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A changing of the guard in Coos Bay City says farewell to retiring police chief, welcomes his replacement the city council, friends and family and representatives of local fire and EMS services, watched the ceremony.

“I think this is a testament to the respect these two gentlemen have earned,” Craddock said. “The police chief is a critical position here in Coos Bay. Because of that, they get praise for success when everyone does what they’re supposed to do, and they’re blamed for failure when things don’t go so well.”

Craddock recounted how he and McCullough were hired at the same time, went through trainings together and ascended the ranks of the police department together.

“I watched in awe as you rose through the ranks of the police department,” Craddock told McCollough. “You were the obvious choice to be named police chief

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

Coos Bay said goodbye to its longtime police chief Tuesday while greeting his hand-picked replacement during a festive ceremony at city hall.

Chief Gary McCullough, who joined the department as a reserve officer in 1993, concluded his 27year career by thanking the city, police force and his family for years of support. McCullough, who served as chief for more than 11 years, passed the responsibility on to Chris Chapanar, who began his career in 2000.

City Manager Rodger Craddock, who served as police chief before McCullough and worked for years with both men, praised the transition. A large crowd, which included three former chiefs, dozens of police from different departments,

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Outgoing Police Chief Gary McCullough, second from right, sits with incoming Chief Chris Chapanar during a change of command ceremony Tuesday at City Hall. Sitting with the chiefs are their wives, Lori McCullough, right, and Nicole Chapanar.

‘History makers’ celebrate graduation

By JILLIAN WARD For The World

COOS BAY ─ Over the weekend, Marshfield High School had its first outdoor graduation ceremony.

At least, it was the first outdoor ceremony in remembered history.

“This is the first time that we know,” said Greg Mulkey, interim principal at Marshfield High School. “Marshfield goes back to the late 1800s, so I can’t (say) it’s the first time ever but it is … in my 35 years here.”

On Saturday, 140 graduates walked onto the football field. Coos Bay School District Superintendent Bryan Trendell said in an interview before the event that both students and staff were excited to have a more traditional ceremony, even if it is still different than normal.

“I think last year we did the best we could with what we were able to do,” Trendell said, referring to the strict pandemic restrictions which led to an unconventional all-day graduation ceremony where the class was split into groups and formed a parade to the school. “…

But kids really wanted a more traditional ceremony this year and being able to go outside seemed like a great option.”

Trendell said that the students did well with the distance learning, which was implemented for most of the school year.

“We didn’t see a huge drop-off of percentage and that’s a testament to our staff, graduation coach and administration at the high school,” he said. “There’s a few who struggled with the distance learning and fell behind. (They) will have to do

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Marshfield High School graduates march onto the football field at the beginning of their commencement ceremonies. Below, Coos Bay School District Superintendent Bryan Trendell hugs one of the graduating seniors as they receive their diploma. credit recovery and fortunately we can offer that this summer….”

The afternoon ceremony was met with mild weather, allowing students to make a traditional entrance.

They were seated on either side of the stage, facing the grandstands where family and friends were seated.

During the ceremony, Trendell told the crowd that “last summer, I didn’t know if we’d get to this day.”

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Coos County remains low-risk as reopening nears

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

Coos County remained in the low-risk tier for COVID restrictions as the state of Oregon inched closer to fully reopening.

In the latest tier information re-

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leased by Gov. Kate Brown’s office Tuesday, Coos County was kept in the low tier for the second consecutive week. Overall, 21 counties across the state were in low tier, five in moderate and 10 in high.

Curry County had numbers that should have elevated it from low to

moderate, but the governor gave the county a one-week waiting period before making changes.

In Coos County, there have been 2,158 COVID cases since the pandemic began with 14 active cases.

Two people are currently hospitalized with the virus, and there were

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“We’re moving to where we want to be,” said Dr. Eric Gleason, assistant director for Coos Health & Wellness.

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While the pandemic forced many industries to a screeching halt, in-home care providers like Joy Vegar and Renee Booker never stopped.

“When they were telling everybody to stay home, we didn’t have that option,” said Vegar. “I had shopping to do for three different clients, so I was in stores several days a week.”

Vegar said in-home care workers put their lives on the line to continue serving their disabled and elderly clients — administering medication, providing meals, facilitating transportation, even providing homemade face masks when there was a shortage of personal protective equipment. Now, Vegar, Booker and their union — Service Employees International Union Local 503 — are fighting to bring more attention, and benefits, to in-home care workers who often go unnoticed.

“We want to lift them up and acknowledge them,” said Booker.

Vegar and Booker hosted two visibility events on Saturday in Gold Beach and Coos Bay to highlight SEIU’s current negotiations with the state to raise wages, protect hours and change state rules to make it easier for personal care workers to serve their customers.

They said in-home care

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11 years ago. I have never regretted naming you police chief.”

Craddock then turned to Chapanar, who he served beside for many years.

“I had the opportunity to work with a number of reserve officers, and I can honestly say you were the best,” Craddock told him.

“You have excelled in your law enforcement career.”

After receiving retirement gifts from the city and Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police, McCullough spoke to the crowd.

“When I thought about today, there are two statements that came to mind,” McCullough said. “I am blessed and it is an honor to serve. It truly is an honor to serve the community as a police officer and chief of police for 27-1/2 years.”

McCullough said working Coos Bay has been an amazing experience.

“I do want to take the time to thank the men and women of the Coos Bay Police Department,” he said. “For the last 11-1/2 years, it has been my privilege to lead this group. I thank you all so very much.”

After thanking a number of people, McCullough turned to Craddock.

“I want to thank this man for all he’s done for me,”

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McCullough said. “We began this journey together as reserve police officers. I still remember the day I came into my office and you were sitting at my desk with your feet up and you said, ‘I want my desk back.’ I replied, ‘Sorry, no give backs.’”

As he looked to his wife, Lori, and his three children, who all attended the ceremony, McCullough struggled to maintain his composure.

“I heard that growing up with a dad who’s a police officer can be challenging,” he said. “I learned more from them on how to be a great dad than I could teach them how to be great kids. There is no way I could have achieved this without your support and encouragement. I’m so very thankful you were by my side.”

In his final words as chief, McCullough spoke to the men and women in the Coos Bay Police Department.

“Watch out for each other and take care of each other,” he said. “This is a dangerous and challenging profession, but it can also be the most rewarding.”

McCullough then passed the position of chief to Chapanar, who was formally appointed in by Craddock.

Chapanar then turned to the McCullough.

“You’ve been an amazing chief to work under for the past 11 years,” he said.

“You’ve taught me so many things. You’ve mentored me.

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New Coos Bay Police Chief Chris Chapanar, left, reaffirms his oath of office with City Manager Rodger Craddock as he is named chief of police during a ceremony Tuesday. Left, Outgoing Police Chief Gary McCullough hugs his wife after giving a farewell speech. Below, McCullough accepts a retirement gift from City Council President Bill Marler.

I take this position not lightly, but with great recognition of its responsibilities to the city. I really understand the commitment of this assignment and what it will require of me. I’m committed to do so to the best of my ability.”

Chapanar said the four key values of the Coos Bay Police Department are honor, integrity, excellence and teamwork. As chief, he will work to make sure those values are fulfilled every day.

“It is my promise as the new chief of police that we will not lose sight of these values,” he said.

To sum up his mindset as chief, Chapanar read a quote from legendary football coach Vince Lombardi.

“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because will catch excellence. I am “We, the Coos Bay Police nothing is perfect. But we are not remotely interested in just Department, will continue to going to relentlessly chase being good,” Lombardi once chase perfection,” Chapanar it, because in the process we said. added.

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Oregon moves closer to lifting COVID restrictions

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

Oregon is closing in on reopening the economy.

Last Friday, Gov. Kate Brown announced that more than 67% of Oregon residents have taken at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, leaving fewer than 100,000 more vaccines needed to reach the 70% threshold Brown set to fully reopen the economy.

“Thanks to the vaccine, our case rate and hospitalizations continue to decline,” Brown said. “As of today, at least 2.3 million Oregonians have received at least one dose of the vaccine. We are so close to reopening our economy.”

State Epidemiologist Dr. Dead Sidelinger said that cases in the state are directly in line with the increase in vaccinations.

“Daily cases, COVID-19 related hospitalizations and the percentage of people testing positive continue to decline,” Sidelinger said.

Over the last week, 1,725 new COVID cases were

“The landscape of the virus has shifted dramatically. The virus is overwhelmingly impacting those who are not vaccinated when those who are vaccinated are safe.

Virtually every person infected right now is not fully vaccinated.”

Dr. Dean Sidelinger State epidemiologist

announced in the state, the lowest number since September. Hospitalizations were down 24 percent and only 20 new deaths linked to the virus were reported.

“The landscape of the virus has shifted dramatically,” Sidelinger said. “The virus is overwhelmingly impacting those who are not vaccinated when those who are vaccinated are safe. Virtually every person infected right now is not fully vaccinated.”

Sidelinger said the vaccines are all proven safe and effective, and the best way to beat COVID is to get the vaccine.

“In order to decisively defeat the virus and avoid a future outbreak, we must get

more people vaccinated,” he said. “There’s no substitute for the vaccine.”

Sidelinger said modeling in Oregon continues to show decreasing cases, hospitalizations and deaths. On the current trend, cases will fall to around 100 a day with only five new hospitalizations.

Brown echoed that sentiment, saying those who have taken the vaccine deserve praise.

“We still have more work to do to ensure all Oregonians are safe from COVID-19,” Brown said.

“Thank you to everyone who’s gotten the vaccine.

Thank you to all Oregonians who are making it easier for their employees to get vacci-

nated. Thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to drive a family member or friend to an appointment or had a conversation with a friend who’s had a question about vaccines. All these efforts contribute to our success as a state.”

Brown also reminded Oregon residents that getting the vaccine is free, and every Oregonian who gets at least one dose will be eligible to win $1 million. On June 25, the state will announce winners of the vaccine awards, with one person winning $1 million and one person from every county winning $10,000.

Brown said one of her big worries right now is coming changes to the eviction moratorium in the state. A new state law does not allow Brown to extend the moratorium, which ends June 30.

“This means renters must pay their July rent or the landlord can evict them for nonpayment,” Brown said.

“To the thousands of Oregonians who lost jobs or fell behind on their rent during the pandemic, please apply

“This means renters must pay their July rent or the landlord can evict them for nonpayment. To the thousands of Oregonians who lost jobs or fell behind on their rent during the pandemic, please apply today for rental assistance to pay your July rent.

Under current law, you cannot be evicted until next year for rent owed from April 2020 to June 2021. Rental assistance programs can help you with past rent.”

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today for rental assistance to pay your July rent. Under current law, you cannot be evicted until next year for rent owed from April 2020 to June 2021. Rental assistance programs can help you with past rent.”

Brown encouraged those struggling with rent to apply at oregonrentalassistance.org to get a share of the federal money sent to the state to help just those people.

Brown also called on landlords in the state to give renters time to pay, especially

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workers are especially important in rural areas, including much of the South Coast, where there is less access to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes, as they are able to fill potential gaps in care.

Although in-home care isn’t always a direct replacement for nursing homes, Vegar and Booker said there are obvious benefits for some individuals who may not need around the clock care, especially for disabled and elderly couples.

“Several times in my career I have had husband and wife clients, and they got to stay in their homes together because if they go into a nursing home, a lot of times they are split up,” said Vegar.

Despite the inherent risks associated with being in someone else's home during the pandemic, Booker said

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to the 70 percent threshold for vaccine, the number Brown said needed to be hit before almost all state restriction were lifted. Just more than 71,000 new vaccinations must be given before the state hits the number. In Coos County, 55.2 percent of residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

As restrictions ease, life is returning to normal in many ways. Larger outdoor group gatherings, such as graduation ceremonies in Coos Bay and North Bend last week, are permitted. Local schools also announced this week that students were no longer required to wear masks while outdoors.

Gleason said loosening the restrictions could lead to a slight increase in cases, but has said as more people get vaccinated, the chances of a

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“We have made it through the pandemic by watching out for one another,” Brown said. “We have seen Oregon’s spirit time and again.”

Sidelinger closed the meeting by again encouraging residents to get vaccinated.

He emphasized the vaccine is safe and effective. The key to defeating COVID is simple, the vaccines.

“We are finally gaining the upper hand against the virus,” Sidelinger said.

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SEIU organizer Renee Booker and in-home care worker Joy Vegar hosted a visibility event in front of Gold Beach City Hall along Highway 101 on Saturday. the state has mostly ignored SEIU’s calls for hazard pay.

“They’re dragging their feet,” said Booker.

However, there is movement in negotiations on

other fronts, Booker said.

Additionally, SEIU will host a town hall with Senator Ron Wyden on June 28 in an effort to further the negotiations.

surge diminish.

“The more we get back to normal, the more everything starts rolling out, the more numbers we will see trickle in,” Gleason said. “I think we’re less worried there’s going to be larger outbreaks.”

Gleason said the news of schools removing mask mandates for students who are outdoors is a sign of what he expects to see in the future.

“I would expect to see next year’s school look like the previous year back before COVID,” Gleason said. “I think people are of the mindset that things will get back to normal.”

Vaccines remain the key to staying healthy and protecting the community, Gleason said. He said almost all new cases are in people who have not been vaccinated.

“The vast majority of the cases are unvaccinated people at this point,” Gleason said. “I’m confident we have to keep vaccinations going up to make sure we’re through

this.”

Gleason said there have been some “breakthrough” cases in the county, where fully vaccinated people get COVID. But he said the cases are very rare, and the symptoms those people get and much milder.

Vaccines are available at clinics across the region as well at most pharmacies.

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through what no group has had to go through since 1918,” he continued. “They had to survive a global pandemic, go to school during a global pandemic, learn how to do it remotely and come into school periodically and halfway through the year had to learn how to come back together in-person which wasn’t an easy shift for them either.”

School board member, Adrian DeLeon advised the graduates in his speech for them to follow their plans, “cling to your hopes, and chase your dreams, but remember ‘life happens.’”

The ceremony included a performance from MHS’ choir New Horizons, which sang “Irish Blessing,” staff speaker Bruce Bryant, who teaches social studies, and student speakers Isaiah Wright, Jacob Thompson, and Conor Heckard.

Heckard congratulated the class on fighting back against the challenges they faced during the year and called the Class of 2021 “history makers.”

“For the first time in MHS history we are graduating on the football stadium, we are the first class to have a football game in February, the first class to have a home game in Reedsport – I don’t know how that works but somehow we did it,” he laughed. “And somehow, we’re still graduating.

“With our persistence and our pride, we fought back

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MembersoftheMarshfieldHighSchoolClassof2021maketheirwayupthestairstoreceivetheirdiplomaduringthefirstoutdoorgraduationceremonyinmemory.Left,astudentisallsmilesas she receives her diploma. Below, family, friends and school district staff gather on the grandstands to watch the ceremony. because life and the system pushed against us so hard this year,” he continued. “We are history makers. Every single one of us.”

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What do we owe wildland firefighters?

By Jonathon Golden “It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent AP story about the increasingly fire-prone West.

Now something else is happening — and at the worst possible time.

Federal firefighters are leaving the workforce and taking their training and experience with them.

The inability of federal agencies to offer competitive pay and benefits is creating hundreds of wildland firefighting vacancies.

Vacancies, of course, limit how much federal firefighters can do. If Western communities want to be protected, they need to ensure that their firefighters receive better pay and benefits.

In my 11 years of work as a wildland firefighter, I’ve managed aircraft, trained people and run fires myself, but I also did outreach and recruitment for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

I know how hard it is for hiring managers to make 2,000 hours of grueling work, crammed into six exhausting months, sound appealing when the pay is $13.45/hour. The pay doesn’t come close to matching the true demands or everyday dangers of the job.

Federal wildland firefighters, by necessity, are transient workers. During the fire season — now nearly year-round — they must be available to travel anywhere in the United States at any time. And to advance in their career, they have to move to other federal duty stations to gain more qualifications.

Finding affordable housing has always been a problem for career firefighters on a federal salary.

