo Tucker, a black man who was lynched in Coos Bay in 1902. The planned monument is a plaque.

“The trauma of the black community is not always acknowledged,” he said. He went on to say, “We can begin to heal this wound by shedding light on the reality of this past, painful experience.”

Councilman Drew Farmer’s statement includ-

ed mention of recent Nazi symbols that were used to vandalize a bus stop. He brought up the USS Coos Bay, a ship that sailed in World War II. “This city had its name in the effort to crush everything that stupid symbol represents. It just agitates me to see that symbol pop up. We have to fight racism and inequality whenever we see it pop up,” he said.

He said he was encouraged to see young people speaking out against racism in Coos Bay and encouraged those who did not know how the civic process worked to reach out to the council to learn.

soldiers reached Galveston, Texas and informed the people there that the slaves were freed.

Joe Benetti suggested the city formally recognize June 19 as a “day of remembrance.” He did not mention Juneteenth by name, and suggested that if this date didn’t work, another day be chosen.

The council did not take any action on the suggestion at the meeting, which occurred the evening of June 16.

The conversation was livestreamed on the city’s Facebook page and can be accessed there along with all videotaped meetings from the past several months.

Several councilmembers said they were available for questions from the public regarding both the city’s response to racism and the process of governing the city. Councilmember email addresses can be found on the city’s website at bit. ly/2URi6HO.

Council comments Each of the councilmembers and Mayor Joe Benetti made a statement denouncing racism and calling for action. All the comments emphasized the need to make the community safe for those of color. The longest of these statements was made by

Juneteenth June 19 is widely recognized as Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the most remote of the slave states. It was not until June 19, 1865, two and a half years following the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union

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Thousands raised to support Spalding family Community supports family after tragic accident involving Ian Spalding ZACH SILVA The World

NORTH BEND — On May 31, 17-year-old Ian Spalding fell off the rocks near Norton Gulch Trail and into the ocean and he has not been seen since.

Since this tragic event, the North Bend community has reached out to support the Spalding family.

“I wanted to be able to help. No one can help in this situation but I wanted to help the best way I could,” said Kait Randle, a fellow North Bend student and friend of Ian. Randle’s family are the franchise owners of the Human Bean coffee stands in both North Bend

and Coos Bay. In an effort to give to the Spalding family, last Friday all proceeds went to help the family in what was called Ian Day. In addition to being friends with the staff at the Human Bean, Spalding was the newest employee of the coffee stand.

“It’s crazy, he’s 17-years-old and he touched the lives of so many people. It doesn’t matter if you’re 60 years old or a little kid, he was someone’s rock star. And I also wanted to be able to help his family in this hard time,” said Randle.

Long lines of cars stretched around the Pony Village parking lot throughout the day.

“Everybody was just so kind and understanding.

I know it can be irritating being in line for an hour and a half but everyone who

came through was like, they weren’t there to get coffee, they were there for the Spalding family. So everyone was so kind,” said Randle.

As of Tuesday afternoon it was unclear how much money had been raised as a total. However, over $4,500 had been deposited in the donation jars that were on hand.

In addition to funds that were raised at the Human Bean, a GoFundMe was set up to help cover costs of a celebration of life, burial and to set up a scholarship in Ian’s name. As of Tuesday the fund had raised $33,545 from over 360 donors.

“I started it as the founder and then immediately added Carly and her husband as the beneficiary so I don’t have any control of the money whatsoever,” said Matt Olander, a family

friend who lives in Utah.

After the tragic events took place, Olander’s wife and daughters hopped in the car and drove to North Bend to support the Spalding family.

Back in Utah, Olander set up the account and he wished it would get to maybe $10,000 and in his wildest dreams hoped that it would get up to $15,000.

“I remember I went to bed that night and just watched it for a couple hours. I think when I went to sleep finally it was at $1,000. I was like oh, I think we’re going to reach that 10 grand. All of a sudden when I wake up in the morning it was like oh my word,” said Olander.

“It was just kind of awesome to see, everyone was willing to do whatever they possibly could to make things happen.”

Contributed by Kait Randle

Cars wind through the Pony Village parking lot as they wait in line at the Human Bean on Ian Day.

Firefighter assists driver who drove into Coos River Firefighter John Alrdich has history of helpful actions ZACH SILVA The World

COOS COUNTY — While driving to work

on Sunday, Myrtle Point firefighter John Aldrich saw a car lose control and end up in the Coos River, according to a Facebook post from the North Bay Fire District.

The airbags deployed and as he prepared to go into the water, the driver, who has identified herself as Kaylee

Van Dell, was able to escape the car via the passenger window. Aldrich was there to assist her and help ensure her safety.

“I was the girl driving this vehicle. John Aldrich was such an amazing help I have no idea what I would have done without him,” Van Dell replied to the post.

“I was so shaken up and scared but he had it all covered the ambulance arrived almost as soon as I got out of the car. John grabbed my hand and pulled me up the bank as well and checked me out to make sure I was okay and warm.”

According to the North Bay Fire District,

Aldrich has a heroic history. Last year he was part of a crew that came across an unconscious semi-truck driver who needed life-saving treatment after sliding off an icy road near Elkton.

