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North Bend man jailed after Coos Bay woman shot, killed Coos Bay woman murdered on Cape Arago Highway

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A North Bend man is behind bars facing a murder charge after he was arrested Thursday on charges of killing Rebecca Elaine Reeves at her Coos Bay home.

Coos Bay Police Chief Chris Chapanar reported his officers were called to 1749 Idaho Drive just after 8 p.m. Wednesday after a 9-1-1 caller reported a deceased woman in the home.

Responding officers discovered Reeves dead in her home, with Chapanar saying

her death was the result of “homicidal violence.”

As is customary in Coos County, the Coos County Major Crimes Team was called in and officers from Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police, North Bend Police, Bandon Police, Coquille Police, Coos Bay Police, Coos County Medical Examiner’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office arrived to assist in the investigation.

On Thursday morning, police remained at the scene gathering evidence.

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For the second time in four days, a woman was found murdered near Coos Bay. District Attorney R. Paul Frasier reported at 8:33 a.m., a 9-1-1 caller reported a woman was “down” outside a residence in the 92600 block of Cape Arago Highway, just outside the Coos Bay city limits.

Law enforcement and medical personnel responded to the scene, and found 34-year-old Amber Townsend of Coos Bay lying adjacent to the highway.

According to Frasier, Townsend had been shot multiple times with what appears to be a shotgun. She was transported to Bay Area Hospital, where she was declared dead.

Frasier said law enforcement believe Townsend was walking on Cape Arago Highway, heading toward Charleston, when she was shot.

Frasier said law enforcement has little information about the person or persons who killed Townsend. Frasier said officers do not know how the assailant(s) were

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Students nurses walk up the stairs into Prosper Hall at the beginning of the commencement ceremonies at Southwestern Oregon Community College. Middle, SWOCC students turn toward the American flag while the Star Spangled Banner is played. Bottom, a graduate gives an elbow bump to SWOCC President Patty Scott.

SWOCC students celebrate in-person during graduation ceremony

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After waiting two years to hold an in-person graduation ceremony, the 366 men and women who received diplomas and certificates from Southwestern Oregon Community College had a lot to celebrate.

The college invited the students and a several hundred guests to Proper Hall to celebrate the Class of 2022 during the first large, in-person ceremony in more than two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Today we celebrate the accomplishments of you, the Class of ‘22,” SWOCC President Patty Scott told the graduates.

“I’m guessing some of you might have graduated high school in the Class of 2020, and you might not have had a great graduation. We’re very grateful we get to have a live ceremony. It’s been a long two years.”

Scott told the graduates what they have overcome while attending college during the middle of COVID-19 has set them up for great things in the future. She said they learned to adapt quickly, using technology to attend class when the college was shut down. Those lessons will pay off in the long run, Scott said.

“Life is like a pandemic,” she said. “It’s a roller coaster ride with ups and downs.”

The Class of 2022 included students from 21 states and eight countries, and 45 of the SWOCC graduates attended class in the Curry County campus.

“Today, we celebrate a turning point in the lives of our 2022 class,” Scott said.

“The resilience of this class is amazing.”

She told the students as the move forward what they learned at SWOCC will stay with them.

“Community colleges are a place of transformation. Sometimes it’s a desire to keep learning that helps us move on to better times,” Scott said. “I look out at you and I wonder how are you going to transform yourselves and how are you going to transform the world.”

Susan Anderson, vice chair of the SWOCC board of directors, also applauded the resilience of the Class of 2022.

“Graduation is an accomplishment for anyone, but you all not only attended class, you overcame the biggest pandemic of the last 100 years,” Anderson said.

“That’s a huge accomplishment. Whether you are continuing your education or joining the workforce, you have opportunities no one before you has ever had. You have the opportunity to select the dreams you want. I wish you nothing but the best.”

Kara Klietz spoke on behalf of the Class of 2022, and told her classmates the different paths that brought them together at SWOCC will be something they can always hold on to.

“I’ve mad some of the best memories with some of the best people, and it’s kind of sad knowing I will be moving on,” she said. “There were so many moments I didn’t know if I was going to make it, but thanks to you, I did.”

Klietz said in her close group of friends, there are students from different states and with different backgrounds. But they came together as students at Southwestern, which is something they can always hold close to their hearts.

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For many, the COVID-19 pandemic is a bad memory from the past, but the danger of the virus that killed so many is still in our communities and still a danger, local public health officials said.

Dr. Eric Gleason, assistant director of Coos Health & Wellness, said the official case count as of Friday showed 300 active cases in Coos County. But in reality, he said, the case count is likely much higher.

Gleason said he makes the assumption based on fecal matter testing being done by the Oregon Health and Sciences University.

OHSU has done the wastewater testing since 2020 as an indicator of how COVID is moving through communities.

“The body sheds the virus into various parts of our body,” Gleason said. “One of the ways our body gets rid of foreign elements is through out bowel movements.

They’ve been testing for several years and it gives us an accurate count of where we are in the community. The fecal numbers would indicate that we re probably at or higher than we were at our peak.”

Despite the apparent rise in cases, Gleason said there is some good news.

Luckily our hospitalization rate and death rate are still pretty low,” he said. “We’re dong pretty good in that. COVID isn’t gone.

It’s out there and it’s probably just as bad as it was in our peak.

We need to take it seriously.”

While it is not popular, Gleason said he still recommends wearing a mask, especially in larger gatherings.

“Larger group gatherings is probably going to have some spread without masks,” he said.

“The preventative measures haven’t changed. Get your vaccines. It’s shown to be helpful in keeping hospitalizations and deaths low.”

Gleason said even with COVID remaining active, he doesn’t anticipate changes to mandates, locally or in the state.

“I don’t see anyone making mandate changes after all the frustrations that came from COVID,” he said. “ We as a community and as a society are taking what we consider accept-

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trails that will lead to different summits and different beautiful views,” Klietz said. “While we’re all going to take different paths, it all started here at SWOCC.” One person who knows how that start can lead to a lifetime of success in Carolyn Thompson, the 2022 distinguished alumni at Southwestern. Thompson grew up in Coos Bay, making her way through the foster system. But she always said school was her escape, and her time at SWOCC put her on a path to success.

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I would be standing here with you celebrating your success,” Thompson said.

“A graduation may seem like a finish line, and it is.”

But Thompson told the Class of 2022, the finish line was not the end. Instead it was a place to start.

For Thompson, school and later SWOCC, was her start.

“My path to SWOCC started when I was 13,” she said. “I made a conscious choice to attend college. I remember asking my mom why we did not leave the abusive relationship we were in. She said, ‘If I left, I could not feed you.’”

So Thompson decided at that young age her education was a chance to ensure she could always be safe.

“The only thing I had in my life was school,” she said. “When high school ended, that was gone and I was terrified. But I could go to college. I chose Southwestern. SWOCC was good for me and good to me.”

Thompson graduated in 1984 with an associate’s degree in business and administration. She went on to Oregon State University and became an accountant. For decades, she has worked in the Coos Bay community, becoming very successful. And, according to Thompson, it’s all because of SWOCC. “SWOCC and the people who challenged me set me on a path to success,” she said. “I received many

scholarships in my college career, and I vowed somehow, somewhere to pay that forward.”

Thompson does that now as a board member of the Southwestern Community College Foundation, which raises money to provide scholarships to SWOCC students.

After Thompson congratulated the Class of 2022, the moment the students and their supporters had been waiting for finally arrived, as each of the graduates walked up to the podium, had their names read, used hand sanitizer and received their diplomas, officially making them graduates of Southwestern Oregon Community College.

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3. For any illness, be mindful about not going to work if you do not feel well.

3. For employers, consider moving workers to remote work if/when possible. Re-evaluate PTO/sick leave policies that reduce risk of workers feeling obligated to come to work.

4. If you were recently positive with COVID, wear a mask around others

five days after recovery as a precaution.

5. Continue to educate yourself on the most up to date information. Follow Coos Health & Wellness for new guidance and all other information we share to prevent disease and injuries.

6. Understand your risk and use precautions moving forward. Wear a mask when you feel the need to, continue to wash your hands and stay away from others when they are not feeling well.

Free COVID-19 home test kits are available at all local libraries. Gleason said because the at-home tests have a high level of false negatives, if someone tests negative but continues to feel sick, they can get a test from their medical provider.

To find additional information related to vaccines or to book an appointment for vaccines, go to https:// cooshealthandwellness.org/public-health/ covid-19-vaccine-information/

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Kara Klietz addresses her classmates during commencement ceremonies Friday. Left, faculty at Southwestern Oregon Community College walk through the graduates.

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Gleason said with the rising cases, there are steps that can be taken to protect individuals, and those in work settings.

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getting around and which way they may have been traveling.

Frasier said law enforcement need the help of the public to help determine who may have shot Townsend.

“We are requesting that anyone who was traveling on Cape Arago Highway between the Sunset Market and the American Market (formerly known as the Lighthouse Market) between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. today to contact the Coos County Sheriff’s Office,” Frasier said.

“We are especially interested in speaking with persons driving in the area at the above times who have video camera footage showing their drive through the area. Even if you do not think you saw anything, we still would like to speak with you.”

