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NB road rage suspect arrested Thompson held at Coos County jail on parole violation warrant DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

The man being sought by local officials for allegedly playing a role

in a road rage incident that left a North Bend man dead was arrested Tuesday in Coos Bay. Joshua James Thompson was taken into custody by officers with Coos County Community Corrections and the Coos Bay Police Department. After being on the run for more than a month, Thompson was arrested at Motel 6 in Coos Bay and was transferred to the Coos County Jail. He is being held

on a parole violation warrant. No charges have been filed yet in the death of 28-year-old Michael David Moore, who died Dec. 27.

Police believe Thompson was driving a Chevy Tahoe that was involved in an incident with a black Ford Ranger pickup, where Moore was a passenger. After the incident in downtown North Bend, the two vehicles, and a third vehicle identified as a red Toyota Camry. After

moving down several city streets, the Ranger crashed into a curb and could not be driven.

At that time, Moore exited his vehicle and confronted the driver of the Tahoe, believed to be Moore.

The incident moved onto Union Street, where authorities allege the Tahoe ran over Moore. An autopsy determined Moore died of major crushing injuries.

After the Tahoe hit Moore, it

Proposed Ferry Road Park disc golf course gets test run

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North Bend recently installed a nine-hole disc golf course at Ferry Road Park and is asking residents for feedback on whether to keep the course or get rid of it. The city installed the course temporarily. It will be in place for 30 days, giving members of the city council an opportunity to receive feedback before deciding whether to make the course permanent. On Tuesday, Corbin White, throwing the disc, Jayden Frank and a few other friends played 18 holes despite chilly temperatures and strong breezes. They all agreed the course was fun and challenging, saying they would love it to stay.

“I like it a lot,” Frank said.

“I like it more because there’s longer holes, and it’s not as crowded as the other one. I’d love it if they kept it here. It adds a course and it makes it so the other course isn’t overrun.”

The World office building on the market Country Media plans to sell building, relocate newspaper workers to another location The World A commercial building occupying an entire city block in downtown Coos Bay has come up for sale.

Ben Kenfield, publisher of the Coos Bay World, said the newspaper’s 18,000-square-foot building is now on the market. The facility has both office and production space, as well as a large parking lot for customers and delivery vehicles.

“We discovered when we bought The World from Lee Enterprises a year ago that the building was way too large for the size of its staff,”

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The World's office building in downtown Coos Bay is now on the market. said Kenfield.

“We can’t expect our employees to be as efficient and productive as possible when they have to navigate a building that back in the day was designed for several dozen additional workers.”

He said The World’s staff will relocate to rented space in or near Coos Bay once a suitable office has been found.

Kenfield emphasized that only the newspaper’s building is for sale.

He said the newspaper business itself has streamlined its operations to cope with the COVID-induced economic downturn.

“We’re now well positioned to be here for many years to come,” said Kenfield. “This certainly isn’t a good time for family-owned businesses, but we’re doing what we

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need to do to sustain our operations for the long term.”

The building, at 350 Commercial Ave., is listed for $1.4 million and marketed by Shana Jo Armstrong of Red Door Realty.

Local realtors say commercial space in Coos Bay and North Bend is selling reasonably well, although not like the thriving residential real estate market.

A sampling of local office buildings for sale includes a 5,357-square-foot facility for $420,000, a 9,566-square-foot structure for $895,000, and a 19,765-square-foot building for $1.8 million.

The World is owned by Country Media, Inc., an Oregon-based corporation with central offices in Salem that owns a dozen community newspapers and affiliated websites in four states, nine of them in Oregon.

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fled the scene and was abandoned a few blocks over. Police believe the red car picked up Thompson, who the fled.

A few days later, the Camry was located in remote forest land in north Coos County. The search for Thompson has continued since then until he was located Tuesday.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the North Bend Police Department.

Coquille works to sort out finances DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

COQUILLE — The Coquille City Council took a major step Monday, and council members hope it will help the city figure out a tangled financial web.

By a 6-0 vote, the council hired Rick Hohnbaum as the city accounting director. Hohnbaum will be responsible for all city finances and human resources.

Hohnbaum brings a wealth of experience to the job, having worked as finance director and city manager during his career. He also has political experience as a council member and mayor.

For now, his challenge will be figuring out the finances in Coquille. While talking with the council Monday, Hohnbaum admitted it may be a while before Coquille gets a full understanding of the financial picture.

“Until we get through this audit that now is late and the following year’s audit, it will be until we get those two through and we get the June 30, 2022 done to have full confidence in where we’re at and what we’re moving toward,” Hohnbaum said.

After the city fired its previous accounting administrator in December, Hohnbaum was hired on a contract basis to help the city short-term. He said he has run into many issues trying to wrap up the calendar year. He explained the payroll records were lacking, with some months missing payrolls and one month listed twice. He said he was able to get W-2s out, but 13 of them will have to be amended.

“We are going to do some detective work,” he said. “Our greatest challenge is payroll not being on the general ledger. We’ve paid payroll, we’re current with payroll.

But the majority of 2019 and 2020, three of those months are not in there at all. We have some house cleaning to do.”

Hohnbaum said despite the challenges, he will find a way to help produce a budget. He said without the full audit, some of it will require guesswork.

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Meanwhile, the rest of the state is on a downward trend of virus cases: Oregon is reporting around 226 cases per 100,000 in population for the two weeks ending Jan. 30, compared to about 365 for the period ending Jan. 16.

Coos County also reported another worrying data point this week: As of Tuesday, 13 county residents were hospitalized with COVID-19, up from three just a week earlier.

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Thirty-three of Oregon’s 36 counties reported decreases in virus case rates between this week and the last. Coos County was not one of them.

“I think ultimately it comes up to the fact that we have a bunch of adults in the community that still aren’t necessarily taking it seriously, and are doing just enough to maintain the spread in our area,” said Dr. Eric Gleason, a spokesperson for Coos Health & Wellness.

On Tuesday, the Oregon Health Authority published data showing the county reported 248 cases per 100,000

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Gleason said of the status of hospitalized COVID patients.

As of Tuesday morning, 11 of those individuals were admitted at Bay Area Hospital, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Among the three counties in the state reporting increased case rates week-over-week, only two reported increases in test positivity alongside their higher case rates.

Those were Coos County (which now reports a test positivity rate around 9.5%) and tiny Sherman County (where a handful of cases among its 1,700 residents can drastically impact its per-person data).

What’s more, the county’s increase in cases is different than ones it has experienced previously. While previous spikes came with known outbreaks and holidays, this spike has been much harder for case investigators to attribute to any particular thing.

“A month ago when we were having that increase, it was easy to say we were having some large outbreaks that were problems,” Gleason said. “We really can’t say that right now. We have a lot of little things that are happening. Just a lot of community spread.”

Still, January saw the county’s largest spike in virus cases since the pandemic began, with 329 just surpassing December’s 327, according to CHW. CHW officials confirmed Tuesday that a karaoke party contributed significantly to the spread of the virus in the county.

“We’ve got to not have group activities — especially group activities where we scream at each other to ‘Come on Eileen,’” Gleason said. “These aren’t responsible things.”

The karaoke event took place at an area bar, which

Gleason declined to name, citing the privacy of the bar’s owners and attendees despite the party’s ripple effect.

According to Gleason, it took place during the twoweek period in December and January when the county had dropped to a lower tier of virus restrictions. That meant the bar was legally allowed to be open for in-person dining at the time, though it remains unclear if the crowd was under 25% of the bar’s capacity as required by the state.

Since then, CHW has attributed at least 30 cases of the virus directly to that event, as well as additional cases from second- and third-degree contacts to the party’s attendees.

And those cases have already impacted the community. Public health staff have traced some cases which forced the quarantine of multiple area school groups back to the karaoke event.

“Those youth that were directly affected by some adult that went to this event that ended up in them not being able to go to school, they’re pretty significantly impacted,” Gleason said.

Vaccines continue to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the county’s virus picture. Around 3,775 people in the county have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and CHW has launched a vaccine interest form at cooshealthandwellness.org.

But Gleason said avoiding group gatherings, maintaining social distance and wearing a face mask are still critical for slowing the record-high spread of the virus in the county.

“We need to come together,” Gleason said. “This is an all-hands-on-deck approach.

It has to be. Or we continue down this road — and it’s not going well for us at this point.”

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Hohnbaum was the right person for the job.

“I think he’s done a great job,” Sanders said. “He has helped us get on priorities that have been overlooked.

Rick was eager to come to work, so I put him to work.

I’ve seen great progress, and I just can’t say enough.”

Before the council voted, Mayor Sam Flaherty said he was happy to have Hohnbaum working with the city.

“I want to compliment you,” he said. “You’re well talked about among the department heads. For myself, you’re very instructive and a teacher.”

Hohnbaum said as he works through the financial picture, he will always keep the council up to date with what he finds.

“I pride myself in keeping my council informed,” he said. “I’ve served as mayor and I’ve served on a city council. I keep my council informed.”

director, the council discussed the best way to move forward with hiring a new city manager. The previous council fired City Manager Sam Baugh in December.

Sanders said he had reached out to two agencies that could help with the search. Prothman, which led the search in 2019, agreed to waive its $16,500 fee if chosen to do the search again.

Sanders said it would still cost the city around $5,000 plus expenses for bringing candidates in for interviews.

The second option was the Lane Council of Governments, an offshoot of the League of Oregon Cities. That would cost between $6,000 and $8,000, Sanders said. Sanders said the goal would be to hire a new city manager by April or May. “I do want us to get the right candidates, but I want the right candidate for the future,” Mayor Falherty said.

Hohnbaum said as a previous city manager, he could help guide the council in the process. He said potential candidates will have four

questions they want answered before the apply.

• What happened to the last person?

• What happened to the two before that?

• Who is doing the recruiting?

• Are there any in-house candidates?

“Those are the four questions any candidate will ask before they even start looking at Coquille and what your community has to offer,” Hohnbaum said. “Often in some of these situations, the best thing you can do is grow your own. The best argument you have is people interested in a lifestyle of coastal or south coastal.”

Hohnbaum also told the council he would not apply because having in-house candidates will scare away many good candidates.

After discussing the two options, the council decided to call a special meeting to interview both Prothman and the Lane Council of Governments. The council will meet Monday and hopes to make its decision during the special meeting.

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“Someone is going to have to do some spitballing to figure out where we’re at to start the budget next month,” he said.

“There’s going to be something produced in May because in order to have a budget, you need to have a financial figure.

Some things are known, some things are not known.”

Police Chief Scott Sanders, who is serving as interim city manager, said Hohnbaum was the first and only person to apply for the accounting director position. Despite the low interest, Sanders said

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Businesses and commercial buildings in parts of Coos Bay’s downtown and Empire areas have more options for accessing funds from the city’s Urban Renewal Agency.

On Tuesday, the URA’s board (made up by the city council and mayor), approved changes to the agency’s facade improvement program, expanding the kinds of projects eligible to tap into agency money designated for improving blighted areas.

“This one will expand the program and provide you greater flexibility,” City Manager Rodger Craddock, who also leads the agency, told board members about the proposed changes Tuesday. “With this, you open it up and provide additional resources available to help with redevelopment with some of our properties in both the downtown district and the Empire district.”

The program was previously open to mostly aesthetic improvements, like awnings, repair of architectural features and painting.

Craddock said the changes include adding other eligible projects.

“Some of those are aimed at pursuing facades that include second floors, also targeting cluster buildings, encouraging residential development on second floors and helping to cover some of those expenses that make it almost impossible to undertake,” Craddock said.

A key change to the program makes projects intended to add housing as a building’s secondary use eligible for the funds, as well as fire- and life-safety projects needed to rehabilitate older building.

Landscaping, accessibility work and public infrastructure work are now eligible for program funds, too.

Notably, the changes also did away with a limit on project costs: Grants were previously limited to

$25,000. Now, the program requirements list no limit (though certain aspects of projects do have limits).

The funds can come as either grants or loans, with terms worked about between the applicant and the agency.

Projects typically require a matching contribution from the applicant — board members discussed decreasing the required match amount Tuesday, but settled on a plan which designates a 50-50 split for most projects, with the ability for the URA to increase its contribution depending on the project.

City leaders have a significant amount of money at their disposal: For the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the URA budgeted $800,000 for the facade improvement program, with $750,000 dedicated to businesses in the downtown district, and the rest dedicated to Empire projects.

“I think that we want to get as much requests for grants on this program as

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Both the Tioga and Koski buildings in downtown Coos Bay have received funding from the city's Urban Renewal Agency for upgrade projects. possible,” Mayor Joe Benetti said during Tuesday’s meeting.

Recent notable projects using the grant funds (under the old rules) include renovations to the Tioga and Koski

buildings downtown.

Most recently, in December, the URA approved just under $12,000 in facade improvement funds to aid the construction of an outdoor seating cover at 7 Devil’s

Brewery (which is owned by city councilor and board member Carmen Matthews, who didn’t take part in the approval process for the funds). That project is largely completed.

Powers seeks another new member for city council ZACK DEMARS The World

The city of Powers is seeking another city councilor.

A council position opened when Councilor Laural Dudley resigned Jan. 18.

“Effective immediately I am resigning from the Powers City Council as at this time I do not feel I can do the job proper,” Dudley wrote in a resignation letter to the council. “It has been a pleasure serving on the council for the past few years.”

The resignation was the city council’s second so far this year, after Donna Freeman resigned at the beginning of January.

At a meeting Tuesday night, the remaining members of the city council approved a plan to advertise Dudley’s open position.

The council also chose to postpone an appointment for Freeman’s position. The city had received just one application before Jan. 26, which was the city’s recommended application deadline in time to appear on the Feb. 2 meeting’s agenda.

But Mayor Robert Kohn told councilors Tuesday night the city had received an additional two applications the day of the meeting. Without having the time to have read the applications, councilors chose to hold off appointing

an applicant to the position until a future meeting.

Debbie North, who’d applied for the position before the Jan. 26 date, was on the conference call line during Tuesday’s meeting and pointed out her application was the only one submitted before that date.

“Why have a closing date then,” North asked. “I mean, I was trying to go by the rules.”

In response, Kohn and other councilors said they weren’t aware the position even had a recommended closing date. Citing the desire to consider all applicants, they came to a consensus to take up the

issue at a future meeting or special meeting.

Applications for both open council positions are available to city residents from city hall at 541-439-3331 or via email at admin@cityofpowers.com. An announcement about the openings says the deadline to be considered at the March 2 meeting is Feb. 23, though the city council can choose to delay a decision.

The city is still searching for a police chief, too. Kohn updated city councilors about the status of the search at Tuesday’s council meeting.

Kohn said the city was preparing to interview a candidate, who backed out

Oregon's new drug possession laws go into effect SALEM (AP) — Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday.

Instead, those found in possession would face a $100 fine or a health assessment that could lead to addiction counseling. Backers of the ballot measure, which Oregon voters passed by a wide margin in November, hailed it as a revolutionary move for the United States.

“Today, the first domino of our cruel and inhumane war on drugs has fallen, setting off what we expect to be a cascade of other efforts centering health over criminalization,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which spearheaded the ballot initiative.

Ballot Measure 110’s backers said treatment needs to be the priority and that criminalizing drug possession was not working.

