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Curry County Commissioners oppose SB 1530 Vote to send proclamation to state was 2-1
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t was not unanimous, but Curry County’s official stance is clear — it is against proposed Senate Bill 1530, the state’s controversial cap-and-trade plan. Commissioners Chris Paasch and Court Boice
voted in favor of a proclamation opposing the bill at their regular meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 19. “I strongly oppose bill 1530, as it is currently written because I know the costs to the county are too great for us to bear,” Boice said. Commissioner Sue Gold voted no. “I am going to say I am
not an expert on this, but I am certainly willing to listen to both sides of an issue and I wouldn’t mind having a workshop on this,” Gold said. Before voting, she said more information was needed. All three commissioners were OK with having a workshop. “I personally am in favor
of a workshop as well, but I will say the way the bill is currently written I am not in favor of the bill,” Paasch said. “I think there is a lot of work to be done on the bill and I am hopeful that coming out of the short session it will not make it through … I think for rural Oregonians there is a lot of damage going to be done.”
Curry County’s proclamation that will be sent to the state says the bill will have punitive impacts on Curry County and its residents, stating that increases in fuel and utility costs related to providing critically needed services will be a further burden on county residents. In simple terms, SB 1530 would set a cap on green-
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urry County will re-establish a Public Health Department after contractor Curry Community Health transfers public health services back to the county effective Friday, Feb. 28. The county will continue to offer some of the same essential public health services provided by Curry Community Health, with plans to add services over the coming months. Services to become immediately available by the county Feb. 28 include:
David Marshall answers questions at a community forum on Feb. 18 at Azalea Middle School in Brookings. The forum was part of the Brookings-Harbor School District’s superintendent search. Photo by Brian Williams.
Superintendent candidate Marshall
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he community met the last man standing so to speak in the Brookings-Harbor School District superintendent search on Feb. 18. David Marshall answered 17 community-generated questions from the nearly 30 people inside the library of Azalea Middle School in Brookings. Current school board members, district teachers and students and members of the community
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house gas emissions from the transportation, utility and manufacturing sectors, and lower allowed emissions over time. Nearly 100 entities would be required to obtain permits for each ton of emissions. SB 1530 would cre-
attended the event. Steve Kelley, Director of Board Development for the State School Board Association, was the emcee of the forum that took 40 minutes. The district invited three finalists to meet with the community, but two withdrew from the process. Marshall is excited to still be in the mix for the BrookingsHarbor superintendent position. He was professionally More Candidate on Page A5
• WIC (Women, Infants and Children) • Safe Drinking Water • Food, Pool and Lodging Inspection services • Communicable Disease Reporting and Investigation • Public Health Emergency Preparedness • Indoor Clean Air Act complaints The Curry County Board of Commissioners appointed Sherrié Ward as the Local Public Health Administrator. Ward has been working closely with other county leadership to prepare for the transition. Several other public health staff from Curry Community Health will be joining the new County Public Health Department. “I am excited to be joining the county as their Local Public Health Administra-
tor,” said Ward. “Working through the transition will take some time, but we are committed to a smooth as possible transition.” Ward also noted the county website will be updated in a few weeks, as more information during the transition period is available. The web page will be found on the county website, www.co.curry.or.us. The Curry County Public Health Department will not provide direct medical services and encourages the public to seek care from local primary health care providers in the community. Over the coming weeks and months, the county will be working with local partners and providers to assure immunization, reproductive health, disease screening and treatment services are available in the community. “We appreciate Curry Community Health providing public health services to people in Curry County over the past seven years,” said Julie Schmelzer, County Director of Operations. “We look forward to building a strong public health department in the community.” The Curry County Public Health Department will be located at 94235 Moore St., Suite 121, in Gold Beach. Satellite offices in Brookings and Port Orford will be announced at a later date.
Former Brookings resident receives Certified Consulting Meteorologist designation F
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ormer Brookings resident Daniel L. Schreiber, now of Del Rio, Texas, has earned the nationally recognized Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) designation by the American Meteorology Society (AMS). Schreiber moved to Brookings in 2005 with his parents when he was 15 years old and lived here through 2010, when he left to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Fla. Schreiber served in the Air Force for six years. He married his wife Shauna in 2015 and has a 3-year-old daughter, Addy. During high school, Schreiber attended military school back east, but spent his summers in Brookings, where he worked as a lifeguard at the pool and delivered newspapers for the Curry Coastal Pilot. He belonged to the Civil
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Air Patrol cadet squadron in Brookings, where he learned aviation and leadership skills. He also learned search and rescue, as well as survival skills. In college, he received an annual scholarship from the Brookings Flying Club. He wrote his college thesis on the Brookings Chetco Effect. Schreiber currently owns his own business, STWX Strategic Weather Consulting, which specializes in forensic meteorology consulting, servicing the entire United States. “Forensic meteorology is expert witness type work,” Schreiber said. He testifies in cases where weather is involved in a car or airplane crash, or other disputes related to insurance claims involving weather. He testifies in cases on behalf of both those insured or the insurance company. “Either way, the facts don’t change,” he said. Schreiber volunteers locally as an onair meteorologist and with emergency
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management services in his community for weather events, whether hurricanes or hail storms. “Basically, they don’t sound the sirens until I tell them to,” Schreiber said. “Locally, I am the de facto, go-toweather expert.” The CCM designation means that he is “board certified as a meteorological practitioner. I can practice without this certification as a meteorologist,” he said. “The certification gives credence to my expert witness status.” “The CCM designation is issued by the AMS to highly qualified meteorologists providing research and services to a wide variety of users of weather information, including agriculture, business, industry, and various sectors of government,” according to an AMS press release. “These services extend More Former on Page A5
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