According to a public record’s search, Townsend has been in Coos Bay since 2018. She previously lived in Kentucky, where most of

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Less than 24 hours after Reeves was found dead, Chapanar and District Attorney R. Paul Frasier announced an arrest had been made in the case, with 47-year-old Johnny Ray Bohannon charged with second-degree murder.

Bohannon was arrested

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In 2019, Townsend was arrested and charged with menacing and unlawful use of a weapon after an incident where she allegedly pulled a knife on her boyfriend while they were walking on Cape Arago Highway, near where Townsend was shot Saturday.

It appears those charges were later dismissed. No other criminal activity appears on Townsend’s public records.

Frasier said after Townsend was located, the Coos County Major Crime Team was activated with the Coos County Sheriff’s Office as the lead agency.

Officers from the sheriff’s office, Coos Bay Police, Oregon State Police, Confederated Tribal Police, Oregon State Police, SCINT, Bandon Police Department, the Medical Examiner’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office are actively working the case at this time.

Anyone with information about the shooting is encouraged to contact the Coos County Sheriff’s Office at 541-396-7800. at the Coos Bay Police Department and was transferred to the Coos County Jail. As of Friday morning, he remained in the jail under “intake.” Bohannon was scheduled to make his initial appearance in front of a judge Friday.

No immediate links between Bohannon and Reeves were reported by police.

A criminal background check shows Bohannon has a lengthy criminal record dating back to 2005, when he was placed on probation on an assault charge.

Since then, Bohannon has faced multiple charges, mostly in Coos and Douglas counties. Some of the charges include harassment, assault, recklessly endangering another person, criminal mischief, burglary, possession of methamphetamines and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

Despite claims on social media, former North Bend Police Officer Jon Bohanan is not linked to the case, is not a suspect in the case and is not the man arrested for the crime.

Chapanar said the investigation into the murder is still ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call the Coos Bay Police Department at 541-2698911 or Coos Stop Crime at 541-267-6666

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DeFazio-Led Bipartisan Water Resources Development Act Passes House Bill authorizes improvements to SW Oregon ports and waterways On Thursday, the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA 2022), legislation led by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 384 to 37.

This legislation provides for improvements to Oregon and the nation’s ports, inland waterways, locks, dams, flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and other water resources infrastructure under the authority of the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

“One of my top priorities in Congress has been ensuring we are making the right investments to help Oregon’s waterways and ecosystems thrive,” said Rep. DeFazio “The Water Resources Development Act of 2022—the largest and most ambitious WRDA bill to date—demonstrates that when Congress works together, it can pass legislation on a bipartisan basis that benefits communities across the country. This important legislation we advanced today will help unleash the full potential of Oregon’s ports and harbors, protect our communities and environment, sustain good-paying jobs, and provide critical authorizations and improvements to Corps projects.

WRDA 2022 helps provide much needed investment in ports, harbors, and inland waterways—easing supply chain problems—as well as flood mitigation infrastructure, and ecosystem restoration in both urban and rural communities alike.

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Grand jury: Officer-involved shooting was justified

Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg and Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin held a press conference June 8 to discuss the officer involved shooting that occurred on Wednesday, May 25, at 638 Weaver Road, near Myrtle Creek. They were was joined by Myrtle Creek Police Chief Jonathan Brewster, Oregon State Police Detective Tina Nibblett projects equitably. I urge the Senate to act quickly so and Senior Deputy District Attorney Allison Eichmann. The press conferwe can send a final bill to ence was held in the Douglas County the President’s desk to be Sheriff’s Office, in Roseburg. signed into law.”

Wesenberg provided a detailed WRDA 2022 includes account of the two separate events numerous provisions that leading up to the officer involved benefit Oregon including: • Directing the Corps to shooting of the suspect, 60-year-old Spencer Cassanova Heckathorne. repair and maintain jetties Wesenberg’s presentation cited that; and breakwaters to a standard that would make them immediately after the event, the Douglas County Major Crimes Team resilient to the effects of climate change such as ris- was activated. The MCT, under the direction and supervision of Oregon ing sea levels and increasState Police Sergeant First Class Eric ingly extreme weather.

Fisher, conducted an immediate, • Requiring the Corps thorough and exhaustive investigato study the availability of public and private dredging tion into the events that ultimately across the country and rec- led to the shooting. Subsequently, on ommend increasing federal resources if necessary.

• Clarifying the authority of the Corps to manage flood control operations including For several years one of Eugene’s compensation to Canada oldest open murder cases, the 1969 related to the Columbia strangulation of 22-year-old Janet River Basin, in the event that Lynn Shanahan, has been a priorithe Columbia River Treaty ty of the Eugene Police Cold Case expires in 2024.

• Authorizing the Corps Squad investigators.

In April 1969, Janet had been marto provide assistance to Oregon State University to ried to 23-year-old Christopher John conduct a study on the as- Shanahan for about 10 months. Janet sociated impacts of wildfire was attending spring term at the on water resource ecology, University of Oregon with the goal supply, quality, and distri- of becoming a teacher. On April 21, 1969 Janet attended an evening birthbution in the Willamette day party for her 15-year-old brother River Basin.

• Allowing ports (or any held at her family’s house, located on public entity) to contribute Rutledge Street in west Eugene. Acfunds in order to speed up cording to her husband, Janet did not Corps’ reviews of propos- return to their campus area apartment after the birthday party. The next day als for mitigation banks.

Janet was reported missing.

• Improving the PlanIt wasn’t until April 23, 1969, that ning Assistance to States her body was found. That morning, program by increasing outreach and community engagement and awareness of Corps authorities and providing more projects at full-federal expense Douglas County Commissioners in environmental justice communities.

Tim Freeman, Chris Boice and Tom • Authorizing $2 million Kress are sending out a recruitment for wastewater infranotice for volunteer camp hosts for structure in the City of three Douglas County parks and Brookings and the Port of campgrounds. The Douglas County Brookings Harbor.

Parks Department needs volunteer • Authorizing $6 million camp hosts for the following parks/ for water and wastewater campgrounds: infrastructure in the City of Chief Miwaleta RV Park and Monroe.

Campground located at 8200 Upper • Authorizing $25 milCow Creek Road in Azalea, Oregon. lion for water and wasteHalf Moon Bay Campground water infrastructure in located at 1645 Salmon Harbor Blvd Lane County. in Winchester Bay, Oregon.

• Authorizing $50 milScottsburg County Park located at lion for water related enMP 16 on Hwy 38 near Scottsburg, vironmental infrastructure Oregon. in Benton, Coos, Curry, Camp host positions would start Douglas, Lane, Linn, and as soon as possible and run for six Josephine Counties.

Tuesday June 7, 2022 the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office convened a grand jury to conduct its own investigation. The grand jury was also thorough and exhaustive.

The grand jury heard sworn testimony from six eyewitnesses. After careful and thoughtful deliberation, the grand jury concluded that the use of deadly physical force by the officer involved was justified.

“Not only was it extremely justified, based on the deliberate and intentional actions of Spencer Cassanova Heckathorne, it was unavoidable,” stated Wesenberg.

Wesenberg said the efforts of Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Taylor Vian (who is also a member of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Crisis Negotiating Team), Myrtle Creek Police Chief Jonathan Brewster and his team of officers, Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Brent Everett and Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Melvin, ultimately prevented Heckathorne from taking the life of another.

“These officers, these brave men,

reacted with great skill, professionalism and restraint. All the officers involved these two separate encounters acted with great skill, professionalism and restraint. They did everything in their power to bring this situation to a peaceful resolution.

It was not to be,” the DA said.

After his presentation, Wesenberg introduced Hanlin. Sheriff Hanlin commended the responding officers for their response and attempt to de-escalate the situation without the use of force.

“To the involved law enforcement officers; I commend you for acting with great professionalism and restraint while attempting to de-escalate,” Hanlin said. “You acted according to the laws of this state, and in accordance with policies, procedures and your training.”

Hanlin addressed Heckathorne’s family and friends as well saying “I assure you that his death is not the outcome the law enforcement officers wanted in this situation. My agency wishes to express their deepest sympathies for your loss.”

Reward offered in 1969 murder case Christopher had contacted Janet’s sister asking her to drive around with him in hopes of finding Janet’s 1951 Plymouth sedan. After approximately 10 minutes of looking, Christopher noticed the car parked partially in the ditch on Cross Street, near Roosevelt Boulevard and Maple Street. This area, in 1969, was an industrial area.

When Christopher approached the car, he opened the trunk and found Janet’s body. She had been strangled to death.

From the initial investigation through follow-up investigations over the years, investigators have interviewed and re-interviewed many individuals. In reviewing the case, current cold case investigators believe Janet’s killer is someone known to her. The case, unfortunately, is still an unsolved case.

Recently, family and friends have approached investigators offering reward money. The family members and friends do not wish to be identified. They do believe, like the current investigators, because of the passage of 53 years, time is short and now may be the last realistic effort to identify the suspect and solve the case. Therefore, Janet’s family and friends are offering a $45,000 reward for the identification, arrest and conviction of Janet’s killer.

