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Council, again, supports housing development

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

For the third time, the Coos Bay City Council agreed to use city funds to assist a developer planning to build 400 homes off Ocean Boulevard and Lindy

Lane.

The vote last week did not offer any additional funding.

Rather it combined the funds previously offered in a new agreement.

The development, known as Timber Cove, could eventually

add 400 new stick-built homes in Coos Bay. The developer, Red Moon Development and Construction, originally approached the city about building a manufactured home community at the location. The city then agreed to share the cost for replacing a

culvert in the area.

Due to limited supplies of manufactured homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the developer came back to the city with the idea of changing to stick-built homes. The city then agreed to spend $1.2 million for wastewa-

Digging to piece together history Site near Bandon could put Coquille Indians in area 13,000 years ago

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By DAVID RUPKALVIS

Almost everyone agrees, ancestors of the Coquille Indian Tribe were the first settlers in what is now the Coos Bay-Bandon region of Oregon.

What we may be learning is how long the Tribe has had a presence in the area.

For the last three weeks, archeology students from Oregon State University have been excavating a site near Devils Kitchen beach in Bandon. The excavation is the fourth time OSU students have worked to learn about the history of the area, and what they have found could be extraordinary.

Loren Davis, a professor of anthropology at OSU, said artifacts found at the digs have been dated back 13,600 years.

“This is the ancestors of the Coquille people,” Davis said.

“That pit in there goes down to 10-feet deep. Down there, we have radio carbon going back 13,600 years. If that’s true, this would be the oldest archeological site on the coast of North America. We have more work to do.”

On Monday, the students and Davis were back at the site, slowly removing soil inch by inch. The slow, detailed work is necessary to find, protect and record any signs of human activity. Davis said the archeology students look for things most people would miss. For example, a rock that looks to most like a rock, could have significance to archeologists because it might show signs of one time being in a fire.

ter infrastructure to offset higher costs to the developer.

The vote last week got rid of the first two agreements, with the city accepting a third agreement of $1.475 million for the engi

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Students from Oregon State University dig through the dirt at Devils Kitchen while looking for artifacts related to the Coquille Indian Tribe.

The Coos Bay City Council voted unanimously to spend up to $159,000 to purchase new equipment for emergency dispatchers.

Police Chief Chris Chapanar said the equipment for the 9-1-1 dispatchers is desperately needed.

“The 9-1-1 dispatch center is currently using out-of-date equipment that was purchased over 15 years ago,” Chapanar told the council. “The equipment has not only become outdated, but obviously it’s technologically driven, and that has become outdated as well. It is no longer serviceable, and the components are no longer being manufactured.”

Chapanar said the police department has spent several years researching the best equipment before deciding on AvTec. He asked the council to approve the purchase and installation of three dispatch stations with new monitors, speakers, headsets and hardware. A new server and new connections to the radio system are also part of the project.

The set up will include a new recording system that will record all calls to 9-1-1 and the police station, as required by state law.

Chapanar said while AvTec makes the best equipment they could find, there was another advantage of choosing the company.

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Wright pleased with first legislative session

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

Boomer Wright stepped into the Oregon capitol earlier this year as a rookie, and he ended his first legislative session as a veteran.

OK, maybe not a veteran, but certainly more prepared to fight for his district that includes much of Coos and Douglas counties.

“This has definitely been a learning year,” Wright said last week. “It was like drinking from a fire hose. It’s not a learning curve, it’s a learning incline.”

Despite that steep incline, Wright said he was pleased with how the session turned out. As a Republican in a state dominated politically by Democrats, Wright said he was pleased to get half of the bills he submitted passed.

“I submitted four bills and I got two,” he said. “I’m pleased with that, and I’m learning the process.”

Wright was assigned to committees overseeing issues for veterans, wildfire manage-

ment and behavioral health. He said being involved gave him a far greater understanding of the issues impacting Oregon.

Wright said being in the minority at the Legislature was frustrating at times, especially when Republicans had little input on the biggest bills.

“I had one day I got pretty frustrated and I called one of my colleagues and asked, ‘how do you do this,’” Wright said.

“COVID made it harder because half the people weren’t there.”

Wright said his style is to meet people face to face so they can discuss differences, but with half the members working from home that style didn’t work too well.

“The Democrats had the votes,” Wright said. “They could do anything they wanted, any time and they did not need us.”

But despite the frustrations, Wright said the work done in the Legislature is not what the media

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State Rep. Boomer Wright greets North Bend Mayor Jessica Engelke during the grand reopening of the North Bend Municipal Pool. Wright said helping get North Bend money to fund the pool was one of his

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Students pulled out several fire rocks, along with charcoal, while excavating the site Tuesday. The whole time a representative of the Coquille Tribe was watching closely. The Tribe wanted a representative nearby to learn and to ensure artifacts were treated properly. If human remains had been found, and none have in the four years of digging, work would have stopped immediately.

Davis said students from OSU have dug at Devils Kitchen in 2000, 2011 and 2013. The 2021 dig is the first time many students have been outdoors doing a real excavation in more than a year due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Davis said getting the students back out into the field is a big step toward making them archeologists.

“We get to be outside, you’re working with other people and you live in a field camp,” he said.

“There’s a lot to learn other than archeology.”

At the site, students slowly dig into the soil, placing all the dirt into buckets. Each bucket was then sifted through to look for even the smallest artifact. Davis said every piece that was found helps tell the story of the area.

“In the years, we were doing some testing to get an idea of what was here,” he said. “During the excavation, we realized there was a really long record of people being here.”

Davis said while the artifacts go back more than 10,000 years, most of the confirmed activity at the

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site is newer.

“The most intensive use of the site in the last 3,000 years,” he said. “It would be ancestors of the modern Native American people.”

While the students from Oregon State have permission to find, remove and map artifacts they find, Davis urged anyone else who finds artifacts to leave them where they are.

“Artifacts on public lands are protected by state law,” he said. “What they can do is they can take a picture of it to enjoy it later. They can also contact the agency that owns the land. If you pick something up and take it, you’re erasing history.”

And every piece of that history is important to understand the people who came before us. As archeologists, the challenge is getting enough pieces to tell the story, Davis said.

“It’s one piece of a larger puzzle of what people were doing,” he said. “It isn’t like one piece tells the entire story. We’re trying to piece it back together again. We want to map where everything is in the ground.”

At Devils Kitchen, the archeology students were excavating a piece of land up above the beach. To their south ran Crooked Creek. Davis said it is likely the creek ran through the area they were digging at before it changed routes.

When the students finish their dig this week, they will fill in the hole. Davis said every dig is filled in for safety and aesthetics. While this group of students will return home for the rest of the summer, Davis and the OSU program will move to Eastern Oregon and start searching in a new location.

SWOCC astrophysicist Aaron Coyner. This will be live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/meeting/84741496981.

Coyner, also a NASA/ JPL Solar System Ambassador, will explain

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OregonStatestudentssiftdirtatthesiteofanarcheologicaldiginasearchforeventhesmallestartifacts.Below,LorenDavis,right,aprofessorof anthropologyatOregonStateUniversity,removesdirtwhileconductinganarcheologicalstudyatDevilsKitcheninBandon.

NASA’s use of added colors in images captured by the Hubble telescope.

This practice has been useful for scientists but the beauty of the images has amazed people around the world.

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neering, design and construction of a sewer pump station and force main. The money will come from the Water Quality Improvement Fund.