To make matters worse, federal agencies revoked the “Transfer of Station” stipend for career employees, which helped offset the cost of moving. Just recently, a national forest supervisor also revoked a “boot stipend.” It might sound minor, but it isn’t: When you’re in the firefighting business, boots tough enough to save your life can easily cost you $500.

Some states aren’t relying on the government to act quickly. “We aren’t just waiting for the next crisis to hit,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in establishing an $80.74 million Emergency Fund that delivers an additional 1,256 seasonal firefighters to boost CALFIRE’s ranks.

This Emergency Fund is in addition to the governor’s $1 billion budget request for California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan.

In Washington, state legislators unanimously passed a $125 million package that will enable the state’s Natural Resources Department to hire 100 more firefighters. The legislation furthers the state’s efforts to restore forest health and creates a $25 million fund to ensure commu-

Jonathon Golden nity preparedness around the state.

Utah’s House Bill 65, recently signed into law, appropriates money to help Utah’s communities offset the cost of wildfire suppression.

Most importantly, it commissions a study to evaluate the current pay plan for firefighters within Utah’s Natural Resources Department.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Casey Snider, was amazed to learn that frontline wildland firefighters make more money at McDonald’s: “These positions are critical,” he said.

“They are the first ones on fires.”

This year, Utah has already had five times the number of wildfires it normally experiences in a year.

And firefighters are organizing and speaking up. The Grassroots Wildland Firefighters is working to halt the exodus of firefighters from federal agencies by advocating for pay parity with state and local fire protection agencies. The group also supports initiatives to assist the physical and mental health of firefighters and their families. The statistics they highlight are shocking: Wildland firefighters have a suicide rate 30 times higher than the average. They also experience high incidences of cardiovascular disease and lung cancer.

There is talk on the federal level of creating a permanent, year-round firefighting workforce. I think this is a necessary step, but it won’t fix the workforce capacity issue unless increased pay and benefits are used to encourage the recruitment and retention of federal firefighters.

We all know that today’s wildfires are longer, more damaging and more frequent than ever before. We also know that men and women are putting their lives on the line for less than they’d earn at a McDonald’s.

Our firefighters do all this to protect our lives, our forests and our communities. We owe them at least a living wage and a chance for a healthy life. I hope more states and legislators will start paying attention. This is a debt that needs to be paid.

Jonathon Golden lives in Moab, Utah, and is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange. org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He left firefighting in 2019 to found a consulting company that focuses on conservation and national security.

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Letters to the Editor Explaining my side I lost my minimal committee appointments last week. However, a councilor’s most valuable tool is the ability to place items on the agenda. I placed Jim Tofflemire’s Ferry Road Park proposal on the June 7th work session agenda. I spoke of a meeting area above the old ferry landing under a high canopy of green. Built with donations and volunteer labor, Jim’s plan includes a concrete patio, picnic tables, hand-made cedar benches and a view. The proposal included a contractor’s estimate and letter of approval from the Confederated Tribes.

City staff quickly said the project should wait for a revised Parks Master Plan, date unknown. The City administrator quickly said that the city needed to consult again with the tribe and Jim’s initial presentation was wrong. The mayor quickly recognized other councilors and urged me along. I said the project meets the 2000-2020 Parks Master Plan’s ‘Action Plan’ criteria for Ferry Road Park, page 64: • Clear & develop area fronting on Coos Bay (to the east), and area along Ferry Road (to the south) (high).

• Construct additional picnic shelter (high).

• Construct viewpoint oriented toward the bay (medium).

I said that disc golf is not mentioned, evaluated or authorized anywhere in the current Parks Master Plan. It’s also located on the park perimeter cleared of brush by 12 years of Jim Tofflemire’s volunteer labor, but his project has to wait for a revision. The city ad-

ministrator’s disc golf pilot project doesn’t have to wait. Why? Down came the gavel.

The ‘paper slam’ was during April 14th’s meeting, the Transportation System Plan ordinance. I was against the specified collector route down Meade, Connecticut and Union to avoid traffic lights on Virginia & 101. The mayor did not invite council deliberations, as set forth in the Council Rules, before calling for a vote. Outmaneuvered, I spoke during ‘council comments’ and slammed papers on the desk. However, I put a proposal on the May 14th agenda, and staff have contacted ODOT on revising traffic signals at Virginia and Highway 101 to provide easier access to Highway 101 North.

Thank you, Councilor Richardson, for your support.

Susanna Noordhoff North Bend

Send a message and vote no Apparently, the city can expand the Empire Urban Renewal District boundaries, life of the district and the amount of debt that taxpayers will be on the hook for without a vote by the taxpayers. This is being done to provide an out of the way site at John Topits Park for the new city library after taking easy off, easy on prime commercial Ocean Boulevard real estate off the tax rolls and then abandoning the planned library there.

Once we are on the hook for the expanded renewal debt and tax life, will the city abandon the Topits location too? Possibly. Or probably.

Actually, building the library, we

are told, will require a bond vote.

Vote no.

Do you believe that the downtown merchants petitioned the city to move the library to a location taking downtown patrons, by the most likely routes, past the North Bend Bi-Mart Shopping Center, past Walmart and for good measure generate some of the traffic by the new little shops on Highway 101?

Both going to and coming from?

Help save the downtown. Vote NO. Way before the pandemic, librarians were nudging us to check out e - and audio books. If not available already, probably internet magazines, music and streamed movies and documentaries will be available to check out from libraries. Zoom interaction is likely here to stay. E-book and audio readers have become inexpensive and easy to use. Libraries have money for small kitchen appliances to loan, certainly there should be money enough to loan readers.

Break the cycle of spending taxpayer dollars for hard copies to be purchased, stored for many years and eventually discarded making room for newer materials.

Zoom and electronic material costs need to be factored in. Vote no until the city comes up with a plan for a library housing only materials that cannot be loaned electronically.

Why not, as an example, purchase The World building or some other suitable downtown building, tear down the existing library and use the property for that sporting venue. Vote no on the library bond.

Charlotte Koepke Coos Bay

Guest Opinion

SB 582 would unjustly disadvantage Oregon’s vital newspaper industry

By Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn Newspapers and magazines go to every corner of this state.

Notwithstanding increased digital access, paper publications are delivered to tens of thousands of homes that lack broadband internet and homes where readers simply are more comfortable with the familiar format of paper or want to save magazines on travel, food, world events or hobbies.

Oregon’s newspapers and magazines care deeply about environmental responsibility. Newsprint and magazine stock paper come from certified forests, are fully compostable and biodegrade in a manner of months. Newsprint is so safe that it can be used as vegetable garden mulch. Inks are linseed-oilbased and non-toxic, and adhesives are water-soluble.

A well-intentioned but misguided piece of legislation in the Oregon State Senate, SB-582, would create an extensive Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system for municipal solid waste.

The bill recognizes that magazines

and newspapers are different from other materials by allowing fees to be paid through advertising, but the fees simply should not apply to non-toxic, biodegradable materials – again, newspapers and magazines biodegrade within months.

News is vital to American civic life, and legislation causing financial hardship to newspapers and magazines will erode citizen access to factual and trusted news and information. Newspapers are the sole source of local news for many communities throughout the state.

Coverage of town meetings, food pantry locations, classified ads and business news are the lifeblood of community newspapers. Yet this legislation discriminates against news and information published on paper, as opposed to information that is circulated in digital formats.

EPR systems in other jurisdictions have failed to increase recycling rates for paper, which are already much higher than other products. In British Columbia, recycling rates are trending downwards while producer fees have increased markedly. This

is not tenable in Oregon, when economic conditions related to the pandemic have caused significant reduction in advertising revenues for magazines and newspapers. To offset marked increases in cost, the legislation could force publications to eliminate home delivery to rural areas, exacerbating the digital divide, and cut journalism jobs.

A recent study by Broadbandnow ranks Oregon 34th among states based on broadband deployment, speeds and access to low-priced plans. Those without broadband depend on paper.

We strongly urge the Oregon State Legislature to consider the impact of this legislation on magazines and newspapers. There are more appropriate ways to reclaim post-consumer waste without disadvantaging the state’s vital news and information sources.

Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn is President and Chief Executive Office of MPA - The Association of Magazine Media. Laurie Hieb is Executive Director of the Oregon News Publishers Association.

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OBITUARIES Michael Freeman

Carol Plagmann

July 17, 1953 – June 8, 2021

Michael Freeman, 67, locally famous curmudgeon with a heart of gold, unexpectedly left us all on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. He was a lifelong resident of Coos Bay, born and raised.

Mike graduated from North Bend High School in 1971, where he remembered excelling in both wrestling and basketball, or at least claimed to. During his working life he held many occupations from machinist to firefighter to truck driver, but in retirement he most anticipated becoming a

Malcolm James Corrigall, 73, of Coos Bay, passed away June 8, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com Leisa Jo Ruckdashel, 55, of Coos Bay, passed away June 5, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com Susan Elaine Clawson, 74, of Coos Bay, passed away June 8, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com Dorothy Mae (Lindstrom) Scavera, 100, of North Bend, passed away on June 9, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com.

Robert John "Bob" Meichsner, 60, of North Bend, died June 10, 2021 in Coquille. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service - Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846

April 14, 1929 – May 13, 2021

grandfather. He finally accomplished that just 5 weeks before his passing, and spent that time bragging to anyone he could find. He was also awaiting yet another summer filled with camping trips both in Oregon and Montana, a state he cherished like a second home.

Whenever he wasn’t shooting darts or pool at the Eagles club, he could usually be found camping at Laverne Park and trying to see how fast he could burn through all the firewood, while telling the same stories for the 100th time to anyone who would listen. But, at least they were good stories. He was also an avid hunter as a younger man, having narrowly missed all of the most massive elk and deer in the Tioga unit at least twice. He loved exploring the meaning of the word ‘futility’ by being a devoted fan of the Raiders, Beavers, and Blazers simultaneously.

He could be a stubborn bear of a man, but also the fiercest friend imaginable and

DEATH NOTICES Sharon Mercer, 70, of North Bend, passed away on June 13, 2021 in North Bend.

Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com.

Mare Leader, 84, of Charleston, passed away on June 11, 2021 in Charleston.

Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com.

Theodore “Ted” Fischer, 84, of Surprise, Arizona, formerly of Coos Bay, passed away May 2,2021 in Arizona.

Private inurnment will be held at Sunset Memorial Park in Coos Bay. Local arrangements are under the care of Sunset Memorial Park, 541-267-7182 www.coosbayareafunerals. com Thomas E. Kramer, 84, of North Bend, passed away June 15, 2021 at Coos Bay. rrangements are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/2674216 William N. Smith, 85, of Coos Bay, passed away June 13, 2021 in Coos Bay.

the first one to help anyone in need even if he didn’t have enough for himself. If friendships were the only measure of a person’s wealth, Mike leaves this world as the richest man any of us have known.

Mike was preceded in death by his father, Gene in 2008 and his mother, Lois, who passed away last August. He leaves a son; newborn grandson; 2 brothers; 2 sisters; and an unruly herd of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

For funeral arrangements, anyone who knew Mike would know he wouldn’t have been interested in any kind of formal ceremony, since that requires people to dress up and he would have immediately opposed that.

There will be a Celebration of Life in the Coos Bay area at later in the summer, date/ location to be determined.

All that’s certain is it will be outdoors, funny stories will be encouraged, there will be way too much food and not enough rum.

Cremation Rites under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/2674216 Harry F. Park, 65, of Coos Bay, passed away June 11, 2021 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/2674216 James Gaspard, 86, of North Bend, passed away June 4, 2021 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/2674216 Henry “Hank” Rogers, II, 78, of Coquille, passed away June 3, 2021 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Ore-gon 541/267-4216 Nancy Farry, 85, of Coos Bay, passed away June 1, 2021 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216

Coos Bay Public Library to host virtual session of Community Yoga with Kelli Coos Bay Public Library, in partnership with yoga instructor, Kelli Bosak, will cohost Community Yoga. Kelli has been practicing yoga and mindfulness for over 15 years. She has taught as a yoga Instructor in community health centers, schools and jails for adults and families with all levels of experience and abilities over the last seven years. The class meet every second Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. The next class is Wednesday, July 14.

This virtual Community Yoga class will be a foundational group practice that includes guided instruction (and live demonstration via zoom) of basic postures, simple movements guided

by the breath, and accessible exercises to build strength and flexibility. Ease of movement, standing postures, supported postures and some passive stretches will be integrated into class. Time will be given to practice breathwork, visualization and meditation. Emphasis is placed

on de-stressing the body and mind to help the student find a deep calm and inner sense of wellbeing.

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Mary Carol Smiley Dickson Plagmann, 92, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on May 13, 2021 at her home in Eugene, Oregon.

A Celebration of Life service will be held June 26, 2021 at 1:00 at the Reedsport Church of God, officiated by Terry Newport.

Carol was born in Reedsport, Oregon on April 14, 1929 at the home of her parents, Sherman and Eva Smiley. She joined her siblings, Nona, Robert “Bud”, and Wayne. When she was

eleven, two cousins, Milan and Rada, joined their family.

As a child she loved visiting her grandparents, William and Mamie Smiley on their dairy farm at Five Mile. She also liked to go to her Dad’s marine supply store on the Umpqua River.

Carol attended school in Reedsport, and graduated in 1947.

She attended University of Oregon briefly before returning to Reedsport to marry Fred Dickson. They had four children, Wayne, Wendy, Fran, and Fred. The couple later divorced and Carol and family moved to Eugene where she began a career as a receptionist and office assistant and later bookkeeper in various medical facilities in Eugene. She returned to Reedsport in the late 70s to care for her mother, Eva Smiley.

In 1987 she married Earl Plagmann and they made their home in Reedsport. She welcomed his eight children and grandchildren to the expanding family. They enjoyed traveling, camping,

fishing, hiking and spending time with their large family.

Her family and her faith were so important to her. She was an incredible woman who loved others in such a unique way. She had a way of making others feel special.

Carol was preceded in death by her mother and father, Sherman and Evangeline Smiley; her siblings, Nona Dunaway, Bud Smiley, Wayne Smiley, Milan Smiley and Rada Danforth; children, Linda Stanley and Sally Plagmann. She is survived by her husband, Earl Plagmann; children, Wayne (Sharon) Dickson, Wendy (Sam) Samitore, Fran (Richie) Greene, Fred (Wendy) Dickson, Nancy Murray, Tom (Jeanne) Plagmann, Sam (Joyce) Plagmann, Doug (Beth) Plagmann, Terry Plagmann, Dan (Donna) Plagmann; 36 grandchildren; 71 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Cascade Hospice, the Oregon Heart Association or the Reedsport Christian Church.

Brenda Renae Shumaker Hodges April 21, 1964 – June 1, 2021

Brenda Renae Shumaker Hodges, deeply loved wife and mother of three, went home to be with the Lord, at age 57, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.

She was born on April 21, 1964 in North Vernon, Indiana, to Joanna Sullivan & Earl Junior Shumaker. She graduated from Maryvale High School and attended Arizona State University.

She married her high school sweetheart, Jerry Hodges, on October 6, 1984. They

were married 36 years and lived in the Coos Bay area since 1994, recently moving to Coquille. They raised two sons, Benjamin and Joshua; and daughter, Hannah. They were also foster parents for a season, loving and caring for a number of children in their home.

Brenda and Jerry, coown three Domino’s on the southern Oregon Coast. As a business woman, she was active with many community organizations through the years, willing to support anyone in need. Brenda had a passion for helping people, especially those who couldn’t give anything in return. She was known for her love for her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, generosity, kindness, a compassionate heart, infectious laughter and love for people. She dearly loved being a grammy to their eight grandchildren. Brenda was a member of Hauser Community Church where she was a beloved Women’s Ministry Leader for twenty years.