EPD cold case investigators believe that any and all tips are important. If you know something related to the case, please call the Eugene Police Cold Case Squad at 541-682-5588 or leave a message at coldcasesquad@eugene-or.gov.

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DeFazio, Sanders introduce new legislation to expand and strengthen Social Security system Congressman Peter DeFazio and Senator Bernie Sanders today introduced joint legislation, the Social Security Expansion Act (SSEA), to strengthen and expand Social Security for current and future generations.

“As a trained gerontologist, I have devoted my career to protecting and expanding programs that are vital to seniors. One of my highest priorities is protecting Social Security, which millions of Americans rely on, including hundreds of thousands of Oregonians. With the cost of living at an all-time high, Social Security has never been more important, yet Congressional Republicans continue to play games with its funding,” said Rep. DeFazio (D-OR).

“This legislation would ensure that the Social Security Trust Fund remains solvent for another 75 years, increase monthly benefits for most recipients by $200, and alter the cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) formula to meet the everyday needs of our nation’s seniors.”

“At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is not to cut Social Security,” said Sen. Sanders. “Our job must be to expand Social Security so that every senior citizen in America can retire with the dignity they deserve and every person with a disability can live with the security they need. And we will do that by demanding that the wealthiest people in America pay the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year. It’s time to scrap the cap, expand benefits, and fully fund Social Security.

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has estimated that our legislation to expand Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year will fully fund Social Security for the next 75 years by applying the payroll tax on all income – including capital gains – above $250,000 a year.”

“It is well past time for Social Security to be updated to meet the needs of today’s workers and beneficiaries. Enactment of the Social Security Expansion Act would provide positive proof that Congress takes Social Security seriously and can work together to strengthen and improve this program that is so important to Americans’ economic wellbeing - without privatization or benefit cuts.

“On behalf of our millions of members and supporters across the country, we applaud Rep. DeFazio for introducing this legislation,” said Max Richtman, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.”

“Social Security Works enthusiastically endorses the Social Security Expansion Act. This important legislation substantially increases Social Security’s modest benefits both across-the-board and in targeted ways. It greatly improves the economic security of all working families, including the economic security of every single one of Social Security’s more than 65 million beneficiaries. The legislation not only pays for every penny of improvements, but also restores Social Security to long-range actuarial balance. Thank you, Representative DeFazio, for your tireless and effective work on behalf of all working families,” said Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works.

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Why do these two girls look at HIM as their dad when I have been the one who has always been here for them?

They have never shown me much respect, yet the man who adopted them and then left them and their mother for another family they regard as their dad and respect him. -HURT AND FRUSTRATED DEAR HURT: You have my sympathy. This may have happened because their mother never explained to them that the person who left them failed to fulfill the father role he had promised, and the man who raised them -- you -- IS their dad. She also failed to insist they treat you with the respect you deserved. If there is blame to be laid, I blame her for this, not them.

DEAR ABBY: I am writing regarding my husband’s obituary. He died suddenly a year ago. Because of shock, anxiety and pressure to get his obit into the newspaper before the weekend, I rushed it. I had never written an obituary before. My dear sister-in-law helped me, and we finally finished it at 4 a.m. Since then, I have been unhappy and uncomfortable with it. It wasn’t thorough or personal or loving. It was “just the facts,” and I have always wanted to redo it. I also included some things I regret. What are your thoughts on my revamping and re-submitting another version to the area newspaper his obituary appeared in? -REDO IN THE EAST DEAR REDO: Please accept my sympathy for your loss.

Contact the newspaper and ask that question. I have seen “In Memoriam” items published long after the deceased has been buried. If you feel it would comfort you, it couldn’t hurt to ask.

DEAR ABBY: My sister’s job requires her to make presentations to professional groups. When she used the word “irregardless” in a conversation with me, I told her the correct word is “regardless.” I genuinely did not want her to embarrass herself in a professional setting.

Yesterday, she used the word “irregardless” again when we were talking. Should I correct her again, or let it go? This situation is complicated by the fact that I have asked her to stop constantly correcting me, although her corrections don’t usually involve grammar or word usage.

-- UNSURE IN FLORIDA DEAR UNSURE: You told your sister once that the word she used was incorrect. In light of your history with her, if you repeat it, she may think you are trying to one-up her and resent it. (In cases like this, no good deed goes unpunished.)

P.S. Many people make this mistake, so hold a good thought. Perhaps the audience she’s making the presentation to won’t notice.

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League (TSCL) is proud to support Congressman DeFazio’s Social Security Expansion Act. An extra $200 a month would go a long way in helping retirees make ends meet and extending the solvency of the Social Security program for 75 years means this benefit will pay itself forward for years to come,” said Richard Delaney, Chair, The Senior Citizens League.

The Social Security Expansion Act would: • Extend the solvency of the Social Security trust fund 75 years, through 2096, by requiring the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share into the fund, just like everyone else.

This legislation would lift the income tax cap and subject all income above $250,000 to the Social Security Payroll tax. Under this bill, more than 93 percent of households would not see their taxes go up by one penny.

• Expand Social Security benefits across-the-board for current and new beneficiaries. Under this bill, Social Security benefits for someone turning 62 next year would be $200 per month higher.

• Increase Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs).

This bill would more accurately measure spending patterns of seniors by adopting the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E), which would change the formula to reflect what seniors spend a disproportionate amount of their income on such as health care and prescription drugs.

• Require millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share into Social Security.

Currently, workers have 12.4 percent taken out of each paycheck and con-

tributed to the Trust Fund, half paid by the employer and half by the worker.

This bill would require the wealthy pay the same 12.4 percent on their investments and business income by increasing the net investment income tax by 12.4 percent and applying it to certain business income not already covered by payroll taxes.

• Improve the Special Minimum Benefit for Social Security recipients.

This bill will help low-income workers stay out of poverty by updating and increasing the Special Minimum Benefit and indexing the benefit level so that it is equal to 125 percent of the poverty line or about $17,000 for a single worker who had worked their full career.

• Restore student benefits up to age 22 for children of disabled or deceased workers, if the child is a fulltime student in a college or vocational school. This legislation restores student benefits to help educate children of deceased or disabled parents (these benefits were eliminated in 1983).

• Combine the Disability Insurance Trust Fund with the Old Age and Survivors Trust fund to help senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

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Obituaries Eugenia “Jean” Bell Duval July 16, 1926 – June 7, 2022

A memorial mass will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 8, 2022 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Bandon, for long-time loved Bandon resident, Eugenia “Jean” Bell Duval.

Jean was born July 16, 1926 in Inavale, Nebraska, the daughter of George Leland and Isabel Hegarty McMahon. She died June 7, 2022 in Coos Bay at the age of 95.

Jean was reared and educated in Red Cloud, Nebraska, graduating from high school there. She attended college to be certified as a teacher and taught in the Nebraska School System until becoming engaged to be married.

Jean married Clayton E. Duval on June 30, 1948 in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

They farmed in Campbell, Nebraska until moving to Bandon in 1952 with 3 children, where Jean had 8

more children and managed the household as a loving mother in Bandon.

Jean and Clayton had eleven children between 1949 and 1962. They bought the home they live in on Bates Road in 1960.

They were married for 72 years.

She enjoyed anything that involved family.

She loved having her grandchildren around her playing and interacting with her. She was an active member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, which she loved as well.

She is survived by nine children and one son-inlaw, Charles Duval, David & Sharon Duval, Patrick Strain, Ronald & Kathy Duval, Larry & Kathy Duval, Douglas & Dana Duval, Roger Duval, Christina Roan, Diane & Gordon Boster, George “Rich” Duval; 37 grandchildren; 46 great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; sister, Doris Erikson; and brother, Edward McMahon. She was preceded by her husband, Clayton; son, Patrick; daughter, Joyce; brothers, Wally, Don and Jack.

Arrangements are under the direction of Amling Schroeder Funeral Service, Bandon.

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Prepare for Blackouts Across the U.S. as Summer Takes Hold

By LLEWELLYN KING InsideSources.com

Just when it didn’t seem things couldn’t get worse — gasoline at $5 to $8 a gallon, supply shortages in everything from baby formula to new cars — comes the devastating news that many of us will endure electricity blackouts this summer.

The alarm was sounded by the nonprofit North American Electric Reliability Corp. and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The North American electric grid is the largest machine on earth and the most complex, incorporating everything from the wonky pole you see at the roadside with a bird’s nest of wires to some of the most sophisticated engineering ever devised. It runs in real-time, even more so than the air traffic control system: All the airplanes in the sky don’t have to land at the same time, but electricity must be there at the flick of every switch.

Except it may not always be there this summer. Rod Kuckro, a respected energy journalist, says it depends on Mother Nature, but the prognosis isn’t good.

Speaking on “White House Chronicle,” the weekly news and public affairs program on PBS that I host and produce, Kuckro said, “There is a confluence of factors that could affect energy supply across the majority of the (lower) 48 states. These are continued reduced hydroelectric production in the West, and the continued drought in the Southwest.”