Besides facing the prospect of being locked up, having a criminal record makes it difficult to find housing and jobs and can haunt a person for a lifetime.

Two dozen district attorneys had opposed the measure, saying it was reckless and would lead to an increase in the acceptability of dangerous drugs.

Instead of facing arrest, those found by law enforcement with personal-use amounts of drugs would face a civil citation, “like a traffic ticket,” and not a criminal citation, said Matt Sutton, spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance.

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That diverts some funds from other programs and entities that already receive it, like schools.

The ballot measure capped the amount of pot tax revenue that schools; mental health alcoholism and drug services; the state police; and cities and counties receive at $45 million annually, with the rest going to a “Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund.”

The fund will be awash in money if the sales trend for marijuana continues as expected.

In the 2020 fiscal year, marijuana tax revenues peaked at $133 million, a 30% increase over the previous year, and a 545% increase over 2016, when pot taxes began being collected from legal, registered recreational marijuana enterprises around the state.

The other recipients of pot tax revenues are now saying that, after assessment and related treatment options are set up, the distribution of those revenues will deserve another look. A leading lawmaker agrees.

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Larson said a “balanced approach to budgeting” will support communities and students. The OEA union represents about 44,000 educators.

and decided to remain in their current job before the interview.

So far, the city’s received 14 applications for the position through its search firm, Kohn said. That’s down from the 36 it received when searching for a police chief

independently a year prior.

In the meantime, former police chief Rhett Davis has been contracted by the city to provide police service on an interim basis. As it stands, his contract runs through July 7.

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North Bend ponders how to fund pool As The World has reported short of criticizing police, but they several times, the North Bend City say the city should do what it said it Council is likely to ask voters to would if the measure passed. That approve a tax levy to keep the city would mean eliminating more police pool open. officers and having no one on the The reality is public pools owned streets overnight. by cities or counties lose money.

My personal belief, as someone They all do. The question is how who does not currently live in North much is a city willing to lose to add Bend and has never been to the to the quality of life of its residents. pool, is having law enforcement 24 For decades, North Bend accepted hours a day is more important than the cost because the pool is popular. having a pool. And it appears the People like it, they use it, and for city council agrees. members of the Which will leave the city council, the fate of the pool in the political risk of hands of the voters. I closing the pool know the pool is popular outweighed the and is well used when expense. open. I also believe, Things have based on the results of changed in North the May election last Bend in recent year, voters don’t like months, thanks paying more than they in part to the have to.

COVID-19 panSo, I have no idea how demic that closed I would vote if asked to the pool, in part choose whether to indue to new leadcrease my taxes to keep ership in the city the pool open. From and on the council what has been said pubDavid Rupkalvis and, largely, due to licly, the decision would Executive Editor a voter-passed meaadd to the property tax sure that limited the bill paid by property amount of money the city can raise owners in North Bend. Personally, for emergency services.

I would prefer a sales tax, but that In May, 58 percent of North Bend doesn’t seem to be an option. voters passed Measure 6-177, which The advantage of a sales tax, and cut the public safety fee in half. As there is none in Oregon right now, is a result, North Bend was faced with everyone pays a little bit at a time, a choice of eliminating much of its with no big chunks taken out at any police staff or find somewhere else one time. Plus, since the pool users to save money. include a large number of people Or both, which is what has hapfrom outside North Bend, any time pened so far. North Bend cut four they stopped for gas or to buy a officers and one dispatch position, drink while visiting the pool, they fewer than projected at the time of would pay a small portion of the tax. the vote.

But since that doesn’t seem to be The difference has been thanks an option, the city council will have to the pool being closed. With no to decide whether to ask voters to expenses, and therefore no lost approve a tax levy to keep the pool revenue from the pool, North Bend open. My guess is the council will moved money from the pool to the make that decision. police line to continue a 24-hour No one on the council seems to police presence. want to close the pool. Most have While I personally agree with that said very positive things about it. decision, it is only temporary. Some- But the reality is North Bend is not time in the near future, COVID will in a situation where it can afford to wane and the pool will be allowed lose hundreds of thousands each to open. At that time, the city counyear to keep a pool open – even a cil will face a difficult choice – open very popular pool. the pool or close it to keep its police If this issue interests you, the department staffed. council will be discussing levy opFrom what I have seen and read, tions during a work session Monday. there is a mixed response in the city. No decision will be made, but opSome people believe having a police tions will be presented. The meeting presence around the clock is more can be viewed online by following important than the pool. Others stop instructions on the city’s website.

Letters to the Editor Country needs to carefully plan ending emissions A recent letter voiced objection to the Department of Environmental Quality allowing an exemption for gas power plants. I do not object. In the rush to remove all traces of fossil fuels some common sense has been lost. If we remove energy generated from all fossil fuels we are left with nuclear, wind and solar power generation as the only candidates for electricity.

Nuclear, unfortunately, will not be allowed leaving wind and solar.

So as long as the sun shines and wind blows I have power to heat my home. Under the proposed new system if either the wind stops or sun does not shine I freeze in my own home as power will be cut off.

Not to mention the extremely high cost of that intermittent power.

The emissions from a gas power plant are not a "pollutant" in the normal sense of directly damaging to health. But indirectly as a contributor to global warming. John Kerry and others have said that the elimination of all carbon dioxide emissions by the United States will not measurably impact climate change. For a true impact we may have to forcibly make China and India end emissions as well. I do not recommend war as a method making them change but they may not give up easily. A side note to the letter, I believe FERC paused the permitting for a LNG export facility not gas power plants. The power plant at the Coos Bay site was removed from planning long ago.The climate is changing and may or may not be due to carbon dioxide emissions. If we as a country chose to experiment doing away with all carbon dioxide emissions, it should be done on a well planned approach that includes all issues.

James Innes Coos Bay

House Bill 2238 is a bad idea for Oregonians House Bill 2238 – what is it and where is it. Sunday, January 31, I was first made aware of what was circulating regarding HB2238. I could hardly believe what I was hearing that, if passed, this bill would give the governor the power

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to seize, should an emergency be declared, any property belonging to citizens if deemed necessary.

It does indeed say that. Further it would allow power to control, restrict and regulate by rationing, freezing, use of quotas, …. well, go on the site and read it for yourself.

Currently this bill resides with the Rules Committee. It sits there at this time as the original chief sponsor, Marty Wilde, Democrat district 11, has withdrawn his name and there is, at this time, no other chief sponsor. I obtained this information by contacting certain legislators. If this information is incorrect, please inform me. In this letter, I do not wish to speak for or against this bill. However, I want to make sure that anyone who has not heard of it or researched it will at this time go on line or call any representative and review the actual content and wording of the bill. Then they can decide for themselves if this is the type of legislation Oregon should have.

Should you support it, be assured if such a bill should pass, supporters will not be exempt from seizure.

One further comment – the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitutions, in addition to the well-known rights, reads “…nor shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law: nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” HB2238 states that no compensation shall be made.

Mary E. Gebhardt North Bend

North Bend needs to consider homelessness I would hope the goal setting meeting by North Bend City Council and staff held Tuesday the 19th of January was far more substantial than The World’s coverage indicated.

Was there really no discussion on the lack of housing the City has – particularly acute for the homeless and mentally ill? This seems a glaring omission. Just asking, but how are updates of the City’s ‘branding’ or of the ‘July Jubilee’ in the age of COVID more important than the housing and homeless crisis?

If the City wishes to maintain

economic stability and grow from there, it absolutely has to have at least an adequate, affordable housing supply for job holders at any level and for the homeless – currently so glaringly with us. Do that, and all else will follow.

If, for example, we want to solve funding for the police, stop asking them to carry the full burden of ‘policing’ the homeless and mentally ill. There are solutions out there, but they need to be pursued!

Steve Skinner North Bend

Abortion kills far more than COVID-19 According to the World Health Organization "Abortion" was the leading cause of death in 2020 and not the Covid-19 Virus. It is now documented that 42 million babies were killed in 2020 world wide.

What are we doing? It seems like to me if "liberated" women in the United States would stop killing their babies maybe the democratic voting block could be replenished instead of having to continue to grab on to illegal Mexican immigrants to fill their voting aspirations.

In addition to this there are 3 times as many black babies that are being aborted than white babies. At this rate of human destruction of the black race the black culture will always remain in the minority. Is that what they really want?

Why is everything so backwards and upside down?

Amber M. Handel North Bend

'Q' has a lot in common with the Wizard of Oz "Q" reminds me of the Wizard of Oz. Very secretive — hidden from view — creates fear, and foments fanaticism in normally rational people. Everyone needs to take a step back and see this charade for what it is — just the Wizard yet to be revealed to be the fake frightened individual he/she is.

Remember, the movie has a happy ending, with everyone in reality after the "dream:" ends. Tomorrow is another day.

Beverly Nordquist North Bend

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OBITUARIES Betty Jean Doyle

March 27, 1923 – January 18, 2021

Betty Doyle, deeply loved by family and friends, passed away January 18, 2021, at the age of 97 in Bandon.

Betty was born in room 8 of the Lucas Lodge in Agness, Oregon to Leonadis and Mabel Blondell. She had two brothers, Robert and Patrick and a sister, Peggy, who passed away from pneumonia at a young age.

In 1936, the family moved to the Myrtle Point area where

Betty attended school. She met Everett Doyle at Arago High School and the two were married in March of 1942. They were married for 60 years.

Betty spent her years as a homemaker, raising their three children, Kerry, Ron and Peggy. After the children were grown, she helped out in her husband’s company, Doyle Milling Co. She was a devoted and loving mother to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

One of Betty’s greatest passions was writing, second only to her faith in God. She loved reading scriptures, writing poetry, and sending letters to her great-grandchildren in Oregon and New York. Betty always loved watching wildlife and delighted in the beauty of nature. She enjoyed watching the deer on her property in Coquille, and later the geese from the window of

Allen ‘Gator’ Fields

November 29, 1963 – December 23, 2020

Allen “Gator” Fields was born November 29, 1963 in Oakland, California. He passed away December 23, 2020 near Orick, California doing what he loved, driving a log truck.

Gator lived most of his life in the Coos County area.

He drove truck for over 35 years, most recently for Chuck Bracelin Trucking.

Gator loved to be up high in the mountains in the early morning hours and observe the beautiful sunrises. He was known to send pictures to many people showing his view from “his office” for others to enjoy. Gator was always quick to lend a hand

when one of his trucking brothers needed one, whether on a landing, along the road, or on his own time. Many friends, neighbors and family members have shared stories of how Gator was always there offering help. From delivering firewood to dropping off treats, to mowing a lawn, he did it with gladness and no expectations.

Gator met the love of his life, Penni James in 1981 and they were married in December of 1984. They had just celebrated 36 years of wedded bliss. Their son Jeff was born in 1987. Gator and Penni were known as mom and dad to numerous of Jeff’s friends.

Gator was known to say “We were the lucky ones; they chose us to be their parents.”

Three years ago Gator started the North Bend Lighted Truck Parade. He felt a need to bring joy to his family and the community and to bring happiness in a month that his family had experienced terrible loss. This year because of Covid the parade was canceled. On January 9, 2021 after the loss of Gator, his trucking brothers and the trucking community came together and held a lighted Memorial Parade in his honor.

Joely Ann Griffiths

September 20, 1944 – January 21, 2021

At her request, no public services will be held for Joely Ann Griffiths, 76, of Coos Bay. Private remembrances will be held by her family.

Joely was born on September 20, 1944 in Minot, North Dakota to parents James McIntyre and Evelyn (Aarhus) McIntyre. She passed away peacefully on January 21, 2021 in Coos Bay. Joely worked for Walmart Maintenance for over 22 years. She was a hard working woman and the people she worked with said they thought she was the toughest person in the building! Joe loved her family unconditionally….. she also loved to be outside gardening, fishing and work-

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James D. Shannon, 74, of North Bend, passed away on January 28, 2021 in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440.

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ing on projects at home. She was an amazing grandma and great-grandma. All of her little ones loved being with her.

Joe was feisty, and used to say “I aint got time for the BS!” Joely will forever be missed.

Joely is survived by her siblings, Alma Hibdon, Kathy Wilson and Kelly McIntyre; her children, Jori

her care facility in Bandon.

She was especially fond of dogs which included many Smooth Fox Terriers and last, a mixed breed rescue “Rachel”.

Betty is survived by her three children, sons, Kerry (Kathy), Ron (Judy) and daughter, Peggy. Five grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her cousin, Corlyss McCullough, with whom she shared a sister-like bond.

A private service will be held at a later date. The family asks that those who knew Betty celebrate her memory over a cup of coffee, her favorite beverage. Contributions can be made to Friends of Coos County Animals Inc., (FOCCAS), PO Box 911, Coos Bay OR 97420 in her honor. The family extends its deepest gratitude to the staff at Southern Coos Hospital in Bandon. Psalm 91.

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The day belonged to the streaming services. Disney+ (“The Mandalorian”) and HBO Max (“The Flight Attendant”) both notched their first Globe nominations.

Amazon, with Regina King's “One Night in Miami,” about a meeting of four Black icons in 1964, and Steve McQueen's film anthology “Small Axe,” landed 10 total nominations — a total matched by the Disney-owned Hulu, including nods for the Catherine the Great series "The Great," with Elle Fanning, and the Andy Samberg time-warp comedy “Palm Springs.”

Apple TV+, too, scored several nods including the Jason Sudeikis series “Ted Lasso” and the Irish animated film “Wolfwalkers.”

Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — also a Netflix release, about the countercultural clash and subsequent trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention — came in second among movies with five nominations, including nods for best film, drama; best director and best screenplay for Sorkin; supporting actor for Sacha Baron Cohen; and best song.

The other nominees for best film in the drama category were Chloe Zhao’s itinerant drama “Nomadland," Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” and Florian Zeller’s dementia drama “The Father.”

Netflix doesn't report box office figures and both “Nomadland” and “The Father” are yet to open beyond a qualifying run in theaters.

So the category's total box office — a historic low of about $265,000 — is due entirely to “Promising Young Woman," Fennell's acclaimed #MeToo revenge drama.

“It’s an opportunity to shine a light on some smaller movies,” said Riz Ahmed, nominated for his performance as a heavy metal drummer losing his hearing in “Sound of Metal.” “You can always find the opportunity in the obstacle.”

A year after fielding no female nominees for best director — or a best film nomination for any movie directed by a woman — the HFPA nominated more female filmmakers than it ever has before. King, Zhao and Fennell were nominated for best director, alongside Sorkin and Fincher. Zhao is the first woman of Asian descent

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The Globes, delayed about two months due to the coronavirus, tried to muster some of the awards' usual buzz on Wednesday in a largely virtual awards season bereft the kind of red-carpet glamour the Globes annually feast on.

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By splitting up films between drama and comedy or musical, the Globes gave a boost to an awards season wildcard, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Baron Cohen's “Borat” sequel — one of the few nominees partially shot during the pandemic — was nominated for best picture, comedy or musical, best actor in a comedy for Baron Cohen and best supporting actress for Maria Bakalova.

Also nominated for best picture in the comedy or musical category were: “Palm Springs,” “The Prom," “Music” and “Hamilton.”

