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MIDWEEK EDITION

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Wednesday September 25 2019

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Brookings, Oregon

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Coast Guard experiences a busy weekend

Ellwood could’t give the dispatcher a good location of where she was, or how she got there, other than she had parked her car and walked a few miles north on a coast trail. Sheriff’s Dispatch Deputy Synthia Westerman kept Ellwood on the phone reassuring her that she would be rescued. Dispatch was able to get a general location by the 911 mapping that showed Ellwood was near milepost 351, near House Rock View Point, about six miles north of Brookings. The Curry County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Rope Team (SAR) was called to respond to the area. Dispatchers also contacted the US Coast Guard for assistance and they responded with a helicopter. Deputies located Ellwood’s vehicle at the House Rock View Point. Dan Brattain of Cal Ore Life Flight was

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oast Guard crews along the Oregon Coast had a busy weekend following three separate rescue operations Friday through Sunday, Sept. 20-22. The first rescue took place shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, when the Curry County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from Callie Ellwood, 28, of Windom, Kansas, reporting that she was stranded on a rock cliff after sliding down a rock embankment above the beach below. According to Sheriff John Ward, Ellwood reported that she had parked in a wayside north of Brookings and went for a walk on a trail. She said she left the trail and tried to go through the wooded area to see is she could make it to the beach when she slipped and slid down a steep rocky embankment.

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If you look carefully, you can see the red Coast Guard helicopter, center, heading to a Brookings-area rescue site Friday afternoon. Photo courtesy Curry County Sheriff’s Office.

Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

urry County and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department are inching closer to a deal on swapping two parcels of land located between Port Orford and Langlois. Curry County commissioners will consider the latest version of a land-exchange agreement during its More Land on Page A2

A family visit

A mother and her three otter pups enjoyed a little weekend sun on the boat docks off Boat Basin Road last Sunday afternoon. The family hung around for an hour or so before re-entering the water. Photo courtesy Ronald Butcher of Harbor.

‘Sandwich lady’ gets city permit waiver T

Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor

he Brookings City Council reached a decision Monday night about whether to allow a local resident to continue handing out free food at Azalea Park. During the council’s public meeting, four people testified in favor of waiving the city’s permit fee of $67.50 per day to allow Ede Viale to continue providing sandwiches and other food to those in need. (Read the background story in the Sept. 21 issue of The Pilot and online at currypilot.com.)

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Teresa Lawson of Brookings, one of the four to testify, also read a statement from Viale, who said she could not attend the meeting. “I have been helping those in need for 18 years,” read Viale’s statement in part, “all out of my own pocket and through kind donations. “Hunger in this world is not acceptable. Being at the park allows the hungry to reach me easily, since they walk for miles to reach this area. I need to be there. My health limits me as well. God bless all of you who cared about the plight of others.” Following the testimony,

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City Councilor Ron Hedenskog said, “We are not going to do away with people helping those in need.” Hedenskog offered a motion to waive the permit fee, and to allow Viale to offer the food three times a week, for about an hour at a time, for the next year. Following that one-year period, she will be required to seek a permit and the council will again review that request. The council voted its approval of the motion. Tower antenna The council also was scheduled to determine if it

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Community members filled the Brookings City Council Chambers for its meeting Monday night. Photo by Jeremy C. Ruark. would require Curry Coast Radio KCIW, a low-power nonprofit radio station at 100.7 FM, to sign a lease for

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fair-market value of $36,000 annually so it could maintain a radio broadcast antenna on the city’s public-safety com-

munications tower at 898 Elk More Council on Page A3

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