MIDWEEK EDITION
Area Halloween events schedule
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Wednesday October 16 2019
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Brookings, Oregon
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Brookings home a total loss to nighttime blaze Floating wind turbines, like these at a Hywind wind farm off the coast of Scotland, could be a potential huge industry here. California.
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Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
hat if the next big energy industry is right in our backyards? What if it creates thousands of family-wage jobs that will last forever? Jobs for which the Oregon coast already has the infrastructure in place to support? Five entrepreneurial experts will discuss the opportunities and their vision for developing floating wind farms and the supporting infrastructure off the Oregon and northern California coast at a free forum at 6 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the Hales Center for the Performing Arts, Southwestern Community More Wind on Page A4
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Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor
ire officials say a blaze that destroyed a Brookings home does not appear to be suspicious in nature but the exact cause remained under investigation. Following multiple 911 calls shortly before 10 p.m. Oct. 13, Brookings and Harbor Fire & Rescue Department crews were dispatched to 17535 Ross Ln. in the Brookings Rural Fire District. Callers to the 911 dispatch reported that the structure was fully engulfed in fire. According to Brookings Fire Department Operations Chief Jim Watson, the first fire unit arrived on-scene at 10:06 p.m. While en route, the crew called the Cape Ferrelo and Winchuck fire departments for water tenders, because the incident is outside of the established fire hydrant system. Personnel and equipment from the Crescent Fire District, Smith River and Gold Beach were also called in to provide additional manpower. “There were about 40 firefighters that fought the fire,” Watson said. “It was reported that there was a large amount of ammuni-
tion in the residence and early on, as fire units were arriving, the ammunition cooked off, in which the gun powder starts to burn off inside the brass (containers).” No firefighters or civilians were injured during the fire. Watson said the structure’s resident was the only one there when the fire broke out, was out of the building when fire units arrived and injured. As the structure fire was winding down at about 3:30 a.m. the following morning, 911 received a call about an unattended fire on Chetco Point. Watson said a fire officer from Brookings Fire & Rescue responded and found the fire to be an abandoned campfire down a steep embankment to the beach, which had spread to a large pile of driftwood. Fire units from the Ross Lane Fire were sent to combat the Chetco Point blaze. Thirteen firefighters from Brookings, Harbor, Gold Beach and Smith River responded to that blaze, which Watson said took about two hours to extinguish and mop up. Investigators said fire destroyed this home in Brookings Then, at 4:33 a.m. Monday, 911 dispatch received a call of a the night of Oct. 13. The exact cause of the blaze is still possible garage fire on Woodruff under investigation. Photo courtesy Kelli Kamehaiku. Lane. Smith River, Harbor and and found that it was actually Watson said it appears that Brookings units that were clearHalloween decorations that were both of the actual fires were ing the Ross Lane fire responded mistaken for a fire. caused by untended outside fires.
House of Monsters returns to Brookings Lon Goddard For The Pilot
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he 16th-annual Chetco Pelican Players’ haunted house has returned, and this year’s terrifying theme is gasping Gothic gore in the House of Monsters! The crazed quagmire of chaos will open at 7 p.m. Friday in the giant warehouse at the corner of East Hoffeldt Lane and U.S. Highway 101, behind the Dollar Store in Harbor. There’s be no waiting in any rain. It’s all within the protected roof of the dreadful dungeon bog! Watch out! There are nasty things prowling within the moldy castle bricks at night. Travel through 21,000 square feet of nightmare peril, down through
Brian Cordin as Frankenstein’s Monster. Photo courtesy Claire Willard and Bill Schlichting.
the darkest of old stairwell paths and into the dirty mud of the dead, where vampires, witches, manmade monsters, deformed demons and toothless zombies creep around in the blistered basement bowels of the underground. Each new arrival will be escorted through damp passageways where mutant creatures, screaming in the fetid air, will hunt you down, cut off your head and chop off your knees, unleashing instant fear. The only hope is to survive until you reach the safety of the Beastro at the end of the morbid walls … dead or undead! You are invited to experience the biggest spine-chilling haunted house on the entire Oregon coast. And again, in conjunction with the Chetco Pelican Players Community Theater, this
deranged monstrosity is presented by Frankenstein’s own Bride of Terror, Claire Willard. Those few who survive the demented tour of insane depravity will receive tasty Trick or Treats, soft drinks and heaping helpings of Claire’s infamous “Gothic Goo” chili in the retreat of her “Grisly Gothic Beastro” at the end of the crawl. Be sure to come early every night. Beat the crowd, or you’ll be condemned to eternity in the House of Monsters! Tickets are $10 per victim. Hours are 7-10 p.m. nightly Oct. 18, 19, 20 - 25, 26, 27, 30 and 31. Open until 11 p.m. on Halloween. For more information, call 541-469-1857. Lon Goddard is a member of the Chetco Pelican Players.
Curry’s turkeys Thanksgiving is coming and the turkeys are going
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(Left) Turkeys are often seen hustling along the North Bank Rogue River Road area near Gold Beach. (Right) Here, the turkeys appear to be waiting for their mail. Photos by Linda Pinkham.
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urry County is known for its abundance of wildlife … including wild turkeys. So, it shouldn’t be surprising to spot the turkeys running from here to there. But it might be an unusual sight to see a rafter of Curry turkeys gathered around the mail boxes on North Bank Rogue River Road. Are they expecting an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner? Residents say the turkeys also are frequent visitors to a nearby tavern, where they take advantage of food scattered outside around the business for resident chickens.
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