Chadwick Boseman was nominated posthumously his performance in George C. Wolfe's August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," as was his co-star, Viola Davis. Other acting nominees included Andra Day ("The United States vs. Billie Holiday"), Vanessa Kirby ("Pieces of a Woman"), Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”), Leslie Odom, Jr. ("One Night in Miami"), Glenn Close ("Hillbilly Elegy"); James Corden ("The Prom") and the young star of “News of the World,” Helena Zengel.

Gauging the awards prospects of most films has been difficult this winter, with none of the usual screenings and events happening in-person, and a number of the films once expected to be lead contenders postponed.

But there were still plenty of choices by the press association — an always unpredictable group of 89 voting members — that nevertheless surprised observers Wednesday.

For one: Spike Lee, whose daughter Satchel and son Jackson are Globes ambassadors this year, saw his Vietnam veteran drama “Da 5 Bloods” unexpectedly shut out.

The press association also drew much criticism for an earlier decision to consider Lee Isaac Chung’s lauded immigrant drama “Minari," about a Korean-American family in Arkansas in which the characters largely speak Korean, ineligible for its top award. The group instead nominated “Minari” for best foreign language film.

The Globes will be the first major show of Hollywood’s pandemic-altered awards season, which will end with the crowning of the best picture winner at the Oscars on April 25.

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WOMAN'S BOYFRIEND PREOCCUPIED WITH HER PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP DEAR ABBY: My sister "Darby" and I are in our 20s and confused about the relationship she is in. She's 23 and has been dating a 22-year-old man. They fight a lot because he can't stop talking about her ex-boyfriend. He says he visualizes her having sex with him, and is frustrated with himself for not being able to get the images out of his head. Is there a name for this particular problem, and how can Darby work with it? -- SUPPORTIVE SIS IN THE WEST DEAR SIS: Yes, actually, there are two names for this "condition." They are obsession and jealousy, and both are signs of potential control issues. Stay close to your sister and be there for her, because this young man's behavior is a red flag.

Darby and her boyfriend are both adults.

I assume neither came to the relationship wrapped in cellophane. His fixation should not be hers (or yours) to fix. Because he can't get the images out of his head, he should schedule a few sessions with a licensed psychotherapist, since his problem will continue the longer he is in the dating world.

DEAR ABBY: I moved in with my boyfriend six years ago. A year ago, his adult daughter decided she would have all her internet purchases sent to his home. Abby, these packages arrive every day, all week long. I'm tired of it. I think she's a spend-aholic.

I told him at the beginning of our relationship that I would never come between him and his daughter. But it has become a bit much.

She calls him for every little thing. Now she has started asking him to help with his

granddaughter's homework. I have two adult children of my own and grandchildren. Am I overreacting? I'm ready to move out and on.

-- OVER IT AND OUT DEAR OVER IT: Before moving out and on, discuss this with your boyfriend of six years. His daughter seems to be unusually dependent for an adult. Is there a reason why she's doing these things? Could she be fearful that the packages she's ordering could be stolen from her porch? Does her daughter need more help academically than she is able to provide? The answers to those questions could be enlightening. After you get those answers, there will be time to make a rational (rather than emotional) decision about the status of the relationship you have with her father.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 52-year-old single, straight male. For some reason, only men seem to be attracted to me. If I sit at a table in a restaurant or bar, a man will come over and sit next to me. If I go to the park, a man will sit next to me on the bench. Walking down the street, random men approach me. It's terrible.

I'm straight! Please help! -- UNIQUE PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA DEAR UNIQUE PROBLEM: Because you're not meeting women, try to put yourself in situations where you will meet them.

Because you are consistently approached by men and you're not interested, consider asking them if they have a female relative who's single. And when you encounter a woman you think you can click with, speak up and introduce yourself.

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Idaho Senate approves constitutional ban on legal marijuana BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Expressing firm opposition to dozens of states that have legalized marijuana in recent years, the Idaho Senate on Wednesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit the legalization of pot and other psychoactive drugs in the state.

The Republican-dominated Senate just barely mustered the twothirds needed to pass the measure with a 24-11 vote.

If the House approves the legislation with the required two-thirds majority, it would go before voters to decide in 2022, where it would need a simple majority.

Republicans have super-majorities in the two chambers. Some Republican senators said they voted in favor of the amendment to simply allow voters to decide.

“Senators, we have a duty to protect our children, our families, our communities from the scourge of drugs and the drug culture which we have seen go clear across this nation,” Republican Sen. Scott Grow said in opening the debate on the Senate floor for the legislation he sponsored.

Backers of the amendment said it’s needed because surrounding states have legalized pot and they fear that could happen in Idaho.

Senators claimed states with legalized recreational marijuana have experienced a decline in health, crime increases and huge expenses that outweigh tax revenue from marijuana.

Those opposed to the constitutional amendment said it would permanently ban medical marijuana patients with terminal illnesses or

chronic pain from getting the marijuana they need.

All seven of Idaho's Democratic state senators voted against the legislation, citing the need to keep medical options open for marijuana and new and experimental drugs that could help patients. They were joined by four Republicans who said they were troubled by altering the state's constitution, or felt banning marijuana would impinge on personal freedoms.

“Having lost three close family members in less than four years, I know what writhing in pain looks like,” Democratic Sen. Janie Ward-Engelking said. “And I know when pain becomes too intense, and all hope has fallen off the cliff, people seek a small amount of relief and a single ray of hope.

And I believe medical cannabis is a humanitarian issue, not a substance abuse issue.”

Idaho is one of only three states without some sort of policy allowing residents to possess products with even low amounts of THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. Residents can cross the state border in nearly every direction and find themselves in places where marijuana can be bought for recreational or medicinal purposes.

Lawmakers defeated attempts in recent years to legalize medical marijuana in Idaho. But support for medicinal marijuana use is growing in the state, with legalization activists trying to get an initiative on the ballot in 2022.

Thirty-six states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico

Defend or rebuke? House GOP faces difficult vote over Greene WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will be forced to go on the record, defending or rebuking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has drawn bipartisan condemnation over her embrace of far-right conspiracy theories, as well as her past endorsement of violence against Democrats.

The politically agonizing vote expected Thursday, which will determine whether the Georgia Republican is stripped of her committee assignments, underscores tension over the best political path forward that has riven the party since Donald Trump lost the White House.

Democrats issued an ultimatum earlier in the week, telling House Republicans to strip Greene of her committee assignments — or they would. Bipartisan pressure built after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Greene’s “loony lies” a “cancer” for the party.

But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Wednesday ruled out taking action. Instead, he accused Democrats of a “partisan power grab” for targeting Greene, who once suggested that a Jewish-owned financial firm may have been involved in a plot to spark California wildfires using a space laser.

“If this is not the bottom, I don’t know what the hell is,” House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said before a resolution was sent to the House floor to strip Greene of her posts.

McCarthy's decision to back Greene comes at a time when the party has been ideologically adrift after Trump's loss, struggling over whether to embrace his norm-busting divisiveness or the GOP's more traditional, policy-oriented conservative values.

On Wednesday, House Republicans blocked an effort by conservative hardliners to oust the No. 3 House Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from her leadership role. Cheney, a daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, had enraged Trump supporters by voting to impeach him over the riot

at the U.S. Capitol.

In sticking by both women, McCarthy was attempting to placate both traditional conservatives and populists, like Greene, who emulate Trump. The moves were typical of McCarthy’s preference to avoid ruffling feathers as he charts his path to someday becoming House speaker.

“You know what that’s going to mean?” he told reporters Wednesday evening. “Two years from now, we’re going to win the majority. That’s because this conference is more united. We’ve got the right leadership team behind it.”

But the GOP’s wings remain concerned that the other is leading them down the wrong path, and to some, Wednesday's outcome seemed more an uneasy truce than a full-on peace treaty.

“This is about the direction of our party and whether or not we’re going to be a majority who’s dedicated to just one person or we’re going to be a united Republican majority,” said Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler, R-Wash., who with Cheney was among just 10 House Republicans to back impeaching Trump.

Greene has shown support for calls to violence against Democrats, bizarre fictions about faked school shootings and unfounded QAnon theories about Democrats joining in child abuse rings.

The conspiracy theories she’s embraced came up during a closeddoor Republican caucus meeting on Wednesday, which attendants described as spirited with long lines of speakers at the microphones. Some said Greene apologized to her colleagues, though there were conflicting, vague versions of exactly what she’d said.

“She was contrite. And I think she brought a lot of people over to her side,” said conservative Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. That's at odds with statements she's made in recent weeks on Twitter, where she has vowed to never back down or apologize and labeled her critics traitors, while using the Democratic push to punish her to raise money for her campaign.

Democrats say it's politically advantageous to tie some Republicans to the far-right Greene. This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched a $500,000 ad campaign that attempts to link eight Republicans to her and other adherents of QAnon, which focuses on the false belief that top Democrats are involved in child sex trafficking and cannibalism.

McCarthy condemned Greene’s past endorsements of conspiracy theories — after weeks of saying little critical of her — and said the first-term congresswoman had recognized in a private conversation that she must meet “a higher standard” as a lawmaker.

“I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward,” McCarthy said.

She burst onto the national political scene with enthusiastic support from Trump.

Republicans appointed Greene to the Education and Labor Committee, a decision that drew especially harsh criticism because of her suggestions that mass school shootings in Connecticut and Florida could be hoaxes. Greene is also on the Budget Committee.

McCarthy said Democrats turned down his offer to move Greene onto the House Small Business Committee instead.

It’s unusual for party leaders to strip lawmakers of committee assignments, which can help them address their districts’ needs and raise campaign contributions.

In 2019, House GOP leaders removed Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who had a history of racist comments, from the Agriculture and Judiciary panels after he wondered aloud in a New York Times story about when the term “white supremacist” became offensive.

He lost the Republican primary for his seat in 2020 and is out of Congress after serving nine terms.

In online videos and through supportive “likes” on social media, Greene has voiced support for racist beliefs, calls for violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama and various false theories.

Biden urges lawmakers to go big on virus aid WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden encouraged Democratic lawmakers to “act fast” on his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan but also signaled he's open to changes, including limiting the proposed $1,400 direct payments to Americans with lower income levels, which could draw Republican support.

Biden told lawmakers in private comments Wednesday that he's "not married" to an absolute number for the overall package but wants them to “go big" on pandemic relief and “restore the soul of the country.”

“Look, we got a lot of people hurting in our country today,” Biden said on a private call with House Democrats.

“We need to act. We need to act fast.”

On the direct payments, Biden said he doesn’t want to budge from the $1,400 promised to Americans. But he said he is willing to “target” the aid, which would mean lowering the income threshold to qualify.

“I’m not going to start my administration by breaking a promise to the American people," he said.

Biden spoke with House Democrats and followed with a meeting of top Senate Democrats at the White House, deepening his public engagement with lawmakers on his American Rescue Plan. Together the virus and economic aid is his first legislative priority and a test of the administration’s ability to work with Congress to deliver.

Biden’s remarks to the Democratic House caucus were relayed by two people who requested anonymity to discuss the private conference call.

While Biden is trying to build bipartisan support from Republicans, he is also prepared to rely on the Democratic majority in Congress to push the package into law. Democrats moved ahead with preliminary steps, including a

House budget vote Wednesday largely along party lines, to approve it on their own, over Republicans objections.

A group of 10 Republican senators offered a $618 billion alternative with slimmer $1,000 direct payments and zero aid for states and cities, but Biden panned it as insufficient, though private talks with the Republicans continue.

At the start of his meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 10 top Senate Democratic committee chairmen in the Oval Office, Biden sounded confident he could still win over GOP support.

“I think we’ll get some Republicans,” Biden said.

With a rising virus death toll and strained economy, the goal is to have COVID-19 relief approved by March, when extra unemployment assistance and other pandemic aid measures expire. Money for vaccine distributions, direct payments to households, school reopenings and business aid are at stake.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the president fully recognizes the final package may look different than the one he initially proposed.

She said further targeting the $1,400 payments “means not the size of the check, it means the income level of the people who receive the check." That’s under discussion, she said.

As lawmakers in Congress begin drafting the details, Biden is taking care to politically back up his allies while also ensuring that the final product fulfills his promise for bold relief to a battered nation.

House Democrats were told on the call with the president that they could be flexible on some numbers and programs, but should not back down on the size or scope of the aid.

“We have to go big, not small,”

Biden told the Democrats. “I’ve got your back, and you’ve got mine."

As the White House reaches for a bipartisan bill, House and Senate Democrats have launched a lengthy budget process for approving Biden’s bill with or without Republican support.

“We want to do it bipartisan, but we must be strong,” Schumer said after the 90-minute session at the White House.

Democrats are “working with our Republican friends, when we can.”

The swift action follows Tuesday's outreach as Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joined the Democratic senators for a private virtual meeting, both declaring the Republicans' $618 billion offer was too small.

Both Biden and Yellen recalled the lessons of the government response to the 2009 financial crisis, which some have since said was inadequate as conditions worsened.

Earlier in the week, Biden met with 10 Republican senators who were pitching their $618 billion alternative, and told them he won't delay aid in hopes of winning GOP support even as talks continue.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell criticized the Democrats for pressing ahead largely on their own as the GOP senators try to provide bipartisan alternatives.

“They’ve chosen a totally partisan path,” McConnell said. “That’s unfortunate.”

The two sides are far apart. The cornerstone of the GOP plan is $160 billion for the health care response — vaccine distribution, a “massive expansion” of testing, protective gear and money for rural hospitals, similar to what Biden has proposed for aid specific to the pandemic.

But from there, the two plans drastically diverge.

and the U.S. Virgin Islands have approved comprehensive, publicly available medical marijuana programs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Fifteen states and three territories have legalized recreational marijuana.

Neighboring Idaho states of Washington, Oregon, Montana and Nevada have legalized recreational and medical marijuana, while Utah allows medical marijuana. Oregon decriminalized the personal possession of drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine last November. Wyoming allows CBD products containing less than .3% of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

CBD products can be purchased in Idaho, but they must contain no THC.

Amazon CEO Bezos may step down but avoid stepping away Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will likely keep identifying new frontiers for the world's dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail Amazon's power.

Tuesday's announcement that Bezos will hand off the CEO job this summer came as a surprise. But it doesn't mean Amazon is losing the visionary who turned an online bookstore founded in 1995 into a behemoth worth $1.7 trillion that sometimes seems to do a little bit of everything.

Bezos, 57, has never let Amazon rest on its laurels. In the last year alone, it bought a company developing self-driving taxis; launched an online pharmacy selling inhalers and insulin; and won government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into space to beam internet service to Earth.

Long-time Amazon executive Andy Jassy will be the new CEO, but Bezos will be the company's executive chairman — corporatespeak for board leaders who, unlike most, stay involved in key operational decisions. Think Robert Iger at Disney, Howard Schultz at Starbucks, or Eric Schmidt at Google after handing off the reins a decade ago.

“Jeff Bezos has held a firm grip on the company for a long time,” said Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics LLC, a retail research firm. “I have to believe he will have a say in what is going on and have a big hand in big picture decisions.”

Amazon's chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, made the move sound like a mere shuffling of chairs.

“It’s more of a restructuring of who’s doing what,” he said during a Tuesday call with reporters.

Investors didn't flinch upon after hearing about Amazon's forthcoming change in command, and instead appear to be more focused the company's blockbuster earnings, which it also announced Tuesday. After see-sawing back and forth Wednesday, Amazon's stock price wound up declining 2% to close at $3,312.53 — not the type of drop that occurs when Wall Street is worried about a management shake-up.