She is survived by her husband, Jerry, children; Ben & Amy Hodges, Josh & Julie Hodges, Hannah & Bryan Leutwyler; mother, Joanna Sullivan; grammy to Cobe Hodges, Asia Hodges, Duke Hodges, Eli Hodges, Falan Hodges, Aesir Hodges, Rylynn Leutwyler, Ayla Hodges; and siblings, Jodi Friello (husband, Joe), Vincent Shumaker (wife, Amy), and Chad Shumaker (wife, Gaynell). She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Earl Sullivan Sr., Helen L. “Grow” Sullivan, Earl Shumaker, and Esther M. Spaulding Shumaker.

A memorial service was held on Saturday, June 12th, 2021 at Hauser Community Church. You can watch it at www.hauserchurch.org or on the church’s YouTube channel.

Donations in Brenda’s memory may be sent to the church at 69411 Wildwood Rd., North Bend, OR 97459, marked Brenda Hodges Memorial Fund.

SERVICE NOTICES Services will not be held for Bonnie Allpress, 84, of Reedsport, passed away June 10, 2021.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite ani-

mal shelter/sanctuary.

A memorial service will be held for Shirley A. Perkins, 86, of North Bend, on Saturday, June 19th at 1:00 p.m.

DEAR ABBY

at Ocean View Memory Gardens Cemetery, 1525 Ocean Boulevard in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440.

By Abigail Van Buren

NEIGHBOR INTRUDES ON BACKYARD OASIS

DEAR ABBY: I am a 40-something single mother of two teens. A 24-year-old neighbor with a young daughter moved in next door a couple years ago after her divorce. She recently joined the workforce, and being a single working mother for the last year and a half has been a difficult adjustment for her. When she sees me outside, she comes over to vent. She seems incapable of just giving a friendly wave and going about her day.

I like to garden in peace. She has actually come into my yard, sat on my lawn and complained while I continued weeding.

She prefaces it by telling me she doesn't want advice; she just wants to vent. Abby, I have lived her life -- with a lot less support -- and at this point, I value my alone time. I don't want to listen to her woes.

I find myself sneaking around my yard trying to avoid her. Today, I saw her setting up a trampoline in her backyard. It's close to my yard and right outside my dining room window. How do I communicate to her that I don't want a visitor when I'm working in my yard? I know her feelings will be hurt. I've already tried to set boundaries by not initiating conversation and not inviting her over. Help! -- PRIVATE IN THE MIDWEST DEAR PRIVATE: Tell your neighbor she needs to find another person to vent to because your gardening activities are the way you cope with your own problems, and you prefer to do that without company. Then suggest she find a comparable

activity for herself that may serve the same purpose. She may not like hearing it, but you will be free.

DEAR ABBY: My husband has withdrawn himself from my family. I sense my niece resents it. She's 53 and has a teenage son. I believe she thinks we don't see each other because we don't love them. I can't explain what's going on with my husband to her. I want to explain to my family and maybe make excuses for his behavior, but honestly, I don't think it would change much.

I realize COVID-19 has kept families apart, and this may not be a good time to try to become closer. I have expressed my feelings to my husband, but it never turns out well. He lost his mom two years ago, and his depression has gotten worse.

He wants nothing to do with my family.

They don't deserve it, but things are good between the two of us apart from this issue.

Must I choose sides? What can I do? -CHOOSING SIDES IN CANADA DEAR CHOOSING: Unless there is something important that you omitted from your letter, your husband's behavior may be connected to the loss of his mother. Do not "choose sides," but also do not allow him to separate you from your family. Stay in touch as much as you can, and once the quarantines are finished, visit with them.

Explain your husband's absence by letting your relatives know WHY your husband is acting this way and that he needs compassion and understanding, not judgment.

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Turning trash into treasure to teach a lesson

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World A Bandon art gallery with a mission far greater than just art reopened its door this week after being closed for 15 months due to COVID-19.

Washed Ashore opened its gallery at 325 2nd Street SE in downtown Bandon after using the time off to make some improvements to the gallery.

“We’re super stoked, super excited for it,” gallery Manager Cameron McGrew said last week. “We’re getting a few new additions. We’re getting the walls painted, and the carpets have already been cleaned.

It’s exciting to have a fresh start.

Washed Ashore opened in 2010 when Angela Haseltine Pozzi came up with an idea to make art out of trash that washes up on beaches in the area. Pozzi, who also serves as artistic director, joined with artist Steve Wright to create masterpieces that are made almost fully out of trash.

Washed Ashore collects trash that has been removed from beaches through volunteer cleanup efforts as well as trash collected by park rangers. The items are then cleaned and used to make massive sculptures.

“We will definitely pick up whatever they find and turn it into some awesome sea creatures,” McGrew said.

And by doing so, Washed Ashore hopes to spread a bigger message about keeping trash out of the ocean.

“We’re an education-based nonprofit,” McGrew said. “Our goal is to educate the public. We’ve actually done viewings in Canada.

We’ve been all over the United States. Right now, we’re in Norfolk, Virgina, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Turtle Bay in Redding, California.”

Washed Ashore also has pieces in the Smithsonian, Florida Aquarium and different aquariums and zoos across Oregon.

But the home base is and has always been in Bandon. It is there where Pozzi and Wright come up with their ideas and it is there where volunteers help put together the sculptures piece by piece.

The end result is larger than life sculptures, all showcasing sea creatures and all made from trash.

“We’re cleaning the beaches, we’re educating the public and trying to engage the community,” McGrew said.

While most of the sculptures are made of plastic, some include Styrofoam, nets from fishing boats and more. The biggest problem, though, remains plastic. The issue is plastic never fully degrades, so it can remain in the ocean for years and years.

And during that time, it can cause havoc on animals that live and rely on the sea. Washed Ashore is trying to spread the message that most plastic use is not necessary.

At the gallery, they offer water in biodegradable milk cartons.

“Plastic is necessary to an extent,” McGrew said. “But the single-use plastic is what we’re trying to avoid, things like single-use soda

Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World

Henry the Fish is one of dozens of pieces of art created by Washed Ashore, an educational nonprofit in Bandon. Washed Ashore uses trash that washes up on local beaches to make artwork.

Below, a tufted puffin that can be seen at Coquille Point also is made fully of trash collected in the ocean. bottles, plastic wrapping around food that you’ll just take off and throw away.”

To make the point, McGrew likes showing a sculpture in the museum. Made largely of plastic water bottles, the majority of the bottles came from the Olympic games in Beijing, China. They washed ashore near Bandon several years later.

“Everything you buy is a vote,” McGrew said. “So, if you choose to buy boxed water, for example, you’re voting with your wallet every time you make a purchase.

If we were to all just stop buying plastic soda bottles, they would get the message.”

Instead, McGrew said, buy aluminum, glass and paper products that can be easily recycled.

When visitors come to Washed Ashore, McGrew or other docents will start conversations with visitors to showcase the importance of voting with their wallets.

And, once again, Washed Ashore is opening and spreading that message.

As a nonprofit, the gallery relies on donations, volunteers and grants.

It is also now making decent money loaning its finished products to museums and other places around the country.

Inside the gallery is still the best place to get a look at the work.

There are over 85 sculptures in the gallery, with the largest probably a parrot fish that is 9-1/2 feet tall, 14 feet long and six feet wide.

The Washed Ashore Gallery will be open from noon to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Ragan chosen as May non-clinical employee of the month BANDON - Bonnie Ragan was honored as Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center’s non-clinical Employee of the Month for May. Ragan has worked in the hospital’s Dietary Department since February 2019. She was nominated for her “superb skills as a dietary cook.”

“She routinely goes the extra mile cheerfully,” her nomination states. “Bonnie is very mindful in checking and double-checking all dietary orders. She is always willing to jump in with problem-solving and bringing in new ideas in order to add value to the department’s responsibilities and tasks as a whole.”

Ragan has lived in Bandon since 2001. She grew up in Sacramento, Calif., until she was 12 years old, then her family moved to Oroville, Calif. In 1998, she moved with her

family to Ruidoso Downs, N.M. Ragan loves to cook and has been doing so for a long time, both professionally and for her family.

Ruidoso Downs is also a small town that has a well-known horse racing track, so summers were especially busy for the restaurant industry. She helped open a Denny’s Classic Diner there and was their first cook. She has fond memories of the close-knit staff at the diner, which had a jukebox that customers would plunk coins into.

Whenever “YMCA” came on, the entire kitchen staff would do the dance moves together.

The heat in California was unbearable in the summers, so when Ragan’s family moved from New Mexico, they decided to follow her younger sister to Oregon instead of returning to California. She

moved with her mother to Langlois, then moved into Bandon. She now lives with her daughter in Myrtle Point, with her mother close by in Coquille.

Ragan has four grown children – three sons and a daughter – and eight grandchildren. Her daughter Tabitha Bird and her 11-year-old son and twin 2-year-olds live with Ragan in Myrtle Point. Tabitha formerly worked as a phlebotomist at SCHHC. Ragan’s middle son Jesse Bird also lives in the area, while her eldest son Cory Bird lives in Vancouver, Wash., and her youngest son Daniel Bird lives in Wilsonville, Ore. All of her children attended Bandon High School.

Ragan has always loved cooking because it makes people happy and that in turn makes her happy. At the hospital, she is known for her deli-

cious soups. Her personal favorite is the Italian Meatball soup. She’s passed the skill on, as her children are also good cooks and her daughter is an excellent baker.

In her spare time, Ragan is involved with a church women’s group in Myrtle Point and has made some good friends there.

“It’s just a wonderful church,” she said. “They do a lot of things for the community.”

Other than that, she said she’s a “homebody” who likes to spend time with her daughter and grandchildren, her dog and three cats, and outside tending her yard and plants.

And she likes to cook meals for her family.

Ragan also enjoys her job at SCHHC. “Everyone is friendly and nice in the kitchen and the whole hospital.

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Bonnie Ragan I like working in the kitchen here, it’s very family oriented.”

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Surviving a boat wreck

By Mary Schamehorn Although the first story I am sharing did not happen off the Bandon bar, it did involve passengers who were from Bandon, and that is part of the fascinating story of what it took for one woman to survive. The photo shows the crowd on the beach at the scene of the wreck.

It was Nov. 2, 1915, when the steamship Santa Clara, operating between Portland, Coos Bay, Eureka and San Francisco, was wrecked while entering the Coos Bay Harbor at 4:20 in the afternoon. By the time the first article hit the front pages of the Western World on Nov. 4, eight bodies had been recovered from a capsized life boat and nine were unaccounted for, including Mrs. H.A. Morris of Bandon. The Santa Clara carried 48 passengers and a crew of 42.

The parents and sister of a local women were rescued, and since both parents were invalids, they should have been on the first life boat launched; fortunately they were found in their berths after the first boat had pulled away.... because it capsized in the breakers and all aboard were lost.

Mrs. Morris had been spending the summer with her sister, and it was not until Mr. Morris, who owned a caterpillar traction engine in Bandon, saw her name on the missing list did he even realize that she was on her way home.

He chartered the Whitsett car and drove to Marshfield hoping to find his wife alive.

The article said, "Late tonight, no trace of her has been found and a patrol has been established along the beach keeping watch for dead bodies that might drift ashore with the tide."

The next issue of Western World told of Mrs. Morris' narrow escape as she almost perished in her efforts to rescue a child.

"In a heroic effort to save a seven-year-old-boy, whom she was holding on her lap at the time the life boat capsized, Mrs. Morris almost lost her life. She held the lad in her arms while drifting and working her way towards shore until within a short distance from the beach, when a large sneaker wave struck them. It threw the boy over her head and one foot struck her in the jaw, rendering her unconscious. When she recovered she was again floating on the waves, the life preserver having a tendency to throw her on her back.

When she reached shore she was completely exhausted and had to be carried to a beach cabin nearby."

She was taken to the North Bend hospital where she was treated for a badly bruised jaw and a fractured rib. And reunited with her husband.

The boy Mrs. Morris tried to save was later found dead on the beach.

The second, third and

fourth life boats were more fortunate, reaching land safely, but the fifth with eight members of the crew including the captain and first mate, was twice capsized in attempting to cut loose from the ship.

"Each time the men were thrown into the water, but succeeded in again getting onto the ship, and they were finally rescued by the life saving crew with the use of the breeches buoy."

The second photo was taken in August of 1960, during a highway project on top of the hill. At left you can see the Ralphs Ice Cream sign, where the Asian Garden is now located; at right is the 76 service station, where Banner Bank is today. The brick building behind the service station, which was operated over the years by Lanny Boston and also by John Bowder, is the Western Bank. North of the station was Bill Ellis' TV sales and service business.

The third picture features long-time businessman and cranberry grower Elmer Gant, who served his community in so many ways, including as a member of the Bandon School Board.

This photo was taken in May of 1965, but his honors started way before that. A front page article in the Feb. 20, 1947, Western World is headlined "Gant Gets Surprise Award for Long Scouting Service."

The article explained that Gant was the 27th holder in 37 years of Scouting in the Oregon Trail Council's coveted Silver Beaver Medal, highest award given by the National Boy Scout council to volunteer workers.

"As active citizen and wardays postmaster of Bandon, Gant had been a scoutmaster for 19 years. Only last year did he give up actual leadership to others, and now serves as chairman of the troop committee."

Gant was accompanied to the speaker's table in the spontaneous ceremony by two Bandon Cubs, Donald Martin and Carl Rosenkilde.

Two of Elmer and Grace Gant's five children, Tom Gant and Gloria Haga, still live here. Another son, Jim Gant, lives in Cottage Grove and the youngest, Susan Winnop, lives in Alabama.

Another daughter, Glenda Hawkins, died several months ago.

What most don't know is that the Gant brothers were very successful businessmen before the Fire.

An article in the July 1929 Western World talks of their success.

"Another example of distinct success achieved at Bandon in the commercial life of the city is the busy gent's furnishing goods house known as the Gant Brothers Store, which handles large stocks of all manner of the best nationally advertised lines of men's wear, hats, shoes, clothing, general men's and boys' furnishing

Photos contributed by the Mary Schamehorn collection

Rescuers look around the beach after the steamship Santa Clara wrecked while entering the Coos Bay harbor. Several people died following the wreck.

Middle, this photo was taken in August of 1960, during a highway project on top of the hill. Bottom, long-time businessman and cranberry grower Elmer Gant, who served his community in so many ways. and shoes for all the family.

"This is in reality one of a chain of stores in this valley.

The Hub Clothing company maintains other stores at Coquille, Myrtle Point and Powers. Three brothers of Elmer Gant, who is local manager, are handling their business at Coquille. These are Homer, Orvin (O.T.) and Ellis."

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I was sorry to learn that my good friend Pauline Brown had died May 25 in McKinney, Texas, where she and her late husband John had moved in 2018 after living 21 years at their beautiful home overlooking Fahy Lake.

The Browns had moved to Texas to be near their two sons and their families.

During her working years, Pauline, who was 83, spent 34 years as a nurse.

In lieu of a service, the couple asked that their ashes be spread near the Coquille River Lighthouse in Bandon.

Memorial contributions can be sent to the First Presbyterian Church, 592 Edison, in Bandon, or to the local food bank.

I have also learned that a celebration of life will be held for Jack McMahon on July 17 at 2 p.m. at the VFW Hall. *

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The Bandon Chamber will hold its annual membership meeting Tuesday, June 22, at 6 p.m. at The Barn. Speakers will include Port Manager Jeff Griffin and Dave Lacey, who serves as South Coast Destination Coordinator for the Oregon Coast Visitors Association.

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One of the new members of the chamber is Bandon Bay Jets, owned by Court

Boice, a Curry County commissioner, past part-owner of Jerry's Jet Boats and former owner of the Paradise Lodge on Rogue River for nearly 30 years.

The one-hour tours up the Coquille River from Old Town will be educational and historical. Boats will operate Friday through Sunday through October, and reservations can be made by calling Prowler Charters at 541-347-1901 or cell at 541-661-6150. More about the business can be seen by going to their website at www.bandonbayjets.com.

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The Bandon Police Department Facebook page warns against a scam. Someone pretending to be from the city is calling people and threatening to shut off their utilities unless their bill is paid right now, over the phone. If you get such a call, hang up and call the city at 541-347-2437. *

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AWANA starts Sept. 17, 6:30-8 p.m.