In 2010, he was honored with the State of Oregon’s Medal of Valor after he rescued

an individual that was trapped in a fire.

“Every agency would like to think they have someone worthy of this award,” said Oregon Fire Chiefs Association spokesman Troy Buzalsky in 2010 of Aldrich’s accomplishments. “This is a huge tribute to this gentleman’s effort.”

Dr. Patty Scott to receive Free online GED, Adult Basic Distinguished Alumni award Education classes at SWOCC The World EUGENE — Lane Community College will celebrate its 55th Annual Commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20.

This will be the college’s first-ever virtual commencement and will be accessible via Lane Video Streaming.

Speakers include LCC President Dr. Margaret Hamilton, LCC Provost Dr. Paul Jarrell, LCC Board of Education Chair Mike Eyster, Associated Students of Lane Community College President Ava Everett, and keynote speaker Dr. Patty Scott, president of Southwestern Oregon Community College and an LCC alum.

“We are so proud to welcome Patty back to Lane,” said LCC President Margaret Hamilton. “She is one of our own, and her career is an inspiration for community college students everywhere.”

Scott grew up in Wallowa and moved to Eugene to study at Lane. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of Oregon, a master’s from Bowling Green University in Ohio, and a doctorate from Oregon State University. She joined Southwestern in 1993 and held increasingly responsible positions until becoming SWOCC’s sixth president in 2008. She was named community college administrator of the year by the Oregon Community

College Association in 2019, and is one of only two college presidents in the nation to serve on the two-year panel for the National College Athletic Association.

This year, Lane expects to award about 1,740 associate degrees and certificates to approximately 970 members of the class of 2020. Roughly 47% are career technical students and 53% are transfer students. About 2% will be awarded both types of credentials, and 58% will have more than one award conferred. In addition, Lane will award approximately 270 associate degrees and certificates to 177 students from past years.

Church is tied to Oregon’s largest coronavirus outbreak (AP) - A church in rural northeastern Oregon is now the epicenter of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak, as 236 people tested positive for the disease, authorities said Tuesday.

The outbreak also led to Oregon’s second consecutive record-setting daily case count.

“I think generally we are seeing increasing numbers, which is what we expected with reopening,” said Thomas Jeanne, the deputy state health officer and deputy state epidemiologist.

In response to the increasing case counts Gov. Kate Brown last week said she was putting all county applications for further reopening from her COVID-19 restrictions on hold for seven days.

The Oregon Health Authority reported 278 new statewide cases Tuesday — a 51% increase from Monday’s case count.

Officials cited the rise in cases due largely to increased testing, contact tracing, workplace outbreaks “as well as potential spread in the community.”

The largest outbreak, which was first made public Monday, is associated with Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Union County.

The Observer newspaper of La Grande reported that the church held services in April and May even though Oregon COVID-19 restrictions limited gatherings. Also, The Observer reported the facility recently held a wedding and a graduation ceremony, each with more than 100 people.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach representatives of the church were not successful Tuesday.

The health authority and county officials teamed up with the church over the weekend to hold a clinic where 356 people were tested for the virus — 66% tested positive for coronavirus, officials reported.

Currently, five people associated with the outbreak are hospitalized, Jeanne said. The county does not have any confirmed fatalities from coronavirus.

Prior to the outbreak,

the county had less than 25 cases during the pandemic.

“We have tested the majority of the congregation at the church in Union County,” Jeanne said. “At this point we hope there will not be a lot more (cases), but that is what contact tracing, quarantine and follow up will be important for.”

Over the last 14 days, 35% of cases have not been linked to a specific transmission, Jeanne said.

“We are concerned about these trends, particularly the sporadic cases that can’t be traced to a specific outbreak or cluster, because they indicate how much community spread is occurring — the type of spread that we are less able to control through testing, case investigation, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine,” Jeanne said.

Tuesday’s case count brings the new total number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Oregon to 6,098.

In addition, two more people have died from the disease, raising the state’s death toll to 182.

The World COOS BAY — Southwestern Oregon Community College is offering free GED and Adult Basic Education classes online summer term. These classes prepare individuals to take the GED exam and update skills to enroll in

college or career training programs. Students enrolled in these classes can build a pipeline to enter college, training programs and jobs in high-demand career areas.

GED and Adult Basic Education classes will meet live online via Zoom on Tuesdays, Wednesdays

and Thursdays. Day classes meet from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Night Classes meet from 5:30- to 7:30 p.m.

Summer term starts June 22 and ends Aug. 13.

For more information or to register for orientation and classes, email Adult & Pre-College Education at llcinfo@socc.edu.

DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren Wife stunned to discover husband’s weighty fetish DEAR ABBY: My husband and I married two years ago. A year later we welcomed our first child. I never imagined I would ever want a divorce. Well, I found out early this year that my husband has a fetish/fantasy about bigger women. (He actually said it.) He is a “feeder.” He has purchased books related to these things and watches videos and reads stories about it while sitting next to me on the couch! It turns him on. He has asked me to consider gaining weight. I told him he needs help.