Under the agreement, the developer has four years to complete phase 1 of the project, approximately 139 homes, or the company must repay the city for its work.

Mayor Joe Benetti said he was glad to see the move to stick-built homes at the site.

“With stick built, would that not be better for us as far as general taxes,” the mayor asked.

“Much better because manufactured homes depreciate in value whereas stick built only appreciate,”

City Manager Rodger Craddock answered.

Craddock said the developer has not given a start date for work, because the company is going through the land-use process with the city. Craddock added the developer has already spent close to $1 million on the project.

The plan is for smaller homes, mostly two- or three-bedroom homes, although the sale price is not known.

Several members of the council said they were happy to move forward, noting the city desperately needs more housing.

“I feel the city’s fortunate we’re going to have 400 homes,” Councilor Drew Farmer said. “This is back on track.”

Council President Phillip Marler eventually voted in favor of the agreement, but he said he concerns

.

“I think I would be remiss if I didn’t restate my concerns about this type of agreement,” Marler said. “I have some real problems with it, but I do want to see the development go forward, so that’s where I’m torn. I just hope there’s enough in the agreement, enough teeth, so if something does go wrong, the city is made whole.”

Marler said the city has always made developers pay for the infrastructure, and he is uncomfortable changing the rules. But Marler was mostly alone in voicing concerns.

“Is there a 100% guarantee all this is going to work? No,” Benetti said.

“But I think we need to be cognizant that we need 500 homes in the area. This will provide 400.”

Craddock told the council the same developer has recently finished 13 homes in a different part of the community and is planning to build more. The developer also has a good record in other communities.

“Times are different than they have been in the past,” Benetti said. “Without this type of agreement, we wouldn’t have this project.”

After the discussion, the council voted unanimously to approve the agreement for Timber Cove.

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OBITUARIES Robert "Bob" and Diane Matson Ronning Please join our family for a celebration of life for Robert “Bob” and Diane Matson Ronning on July 17, 2021 at 1 pm at Ocean View Memory Gardens, 1525 Ocean Blvd NW, Coos Bay, OR 97420. Pastor Alex Turman presiding.

High School sweethearts at Marshfield High School, they married in 1959 followed by 3 children.

Son, Terry passed in 2018 and is survived by wife, Michel, their son, Ryan, daughter in law, Terra,

Priscella "Peggy" (Jones) Johns

grandson, Mason and granddaughter, Amelia; son, Mark Ronning and his daughter, Karen Ronning; and daughter, Dana Hogan, her husband, Troy and grandson, Jacob. Robert passed February 13, 2018, followed by Diane who passed March 21, 2021. We will celebrate them being placed together this coming Saturday. Blessings to them and our family.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Alleghany Community Church.

August 20, 1944 - July 8, 2021

Susan Pribble July 4, 2021

On Sunday, July 4, 2021, Susan Pribble, loving wife, mother, and friend, passed away at OHSU in Portland, Oregon. She was surrounded by love when she passed.

Sue was born in Eugene, Oregon to Arnold and Joyce Dunsworth, and was the oldest of her siblings, Steve, Carol, Barbara, Tom, Gary, and Jodi. She spent many years travelling the

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ment, as well as Coos County Sheriff’s Office, have both recently purchased Avtec consoles for their dispatch centers and are happy with their decision,” Chapanar said.

“Learning this information made our decision to choose Avtec consoles much easier and will make all three dispatch centers in the Coos County area consistent and our interoperability seamless, should

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makes it out to be. In fact, most legislation was broadly supported by both parties.

“I would go as far as 85 percent and maybe 90 percent of bills are bipartisan,” Wright said. “They are reasonable bills that we agree on. But there are philosophical differences between the two parties.”

Despite being in the minority, Wright said he was happy with what he was able to accomplish for House District 9.

He played a key role in helping North Bend get a grant to operate its pool for free this summer, got

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world until she met and married her husband of 35 years, Louie Pribble, in 1985. They raised their children together, including daughters, Crystal and Cyndy; and sons, Larry and Michael.

Sue had a passion for bright colors, “bling,” and garden decorations. She made the best cheesecake, but never ate it (she thought cream cheese was the worst). She loved dahlias and often made bouquets for her family and friends to enjoy. Most of all, Sue was generous and had a big heart. She would give you the shirt off her back if she thought it would help. She touched many lives and was a friend, surrogate grandma, and loyal protector to those around her.

More than anything, Sue loved Jehovah and spent

her time pioneering until she was no longer able.

She and her best friend, Lei, could often be found in front of Frazier’s bakery, standing with their cart and spreading the good news of Jehovah. She offered counsel and comfort to those in need and a laugh and a smile to all.

Sue was preceded in death by her father, Arnold; her mother, Joyce; and her sister, Cindy. She is survived by her husband, Louie; her sons, Larry, Jon and Leo; her daughter, Crystal; her stepdaughter, Cyndy; her many siblings; beloved grandchildren; and the rest of her extended family.

A celebration of life is being held at Frazier’s in Coquille, Oregon on Saturday, August 7, 2021 from noon to 3 p.m.

such a time ever be needed to utilize one another’s center in the event of a major incident or natural disaster.”

Chapanar said the city will hire Communications Northwest to install the equipment and expects the work to be done in August.

That will time in closely to when a new emergency radio system will be finished countywide.

Chapanar said not only was Communications Northwest the low bidder, the company also did the work for Coos County and North Bend recently. He

also noted the company is based in Oregon.

“It is the desire of the Coos Bay Police Department to utilize an installation company that is Oregon based and is familiar with the needs of Coos Bay and Coos County,” Chapanar said. “Communications Northwest is that company. They are familiar with our area’s needs, as they have installed both North Bend and Coos County’s consoles within the past two years. Further, there is the potential need for the installation company to be able to respond

$14 million for the city of Lakeside to upgrade its water treatment plant, $1 million for the water system in Mapleton and $600,000 for the Little Theater on the Bay in North Bend.

He is also hoping to get financing to improve fire training capabilities at Southwestern Oregon Community College and money to repair the levees in Reedsport.

Wright said he is eager for the future, with the Legislature getting back together later this year for redistricting and meeting next year for its 2022 session.

“By the end of the session, I was feeling pretty comfortable,” he said.

Redistricting will be key in 2021 because Oregon picked up an additional

seat in the U.S. House of Representatives thanks to the latest Census.

While the Democrats hold majority, the state House will have an equal number of Republicans and Democrats working on redistricting.

“A balanced Redistricting Committee means political office boundaries can be redrawn without political gerrymandering, giving the people better representation and more fair and balanced elections,” Wright said. “I encourage the public to take an active role in the

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A private celebration of life for Priscella "Peggy" (Jones) Johns will be held Friday, August 20, 2021 in North Bend. Private cremation was held at Ocean View Memory Gardens in Coos Bay. Peggy was born August 20, 1944 in Edinburg, Illinois to Thomas Paul Jones Jr. and Laura Virginia

(Kirkbride) Jones. She passed away comfortably in her home in Coos Bay, on the evening of Thursday, July 8, 2021, surrounded by her children.

The simplest pleasures in life brought Peggy great joy. She was a proud active member of Down N' Dirty Truck Club, and was a member of the eastern star for many years.

She loved Sunday drives and story circles, family dinners and movie nights, and she devoted her life to her children. Peggy was the biological mother of 4 children, however many people considered her their surrogate mother.