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er's camera had caught a guy sneaking onto their property and setting fire in the doorway of their home off Cape Arago Highway in the Empire area. It shows him lighting the fire and casually walking away.

Apparently this is the third fire that the arsonist has set in recent days in the same area, between Wilshire and the fire station on Cape Arago. *

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Speaking of frightened, the other night I was watching 20/20 on TV and all of a sudden I heard a loud bang.

It sounded like someone was trying to get into my house through the sliding glass door, which I soon discovered was not locked (which is not like me). At any rate, I could not figure out where the noise had come from, so I grabbed my trusty little pistol and went back to watching TV. It wasn't until the next morning, when I went to get dressed and opened the door to my walk-in closet .... was I met with all of my best dresses and jackets and everything that had been on the shelf above them ... lying in a crumpled heap on the floor.

Because of too much weight (that should tell me something) the screws holding the shelf had pulled out of the sheet rock. Now I have to find someone to repair the mess .... or admit I have too many clothes and head to Brees.

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Now is the time to clear that Gorse! Big Foot Stump Grinding LLC does Gorse and Brush Clearing. Stump Grinding, Tractor Services, Landscape Maint. We are Licensed, Bonded and Insured. LCB#9933 Serving Bandon and Surrounding Areas, Find us on FB. Big Foot Stump Grinding LLC (541) 366-1036 --------------------------------------------JBJ TREE & LAWN SERVICE LLC JOHN 541-260-8166 CCB# 211687 Lawn Maintenance Hardscape Tree Removal Brushing Site Clearing

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Misc Services BALTIMORE CENTRE Mail & Ship FedEx UPS Postal 541-347-5351 Copy Fax Notary Laser Engraving Vinyl Signs & Banners Business Cards 1130 Baltimore Ave SE Bandon, Oregon 97411 MICK’S BARBER SHOP Father/ son barber shop. Across from the post office. Monday - Friday, 9am - 5:30pm 541-347- 2207.

PAHLS FAMILY DENTISTRY offers single-visit crowns, dental implants and sedation dentistry.

Accepting new patients. Call to reserve your appointment today. 541.396.2242, Coquille WEDDING MINISTER, Proudly advocating for all loving couples to be legally joined in marriage.

Traditional Ceremony, Celtic Handfasting, Surprise Marriage, Commitment Ceremonies and Re- Marriages. CoosWeddings@ gmail.com or (541) 217-0316.

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Employment Opps $3,145-$4,341 DOE, Full Benefits Employee Plus 1, Payroll, payables, financial records, benefits administration. Solid knowledge of bookkeeping, payables, payroll with effective communication skills required. www.cityofcoquille.org, open until filled, city applications required. EOE

BE PART OF A GREAT TEAM!

The Best Western Inn at Face Rock is now hiring!

We are currently looking for Front Desk, Housekeeping, Maintenance and Breakfast attendants.

Depending on the position and the experience you bring to the role, your starting hourly compensation will be a minimum of $13.50 per hour.

Most positions are seasonal, and schedules may include Weekends and Holidays.

We offer a Summer Incentive Program, Referral Bonuses and all Best Western Inn employees are also eligible for reduced rates at select Best Westerns across the United States and Canada.

Please stop by for an application, 3225 Beach loop DR., Bandon OR EOE Part Time Help Wanted! Early mornings, open, clean, cook crab, shuck oysters. Tony’s Crab Shack, Bandon. Call 541-290-2293 for interview.

--------------------------------------------Part-time head housekeeper and housekeepers wanted. Starting wage $15+ hrly. Apply at the Bandon Beach Motel. References

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Employment Opps required. 541-347-9451.

Dietary Cooks Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center in Bandon seeks Cooks for its Dietary Department. Manageable workloads, supportive team culture, market competitive wages and excellent employee benefits. Position is responsible for preparing & serving food for hospital patients and staff.

Reports to the Dietary Manager.

Must have two years previous experience in institutional food preparation. Drug screening required. EEO, veteran preference, drug/- tobacco-free campus. Applications at www.southerncoos. org or front desk of the hospital.

Email applications and resumes to hrsupport@southerncoos.org Coos Hospital is contingent upon an acceptable pre- employment drug screening, background check and references check.

Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer, Veterans Preference, Drug Free/- Tobacco Free/Smoke-free Campus.

--------------------------------------------Experienced Facilities Maintenance Technician needed!

Schedule: 40 hours / week, flexible. Compensation: DOE + $500 sign-on bonus + $500 after 90 days’ employment! Full benefits included. Apply today!

To apply, visit https://- www.gres. com/careers/ and reference JOB#1818 --------------------------------------------HGE Architects, Inc. is seeking a motivated Administrative Assistant to join our team! Our heritage architecture firm, located in Coos Bay, Oregon, serves a variety of clients including municipal entities, school districts, medical facilities and private development on the southern Oregon coast and beyond. We are searching for a reliable and committed full- time Administrative Assistant with 3+ years’ experience, to join our team in a deadline driven environment with the willingness to take on new tasks and help with the dayto-day operations of the office, assisting all others, and providing support so that the office runs more efficiently and productively.

The ideal candidate will be driven to excel, motivated, resourceful, detail-oriented, and a quick study. If you think you are that person, please visit our website at http://www.hge1.com for more information and how to apply.

--------------------------------------------Immediate opening for a diesel tech. Must have 5 years’ experience in diesel repair or college background from tech school.

Offering a 1000.00 sign on bonus. competitive wage starting at 18.00 and up depending on experience. We offer paid vacation, insurance, tool allowance, paid holiday 401k and incentive bonuses. must have own tools, valid clean driving record, and excellent customer service. Send resumes to sctruckrepair@gmail.com or call 541-808-2741.

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Bandon area. 541-551-1308 --------------------------------------------Wastewater Plant Operator Port Orford (Salary range $3,901.66 $5,080.00 per month DOQ plus excellent benefits) City of Port Orford, a Southern Oregon coastal community of 1,200 with interests including arts, recreational fishing, hiking, boating and hunting. Fresh water lake, ocean beaches, plus two nearby wild rivers. Seeking qualified applicants to fill a Wastewater Plant Operator position. This full time, non-exempt position will work towards learning the operation and maintenance activities required for the operation of the City of Port Orford’s Wastewater Treatment Facility, wastewater collection system, associated lift stations, and storm water collection system. To maintain these systems for compliance with the State and Federal regulations; while meeting the specific effluent standards established by the facility’s NPDES permit.

To obtain an application and complete job description visit www. portorford.org or email djohnson@portorford.org. Hard copies can be obtained at Port Orford City Hall. Call 541-366-4570 to make arrangements to pick up an application. Position is open until filled.

--------------------------------------------Shooting Star Motel seeking housekeepers to assist others with rooms and laundry. Flexible hours. 541-347-9192.

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Employment Opps HARDIN OPTICAL is seeking individuals towork in a fast paced production setting.Currently recruiting for Inspector and Optical Technician. Starting pay is $14.00/hr.If you are looking for a company that values cus tomer service and employee contribution go to www.hardinoptical.com to fill out an application.HOC is an EEO Employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Recreational Vehicles BUYING RVs. Gib's RV is looking for clean pre-owned RVs to buy/consign. No fee consignments. We make house calls. 541-888-3424.

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Garage Sales 4th Annual Bandon Young Life Garage Sale and BBQ June 25th and 26th 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. $8 Per Meal 555 SE 11th ST --------------------------------------------IT'S HERE! Holy Trinity Rummage Sale 6/18 9-4, 6/19 9-2.

Huge variety houseware, collectibles, bedding and more! 6-25/26 Furniture/larger items. 355 Oregon Ave. Don't miss out!

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ANIMAL CREMATORY The Bay Area’s only pet crematory with COOS BAY CHAPEL. 541-267-3131 coosbayareafunerals.com --------------------------------------------Black Labrador Puppies Purebred, 4 Females and 2 Males available. Born April 14, 2021, and will be ready to go to their new homes June 9, 2021. $1500 each. All puppies will have received their vaccinations and de-worming.

Call or Text 541-990-8196. $1500

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Nursery & Garden Looking for plants? Soil? A unique shopping experience?

Dragonfly Farm & Nursery 12 miles south of Bandon offers the largest selection of plants on the south coast! Open daily 9am5pm. Call/Text 541-844-5559 or Google us!!

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Storage BANDON MINI-STORAGE. Temp. controlled RV & boat storage. 50317 Hwy. 101 South.

541-347-1190.

BANDON E-Z STORAGE. Affordable plus Boat/RV. 370 11th St. SE, 541-347-9629.

BANDON MINI-STORAGE, temp controlled, 88371 Hwy. 42S, 541-347-5040.

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Misc for Rent House For Rent In Lakeside.

4 bdrm 1 bath. Charming and clean. Large 2-story shop with big yard. End of private road. $1,450 monthly. First, last & cleaning dep. Pets okay on approval with $500 nonrefundable fee. Available July 1st.

541-759-4730.

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Reasonable rent. Please call 541-347-7296 or 541-551-1969.

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Real Estate/Trade For Sale By Owner. Newly updated. 3 bd, 2 bath, 2 car garage, plus large shop. 1 acre +. $425k. 47482 Hwy 101 S Bandon, OR 97411. 541-297-3781.

--------------------------------------------CHAS WALDROP REAL ESTATE LLC. Providing Personal Professional Real Estate Service.

Since 1988.

Call for a No Cost, No Obligation, Broker Price Opinion for Your Home & Property. "Dedicated to Excellence" 541-347-9455.

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Newer Roof Three car detached garage MLS# 19143579 $289,000 CENTURY 21 Best Realty, Inc. 325 2nd St SE, Bandon Realtors Licensed in Oregon 541-347-9431 --------------------------------------------FIRST TIME ON MARKET Architect designed Ocean View home. Dramatic Ceilings, 2 lofts, 4 Bedrooms three baths. $875,000 Call Fred Gernandt, Broker 541-290-9444 D L Davis Real Estate --------------------------------------------Coquille Sleeper. Two Bedroom home, detached garage, Invest in paint and new flooring and you will have a valuable rental!

Hurry, Only $157,000 Call Fred Gernandt, 541-290-9444 D. L. Davis Real Estate --------------------------------------------COASTAL SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Almost 1 Acre of a corner parcel that could be your vacation get-a-way haven or a second home within the City limits. A few minutes stroll to the Harbor/Boat Basin and Old Town. Property, is cleared, surveyed and offers a serene natural setting with views of the Coquille River and Wildlife Refuge. On-Site Septic Feasibility, requires a well. These smaller acreages are rare in such a prime,pristine location! Listed at $159,500. Contact Dan Cirigliano 541.297.2427 --------------------------------------------A Beauty just waiting for you. Updated and completely refurbished home. Great open floor plan with lots of room. Broker owned. BANDON BY THE DUNES REALTEE, 541-347-7833, give us a call. $389,500

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Legal Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS PROBATE DEPARTMENT In the matter of the Estate of: JUNE VIOLET LINDBERG, Decedent.

Case No.: 21PB04677 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Romona A. Bly has been appointed personal representative.

All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the personal representative at P.O. Box 1006, North Bend, Oregon 97459, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorneys for the personal representative, Stebbins & Coffey, P.O. Box 1006, North Bend, Oregon 97459.

Dated and first published June 18, 2021.

Romona A. Bly, Personal Representative Published: June 18, June 25 and July 2, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:318868) --------------------------------------------IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT CURTIS MARTIN Deceased.

Case No. 21PB04127 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them to the undersigned personal representative at Lawrence Finneran LLC, Attorney at Law, 405 North Fifth Street, PO Box 359, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative.

DATED and first published this 4th day of June, 2021.

Ed Stanfield Personal Representative Published: June 4, June 11 and June 18, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:317526) --------------------------------------------Public Auction Notice/Foreclosure sale Robert Clifford:Unit B011 Auction date: June 29 2021 Time of Sale:10 a.m.

Location of sale: By the Dunes RV Storage, LLC @ 69088 Wildwood Rd, North Bend, OR 97459 Call prior to coming out to make sure auction is still proceeding 541-756-7755 Published: June 11 and June 18, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:317749)

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Legal Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS Del Robinson and Brent S. Robinson, Plaintiffs. V. Levi John Smith, State of Oregon, Western Mercantile, Alla M. Smith, defendants, Case No. 21CV06797 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO: LEVI JOHN SMITH and ALLA M. SMITH IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON : You are hereby required to appear and answer the petition filed against you in the above-entitled cause within thirty (30) days from the date of service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to so answer, for want therof, the Petitioners will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therin. Petitioners seek a judgement that they are the sole owners of the real property with street address of 90689 Libby Lane, Coos Bay, OR 97420, plus costs and disbursements incurred herein.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (S): READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY! You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must file with the Court a legal document called a “Motion” or “Answer.” The motion or answer must be given to the Court Clerk or Administrator within 30 days of the date of the first publication specified herein, along with the required filing fee. It must be in proper form and have proof of service on the Petitioners’ attorney. If you have any questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help 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 in elsewhere in Oregon at (800) 452- 7636. Nathan B. McClintock, Attorney for Petitioners, PO Box 1178, Coos Bay, OR 97420, (541) 269-1123; Fax: (541) 269-1126.

Dated and first published June 11, 2021.

F:\\DATA\\RAQUEL\\PROPERTY\\- ROBINSON, DEL\\SUMMONS Publication. Wpd June 4, 2021 Published: June 11, June 18, June 25 and July 2, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:317966) --------------------------------------------APPROVED PURCHASE NOTICE: LAND NEAR SOUTH SLOUGH RESERVE On February 9, 2021, the State Land Board approved purchasing a 1.14 acres parcel at the entrance of the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Visitor Center from Coos County Forestry Department for $85,000. The tract is located on Seven Devil’s Rd in Coos County at Township 26 South, Range 14 West, Section 27, Tax Lot 100.

More information is available under “Land Board approved sales final notice” at https://www. oregon.gov/dsl/- Land/Pages/ Sales.aspx.

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NOTICE On July 12 of 10:00am the Coos C 250 N. Bax defendant’ subject to r property co 687 DONN Legal Notices BAY, OR 9 Circuit Court of the State of number is U.S. BANK Oregon TRUSTEE Coos County Estate of Richard Albert Ward PARTICIPA Case No. 21PB04426 plaintiff, an NOTICE TO INTERESTED OF AVRUM PARTIES OTHER PE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN UNKNOWN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representa- RIGHT, TIT EST IN TH tive of the Estate of Richard Albert Ward, Coos County Circuit COMMON Court Case No. 21PB04426. All DONNELL persons having claims against 97420, is d the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to is a public the undersigned personal repre- est bidder sentative at P.O. Box 442, Lake check, in h Oswego, Oregon 97034, within County Sh four months after the date of first information publication of this notice, or the http://orego claims may be barred. All persons Published: whose rights may be affected 11 and Jun by the proceedings may obtain The World additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorneys -------------for the personal representative.

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--------------------------------------------NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE On July 19th, 2021, at the hour of 10:00am at the front door of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, 250 N. Baxter St; Coquille, the defendant’s interest will be sold, subject to redemption, in the real property commonly known as: 509 N. Tenmile Lake, Lakeside, OR 97449. The court case number is 19CV50326, where GORDON HUWA is plaintiff, and CHARLES MANCHESTER is defendant. The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check, in hand, made out to Coos County Sheriff’s Office. For more information on this sale go to: http://oregonsheriffssales.org/ Published: June 11, June 18, June 25 and July 2, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:317970)

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SUB-BIDS REQUESTED

Shore Pines Housing Florence, Oregon

Bids Due: 6/21/2021 by 12 PM Pre-Bid RFI’s Due: 6/14/2021 by 12 PM LMC Construction solicits bid proposals for Fire Protection, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, and Low Voltage scopes of work on the Shore Pines Housing project located in Florence, Oregon. Shore Pines is a new ground-up multi-family affordable housing project that will consist of full site development and construction of two (2) residential buildings that will house sixty-eight (68) units.