“I don’t think he’s going to be completely hands off," CFRA analyst Tuna Amobi said of Bezos.

In a blog post, Bezos said the CEO job had pulled him away from exploring new ideas and initiatives that could yield growth opportunities. He now intends to focus more on such innovation, along with other ventures, such as his rocket ship company Blue Origin and his newspaper, The Washington Post.

“Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming," Bezos wrote. “When you have a responsibility like that, it’s hard to put attention on anything else."

The shift will saddle Jassy with some of the responsibilities that Bezos clearly

didn't enjoy. Perhaps the most daunting is the increasing scrutiny of Amazon's clout in an online shopping market that has become even more essential to consumers during the past year's pandemic.

The U.S. government already has slapped two other technology powerhouses, Google and Facebook, with antitrust lawsuits. Both regulators and lawmakers have left little doubt that they are taking a hard look at whether similar action is warranted against Amazon and Apple.

European regulators, meanwhile, are taking on Amazon in an antitrust case filed late last year. They accuse the company of mining the data of merchants selling products on its site to gain an unfair advantage over them.

Jassy will likely have to ward off the antitrust threat while also trying to forge his own legacy. A revered company founder can cast a long shadow.

“Amazon’s size makes some industries uncomfortable, some governments uncomfortable and Andy Jassy will have to deal with the consequences,” Gartner analyst Ed Anderson said.

“That will be some of the new era of his leadership.”

Jassy, 53, also may face pressure from critics who believe Amazon's success has been built in part by mistreating many of its 1.3 million employees, especially those in the distribution warehouses and delivery trucks who are paid far less than the tech engineers while also facing more hazardous conditions.

“Jeff Bezos’ departure as CEO is a chance for Amazon to turn over a new leaf," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, an activist group in Washington. “It should start by paying all its workers a living wage and ensuring they have safe and healthy working conditions."

If Jassy needs a shoulder to lean on, Bezos will likely be there for him, predicted Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University professor who has closely studied management succession issues. He expects Bezos to orchestrate a “gradual transfer of power with continuity of command and partnership."

Analysts said Bezos appears to have picked a successor who's up for the challenge. Sonnenfeld said he believes the choice may have been made last summer, resulting in the departure of another trusted lieutenant, Jeff Wilke, who had also been widely viewed as a candidate to become Amazon's next CEO. Jassy is highly respected for building up Amazon's web services division, which runs many of the world's biggest websites. Earnings from that cloud-computing service also helped subsidize the company's online shopping operations as it cut prices so low that it lost money for many years.

“He’s proven himself in building the most profitable part of the company,” Amobi said. “His challenge is translating that to the broader e-commerce platform.”

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Lawmakers call for investigation Senators propose into removal of owl protections newprotectionsfor PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Eight Democratic lawmakers called Tuesday for an investigation into “potential scientific meddling” by the Trump administration in its rule to remove critical habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.

The group of federal lawmakers, led

by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, says former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt “appeared to unilaterally act” on his way out of office to remove millions of acres of protected habitat designated for the owl.

“In less than two brief years under David Bernhardt’s leadership, the department has been mired in one ethical scandal after another," the lawmakers said in a letter to Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt seeking a review.

“Bernhardt and his loyalists have demonstrated a willingness to insert themselves into the scientific process in order to achieve preferred policy outcomes, withhold information from the public, and even mislead Congress,” the letter said.

In mid-January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under then-President Donald Trump announced it would

remove 3.4 million acres (1.4 million hectares) in Oregon, Washington state and Northern California from federal protections.

The lawmakers called that decision “as bewildering as it is damaging.” Fish and Wildlife, which is overseen by the Interior Department, didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the letter.

Environmentalists accused Fish and Wildlife of taking a parting shot at protections designed to help restore the owl in favor of the timber industry. The tiny owl is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and was rejected for an upgrade to endangered status last year by the agency despite losing nearly 4% of its population annually.

Timber groups applauded the decision. Loss of the ability to log in areas protected for the spotted owl has devastated rural communities, experts say.

“While the Biden administration has taken actions to mitigate the effects of this rule, we ask that you quickly review this decision and to determine whether USFWS contradicted or ignored scientific recommendations made by career staff,” lawmakers wrote to the inspector general.

The northern spotted owl, which prefers to nest in old-growth forests,

received federal protections in 1990 — a listing that dramatically redrew the economic landscape for the Pacific Northwest timber industry and launched a decadeslong battle between environmentalists and loggers. Old-growth Douglas firs, many 100 to 200 years old, that are preferred by the owl are also of great value to loggers.

After the owl got protections, U.S. officials halted logging on millions of acres of old-growth forests on federal lands to protect the bird’s habitat. But the population kept declining. It faces another threat: competition from the barred owl.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has since said the northern spotted owl warrants the more robust “endangered” status because of continued population declines but refused to grant it last year, saying other species took higher priority.

Joining Wyden in the request for an inspector general’s review were U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Maria Cantwell of Washington and Patty Murray of Washington as well as U.S. Reps. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Huffman of California.

Punxsutawney Phil predicts extended winter PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow on a snowy Tuesday morning to perform his Groundhog Day duties.

Members of Phil's “inner circle” woke up the furry critter at 7:25 a.m. at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see whether he would see his shadow or not.

Shortly after this year's prediction was revealed, one of the members of the circle

shared a message he said Phil had told him earlier in the day: “After winter, you’re looking forward to one of the most beautiful and brightest springs you’ve ever seen.”

The spectacle that is Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney still went on, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, revelers weren’t able to see Phil and celebrate in person: This year, it was all virtual.

After the inner circle delivered the news, they hung around to take selfies and photographs of themselves with Phil against the

fresh blanket of snow. One hundred and fifty cardboard cutouts purchased by fans and featuring photos of them in groundhog gear or with their pets dotted the hillside.

With few media outlets in attendance, Phil was able to avoid the usual throng of interviews and appearances.

The quiet stood out during the pandemic-altered event.

“People have been referencing Groundhog Day. It has felt like at times we're all living the same day over and over again,” one of the inner circle members said.

“Groundhog Day also shows us that the monotony ends.

The cycle will be broken.”

“Today actually is Groundhog Day, there's only one,” he added. “There is quite literally a new day coming over the horizon.”

The annual event has its origin in a German legend about a furry rodent. Records dating to the late 1800s show Phil has predicted longer winters more than 100 times.

The 2020 forecast called for an early spring — however, Phil didn't say anything about a pandemic.

be offered a vaccine as part of phase 1A, group 2, of Oregon’s COVID-19 vaccination plan — putting prison inmates in the same category as people living in nursing homes and other congregate care settings.

The order should make prisoners eligible for vaccines now, but it’s not clear if they’ll move ahead of teachers or the elderly. But

given that the Oregon Health Authority dictates where vaccines are shipped, the state has the ability to redirect doses for prisons.

“This will save an incredible amount of lives,” said Juan Chavez, an Oregon Justice Resource Center attorney who is representing a group of seven inmates.

The order will allow adults in custody to “stand in the

PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s U.S. senators have proposed a conservation package that would protect thousands of miles of the state’s rivers from development.

Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley on Wednesday announced the River Democracy Act of 2021, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. It would add nearly 4,700 miles (7,564 kilometers) of Oregon rivers and streams to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system.

The bill would almost triple the number of river miles with Wild and Scenic protections in Oregon and includes waterways in most of the state. It would also expand the amount of land protected in Wild and Scenic River corridors from a quarter-mile on both sides of the river to a half-mile.

It amounts to one of the biggest public lands conservation proposals in state history.

“I was completely blown away by the number of miles included,” said Gena Goodman-Campbell,

who directs the stewardship program for the Oregon Natural Desert Association.

The bill aims to boost recreation, protect water quality and wildlife, safeguard cultural resources and foods, and mitigate wildfire risk. It comes following a public process spanning years in which Oregonians nominated waters for protection.

“Oregonians made it loud and clear: they cherish Oregon’s rivers and want them protected for generations to come,” Wyden said in a press release. “More protected rivers and clear management objectives means more jobs, improved wildfire resiliency and a guarantee for the livability of Oregon.”

The senators’ proposal drew praise from conservationists, outdoor recreationists, public officials and others.

Congress approved the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968.

The law outlines three designations for protection — wild, scenic and recreational.

Springfieldrestaurantfined for COVID-19 violations

SALEM (AP) — Oregon Occupational Safety and Health has fined a Springfield restaurant $9,215 for two COVID-19-related violations.

OSHA issued the fine to Along Came Trudy following weeks of the business remaining open against statewide rules, KEZI-TV reported.

Multiple complaints about same line” as others in conthe restaurant were reportedly gregate living facilities with made to the agency. a high risk of COVID-19 State officials say the fine infection, Chavez said. was issued following an inspecIn her ruling, U.S. Magtion in December. By allowing istrate Judge Stacie Beckerman noted state officials had indoor dining, OSHA said the prioritized residents of other restaurant willfully disregarded types of congregate care set- the ban on indoor dining in tings, such as nursing homes, extreme risk areas like Lane but bypassed inmates, despite County. The second violation regards a failure to make sure widespread COVID-19 outcustomers inside the restaurant breaks in the state’s prisons.

Judge orders Oregon to prioritize prisoners for vaccine PORTLAND (AP) — A judge has ordered all inmates in the Oregon prison system to be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations — a move that should make prisoners immediately eligible for inoculation.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the preliminary injunction issued Tuesday orders all Oregon Department of Corrections inmates

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wear a face covering.

OSHA said armed people outside the business threatened regulatory agencies and their staff members.

“It is our expectation that employers comply with public health measures that we know are effective at decreasing the risks to workers and reducing the spread of this disease. And we have been able to resolve most concerns about COVID-19 and the workplace constructively and without formal enforcement visits,” said Michael Wood, administrator for Oregon OSHA. “However, as this case demonstrates, we will continue to carry out enforcement actions where appropriate and particularly where employers knowingly disregard standards.”

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Council votes to send local option tax back to voters in May for third 10-year period Bandon Western World

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Freshman Makiah Vierck takes a 3-pointer during a drill in a workout this week. Vierck is one of nine Tigers who made the 10,000-shot Club during the offseason.

Tigers strive for success in offseason JOHN GUNTHER

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BANDON — A year ago, Bandon’s girls basketball team was making a historic run to the Sunset Conference title and an eventual third-place finish in the Class 2A state tournament.

The Tigers would love to be making a similar run now, with intense and fun practices leading to success in games. Instead, Tuesday afternoon saw five players working on drills with coach Jordan Sammons.

It’s not ideal by any means.

But to the players, it’s better than nothing.

“You’ve got to look for the positives — being able to do stuff like this,” said Kennedy Turner, one of three seniors on the squad.

“It helps a lot,” added Sterling Williams, another one of the seniors. “It definitely doesn’t make me as down about missing basketball.”

Under the current plans for the Oregon School Activities Association, the basketball season will be the last sports season of the year, starting in May and running through the end of June.

While the delay is frustrating for the players and coaches, it hasn’t tampered what has become a tradition of offseason dedication for the players.

The five players at Tuesday’s workout — seniors Turner, Williams and Lizzy Gallagher and freshmen Makiah Vierck and Katelyn Senn — all have met a milestone that is one of Sammons’ hallmarks of individual success — the 10,000-shot club.

“You want to set a goal for yourself,” Gallagher said. “The people in it are really dedicated.”

Sammons said nine players, a new team best, reached the club this year, which requires taking 10,000 shots during the offseason.

Council seeks to fill new vacancy Interested citizens have Feb. 19 deadline to submit applications Bandon coach Jordan Sammons instructs players on a drill during a workout this week. The players credit Sammons for helping the team reach new heights of success because of his dedication to the team.

Williams made it into the club for the second time and said it makes a difference.

“I was definitely a lot better in my shot,” she said. “It’s a big deal.”

Unfortunately for the Tigers, practice time has been limited in recent weeks, as Coos County bounced back and forth from highrisk to extreme-risk for COVID-19.

New rules have allowed the Tigers to get back into the gym in limited numbers even though the county’s number of cases continue to rise. The basketball team and volleyball team are sharing gym time.

Tuesday was the first workout in two weeks, and the players could tell the difference immediately.

“If I’m off a few weeks, I come in and I’m missing layups,” Turner said.

Others have the same experience, but their touch comes back quickly.

Sammons said that’s because of all the offseason work.

“Our three seniors and the majority of the freshmen are trying to get in the gym any chance they get,” he said. “And they are getting better.

It’s been fun to see.

“We know we’re making lasting progress. The improvements they make are still there (after a few weeks off). It’s fun to see their improvements are consistent.”

For the seniors, seeing the commitment from the younger players is exciting.

“It’s really cool to see a small school, we have over 30 girls coming out and wanting to get better,” Williams said.

Turner knows how far Bandon has come from the four-win season

when she was a freshman.

“Bandon has had a hard time building (a winning tradition),” she said. “It’s good to see a handful of freshmen learning what they can from the seniors and taking that feeling so they can be leaders in a year or two.”

The players give much of the credit for the team’s success to Sammons.

“He does a very good job directing us and telling us what we need to do,” Williams said. “He’s very dedicated to helping us get better.”

“If he wasn’t so committed, I wouldn’t be either,” Gallagher said.

After the Tigers’ great finish last year, Gallagher was excited for this season. But not just because of the team’s success.

Allred brings dermatology services to Southern Coos Hospital clinic Bandon Western World Jennifer Allred, DC-NP, of South Coast Dermatology, in Coos Bay, will offer dermatological services in Bandon once a month at the Southern Coos Hospital Multi-Specialty Clinic. Her first session in Bandon was Jan. 20.

Allred is an experienced practi-

The Bandon City Council is asking voters to renew the city’s local option tax for streets and pedestrian facilities.

The city council voted this week to ask residents to impose a local option tax at a rate of 84.55 cents per thousand. As with the previous two local tax options, it would extend 10 years, beginning with the fiscal year 2021-22.

The tax would pay for street and pedestrian capital projects.

Voters first approved the local option tax in 2001 and renewed it in 2011.

Through the years, the local option tax has led to paving of Bandon’s gravel streets and provides continued capital maintenance of the road and pedestrian system each year.

The tax is estimated to raise almost $4.3 million over 10 years.

Voters will decide on the matter during the May 18 election.

tioner and provider of healthcare.

She has over 29 years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner, with 22 of those years in Primary Care and General Medicine. She has practiced for 7 years in Dermatology.

Allred received her M.S., ANP from Oregon Health & Science University, as well as an M.S.,

PMHNP from the University of Alaska.

Anyone wishing to make appointments to see Allred in her Bandon clinic should call her office at 541-264-5228 or go to the South Coast Dermatology website at southcoastdermatologyllc.com/ appointment.

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Bandon Western World The City of Bandon is taking applications to fill a vacant seat on the Bandon City Council.

Newly elected Patrick Salandro, who was sworn in Jan. 4, resigned his seat last week (read more in Mary Schamehorn’s As I See It column on page 8).

The city council will appoint a replacement, who will serve through the November 2024 general election.

The vacancy was announced this week and people have until 4 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 19, to turn in applications to City Recorder Denise Russell.