The biggest threat to power supply, according to the NERC and the FERC, is in the vast central region, reaching from Manitoba in Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico. It is served by the regional transmission organization, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

These operational entities are nonprofit companies that organize and distribute their regions’ bulk power for utilities. In California, it is the California Independent System Operator; in the Mid-Atlantic, it is PJM; and in the Northeast, it is the New England System Independent Operator.

They generate no power, but they control power flows and could initiate brownouts and blackouts.

With record storm activity and high temperatures predicted this summer, blackouts are likely to be deadly. The old, the young and the sick are all vulnerable. If the electric supply fails, with it goes everything from air condi-

tioning to refrigeration to lights and even the ability to pump gas or access money from ATMs. The United States, along with other modern nations, runs on electricity and when that falls short, it is catastrophic. It is chaos writ large, especially if the failure lasts more than a few hours.

On the same episode of “White House Chronicle,” Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at the Electric Power Research Institute, also referred to a “confluence of factors” contributing to the impending electricity crisis. Brooks said, “We’re going through a significant change in terms of the energy mix and resources, and the way those resources behave under certain weather conditions.”

If power supply is stressed this summer, change in the generating mix will get a lot of political attention. At heart is the switch from fossil fuel generation to renewables. If there are power outages, a political storm will ensue. The Biden administration will be accused of speeding the switch to renewables, although the utilities don’t say that.

The weather is deteriorating, and the grid is stretched in dealing with new realities as well as coping with old bugaboos, like the extreme difficulty in building transmission lines. Better transmission would relieve a lot of grid stress.

Peter Londa, president of Tantalus Systems, which helps its 260 utility customers digitize and cope with the new realities, explained some of the difficulties facing the utilities not only in the shifting sources of generation but also in the new shape of the electric demand. For example, he said, electric vehicles, particularly the much-awaited Ford F-150 Lightning pickup, could be an asset to homeowners and utilities. During a blackout, their EVs could be used to power their homes for days. They could be a source of storage if thousands of owners signed up with their utilities in a storage program.

The fact is that utilities are facing three major shifts: in the generation to wind and solar, in customer demand, and especially in weather.

Mother Nature is on a rampage and we all must adjust to that.

ABOUT THE WRITER Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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Letters to the Editor The wrong approach After reading the open letter from David Milliron to North Bend, I realize how misguided the approach the Bay Area is having toward the homeless problem is.

Every discussion concerning the homeless population here that doesn’t begin with the question “how do we get rid of them” is futile. Sound cold you say? OK, let’s just get rid of the single males then. That should bring things down to a manageable level. Why them? Well how many of these men grew up here? Attended our elementary schools? The answer is not many.

So, they came in here from somewhere, but why? Well, the same reason a locust comes into fertile fields. The same reason the elk are congregated at Dean Creek. Because it’s a good place to be if you are them. Better than other places for a variety of reasons or they would move on.

So, our efforts should be concentrated on making it not be a good place to be for them, period. No

place for a free meal. No place to sleep. No one handing them money. As inhospitable as possible within the law. Now there are other ways of “getting rid of them” or course. They could clean up their drug habits, get work, co-op living arrangement and they would also be gone from the streets.

But they won’t and we need to accept this.

And if it’s not bad enough they are bold and arrogant now, like Africanized honey bees. They will confront you if you tell them to get out of your garbage or your yard. Our children and many adults fear them. We have to say enough. Our community doesn’t have the resources to continue to allow these people to live a parasitical lifestyle at our expense.

I for one don’t give a damn about the “root causes” anymore. The root cause is misguided bleeding hearts with woke bringing up the rear.

John Chaplin Coos Bay

Guest Column

Wildland Firefighters Need Funding, Support to Fight Fire With Fire

By KELLY MARTIN InsideSources.com

As children in northern Illinois, my siblings and I hardly considered collecting leaves from our yard a chore.

The promise of lighting the pile on fire and seeing it go up in flames at the end of the day was a reward. My love of fire has remained a core value over the years, influencing my professional development, education and the land management methods for which I’ve advocated during my 35 years at the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service and, now in retirement, with Grassroots Wildland Firefighters.

Since the beginning of my career in 1984, the National Park Service has led the industry in incorporating fire into land management planning. Wildfires release nutrients into the soil, promote seed germination, improve forest diversity and sustain critical habitats for wildlife.

During my career as the chief of fire and aviation at Yosemite National Park, I witnessed how wildfires led to the flush of nutrients needed for the new growth of wildflowers; the sprouting of giant sequoia seedlings; and the inception and transformation of diverse wildlife habitats. These experiences allow me to understand the essential role of fire in maintaining healthy ecosystems — and appreciating our wildland firefighters.

Despite their many benefits, wildfires remain dangerous and destructive events that climate change exacerbates. Climate change increases the frequency and severity of wildfires with more intense and prolonged droughts, more flammable vegetation, and higher seasonal

temperatures that make forests more likely to burn rapidly and unpredictably.

When prescribed burns — fires intentionally set to burn forest litter and dead vegetation that could act as fuel for wildfires — are combined with other fire-suppression techniques, they can decrease the severity of wildfires by up to 72 percent.

But homeowners have tried to minimize controlled fires in land management, citing threats to life, property, and natural resources. However, oppressing wildfires while ignoring their use as an essentially natural process has only worsened their effects.

From 1985 to 1999, the annual average for federal wildfire suppression costs in the United States hovered at $425 million.

Between 2000 and 2019, it jumped to $1.6 billion, and in 2021, it exceeded $4.4 billion.

The current reactive focus on fire suppression detracts financial resources and human capital from the already limited workforce available to advance proactive land-management techniques enhancing forest resilience to climate change.

The United States is experiencing some of the worst recorded wildfires and droughts in its history, and wildland firefighters stand at the forefront of this crisis. They are drained of resources and still being asked to do more — and risk more — than ever before, all while being paid wages lower than their municipal- and state-level counterparts.

These conditions are unsustainable and have led to physical harm, elevated and untreated problems of sleep deprivation, alcohol use disorder, depression and suicide. Firefighters are more likely to die of suicide than in the

line of duty.

The Biden administration has made progress addressing this crisis by committing to a minimum wage raise for federal firefighters, establishing retention incentives, and offering bonuses for seasonal workers. But there is much more that needs to be done to reform the federal firefighting workforce and its resources.

Proposed legislation such as the “Tim’s Act” would provide adequate compensation and classification, mental health leave, education, training, and other essentials for workforce retention and safer conditions.

The wildfires I am witnessing today are not the same wildfires I grew up seeing. Climate change is making them more intense, dangerous and difficult to control. As Congress works in 2022, they must consider lasting legislation that supports the federal wildland firefighters on the front lines.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocated needed funding for forest restoration work, including $5.16 billion to better defend our forests through practices like prescribed burns.

But the firefighters who will be essential in implementing these practices must be paid competitive wages and receive the necessary training, leave and other vital benefits. This will lead to a more robust workforce, which is desperately needed to tackle the increasingly longer and higher intensity wildfire seasons due mainly to climate change.

ABOUT THE WRITER Kelly Martin co-founded Grassroots Wildland Firefighters to advocate for the health and wellbeing of firefighters. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT: READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY! You must “appear” in the case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must file with the court a legal paper called a “motion” or “answer.” The “motion” or “answer” must be given to the court clerk or administrator within thirty (30) days of the date of first publication specified herein along with the required filing fee. It must be in proper form and have proof of service on the Plaintiff’s attorney: P.O. Box 1146, 420 S.E. Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon, 97470. If you have questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help in finding an attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at www.oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 (in the Portland metropolitan area) or toll-free elsewhere in Oregon at (800) 452- 7636. Date of first publication: June 14, 2022 /s/ Christopher W. Peterman, OSB #034212 Attorney at Law, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 1146 / 420 S.E. Jackson Street Roseburg, OR 97470 (541) 229-0202 Published: June 14, June 21, June 28 and July 5, 2022 The World & ONPA (ID:343774)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE SALE OF COUNTY FOREST LANDS - TO: ALL INTERESTED PERSONS

$37,470.04 TOTAL REQUIRED TO PAYOFF: $199,294.27 Because of interest, late charges, and other charges that may vary from day-to- day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. It will be necessary for you to contact the Trustee before the time you tender reinstatement or the payoff amount so that you may be advised of the exact amount you will be required to pay. By reason of the default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the trust deed immediately due and payable, those sums being the following, to- wit: The installments of principal and interest which became due on 1/1/- 2020, and all subsequent installments of principal and interest through the date of this Notice, plus amounts that are due for late charges, delinquent property taxes, insurance premiums, advances made on senior liens, taxes and/or insurance, trustee’s fees, and any attorney fees and court costs arising from or associated with the beneficiaries efforts to protect and preserve its security, all of which must be paid as a condition of reinstatement, including all sums that shall accrue through reinstatement or pay-off. Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms of the loan documents.