This bid solicitation is for Fire Protection, Plumbing, HVAC, and Electrical scopes only. Bidding for all other scopes of work will not be accepted and will take place at another time. *This project is NOT subject to prevailing wages. Please use your standard private wages.

Construction to begin January 2022 All bidding documents & other information are located at link: https://lmccon.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/EsS55guGhdlHiMVMq-06ZjYBx4Svou4wx7QLeQVhtQ34Tg?e=Q0sF6F Bid Contact: Kyle Anderson (kylea@lmcconstruction.com) 19200 SW Teton Avenue, Tualatin, OR 97062 Phone: (503) 646-0521 Fax: (503) 646-6823 LMC Construction is an equal opportunity employer and requests sub-bids from all interested firms including emerging small business, womenowned, disadvantaged, disabled veterans and minority enterprises.

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE On July 12th ,2021, at the hour of 10:00am at the front door of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, 250 N. Baxter St; Coquille, the defendant’s interest will be sold, subject to redemption, in the real property commonly known as: 687 DONNELLY AVE, COOS BAY, OR 97420. The court case number is 20CV15572, where U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, is plaintiff, and UNKNOWN HEIRS OF AVRUM R. FRIED, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY COMMONLY KNOWN AS 687 DONNELLY AVE, COOS BAY, OR 97420, is defendant. The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check, in hand, made out to Coos County Sheriff’s Office. For more information on this sale go to: http://oregonsheriffssales.org/ Published: May 28, June 4, June 11 and June 18, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:317259)

also requesting an Administrative Conditional Use (ACU) to modify a prior conditional of approval for a Farm Help Relative Dwelling that contains a condition of approval which prohibits the dwelling from being separated from the farm tract described as Tax Lot #300 in Section 21CA, Tax Lots #2200, 2300, 2400, in Section 21, and Tax Lot #1000 in Section 20A, within Township 28 Range 14. The second portion of the conditional use is to requalify the Dwelling as a Template (Forest Dwelling). Criteria AM-21-001/ AM- 21-001 Coos County Zoning and Land Development Ordinance (CCZLDO) Article 5.1 Plan Amendments and Rezones Coos County Comprehensive Plan Volume I Part II, 3.2(5) Coos County Comprehensive Plan Map Oregon’s Statewide Planning Goals & Guidelines Goals 3 and 4.

ACU-21-024 Coos County Zoning and Land Development Ordinance (CCZLDO) Conditions of Approval §5.0.300(3) At an applicant’s request, the County may modify or amend one or more conditions of approval for an application previously approved and final.

Decisions to modify or amend final conditions of approval will be made by the review authority with the initial jurisdiction over the original application using the same type of review procedure in the original review.

Forest Dwelling § 4.6.120(9)(B)(II) - Review Standards - Dwellings Authorized

by ORS 215.705 To 215.755; And (E) Other Dwellings Under Prescribed Conditions - Dwelling on Forest and Forest Mixed Use Zones - Template Dwelling; § 4.6.120(9)(C) - Standards Dwellings Authorized by ORS 215.705 To 215.755; And (E) Other Dwellings Under Prescribed Conditions - Dwelling on Forest and Forest Mixed Use Zones - Additional Criteria for all Dwellings Allowed in the Forest and Forest Mixed Use Zones. § 4.6.130 Additional Criteria for all New and Replacement Dwellings and Structures In Forest § 4.6.140 Development and Siting Criteria Both hearings will be held in the Conference Room of the Owen Building, 201 N. Adams St., Coquille, Oregon. A copy of the Staff Report will be available for review at the Planning Department at least seven (7) days prior to the

scheduled Planning Commission hearing. Copies can be obtained for a fee of $.50 per page, viewed online @ https://- www.co.coos. or.us/planning/page/- applications-2021-2 or viewed at the Planning Department at any time during regular business hours 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. with an appointment only. These hearings are open to the public and testimony, evidence, or comments may be submitted either orally or in writing. The Planning Commission would appreciate any written materials be submitted 10 days prior to the hearing date (by May 24, 2021), testimony can be emailed to planning@co.coos.or.us, mailed to the Planning Department, 225 N. Adams, Coquille, Oregon 97423, or delivered to 60 E. Second, Coquille, Oregon.

Please include your signature, printed name and mailing address. All written comments or evidence received prior to the close of the evidentiary record will be included in the evidentiary record. Anyone entering a signed petition(s) into the record is responsible for providing individual notice to the signee(s) of the petition(s). Please be aware that failure to raise an issue prior to the close of the evidentiary record, in person or by letter, or failure to provide statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision makers an opportunity to respond to the issue, precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue.

An appeal of a Hearings Body decision shall be made pursuant to Article 5.8 of the CCZLDO. Further explanation concerning any information contained in this notice can be obtained by contacting the Planning Staff members at (541) 396- 7770, or by visiting the Planning Department Website.

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--------------------------------------------NOTICE OF COOS COUNTY PUBLIC LAND USE HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that the Coos County Planning Commission (June 3, 2021 @ 7:00 p.m.) and the Board of Commissioners (June 29, 2021 @ 1:30 p.m.) will conduct public hearings regarding the matter of a proposed amendments to the Coos County Comprehensive Plan Maps (Rezone) and Conditional Use Review. In the event the public will not be able to attend a GoToMeeting will be set up. Please contact the Planning Department for further information. If you are planning to attend in person please keep in mind seating will be limited based on COVID Restrictions at the time of the hearing.

ITEM A - File # AM-21-001/ RZ-21- 001/ACU-21-024 - The applicant/- property owner is listed as Gary and Teresa Pullen.

The subject property is identified as Township 28S, Range 14W, Section 21CA, Tax Lot 300. This property is located east of the City of Bandon. The request is to amend the plan and zoning map (rezone) for the subject property.

The current Comprehensive Plan Zone Map shows the property is zoned Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) the proposed zone is Forest Mixed Use (FMU). This requires the Comprehensive Plan Map designation to be modified from Agriculture to Forest with a Mixed Use Overlay. The applicants are

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COOS COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT Coos County Staff Members Jill Rolfe, Planning Director, Crystal Orr, Planner I, Amy Dibble, Planner II, Michelle Berglund, Planning Aide POSTED & MAILED ON: May 13, 2021.POST THROUGH: June 29, 2021 Published: May 21 and June 18, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:316201)

Instructions to Bidders within the Contract Documents. The actual bid opening shall be conducted in the North Bend School District Office immediately following the bid closing time at 1:00 P.M. at which time the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Topic: North Bend School District, North Bend High School Kitchen Upgrade.

Time: Thursday July 1, 2021, 1:15 - 1:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/- 901684965 .You can also dial in using your phone.

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Addendums and other critical bid information will be forwarded to all persons on the architect’s plan holders list. A pre-bid meeting will not be held; however, bidders shall make arrangements to visit the site prior to bidding.

Contact Facilities Manager, Mark Koechel to schedule (541) 4044624. No bid will be received or considered by the Owner unless

the bid contains a statement that Bidder will comply with the provisions of ORS 279C.800 through 279C.870 relating to Prevailing Wages. No bids will be considered unless fully completed in the manner provided in the Instructions to Bidders upon the official bid form provided by the Architect, within the Project Manual, and accompanied by an unconditional certified check or a bid bond executed in favor of North Bend School District in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid per ORS 279C.385, to be forfeited as fixed and liquidated damages should the bidder fail or neglect to enter into a contract and provide suitable bond for the faithful performance of the work in the event the contract is awarded.

Each bid will contain a statement as to whether or not the bidder is a resident bidder as defined in ORS 279A.120. No bid will be considered unless the bidder is registered with the Construction Contractors Board as required

by ORS 701.035 to 701.055. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive any technicalities or informalities in connection therewith. No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof until the lapse of thirty (30) days from the bid opening.

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--------------------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for North Bend School District, North Bend High School Kitchen Upgrade project, will be received by the School District until the bid closing time of 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time, July 1, 2021.

Bids are to be submitted to the North Bend School District Office, Attn: Kevin Bogatin, Superintendent, 1913 Meade Street, North Bend, Oregon 97459. Due to COVID-19, bids shall also be received ELECTRONICALLY by email to: gberrian@nbend. k12.or.us subject: BID for North Bend School District, North Bend High School Kitchen Upgrade.

Refer to Instructions to Bidders within the Contract Documents.

A two-hour period shall follow in which all bidders shall submit to the North Bend School District a properly filled out Subcontractor Disclosure Form, identifying any first- tier subcontractor that will be furnishing labor or labor and material on the Contract.

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--------------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE A new licensed FCC telecommunications tower facility is proposed for construction at 94694 Carlson Heights Lane North Bend, Coos County, OR 97459 (43 24 49.43, -124 10 31.33). The project includes a 120-ft tall self-supporting lattice telecommunications tower and associated ground equipment.

The public is invited to comment on the potential effect the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects of historic importance. Comments may be submitted by mail to: Black Mountain Consulting LLC, 22566 SW Washington Street, Suite 206, Sherwood, OR 97140, or by calling (503)625-2517 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice.

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Protect yourself against COVID-19 and other diarrheal and respiratory illnesses, and help prevent the spread of germs to others, by following these simple hand hygiene guidelines:

Wash your hands throughout the day, and particularly under these circumstances: • Before preparing food • Before eating • After using the toilet • After changing a diaper or helping a child use the toilet • Before and after exposure to someone who is sick • After coughing, sneezing or blowing your nose • After touching an animal or picking up animal waste • After handling pet food or treats • After handling garbage or garbage cans • Before and after attending to a cut or wound Information resource: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Sheriff's office: Arsonist hits Cape Arago again An arsonist may be targeting homes and businesses in the Cape Arago area.

The Coos County Sheriff’s Office reports four separate arsons have been attempted in Cape Arago in the last three weeks, and deputies believe a lone man is responsible for the crimes.

In the latest incident, deputies responded to 91484 Cape Arago Highway at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday for a report of an arson. Upon arrival, deputies discovered an unknown male had poured gasoline on the door to the residence and set it on fire before departing the area.

The homeowners briefly observed a tall male leaving the area. The owners stated the male walked off at a slow pace even when they attempted to confront him.

This is the fourth such incident in the area.

The first incident involved a male pouring gasoline in

front of the entrance to Seaport RV park and setting the gasoline on fire.

The second incident occurred on May 21 at about 2:30 a.m. at 91222 Cape Arago Highway. Cameras caught a video of a male, carrying a gas can.

The third incident was on June 5 at about 11:30 p.m., at 92222 Cape Arago Highway.

Cameras were installed at the residence but were unable to capture the suspect in video or photographs.

The latest incident was on June 13 at about 2:30 a.m., at 91484 Cape Arago Highway.

Cameras caught both still and video images of the suspect.

In all instances, emergency personnel arrived on scene within minutes of the report and have not been able to locate the suspect.

The incidents have typically been occurring during Friday and Saturdays, with one fire started a week, early in the

Photos contributed by the Coos County Sheriff's Office

These photo of a suspected arsonist was taken by security cameras as the man poured gasoline and lit it on fire. morning.

The public is asked to

report any suspicious activity or any information that may

Mt. Rainier Ptarmigan proposed for ESA protections In response to a petition and litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Monday to protect the Mt. Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Following a Trump administration regulation, the service declined to identify and protect critical habitat for the ptarmigan.

“These beautiful winter birds are immediately threatened by our warming world, so even these limited protections are helpful,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center and author of the petition to protect the ptarmigan. “Like a canary in a coal mine, the ptarmigan is telling us that we’re losing the snowpack that keeps Washington’s streams cool and flowing throughout the summer. It’s very alarming.”

The ptarmigan lives yearround above the tree line in the Cascades from southern British Columbia to Mt. Adams. In winter, it relies on dry, fluffy snow to bury itself and stay warm, but climate change is resulting in more rain on snow events, creating hard crusts unsuitable for the bird.

In summer, the ptarmigan prefers wet areas created by melting snowfields and glaciers that are rapidly disappearing.

It is poorly adapted to warm temperatures, showing stress above just 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Cascade alpine meadows used by breeding ptarmigans are expected to decline by 95% in the next 50 years under current climate change projections.

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Photo courtesy of Joe Mabel

Mt. Rainier Ptarmigan and changing fast,” said Greenwald. “If we don’t move quickly to drastically reduce fossil-fuel usage and protect more of the natural world, the ptarmigan will be one of many special things we’ll lose in the Pacific Northwest.”

The smallest bird in the grouse family, white-tailed ptarmigans are one of the few animals that live on alpine mountaintops throughout their entire life. They’re

adapted from head to toe to thrive in a frigid climate, with feathered, snowshoe-like talons, seasonally changing plumage and a remarkable ability to gain body mass throughout harsh winters.

But as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, pushing tree lines — and the ptarmigan — to ever-higher elevations, there may be no more room to rise in the near future.

In addition to climate change, the ptarmigan is threatened by recreation in both winter and summer, which can disturb birds.

“It’s disappointing to see the Service following Trump administration rules and denying the ptarmigan critical habitat,” said Greenwald.

“Protection of critical habitat could have helped identify the most important places for the bird and ensure these areas aren’t unduly disturbed.”

Independent arborist finds state tree removal plan is solid A Pacific Northwest arborist with more than 30 years of experience submitted his findings to the state following a thorough review of the hazard tree removal effort underway to support Oregon’s rebuilding and recovery process.

In response to public concerns and calls for an independent investigation into the work underway, Galen Wright, president of Washington Forestry Consultants, Inc., evaluated the state hazard tree removal program and its workers and drafted a report sharing these findings.

Wright’s review found that the certified arborists and professional foresters working in the field generally meet or exceed the experience and qualifications required to evaluate fire-damaged trees. The report also found that the FEMA-required criteria being used is sound for making these determinations and is being applied appropriately in the field.

“It is our finding that ODOT and the Debris Management Task Force have the necessary operational plan, protocols, contracts and requirements necessary to conduct and provide quality

assurance for this hazard tree mitigation program for the 2020 Oregon wildfires. No changes are recommended to the current protocols,” said Wright in the report.

In response to public requests for urgency and a timely review process, Wright spent weeks assessing on-the-ground samples of work in the field; reviewing resumes, certifications and other qualification materials of the crews in the field; and diving into emergency response requirements currently guiding the operation.

Wright’s report gives the operation an A grade and finds 96% agreement with the total fire-damaged trees being marked, noting that more than 99% of the trees marked for removal are dead, dying, or pose a safety threat if left standing. In addition to a very small percentage of some smaller trees set back from the highway that could be potentially unmarked moving forward, Wright’s review also found that there were other stands of unmarked fire-damaged trees that should be marked for future cutting.

“We are honored to be asked to perform this important work helping Oregon

families and communities recover and ultimately rebuild,” said Mac Lynde, deputy administrator for delivery and operations at ODOT and the head of the three-agency Debris Management Task Force. “We acknowledge that this is a complex and unprecedented effort with many different opinions and approaches, and we stood ready to implement any potential recommendations resulting from this report.

Mr. Wright’s objective and independent findings provide a concrete direction that benefits all Oregonians and reinforces the adaptive nature of this emergency response operation. We appreciate Mr. Wright’s conclusions.”

Wright also found that the arborists and foresters under contract possess the experience and qualifications necessary to perform this work effectively. Of the more than 1,200 contracted crew members and more than 40 arborists and foresters in the field, only one arborist was identified as not fully meeting qualifications for the position due to their entry-level status, although they were a certified arborist. This staffer is not responsible for final decisions and is supervised

by more senior colleagues as part of a multi-step review system where their work is routinely monitored before any cutting occurs.

The report provides a helpful snapshot of the scope and scale of trees being cut or removed in these corridors.

While the state-led hazard tree operation comprises less than 1% of the total 1-million-acre fire burn area, it was found that more than half (58.3%) of the fire-damaged trees in this area are being left for conservation and monitoring purposes, per the criteria used to evaluate these fire-damaged trees.