Peggy's greatest love was her family, and she was blessed with a large loving family. Peggy was

a compassionate spirit and had a passion for caring for others; she had a habit of taking in lost souls and helping to heal them.

Peggy was a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother. She was very much loved and will be very much missed Peggy greatly enjoyed the outdoors, and wishes to spend the rest of eternity in the beautiful wilderness with Mother Nature. Her ashes will be spread in the Sequoyah forest at a later date, as she requested.

Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-2673131. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www. coosbayareafunerals.com

Experience the outdoors this July with the South Slough Reserve Summer is in full swing at South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, where children and adults can sign up to participate in a variety of nature-themed classes.

Programming this month includes: Birding at the Millicoma Marsh Trail — July 17, 10 a.m.

The public is invited to enjoy great views of the bay and one of the best birding spots in Coos

County. Interpreter and binoculars provided.

Attendees are encouraged to dress for the weather.

Registered participants will meet in the parking lot directly behind Millicoma Middle School on 4th Ave, Coos Bay. The event is free; however, registration is required, and the event is limited to six participants.

Birding in Charleston — July 23, 10 a.m.

Adventurous bird enthusiasts can explore the shores of Charleston in search of winged wildlife.

Interpreter and binoculars provided. Attendees are encouraged to dress for the weather. Registered participants will meet at the Charleston Visitors Center.

The event is free; however, registration is required and the event is limited to six participants.

Introduction to Crabbing — July 28, 10 a.m.

Visitors are invited to learn about the amazing life cycle of crabs, their

to our location for any in person service needs the center may face in a timely manner. As everyone is aware, a 9-1-1 center is critical, and in the event of equipment failure, immediate attention is needed and required.”

After making his presentation, Chapanar told the council the money for the dispatch upgrades was included in the 2021-22 budget it recently approved. He then asked the council to approve the expenditures, which the council voted unanimously Vickie D. Haynes, to do.

72, of Coos Bay died July 6, 2021 in Eugene. process.”

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“Now it’s getting to the part I really enjoy,” he A memorial mass will said. be held for Robert "Bob" “I can talk to people W. Clawson, 84, of North one on one and say, ‘what Bend, on Friday, July do you need?’ I need to 23, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. at sit down with the mayors, Holy Redeemer Catholic commissioners and city Church, 2250 16th Street councils and see where they want to go. I’m look- in North Bend. Arrangeing forward to meeting the ments are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541people.”

importance to the local economy and discover the various techniques for capturing this delectable crustacean. Attendees are encouraged to dress for the weather. Registered participants will meet at the Charleston Visitors Center.

Registration is required, and the event is limited to six participants Dress for the weather and meet at the Charleston Visitors Center, 91141 Cape Arago Hwy, Coos Bay, 97420.

Nature Hike — July 30, 1 p.m.

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Guest Opinion

Internet censorship: The real monopoly threat

By Thomas L. Knapp "If [Donald] Trump and [Bernie] Sanders take the same position on Big Tech censorship," David Catron writes at The American Spectator, "the issue deserves serious attention."

He's right, but in pretty much the opposite of the way he intends. When the mainstream "right" and "left" agree on anything, that's almost always a blazing neon sign warning us that our freedoms are under threat.

Catron (and Trump and Sanders) want the U.S. government to seize control of social media platforms and dictate which users those platforms must accept and what kind of content those platforms must permit publication of. They don't put it quite that baldly, of course, but who would? Their cause is implicit in their criticisms of "Big Tech" as a "monopoly," which requires government regulation to promote competition in the "marketplace of ideas."

Social media platforms aren't monopolies. If you don't like Facebook or Twitter, you can go to Minds, MeWe, Diaspora, Mastodon, Gab, Discord, et al.

The U.S. government, however, IS a monopoly.

Everyone's forced to "do business" with it, and in many areas, it forcibly forbids or limits competition with its own offerings.

Arguments in favor of government regulation of social media platforms aren't arguments against monopolies. They're arguments in favor of extending the government monopoly's reach into new markets. In this case, markets constitutionally protected by the First Amendment and by that amendment's codification in statute vis a vis the Internet, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Social media platforms' banning and content moderation decisions aren't "censorship."

Censorship is "you can't say that."

"You can't use OUR PLATFORM" to say that isn't censorship.

If you tell me I can't sing my favorite Irish ballad, and that if I do you'll have me arrested (assuming you

Thomas L. Knapp have the power to do so), that's censorship.

If you tell me I can't sing "Foggy Dew" on your front porch at midnight, that's not censorship. I'm free to sing it on my own front porch, or on the sidewalk, or at karaoke night at the local bar.

By way of arguing the point, some of my friends point out that politicians bully major Internet platforms into "censoring by proxy." The popular example is U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) successfully leaning on Amazon Prime Video to remove "anti-vaccine" documentaries.

My friends are right.

It's a problem. Politicians attempting to compel platforms to host speech they don't want to host is the flip side of the same problem, not a different problem.

Whatever the solution to that problem may be, repeal of the First Amendment or "reform" of Section 230 aren't part of it.

Ideally, bad actors like Schiff, Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis would be impeached and removed from office, or charged with conspiracy against rights (18 US Code § 241), or both.

Barring that, we should work to ensure that these evil-doers lose in Congress, in the courts, and at the ballot box. We mustn't sacrifice Internet freedom, or freedom of speech and press in general, to politicians and their schemes.

Thomas L. Knapp (Twitter: @thomaslknapp) is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.

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Letters to the Editor Seeting the record straight The 'A Sunday Drive' articles by David Rupkalvis are interesting as they reflect the "discovery" process many of us went through when new to the coast. Yes, it is an amazing place.

However, David's articles contain a number of errors, some of which could be misleading to the general public. One that stood out wash referring to sea stars as starfish. The sea star is not related to fish in any way.

Perhaps more concerning was David's desire to get close to marine mammals. In his article published Friday, July 9, he wrote about his trip to Cape Arago State Park and jumping the fence to get a closer look. He did not identify it, but he was looking at the South end of Shell Island which is one of the largest marine mammal haul out sites on the Oregon Coast. Hundreds of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, California sea lions and occasional elephant seals haul out on the rocks and beach around the island. The best view is from the Simpson Reef overlook.

The parking lot is one quarter mile

below the Cape Arago Loop Road.

The offshore islands and rocks are part of the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge.

In some areas, beaches are closed to protect newborn pups (no jumping fences). Also, tide pools are fragile ecosystems so do not disturb by touching or removing tide pool animals or vegetation.

I recommend stopping in at local visitor centers where you can get brochures on marine mammals, birds and tide pools. Also, state parks have interpretive programs such as tide pool walks which are great for the whole family.

Get acquainted and take along binoculars. You can get close to wildlife, but never so close that you disturb them in any way.

William Binnewies Bandon

No room for fascists I have sent in two or three letters by now about the local fascists that I guess I can't name if this opinion piece is to be accepted. The World hasn't accepted them or published

them. So, let me do my best and play the game of vagueness to make my point.

The World reported on Jan 6th that 14 from Bandon went to the D.C. insurrection, however there's still been relatively no discussion of this.

Bandon Western World reported the Freedom Faith and Family Festival with a favorable bias. An event that a hate group leader, multiple qanon conspiracy theorists and the very D.C. insurrectionists you reported on attended. Now we see that people that attended these events continually get a pass.

One of the fascist radio hosts gets to roam to farmers market with a petition. The main D.C. insurrectionist is in two public offices now. The band that played at the FFF Festival is supposed to play at the Silver Linings event and Coos County Fair. We have a responsibility in this community to hold these people accountable and stand against the intolerance they stand for. No tolerance for intolerance.