The council will conduct interviews at its meeting on Monday, March 1, and may appoint the new councilor that night.

Applicants must complete an application, as well as answer supplemental questions and submit a resume and letter of interest to Russell by email at drussell@ cityofbandon.org. They also can be mailed to City Recorder, City of Bandon, PO Box 67, Bandon, OR, 97411.

Applications received after 4 p.m. on Feb. 19 or incomplete applications without a cover letter or resume will not be accepted.

Additional written information will not be accepted unless requested by the city council.

For eligibility requirements, public disclosure or other details, visit www.cityofbandon.org and click on the link on the home page.

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The Windermere Hotel

By Mary Schamehorn The first picture I am sharing this week was taken in May of 1937, and was on the front page of the Western World heralding the opening of the "newest in English type beach cottages, especially designed to blend into Bandon's rugged coast line, characteristic of New Bandon."

The article was talking about Windermere.

Bear in mind this was less than eight months after the Bandon Fire had virtually wiped out Bandon.

Here's what the article had to say about this wonderful new development, which stands today as one of the oldest and certainly most popular beach motels on the coast.

"Characteristic of a new type of construction that may be employed in the building of a new Bandon, Windermere is a recently completed group of modern beach cottages, owned by J.F.T. Kirkup, and situated along the ocean bluff at the Westmost Golf Course."

Actually the development was across Beach Loop Road from the golf course, much of which today is the Inn at Face Rock.

"While the new cottage group is not within the city limits, it is pointed out as a most desirable English-type architecture that lends itself in wide variations, and that could readily be adapted to New Bandon as it combines beauty with economy. It has all the convenience and durability necessary, is built of local materials, and the construction is not of an expensive type."

Today, Windermere is inside the city limits, which had been extended southward over the years.

"Mr. Kirkup began breaking ground for Windermere last September, just before the big fire. He owns about six acres along the ocean bluff with 1,000 feet of beach frontage. His building plans include six units, of which four, shown in the picture above, are completed. They are at present occupied by Bandon families who lost their homes to the fire.

"Each unit has three apartments, so arranged that all are convenient and every bit of space is utilized to advantage. They were planned by Mr. Kirkup with assistance in designing by the builders John Dornath & Sons."

Dornath, a long-time resident of Bandon, was best known as the builder of the Natureland resort, a mile or so south of Windermere, which survived the fire. All that remains of Natureland today is the original house.

At its peak it was a masterpiece of whimsical design, complete with a functioning windmill and surrounded by small cabins.

The article about Windermere went on to say that "a central hot water plant and a private, electrically operated and controlled water system, have been installed, also a central plant to supply gas for cooking. The apartments are heated with individual oil heaters.

"Nearly every dollar that went into the construction was spent locally. The plumbing, including the hot water plant, was installed by the McNair Hardware Co., who also furnished builders hardware. The lumber and other materials were furnished by the Coast Lumber Yard, and the interior finish and mill work by the Acme Planing Mill.

In an editorial in the same issue of the paper, my grandfather (the editor and publisher) commented on the structure. "We think it a decidedly beautiful group of cottages, an addition to Bandon Beach of which the entire Oregon coast may be proud. We like to point to it as characteristic of what we hope New Bandon will be.

Windermere is of an English, steep-roofed architectural style. It is unusually fitting to local climatic conditions and its general design seems to blend admirably into the natural landscape of this section.

"It is not for us to decide what the architecture of New

Photos from the Mary Schamehorn Collection

The Windermere cottages as featured in the Western Wrold in May of 1937.

Bandon is to be, but we take the liberty to suggest that some distinctive type be chosen and that all the buildings to be erected in the new restricted area be built along such definite lines."

The second picture was taken sometime in the early 1900s of the Grace Dollar, which warranted a front page article in the Bandon Recorder Feb. 28, 1913, as anticipation mounted for the arrival of the new ship. It is shown parked at the dock along First Street in front of one of the Bandon Woolen Mills.

"The new Grace Dollar, the big lumber carrier that is to make this port regularly from now on, left San Pedro for Bandon yesterday (which would have been a Thursday) and will probably arrive about Sunday.

"The Grace Dollar is the biggest boat that has ever come into this river and will carry a cargo of 800,000 feet of lumber, with a 12 foot draught and with a full cargo will carry 1,200,000 feet.

"The coming of the Speedwell and the Grace Dollar is marking a new era in the history of this port, and it will not be many years before much larger vessels will be coming here with ease.

"All we need is a little deeper water on the bar, and this can easily be secured by the forming of a port commission and then doing systemic work."

The Recorder often carried articles in those days urging the formation of a lower river port commission, which today we know as the Port of Bandon.

The third photo, probably taken sometime in the '60s, features Bandon School District Superintendent Roland "Rollie" Parks, at right, and long-time BHS principal Alvin "Swede" Mullikin, at left. Not sure what they are doing, but for certain it was some kind of a photo op for a picture undoubtedly taken by me.

Mullikin came to Bandon in 1956, and left around the mid-'60s to take a job in the Albany School District.

Parks, who had served nine years as principal of Ashland high School, also arrived in the district in 1956 (my junior year in high school) and retired in June of 1971.

He was followed by Otis K. Murray, who served four years before tragically dying of a heart attack in 1975, only months after an arsonist destroyed our high school. *** Bandon's newest city councilor, Patrick Salandro, who was sworn in at the Jan.

The Grace Dollar visits Bandon in the early 1900s.

4 council meeting, via zoom, has resigned.

Last Monday morning, Salandro sent an email to City Manager Dan Chandler and copied the councilors, saying: "It is with much regret that I am officially resigning my elected position of City Councilor effective immediately. Personal family matters have recently arisen that makes my resignation necessary. I am sorry to have to resign before I ever really had the chance to get started."

To say that we were stunned is an understatement.

Patrick had already talked with me and several of the councilors about his ideas for the town, particularly when it came to Urban Renewal dollars.

I have no idea why he resigned, but I do know that he apparently still substitutes for the Bandon School District as last week he received the Covid-19 vaccine, posting a picture of himself getting the vaccine on his Facebook page.

People interested in filling the vacancy can contact city hall (541-347-2437) to obtain an application, or they can find one on the city's website.

It is necessary that a person have lived inside the city limits for at least a year. *** Governor Brown's statement last week that the state would no longer provide information about each Covid-19 death apparently generated a lot of push back and controversy, and she has now reversed that decision, which is wise.

According to the Oregonian, Brown's "turnaround came less than 48 hours after the Oregon Health Authority discontinued sharing specifics of each death and less than 24 hours after Brown's

spokesman defended the agency's decision.

"Brown ordered the OHA to publish full death details weekly rather than daily, as the agency had done for 10 months. But state health officials said they'll resume daily reporting next week.

"But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle disliked the change. Senate and House Republicans excoriated Oregon's Democratic governor, questioning if it was a cover-up linked to Brown's decision to prioritize vaccinations for teachers ahead of vulnerable Bandon School District Superintendent Roland "Rollie" Parks, at right, and long-time seniors, whose deaths BHS principal Alvin "Swede" Mullikin in the 1960s. would no longer be as simple to track." whose vulnerability merits nians. She should not sell out *** prioritization, the die has younger Oregonians as well."

Brown's decision to vacci- been cast. We also believe Bear in mind that this did nate teachers ahead of senior schools can reopen safely not appear in the conservacitizens flies in the face of even without vaccines, as the tive Wall Street Journal. This recommendations by the CDC reaffirmed last week, was written by the Oregonian Center for Disease Control, but recognize the political editorial staff, regarded by since the greatest majority necessity of vaccinations to many as liberal. of deaths are attributed to get schools open.

I wholeheartedly agree people 65 and older, and that "But Brown has taken a with their position. same holds true in Oregon. hands-off approach to the *** That age group accounts for brewing conflicts between On the subject of vaccines, more than 80 percent of the school districts and their KEZI, on its 11 o'clock state's Covid-related deaths. teachers unions, who are nightly news lets viewers An editorial in Sunday's balking at returning to the know how many vaccines Oregonian was titled "Vacclassroom even with vachave been administered in cines must lead to schools cines. the counties in their viewing reopening."

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NBA has week with no positive tests TIM REYNOLDS

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No additional NBA players have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week, the league said Wednesday, after nearly two dozen games had to be called off in the past month because of virus-related issues.

That continued a good two-week trend: After 27 players were positive in results released between Jan. 6 John Gunther, Bandon Western World and Jan. 19, only one player Lizzy Gallagher takes a shot during a workout this week. Gallagher is one of three seniors who are team leaders for the Tigers this year. has been positive since.

“Baby steps,” Washingteam.” love hanging out with our “If we have a season, we ton coach Scott Brooks said She has been looking forteammates,” Gallagher said. want it to be the best season,” after the league announced ward to that team atmosphere And if there is a season, he said.

Wednesday’s weekly number From A8 again. the Tigers are optimistic.

The seniors are trying to of zero. “We want the world For now, the players have “I’m definitely excited,” finish with a great season.

“Last year was our great to not test positive for a hope that there will be a seaWilliams said. “Me and The younger players are try- week. That’s what’s we need. year,” she said, explaining son, which is driving them to Kennedy have talked about ing to improve for the future. We all need it, not just NBA that it didn’t matter if the keep working hard. Though it a lot. We have new girls “Everything we have done, players, coaches, families. players were on the court or it’s more joy than work. coming in. We will definitely it’s bettering the team,” he on the bench.

The planet needs it.”

“Even if there is no seabe pretty good.” said. “It’s the ‘we before me’ “There was a great support The NBA has called off 23 son, we are here because we Sammons agreed. culture.” system. It was just a great games this season for virus issues, 22 since Jan. 10. But starting with the games on Jan. 26, the league has been able to play 68 of its last 70 “We were not trending in Metropolitan Riveters citing nated floors,” she said. “They games. All 10 of Wednesday's Associated Press the right direction,” interim “several” virus cases. Tumwere restricted in the sense games started as scheduled. commissioner Tyler Tummin- minia said the team had 10, that they went from their The National Women’s Teams are still dealing ia said of more test results which was over the threshold rooms to the rink, rink to the with strict rules to keep the Hockey League called off coming in Tuesday night. for disqualifying a team. room. That is the technical the remainder of its season “Our actual numbers per se The Connecticut Whale's term of what this bubble was.

Wednesday on the eve of the were not alarming in comdeparture was a choice made That’s how we defined it.” playoffs because of additionparison to the scope of other at the team level. Tumminia The NWHL had an al positive test results for the sports clubs or other sports said the NWHL would not dis- agreement with Yale Univercoronavirus. leagues. However, if you close how many total positive sity to provide saliva-based The NWHL cited safety project a number that was tests it had in what she called COVID-19 testing for playconcerns for what it called PORTLAND (AP) — going to happen, it doesn’t a “restrictive access environers and staff, similar to what the suspension of play inside Soccer Hall of Famer Tiffeny make sense for us." ment” that did not hold up like the NBA used for its Disney a quarantined bubble in Lake Milbrett is returning to the Two of the league’s six other pro sports bubbles.

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There have been some mild adjustments to tougher rules regarding travel that went into place last month, but most of the additional protocols remain in effect.

“You have to hope and then you have to back it up with diligent action,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

“It’s not as if everybody in this association loves getting these memos and new guidelines that we have to adhere to, but look, we want this profession and this industry to keep going without games being delayed. And so, we have to change our behavior.

In some instances it’s requiring everybody to be more diligent and hold everybody accountable.”

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Baseball work stoppage in 2022 increasingly likely NEW YORK (AP) — A work stoppage at the start of spring training 2022 seems increasingly likely after baseball players refused to negotiate with owners over a one-month delay for this spring training and regular season.

The breakdown Monday came after the sides were unable to reach a deal last June over the start of the pandemic-shortened 2021 season, although they did work out an opening-day agreement for expanded 2020 playoffs.

With the collective bargaining agreement set to expire Dec. 1, it is not hard to envision management instituting a lockout for baseball's first work stoppage since the 7 1/2-month strike that wiped out the 1994 World Series.

“I hope we don't have a work stoppage. I hope we are able to play,” All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado said Tuesday during his introductory news conference following his trade to St. Louis from Colorado. “I think both sides want to play, and especially with this 2020 season and it got delayed and all the things that are going on in the country, it probably wouldn't be very good if we had a stoppage.”

Baseball had five strikes and three lockouts from 1972-95, losing 86 regular-season games at the start of the 1972 season, 713

during midseason in 1981 and 669 games during the final two months of 1994, a stoppage that cut 1995 schedules from 162 games per team to 144.

Whatever ability to work together that developed after the last stoppage has dissipated, largely because union head Tony Clark, his staff and players believe economics have tilted toward owners and clubs during the labor contracts agreed to in 2011 and 2016.

Those agreements saw luxury tax rates increase and restraints imposed on signing bonuses for amateurs, while among the objectives players gained included increases in minimum salaries, earlier offseason deadlines, a decease in team compensation for the loss of free agents and clubs assuming the cost of clubhouse food spreads.

Players have seethed in recent years over the way teams have delayed callups of rookie stars to delay eligibility for free agency and sometimes salary arbitration, while teams say it is their right to determine when players are ready for the major leagues.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred claims teams combined to lose $2.7 billion to $3 billion during the pandemic. Payrolls even before last year's regular-season without fans stayed in a historic narrow range of $4.24 billion in 2017, $4.23

Orioles agree to sign King Felix to minor league deal BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have agreed to sign veteran right-hander Félix Hernández to a minor league contract.

Hernández won an AL Cy Young Award, two ERA titles and made six All-Star teams over 15 seasons with Seattle before becoming a free agent last offseason.

The 34-year-old signed a minor league deal with Atlanta and looked sharp during spring training, but ultimately opted out of the pandemic-shortened 60game season.

In his last big league action, Hernández went 1-8 with a 6.40 ERA in billion in 2018 and $4.22 billion in 2019, then dropped to $1.75 billion last year, when players received 37% of salaries due to the 60-game schedule.

Players view club largescale rebuilding as tanking.

Both sides are troubled by regular-season attendance that dropped from 73.76 million in 2016 to 68.49 million in 2019.

Scott Boras, who negotiated more than $1.2 billion in contracts during the 2019-20

2019. He hasn't finished with an ERA under 4.00 since 2016, and his last All-Star appearance was in 2015. He has won 169 games and owns a 3.42 career ERA. Hernández could earn a rotation spot with the rebuilding Orioles, who have 2019 All-Star left-hander John Means locked in as a starter but not much else.

They traded Alex Cobb to the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday, leaving Keegan Akin, Dean Kremer, Jorge López, Wade LeBlanc, Thomas Eshelman and Bruce Zimmermann as the only returning players to start at least one game in 2020. offseason, says the losses will contribute toward an agreement next offseason. Boras is the sport's most influential agent, with clients Zack Britton, Gerrit Cole, James Paxton and Max Scherzer filling four of the eight seats on the union's executive subcommittee, which also includes Jason Castro, Francisco Lindor, Andrew Miller and Marcus Semien.

“We’ve had an interruption in our sport which was unforeseen and lengthy and

when you look back at our bargaining history, there’s not been an interruption of that length in modern time," Boras said. "And for those reasons, I think the clarity of each side’s advances is something that is going to be measured within the framework of the recent influence of the pandemic on baseball.”

