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Saturday November 9 2019
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Brookings, Oregon
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What
Hope for vets
SEINING THE RIVERS
can tell us
A camp that helps healing Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
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ivide Camp is an odd name for a place that brings veterans together to instill hope, develop friendships and give purpose to their lives. The all-volunteer nonprofit organization is located 20 miles from the town of Joseph, Oregon on the divide between Big and Little Sheep creeks in the Wallowa Mountains. It’s about as far from Curry County as you can get and still be in Oregon. The group is committed to helping veterans find joy and happiness through an immersion in nature. “Every day in America, an average of 22 veterans intentionally end their lives,” reads the Divide Camp brochure. “They fought for all of us … yet their return to civilian life is often plagued with survival guilt, effects of blast-wave brain injuries, and post-traumatic stress. Some are missing limbs, while others feel they are missing their soul. Many of our combat veterans are missing their will to live.” Jim Webber is a construction manager who has been in Brookings for the past several months while working with crews to fix up the local Head Start building. In his spare time, he volunteers his construction skills to help repair the cabins and lodge at Divide Camp. Webber has been with the organization since its formation in 2012, helping to refurbish cabins that had been vacant for many years, and as well as building new ones and an More Healing on Page A6
A heavy net is loaded back onto a boat in preparation for another round of 15 on the Rogue River. Photo by Linda Pinkham.
For one thing, how many fish are you finding O
Lindquist of Gold Beach. “They have a pretty good data set,” he said. A pile of netting rests on the front cowling of a small skiff. The net is about 300 feet long and varies from 7 to 18 feet deep, with floats on the top and a thick, lead-core line on the bottom. The boat backs out slowly into the current and heads upriver, where a line attached to the net is fastened to a piton in a mammoth rock near the top of the pool. Slowly, the boat makes a big loop up and across the river and then downstream, letting the netting out as the craft circles the fishing hole and heads back to shore. There, a four-wheel-drive truck has backed into the water.
Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
n a crisp fall morning, in the not-quite-light of predawn, men in waders gathered to seine for fish at Huntley Park on the Rogue River, about 7 miles up Jerrys Flat Road out of Gold Beach. Several of the men are from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW). Their companions are are a hardy group of volunteers, fishermen who belong to Curry Anadromous Fishermen. They’re there to count fish … yet again. They count the fish three times a week from mid-July through the end of October, as they have been doing since 1974, said Curry Anadromous Fishermen volunteer Roger
More Seining on Page A6
Josh Spano went hunting in September to honor his buddy, Doug Bridges, who died in Iraq in 2006. Photo courtesy Divide Camp.
Crescent City bomb threat proves to be a false alarm C
Jessica Goddard Staff Writer
rescent City Police closed a portion of Second Street at 11:30 a.m. Thursday after a suspicious device was found at the
Redwood National and State Parks office. A tool box that had fallen off a truck Wednesday on U.S. Highway 101 had been taken to the state parks office on Second Street. When the staff inventoried the
box’s contents the following morning, they found a gadget that prompted evacuation of the building as a safety precaution. “They thought it was a possible explosive device inside of it, so we set a
perimeter,” said Crescent City Police Chief Richard Griffin. The police department, Del Norte Sheriff’s Office deputies and national parks employees closed the section of Second Street around
the building as workers left. A sheriff’s department bomb technician determined the gadget to be harmless and identified it as a transportation device for controlled substances that’s normally attached to the bot-
tom of vehicles. In this case, it held methamphetamine. “What caused the concern was the way the [device’s] construction was, but that would be the way to secure it to a vehicle underneath,” Griffin said.
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