“With our initial charge to move quickly, and knowing this work is unprecedented for Oregon, Mr. Wright’s review helps underline the good work underway while providing a roadmap for adapting other areas moving forward. While we work to ensure no more lives are lost at the hands of the 2020 wildfires, we will continue to incorporate feedback from a range of partners to make sure this work is done right and look forward to future planning conversations if this operation becomes an unfortunate new reality for Oregon,” said Lynde.

be of relevance to the Coos County Sheriff’s Office at

541-396-2106.

OCMA Outdoors provides live music in Coos Bay from July 17-25 The Oregon Coast Music Association announces a return to live music with OCMA Outdoors. OCMA Orchestra members and community partners will present outdoor musical festival events during the weekends of July 17-18 and July 24-25.

On Saturday, July 17, at noon the Bay Area Concert Band & The Shaymus Hanlin Quartet will provide the traditional festival opening free concert on the Mingus Park Stage, Coos Bay. This year this event will be a double treat. Bay Area Concert Band Conductor Simpkins has selected several band classics to entertain audiences in the first set including the Ellington/ Cacavas - Sophisticated Ladies with a Wilbur Jenson solo. Also featured with the band will be special guest Shaymus Hanlin singing Gershwin’s “But Not for Me.” The second set features the Shaymus Hanlin Quartet with Wes Georgiev, keyboard, Liam Hathaway, bass, and Michael Rodenkirch, percussion and Hanlin on vocals performing selections from the great American Songbook.

Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy that picnic afternoon concert.

Three concerts are planned for a new venue developed in partnership with the Coos History Museum, the Plaza Stage. This feature will be developed on the south side of the museum alongside beautiful Coos Bay. Three events will be provided, and all are ticketed at $25 each. Advanced ticket purchases are strongly suggested as seating will be limited according to COVID restrictions. Visit https://www.oregoncoastmusic.org or phone 541267-0938 for reservations.

Rose Canyon Harmonie performs on Sunday, July 18, at 2 p.m. This unique reed quintet features Thomas Schubert, bassoon; Mike Gaby, oboe; Mark Margolies, clarinet; Steve

Shields, saxophone; and Robert Zelickman, bass clarinet. The quintet offers a program of music from the baroque, classical and romantic eras as well as innovative contemporary pieces written specifically for the reed quintet.

Pioneer Trombones continues the series on Saturday, July 24, at 2 p.m.

The trombone and percussion ensemble includes brass artists Andrew Harris, David Bryan, Phil Neuman, Gayle Neuman, and Dan Stueber on percussion. They will perform popular music of the Americas, with emphasis on South America’s contributions with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astor Piazzola, arranged by Phil Neuman. The group will play works by jazz composers Kenny Dorham, Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea. Selections from ragtime and big band styles rounds out this entertaining mix of trombone quartet “chamber music".

The Festival Viola Quartet and The Carlos Ensemble will close out the series on Sunday, July 25, at 2 p.m. The Festival Viola Quartet composed of Shelley Mathewson, Cynthia Scott, Brenda Liu and Sharon Eng provide the first portion of this double concert afternoon. They perform a collection of classical and non-classical pieces, certain to delight the audience with the lovely timbres of the violas. The Carlos Ensemble with Stephen Chong, Anthony Dyer, Shelley Mathewson and Dale Bradley will present the wrap up finale. They will perform a wonderful array of pop, Broadway and familiar tunes, bringing much joy to the community!

Further information about concerts and how to reserve a seat is provided on the OCMA website https:// www.oregoncoastmusic.org, including a preview of the programs as YouTube preview and Spotify podcast.

Plan ahead and do not miss this great opportunity.

Library to host discussion on beets At 11 am on Wednesday, June 30th, the North Bend Public Library presents Beets!, a talk on the versatility and health benefits of beets. This will be live on Zoom at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/84823208926. The link will also be available on the library’s webpage and Facebook page.

Natural Grocers’ Nutritional Health Coach Cheryl O’Dell will discuss the ways beets keep a body healthy as well as provide recipes that best show off a beet’s taste without sacrificing nutrition.

This program is part of the NBPL’s summer reading program. Attendance at library programs earns points for those playing the summer reading game. More information about the summer reading game can be found on the library website.

For more information about this event and other library programs, please contact the North Bend Public Library at 541-756-0400, email ddouglas@coastlinelibrarynetwork.org or see our website at http://northbendoregon.us/library.

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Tigers repeat Sunset crown The World Bandon’s girls basketball team has repeated as champion of the Sunset Conference.

The Tigers kept their record perfect with wins at Toledo and Reedsport, clinching the league title and a home game in the Class 2A playoffs in the process.

In the playoff format, the Tigers will host a first-round game Monday. If they win, they will be in the double-elimination final bracket for the tournament.

The Tigers beat Toledo 55-27 and Reedsport 55-29 to improve to 11-0 in the Sunset Conference and 12-0 overall.

They finish the regular season with a game at Siuslaw on Friday and a home game against Gold Beach on Saturday.

In the win over Toledo that clinched a share of the title, Sterling Williams had 13 points, Makiah Veirck 12 and Olivia Thompson nine.

And in the victory over Reedsport, Williams had 16 points, Katelyn Senn 13 and Olivia Thompson eight. Ilene Glover had 13 points for the Brave.

“I’m a firm believer the work these girls put in every chance they got over the last year paid off tonight when they clinched the league outright,” Bandon coach Jordan Sammons said. “It was a roller coaster of a year but they stayed true to getting in the gym every opportunity they got and I think it was a difference maker when it came time for games to start.

“I’m super thankful my seniors came out and for their leadership and getting to watch how well they played and I can’t wait for the future with this group of girls remaining. But right now we are enjoying the last week and a half of season this group has together and going to go try to make a run at it next week.”

WALDPORT 36, COQUILLE 14: The Irish kept alive their hopes for second place in the league standings by beating the visiting Red Devils on Monday, improving to 7-3 in league play.

Waldport trails Gold Beach in the standings, but the Panthers still have to play Bandon one more time while Waldport finishes with a game against last-place Reedsport. The top two teams in the league standings advance to the playoffs, while the third-place team has a chance of being an at-large selection.

Coquille also fell to Gold Beach on Wednesday by a 38-14 score. Kailina Hamilton had 16 points to lead the Panthers to the victory.

BOYS TOLEDO 63, BANDON 47: The Boomers kept their Sunset Conference record perfect, clinching the league title with their win over the visiting Tigers, who will finish second in the league standings.

The defending state champions kept their record perfect, building the 16-point lead and holding onto it. Toledo built the early lead and maintained it.

As the league runner-up, Bandon will be on the road in the playoffs Monday, at Jefferson, needing a win to reach the double-elimination bracket.

WALDPORT 76, COQUILLE 58: Zak Holsey poured in 47 points as the Irish avenged an earlier loss to the Red Devils on Monday.

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Marshfield's Jonathan Calvert tries to break free from Mazama's Tanner Wood in the final at 138 pounds during the regional tournament Wednesday at Marshfield High School.

Pirates advance five wrestlers to state John Lemmons was sixth at 145 pounds, which was the largest bracket Wednesday with nine wrestlers.

That was the exception given how this year has gone.

“Everybody is low on numbers,” Hampton said.

“The league went from 125 kids to 85.

“A lot of seniors quit wrestling. Its’ kind of been the theme around the state.”

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COOS BAY — Marshfield wrestling coach Bo Hampton said the Pirates faced an uphill battle, just like virtually all the other teams in the state, in the pandemic-stricken 2021 season.

“It was hard to get kids to come out,” Hampton said Wednesday, after five of his wrestlers qualified for the upcoming Class 4A state tournament with their finishes in the regional tournament hosted by the Pirates. “It was a weird time of the year to try to get kids to wrestle.”

Wrestling is normally a winter sport, but all the winter sports were pushed to the end of the school year in 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s hard to try to get kids who are inexperienced to start wrestling late in the year,” Hampton said.

And the Pirates, their coach said, were inexperienced.

Still, they managed to get three wrestlers into the finals in the regional, which included Marshfield and Cottage Grove of the Sky-Em League and the six teams from the Skyline League.

Two of those were the most experienced Pirates — Miguel Velazquez, who won a state title for Reedsport as a sophomore last year, and Jonathan Calvert, who advanced to the state tournament as a freshman last winter.

On Wednesday, Velazquez

Marshfield's Miguel Velazquez, right, grapples with Mazama's Ethan Richards during the 195-pound final. was pinned by Mazama’s Ethan Richards in the 195-pound final, Calvert was pinned by Mazama’s Tanner Wood in the 138-pound final and Marshfield freshman Spencer Pederson was pinned

by Hidden Valley’s Basen Rambo in the championship match at 106 pounds. All three falls were recorded in the first round.

Hampton said he considered three in the finals a good showing for his squad.

“It’s really good,” he said.

“Everybody wrestled hard.

Even the guys who didn’t make it to state.”

Marshfield’s other state qualifiers were Rowdy Lewis, who placed third at 126 pounds, and Hayden Murphy,

who was fourth at 220.

The state tournament is next Friday and Saturday at Cascade High School in Turner, and Hampton has high hopes.

“Everyone who is going has a shot at placing,” he said. “The kids are just improving every day.

“They just keep getting better.”

Marshfield finished sixth in the team race with 105 points, far behind winner Hidden Valley, which had six champions and scored 256.5 points. Mazama, which had three champions, was second with 224.5 points.

Velazquez, who was injured in his championship match Wednesday, said he is

excited about next week.

“Very, very (excited),” he said. “It’s bigger, more competitive (than Class 2A-1A).”

Velazquez said he is proud of how Marshfield’s kids have competed this year, given the challenges of the spring season and not being able to start actual oneon-one drills until several months into the new year.

He added that it’s been fun watching Marshfield’s younger wrestlers improve.

“It’s exciting watching them win more matches,” he said.

In addition to Marshfield’s state qualifiers, Riley Murphy and Chris Thomas placed fifth at 126 and 132 pounds, respectively, and

Team Scores: Hidden Valley 256.5, Mazama 224.5, Henley 217, North Valley 128, Phoenix 113, Marshfield 105, Klamath Union 63, Cottage Grove 0.

Championship Matches 106 — Basen Rambo, HV, p.

Spencer Pederson, Mar, 1:45.

113 — Dylan Clark, Hen, p. Hadyn Burk, Maz, :44. 120 — Ashton Marchington, HV, p. Kyle Nichols, Hen, 3:36. 126 — Hunter Lucas, HV, p. Treyce Horton, Maz, 2:29.

132 — George Tapia, HV, won by technical fall over Alex Mersino, NV, 16-1. 138 — Tanner Wood, Maz, p. Jonathan Calvert, Mar, 2:50. 145 — Savien Burk, Maz, p. Asa Marqick, HV, 2:59. 152 — Owen Archy, HV, p. Chris Currier, NV, :59. 160 — Sam McKeen-Hornbeck, Hen, p. Ethan Blendell, NV, 2:19. 170 — Fisher Bastian, HV, p. Marcelo Camargo, Pho, 1:15. 182 — Elijah Myers, NV, p. Patrick Calhoun, Pho, 1:45. 195 — Ethan Richards, Maz, p. Miguel Velazquez, Mar, :45. 220 — Joseph Baynard, Pho, p. Jason Ortega, Maz, 3:12.

285 — Christopher Woods, HV, p.

Donavan Delos-Reyes, KU, :42.

Third Place (Marshfield only) 126 — Rowdy Lewis, Mar, p.

Jaxon Mengis, Hen, 5:02. 220 — Matthew McCoy, Hen, p. Hayden Murphy, Mar, 1:02.

Fifth Place (Marshfield only) 126 — Riley Murphy, Mar, bye.

132 — Chris Thomas, Mar, won by forfeit. 145 — Ryan Dotson, Hen, p. John Lemmons, Mar, 1:32.

Coquille has seven state wrestling qualifiers Myrtle Point has four qualifiers from 2A-1A district meet Coquille had seven state qualifiers and placed second

behind Rogue River in the team race in the Class 2A-1A Special District 3 tournament at Lakeview.

Tony Flores was champion at 132 pounds and Riley Jones was the winner at 191 for the Red Devils.

In addition, Coquille got second-place finishes by Ethan Elmer at 152 pounds, Brayden Clayburn at 182, Tom Riley at 220 and Tommy Vigue at 285. Andrew Matlock was third at 170.

Rogue River, which had a

tournament-high 16 wrestlers, won the team title with 189 points. Coquille had 148. Myrtle Point was sixth with 77.

The Bobcats had four state qualifiers. Sam Groves was champion at 113 pounds and Caleb Brickey took the title

at 220, Bailey Thompson second at 126 and Logan Clayburn third at 182.

Coquille’s Jared Callihan was fourth at 285, to just miss a trip to state.

The Class 2A-1A state tournament is next weekend.

Marshfield boys, girls pick up big basketball victories

Marshfield’s boys and girls basketball teams got big wins at Elmira on Tuesday to help set up a final big night to the Sky-Em League season.

Marshfield’s boys topped the Falcons 71-36.

When Siuslaw won at Junction City 65-59, it meant when Marshfield hosts the Tigers on Thursday the winner will be the league champion and guaranteed a spot in the Class 4A Elite 8 showcase.

Results of Thursday's Please see Sunset, Page A14

games were not available by press time.

Mason Ainsworth had 20 points, Ezra Waterman 14, Pierce Davidson 12 and Monty Swinson 11 in the win over Elmira on Monday.

“We hit shots and had fun,” Marshfield coach Casey McCord said, adding that the Pirates are “excited for a big game Thursday.”

Marshfield’s girls, meanwhile, dominated Elmira 49-7 to set up their own big game with the Tigers. A win

or loss Thursday will help determine whether the Pirates finish second, third or fourth in the in the league standings.

The Pirates will be in the league playoffs starting Friday either way, but if they are fourth they have to travel to first-place Cottage Grove, while if they tie Marist Catholic for second they will play the Spartans on a neutral court, with the winner facing the winner of the Cottage Grove-Junction City game Saturday for a guaranteed

spot in the Elite 8 showcase.

As a tuneup for Thursday, the Pirates limited the Falcons to three points in the second quarter and two each in the third and fourth.

Kate Miles had 12 points, Charlie Dea 11 and Raegan Rhodes nine for Marshfield in the win.

For both the boys and the girls, the first round of the Elite 8 showcase is Tuesday, with the winners of the quarterfinal games that day advancing to the final four,

which will be jointly hosted

by Marshfield and North Bend high schools next week.

The semifinals for both boys and girls will be Thursday, June 24, at North Bend High School. The championship games will be the next day at Marshfield, while the third-place games will be played at North Bend.

The schools also host the Class 3A final four the same two days, with the 3A semifinals at Marshfield.

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North Bend bowlers head to national tournament JOHN GUNTHER The World

NORTH BEND — Among the disappointments caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was the national high school bowling tournament being canceled just before North Bend was due to travel to the event in Ohio.

Fast forward a year and the story has a happy ending.

The North Bend squad left this week for Dayton, Ohio, and this year’s national tournament, which starts Saturday.

“I’m ecstatic,” said Keegan Jelinek, one of the bowlers on the trip. “We’ve been waiting a long time for this.

“It’s going to be a ton of fun.”

North Bend will be one of more than 30 schools competing this weekend, and the first from Oregon to participate in the event, coach Rod Duryee said.

The Bulldogs first qualified last year after finishing second in Oregon’s state tournament. They were invited back this year because last year’s event was canceled, but would have qualified again after again finishing second in the state tournament.

This year’s state event isn’t necessarily a fond memory, at least the championship match. The Bulldogs built a huge lead through qualifying and then had to wait to find out their foe in the stepladder finals. And when it finally came time, North Bend struggled, falling behind by about 100 pins after the first game of the two-game final, a deficit too big to overcome.

Despite that finish, and another runner-up state trophy, Duryee said he is proud of the squad and its accomplishments.

“I’m proud of what these boys have done the last four or five years,” he said. “They’ve come along.

John Gunther, The World

North Bend's bowling team, which is in Ohio for the national high school tournament, includes, front row Kian Pryor, and back row from left, assistant coach John Newsum, Jake Newsum, John Burgmeier, head coach Rod Duryee, Konnor Jelinek, Keegan Jelinek and Chase Taylor.