Whereof, notice hereby is given that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned trustee will on 9/1/2022 at the hour of 10:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statues, Inside the main lobby of the Coos County Courthouse, 250 N Baxter St, Coquille, OR 97423 County of COOS, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.778 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee’s and attorney’s fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. Other than as shown of record, neither the beneficiary nor the trustee has any actual notice of any person having or claiming to have any lien upon or interest in the real property hereinabove described subsequent to the interest of the trustee in the trust deed, or of any successor in interest to grantor or of any lessee or other person in possession of or occupying the property, except: Name and Last Known Address and Nature of Right, Lien or Interest JOHN ENGEBRETSON 617 E STREET COOS BAY, OR 97420 Original Borrower LEOLA ENGEBRETSON 617 E STREET COOS BAY, OR 97420-6327 Original Borrower

For Sale Information Call: 855 238- 5118 or Login to: https://- www.xome.com In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to this grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the trust deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Pursuant to Oregon Law, this sale will not be deemed final until the Trustee’s deed has been issued by QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON. If any irregularities are discovered within 10 days of the date of this sale, the trustee will rescind the sale, return the buyer’s money and take further action as necessary. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee.

This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Without limiting the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic.

Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this property at the trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO TENANTS: TENANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY HAVE CERTAIN PROTECTIONS AFFFORDED TO THEM UNDER ORS 86.782 AND POSSIBLY UNDER FEDERAL LAW. ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE OF SALE, AND INCORPORATED HEREIN, IS A NOTICE TO TENANTS THAT SETS FORTH SOME OF THE PROTECTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO A TENANT OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY AND WHICH SETS FORTH CERTAIN REQUIRMENTS THAT MUST BE COMPLIED WITH BY ANY TENANT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE AFFORDED PROTECTION, AS REQUIRED UNDER ORS 86.771. TS No: OR- 22913646-RM Dated: 4/21/2022 Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, as Trustee Signature By: Jeff Stenman, President Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1st Ave South, Suite 202, Seattle, WA 98104 Toll Free: (866) 925-0241 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202, Seattle, WA 98104 Toll Free: (866) 925-0241 IDSPub #0178102 5/24/2022 5/31/2022 6/7/- 2022 6/14/2022 Published: May 24, May 31, June 7 and June 14, 2022 The World & ONPA (ID:340904)

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Employment Opps POSITION AVAILABLE: Coordinator for The Digest of Wine & Spirits Law. Bandon/Myrtle Point area.

Customer support, marketing, website management.

Looking for a reliable team player. Full time/long term, health insurance. $3,000 to $3,200/mo. COVID-19 vaccination required. More info: https://csa-compliance.com

Coastal Forester Lone Rock Resources, a progressive, family-owned company with lands located across Southwestern Oregon, is seeking a highly motivated Forester for our coastal operations based out of our Myrtle Point office. This is a unique and exciting opportunity with exposure to a wide range of forest operations and room for growth. Applicants should have at least a 2- year degree in Forestry or Natural Resources or at least 2 years’ experience in forestry. A Bachelor’s degree in forestry is preferred but not required. The position will be mostly field based and may include harvest unit layout and logging contract administration, contract tree planting administration, contract spray administration, young stand exams, herbicide application, slash burning, and other duties related to growing and harvesting trees. Willingness to live in Coos County is a requirement of this position.

Lone Rock offers competitive wages, depending on experience, including annual performance-based bonus and exceptional benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) and profit sharing, paid vacation and holidays, a company vehicle available for personal use, annual boot allowance, and more. Lone Rock Resources is also offering relocation assistance if needed.

For more information see our website at www. lonerockresources.com. Lone Rock Resources is a drug free equal opportunity employer.

To apply please submit a cover letter and resume. This position will be open until filled, so apply soon!

Lone Rock Resources Attn: Andrea Kellom PO Box 1127 Roseburg, OR 97470 akellom@lrtco.com 541-673-0141 Ext. 300 -----------------------------------------Now hiring all positions for upcoming season. Tony’s Crab Shack old town Bandon.

Call (541)290-2293 for info POSITION AVAILABLE at regulatory compliance firm in Bandon/Myrtle Point area.

Compliance Assistant. Full time/long term, health insurance. Start 7/2022. $3,000 to $3,500/mo. COVID-19 vaccination required. More info: https://csa-compliance.com Coos Health & Wellness is recruiting for a Public Health Aide for their WIC program.

Salary Range: $3,151 - $3,907 p/mo. **EOE** County application required.

Visit www.co.coos.or.us for an application and full job description, or contact Human Resources at humanresources@ co.coos.or.us (541) 396-7580 Open Until Filled -----------------------------------------Looking for a temporary dump truck driver through the summer in the Coquille Valley area.

Must have Class A CDL and a clean driving record. Call 541290-1710 for more information.

-----------------------------------------Cashier Wanted! 30 hrs per week. Sat, Sun, Mon. Pay plus $100.00 per day tip average.

Tony’s Crab Shack old town Bandon. Call (541) 290- 2293 for interview.

-----------------------------------------We are hiring CDL-A Drivers, Hazmat Fuel Drivers and Propane Delivery Bobtail drivers! We offer competitive pay and benefits! All positions are stable, year around, and home daily! Call us at 541- 396-5571 or visit us at 580 N Central Blvd. Coquille, OR 97423 for an interview today!

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I can help out with yard work, cooking, dog-walking, etc. * Can provide references from current landlord and neighbors. * I don't need any place fancy, I'm just looking for some place affordable. * I have a washer and dryer if hookups are available. * Call or text Bill at 541-435-4846 or call 541-751-1851. Thank you.

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Legal Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT R. MAGILL, Deceased Case No. 22PB04019 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Elisa Crawford has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present the claim, with proper documentation, within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice, as stated below, to the Personal Representative at the office of GOULD LAW FIRM, P.C. 243 W. Commercial, PO Box 29, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, or the claim may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, 250 N. Baxter Street, Coquille, Oregon, 97423, the Personal Representative or the attorney for the Personal Representative. Dated and first published May 31, 2022.

Elisa Crawford Personal Representative 3447 Arrowhead Street Eugene, OR 97404 (541) 294-0539 Published: May 31, June 7 and June 14, 2022 The World & ONPA (ID:342796) -----------------------------------------NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS Notice is hereby given that Sheryl McDonald has been appointed personal representative for the Estate of Margaret A. Olson, by the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Coos County Case File No. 22PB04824. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby notified to present them to the personal representative, at the office of the personal representative’s attorney at 1400 Executive Parkway, Suite 300, Eugene, OR 97401, within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or their claims may be barred.

Date of the first publication of this notice is May 31, 2022. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceeding may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, the personal representative, or the personal representative’s attorney, Zach C. Wojo-Sykes, Strohman Ford, LLC, 1400 Executive Parkway, Suite 300, Eugene, OR 97401; Phone 541-345-4312.

Published: May 31, June 7 and June 14, 2022 The World & ONPA (ID:342810)

-----------------------------------------NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD The North Bend City and CoosCurry Housing Authorities will be accepting written and oral comments on the Capital Fund Program at a public meeting to be held on July 21 at 3:00 PM at 1700 Monroe Street, North Bend. Documents as well as supporting information can be reviewed, or a copy requested, at the same address. For more information, call : 541-751-2042.

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Notice is hereby given that the Coos County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on June 21, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. during the regular board meeting in the conference room at the Owen Bldg., 201 N. Adams Street, Coquille, Oregon. The purpose of the hearing will be to hear public comments on the sale of County Forest Land. Pursuant to ORS 275.330, properties may be sold if the Board of Commissioners finds it in the best interests of the public to do so. Proceeds from any sale will be used to maintain or improve existing County Forest or Park lands or for future acquisition of lands to be set aside as County Forest or Park lands. The County Forest Lands are described as follows: Tax Account 535000 T26S, R13W, Section 24B TL600 containing approximately 5.02 acres.

Date: June 1, 2022 Lance Morgan, Coos County Forester Published: June 7 and June 14, 2022 The World & ONPA (ID:343370) -----------------------------------------TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE T.S. No.: OR-22-913646RM Reference is made to that certain deed made by, JOHN E. ENGEBRETSON AND LEOLA R. ENGEBRETSON, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor to NATIONAL TRUSTEE CORPORATION, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., (“MERS”) AS NOMINEE FOR HOME POINT FINANCIAL CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 12/22/2017, recorded 1/4/2018, in official records of COOS County, Oregon in book/- reel/volume No. and/or as fee/file/- instrument/ microfilm/reception number 2018-00132 and subsequently assigned or transferred by operation of law to Freedom Mortgage Corporation covering the following described real property situated in said County, and State. APN: 3993600 LOTS 17, 18 AND 19, BLOCK 42, EAST MARSHFIELD, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as: 617 E STREET, COOS BAY, OR 97420 The undersigned hereby certifies that based upon business records there are no known written assignments of the trust deed by the trustee or by the beneficiary, except as recorded in the records of the county or counties in which the above described real property is situated. Further, no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the trust deed, or, if such action has been instituted, such action has been dismissed except as permitted by ORS 86.752(7). Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.752(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes. There is a default by grantor or other person owing an obligation, performance of which is secured by the trust deed, or by the successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of such provision.