I made an appointment for him to see a therapist, and am forcing him to go. I feel cheated on and disrespected. I don’t know how to handle this bomb he dropped on me. I don’t know how to be with someone who has such a strong impulse. I hate to feel at fault for walking away and breaking up our family, but I can’t go along with this and risk my health. I also don’t know how to live apart from him. Any help is appreciated. -- WIFE OF A FEEDER DEAR WIFE: Your husband should have discussed this with you before you married. Gaining weight to feed your husband’s fetish would not be healthy for you physically or -- feeling as you do -emotionally.

Because you already have a licensed mental health professional in your database, schedule an appointment for yourself to help you rationally decide what you need to do. (Can your husband be content to have his fantasy but not involve you?)

You may not want to “feel at fault” for walking away, but you aren’t going to change him, and your first responsibility must be to maintain your health so you can parent your child to adulthood.

DEAR ABBY: This has been weighing on me for a long time. A guy I’ve known for years receives tons of food from a food pantry his sister runs. It sickens me because he’s financially set. He brags to me about never ever having to buy groceries again. I think about the children and families who are in need of food during these terrible times. He is the worst kind of cheapskate and doesn’t like spending money on anything.

Obviously, if his sister is allowing this, she is doing the same thing. I told him he should be ashamed of himself for taking advantage of this program. His response was that he served our country, so he’s entitled! (He was dishonorably discharged after seven months.) He truly feels the food is owed to him. This has been bothering me for a long time and, to be honest, I wish he had never told me. -- DISGUSTED IN CONNECTICUT DEAR DISGUSTED: And your question is? Those two appear to have no conscience. Contact the head of the organization that sponsors the food bank and tell the person what you have written to me. I don’t think I’m being too harsh to point out that “Sissy” is guilty of theft by funneling food to her brother and preventing a needy family from having it. Shameless.

DEAR ABBY: Is it possible to be in love with someone who is incarcerated?

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eEdition On this day in Coos County history 100 YEARS — June 17, 1920

50 YEARS June 17, 1970

Boat In Trouble Off Bar Today

Middle Creek Ladder Brings Changes in Salmon Run Says BLM Biologist COQUILLE — Chamber of Commerce members Tuesday heard a long-awaited progress report on some of the changes which have taken place on Middle Creek since the installation of a fish ladder on the falls there in 1963.

John Anderson, fish biologist with the Bureau of Land Management, told chamber members that the number of salmon spotted above the falls has more than tripled since the ladder was built. Quoting from figures compiled by the fish commission, he said the number of fish counted in

Is Towed In By The Coast Guard Crew Presumably Will Be Taken to North Bend or Marshfield for Repairs A two-masted gasoline boat was in trouble off the Coos Bay bar today and the crew from the coast guard station went out in the power boat and towed the schooner in. The name of the boat in trouble had not been ascertained this afternoon at the coast guard station.

It will brought to North Bend or Marshfield presumably for repairs.

one mile of the Adler Creek tributary had jumped from 25 in 1964 to 143 in 1969.

Anderson pointed out that the major way to reverse the trend of dwindling catches of commercial salmon off the Pacific Coast is to build more fish ladders like the one on Middle Creek.

Andrews Replaces Burr on Coquille Council City council members at a regular meeting this week appointed Darald A. Andrews to complete the term of ex-council member George Burr. Burr resigned earlier because of anticipated surgery.

Coquille Mayor Billy E. Melson announced that the results of the recent population survey placed the city’s population at 4,284. Melson asked also that a building permit be granted to the Myrtle

Point Security Bank for construction of a branch office at West Fifth and Central. The motion was approved.

The council voted to have a resolution prepared for the July 6 meeting allowing the city to participate in the county’s lowcost housing subsidy program. The vote came after council members heard a report by A.G. Anusich, Coos County Housing Authority director.

15 YEARS — June 17, 2005 Port making tracks in push for North Spit rail spur

By Elise Hamner, City Editor

Every public project manager’s nagging fear is to have construction bids come in way above budgeted estimates. Often, it just happens.

But not so, for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay in its push to extend the rail line another almost 3.5 miles onto the North Spit.

Engineers originally estimated the project could cost upwards of $7.2 million. A year ago, they said $5.5 million. Thursday night, the port commission signed off on a deal with a local company to do the work at an even bigger savings.

Seven contractors considered the project. Three companies bid, with the two highest proposals being approximately $4.8 million from Laskey-Clifton Corp. of Coos Bay and the second at $4.3 million from Stacy & Witbeck Inc. headquartered in Alameda, Calif. LTM’s

Coos Bay office undershot both with its $4.1 million bid to win the deal.

Bandon firefighters quickly quell blaze A bedroom fire was extinguished on Thursday night in a house about six miles south of Bandon near the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and McTimmons Road.

Bandon Rural Fire Protection District Chief Lanny Boston said he believed candles came into contact with curtains, sparking the blaze shortly after 5 p.m.

Boston said the fire was knocked down in about 4 minutes and did an estimated $10,000 in damage.

These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www.theworldlink.com.