They’ve showed everybody they are guaranteed to be reckoned with. They just have to learn to finish a game.”

They hope to get that chance in Ohio.

“Hopefully, it all goes good and we have fun,” said Chase Taylor, who joins Jelinek as the team’s two seniors. “With our team and how good we are, we’ll do good.”

Jelinek said a big part of the team’s success is its chemistry.

“We’re always joking and we always have a good time,” he said. “I think as long as we keep our heads up and continue to joke around as we do, we will be able to do pretty well.”

The format for the national tournament is different from Oregon’s high school team events, which exclusively use the baker format where five bowlers alternate frames through the 10 frames of each game.

In the qualifying at the national tournament, Duryee said, the team members will bowl individual games with the scores added together.

Duryee plans to use all six bowlers he is bringing during the qualifying phase.

After the qualifying, the teams will be seeded into a bracket, which will use the baker game format.

The team portion of the tournament is Saturday, while the bowlers will compete in an individual tourna-

ment starting Sunday, with the top qualifiers returning Monday.

In addition to the seniors, North Bend’s squad includes junior Konnor Jelinek and sophomores Jake Newsum, Jack Bergmeier and Kian Pryor.

The same group was preparing for the trip last year, with the addition of Angel Espat, who graduated in 2020.

The Bulldogs didn’t have many tournaments this year, and got a late start practicing because of COVID-19 restrictions that kept North Bend Lanes closed for portions of the pandemic.

Keegan Jelinek said the forced break wasn’t necessarily bad.

“Taking a break didn’t hurt,” he said. “When I came back, I came back with better form, better consistency and just a better ball.”

The entire team did well when the group finally was able to start practicing again.

“With the few tournaments we were able to go to, I feel we did good as a team,” Taylor said.

He credited the team’s longevity for its success.

“We’ve just practiced so many years,” he said. “Rod got me into bowling when I was 8 years old. He knew he wanted me to be on his team.”

The team’s effort has afforded the Bulldogs an exciting opportunity.

“It’s a good feeling,”

Taylor said.

“It’s kind of relieving that we put in all that effort to raise the money, we finally get to do what we earned,” Keegan Jelinek said, adding that all of the car washes and bottle drives the team held last year are finally paying off.

In addition to all of the team’s efforts, North Bend also got a big boost in fundraising from North Bend Lanes and owner Mark Mattecheck, as well as from John Newsum, the team’s assistant coach.

“I want to say thank you to the sponsors and to our assistant coach and to Mark, the owner,” Taylor said.

“They’ve helped us out a bunch.”

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This week in Coos County history: June 16-19 100 Years ago: 1921 Heavily fined for having beer Home brew found ta W.J. King’s residence Stated it was for his own use but fined $150 — jail sentence suspended A charge of having liquor in his possession was placed against W.J. King in Justice Joehnk’s court yesterday afternoon. Constable Goodman and Marshal Carter had a search warrant and went to Mr. King’s home on South Third street. They found a number of empty bottles, six bottles of home brew beer and some wine. Mr. King stated that he had the beer for his own use and had never sold any or intended to. The beer and bottles were taken to the justice court.

King pleaded guilty and Justice Joehnke fined him $150 and sentenced him to 20 days in jail. Mr. King was given until today to arrange the matter.

Held to severe A.K. Peck today appeared for Mr. King and held that his client had made the beer only for his own use and that there was no evidence to show that he had ever sold any liquor, and claimed that the punishment imposed was too great for merely having home brew in possession. Justice Joehnk suspended the jail sentence but left the fine as it was and this was settled.

Roseburg road to be hurried Chairman Booth says work will be hastened Finished trip over road with state engineer and Douglas county officials ROSEBURG — Actual work on the improvement of the Myrtle Point-Roseburg highway will be under way this year, it is stated by R.A. Booth, chairman of the state highway commissioner, after a trip with Herbert Nunn, state engineer, and the members of the county court of Douglas county from Roseburg to Camas Valley.

Engineer Nunn returned to Salem and is prepared to have the plans and specifications drawn up at once.

Mr. Booth expressed himself as pleased at the vote given for the road bonds in Douglas, Coos and Curry counties and said that this action would avoid delays and that the work would now be hurried through as fast as the plans can be made and the contracts let.

Cheese week is declared Is in recognition of the importance of the dairy industry in this state Governor Olcott has issued the following proclamation: To the people of the state of Oregon: The dairy industry has a relationship to the public welfare of the people of this state that must be recognized. Cheese constitutes one of the leading products of this great industry, and in its production our Oregon climate, soil and crops lend ideal condition to the production of milk and the manufacture of this most wholesome food.

We produce annually ten million pounds.

Its quality is recognized throughout the entire

country, yet our per capita consumption is only one tenth of what it should be.

I hereby designate the week from June 19 to June 26 inclusive, as Cheese Consumption Week throughout this state.

I request the full co-operation of the people of this state, in a movement that will encourage one of our best industries and lead to a more extended use of one of our best foods.

I urge that every home in Oregon take advantage of the opportunity which is presented by the dairy industry of this state, to become well supplied with this food. I ask for the co-operation of grocers and retail merchants, that this product might be sold on a fair margin of profit and that hotels and restaurants and all public eating places serve liberal portions at a price that will stimulate consumption.

Moonshiner is given the limit Albert Rogers fined $500 — goes to jail 6 months Justice of the Peace Maybee says the only way to stop violation is heavy punishment Albert Rogers, aged about 60 years, of North Bend, was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail by Justice C.E. Maybee of North Bend. The man pleaded guilty to having a still after being caught by the officers.

This is the limit of punishment that can be given, and it is the second man who has been given the limit by Justice Maybee recently.

Mr. Maybee says the only way to stop moonshining is to give the limit of punishment when men are found with stills.

“Perhaps the severe punishment will make some of the small fry take notice,” said the justice. “The only way to stop this sort of thing is to make the punishment severe.”

Officers make raid The raid on Rogers was made last evening

by Sheriff Ellingsen, Deputy Sam Malehorn, Constable Goodman of Marshfield and Officer Bert Smith of North Bend. Rogers has been living at the house of Mrs. Agnes Johnson, an Indian woman at the foot of the Virginia street bridge. The officers found a still in the house. Rogers, Mrs. Johnson and the latter’s son, Robert Scott, were arrested.

Rogers said that the still and of the stuff seized belonged to him. He said he had been making moonshine since the mills closed down last Christmas. He entered a plea of guilty and was given his sentence and taken to the county jail at Coquille.

50 Years Ago: 1971 Pram tips, father saves his family COQUILLE — A near tragedy was averted Wednesday when a Coquille mother and father swam to safety with their two small children, one a six-month old boy, after their 8-foot pram capsized on the Coquille River just south of here about 6:30 p.m.

Coos County Sheriff’s office said Richard Duda, his wife Sharon and their two children, Dawe, 3, and Saida, six-months, were taken to Coquille Valley Community Hospital where they were later released with no apparent injuries.

According to police reports, Duda swam to the river’s north bank with his three-year-old daughter where George Wilson, ranch hand at a nearby ranch, took the child. Duda returned to where his wife was treading water with the other child and swam with them to the south bank of the river.

According to police, the Coquille River at the spot where the mishap occurred is approximately 50 yards wide.

Duda later told police the family was headed downriver when the small outboard motor on the pram ran out of gas. “When I stood up to fill the gas tank,” Duda reportedly told sheriff’s deputies, “the boat overturned.”

Youngmayr resigns North Bend grid job After two years as head football coach, onetime North Bend high school and University of Oregon football star Bill Youngmayr has submitted his resignation at North Bend.

James Ulum, North Bend Superintendent of Schools, announced Youngmayr’s resignation as teacher and coach Wednesday.

Youngmayr, who compiled a 4-13-1 wonloss-tie record while at North Bend, plans to return to graduate school at the University of Oregon.

Superintendent Ulum is now receiving applications from experienced coaching applicants with teaching qualifications in the area of physical education, language arts or biology and physical science.

G-P due to modernize Cut in labor COQUIILLE — Georgia-Pacific Corp. officials met today in Coquille with union representatives to discuss the firm’s planned gradual reduction in personnel, to coincide with “modernization” of the plant.

Modernization will include a major equipment realignment, according to H.A. Merlo, executive G-P vice president.

Merlo said the change involves going to a sustained yield cutting program and Coquille and Samoa, Calif., involving second growth timber.

The move follows a similar conversion from cutting old timber to harvest of second and third growth trees at the company’s Toledo plywood plant two years ago.

New equipment at Coquille and Samoa plants will include new high speed lathes for peeling veneer. The equipment and other improvements are expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Merlo said the move will reduce unit cost of manufacture and the high speed equipment will eliminate need for a third shift in some departments.

Vandals strike at new Tenmile park LAKESIDE — An estimated $200-$300 in damage by vandals at the county’s newly opened Tenmile Lakes Park has been reported

by Coos County parks and recreation director Gene Jenkins.

According to Jenkins, several residents in the area near the park have supplied police with possible information linking persons responsible for the vandalism.

Vandals last weekend reportedly tore

toilet paper and paper towel dispensers from restroom walls. Jenkins also reported that newly planted lawn at the park was damaged by what appeared to be motorcycle tracks.

“We have had trouble at the park since it opened last month,” noted Jenkins, “but the last 10 days or so have been the worst.”

According to Jenkins, vandalism at the county’s 23 recreation areas has been steadily declining over the past three years but has taken an upsurge during recent months. “Vandalism has cost the county almost as much in the first six months of this year as it cost for all of 1970,” said Jenkins.

20 Years Ago: 2001 Gardiner takes liking to coaching Alumni: Former Bulldog coaches high school team to Wisconsin state crown It’s been more than a decade since Glen Gardiner made a habit of setting records at North Bend High School.

Now he coaches athletes who do the same in Milwaukee.

Gardiner, a 1989 graduate of North Bend and the school’s record holder in the 800 and 1,500 meters, coached his Milwaukee Vincent High School boys track team to Wisconsin’s Division I title recently.

Gardiner, who is home for a short time during summer vacation, has grown to love coaching.

“It’s a little disheartening to not have a lot of distance runners to coach, but along the way I’m glad I paid attention in high school and college,” he said. “Now I’m the hurdles coach and the jumps coach. Last year I was the pole vault coach.”

Gardiner began teaching at Vincent, a 1,500-student school within the Milwaukee Public Schools System, in January of 1995.

He coached the school’s girls track team for two years starting in 1996 and has coached the boys team since then. He also coaches the school’s cross country team.

Powers players lift West A pair of Powers High School standouts were honored for their work helping the West team to a 28-26 victory in the annual eightman all-star football game for Oregon on Saturday at Linfield College.

Jeremy Mowe was named the game’s most valuable player and also the most inspiration player for the West team and Stan Adamek, who had two touchdowns, was named the offensive player of the game for the West.

Adamek rushed for about 200 yards and scored the game-tying touchdown and goahead extra point late in the fourth quarter.

“We had some real good things for us, and we won,” said Powers coach Tim France, who coached the West squad.

Adamek benefited from an offensive line anchored by Powers center Denny Stallard.

“We had a great offensive line where we were getting five or six yards a carry and we were able to basically move ahead with that,” said France.

“We had a real solid running game and we threw some balls. Jeremy was at the end of most of them.”

Mowe had one touchdown receiving and also two other big receiving plays.

He also made a big impact on defense in the fourth quarter, when he and fellow Powers senior Luke Rector, used primarily as a blocking end on offense the first three quarters, were both put in at defensive end.

Josh Stevens of Powers also had an outstanding game on defense, with nine tackles and a fumble recovery, France said.

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

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Holsey made seven 3-pointers. He scored 35 of his points in the second half.

Trace Edwards had a career-high 21 points for Coquille and Brock Willis added 14. Jace Haagen scored 11.

The loss was the fourth straight for the Red Devils, but they bounced back with 63-58 overtime win over North Douglas on Tuesday in a game played at Pacific High School, and beat Gold Beach 58-40 on Wednesday.

In the win over North Douglas, Haagen had 19 points, Dean Tucker 11 and Edwards and Hayden Gederos eight each.

In the victory over Gold Beach, the Red Devils sent seniors Haagen, Cort McKinley, Jaden Sperling and Julien Temps out on a winning note in their final home game.

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A Sunday Drive

Starfish everywhere at Face Rock Beach

Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World

At Face Rock Beach in Bandon, low tide showcases a world few get to see. On the rocks around the beach, starfish, mussels and other sea creatures come out to show off. Below, the starfish and anemones survive even while in direct sunlight.

Coos Art Museum receives $15,000 grant The Coos Art Museum is the recipient of a $15,000 grant from the Summer Learnings Program of Oregon Community Foundation to provide youth arts education during the summer of 2021. Activities will included the museum’s Art Cart in the Park events at various sites in Coos County.

Oregon Community Foundation puts donated money to work in Oregon – more than $100 million in grants and scholarships support Oregonians annually. For nearly 45 years, OCF grantmaking, research, advocacy and community-advised solutions have helped individuals, families, businesses and organizations create charitable funds to improve lives for all Oregonians.

Coos Art Museum has been a cultural focal point of Oregon’s scenic Southern Coast since 1966. It occupies an historic 1936 Art Deco U.S. Federal Building in downtown Coos Bay. The museum offers a wide range of arts activities including exhibitions, art classes and lectures. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

During low tide, the beach showcases a variety of sea life Accolades B DAVID RUPKALVIS y The World

Local students earn dean’s list recognition from George Fox University

Bandon has always intrigued me, so I find myself spending a lot of time there.

Every community in this region has some amazing things about it. Many have miles of coastland, beautiful beaches, forests that take your breath away and businesses worth stopping at.

But Bandon is the community that has figured out best how to make itself a tourist haven. Of course, their downtown is uniquely situated for tourism with the right kinds of businesses, a small enough area for walking, the boardwalk and parking. But Coos Bay and North Bend aren’t too far off. So what does set Bandon apart?

A little while ago, my family and I took a drive to Bandon for one purpose and one purpose only – to see starfish.

Recently in this column, I wrote about seeing my first starfish in Cape Arago and I was quickly informed I needed to visit Face Rock Beach in Bandon. I wasn’t told a whole lot more except to go at low tide.

So that’s what we did. We arrived mid-morning with the tide out and made our way to the beach. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking for, so we kinda just wandered the beach for a little bit, enjoying the breeze, the sand and the waves crashing nearby.

But when I found what we came to see, it was more than I ever expected. I don’t even know the name of the rock, but when you find it, you too will know.

Jutting out of the beach in low tide, and likely the water in high tide, the beach is covered with living things for at least the first 10 feet. There are mussels, anemones and more along the rock, but the allure is the starfish.

I honestly didn’t know starfish could survive out of the water, and Google

Several local students were among those who earned dean’s list recognition at George Fox University for the spring 2021 semester.

Traditional undergraduate students must earn a 3.5 grade point average or above on 12 or more hours of graded work to earn a spot on the dean’s list.

George Fox University is ranked

by Forbes among the top Christian universities in the country and is a Christian college classified by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best National University.”

More than 4,000 students attend classes on the university’s campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem and Redmond, Ore. George Fox offers more than 60 undergraduate academic programs, degree-completion programs for working adults, seven seminary degrees, and 13 masters and doctoral degrees.

Among the students honored were: From Brookins, Cort Morris, junior, financial planning; Toner Neros, junior, psychology; and Lexi Yockey, senior, elementary education.

From Coos Bay, Shauna Phillips, senior, social work.

From Coquille, Jessica Rowe, sophomore, biology.

From Cottage Grove, Jasmine Izucar-Rangel, sophomore, nursing.

From Florence, Benjamin Cahoon, senior, arts administration & visual culture and studio art; and Evan Teter, senior, elementary education.

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The Chamber Minute: Making a difference

Timm Slater

The World

As we move from surviving to thriving in our communities and businesses, let me share a favorite story with you.

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw someone moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself thinking of one who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young

man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.