The default for which foreclosure is made is grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sum: TOTAL REQUIRED TO REINSTATE:

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A public meeting of the Reedsport City Council will be held on June 20, 2022, at 7:15 pm at 451 Winchester Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon, in the City Council Chambers. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022 as approved by the Reedsport Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at Reedsport City Hall, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. or online at www.cityofreedsport. org. This budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

A public meeting of the Reedsport Urban Renewal District Board will be held on June 20, 2022, at 7:00 pm at 451 Winchester Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon, in the City Council Chambers. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022 as approved by the Reedsport Urban Renewal District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at Reedsport City Hall, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p. m. or online at www.cityofreedsport.org. This budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

Contact: Michelle Fraley, Finance Director

Contact: Michelle Fraley, Finance Director

Telephone: 541-271-1986

Email: mfraley@cityofreedsport.org

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount Approved Budget Adopted Budget TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS Fiscal Year 2020-21 Fiscal Year 2021-22 Fiscal Year 2022-23 Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital 7,772,021 6,302,294 6,377,665 Fees, Licenses, Permits, Fines, Assessments & Other Service Charges 3,437,192 3,348,290 3,413,280 Federal, State and all Other Grants, Gifts, Allocations and Donations 747,062 5,206,480 7,939,135 Revenue from Bonds and Other Debt 0 0 0 Interfund Transfers / Internal Service Reimbursements 631,817 745,780 758,810 All Other Resources Except Current Year Property Taxes 1,714,398 1,353,849 1,459,955 Current Year Property Taxes Estimated to be Received 1,462,625 1,400,000 1,300,000 Total Resources $15,765,116 $18,356,693 $21,248,845

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount Approved Budget Adopted Budget TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS 2020-21 Fiscal Year 2021-22 Next Year 2022-23 Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital 172,010 170,000 320,000 Federal, State and All Other Grants 109,230 265,000 442,500 Revenue from Bonds and Other Debt 0 300,000 300,000 Interfund Transfers 5,000 0 0 All Other Resources Except Division of Tax & Special Levy 15,181 63,950 14,200 Revenue from Division of Tax 129,866 124,500 144,500 Revenue from Special Levy 0 0 0 Total Resources 431,287 923,450 1,221,200

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Personnel Services 2,627,076 2,997,014 Materials and Services 1,884,807 3,336,448 Capital Outlay 1,161,756 7,947,921 Debt Service 2,381,145 574,260 Interfund Transfers 631,817 745,780 Contingencies 0 1,140,420 Special Payments Unappropriated Ending Balance and Reserved for Future Expenditure 7,078,515 1,614,850 Total Requirements $15,765,116 $18,356,693

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Personnel Services 0 0 Materials and Services 19,045 20,500 Capital Outlay 197,596 841,950 Debt Service 7,410 61,000 Interfund Transfers 5,000 0 Contingencies 0 0 All Other Expenditures and Requirements 0 0 Unappropriated Ending Fund Balance 202,235 0 Total Requirements 431,287 923,450

3,075,115 3,364,600 10,986,970 574,260 758,810 857,405 1,631,685 $21,248,845

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program City Council $2,098 $8,120 $8,120 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 City Manager $124,772 $169,293 $169,900 FTE 1.40 1.40 1.40 Finance $115,939 $140,230 $139,740 FTE 1.50 1.55 1.55 Legal Services $19,717 $32,000 $32,000 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Municipal Court $81,938 $125,292 $126,480 FTE 0.50 0.50 0.50 Community Development $50,853 $83,251 $103,280 FTE 0.30 0.25 0.25 City Recorder $48,889 $43,830 $46,195 FTE 0.60 0.60 0.60 Community Building/City Hall $19,748 $26,780 $30,380 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Police $1,363,945 $1,544,540 $1,596,080 FTE 14.57 13.70 13.70 SRO $69,507 $82,080 $86,775 FTE 0.75 0.75 0.75 Volunteer Fire $118,509 $146,550 $148,000 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Building Inspection $51,064 $710,126 $70,150 FTE 0.20 0.20 0.20 Public Services $166,974 $202,360 $213,450 FTE 1.73 1.61 1.61 Senior Center $14,900 $20,675 $20,675 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Street $965,211 $1,071,150 $796,150 FTE 0.77 0.77 0.77 Water $1,643,416 $1,692,000 $1,770,000 FTE 4.59 4.59 4.59 Wastewater $5,342,137 $4,006,500 $64,014,018 FTE 4.77 4.77 4.77 Stormwater $907,702 $1,099,150 $2,706,525 FTE 0.32 0.32 0.32 Bicycle Footpath $56,415 $56,100 $57,150 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Fire Equipment Fund $103,940 $1,183,650 $990,100 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Dunes NRA Lease $698,779 $480,000 $288,500 FTE 0.54 0.54 0.54 Riverfront $248,990 $200,209 $254,700 FTE 1.00 1.00 1.00 Water System Development $121,029 $121,600 $147,930 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Wastewater System Development $303,421 $305,800 $305,700 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Stormwater System Development $6,533 $6,595 $6,550 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 General Capital $499,873 $3,140,830 $2,426,707 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Dial-A-Ride $24,021 $160,020 $43,970 FTE 0.11 0.11 0.11 Animal Shelter $33,651 $26,250 $31,200 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Library $4,383 $5,104 $5,595 FTE 0.00 0.07 0.07 Police Capital Fund $187,114 $144,700 $233,900 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 CERT Fund $781 $610 $1,510 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program $2,368,867 $1,961,298 $1,990,025 FTE 0.00 0.00 0.00 Total Requirements $15,765,116 $18,356,693 $21,248,845 Total FTE 33.65 32.73 32.73

0 67,990 1,098,210 55,000 0 0 0 0 1,221,200

FINANCIAL SUMMARY-REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program 293,696 General Fund (150) 595,600 786,100 0 FTE 0 137,591 Main Street Fund (151) 327,850 435,100 0 FTE 0 0 0 Non-Departmental / Non-Program 0 0 0 FTE 0 0 Total Requirements 431,287 923,450 1,221,200 Total FTE 0 0 0 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING * 1) The Main Street Program is again under the sponsorship of the Urban Renewal District for the sixth consecutive year.

2) No transfers are budgeted to support the levee recertification this year in an effort to rebuild capital reserves.

LONG TERM DEBT General Obligation Bonds Other Bonds Other Borrowings Total

STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS Estimated Debt Outstanding on July 1 $0 $0 $0 0

Estimated Debt Authorized, But Not Incurred on July 1 0 0 0 0

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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING * Levy, stormwater projects continue towards levy certification.

PROPERTY TAX LEVIES Rate or Amount Imposed 2020-2021 Permanent Rate Levy (rate limit 6.18882 per $1,000) 6.18882 Local Option Levy 0 Levy For General Obligation Bonds 0

LONG TERM DEBT General Obligation Bonds Other Bonds Other Borrowings Total

STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS Estimated Debt Outstanding on July 1 $0 $7,423,288 $0 $7,423,288

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Rate or Amount Rate or Amount Imposed Approved This Year 2021-2022 Next Year 2022-23 6.18882 6.18882 0 0 0 0

Estimated Debt Authorized, But Not Incurred on July 1 $0 $0 $0 $0

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Police Blotter Tuesday 6/7: North Bend • 10:44 pm, 2100 block of Marion Avenue, loud subject/ criminal trespass. A 30 year old male was charged with criminal trespass II, criminal mischief III, resisting arrest, harassment, aggravated harassment, and attempted aggravated harassment.

Subject transported to Coos County jail.

Coos Bay • 1:03 am, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue, suspicious person/warrant service. A 40 year old male was cited on a Florence Police Department Muni warrant and a Douglas County Sheriff Office warrant.

• 5:03 pm, 1200 block of Newmark Avenue, theft of bike.

• 6:32 pm, 700 block of Pre-

fontaine Drive, unlawful entry into motor vehicle and theft.

• 7:02 pm, 100 block of S Main, warrant service. A 37 year old male was cited on a Coos Bay Police Department warrant.

Coquille • 6:14 pm, 100 N Birch Street, criminal trespass.

• 10:37 pm, Central and 2nd, traffic stop. A 25 year old male was cited for driving while suspended.

• 11:53 pm, 100 block of N Johnson Street, fight.

Reedsport • 3:15 pm, 1000 block of Scott Terrace, animal problem.

• 6:10 pm, 700 block of Greenwood Avenue, liquor law violation.

• 11:40 pm, 2600 block of Frontage Road, juvenile problem.

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Wednesday 6/8: North Bend • 10:30 am, State Street, theft of playground equipment.

• 10:30 am, 1800 block of McPherson Avenue, theft of vehicle part.

• 7:27 pm, 3200 block of Tremont Avenue, theft on the gaming floor.

Coos Bay • 1:44 am, 700 block of S Broadway Street, theft from vehicle.

• 8:26 am, 1200 block of Embarcadero Circle, unlawful entry into motor vehicle and theft.

• 4:59 pm, 100 block of Hall Avenue, criminal trespass/ warrant service. Officer served three valid Coos Bay Police Department warrants on a male subject.

• 8:10 pm, 1700 block of Idaho Drive, homicide.

• 9:17 pm, 1000 block of

Evans Boulevard, criminal trespass/assault. A 44 year old female was cited for criminal trespass II. Coquille • 11:48 am, 5th Street Park, caller was verbally attacked by another parent at the park.