Kamryn Stringfield Coos Bay

Guest Opinion

As Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up

By Tim Treuer On May 9, protected by neoprene, I bobbed around in a flooded canyon in Utah’s Lake Powell. The reservoir had fallen below 35 percent full, which gave me the unique opportunity to free-dive through an underwater bridge that was now suddenly within reach.

I eyed the 100 feet of sheer sandstone rising out of the water. For much of the past half-century, boats that entered upper Fiftymile Canyon in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area could blithely float over Gregory Natural Bridge with about 40 feet of clearance.

Not anymore. Two decades of drought had diminished the lake, and motorized river traffic could no longer float overtop.

Now, however, a new passageway to Fiftymile’s inner sanctum was possible.

That gave me a chance to become (possibly) the first person to pass under Gregory Natural Bridge since the archway was drowned 52 years ago.

Doing so would require swimming underwater while holding my breath, something I’d practiced over a decade and a half of visiting coral reefs. I’m far from a professional free diver, but I have been known to spend a minute or two communing with croaking toadfish 50 feet beneath the waves.

Tim Treuer I filled my lungs one last time and plunged down, scissor-kicking my way into the bracing, turbid water.

I’d spent the previous week with 11 other Alaskans in southeastern Utah, negotiating the rapids of the Escalante River, an underappreciated gem that used to join the Colorado River but now feeds into Lake Powell. The Escalante has traditionally been considered navigable only during its spring flood. But word had trickled out that pack-rafts and patience could get you down the last 40 miles of it before it reached Lake Powell, even during low flows.

Upriver in the town of Escalante, a water gauge gave a reading of just half a cubic foot per second for much of our journey, which began at Fence Canyon, 40 miles down the river. Only the cumulative output of spring-fed side canyons kept us moving.

When we arrived at Lake Powell’s “full pool line,” where the reser-

voir used to start when Glen Canyon Dam was at capacity, we were in for a shock. It would have been impossible to guess that water once covered the banks; now, cottonwoods three stories tall bordered the river.

It would take us another day and a half of increasingly arduous travel to finally enter Lake Powell.

As the shoreline vegetation shrank, then disappeared, we gave up trying to float and began walking our boats. The braided river channel was choked with sediment that broke off from the banks in basketball-sized chunks.

A rock pinnacle called Explorer Island was ringed with cracked mud studded with dry buoys.

I’ve worked as a field ecologist for almost as long as the Western Rockies have been in a state of drought, but I’ve never seen a place so clearly in the throes of change. In 36 hours, we’d rewound the tape on 20 years of ecological succession — from riparian forest back to mud.

We were ready to quit sloshing through the Escalante River when we finally reached the depleted reservoir and our rented houseboat.

Then it took us less than an hour to reach our goal, the place where Gregory Natural Bridge lurked beneath us. There, time compressed as I dropped underwater and passed

through a shimmering boundary between the sun-warmed surface layer and the colder depths. Only then did the top of the archway come into view.

As I passed under it at about 15 feet, there was more overhanging sandstone. Low visibility obscured what was ahead, but I decided to trust my lungs and finned forward, following the gradual rise of the rock above me.

A diffuse glow became refracted light and then sunshine as I splashed back into the day. I was just 50 feet upstream, but once under the bridge and out the other side, I was in a world removed from where I had taken my last breath.

It was quiet, with no sound of boats or people.

Around me rose a red-rock panorama that had been hidden away for years. It was glorious.

True, it might be a tragedy for flat-water recreationists and businesses if climate change and over-allocation of water rights in the West doom Glen Canyon Dam, letting loose the Colorado River.

But I can attest there would be marvels for visitors, and what a boon for nature that would be.

Tim Treuer is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange. org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He lives in Alaska and is a writer and ecologist.

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OBITUARIES Robert William McArthur

Jennifer Lynn George Davidson

July 20, 1937 – July 21, 2020

September 10, 1973 – June 18, 2021

Longtime Bay Area community member, Robert William McArthur, passed away peacefully from stomach cancer on June 21, 2021, at his son’s home in Atlanta Georgia. He spent his last days surrounded by his children and grandchildren.

Bob was born in Spokane, Washington on July 20, 1937 to Louise J. (Wilson) and Merritt H. “Mac” McArthur. As the middle brother of five boys, he spent his childhood fishing along the creek in his family’s Lake Forest Park backyard, camping and exploring in the north Cascade Mountains, and helping care for his family’s garden, chickens, and orchard.

Bob and his brothers were avid members of the Boy Scouts, with Bob earning the rank of Eagle Scout for his achievements in scouting. Bob enjoyed working with his hands and helped his father with building projects. He studied Civil Engineering

at the University of Idaho and served in the Army Reserves from 1956-1963.

He pursued his love of the outdoors and continued supporting youth in the Boy Scouts throughout his young adult life.

Bob married Doralee Meda Otter, a childhood and family friend, in 1966. They moved to Ellensburg, Washington where they began raising their two children, Jennie and Christopher. In 1970 the family moved to Coos Bay, Oregon where Bob worked for the City of Coos Bay as the Urban Renewal Director. The family enjoyed the Oregon coast and spent their time crabbing, fishing, clamming, and mushrooming. Bob and Doralee shared their love of the outdoors with their children and spent their winters skiing, and their summers hiking and backpacking in the nearby coastal and Cascade Mountains.

After working for the City of Coos Bay, Bob moved on to various ventures in Coos Bay including co-founding the Pancake Mill, working with several construction companies, and eventually retiring with HGE Engineers and Architects.

He had a loving partnership with Kay Mills for nearly forty years and had a close relationship with each of her three children. In his retirement he shared

his love of the outdoors with both his children and grandchildren. He spent time skiing and backpacking, exploring national parks, and traveling in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean with his family. He shared his love for scouting with his grandson, Myles who earned his Eagle Scout rank in the spring of 2021. In his last years he devoted his life to caring for Kay as she battled Alzheimer’s.

He is remembered fondly and with love by his children, Jennie and sonin-law, Brian Salyer of Fort Collins, CO; Christopher and daughter-in-law, Deanna of Atlanta, GA; his four grandchildren, Mariah Salyer of Seattle, WA, Kayla Salyer of Pine, CO, Kylie and Myles McArthur, both of Atlanta, GA; his former spouse and mother of his children, Doralee Mortensen of Bend, OR; and his four brothers, Orville of Boise, ID; Gale of Beaverton, OR; Irvin of Tucson, AZ; and Leland of Seattle, WA; and by Kay Mills of Coos Bay and her three children, Scott and Sean Randall of Coos Bay and Dr. Suzanne Darby of Phoenix, AZ. A memorial service will be held Sunday, July 25, 2021. For more information please contact his Estate at (541) 294-6976. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Wild Rivers Land Trust or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Kenneth Eugene Butler February 7, 1941 – July 6, 2021

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Kenneth Eugene Butler on July 6, 2021. He was born in San Diego, California on February 7, 1941 to Earl and Nila Butler. Ken was the oldest

of 6 children, having 2 brothers and 3 sisters. They moved to Bandon when Ken was 6 years old and he lived there the remaining years of his life.

Ken married his high school sweetheart and love of his life, Phyllis in 1959 and they had 5 children.