Manfred declined comment. Clark said in an email he was not more worried about a work stoppage because of the current state of relations and that player anger at club behavior did not frame the relationship.

“In every discussion we have, we are focused on reaching a fair and equitable deal,” he wrote.

Even before the pandemic, the players' association increased U.S, Treasury securities and investments to $134.95 million as Dec. 31, 2019, up from $83.62 million a year earlier, according to a federal filing, largely a retention of member revenue typical in the leadup to collective bargaining.

Since the last baseball work stoppage, the NFL had a preseason lockout in 2011, and the NBA had lockouts that cut 1998-99 to 50 games per team and 2011-12 to 66 games per team. In the NHL, lockouts wiped out the entire 2004-05 season and reduced both 1994-95 and 2012-13 to 48 games per team.

Publicly, baseball players and owners say they have to

work together.

“It's incumbent upon both parties to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, and I know both parties will make every effort to do that,” Cardinals CEO Bill DeWitt Jr. said. “I don’t want to get too deep into vetting too the issues and all the things that are important to both sides.

Historically MLB and the players' association have avoided work stoppages for a long, long time, longer than any other professional sport.

So let’s hope that that continues through next year.”

Speaking on KFNS radio last June 9 during bitter negotiations between MLB and the union, DeWitt made a comment that revealed the wariness.

“They have by far, by far the best deal of any players in any sport,” he said of the cap-free system, “and that's why you see the other sports coming back pretty quickly because they’re aligned with the players. They've got — the more revenue, the more the players get based on a formula. We don’t have that in baseball.”

“The players have always fought for whatever they can get in individual negotiations, and it’s been to their benefit. The industry isn’t very profitable, to be quite honest, and I think they understand that. But they think the owners are hiding profits, this and that, and there’s been a little bit of a distrust there,”

Ducks have Pac-12's top recruiting class for third straight year JOHN MARSHALL Associated Press

Oregon was among the top recruiting programs under the previous two coaches, consistently pulling in classes among the top half of the Pac-12 Conference.

The Ducks have become No. 1 under Mario Cristobal.

Highlighted by 19 fourstar recruits, Oregon has landed the Pac-12's top recruiting class for the third straight year, finishing just ahead of Southern California in the 247 Sports composite.

“It's widely regarded as the best class in our history,” Cristobal said Wednesday.

“We’ll find out on the field and when it all plays out. For the third consecutive year having the best class in the Pac-12 Conference is great because we like to have those consecutive type of accomplishments.”

USC had been the Pac-12 recruiting king before Cris-

tobal's arrival, consistently landing the conference's top classes.

Oregon was second to USC in Cristobal's first full season — he was interim coach for one game in 2017 — and passed the Trojans with a class that was No. 7 nationally in 2019. The Ducks were No. 11 nationally last year and this year's class is No. 6, two ahead of USC. Oregon didn't have a five-star recruit in this year's class, but signed the No. 1 recruit from Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and New York. It also has the nation's top receiver and tight end recruiting classes.

The class is highlighted by offensive tackle Kingsley Suamataia of Orem, Utah, and pro-style quarterback Ty Thompson of Gilbert, Arizona.

The Ducks already have 13 players on campus and are

expecting another to arrive by spring as they try to win a third straight Pac-12 championship.

“It's awesome to see the hard work is validated and passing the accomplishments of past recruiting classes, regardless of departures or new arrivals,” Cristobal said. “We've just got to keep going on and on and getting stronger.”

USC REBOUNDS USC fell off last year, finishing 64th nationally after several top targets chose to sign with other schools at the last minute.

The Trojans bounced back this year after coach Clay Helton's fifth full season, landing a class that is No. 8 nationally. The class includes five-star defensive end Korey Foreman of Corona, California, and includes 14 four-star recruits.

The Trojans got a big boost when four-star line-

backer Raesjon Davis picked USC over Ohio State, LSU and Oregon.

“We basically made a commitment to duct-tape the phones and the iPads to our heads, and really dive into relationships with these families,” Helton said.

The Trojans had some big holes to fill after losing seven players to the NFL draft following a truncated 5-1 season.

Foreman was the big get.

The 6-foot-4, 265-pound pass-rushing specialist was rated as the No. 1 overall national recruit, according to 247 Sports, and gave the Trojans a huge boost when he announced his commitment during the telecast of the All-American Bowl on Jan. 2.

“When the No. 1 player in the country says, ‘Hey, I want to be a part of that,’ it helps with other guys,” Helton said.

Brady joins exclusive club with 10th title game JOSH DUBOW

Associated Press

A 10th trip to the Super Bowl puts Tom Brady in some exclusive company across sports.

Brady’s 10th trip to the title round comes a few months after LeBron James did the same in the NBA Finals, making them the only players in the four major North American sports leagues to do that in more than 30 years.

Brady and James are the first players to make it to the title round for a 10th time since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it in his final season in the NBA in 1989.

In all, 24 players have done that in any of the leagues, according to research from SportRadar, with most of them having been part of dynasties with the Boston Celtics, New York Yankees or Montreal Canadiens.

Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra has the most championship round appearances getting there 14 times in his 18 seasons with the Yankees.

Berra’s former teammate, Mickey Mantle, Celtics legend Bill Russell, and hockey stars Jean Beliveau, Red Kelly, Henri Richard and Maurice Richard are next with 12 apiece.

They are followed by Sam Jones

(NBA), Whitey Ford (MLB), Doug Harvey (NHL), Bert Olmstead (NHL) and Jean-Guy Talbot (NHL).

The three others baseball players to go to the World Series are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Elston Howard.

Six other hockey players did it in the Stanley Cup Final: Bernie Geoffrion, Gordie Howe, Tom Johnson, Dickie Moore, Jacques Plante and Claude Provost.

A win on Sunday would be Brady’s seventh championship to go along with his three regular season MVP awards, a feat only Russell, Mantle, Berra, and DiMaggio have achieved in the four major sports leagues.

Chiefs face mounting pressure to end tomahawk chant Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk.

Local groups have long argued that the team's chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team's use of the name Redskins and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, long the emblem for the Cleveland

Indians baseball team. But in the past year, those teams have decided to ditch their Native American-themed monikers, and the defending champion Chiefs are generating more attention due to a second consecutive appearance on the sport's biggest stage.

A coalition of Native American groups has put up billboards in the Kansas City area to protest the tomahawk chop and Chiefs' name. A protest is planned outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, site of Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the coalition has

hired a plane to fly around the area. A few thousand people have signed onto two online petitions, one of them started by a fourth-grader.

The Chiefs made some changes in the fall, barring headdresses and war paint and making a subtle alteration to the chop, with cheerleaders using a closed first instead of an open palm to signal the beating of a drum.

But Gaylene Crouser, executive director of the Kansas City Indian Center, found the tweak to be laughable.

“They think that that somehow helps, and they are still playing that ridiculous

Hollywood Indian song, which is such a stereotypical Indian song from like old Cowboy movies or something. I don’t know how they feel that that made any difference at all," she said.

“And its not like their fans are doing it any different either."

Chiefs president Mark Donovan said barring face paint and headdresses from its stadium was a “big step.”

“You are going to have opinions on all sides on what we should and shouldn’t do,” he added. “We’re going to continue to have those discussion."

SURGING CAL California has been on the upswing under coach Justin Wilcox, increasing its win total each of the first three years. The Bears struggled during the pandemic-shortened season, finishing 1-3, but it didn't hurt them on the recruiting trail.

Cal had the Pac-12's thirdbest recruiting class, 28th nationally. The class includes four-star receiver J. Michael Sturdivant of Flower Mound, Texas, and pro-style quarterback Kai Millner, the No. 6 overall recruit in Arizona.

FISCH'S FIRST CLASS Arizona was put in a tough spot recruiting-wise when it fired coach Kevin Sumlin before the early signing period in early December.

New coach Jedd Fisch hit the ground running when he was hired just before Christmas and landed a class that is 76th nationally. The Wildcats were 59th last year with Sumlin's final recruiting class in the desert.

Fisch is hoping to turn around a program that's on a school-record 12-game losing streak, including a 70-7 loss to Arizona State to close out the 2020 season.

SMALL SUN DEVILS Arizona State has done well recruiting under coach Herm Edwards, including the nation's No. 23 class a year ago.

The Sun Devils' 2021 class has just 14 players, leading in large part to their No. 48 national ranking, but it does include four four-star players and four transfers who could have an immediate impact.

Arizona State returns most of its starters from 2020, including quarterback Jayden Daniels, so it didn't have many holes to fill.

PAC-12 RANKINGS The rest of the Pac-12 rankings: UCLA (No. 29 nationally), Utah (33), Washington (35), Stanford (52), Washington State (60), Colorado (65), Oregon State (117).

National TV Sports Listings Today

Men’s College Basketball — Iowa at Indiana, 9 a.m., Fox; Temple at Wichita State, 1 p.m., ESPNU; Boise State at Nevada, 1 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Virginia Commonwealth at Duquesne, 1 p.m., NBC Sports Network; Cal at Stanford, 7 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Golf — PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open, 10 a.m., Golf Channel, and noon, NBC. Hockey — Philadelphia at Washington, 9 a.m., NBC. Track & Field — American Track League, 1:30 p.m., ESPN.

Saturday, Feb. 6

Men’s College Basketball — SMU at East Carolina, 2 p.m., ESPN2; North Carolina-Greensboro at Furman, 2 p.m., ESPNU; Oregon State at Colorado, 4 p.m., Pac-12 Network; Miami at North Carolina, 4 p.m., ESPN; Morgan State at Howard, 4 p.m., ESPNU; Oklahoma State at Kansas, 6 p.m., ESPN; Ohio State at Maryland, 6 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Air Force at UNLV, 6 p.m., CBS Sports Network; San Jose State at San Diego State, 8 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Hockey — Buffalo at Boston, 4 p.m., NBC Sports Network.

NBA Basketball — Toronto at Brooklyn, 4:45 p.m., ESPN; Boston at Los Angeles Clippers, 7:05 p.m., ESPN. Men’s College Basketball — Richmond at Dayton, 4 p.m., ESPN2; Maryland at Penn State, 4 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Akron at Kent State, 4 p.m., ESPNU; Monmouth at Manhattan, 6 p.m., ESPNU; Boise State at Nevada, 6 p.m., Fox Sports 1; San Diego State at New Mexico, 6 p.m., CBS Sports Network.

Golf — PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open, noon, Golf Channel.

NBA Basketball — Golden State at Dallas, 5:30 p.m., ABC. NFL Football — NFL Honors, 6 p.m., CBS. Men’s College Basketball — Alabama at Missouri, 9 a.m., ESPN; Iowa State at Oklahoma, 9 a.m., ESPN2; Seton Hall at UConn, 9 a.m., Fox; LaSalle at St. Joseph’s, 9:30 a.m., NBC Sports Network; St. John’s at Providence, 11 a.m., Fox Sports 1; Kansas at West Virginia, 11 a.m., CBS; Texas at Oklahoma State, noon, ABC; Washington at Oregon, 1 p.m., CBS; Louisville at Virginia, 1 p.m., ESPN; Air Force at UNLV, 1 p.m., CBS Sports Network; Mississippi at Auburn, 1 p.m., ESPN2; North Carolina at Duke, 3 p.m., ESPN; Colorado State at Wyoming, 3 p.m., CBS Sports Network; Tennessee at Kentucky, 5 p.m., ESPN; Arizona at Colorado, 5 p.mm., Fox Sports 1; Massachusetts at Rhode Island, 5 p.m., ESPN2; Prairie View at Texas Southern, 5:30 p.m., ESPNU; Utah State at Fresno State, 7 p.m., Fox Sports 1; CSU Bakersfield at UC Irvine, 7 p.m., ESPNU. Golf — PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open, 10 a.m., Golf Channel, and noon, NBC.

Sunday, Feb. 7

NFL Football — Super Bowl, 3:30 p.m., CBS.

Monday, Feb. 8

Tuesday, Feb. 9

NBA Basketball — Houston at New Orleans, 4:30 p.m., TNT; Boston at Utah, 7 p.m., TNT. Auto Racing — NASCAR Cup Series Busch Clash, 4 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Men’s College Basketball — Dayton at UMass, 4 p.m., ESPNU; West Virginia at Texas Tech, 6 p.m., ESPN; Creighton at Georgetown, 6 p.m., CBS Sports Network; Iowa State at TCU, 6 p.m., ESPNU; DePaul at Villanova, 6 p.m., Fox Sports 1; New Mexico State at Colorado State, 8 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Hockey — Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 3 p.m., NBC Sports Network; Tampa Bay at Nashville, 5:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network.

Tennis — Australian Open, midnight and 6 p.m., ESPN2.

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This week in Coos County history: February 3-6 100 YEARS — 1921 Deaf basketball players coming Team from Portland to make Coos county tour Schedule arranged and six games will be played — first at Reedsport on Feb. 7 L.O. Tichenor of the Myrtle Point basket ball team has received a letter from the Portland team stating they will leave Portland next Sunday for Coos county. They will play the first game at Reedsport on February 7, and will play in Marshfield February 9 and North Bend February 8.

The games scheduled for Coos county are as follows: February 8 — at North Bend February 9 — at Marshfield February 10 — at Coquille February 11 — at Myrtle Point February 12 — at Bandon It is expected that quite a number from the Coquille Valley will attend the game at Marshfield.

Steamer Curacao sailing with 100 tons of cement First big shipment of 1921 will arrive from San Francisco to provide material for early concrete work for the new season C.F. McGeorge & Son, agents for the Pacific Steamship Co., report that the Curacao sailing from San Francisco on Feb. 4th will have in her cargo one hundred tons of Santa Cruz cement for the McGeorge Gravel Co. This is the first shipment of the new season and will assure an adequate supply of fresh cement for early concrete work, such as basements, building foundations, steps, sidewalks, etc.

A most welcome bit of news for the prospective builder is that cement has dropped 70 cents per bbl. in price. With cement, lumber, and other building material back to normal and labor plentiful, it seems an opportune time for building operations and it is certain that activity along this line would be welcomed by everyone on Coos Bay.

Case at Powers cause a stir Dr. Hamilton of Coquille is fined for intoxication Mayor Hamilton of Coquille enters protest but Justice Zimmerman remains firm (Special to the Times) POWERS — Dr. Hamilton of Coquille was arrested here by Marshal Brown on the charge of being intoxicated on a public highway. He spent the night in jail and next day was fined $20 in Justice Zimmeman’s court.

Mayor Hamilton of Coquille entered vigorous protest in behalf of his brother, declaring it was a shame and an insult to treat his brother that way. Justice Zimmerman declared that his court could not and would not make difference in the treatment of Dr. Hamilton and the ordinary logger — that all stood on the same basis in the eyes of the law.

Medicine causes trouble A.W. Burton, Powers druggist, was also recently before Justice Zimmerman on the charge of selling intoxicating beverages containing more than one half of one per cent alcohol. Mr. Burton said that the medicine was sold in his drug store as medicine and that he was not aware of committing any offense. In view of this, Justice Powers announced that he would fine Mr. Burton $150 and remit the fine during good behavior.

Suggest tannery for Coos county Said that such an industry could be created here Matter is brought up before members of Chamber of Commerce at meeting last night At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night Secretary Reid said there

was a matter of a new industry which he had been asked to bring before the organization.