MYRTLE POINT POLICE LOG Monday, June 8 At 4:29 a.m. on 19th Street, a suspicious vehicle was reported.

At 9:45 a.m. at Rotary Park, illegal camping was handled.

Tuesday, June 9 At 6:18 p.m. on North Fork Lane and U.S. Highway 42, suspicious vehicle was handled.

At 7:36 p.m. on Roseburg Road, report due of a

missing person.

At 8:26 p.m. on Eighth Street, criminal trespass was reported.

At 9:34 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 near Milepost 18, an arrest was made following a report of criminal trespass.

Wednesday, June 10 At 1:36 a.m. on Walter Donald Road, a welfare check was handled.

At 6:48 a.m. on Eighth

Street, a theft was handled.

At 12:49 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 near Milepost 43, suspicious conditions were reported.

At 5:34 p.m. on Maple Street, suspicious conditions were handled.

Thursday, June 11 At 4:51 a.m. on Roseburg Road, a mental subject was handled.

At 4:57 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 near Milepost

21, a burn compliant was handled.

Friday, June 12 At 7:36 p.m. on Harris Street and Railroad Avenue, driver issued a citation following a traffic stop.

At 9:53 p.m. on Central Boulevard and First Street, a mental subject was handled in Coquille.

At 11:24 p.m. on Sitkum Lane, driver issued a citation following a report of

an accident.

Saturday, June 13 At 1:05 p.m. on Bryant Boat Ramp, subject issued a citation following a report of a suspicious vehicle.

At 7:17 a.m. on Roseburg Road, information on a mental subject was collected.

At 10:17 a.m. on Roseburg Road and Oak Street, a suspicious subject was reported.

At 5:07 p.m. on Bender Street, a disturbance was handled.

Sunday, June 14 At 11:40 a.m. on Railroad Avenue and Willow Street, suspicious conditions were handled.

At 1:37 p.m. on Fourth Street, a report of harassment was handled.

At 6:03 p.m. on Goldbrick Road, report due of a runaway juvenile.

Trump signs order on police reform WASHINGTON (AP) — Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he said would encourage better police practices.

But he made no mention of the roiling national debate over racism spawned by police killings of black people.

Trump met privately with the families of several black Americans killed in interactions with police before his Rose Garden signing ceremony and said he grieved for the lives lost and families devastated.

But he quickly shifted his tone and devoted most of his public remarks to a need to respect and support “the brave men and women in blue who police our streets and keep us safe.”

He characterized the officers who’ve used excessive force as a “tiny” number of outliers among “trustworthy” police ranks.

“Reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals,” he said before signing the order Tuesday, flanked by police officials.

Trump and Republicans in Congress have been rushing to respond to the mass demonstrations against police brutality and

racial prejudice that have raged for weeks across the country in response to the deaths of Floyd and other black Americans.

It’s a sudden shift that underscores how quickly the protests have changed the political conversation and pressured Washington to act.

But Trump, who has faced criticism for failing to acknowledge systemic racial bias and has advocated for rougher police treatment of suspects, has continued to hold his “law and order” line. At the signing event, he railed against those who committed violence during the largely peaceful protests while hailing the vast majority of officers as selfless public servants.

Trump’s executive order would establish a database that tracks police officers with excessive use-of-force complaints in their records.

Many officers who wind up involved in fatal interactions have long complaint histories, including Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in Floyd’s death. Those records are often not made public, making it difficult to know if an officer has such a history.

The order would give

police departments a financial incentive to adopt best practices and encourage co-responder programs, in which social workers join police when they respond to nonviolent calls involving mental health, addiction and homelessness issues.

Trump said that, as part of the order, the use of chokeholds, which have become a symbol of police brutality, would be banned “except if an officer’s life is at risk.” Actually, the order instructs the Justice Department to push local police departments to be certified by a “reputable independent credentialing body” with use-of-force policies that prohibit the use of chokeholds, except when the use of deadly force is allowed by law.

Chokeholds are already largely banned in police departments nationwide.

While Trump hailed his efforts as “historic,” Democrats and other critics said he didn’t go nearly far enough.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said, “One modest inadequate executive order will not make up for his decades of inflammatory rhetoric and his recent policies designed to roll back the progress that we’ve made

in previous years.”

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the order “falls sadly and seriously short of what is required to combat the epidemic of racial injustice and police brutality that is murdering hundreds of Black Americans.”

Kristina Roth at Amnesty International USA said the order “amounts to a Band-Aid for a bullet wound.”

But Trump said others want to go too far. He framed his plan as an alternative to the “defund the police” movement to fully revamp departments that has emerged from the protests and that he slammed as “radical and dangerous.”

“Americans know the truth: Without police there is chaos. Without law there is anarchy and without safety there is catastrophe,” he said.

Trump’s audience included police officials and members of Congress and came after he met privately at the White House with the families of people who have been killed in interactions with police.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that many tears were shed at the meeting and “the president was devastated.” Trump

listed the families’ relatives who died and said: “To all the hurting families, I want you to know that all Americans mourn by your side. Your loved ones will not have died in vain.”