His boys were wrestlers and he was very involved with helping coach and was a part of the mat club for many years. He was also an avid hunter and enjoyed many hunting trips and had lots of stories to share.

Ken was a commercial fisherman for many years before he started Prowler Charters of Bandon, with

his wife Phyllis at his side running the office and his oldest son, Wayne. He took thousands of people fishing over the 34 years as a Captain and it was one of his greatest joys.

Ken is survived by his wife, Phyllis; sons, Wayne, Greg, Tim, and Jeff; daughter, Diane; foster son, Pat; his 3 sisters, Earleen, Sharon and Claudia; and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Rest in peace pops, you will be missed by many.

A celebration of life will be held on July 31, 2021, from 1-3 pm at the VFW Hall, 55352 Bates Rd Bandon.

Jennifer Lynn George Davidson was born in Pasadena, California September 10, 1973. Her family moved to Piedmont, California in 1978, where Jennifer attended elementary and high school.

After she graduated from high school, Jennifer attended Chico State and Diablo Junior College. She spent her last two years of college at The University of Puget Sound, where

she was an English major.

At Puget Sound, Jennifer made many good friends who loved her. Jennifer’s passion was on the creative side of life. She loved literature, music, poetry and the outdoors, particularly the ocean. Jennifer could frequently be found with a pen, some paper and a cup of coffee.

Jennifer loved engaging with and helping people.

In addition to working and raising her son, Jennifer had some of her writing published, excelled at growing orchids, earned her beekeeper certification and helped twenty four women earn their GEDs. A celebration of life was held July 12, 2021 in Coos Bay, Oregon for her friends and family at the Front Street Provisioners.

Jenn was taken from us much too early, while in the prime of her life. A victim

of a tragic incident June 18, 2021.

Jenn will forever be remembered for her kind heart, her compassion for others, her bright smile, her infectious laughter and her joy for life. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to GoFundMe for her son, Michael Davidson, to the Puget Sound Beekeepers Association or to Four Winds/Westward Ho summer camp on Orcas Island, Washington.

She leaves behind her son, Michael Davidson; her father, Kenneth George; her sister, Tammara George Eck; her uncle, Ronald Gordon; and her three nephews, Dylan, Carter and Ryder Eck. Jennifer was preceded in death by her cherished mother, Frances George; and her beloved grandparents, Annie and Wolfgang Gordon.

Paula-Marie Rosman July 23, 1948 – July 9, 2021

ROSMAN, Paula-Marie – age 72, passed away on July 9, 2021 in Davenport, Washington. Paula was born on July 23, 1948 In Spokane, Washington to Woodford and Marion (Richardson) Frisbie.

At a young age she moved with her family to California where she graduated from Alhamba High School. In her high school years she was an athlete. She had planned

to be a P.E. teacher. Paula was excellent in the dashes, the long and high jumps.

She was particularly good at basketball. Paula moved back to the Spokane area to attend E.W.S.C. Paula was a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter. Paula was an artist which included drawing, pottery, stained glass quilting, woodworking, costuming and stage design. Paula was a teacher of pottery, stained glass and quilting. She taught at Shutter’s Creek Prison. Paula developed and ran her own pottery and stained glass business.

She would pack up her van and drive to art shows in Oregon and Washington to sell her work. Paula worked to help the family finances.

She worked at a ski resort at Mount Baker. She also worked on a chicken farm.

Paula found many odd jobs for the family.

Paula had a million dollar smile and a heart of gold.

Paula-Marie is survived by her husband, Christian Charles Rosman; daughters, Maria Rosman Allison, Susann Beaulieu; son, Patrick Rosman; granddaughters, Katarina Allison, Brianna Blackburn, Jae eun (Paige) Allison; grandson, Jack Rosman; great grandchildren, Kiara Blackburn and Kendal Blackburn. She also survived by a sister, Shirley Hendrick; and several nieces and nephews.

Rosary services will be held at 9:00 am, Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wilbur, Washington. A Memorial Mass will follow at 10:00 am with Father Rory Pitstick officiating.

Arrangements are under the direction of Strate Funeral Home, Davenport, Washington.

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Dr. Reginald "Reggie" DuFour July 29, 1948 – April 26, 2020

Dr. Reginald “Reggie” DuFour, 72, passed away of natural causes the evening of Monday, April 26, 2021 in his home in Bandon, Oregon. He was surrounded by friends and loved ones at the time of his passing.

Reggie was born on July 29, 1948 in Marksville, Louisiana. One time as a child, Reggie spent the night hiding on the roof to avoid facing trouble. He fell in love with all the stars and decided right then he wanted to pursue astronomy.

Reggie went on to win several major science fairs with his photographs of the moon and other space objects. Dr. DuFour studied Astronomy earning his Bachelors at LSU and his Masters and Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin. He spent a short time at NASA in Houston followed by over 40 years as a much beloved teaching and research professor of Astronomy at Rice University. A wonderful colleague and a loving friend, he was a key member of the galactic astronomy research area.

He transitioned to emeritus status in 2015. During his tenure at Rice University, Reggie contributed to the field of Astronomy in many ways including taking one of the first digital color photographs of a galaxy.

He mentored and supported amateur astronomers so much that some, upon discovering a minor planet,

named it after him (33994 Regidufour).

Reggie loved animals.

He always had two or three small dogs that he brought with him almost everywhere.

He also had a passion for raising orchids. He grew them at both his Houston and Bandon homes. He

was even able to get blooms from some rare and hard to grow arieties.

Reggie is survived by cousins as well as many, many friends and students who loved him.

A small memorial service will be held for Reggie at his Bandon residence on his birthday, July 29, 2021.

DEAR ABBY: My 40-year-old daughter has never worked. She never married but has a 5-year-old son and is expecting a girl in six months. My husband bought a house for her to live in, but she didn't like it. When he passed away, I bought her a different house and sold the first one.

I footed all the bills on both houses.

I used my savings to pay cash for the second home. Since she didn't like that one either, we put it on the market, and it quickly sold. I put both our names on that house, thinking that way she wouldn't be able to take out a loan against it without my knowledge. My daughter wants me to split the proceeds, although she never paid a dime for it.

She refuses to sign the closing documents unless I agree.

She has 60 days to move, but I don't want her to move in with me. If I don't agree, I'll never see my grandkids again. She's been in rehab for drugs and alcohol several times. She's clean now because she's pregnant. Should I let her move in? Shell have half the money from the house, so she could live on it for a couple of years and then would probably be on the street. -- MOM OF A WOMAN-CHILD DEAR MOM: It's time to allow her to do something she should have done 20 years ago: assume responsibility for the life choices she has made. That she would blackmail you after everything you and her father have done for her is despicable. You WILL see your grandkids again. If she can't provide for them, child protective services will be contacting you. For your own sake and for theirs, be strong. Allow her to suffer the consequences of her actions and do not cave in to her demands.

DEAR ABBY: I was in a car accident in which I broke multiple bones in my foot. After surgery, I'm in the process of healing and use crutches to walk. My husband and I are retired. He is my caregiver and has taken on all the household chores I have always done. I thank him often and appreciate his help.

However, since I've become dependent on him like this, he has started criticizing me about my weight, my wardrobe and lack of exercise. He buys our favorite foods, stores them where I can't reach them and eats them in front of me.

He says he's no longer attracted to me because of my size and rarely kisses me anymore. We had a healthy, frequent sex life before the accident. I'm hurt by his behavior and can't understand why he is treating me like this or what to do about it. -- SIDELINED IN INDIANA DEAR SIDELINED: Your husband is acting like this because he is angry.