Reedsport • 1:32 am, NAPA Auto Part, theft.

• 1:36 am, 5900 block of Lower Smith River Road, disturbance.

• 3:33 pm, 800 block of Crestview Drive, animal problem.

• 10:32 pm, 2600 block of Frontage Road, juvenile problem.

Thursday 6/9: North Bend • 4:44 am, 3200 block of Tremont Avenue, animal abuse.

• 5:15 am, Virginia Avenue, criminal trespass/warrant

service. North Bend Police Department served Coos Bay and North Bend Police Department warrants. A 27 year old male was cited.

• 2:59 pm, 700 block of Tower, tree down.

• 11:28 pm, 1500 block of Sherman Avenue, warrant service. A 44 year old male was transported to Coos County jail.

Coos Bay • 12:44 am, 900 block of Augustine Street, prowler.

Someone in the window at location.

• 8:29 am, 600 block of H Street, theft from vehicle.

• 12:38 pm, Market and Bayshore, indecent exposure.

• 2:28 pm, 200 block of 2nd Avenue, minor in possession of marijuana.

• 5:22 200 block of Central Avenue, unlawful entry into motor vehicle.

• 7:13 pm, 100 block of Hall

Avenue, criminal trespass. A 58 year old female was cited for criminal trespass II and false information.

Coquille • 7:26 am, 600 W Central Boulevard, civil problem.

• 9:01 100 block of Woodridge Road, neighbor dispute.

• 10:43 pm, 1200 block N Dean Street, burglary. Subject kicked in her door and stole bike.

Reedsport • 12:17 am, 2600 block of Frontage Road, trespassing.

• 2:06 am, 2600 block of Frontage Road, trespassing.

• 2:46 am, 400 block of N 10th Street, domestic disturbance.

• 2:12 pm, 3rd Street and Winchester, animal problem.

• 2:16 pm, 1300 block of Highway Avenue, theft.

• 6:26 pm, 600 block of S 22nd Street, burglary.

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Ainsworth named to all-state basketball team The World Marshfield’s Mason Ainsworth was named to the Class 4A boys basketball all-state first team.

Ainsworth was player of the year in the Sky-Em League and is Marshfield’s all-time leading scorer.

Marshfield’s Pierce Davidson was an honorable mention pick.

State champion Cascade swept the top awards with player of the year Kellen Sande and coach of the year Calvin Molan.

Sage Kramer of Philomath was the girls player of the year. Jerin Say of Madras was coach of the year.

CLASS 2A: Bandon’s Katelyn Senn was named to the Class 2A first team after the Tigers earned a trophy at the state tournament for the third straight year.

The Tigers’ Olivia Thompson was named to the second team. Maddi Reynolds of Myrtle Point and Holli Vigue of Coquille were named honorable mention.

Union’s Callie Glenn was named player of the year and the Bobcats’ Jordan Klebaun-Johnston was coach of the year.

CLASS 3A: Sutherlin’s Micah Wicks was player of the year and Nyssa’s Jeremy Chamberlain coach of the year.

Brookings-Harbor’s Ashlyn Schofield was named to the third team.

Cascade Christian swept the top awards for the Class 3A boys with player of the year Austin Maurer and coach of the year Brian Morse.

Brookings-Harbor’s Brad Russell was an honorable mention pick.

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Marshfield’s Mason Ainsworth drives to the basket during a game earlier this year. Ainsworth was named to the Class 4A all-state first team. He was also district MVP and is the leading scorer in Marshfield history.

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Marshfield’s Dom Montiel earned second-team all-state honors for baseball.

Montiel was named to the second team as a pitcher. He was player of the year in the Sky-Em League this year.

Marshfield’s Drake Rogers was an honorable motion pick as an outfielder.

La Grande’s Devin Bell was named player of the year and Parker McKinley coach of the year after the Tigers captured the state title.

CLASS 2A-1A: Bandon’s Colton Seiwell was named to the third team as a pitcher in Class 2A-1A. Bandon’s Dylan Kamph was a third-team outfielder, along with Reedsport’s Kyren Johnson. Reedsport’s Jon Train was named to the third team at designated hitter.

Bandon’s Cooper Lang was named honorable mention as an infielder.

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The Southwestern Oregon Community College softball team swept the top awards for the NWAC South Region after the Lakers won the regular-season title in the region.

Brittany Bye was named most valuable player, Alyssa Smokey named pitcher of the year and Megan Corriea coach of the year.

The Lakers also had four players on the first team — Smokey, Bye and fellow infielders Hannah Tennant and Samantha Mansfield.

SWOCC pitcher Joslyn Soinila, infielder Alapese Matautia, outfielder Katy Evans and designated player McKenna Marshall all were on the second team.

Mount Hood ultimately won the NWAC title, beating Bellevue in the championship game.

BASEBALL SWOCC landed two players on the South Region first team — Outfielder Chase Stewart and designated hitter Anu McCabe.

Infielder Taigo Sato and Noah Sumibcay were named to the second team.

White and fellow outfielder Bula White both won gold glove awards.

Mount Hood pitcher Jeff Nelson was named most valuable player and Linn-Benton’s Andy Peterson was coach of the year.

Those two teams met in the NWAC championship game with Linn-Benton beating Mount Hood

4-1 for its first title since 1981.

BASKETBALL SWOCC’s Kareem Rowe was named to the South Region first team and Onwaja Thomas was named to the all-defensive team for the region.

The player of the year was Umpqua’s Nathan Webb and coach of the year was Lane’s Matt Zosel, a Marshfield graduate who has since taken the head coaching job at Southern Oregon University.

Zosel graduated from SOU in 2002 and was a three-time NAIA Academic All-American for the Raiders in basketball and football.

He is the school’s record holder for single-season and career fieldgoal percentage.

This Week in History 1922 Many large ships will load here Kinnicutt, Mundelta and the Munaires coming soon Will take part cargoes from port docks and local mills Major Maginnis, manager of the Port of Coos Bay, this morning received notice that the Kinnicutt would arrive here June 10th to take on part cargo at the Port dock. She is scheduled to receive 800,000 from J.W. Mackintosh’s Reedsport mill for the east coast. The Kinnicutt has been expected for some time but was delayed.

The Mundelta will arrive June 13 and after loading part cargo at the C.A. Smith mill will take on about 900,000 feet at the Port of Coos Bay dock for the east coast. The Mackinotsh and Winchester Bay lumber mills at Reedsport will furnish this.

The Munaires is scheduled to arrive July 5 to load about 500,000 freet from the Reedsport Lumber Co. Circus has big crowd here today Howe’s Great London Show draws large number All Coos county represented — some former residents with the show at present All parts of Coos and Curry counties are represented in the crowd here for Howe’s Great London circus this afternoon and evening. Standing room was at part at the afternoon performance and the evening show promises to draw well.

The admission price here was 75 cents with a similar charge for reserved seats.

Yesterday was the first idle Sunday of the season for the circus as they generally aim to pick out a town where they can show on the holiday. However, and Oregon State law prevents showing in this state on Sundays.

Was here before Chy Alexander, press representative, recalled last night that he was here with the Sells Floto show on September 25, 1916, the first show to exhibit in this county.

Alexander was around today to see that all the Coos Bay Times carrier boys turned out for the show as he says that is one of the pleasures he gets out of the game, seeing that the kids have a good time, and he is especially partial to the carrier boys.

Circus men held for poker game Marshal Carter breaks up diversion Sunday night Manager furnishes bail — pot of $1.90 toes to players While giving the circus grounds the once over last evening, Marshal Carter came across an old fashioned stud poker game in full blast under the shadow of one of the tents. The betting wasn’t heavy, only $1.90

being in the pot. He raked it in but finally turned it back to the players when the foreman of their crew interceded. The latter guaranteed their bail and they were allowed to go free.

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National honors for Curry educators Don Wohler, journalism and social studies teacher at Gold Beach Union High School and Larry Hoover, guidance counselor at Pacific High School in Port Orford have been selected as Leaders of American Secondary Education for 1972, according to Ray Neugart, superintendent of the Curry County Intermediate Education District.

Nominated earlier this year by the school’s administrators, these educators were selected for this national honor on the basis of their professional and civic achievements.

Leaders of American Secondary Education is an annual awards program honoring the men and women who have distinguished themselves by their service and leadership in the field of secondary education.

UCLA captures NCAA crown; Pre, Woods gain individual wins EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) — Jim Bush makes no bones about it, he was really upset at his UCLA track and field team after arch-rival Southern California won the Pacific 8 Conference championship two weeks ago.

“We were flat and seemed uninterested in what we were doing,” Bush said today, “but I’m willing to forget all that now.”

And why shouldn’t Bush forget. His team won the “really big one” this weekend — the NCAA championships — and ran USC into the ground in the process. The Bruins finished with 82 points, far out-distancing Southern Cal with its 49 points and Texas El Paso with its 45.