As he got closer, he called out, “Good morning! What are you doing?” Came the reply, “Throwing starfish into the ocean.”

“I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?”

“The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don’t throw them in they’ll die.”

“But young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach

and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference!”

The young man listened politely.

Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves. “I made a difference for that one!”

What that young man’s actions represent is the something that is special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. We have to be aware of our gift and be willing to use it. And that’s our challenge. Emerging from the COVID adversity, it’s our time once again to continue that jour-

ney of success, folks. And if we throw our “stars” wisely and well, I have no doubt that our Oregon Coast will have an outstanding future.

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(Timm Slater is executive director of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce.

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Reedsport artist featured at Newport Visual Arts Center The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts presents Reedsport painter Elyan Jamot through July 31 in the Coastal Oregon Visual Artists Showcase at the Newport Visual Arts Center. Jamot’s exhibit, “Oregon Cordially,” includes her plein air oil paintings of southern Oregon landscapes. The COVAS Showcase features mid-career artists living on the Oregon Coast and rotates among Oregon’s seven coastal counties, with Jamot representing Douglas County. Following current COVID-19 protocols, a gallery reception with the artist is not currently scheduled, though online interviews and events are being planned for July.

Born and raised in France, Elyan Jamot has shown her paintings at museums and hotels in Normandie. Now based in Reedsport, she currently exhibits her work at the Mind Gallery and Umpqua Lighthouse Museum in Winchester Bay. She has also participated in various exhibits with the Dunes Art Club in Florence. Past show locations also include the San Diego Community College (Pacific Beach) and the Orleans Gallery in Richmond (United Kingdom). She has studied painting with various institutions locally and abroad and returns to Europe regularly to paint and exhibit there.

“I spend most of my time exploring the world and painting, very much influenced by Paul Gauguin’s life,” Jamot says. “My favorite medium is oil, because of its power and timeless qualities.”

Given current COVID-19 guidelines, the Newport Visual Arts Center is open on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. The Newport Visual Arts Center adheres to all health and safety protocol provided by the governor’s office as well as the city of Newport. All visitors to the VAC are required to wear proper masks and have their temperature taken prior to entry.

The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts manages the Newport Visual Arts Center and the Newport Performing Arts Center, and serves as the regional arts council for Oregon’s seven coastal counties.

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Reedsport artsit Elyan Jamot will have her work on display at the Newport Visual Arts Center through July 31. Jamot was born and raised in France and has shown her work at museums in Normandie. She now lives in Reedsport and exhibits her work at the Mind Gallery and the Umpqua Lighthouse Museum. Her paintingshave been shown at various locations in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Marshfield High School Class of 2021 graduation The World

Photos by Jillian Ward/ For The World Marshfield High School graduates are all smiles as they walk across the stage to recieve their diplomas following two years of struggles due to COVID and other reasons. Graduate Conor Heckard addressed his classmates, telling them, “We are history makers.

Every single one of us.” Left, the Class of 2021 rises to begin walking across the stage to receive their diplomas. Right, a student receives their diploma from Marshfield High School’s interim principal, Greg Mulkey. Marshfield had 140 students graduate during commencement ceremonies.

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--------Marshfield High School Graduates-------Acuna Vega, Kady Aguilar, Marisa M. Ainsworth, Hobie D. Alby, Marissa R. Alvarez-Maine, Adrian C. Anderson, Sierra L. Arellano, Luis A. Arreola-Soto, Brandon Bailey, Marshall A. Berger, Jessica C. Bernhardt, Hannah G. Billeter, Morgan R. Boice, Dylan Booth, Garrett L. Bradbury-Cervantes, Noah Brick, David W. Briggs, Maycee L. Bruno, Marco A. Buranen, Kasandra P. Burch, Shawna L. Calago, Tricia Elaine M. Cantrell, Coltyn L. Chavez, Abygail B. Clagg-Anderson, Anadasha

Clark, Anthony J. Cotell, Jordan E. Crawford, Alexis Cross, Ryan P. Davidson, Michael G. Dea, Kaylin B. Deleon, Madeline E. Dozier, Austin Eichelberger, Jordyn C. England, Donovan G. Evers, Erica M. Faber, Danny Flores, Adrian Fraser, Ethan J. Gallegos, Angel J. Galway, Jolene L. Galway, Justin A. Gaston, Julia A. Goering, Natalie T. Gonzalez, Alliah M. Grayson, Samuel D. Grissom, Alexandran G. Gunn, Michael L. Hampton, Katrina K.

Hanson, Jasmine J. Harvey, Jade R. Heckard, Conor J. Hemphill, Jack K. Henderson, Merrick J. Higgins, Garrett D. Hinkel, Paige E. Holloway, Austin L. Houk, Maliyah D. Huckabee, Harlee J. Johnson, Aurora L. Johnson, Makenna A. Kelso, Trista L. Kliewer, Robert C. Labrousse, William J. Lawrence, Mykalean J. Locati, Anthony J. Maanao, Ethan Anthony R Martin, Todd Martin, Travis J. Martin, Tyler Martinez, Justin M. Matthews, Mirabella O. Mauldin, Connor C.

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----Powers High School Graduates---The graduating class of 2021 for Powers High School consisted of five hard working and dedicated young ladies. Taryn Jones, Aubrey Dane, Haley Murphy, Skyler Dowe and Cheyenne Dowe were all recognized at a relatively normal graduation ceremony in the PHS gym on June 5th. Even by Powers standards, this was a small graduating class.

What they lack in number, however, they made up for with personality. They are a fun and tough group and they are ready to take on the next chapter in their lives. -Matt Shorb Superintendent/Powers School District 541-439-2291

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“Never let a lack of effort be the reason for a lack of success.”

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Gold on sailboat washed ashore even got the FBI’s attention

By Finn J.D. John Special to The World

Dawn was just breaking, and Tom McAdams had just barely crawled into bed, when he got the alarm. A 50-foot sailboat was washing ashore near Waldport.

McAdams had been up all night escorting a leaking fishing boat into port after it got caught in a bad storm 20 miles offshore. Now it was the morning of Dec. 13, 1973, and it was his wife Joanne’s birthday. He’d planned on snatching four or five hours of sleep and then maybe doing something with Joanne.

Instead, he was sprinting across the street to Newport’s U.S. Coast Guard station, jumping a fence and bounding into his 44-foot rescue lifeboat.

McAdams was a master chief petty officer in the U.S. Coast Guard (and still is, albeit retired; he’s now in his 80s). In 1973, he was the commander of the Newport station, and was already probably the most famous enlisted man in Coast Guard history, a title he certainly holds today. By the time he retired in 1977 he had personally rescued hundreds of people and taught hundreds of other rescuers how it was done.

On this particular morning, though, there wouldn’t be much for McAdams to do. He raced out across the Yaquina Bay bar — which was rough, but it takes a lot to stop a 44 from crossing any river bar — and turned south. But by the time he’d gone a mile or so, the station radioed that the yacht had gone up on the beach, out of reach for a rescue boat. Other Coasties, rescue swimmers Greg Albrecht, Lewis Cavina and Bill Masten, were on their way down Highway 101 to the beach; saving the people on the boat would be up to them.

When the rescue swimmers arrived, they found a middle-aged couple struggling feebly in the icy surf in their life jackets, trying to swim to shore.

The rescuers quickly got them out of the water and onto dry land.

The couple’s names were Helen and Joe Browning.

Both were in their mid-50s.

They told their rescuers they’d sold their business in San Diego and bought their $150,000 sailboat — a two-masted steel-hulled motorsailer that they named, ironically enough in light of future events, the Que Sera,

Sera. Then, perhaps lulled into a false sense of security by the size of their boat and the perpetually lovely weather in San Diego, they set out on what they hoped would be their new retirement dream life, first sailing around the world and then just tooling around from port to port having adventures. They would start off with a shakedown cruise to Port Orford to visit Helen’s sister.

But on the way, they ran head-on into a massive storm system off Gold Beach.

Port Orford was not a good place to try to put into during a storm. So, they pressed on under diesel power, hoping to make Coos Bay, as the weather steadily worsened.

Then the engine died and the steering malfunctioned, leaving the couple helpless in the storm.

By now they’d been up for 48 hours straight and were exhausted. So, they threw the anchor overboard, waited for it to catch, confirmed that it was holding, and went to bed.

They were awakened by the jolt of the keel of their boat slamming into the sandy ocean bottom, just off the beach north of Waldport, and this is how they learned that the Que Sera, Sera’s anchor was too small. It had slowed their shoreward drift and kept them heading into the wind rather than rolling in the trough of the sea; but it had been dragging through the sand all night. Now they could see that they were done for. Their boat was going onto the beach; there would be nothing they could do about that. But it would be doing it in slow motion, which would make it very difficult for them to get off safely.

Because it was a sailboat, the Que Sera, Sera had a deep keel. A 50-foot motorsailer doesn’t draw a lot of water compared with, say, a steam schooner; but it’s seven to 10 feet — plenty enough to drown in. Especially in the outer breakers on a stormy day.

The Brownings’ nine-foot dinghy had been smashed by the heavy seas. So, they got out their emergency life raft and pulled the inflation cord.

The raft burst into its full size, the wind grabbed it, and away it soared. McAdam’s men later found it several miles away.

So, Helen and Joe decided to swim for it in their life jackets. They tied themselves together and jumped in the drink.

Of course, they were

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Master Chief Thomas McAdams in 2012, during the ceremony at which a new lifestation building was named after him. likely already plenty cold when they did this; and they weren’t going to get any warmer splashing around in the 48-degree water off Waldport. Nor were they able to make much headway through the double set of storm-driven breakers to the shore.

Luckily, rescuers Masten, Cavina and Albrecht arrived at the scene before the couple’s hypothermia reached fatal levels.

So, the Brownings were whisked to the hospital, and their lives saved by the slimmest of margins. The pounding surf drove the Que Sera, Sera higher and higher on the beach until it was stuck on its side right in the midst of the inner breakers.

McAdams filed his reports, congratulated his crew, and figured his work was done.

He figured wrong.

MCADAMS GOT A phone call at his home the day after the rescue. It was Joe Browning. He’d traveled to the Coast Guard station at 8 p.m., immediately after his release from the hospital, and asked to speak with McAdams. He’d been so distraught that the Coasties had called up McAdams and put Browning on the line with him.

“Could you help me?”

Browning asked.

“Well, what do you need?”

“Well, I don’t want to talk over a regular phone. Could you come to the station?”

So, McAdams strolled across the street to the Coast Guard station. He found Joe Browning waiting anxiously for him.

“My life savings are in that boat,” he said. “I’ve got a bag of gold and it’s hidden in the air duct vent in the main salon.”

By “a bag of gold,” Browning meant 18 pounds of uncirculated British gold sovereigns. At the time the hoard was worth about $60,000; at mid-2021 gold prices, that would be well over half a million.

McAdams agreed to do what he could to retrieve it for him.

Over the next few days the Coast Guard crews spent a lot of time on the beach trying to get into the boat.

Another storm blew in the next day, tore off both masts, and buried most of the boat in the sand.

For a couple days, the Coasties visited the wreck site at each low tide; but every time they thought they might be able to get to it, a storm would kick up.

Then the phone rang in the Coast Guard station again, and it was a newspaper reporter — almost certainly from the Newport NewsGuard, although McAdams doesn’t specify.

“They called me up and said, ‘How come your crew is down there almost every night on that boat? What’s going on?’ I said, ‘Well, the fellow’s got a restaurant in San Diego and a home there and all his papers, his insurance papers and his mortgages, are all on board the boat.’”

Those papers might have been on board the boat, or they might not, as far as McAdams knew; but he also knew that if the newspapers got wind of a giant hoard of gold buried on that boat, there would be trouble.

“I know they would have people down there with bulldozers and dynamite and everything else and shooting everybody up,” McAdams said. “I didn’t know how

much gold was there, but he said his life savings.”

Finally the weather cleared and the tide went out. With the help of the Newport Fire Department’s metal cutting saw and dredging pump, they cut a hole in the salon, blasted out the sand, and managed to get in far enough to reach Browning’s life savings.

McAdams took the gold back and stuck it in his safe.

Then he sent a message in to his district commanders, came clean to the newspaper people about the “restaurant papers,” and called Browning to come pick up his gold.

“I’ll be up in a few days and get it,” Browning told him.

The next day, though, McAdams got a message from the State Department: “Do not give gold back until release.”

McAdams figured they were checking Browning out, making sure he wasn’t a bank robber on the lam. He had, after all, been preparing to leave the country with the money.

Sure enough, just after New Year’s Day, the State Department notified him the gold could be returned to its owner.

“And by God the next day the owner showed up,” McAdams recalled. “We went to the bank. He paid for the deposit box that we had there. We broke it out.

‘Here’s all your coins,’ I said.”

Browning gratefully collected his treasure, signed the receipt, gave McAdams $200 to treat his crew as a thankyou, and hit the road.

Just in time, apparently.

“The next day I got a message from the state department saying, ‘My message so-and-so canceled. Do not, do not give gold back,’”

McAdams said.

McAdams replied instantly that it was too late, the gold was gone; and within an hour or so of sending the message, an FBI agent called on the phone from the Bureau’s Salem office.

“I’ll be down in an hour,” the agent said — and he was, too. He covered the 82 miles, which Google Maps estimates takes 93 minutes to travel, in just over an hour, so he must have been flying.

McAdams gave him all the receipts and things, and he took them back to Salem.

That was the last McAdams ever heard about it.

So, what was the deal?

Was there something sinister about the half-million-dollar bag of gold?

Almost certainly not. For a retired couple embarking on a sailing voyage around the world, deciding to carry all their money as hard British currency may not have been a good idea, but it was certainly an understandable one.

Likely the FBI just wanted to check things out and was late getting its request in to the state department.

But one still has to wonder….

(Sources: BMCM Tom McAdams Interview, an oral-history interview recorded on Feb. 13, 2004 by Foundation for Coast Guard History, accessed via Clive Lawford’s 44-foot Motor Lifeboats page at 44mlb.com; archives of Portland Oregonian, Dec. 14-16, 1973)

Finn J.D. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history. His book, Heroes and Rascals of Old Oregon, was recently published by Ouragan House Publishers. To contact him or suggest a topic: finn@ offbeatoregon.com or 541357-2222.

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As we walked around the rocks, we saw some bigger than my hand, others a third From B1 that size. Some were hiding in indentations of the rocks, says they can’t for long, others boldly out where but somehow at Face Rock everyone can see them. Most Beach, the laws of nature are were purple and orange and suspended. all had a firm grip on the Hundreds of starfish of rocks. different colors, different sizes It was tempting to touch and different shapes are stuck them, but a local resident to the rock as if holding on explained how starfish in the for dear life. I have to guess region are threatened due to a they are somehow getting sickness that is killing many moisture while out of the of them. With the numbers water or maybe they can store declining, it’s best to look, moisture like the anemones admire and let them be. do. There were even some in So, we did. For an hour, broad sunlight, just waiting we walked around, stunned for the tide to come back in. I every time we turned another don’t know, but I do know the corner. There were others starfish are out there in big doing the same, but the numbers and the sight of them crowd was smaller than I is breathtaking.

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AtFaceRockBeach,largerocksjutoutofthesand,showcasingavarietyoflifetothosewhovisit.Left,tidepoolsshowcaselivingcreatureseveninthelowest tide. Bottom, starfish and other creatures are brought to life. would have expected. As the number of tourists climbs, I expect the crowds will, too.

I live here, I get to see the ocean any time I want, I visit beaches several times a week. And yet there are new surprises almost every time I go out. Face Rock Beach was more than I would have guessed. I would make the drive again to see five starfish, but there are hundreds ready to show off. If you haven’t been, I highly recommend it. If you have, it might be time for another trip.

To reach Face Rock Beach, follow Highway 101 from Coos Bay to Bandon.

Continue on 101 through the downtown area and turn right on 11th Street. Follow to the end and turn left on Beach Loop Road. The beach is about half a mile down the road on the right.

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