White House adviser Ja’Ron Smith said it was “a mutual decision” for the families not to attend the public signing.

The White House action came as Democrats and Republicans in Congress have been rolling out their own packages of policing changes. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the GOP legislative package, which will include new restrictions on police chokeholds and greater use of police body cameras, among other provisions.

While the emerging GOP package isn’t as extensive as sweeping Democratic proposals, which are headed for a House vote next week, it includes perhaps the most far-reaching proposed changes ever from a party that often echoes Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric.

It remains unclear whether the parties will be able to find common ground. Though their proposals share many similar

provisions — both would create a national database so officers cannot transfer from one department to another without public oversight of their records, for instance — differences remain.

The Republican bill doesn’t go as far as the Democrats’ on the issue of eliminating qualified immunity, which would allow people injured by law enforcement personnel to sue for damages. The White House has said that’s a step too far. As an alternative, Scott has suggested a “decertification” process for officers involved in misconduct.

During the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder opened a series of civil rights investigations into local law enforcement practices that often ended with court-approved consent decrees that mandated reforms. Those included Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of Michael Brown and Baltimore following the police custody death of Freddie Gray.

Hours before he resigned as Trump’s first attorney general in November 2018, Jeff Sessions signed a memo that sharply curtailed the use of consent decrees.

Oregon governor calls for Portland journalists covering special legislative session protests injured by police SALEM (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday she will convene a special legislative session next week to address the state’s COVID-19 pandemic and to improve police accountability following weeks of protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Brown said the session would start June 24. And, in a statement, Brown said she will likely call for a second special session later in the summer to address the huge budget hit coronavirus limitations on businesses and spending.

“In the meantime, I am finalizing a list of $150 million General Fund savings for this biennium, to be released by the end of this

week as part of my efforts to put Oregon’s budget on better footing,” Brown said in a statement.

Last month state economists said Oregon faces an 11% drop in revenue from the previous biennium as the coronavirus pandemic triggered a shutdown order and a consequent drop in tax payments.

General Fund and other major revenues have been reduced relative to the March forecast by $2.7 billion in the current biennium and $4.4 billion in the 202123 budget period.

The governor said she wants to codify several of her executive orders she made recently in response to the pandemic into law, including the temporary

eviction moratorium.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports itt remains unclear how lawmakers will meet in Salem while maintaining social distancing. The last legislative session imploded when Republicans staged a walkout to kill a cap-andtrade policy bill aimed at easing climate change.

The governor’s announcement already concerned some Republicans.

“I fail to understand why the Governor is calling the legislature in for a special session, an expensive undertaking for taxpayers, in the middle of a pandemic, when it is not intended to address the state budget deficit,” Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod, R-Stayton, said in a statement.

PORTLAND (AP) — At least two Portland-based reporters were injured while covering protests against police brutality over the weekend.

Oregonian journalist Beth Nakamura recounted police slamming her with a baton Friday while the next night, Portland Tribune reporter Zane Sparling said he was shoved into a wall by an officer and hit by a crowd control munition, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

The reporters said they identified themselves to police as press. In both incidents, the reporters were told by police, in what the journalists described as profanity-laced responses, that their press credentials did not matter.

The incidents against reporters were the first publicly questioned by the mayor since the uprising began over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

On Twitter Monday, Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler called Nakamura’s account of being attacked “extremely concerning.”

“Journalists need to be able to cover the protests safely,” Wheeler said. “I know (the Portland Police Bureau) works hard to protect the rights of our press, but there are alarming incidents that need to be addressed.”

Portland City Council members Chloe Eudaly and Jo Ann Hardesty have also expressed concerns.

A petition circulated by Portland-based reporters asks the mayor’s office to stop the police bureau he oversees from assaulting journalists and warns of a “chilling effect on coverage and debate about PPB’s use of force” if the violence continues.

On Sunday, police released a video in which their lead spokesperson said all crowd members had to follow orders to disperse, even journalists.

Kyu Ho Youm, who holds the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, said if journalists “are treated as demonstrators, that’s a terrible mistake on the part of police.”

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Cuomo OKs tennis U.S. Open with no fans HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the go-ahead Tuesday for the U.S. Open tennis tournament to be held in his state starting in late August — but without spectators — as part of the reopening from shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“You can watch it on TV, and I’ll take that,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing in Albany.

Now that the U.S. Tennis Association’s proposal to hold its marquee event has been accepted — including a “bubble” setup with designated hotels, limited player entourages and a facility closed to the hundreds of

thousands of people who usually attend the U.S. Open — the key question becomes: Who actually will end up competing on the blue hard courts in Flushing Meadows from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13?

Some of the sport’s top names, including defending U.S. Open men’s champion Rafael Nadal along with No. 1-ranked players Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty, have expressed reservations about heading somewhere that was a hot spot for the COVID-19 outbreak. An indoor tennis facility at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center temporarily housed hundreds of hospital beds at the height of New York’s coronavirus crisis.

Others expressed an eagerness to return to action: Both the

ATP and WTA tours have been suspended since early March because of the virus. The U.S. Open normally is the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of each season but would be the second major of 2020, following the Australian Open, which concluded in early February.