He may blame you for the accident and resent being recast from the role of husband and lover to that of caregiver.

Punishing you by withholding affection, criticizing you for being unable to exercise (on crutches, yet!) and consuming your favorite foods in front of you while he's depriving you of them is abusive.

Tell your doctor what is going on and inquire about respite care for your husband, so he is shouldering less of the burden. Remind him that you won't always be as dependent as you have been, and you will work on any other issues when you are sufficiently healed. And consider marriage counseling if things don't improve.

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Bandon Museum thrilled to be up and running

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

BANDON - One day, COVID-19 will have its own tab in local and world history. But for now, with the pandemic not quite over, it is a reminder of how far things have come in the last 18 months.

In the future, The Bandon Museum will likely have an overview of how COVID impacted the community as one of its displays. One aspect of that story will likely be how the museum and many other businesses in Bandon were forced to close their doors.

But with things improving, The Bandon Museum is back open and is again sharing the history of one of the South Coast’s most colorful and most exciting destinations.

For the last five years, Gayle Nix has served as the director of the museum. She said the museum used the down time to make improvements inside, but she is thrilled to have people inside again, browsing historical artifacts showcasing highlights at the city’s history.

Nix may be the perfect person because of her family’s deep ties to the community. In an exhibit on Bandon schools, Nix can be seen with her mother in a photo from 1957. In a different exhibit on military veterans in Bandon, a photo and a gun her dad secured in World War II are on display.

While the museum highlights many different aspects of the community, one stands out because of its impact on Bandon.

For many old timers in Bandon, the city’s history can be designated as BF and AF. Those terms, before fire and after fire, refer to the devastating fire in September 1936 that literally burned Bandon to the ground.

The museum has a large, four-sided display talking about the fire, including a timeline that breaks down what happened hour by hour during the devastating day. According to the timeline, the problems began around 11:30 a.m. when grass fires shifted toward town when the wind direction changed.

Despite the fact most of the town had no idea, danger was lurking. At 9 p.m., the fire chief ran into the theater and told everyone to evacuate immediately.

Overnight, those who evacuated watched as their city burned to the ground.

Photos, newspaper stories and remnants of what was left behind tell the story of devastation. And one story of heroics. As Bandon burned and many fled for their lives, one woman stayed behind.

Evelyn Manceit was working the switchboard that day, and she refused to leave until around 11

Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World

A life jacket made of cork is one of the unique items in the Bandon Museum that tells the history of the city. Middle, the story of Bandon burning is prominently displayed in the museum. Bottom left, the cities ties to the Coquille Indian Tribe and other Native American tribes are also told at the museum. Bottom right, the timber industry was once a major player in the Bandon. p.m. when the roof of the building she was in began to collapse.

She survived the blaze and was later given an award by the city.

The fire was the turning point in Bandon’s history, and ramnifications can still be felt today.

“I think it’s fascinating because if Bandon had not burned down, I think we would be the largest town on the coast,” Nix said.

Her beliefs may very well be true. In the early years, Bandon was a thriving port with major industries of timber, cranberries and shipping. All three of those aspects are highlighted in sections of the museum.

The maritime exhibit is one of Nix’s favorites, in part because her single favorite item in the museum is there. That exhibit is a life jacket made of cork that was used by those in the water.

“Bandon used to be the busiest port between San Francisco and Portland back in its day,” Nix said.

One of the most unusual items in the museum is a 19th Century French cannon. What exactly does the cannon have to do with Bandon? Good question. The 700-pound cannon was cast out of bronze in 1859 for the French Army. The cannon was likely gifted to a French general before it came to Bandon when Col. Homer Millard saw the cannon in Germany and brought it to the United States. Millard later brought the cannon to Langlois

where it was displayed at the Millard Military School, which later moved to the school adjacent to Bradley Lake.

After Col. Millard died, his wife eventually donated the cannon to the museum in 2006. It is now proudly displayed in the museum.

Other aspects of the museum include an area looking at Native American Tribes that lived in

the area, a section looking at baseball and even an area designated to the Bullards, who lived where Bullards Beach State Park is now. There are even oddities like a wooden leg and wooden wheelchair used during the early days of the city. The museum allows people to browse at their leisure, with almost every exhibit explained in writing.

“I think our museum is really

well labeled, and it explains everything,” Nix said. “We have a group of four ladies who have been doing our exhibits, and they do an excellent job.”

The Bandon Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week in the summer.

Admission is $3 for adults with children and museum members admitted free. The museum is located at 270 Fillmore Avenue.

Join Johnny Appleseed on stage this Friday Join Johnny Appleseed and his pioneer friends as they plant apple orchards across the West this Friday, July 16, when the Missoula Children's Theatre and more than 30 local students present an original musical adaptation of the classic tale, Johnny Appleseed.

Playing the title character of Johnny are local students Rowdy Staatz and Tyler Eickhoff.

Other featured performers in the show include Brylee Butts as Molly, Brooklin Butts as Kelly, Coral Averett as Sarah, Quincee Guzman as Rebecca, Maya

Tulles as Sir Peter Prescott and Ayden Rowe as Rupert, with Sam Tiffee and Luke Meredith providing laughs as Wolf and Bison.

Johnny Appleseed will be presented at 4 and 6:30 p.m. at the Sprague Community Theatre in Bandon.

Tickets are free, and seating is firstcome, first-serve.

Doors will open 30 minutes before the performance.

The Missoula Children's Theatre residency in Bandon is brought to you by Bandon School District.

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By Mary Schamehorn The first picture I am sharing this week was definitely from the "good ole' days," which, sadly, we will probably never see again. It is the fishing boat Antelope with a huge load of salmon, caught on the Coquille River.

The story I am sharing to go along with this picture is titled "Salmon crisis on the Coquille River," and was written by my longtime friend Reg Pullen.

Because of its length, I've edited it, but will make sure it is published in other venues so people can read the entire thing.

"Shocking news was received in May from the ODFW ... the Coquille River will be completely closed to all salmon fishing in 2021. While it should not have come as any surprise, given the continued tightening of regulations on the Coquille River in recent years, it did create a sense of outrage among the fishing community. Fall salmon fishing .... has been a family tradition my entire life, and many anglers plan their year around this special event. The economic impact of losing this fishery will be considerable, impacting restaurants, tackle shops, motels, marinas, parks, guides and service stations.

"The reasons for the closure are clear enough.

A wild Chinook salmon run that averaged around 14,300 fish over the last 30 years declined to 498 fish in 2019 and 275 fish in 2019, and then rebounded slightly to 879 fish in 2020.

The minimum return that would not trigger reduced fishing opportunity is 2,833 fish, which does not seem attainable at any time.

"The dramatic decline in Chinook salmon abundance includes a number of factors. Ocean productivity is at an all time low, perhaps accelerated by climate change. River productivity is also at an all time low, for a number of reasons.

Summer river temperatures from Powers to Rocky Point are now above 75 degrees, considered to be lethal for downstream migrating smolts. The river has turned into a cesspool with extremely high fecal coliform levels, due in part to failing sewage treatment plants for some communities along the river, and organic farming practices, where cow manure is sprayed onto fields as fertilizer, and then leaches back into the river.

"Sadly, less than 50 percent of the riparian vegetation along the river is still in good condition. Recently, the city of Coquille denuded several hundred feet of riparian habitat in Sturdivant Park, habitat that had originally been planted as mitigation for previous actions by the city.