He stated that there was a need here for a tannery. He was told that the bark in this locality was suitable for tanning and that quite an industry could be built up. He had talked, Mr. Reid said, with those who deal in hides and they all thought that such an industry could be created here.

Jacob Gildesheim was called upon and said that he delt in hides and he believed that a tannery would do well here.

Chairman Ben Chandler said that the Chamber of Commerce had a live committee on new industries and that the matter could be referred to that committee and the members would investigate and report.

50 YEARS — 1971 Prefontaine named Oregon’s Amateur Athlete of the Year PORTLAND (UPI) — Steve Prefontaine, 19-year-old sophomore distance runner from the University of Oregon, Monday night was named Oregon’s Amateur Athlete of the Year at the 23rd annual Bill Hayward Banquet of Champions in Portland.

Prefontaine, who a year ago as a freshman won the NCAA three-mile run, won the NCAA cross-country championship last fall.

He is a native of Coos Bay. Prefontaine succeeds Jess Lewis, Oregon State wrestler, who won the award last year and also was one of nine finalists this year.

Art Jones, veteran hockey center for the Portland Buckaroos, won the Pro Athlete of the Year Award.

Harry Glickman, president of the Buckaroos and executive vice-president of Portland’s National Basketball Association Trail Blazers, won the Slats Gill Award and Man of the Year.

Tinker Hatfield of Central Linn High School in Halsey was named Prep Athlete of the Year.

Coos Bay resolution backs housing efforts Coos Bay City Council this morning supported the proposed housing goal of Coos-Curry Council of Governments in a resolution that adopted the proposal as an interim “Housing Goal” for the city.

Recognizing an areawide need for adequate housing for all citizens both in and outside city limits, the council set forth several goals in the resolution: To encourage adequate integrated housing at reasonable cost to everyone; To support establishment of means with which to insecure proper construction of new homes and adequate rehabilitation of existing homes, including uniform building standards and codes and control of air and water pollution from housing, heating and sanitary disposal units; To encourage allocation of sufficient land-use classifications for efficient development of various types of housing developments; To develop measures to insure that adopted land-use plans are implements, such as planned unit development and cluster ordinances and updating zoning and subdivision ordinances to protect land-use designations.

Coos Bay Coast Guard teams winners in NB The small bore rifle and pistol teams from the U.S. Coast Guard Group, Coos Bay, were the winners at the 1971 Oregon Coast Military Small Arms Competition held Jan. 27 at the North Bend Police Department indoor range.

In the pistol match, the USCG Group, Coos Bay, scored 1,231; U.S. Naval Facility, Coos Head, 1,202; North Bend Air Force Station, 1,137; and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc, 824.

The high pistol score was fired by USCG Seaman Dwight Crumpacker of the Chetco River Lifeboat Station, who fired a score of 338 out of a possible 400.

In the rifle match, the USCG Group, Coos Bay, fired a score of 1,323; U.S. Naval Facility, Coos Head, 1,297; and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc, 1,260.

The high rifle score was fired by USCG Chief Petty Officer John Webb of Yaquina Bay Lifeboat Station, who shot 338 out of a possible 400.

Coos board rejects land use plan COQUILLE — Coos County Board of Commissioners will not make any land use or zoning plans without first going directly to the people.

This was the consensus of the board today following its rejection earlier this week of a proposed interim land use plan. The plan was submitted to the board by the county planning commission.

Expressing fears of becoming legally bound to the interim plan’s use and zoning requirements until an official plan is developed, the board labeled the plan “premature and not in the best interest of the people.”

North Bend matmen pull away, subdue Pirates Visiting North Bend pulled away in the final three matches to score a 33-21 dual meet wrestling victory over Marshfield at the Pirate Palace Thursday night.

With the running score standing at 21-19 for the Bulldog matmen, Robin Richards, in the feature match of the evening, sored a second-round pin over the Pirates’ Kip Oswald in the 178-pound class to begin the North Bend surge to the win.

Brad Nyleen held on for a draw against Marshfield’s Jim Guernsey — the latter used an escape just before the end for the deadlock — to clinch the meet win in the 191-pound bracket, and Lee Todd added frosting with his first-round fall over Mike McDonald in the heavyweight division.

Marshfield had used back-to-back falls

by Bill Carter (157) and Dale Lee (168) to overcome a 21-9 deficit and bring the count to 21-19.

North Bend had built up its margin by winning five of the first eight matches, including three by falls as Ralph Davis (106), Gunnar Nordahl (123) and Terry Bair turned the trick.

Nordahl’s pin of Marshfield’s Robert Els was the fasted of the evening at 58 seconds of the first round.

The best match of the evening came in the 130-pound class as Marshfield’s John Dunton outlasted North Bend’s Bill Bourne in a seesaw battle 10-9.

Apollo 14 astronauts on way back to earth Finish man’s longest, most rewarding stay on moon; leave golf balls, javelin behind SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — Astronauts Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell blasted off today ending man’s longest and most rewarding stay on the moon.

The Apollo 14 lunar explorers, who spent 33 ½ hours in a dusty depression in Fra Mauro Valley, carried back the largest horde of scientific data and moon rocks collected in three American missions.

They left behind two golf balls and an impromptu javelin used by Shepard in the first lunar sports show, which was telecast to Earth in color.

Shepard and Mitchell struggled, shortof-breath, up the steep slope of a crater and chipped off clues to the birth of the moon on their second spacewalk. The disappointed hikers had to turn back before reaching the rim.

When the silver-and-golf Antares moonlander lifted off in midafternoon, they had spent more time on the moon than any other men. Shepard held the moonwalking record of nine hours.

Pirates bounce Bulldogs 73-53; still tied with Irish

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With a championship at stake, Marshfield wasn’t about to pussyfoot around, especially against long-time rival North Bend Friday.

From the opening gun, it was a decisive victory for the Pirates, who shot .538 afield during the first half and went on to bounce the visiting Bulldogs 73-53, for the 17th straight time since the beginning of the 1964 season.

The victory, coupled with Sheldon’s double-overtime, 48-46, win over Churchill Friday, leaves the championship issue of the first half in District 5AAA somewhat clouded — the two clubs finished the first round with identical 8-1 won-loss records, and the title now goes to the winner of the Marshfield-Sheldon battle on March 6.

In other words, nobody will know for a month who the first half titlist — and runnerup — will be.

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Birthday No. 2: Still stuck in the surf Grounded New Carissa: Salvagers to write an environmental impact study for removal options Two years after it ran aground, the New Carissa’s stern remains mired in the pounding surf off the North Spit, rusting to a spectacular shade of terra cotta.

“It’s been a long, long two years and I wouldn’t’ want to do it again any time soon,” salvage expert Bill Milwee said of the efforts to remove the wreck.

Milwee, who represents the owners and insurer of the wood chip ship that beached off the North Spit on Feb. 4, 1999, added that “wrestling with this monster has become almost routine now.”

Ridding the Oregon Coast of the last section of the rusting ruin — two pieces totaling about 2,000 tons that Milwee says will have to be cut up and hauled away by land or by sea — will require bringing in heavy equipment able to slice up wrecked ships like meatloaf.

Although Milwee has repeatedly said he hasn’t decided whether to take the Carissa’s remains out by sea or by land, an application for a North Spit road right of way was filed with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Jan. 24, according to Alan Hoffmeister, Coos Bay District BLM public affairs officer.

Milwee has hired a Portland-based engineering company, David Evans and Associates, to write an Environmental Impact Statement, which is required by the National Environmental Policy Act. “However, the EIS has to be done to our standards and we will be intimately involved in the process,” Hoffmeister said emphatically. “It’s not like the responsible party has hired their own folks so they can get the decision they want. All the work will be done in concert with our specialist.”

College wants taste of culinary arts business Two-year degree: Up to 32 students a year can enroll in special class, but tuition will cost more than other programs This fall, a new venture will begin at Southwestern Oregon Community College with a flavor all its own.

The Oregon Coast Culinary Arts Institute will open its doors, offering students from across the United States a chance to obtain one-year certificates in chef training or twoyear associates in applied science in culinary arts management training.

While the certificates prepare individuals for entry-level chef positions, the two-year degree offers students basic and advanced chef training as well as restaurant management skills. The certificate and the degree have been approved by the Oregon Department of Education’s community college division.

The idea for the culinary institute has been simmering in the area for the last few years.

After doing some research, Southwestern found that culinary arts academies in the United States have long waiting lists of students, said Mike Gaudette, dean of Southwestern’s marketing, recruiting and college advancement.

Southwestern’s program will cost $12,000 a year and will allow enrollment of up to 32 full-time students.

“That is a change from the community college tuition of the past,” Gaudette said, “but this is also a much more expensive program to run.”

Other culinary arts programs around the nation range in tuition from $18,000 to $22,000 a year for a one- or two-year program, he added.

Gaudette said this program will serve as an alternative revenue source for the college during a time of declining resources and increasing enrollment.

“Having a program like a culinary arts school at Southwestern that will offer higher-paying opportunities allows the college to charge a higher tuition,” he said. “That can help the college increase its resources without putting all the burden on the local students in the form of massive tuition increase.”

Sibling swimmers lead Reedsport Maybe it’s because they spend so much time together in the car driving to and from town.

Maybe it’s because they have a lot of respect for each other … or because they are from a close-knit family … or because they like the same sport best.

Maybe it’s a combination of all of the above.

Whatever the reason, Tess and Nate Baumgartner get along great.

They also happen to be pretty good swimmers, which is good news for Reedsport High School.

The siblings — Tess is a senior and Nate a sophomore — are among several swimmers on Reedsport’s team who have a good shot at qualifying for the state swimming meet when they hit the pool at the Grants Pass YMCA for the Class 3A District 4 meet Friday and Saturday.

Tess is the only senior on the squad.

“She’s definitely the team leader,” Nate said. “She gets everybody going in practice and helps out everybody.”

That includes Nate, who admits he isn’t the hardest worker, though he has been trying hard to improve in time for the district meet.

“In practice, she works really, really hard and tries to get me to go,” he said. “Sometimes I slack off and she tries to keep me going.

Nate is the pure athlete, one of the top sprinters in the state.

“The kid is just an amazing athlete,” Tess said.

These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield High School courtesy of Coos Bay Schools.

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For the next fiscal year, 2020-21, the Agency’s budgeted resources are balanced with requirements at $2,609,443. The Agency uses the funds it receives from Option 1, which includes the divisionof-taxes method of calculating property taxes ($449,296 for FY 2019-20, as shown below) together with an Urban Renewal Special Levy ($281,506 for FY 2019-20) for any difference between the Agency’s maximum authority and the division-oftaxes method, to finance various urban renewal projects and activities. Total tax increment (levy) for FY 2019-20 was $730,803.

Property taxes received totaled $710,139 in FY 2019-20 and are budgeted at $714,000 in FY 2020-21. Other resources are budgeted are the beginning fund balance at $1,885,443 and interest at $10,000. Requirements are budgeted for personal services at $52,000, materials and services at $21,520, and capital outlay at $2,375,000. The impact of the urban renewal plan on the tax collections of other taxing districts in FY 2019-20 resulted in the following amounts: City of North Bend $192,020 Coos County $ 33,491 Port of Coos Bay $ 18,996 Coos Library $ 22,582 4H $ 2,746 Coos County Airport $ 7,400 South Coast ESD $ 13,732 N. Bend School District $129,263 Southwestern College $ 21,742 Coos County Bonds $ 7,324 Total Division of Taxes $449,296 Published: February 5 & 12, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:307712)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Election of Board Members Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday May 18, 2021 an election will be held by mail in Douglas County, Oregon, in the following school and special districts for board positions as listed.

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Wednesday February 24, 2021, at which time they will be publicly opened and read. Information on the sales and bidding procedure may be found on Coos County’s website at www.co.coos.or.us under Forestry Department, or at our office located at 1309 W Central, Coquille, OR

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DISTRICT AND POSITION # Gardiner Rural Fire District 2 (2 year term), 3, 5 Scottsburg Rural Fire District 1, 2, 4 (2 year term) Winchester Bay Rural Fire District 3, 4, 5 Lower Umpqua Hospital District 1, 2 Lower Umpqua Library District 1, 2, 4 (2 year term), 5 (2 year term) Lower Umpqua Park and Recreation District 1, 2, 3 Port of Umpqua 1, 2, 4 Reedsport School District #105 2, 3 Gardiner Sanitary District 1, 2, 3 (2 year term), 5 Winchester Bay Sanitary District 1, 3 Published: February 5, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:308421) -------------------------------------------City of Bandon PUBLIC NOTICE RECEIPT OF A BALLOT TITLE: RENEWAL OF LOCAL OPTION TAX FOR STREETS AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES Notice is hereby given that a ballot title has been received by the City of Bandon Elections Official from the Mayor and City Council for a referral to be placed on the May 18, 2021, election ballot seeking voter approval to renew the Local Option Street Tax for Streets and Pedestrian Facilities. Any registered voter who is dissatisfied with the ballot title may file a petition with the Coos County Circuit Court for review of the ballot title. The deadline for filing such a petition is February 10, 2021. Notice of such a petition must also be provided to the City of Bandon Elections Official no later than 5:00 PM on the 1st business day after the petition is filed with the Circuit Court.

A copy of the ballot title may be obtained by contacting Dan Chandler, City Manager, at Bandon City Hall, 555 Highway 101, P.O. Box 67, Bandon, Oregon 97411, telephone 541-347-2437, email citymanager@citymanager. com or on the City of Bandon website at www.cityofbandon.org.

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The County reserves the right to waive minor informalities, to reject any bid not in compliance with all prescribed public contracting procedures and requirements and may reject for good cause any or all bids if it is in the public interest to do so. Prospective purchasers are urged to examine all data relevant to these timber sales, including the sealed bid procedure, and contract form.

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M. Grundler said, "It's easy to identify people who can't count to 10. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane." Or they are bridge players who are consistent losers.

The more counting you do, the better. But if you wish to stick to one item only, tally the high-card points.

In today's deal, South is in three notrump after a quantitative auction. West leads the diamond five: two, jack, king. Declarer plays a heart to the queen and runs the club queen. How should West defend?

North promised 9 high-card points, or 8 and a five-card minor.

South was in the middle of his 15-17 range, but

he had three aces and one king, so he happily went on to game. (The Kaplan-Rubens evaluation method rates this hand at 17.15 points.)

Many a player sitting West would continue with the diamond queen to establish his suit while he still had a hand entry in spades.

However, South would claim these nine winners: four hearts, two diamonds and three clubs.

West should check the points. Dummy has 9, declarer 16 or 17, and West 12. That leaves 2 or 3 for East.

There is only one useful card he can hold -- the spade queen. So West should switch to the spade king (king from ace-king after trick one) and not be put off by East's three -- it is the best he can do. West continues with the spade ace and the spade six, giving East-West five tricks: one club and four spades.

A final s u g g e s t i on : Count all day long, even when you are not at the bridge table.

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still working on transitioning from 3-D chess (in person) but managed to win two of his games.

Every weekend, Chess for Success will be holding a weekend grade level chess tournament and the next club player will be playing in two weekends.