The start of the clay-court French Open was postponed from May and currently is scheduled to begin a week after the U.S. Open ends. Wimbledon was canceled altogether for the first time since World War II in 1945.

“Well done @usta for being so forward thinking in getting this done. A great achievement.

Players and fans alike are thrilled with this development,” tweeted John Isner, the top U.S. man in

the rankings at No. 21. “Time to get back on the courts!”

Another American, No. 195 Mitchell Krueger, quoted Isner’s comment and wrote: “I can find you about 140+ players that are most certainly not ‘thrilled’ with this development.”

That’s a reference to the USTA’s decision to eliminate qualifying rounds that normally give lower-ranked singles players a chance to earn a spot — and extra money — in the U.S. Open field.

The USTA is getting rid of qualifying and instead moving the Cincinnati hard-court tournament that it owns to New York ahead of the start of the U.S. Open.

Another reduction for 2020: The men’s and women’s doubles draws for the U.S. Open each

will have 32 teams instead of 64.

Overall player compensation for the U.S. Open and Cincinnati tournament, which includes prize money and hotel costs and $6.6 million to compensate players who would have been in qualifying in Flushing Meadows, will be $60 million; that’s about $7 million less than in 2019.

The tours are expected to reveal the restructured 2020 tennis calendar within the week.

More than 40 tournaments at the sport’s highest levels have been scrapped so far and there likely will not be any sanctioned play until early August, although various exhibition matches with no rankings points at stake have been taking place around the world in recent weeks.

Sports Briefs NFL Pro Bowl moves will be held in Las Vegas in 2021 LAS VEGAS — The Pro Bowl is headed to Las Vegas.

The NFL announced Tuesday that the 2021 all-star game will be played at the new Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, Jan. 31 — one week before the Super Bowl in Tampa.

Plans include what the league calls a week-long celebration of football, and will include NFL FLAG Championship games and a Pro Bowl skills showdown in which players compete in a variety of events. There will be community and charity initiatives as well.

AUTO RACING Dale Jarrett tests positive for coronavirus NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett announced Tuesday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and now is in quarantine.

The 63-year-old Jarrett broke the news during NASCAR’s Hall of Fame announcement, explaining that’s why he did not return to NBCSN’s studio with the other hosts.

The three-time Daytona 500 winner and 1999 Cup champion said the only symptom he had was a slight cough and that he was doing well.

“I’ve been one of the very fortunate ones that my symptom has only been a slight cough throughout all of this and it’s really getting less and less each day, so I’m doing very, very well,” Jarrett said. “All I can say is follow all the guidelines stay as safe as you possibly can and hopefully we can all get through this in the very near future.”

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Hall of Fame ballot for 2021 is finalized Georgia cornerback Champ Bailey, Syracuse defensive end Dwight Freeney and Kansas State running back Darren Sproles will appear on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the first time.

The National Football Foundation on Tuesday announced the 78 players and seven coaches from major college football who are up for selection to the Atlanta-based Hall of Fame. There also are 99 players and 33 coaches from outside the highest level of college football eligible for induction.

Former Oregon State stars running back Ken Simonton and receiver Mike Haas also are on the list of nominees. Simonton played for the Beavers from 1998-2001 and Haas from 2002-2005.

The College Hall of Fame class of 2021 will be announced early next year.

OBITUARY 1967 Cy Young Award winner McCormick dies CORNELIUS, N.C. — Longtime Giants pitcher Mike McCormick, who won the Cy Young Award in 1967, has died. He was 81.

The Giants say McCormick died Saturday at his home in North Carolina after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Bethany Baker, The World

Driver Brody Montgomery of Bandon comes through turn one during the Sportsman Late Models heat race at Coos Bay Speedway in May of 2017.

Speedway oval season opens tonight The World COOS BAY — Coos Bay Speedway opens its oval dirt track season tonight with a visit by the IMCA Modifieds series.

The event also includes sport mods and local drivers in the street stocks and junior stingers classes. Many other local drivers will get their first races on the oval Saturday night during another day of racing.

In the opener tonight, racing starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $13 for senior citizens and students ages 7 to 17.

Children 6 and under get in free

and a family pass for two adults and up to three students is $45.

Saturday’s event is being dubbed the Super Late Model & Sprint Car Opener.

In addition to those two classes, the event also will include local drivers in the sportsman late model, street stocks, mini outlaws, hornets and junior stingers categories.

The street stocks and junior stingers were included in the official season opener for the oval on Wednesday, an event that featured modified cars from outside the area.

On Saturday, the gates open at 4

p.m. and racing starts at 5:30 p.m.

The pit area will be limited to the first 250 people (including drivers and crew) with the pit gate opening at 2 p.m.

General admission is $15 for adults and $13 for students ages 7 to 17 and senior citizens. A family pass for two adults and up to three students is $45.

The speedway has extensive safety measures in place in the wake of the pandemic. People won’t be permitted if they are sick or symptomatic with fever, cough and/or shortness of breath. Also, all employees and volunteers who have contact with others will

use face masks and food service workers also will wear gloves.

