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Tribute to Veterans in today’s B Section

SATURDAY November 9, 2019

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Meaningful ceremony to highlight Veterans Day By David Hayes Staff Writer

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ount on shedding some tears during the flag-raising ceremony Monday at the Del Norte County Veteran’s Memorial Point of Honor. You’ll be in good company. Kelly Schellong has worn

many hats since coming to Crescent City in 1991: as a Crescent City Council member, mayor, sales manager at Bicoastal Media, an Army mom. “Other than having my son, completing the monument is in the top-five proudest moments of my life,” Schellong said.

“It’s really a good feeling, when you can do something to honor a group of people who have made such an impact on your country and community. To know you were a part of that, is pretty special.” After a decade of work by a veterans committee to get the monument approved, Schel-

long was asked to step in and spearhead fundraising efforts. She said that through events small and large, raffles, concerts, dinners and live auctions (one was hosted by State Sen. Mike McGuire as guest auctioneer that brought in $40,000), the committee’s coffers grew to about $175,000.

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“Every single dollar we raised, except a $3,000 grant from the Pacific Power Foundation, was from this community. It was an outpouring of an abundance of love,” Schellong said. The monument’s design includes an obelisk and flag dedicated to each branch of

By Jessica Goddard Staff Writer

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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.

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A heavy net is loaded back onto a boat in preparation for another round of 15 on the Rogue River. Photo by Linda Pinkham.

n a crisp fall morning, in the not-quite-light of pre-dawn, 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

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 bottom 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.

Crescent City Police Department vehicles block traffic Thursday on Second Street while they investigate a possible explosive device. Photo by Jessica Goddard.

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Downtown bomb threat turns out to be a false alarm

SEINING THE RIVERS

By Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

the military, including the U.S. Coast Guard; a stone wall honoring sponsors, donors and committee members; an obelisk dedicated to the Hmong soldiers who served during a U.S. secret war in Laos; and

mid-July through the end of October, as they have been doing since 1974, said Curry Anadromous Fishermen volunteer Roger 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. More Seining on Page A2

Bazaar cooking up By Jessica Goddard Staff Writer

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ith seven freezers full of pies, nine crockpots of stewing soup, and Christmas decor galore, it’s once again time for Grace Lutheran Church’s annual Christmas bazaar. Crescent City’s branch of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League will host its annual Christmas

bazaar, complete with 254 pies, to welcome the community and fundraise this Saturday. “Everybody’s invited. Our goal is to spread the love of Jesus, to let everyone know about the love of Jesus, their Lord and Savior,” said Marilyn Munz, the bazaar’s organizer. The event will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the More Bazaar on Page A4

City looking to capitalize on 2020 Olympics hype By David Hayes Staff Writer

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he Crescent City Council moved Nov. 4 to hire a consultant to increase the community’s exposure during the 2020 Olympics. The city would chip in

$15,000 to hire the consultant, in collaboration with the Crescent City/Del Norte Chamber of Commerce and other community organizations. “In order to get this done, it (must be) a collaboration of multiple partners: the city, the county, the harbor, the school district and

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private businesses as well,” said City Manager Eric Wier. “That’s why the vehicle for this is the chamber. That is where the $15,000 proposal comes in.” Wier said that in conjunction with the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, NBC Sports wants to spotlight Crescent City’s

relationship to its sister city in Japan, Rikuzentakata, as one of the network’s “feelgood” stories connecting the two nations. “So, Crescent City and Del Norte County will be featured in the 2020 Olympics. It’s an amazing opportunity. The economic opportunities through the

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Olympics are like the Super Bowl,” Wier said. He said the city’s planning began during interviews with firms to prepare the city’s Economic Development Strategic Action Plan. After hiring Planwest Partners Inc. to develop the plan, staff asked one of the

partners, Rob Homlund of Malex Consulting, to outline an extensive list of responsibilities the proposed consultant would perform before, during and after the Olympics. Homlund said, “Expect More Olympics on Page A3

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