Meanwhile, the Coquille High School Team made up of Joshua Grabinsky, Dustin Herker, Riley Jones and Sawyer Bergstedt, took on the challenge of the 2021 US Amateur Team Tournament virtually hosted by the Mechanics Institute held January 30 and 31.

The playing field was heavily populated with college teams.

Six South Coast individuals were recognized by the Oregon Coast Visitors Association as some of the 20 kindest people on the Oregon Coast.

The organization recognized the individuals as part of its “Be Kind to the Coast” campaign, looking back at a challenging 2020 with “kindsight.”

“Taking time to shift our eyes from the uncertain horizon to the abundance of creativity and innovation that already exists in our region has been an inspiring reminder of how strong and diverse our tourism industry is,” wrote Deputy Director Arica Sears in a press release.

Among the individuals recognized was Harv Schuboth, executive director of the Greater Bandon Association, who supported the Greater than Golf caddie relief fund effort. That fund raised over $200,000 for 259 eligible Bandon Dunes caddies who missed out on work during the COVID-19 closure, according to OCVA’s announcement.

Carrie Oldright, the owner of The Timber Faller’s Daughter in Reedsport was recognized by the organization by coordinating mask sewing groups in the early phases of the pandemic when personal protective equipment was in high demand.

The effort resulted in hundreds of masks donated to Lower Umpqua Hospital, according to OCVA. In Gold Beach, OCVA recognized four sisters for their free book program. The owners of Gold Beach Books, the four sent thousands of books across the country in honor of their late brother, Ted Watkins, OCVA said.

The founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, Taylor Stewart spearheaded a reconciliation event in Coos Bay to celebrate Black History Month 2020. OCVA recognized Stewart’s work in partnership with the Equal Justice

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Coquille siblings Ari, above, and Noah Ish-Shalom competed in the recent Chess for Success tournament for students in kindergarten through third grade.

Coquille Chess Club continues success The Coquille Chess Club has been busy despite the pandemic. Chess For Success, which has held a yearly Oregon State Competition since the 1960s, went virtual this year. Last year, Coquille teams and individuals had travel arrangements all organized to attend the tournament at the Oregon Convention Center. Coquille was ready to go, but just two days before the tournament, the state shut down due to the pandemic. Over the next few months, chess tournaments went virtual and it has been a coach’s nightmare as each tournament has been different and it has been hard to help kids all in their various homes figure out how to navigate the

internet, Zoom, chess.com, lichess.org and the various rules. But a brave core of Coquille chess players have been overcoming these challenges.

On Jan. 30, the K-3 Individual Chess For Success Tournament went virtual. Coquille had two prodigies ready. Ari and Noah Ish-Shalom. Chess for Success was kind enough to allow Ari to play despite his preschool status. Noah is in second grade. Their mother Sheera successfully managed to get the kids into the tournament although first round had a glitch where Ari was not paired correctly and given a half point only. Ari then went on to win 3.5 games out of five and placed ninth in a field of 45 K-3 players. Noah is

Nature Guide Journal: Surprising relative washes ashore MARTY GILES

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I was recording some video of the band of gravel on the beach at the North Spit of the Coquille River a couple of weeks ago when an odd shape in the view caught my eye.

An off-white cylinder about as big around as my finger, but shorter, the shape seemed too regular for a stone or piece of driftwood. When I looked around the camera, the bumpy surface of the thing gave me my answer: A pyrosome!

Pyrosomes are colonial tunicates: “colonial” because the members of the group are individual organisms -- albeit clones.

Each bump is an individual, a “zooid,” that’s capsule-shaped and, in our species, up to about a third of an inch long. The

zooids are bound together by a gelatinous “tunic” into form a hollow cylinder, each zooid is packed in headend out. Its tunic gave the colony I found a somewhat rubbery feel.

The zooids take in sea water at their head/outside ends by beating water in with the cilia around their mouths. They filter their food from the water, then pass the cleaned water into the inside of the cylinder.

The colonies move when the water flows out the hole at one end of the hollow cylinder. Like many other pelagic (open-ocean) animals, pyrosomes move

up nearer the surface at night and down to darker layers in the daytime. The finger-sized colony I found apparently would have moved about 300 feet up and down in a day/night; a large colony of the same species is reported to move up to 2,500 feet in a day/night.

Had it been nighttime -- and had the colony been still alive and in the water -I may have witnessed the reason for the “pyro” in the name: from the Greek word for “fire,” the name refers to bright glow the animals can produce.

While pyrosomes are colonial, pelagic tunicates; the kind of tunicates more familiar to people are the “sea squirts” that live singly or in groups of separate individuals attached to rocks or docks.

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Each bump on the outside of this finger-sized pyrosome is an individual “zooid.” Often with more pronounced bumps, this colony may have been worn down a bit in the surf and gravel. The small opening is barely visible on the end.

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Eleven-year-old Preston Sharp was with his mom at the cemetery, visiting and decorating his grandfather’s grave, who was a veteran. As he looked around, he realized that not every veteran had a flag at his marker, and that disappointed and made Preston angry. Several hours later, he was still harping on it. His mom said, “Son, if you are going to complain about something, you either have to do something about it

or let it go.”

Next thing she knew, Preston was taking odd jobs and soliciting donations to buy flags and flowers for every veteran in his grandpa’s cemetery. And when that cemetery was covered, he moved onto another, and then another.

In his first two years, some 23,000 graves were decorated. Now when word gets out Preston will be at a cemetery, a lot of folks feel compelled to join in. It is a movement of young and old, of those who served

NB library invites readers to help with ‘Tales of the South Coast’ The North Bend Public Library has started a new program that encourages residents to contribute stories and art work as part of a collaborative effort.

The Tales of the South Coast project includes a series of notebooks on a variety of topics. Residents are encouraged to check out the books, read what others have written or contributed and add their own words.

The notebooks could include memories, anecdotes, household tips and short stories. Some might include crowdsourcing stories such as a romance or a gothic horror.

The notebooks can be checked out for one week at a time and patrons are asked to limit their entries to three to five pages. In addition to writing, pictures, drawings and collages also are welcome.

There will be separate journals for children and adults, which may be checked out for people to write in or read. Once a journal is filled, it will be added to the library’s regular collection.

Themes include: And That’s What Happened: a Story From My Life Life During COVID Please Pray for Me: (anonymous) Words of Gratitude, Hope and Encouragement (anonymous) Household Hints & Tricks

themselves and those who are so grateful they did, all led by this little pied piper of patriotism who saw an injustice and decided to do something about it.

What that young man’s actions represent is the something that is special in each and every one of us.

We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. We have to be aware of what that talent is and use it. Maybe at school or work or the food bank or in the chamber.

That’s our challenge as individuals

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Tunicates are most remarkable because of their larvae.

Very differently shaped than the adults, larval tunicates look rather like tadpoles with a flexible, cartilage-like tail that houses a central nerve cord along the back -- evolutionary precursor to a spinal cord. (The overall group, in fact, is the phylum Chordata, a reference to this cord.) When larval tunicates metamorphose into adults, the tail structures are absorbed into the body.

It’s that central nerve cord that makes tunicates -- and therefore pyrosomes -- more closely related to us than they are to, say, worms or crabs or seastars.

Tunicates reproduce sexually; individual members in a colony reproduce sexually to create individual larvae that will, with luck, swim away to

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start new colonies. Established pyrosome colonies grow by individual zooids budding to add neighbors.

There are probably fewer than ten species of pyrosomes in the Earth’s seas, but very many subspecies.

The ones that we find washed ashore Oregon beaches are probably Pyrosoma atlanticum. (Despite the species name, this pyrosome is found in temperate seas worldwide.) That species may grow to colonies up to 2 feet long and 2.5 inches wide.

Colonies of a giant tropical pyrosome, Pyrostremma spinosum, can reach up to 70 feet long and nearly 4 feet in diameter -- you could probably get inside a large one.

There are sea creatures that live inside pyrosomes, mostly small crustaceans, notably certain shrimp. And, of course, other sea creatures eat them, such as some fish and a few whales.

Finding the pyrosome in

January was a surprise since it’s more common to see them on the beach in summer.

Too, this was the only one I saw on the beach, and it’s common for them to come ashore in large numbers.

A big influx of pyrosomes off Oregon’s coast a couple of years ago was thought by some researchers to have been triggered by major changes in offshore ocean temperatures the year before. I wonder if this year will bring more of these remarkable colonies to our beaches this summer.

I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for more.

For information on how you can arrange your own exploration of our fascinating natural history, contact Marty at 541/267-4027, mgiles@wavecrestdiscoveries.com, or www.facebook. com/wavecrestdiscoveries . Questions and comments about local natural history are welcome. www.wavecrestdiscoveries.com

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and a community. And if we, together, decide to make that difference, I have no doubt that our Oregon Coast, will have an excellent future. It’s in your hands.

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Initiative, which brought over 200 residents to the event and laid the groundwork for future memorials throughout the city.

In Agness, on the Rogue River in Curry County, Jennifer Northrup was recognized for keeping her Lucas Lodge open. She offered her property for fire evacuees and livestock, and kept up

the positive reviews despite a challenging year, OCVA said.

Leslie Wilkinson was an essential part of the “Dine to Stay in Curry” gift card program, an effort of the city of Brookings, Curry County Economic Development Department and Travel Southern Oregon Coast. The program has garnered over $18,000 for local restaurants, according to OCVA. Each winner received a “Be Kind” t-shirt, part of the OCVA’s larger campaign. More information

about the recipients and the campaign are available at visittheoregoncoast.com/industry-news/2020-in-kindsight.

“In what has repeatedly been called difficult, divisive and pivotal, the past year also highlighted the resilience of the Oregon Coast and its communities,” OCVA officials wrote. “The Oregon Coast Visitors Association (OCVA) set out to prove that by recognizing 20 of the kindest people along all 363 miles of the coast.”

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Though “Call Your Mother” originally was planned to debut last fall, are you satisfied with the winter launch that it’s gotten?

It’s unusual to find a half-hour drama on television now.

How did you go about devising “Bridge and Tunnel” as that?

I think the show is coming out at just the right time. We need more comedy, and we desperately need a comedy about families that actually love each other. We’ve all had to make a certain peace, and I don’t know anybody who hasn’t had a reckoning with their biological family now, so I think it’s really perfect timing.

We didn’t approach it like a traditional half-hour. I’m a filmmaker as opposed to a TV guy, so I went to all the people I work with on my films, and said, “Look, we are making six half-hour movies.”

We wanted it to look as good as “The Crown,” and that was our approach in every department, from costumes to production design.

What do you think the effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been on “Call Your Mother”?

The best thing for us is that we didn’t do a pilot, we just went straight to series. We originally had planned to do a pilot last March, then everything shut down; when we came back, they picked us up for 13 episodes right away, and I don’t think that would have happened if COVID-19 hadn’t. We would have done the pilot, then they would have made all sorts of decisions that would have taken a long time.

Since you’re also a director now, having even done that on your husband Kevin Bacon’s show “City on a Hill,” do you anticipate doing that job on “Call Your Mother’ at some point?

Pam Fryman – who’s directing the show – is so great, she would be a tough act to follow. She’s done “How I Met Your Mother” and “Frasier” and “Mom” and everything, and everybody says she’s unequivocally the best. But after a couple of years of looking at a monitor that has four cameras on it, maybe that will shift a little bit and I’ll be ready to direct this.

Though “Bridge and Tunnel” largely is about a group of young friends in the early 1980s, what did you want to put into your role as the father of one of them?

One of the first things I did when I started to build out the world of this story was to think of John Mahoney’s character in “She’s the One” (written and directed by Burns). I said, “Let me see if I can come up with something like that for myself, someone who’s a little goofy and a little funny.”

He’s a composite of my dad and my uncle and a bunch of the grown-ups I grew up with. I got very lucky in that, being a working-class kid, I was never exposed to anyone in the arts. We didn’t know anyone who wasn’t a cop or a foreman or a plumber, and when I said I wanted to be a writer, my dad couldn’t have been more supportive. And I knew I wanted this character to be that kind of dad.

Though you often generate your own work, you’ve also acted for notable directors.

What memory comes to mind of making “Saving Private Ryan” with Steven Spielberg?

I remember that on the second-to-last day of shooting, Tom Hanks talked to seven or eight of us during lunch. He had a bottle of Jack Daniels and eight glasses, and he said, “Guys, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I have seen a good chunk of this movie put together, and it is incredible and is going to live on long after all of us are gone.

“The bad news is, it’s all downhill from here. None of us will ever be in a movie this great again.”

To have that when you’re 27 years old, that kind of experience, that was a blessing.

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Coos Art Museum to feature high school work Chess

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COOS BAY — Coos Art Museum will exhibit the contributions of its annual high school art competition from Feb. 12 to April 18.

VISION 2021, underwritten by the Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation, includes works from South Coast high schools, as well as schools in Douglas and Jackson counties.

The competition may include drawings, paintings, etchings, mixed media, ceramics and photography. Entries will be on display in all upstairs galleries at the art museum.

Artists who receive the best of show award, as well as the second- and third-place overall awards will receive both cash awards and a two-year tuition waiver to SWOCC. The firstthrough fourth-place winners and honorable mention selections for each grade level will receive ribbons.

Due to limitations imposed by the pandemic, public ceremonies and receptions for the exhibition will not be held this year.

For more information on VISION 2021, contact the Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation by email at foundation@socc.edu or call 1-800-962-2838, ext. 7211, or visit www.socc.edu/foundation.

Coos Art Museum has been a cultural focal point of Oregon’s scenic Southern Coast since 1966.

It occupies an historic 1936 Art Deco U.S. Federal Building in downtown Coos Bay. The museum offers a wide range of arts activities including exhibitions, art classes and lectures. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday. General admission is $5, while admission is $2 for students, veterans and senior citizen. There is no admission for museum members.

One category was funniest team name so the Coquille team called themselves the Pandemic Toilet Paper Hoarders.

As players were monitored by cameras to prevent cheating, Coquille decorated with toilet paper to support their fun name (unfortunately they did not beat the team name “Please Don’t Cheat, We’re Bad Enough As Is.”) Due to some home internet issues, some players gathered at Myrtle Point Clinic to take advantage of the secure internet there.

The team won two matches, played to a draw in two and lost two. There was definitely some tough competition as colleges and large city clubs played. Coquille High School placed 22nd out of 40 teams. It was a great learning experience and prepared the Coquille High School team for a potential high school team state or national event if any organization gets brave enough to put one on with the difficulties of virtual tournaments.

“Let’s show the world that pandemic is no stop for our community and players to gather together virtually,” Senior Tournament Director Abel Talamantez said. “We’ll connect and have fun and bring fearless competition to find the 2021 US Amateur Team-West Champion.”

Students from anywhere in Coos County are welcome to be taught free virtual lessons and/or play in our free virtual chess club, no matter their skill level.

Contact Coach Keller at drnancykeller@yahoo.com if interested!

The 2020 Second Place winner “Thriller,”left,wasa ceramic by Brooke Firestone, a senior atBrookings-Harbor High School.

The Best of Show awardin2020wentto “SamFlowers,”lower left,anoilpaintingby SamMazur,asenior atGoldBeachHigh School.

The2020Third-Place winnerwas“Supellex Varia ad Amicum,” lowerright,adigital artbyCyrusKenyan, a senior at Myrtle Point High School Contributed Photos