Hand sanitizer will be available in several different areas. In the grandstands, only every third row will be open to facilitate social distancing.

In the pit area, the race team trailers will be parked in a way to create as much distance as possible between pit crews.

The speedway has been able to host mud drags events and last weekend had its first NHRA drag racing event.

For more information on the speedway, visit www.coosbayspeedway.us.

Earnhardt Jr. headlines NASCAR Hall of Fame class MICHAEL MAROT Associated Press

Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent his whole life chasing meaningful rewards.

He waited longingly for a pat on the back from his famous father, worked diligently to generate compliments from crew members and other drivers and reveled in the roar of his fans — those he inherited from his father and the new ones he brought along for the ride.

NASCAR’s longtime fan favorite received the sport’s biggest honor Tuesday, being selected to join his father in the series’ Hall of Fame. Earnhardt will be inducted in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with the late Mike Stefanik and 87-yearold Red Farmer, who is planning to race on Talladega’s dirt track this weekend. Ralph Seagraves was named the Landmark Award winner for his contributions to the sport.

Despite never winning a series championship, Earnhardt still received 76% of the votes cast on the modern era ballot.

“Just talking about it, it’s really emotional because I feed off affirmation,” he said wistfully.

“It’s such a great feeling to know people think I made an impact. I know what my numbers are and I feel like I was chosen because of that but also for the impact I made off the track, being an ambassador for the sport.”

Being an Earnhardt name certainly comes with its advantages.

Junior’s grandfather, Ralph, went into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1997 and was named one of the NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998. Junior’s father, The Intimidator, also made the list and even before finishing his career with 76 wins and a record-tying seven Cup titles.

The team-owning father even gave Dale Jr. his first big break, a full-time ride in the Busch Series in 1998. It didn’t take long for Junior to prove he was a natural — on and off the track.

He won Busch championships in each of his first two seasons, then two races as a rookie Cup driver in 2000.

But when the elder Earnhardt was killed during the 2001 Daytona 500, Junior suddenly found himself in a place he never imagined.

“I knew when dad died I was going to assume most if not all of

his fan base and I feel like I took care of that,” he said. “I didn’t squander that, I didn’t ruin that and I also introduced myself to a lot of people who never heard of Dale Earnhardt.”

Suddenly, the brash 26-yearold Earnhardt emerged as the face of the sport and started adding his own chapter to the family legacy. He won 26 races before retiring as a full-time Cup driver following the 2017 season, including two Daytona 500s and the 2001 Pepsi 400, the first Cup race held at Daytona after his father’s death.

While Earnhardt will be the headliner at the induction ceremony, he’s impressed by his new classmates, too.

Stefanik won seven titles in NASCAR’s modified series and two more in the Busch North series. The nine total victories is tied for second in series history with Richie Evans and Stefanik was named the second greatest driver in modified history in 2003.

The 61-year-old Stefanik, who died from injuries sustained in a plane crash in Connecticut last September, edged out Ricky Rudd for the second spot on the ballot with 49% of the vote.

“Phenomenal when you think about what he did. Nine championships,” Kyle Petty said during NBCSN’s announcement show.

“Phenomenal record, phenomenal amount of wins.”

Farmer, one of the three original “Alabama Gang” members with brothers Bobby and Donnie Allison, beat out Hershel McGriff by earning 71% of the vote on the pioneer ballot.

The 87-year-old Farmer won four Late Model Sportsmen season titles, an estimated 700 to 900 races and also was a member of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers. He also is a member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2004 and this week with the big series returning to Talladega, he’s scrambling to put together a car for two nights of racing on the dirt track across the street.

“I had a little fender-bender in a 40-lapper last weekend,” he said. “They had a three or four-car pile up right in front of me and I slid into it and messed up the nose pretty good. So I’m getting my backup car ready.”

Seagraves helped find new sponsors, including former title sponsor Winston, as well as refurbishing tracks.

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Sprinter suspended for missing doping tests DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — The fastest man in the world has been sidelined for a string of missed doping tests.

Christian Coleman, an American sprinter who won the 100-meter title at last year’s world championships and had been the early favorite for the Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games, was temporarily banned from competition by the Athletics Integrity Unit on Wednesday.

The AIU updated its list of athletes on provisional suspension to include Coleman hours after he revealed details of the case. The suspension will last until a final decision is reached at a hearing conducted under World Athletics Anti-Doping rules or the Integrity Code of Conduct.

Coleman had a previous whereabouts charge dropped last year ahead of the world championships. But his current charge could lead to a two-year ban, ruling him out of next year’s

postponed Olympics.

Coleman wrote on Twitter that drug testers were unable to find him Dec. 9 while he was shopping at a nearby mall for Christmas presents. That was his third infraction in a 12-month period.

Coleman asked why he didn’t receive a phone call when the testers were unable to find him, saying he had received calls “every other time” he was tested.

“I think the attempt on December 9th was a purposeful attempt to get me to miss a test,” he wrote.

The AIU said a phone call wasn’t a requirement and that it usually asks employees not to call athletes because that could undermine the testing program.

