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Riding with flags and pride in America CAROL HUNGERFORD PUBLISHER
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Julianne Logefeil (in black) and Cheri Phillips, both of Crescent City, take a patriotic ride Sept. 11 in remembrance of America’s 9/11 terrorist attacks. Photo by David Hayes. By David Hayes Staff Writer
n the 18th anniversary of AmeriO ca’s Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, two Crescent City residents took to horseback,
flying their American flags and patriotic pride. Julianne Logefeil and Cheri Phillips, riding their horses Magnum and Peaches, drew shouts, cheers and honks of encouragement from passing motorists as they rode from Arnett Street, along Northcrest Avenue, toward U.S. Highway 101 and on down to the beach. Logefeil, a member of the Crescent City Diamonds ‘N’ Dust equestrian drill team, has been memorializing 9/11 for the past five years. “It’s a way for me to do something without coming across as celebrating it,” she said. Dressed in red, white and blue, Phillips rode with her friend for the first time. “There was so much unity after the tragedy that everyone stuck together, and we’ve kind of lost that,” she said. “So, I think riding down the street, people look at us and remember and they appreciate it.” Added Phillips: “That morning is vivid in my memory. I remember exactly what was going on. Watching it on TV, getting angry at a common enemy. “Everybody was hugging each other. New Yorkers were looking at each other. Everybody was appreciating the first-responders. I was in such awe. “I can’t believe it’s been 18 years. That’s a lifetime, almost. I could have an adult child. “It feels good to do this.”
Power cut to 1,400 sites
Staff Report rescent City Fire and Rescue responded to a downed powerline at the corner of B and 9th streets at 2:20 p.m. Thursday that left more than 1,400 Crescent City residents without power, said Pacific Power. A tree limb struck a telephone wire that caused it to spark and ignite a small fire on a patch of grass in an empty lot across the street. The fire burned for about five minutes before the fire department
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Emergency crews repond to downed powerlines that led to a fire and an unscheduled power outage in Crescent City. Photo by David Hayes.
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ur recently-hired reporters in Crescent City and Brookings are now hitting their stride, providing increasingly relevant coverage of the activities and residents in Country Media’s two new communities. Your ongoing positive feedback underscores that. Speaking of which, beginning with this issue we’ll be slowly expanding the A Section of each newspaper to allow more space for local news. To accomplish that, we’re sharply reducing the amount of “canned” syndicated features leaned on by the former owners of The Pilot and The Triplicate, using that space for more staff-written stories about people and events in Crescent City, Brookings and surrounding areas. So you’ll no longer be seeing generic filler such as advice columns, comics, word puzzles and the like. If we can’t fit in everything, we opt to give priority to news of the local area. As a great fan of Sudoku, I admit I gave this a lot of thought, but I have several books of Sudoku puzzles and can go to internet sites to download puzzles or play online. So, there are alternative sources. I believe our community newspapers’ columns are better suited to carrying as much local news as possible. Why? Because local news is our stock in trade here in Brookings and Crescent City. You won’t get that commitment to local coverage from anyone other than The Pilot and The Triplicate. You can get syndicated features from a variety of other suppliers. Meantime, we’re continuing our search for local fishing columnists. Our pressroom manager is a passionate fisherman and I asked him to write a column about his time on the water. Running our big presses is his day job … but writing articles isn’t something he was so sure about. I suggested he write as though he were drafting me a letter. You’ll see his brief anecdote in this issue of the paper. I hope you enjoy it. (That said, he elects to stick with running our presses as opposed to pursuing a literary career.) There are so many types of fishing opportunities in our corner of the world, perhaps we will begin getting columns from a variety of people. I hope deep-sea fishermen and fly fisherman are represented! As for our experiment with carrying reports on our websites of high school football games, many of you are More Local on Page A4
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