Five meet records were set on Saturday’s program for a total of 12 in three days — John Smith of UCLA in the 400 meter dash (44.5), Joe Lucas of Georgetown in the steeplechase (8:30.1), Dave Wottle of Bowling Green in the 1,500 (3:39.7), freshman Tom Woods of Oregon State in the high jump (7-3 1-4) and Steve Prefontaine of Oregon in the 5,000 meters (13:31.4).

North Bend’s Norahl, Myrtle Point’s Mast gain cultural exchange berths CORVALLIS (UPI) — A nine man high school wrestling team has been named to take part in a cultural exchange wrestling program with South Africa.

Winners at the end of the two-day meet included Gunnar Nordahl of North Bend at 132 pounds and Jim Mast of Myrtle Point at heavyweight.

They will leave July 17 for Africa.

Gold Coast swimmers establish new state Junior Olympics relay record The Gold Coast Swim Team romped to a new Junior Olympic record and eleven first places on their way to a surprise fifth place finish and 128 ½ points in the Oregon Junior Olympics held at Newberg recently. The 1517 Girls 200 yard medley relay team of Jill Cummings, Katie Whitty, Vicky Matson and Julie Stamper set a new record of 2:08.4, breaking the old record held by the Vancouver Swim Club.

Highlighting the meet were the individual efforts of Vicki Matson with firsts in the 1517 girls 200 individual medley (2:27.6), 200 free (2:13.7) and 200 backstroke (2:28.2), Jill Cummings winning the 200 breaststroke (2:47.5) and the 200 butterfly (2:39.6) and second in the 100 breaststroke (1:18.5), and Julie Stamper with two firsts in the 50 and 100 freestyle (27.2 and 58.7) and second to Miss Matson in the 200 free (2:14.4).

Bay hospital boards begin work on ‘jigsaw problem’ Toss 14,000 to 15,000 different items into a jumbled pile of pieces and try to put them together in a gigantic jigsaw puzzle in 21 months.

This is the monumental task facing the Bay Area Hospital District and the two existing hospitals as they work toward the day when the new hospital is ready for occupancy and the physical move is made.

They begin putting the border around the jigsaw puzzle when the complexities of planning the move were pointed out at a joint meeting of the three hospital boards.

The job is not only to construct and prepare the new hospital, said BAHD administrator Richard Graybeal, but also to prepare the people who will be working on it. “The success of the second will be assured by the success of the first,” he emphasized.

Most of the personnel at Keizer Memorial and McAuley hospitals “obviously will seek and will get positions” in the new hospital, he noted. So one of the biggest jobs will not be staffing, but standardization of business and medical forms and procedures.

CB-NB Athletics begin training Saturday Spring training begins Saturday at North Bend Municipal Ballpark At 1 p.m., the 1972 edition of the Coos Bay-North Bend Athletics, in the third year of representation in the Class A Northwest League, takes to the field for the first practice of the “training season” which extends until June 18 when the A’s take off for Lewiston and the league opener on Tuesday, June 20.

According to Curly Leininger, general manager for Oregon Coast Baseball, the

local proprietor of the Oakland (American League) farm club, the CB-NB Athletics will have a “new look” in more ways than one.

The initial change will be the person of Grover Resinger, the third CB-NB manager in the three years the club has been in existence. Resinger succeeds first-year skipper Harry Bright and 1971 manager Jim Reinhold.

And with his arrival (via tonight’s 8 o’clock flight at the North Bend airport) comes a new philosophy, a different personnel structure from the previous two campaigns.

“Resinger wants to play the kids every day, not just once a month,” Leininger said in revealing that the Athletics will be carrying, at the most, “about 25 ballplayers.” This is entirely different from the previous two seasons when the Athletics had 35 players.

2002 County purchases Hauser property for park Riley Ranch: Grand funds, donations, inkind work to fund purchase COQUILLE — With its purchase of the 135-acre Riley property in Hauser, Coos County’s development of a park is coming closer to reality.

The county bought the property for $824,000 last week, using grant money from the ATV Account Allocation Committee of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

Commissioner John Griffith, who spearheaded the plan to apply for the grant and purchase the property, said it was good to get the project funded.

“We got the money,” said Griffith. “I held the check in my hands. $824,000, that’s a nice number.”

An accidental occupation Is this Australia? Nope, but a Hauser nursery has no problem claiming its eucalyptus niche HAUSER — Cruising up the curvy gravel road to Haley Farms, it’s not hard to figure out Ken Haley grows trees. But don’t let first impressions fool you.

Haley isn’t managing Douglas fir. It’s a non-native species that’s attracted his entrepreneurial attention.

“It just happened. We didn’t plan it at all,” Haley said last week.

The Haleys’ latest nursery invocation began with a packet of eucalyptus seeds Haley and his wife, Mary, picked up in Seattle at Pikes Place Public Market. She was into floral design and eucalyptus, the youngest branches with the round, waxy blue leaves are highly prized with arrangers. After those first seeds went into the ground, the Haleys just couldn’t seem to get enough eucalyptus.

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Helping Coos County children

Boxcar Hill Campground representatives presented checks totaling over $4,000 to the North Bend School District for the McKinney Vento Program and to the Coos Bay School District for their school-based program, the ARK Project.

Both area programs serve underserved and houseless students. Todd Goergen, co-owner stated “ Every year our camp hosts and guests participate in a fund raiser to benefit area charities. This year we selected these two programs duex to the valuable resources they provide our kids and community.”

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People with rare diseases have poor health-related quality of life, OSU study finds

By MOLLY ROSBACH Guest Article

People with rare diseases frequently wait years for a proper diagnosis, have to travel long distances for specialty care and face high out-of-pocket health care expenses, a recent Oregon State University study found.

Impact This combination of challenges in accessing appropriate medical care leads to poor health-related quality of life, low patient satisfaction and high levels of anxiety, depression and stigma, the study concluded.

A major factor in addressing these challenges is the ongoing education of medical professionals, said Kathleen Bogart, one of the lead authors and an associate professor of psychology at OSU. “A really important area of intervention is ensuring that health care providers have a general knowledge of rare diseases,” Bogart said. “We’re not expecting them to know all 7,000 of them, but we’re expect-

ing them to know some of what the clues are that you’re not dealing with a prevalent condition or a condition that’s easily diagnosed.”

If a doctor sees a patient who has been seeking a diagnosis for years with no success, that ought to trigger a different approach, she said — rather than the doctor sending the patient home with the conclusion that nothing can be done to help them.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a disease qualifies as “rare” if there are fewer than 200,000 cases of it in the U.S. The NIH lists approximately 7,000 diseases that meet this qualification, and though each disease is rare on its own, in total they affect approximately 1 in 10 Americans.

The study For the study, researchers surveyed 1,128 patients with rare diseases and parents of children with rare diseases from across the country. Participants answered questions about their process of receiving

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a diagnosis, how informed they felt their medical providers were, their own knowledge about their disease, their insurance coverage, whether they felt adequately supported in their daily lives and what kind of stigma they experienced.

Researchers also included a questionnaire to assess patients’ health-related quality of life, asking about physical function, fatigue, depression, anxiety, sleep, pain and ability to participate in daily activities.

Time between onset of symptoms and diagnosis was one of the most striking results: 16% of people waited 10 or more years to get an accurate diagnosis, while 17% waited between four and nine years.

Participants also reported having to see multiple providers to secure that diagnosis: - 38% saw two or three providers.

- 24% saw four or five providers.

- 5% saw more than 15 providers before being diagnosed.

Nearly half reported traveling more than 60 miles to receive care for their rare disease.

Patients generally had much lower ratings for their initial provider than for the provider who was able to correctly diagnose them, often reporting that they didn’t feel their initial provider was willing to research different possible diseases or to ask other providers for help in diagnosing.

The study also asked patients about access to dental and mental health care. While most respondents felt their medical support was sufficient after receiving a diagnosis, they reported insufficient dental and mental health support.

Rare diseases often require specialized dental care that is difficult to find; and mental health providers rarely receive training on rare diseases, Bogart said.

The study began as a collaboration with the Minnesota State Chloe Barnes Advisory Council on Rare Diseases, which was established to work on legislative policies

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This combination of challenges in accessing appropriate medical care leads to poor health-related quality of life, low patient satisfaction and high levels of anxiety, depression and stigma, the study concluded. addressing factors like insurance coverage and provider education.

Next steps Bogart said he hopes to see more states creating rare disease councils, including Oregon. The council is working to learn more about the biggest challenges facing patients with rare

diseases, along with building resources for providers to help guide them through rare diagnoses.

Molly Rosbach works at the OSU Department of Marketing and Research.

She may be reached at molly.rosbach@oregonstate.edu.

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Coos Watershed Association native plant nursery volunteer day: June 23

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The Coos Watershed Association is seeking volunteers to help with projects at the Matson Creek Wetland Preserve.

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Do you like plants? Gardening? Building things? Helping your community in a fun way? Listening to birdsong while you do all of the above? If so, the Coos Watershed Association hopes you’ll sign up for a new opportunity they’re offering this summer.

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In celebration of the exhibit please the community is invited Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. for the exhibit opening. The exhibit opening is timed with Flag Day and the US Army’s birthday to celebrate the contributions that veterans across the nation made to the scientific world. The college said it appreciates

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