“Any advanced notice of testing, in the form of a phone call or otherwise, provides an opportunity for athletes to engage in tampering or evasion or other improper conduct which can limit

the efficacy of testing,” the AIU said in an e-mailed statement.

The AIU added that under World Anti-Doping Agency rules “proof that a telephone call was made is not a requisite element of a missed test and the lack of any telephone call does not give the athlete a defense to the assertion of a missed test.”

Some of Coleman’s earlier missed tests were not with the AIU but with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, whose own handbook for athletes says phone calls are usually reserved only for the last five minutes of a time slot and “to confirm the unavailability of the athlete, not to locate an athlete for testing.”

Athletes are required to list their whereabouts for an hour each day when they must be available to be tested. A violation means an athlete either did not fill out forms telling authorities where they could be found, or that they weren’t where they said they

would be when testers arrived.

Coleman said in his post he has been appealing the latest missed test for six months with the AIU, which runs the anti-doping program for World Athletics. He explained there was no record of anyone coming to his home and that if he had been called he was only five minutes away.

It’s the second time Coleman has faced a potential ban for a whereabouts violation.

Coleman won the 100 meters at the world championships in Doha, Qatar, last September after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency dropped his case for missed tests because of a technicality.

“I have never and will never use performance enhancing supplements or drugs,” Coleman wrote Tuesday. “I am willing to take a drug test EVERY single day for the rest of my career for all I care to prove my innocence.”

After winning the gold medal in Doha, Coleman said he needed to be more careful to keep track of his whereabouts.

“I haven’t been careless. I think I can just be more mature about it, more diligent about updating the app. But I mean, I think everybody in this room is not perfect. Everybody has made mistakes,” he said. “Going forward, I just try to do a better job about being more diligent about it.”

Coleman is the latest in a string of runners hit with whereabouts charges in 2020.

The AIU filed a similar charge this month against women’s 400-meter world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain. She was already under investigation when she won gold in Doha last year in the fastest time since 1985.

Former U.S. national 200 champion Deajah Stevens was suspended in May.

City or Portland will OHSU will change virus study after complaints make Juneteenth a paid holiday PORTLAND (AP) — Portland will formally recognize June 19, or Juneteenth, as a paid holiday, Mayor Ted Wheeler said.

The Portland City Council plans to adopt an ordinance Wednesday to establish June 19 as a day of recognition of black American history and give employees a paid day off to engage in remembrance and action, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reported.

“We are suggesting that City of Portland employees spend the holiday getting educated on the white supremacy that was foundational to American culture,” the statement said.

The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, when news finally reached African Americans in Texas that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves living in Confederate states two years earlier.

Texas first made it a state holiday in 1980. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he’s making Juneteenth an official holiday in a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy.

The Portland ordinance will include a formal apology for the how black people have been treated in Portland and the U.S., the mayor said.

“When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its constitution explicitly banned Black people from visiting, living and owning property here,” his statement said.

“To this day, navigating life as a Black American in our city and country does not come with the same privileges experienced by others.”

SALEM (AP) — Oregon Health & Science University is working on a new approach to studying the spread of COVID-19 after health-care experts from the state’s communities of color raised concerns that the original project’s design was flawed by racial biases.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the Key to Oregon study, a project by Oregon Health & Sciences University and the Oregon Health Authority, aims to survey 100,000 Oregonians and monitor them for COVID-19. One of the original goals was to recruit large numbers of participants from communities of color, to help

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sign the study came after several community leaders wrote to OHSU detailing their concerns. After several listening sessions, OHSU agreed to integrate experts from community organizations at all levels of the study, and late last week they held the first in a series of meetings aimed at re-centering equity and including communities as they rebuild much of the study from the ground up.

Another change will be that there will be reimbursement for work.

“We recognize that everyone we talked to is engaged in really important and essential work.

To ask people to do more requires us to compensate

people for their time,” Bangsberg said.

The study — which has a budget of $24 million — was already underway. Recruitment had already begun. And with COVID-19 cases in Oregon increasing, particularly among Latino and Black people, time completing the study as soon as possible will better-inform policies and strategies to slow its spread within communities of color.

OHSU says it plans to move forward with anyone who has already agreed to enroll in the study, while it works on building engagement in communities of color.

Car drives into crowd of Portland protestors PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters early Wednesday morning in downtown Portland, Oregon, injuring three people.

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identify outbreaks in those areas.

But critics said the study would recruit few, if any, communities of color, because of flaws in the study design. They said those flaws could have been avoided if experts from communities of color had been included from the beginning.

“We are prepared to include community leaders at every level of study, from leadership to study design, and shared decision making,” said David Bangsberg, dean of the school of public health that’s jointly run by OHSU and Portland State University.

The decision to rede-

Police say the 27-yearold male driver drove away “at a high rate of speed” but was tracked and arrested on suspicion of hit and run, reckless driving and possession of a controlled substance.

Two people were taken from the scene by ambulance. Another was taken for treatment in a personal car. Police said none of the injuries were life-threatening.

The Oregonian/Oregon-

Live reports the incident happened as protesters marched downtown as part of continuing protests in the city over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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