"One of the biggest problems for salmon on the river is the increasing abundance of striped bass, smallmouth bass and largemouth bass. The same poor water conditions that may be dooming salmon smolts is allowing all the bass species to explode in population and creates a lethal gauntlet for smolts migrating downstream."

Pullen goes on to say that little effort has gone into rebuilding the faltering hatchery program, which at one time held so much promise. I will talk more about that in next week's column.

The second picture was taken during a Memorial Day service at the GAR Cemetery in 1966, with Robert A. MacWhorter (at flag-draped speakers stand) addressing the crowd of about 100 people.

Referring to the much-publicized handfuls of picketing demonstrators spotted across the country in protest of the nation's military policies, MacWhorter, who held a civilian rank equivalent to that of brigadier general

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Fishing for salmon when serving as a United States military governor in Germany immediately following World War II, said those protestors are answered in the ringing truths of Lincoln's first Memorial Day address.

The third photo features BHS student Mike Mauzey, as he recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which starts "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ... and ends "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Behind Mauzey, from left are Ed Capps, Hugh Stevenson, possibly C.E. Schlem, Max Howe and at far right, Clara (Mrs. Milford) Harris. *

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Photos contributed by the Mary Schamehorn collection

The fishing boat the Antelope shows off a massive salmon catch on the Coquille River. The state recently announced no salmon fishing would be allowed on the Coquille River this year. Middle, at a Memorial Day service at the GAR Cemetery in 1966, Robert A. MacWhorter addresses a crowd of about 100 people. Bottom, BHS student Mike Mauzey, recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Behind him, from left, are Ed Capps, Hugh Stevenson, possibly C.E. Schlem, Max Howe and at far right, Clara (Mrs. Milford) Harris.

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I was so sorry to learn that long-time Bandon businessman, Ken Butler, had died July 6. Ken and his sons started the Prowler Charter business at the port, with able assistance from his wife, Phyllis.

Ken was a member of the Bandon High School Class of 1959, and when his sons got old enough to become star wrestlers, he was a mainstay in assisting Coach Mickey Hurley with the program.

I haven't seen an obituary yet, but I do know that they are planning a celebration of life for Ken on Saturday, July 31.

Sadly, Ken had suffered from dementia the last few years. My heart goes out to Phyllis and the family. *

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I saw on Facebook this week, and also received a neat note from their son Rick, that Bud and Betty Gearhart, longtime residents of the Four Mile area of Bandon, had celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary on July 7.

Both of them worked for Rogge Lumber in Bandon for many years. They moved to the Coos Bay area around 20 years ago, and are still very active, walking one to two miles most days.

I also remember their beautiful home, which sat on the east side of Highway 101 between Upper and Lower Four Mile, and had a large light display every Christmas.

I talked with their daughter, Sandra Gearhart Merritt, a few years ago at the theater in North Bend. *

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I saw a big headline

in the March 4, 1981, Western World quoting the newly elected mayor Ray Kelley predicting there would be 5,000 people in Bandon by 1990 .... and he was talking about inside the city limits. There have been many population predictions over the years, that have yet to be realized.

The latest Portland State certified population figure for Bandon is 3,225 as of July 1, 2020, up from 3,100 in 2012.

It is important to remember that over the years, as families moved away to find work, retired singles or couples moved to town. Today, it is not unusual for homes to be vacant part of the year

because they are vacation rental dwellings and not long-term rentals or family homes. That is a topic for another day. *

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People keep asking me what is happening with Keiser's Bandon Beach Motel, slated to replace the existing motel on Coquille Point. The council

approved the plan review several months ago, but it has once again been appealed to LUBA, this time by local resident Nancy Evans. *

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I hear from more and more people who read my column in Friday's World.

This week I received a call from Jerry Phillips,

a retired forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry, who told me how much he enjoyed my story about Tanglewood, which he and his wife used to frequent. Jerry is now 94 years old. He thought I wouldn't remember him, but I did, as during my 45plus year newspaper career I came in contact with a lot of neat people, and he was one of them.

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Bottlecaps cool off Nooks, Waterfront JOHN GUNTHER The World

Both North Coos and South Coos entered this week’s games with visiting Roseburg Pepsi on hot streaks.

Both nearly beat the Bottlecaps in one game of their doubleheaders, only to come up short in the seventh inning.

Ultimately, the Roseburg team escaped with sweeps each day and put itself in prime position for a spot in the upcoming Legion A State Tournament. The Bottlecaps are 6-0 in league play and will be champions outright unless South Coos can sweep the Bottlecaps in Roseburg on July 24 and North Coos (results of their Thursday doubleheader with the Waterfront were not available by press time).

South Coos was 8-1, the loss coming to Newport, a AAA-level team, when Roseburg Pepsi visited Marshfield’s baseball field Monday.

The Nooks led the Bottlecaps 5-4 when Roseburg scored three runs in the seventh inning of the opener, leading to a 7-6 victory.

Parker Burke had an RBI triple and Jordan White a two-run single in the inning for Roseburg.

Drake Rogers had a homer and a pair of singles in the loss for South Coos. Joseph Herbert had a pair of singles and scored three runs.

Roseburg won the nightcap 176, taking advantage of 14 walks by the South Coos pitchers. Carson Dunn had a home run, three runs and two RBIs, but control issues hurt the Nooks.

“We struggled to find the strike zone,” South Coos coach Chilly Peck said.

Luke Parry had one of three hits by the Nooks and scored a run.

North Coos, meanwhile, was on a six-game win streak when Roseburg Pepsi visited Clyde Allen Field on Wednesday.

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J.B. Noel follows through on a pitch for North Coos against Roseburg Pepsi on Wednesday at Clyde Allen Field.

The Bottlecaps won the opener 11-0 in six innings, with White pitching a shutout and Evan Martin hitting a home run.

In the nightcap, North Coos scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 10-9 lead but Roseburg had two runs in the top of the seventh to rally for an 11-10 win.

Both Roseburg runners reached base by walk and Trevor Short followed with a two-run single.

Sam Mickelson, Knoll Gederos and Cooper Peters all had a single and two runs in the loss for North Coos. Jason Garcia had three singles, including an RBI single in the sixth inning, for North Coos.

Jacob Chaney had an RBI double.

Prior to the doubleheader loss, North Coos had swept Brookings, North Douglas and Dr. Randol’s of Roseburg on consecutive days Friday through Sunday.

The Waterfront beat Brookings 13-4 and 15-11.

Mickelson had three singles and two runs in the opener. Gederos, Garcia and Chaney all hit doubles.

Gederos had three hits, including a double, and scored four runs in the nightcap. Beau Ericson had a single and double and two runs, Chaney had a double and two runs, Peters had a single and two runs and Mickelson also had a double.

North Coos beat North Douglas 12-3 and 13-1, on a big day for Gederos.

Gederos pitched a five-inning three-hitter in the 13-1 victory and also had a single and scored a run.

Carter Brock had three runs, Jack Burgmeier had a single and double and two runs, Jake Newsum had a double and two runs, JB Noel had a single and two runs and Jalen Riddle had two hits and a run.

Gederos had four hits and three

runs in the 12-3 win. Noel and Riddle had two hits and two runs, Nick Williams had a two-run triple, Chaney had two hits and two RBIs and Peters had an RBI double.

And against Dr. Randol’s, North Coos won 6-5 and 17-3.

