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MIDWEEK EDITION

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Wednesday September 4, 2019

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Brookings, Oregon

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A permanent fix for Highway 101 slide is now delayed Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

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he permanent repair of U.S. Highway 101’s Hooskanaden slide, between Brookings and Gold Beach, will have to settle in for the long haul -

literally. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has announced that the first construction bid for the project fell short. “We’ve had an unsuccessful bid,” said ODOT public information officer

Dan Latham said. “The only bid received Aug. 13 was from Tidewater Contracting, which had planned to do the work over two seasons.” The bid was complicated, said Latham, because first, Tidewater must find

a location to dump the significant amount of material to be removed from the site. Second, the company doesn’t have the means to coordinate the number of trucks required to move that material. “We need to adjust

the scope of the work,” Latham said. “We will rework the contract for bidding over the winter, and schedule the (repair) work for the following spring and summer. That will give contractors the time they need to make

arrangements for getting rid of the materials they remove.” The plan still is to restore the highway to three lanes, plus shoulders, as it was before the slide, he More Slide on Page A3

Monarch Butterfly Festival is getting wings

Linda Pinkham Staff Writer he monarch butterfly’s migration annually passes through Brookings, where for the second year the beautiful orange butterflies will be celebrated with a festival. The celebration is planned for 11 a.m.-4 p.m. this Saturday in Azalea Park’s lower level by the bandshell, at 640 Old County Rd. Events will include education about monarch conservation and pollinator-friendly gardening, crafts for children, a science area, live butterflies for release, and the promotion of Brookings as Oregon’s first Monarch City USA. The Monarch Cities website says nearly a billion of the butterflies have vanished since 1990. Communities such as Brookings “directly help the monarch butterfly recover by encouraging and planting milkweed and nectar plants within their boundaries.” The plants provide monarchs with “stepping stones” as stopovers on their migration journeys. Restoring their populations is critical because monarchs are important pollinators for plants grown as food around the world. Monarchs, along with other pollinators, reportedly are responsible for the reproduction of 90% of the world’s flowering plants, according to the Master Gardeners organization in Curry County. When it comes to favorite foods for monarch butterflies, local advocate Dennis Triglia said it’s milkweed. “During the two weeks the monarchs spend as caterpillars, they eat so much milkweed, it’s the equivalent of a newborn baby eating 1,400 pounds of formula,” said Triglia, who’s a member of the Brookings Oregon Monarch Advocates (BOMA). He grows seven different species of milkweed in a 100-square-foot plot to feed the monarch butterflies he raises, tags and releases each year. The tags include information about each butterfly, which is reported to Dr. David

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(Top Left) The free family and dog-friendly “Monarch Butterfly Festival” will feature a pet costume walk at 1:30 p.m. (Bottom Left) Last year’s “Monarch Butterfly Festival” drew 500 to 700 people. (Right) Maria Sudduth encourages kids to “experience” metamorphosis. Photos courtesy BOMA.

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New life in Crescent City after California’s deadliest inferno Jessica Goddard Staff Writer

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ith 10 chickens caged atop their car - plus five dogs, a turtle and their 5-yearold son in the back Annelise Huppert and Shaugn McEvoy made quite a sight driving down California’s State Route 70, their rusted brakes screeching as flames chased them. Now, after the deadliest and most-destructive fire in California history destroyed their home in Concow, they’ve relocated to Crescent City, bent on beginning a new

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life, though still haunted by their loss. How is the area where the couple once lived doing now? The Nov. 8, 2018 Camp Fire left in ashes most of Paradise, Concow and some of Magalia, three towns nestled comfortably in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Nine months later, those towns are still in disarray. That said, the resilient Paradise public school system held its first day of school Aug. 15. “After everything we have been through and overcome, I am so excited to be here,” high

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Shaugn McEvoy and Annelise Huppert pose in front of Fine Line Tattoo in Crescent City, where McEvoy now works after relocating following California’s devasting Camp Fire. Photo by Jessica Goddard.

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school senior Shannon Moakley said in a Los Angeles Times story. And more than 5,000 members of the community recently watched as the Paradise High School Bobcats played their first football game since the fire. “I give them props for sticking it out and being there for the whole process,” said McEvoy. “I couldn’t do it, but it makes me happy to see that they’re getting everything back online and

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