North Coos won the opener when Garcia had a two-out single in the seventh to bring in Garcia with the winning run after Peters singled and stole second. Peters had two hits and two runs, Ericson had an RBI double and Ian Sissel had an RBI single.

In the nightcap, Luke Wheeling had three hits, including a double, and three runs; Chaney had two hits and three runs and Mickelson had a single and three runs. Peters had two hits and three RBIs and Riddle also drove in three runs.

The Waterfront was 10-10 heading into its season-ending doubleheader against South Coos.

Babe Ruth tourneys coming up NORTH BEND — The first of a series of big Babe Ruth tournaments involving South Coast teams is this weekend, when the Southern Oregon State Tournament for the 13- to 15-year-old age group is held at Clyde Allen Field.

The South Coast All-Stars and South Douglas County meet in a best-of-three series that starts at 6 p.m. Friday. The second game is at noon, Saturday, and will be followed by a third, if the teams split the first two.

The Clyde Allen concession stand will be open all weekend.

No admission will be charged and both teams advance to the Pacific Northwest Regionals July 26-31 in Kelso, Wash.

South Coast will also host a Babe Ruth regional tournament for the first time, when the 14-year-old prep tournament for the Pacific Northwest Region is at Clyde Allen Field from July 27-31.

The South Coast All-Stars will be among eight teams in that event.

And the South Coast’s 13-year-old prep all-stars will be in their regional July 25-31 in Bellingham, Wash.

This week in Coos County history: July 14-17 100 YEARS — 1921 Johnson mill on 9-hour day now One hour added to shift beginning today Additional production necessary — Stanley dollar expected — Laird may go to China COQUILLE — The Johnson mill went on the nine-hour day basis here today. The crew goes to work at 7 and quits at 5. E.E. Johnson, who has just returned from San Francisco, stated that it was a question of additional production or closing down and he adopted to the nine-hour day as the better one for all concerned. He has been cutting practically all fir. They have been getting out some railroad tie and timber orders and these with local demand for bridge and other work have enabled them to keep operating.

Stanley Dollar due Stanley Dollar, a brother-in-law of E.E. Johnson, and one of the heads of the various Dollar companies which can handle a big shipping and Chinese trade as well as lumber business, will arrive here Thursday night, according to word just received.

It is believed that Mr. Dollar is coming on matters in connection with a lumber proposition which he and E.E. Johnson were considering some months ago. It would not be surprising to see the Dollar Company enter the Port Orford cedar business on a big scale.

May go to China Another matter that Mr. Dollar is coming here now for is to take up with Warren Laird, formerly of Coquille, but now here from Honolulu for a visit, the question of the latter going to Shanghai, China. Mr. Laird has been figuring on engaging in the mercantile business in Honolulu but the Dollar Company wants him to take charge of their big lumber yards at Shanghai which supply the big trade of the Dollar Company in the Orient.

Bandon plans for Pythian Jubilee Will have big time latter part of month Airplane flights, dancing and other entertainment will be provided for visitors BANDON — Extensive preparations are being made for the big Pythian Jubilee which will be held at Bandon Juley 28, 29 and 30. The navy department through representatives in congress has been petitioned to have stationed at the harbor during the celebration two or more sub chasers. Arrangements will be made to have the Coos Bay-Roseburg orad on which work is being done, opened to traffic for those who want to come in by auto.

The officers’ patrol and the band of Abduhl Temple No. 117, D.O.K.K. of

Portland, will put on the work of initiating nearly 100 new members.

There will be airplane flights and passengers will be taken up and there will be a balloon ascension and a parachute drop.

A parade with floats from different parts of the county has been arranged and there will be built a big platform for dancing and two orchestras provided, and there will be elected a queen to rule over the jubilee.

Anyone who is a resident of Coos or Curry counties can be a candidate for queen in the contest. The winner will receive a diamond ring and all her expenses will be paid while in the city.

50 YEARS — 1971 $2.5 million approved OK’d for NB Air Station WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee authorized $2.5 million for a Coast Guard Air Station at North Bend. It was announced today by Sen. Mark Hatfield’s office.

Sen. Hatfield is a member of the committee which authorized funds to conduct a multipurpose station at North Bend. It would assist in foreign fishing surveillance and in search and rescue operations.

Hatfield supported this strongly in an earlier Coast Guard hearing. He said Coast Guard search and rescue operations in Oregon and Washington rose from 1,940 in 1968 to 5,400 in 1970.

Search and rescue operations at the Yaquina Station at Newport rose 33 per cent between 1968 and 1970 and 54 per cent at the Astoria Station, Hatfield said. “The number of recreation boats in Oregon has risen from 6,300 in 1965 to 8,400 in 1970,” Hatfield said.

“Oregon boating deaths rose from 19 in 1965 to 40 in 1970.”

He told the Commerce Committee that in the Oregon-Washington area, the Coast Guard saves 400 lives annually, and assists 11,000 people.

“A helicopter station at North Bend would provide needed versatility for surveillance of foreign fishing vessels and in search and rescue operations,” Hatfield told his fellow Commerce Committee members. “In my opinion the coastal citizens of Oregon want their tax dollars spent in this area.”

No break in sight in longshoreman strike SAN FRANCISCO — A longshoremen’s strike which has crippled 24 West Coast ports entered its third week with no break in sight, no negotiations scheduled, and Western governors urging President Nixon to use “every tool at his command” to end it.

The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union did agree Thursday to load 28,804 tons of wheat and flour for starving Pakistani refugees at three of the closed ports.

Harry Bridges, union president, announced the action in response to a request from Federal Maritime Commission.

The wheat, dispatched by the United States to refugees now in India, has been stored at Seattle, Los Angeles and Astoria.

Because of the strike, diverted ships jammed overloaded port facilities in Canada and Mexico or rode at anchor in San Francisco Bay because they could not be unloaded.

20 YEARS — 2001 Airport terminal plan on fast track More choose to fly: Ridership could more than double in next 20 years The North Bend Municipal Airport may not get a facelift anytime soon but three master plans are being considered for a long-range vision that would allow for business operations to expand by more than 100 percent.

The plans being considered by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay offer three different options for building an up to 16,000-square-foot passenger terminal, expanding parking, and siting a new traffic control tower. The shape and feel of the airport for the next 20 years will depend on the port’s choice.

“We’re at a momentous time here,” said Port of Coos Bay General Manager Allan Rumbaugh. “I don’t want us to take this decision lightly.”

Developed jointly by W&H Pacific, of Beaverton, and Coffman Associations, of Lee’s Summitt, Miss., the plans were unveiled publicly Thursday evening at North Bend Public Library.

A first option sites the new terminal on its existing location and removes surplus buildings from around the area. A second option is to remove an old hangar from the northern side of the airport to re-locate the terminal. The third option sites the new passenger building near the Bureau of Land Management offices in the northwestern corner of the airport.

Airport managers hope to decide on a location for the terminal within 30 days to expedite the project.

“It’s important to lock this down as soon as we can because it influences everything else,” said Airport Manager Gary LeTellier. “It may very well be one of the most important projects that we do in 20 years.”

The location of parking lots, improvements to current terminals and long-term leases on buildings depend on finding the location quickly, Letellier said. Federal Aviation Administration funding also depends on the port locking down on a master plan that is approved by the agency.

According to airport projections ridership will grow in the next 20 years from about 60,000 passengers per year to approximately 140,000 passengers per year. The current building is large enough to handle the expected passenger growth until at least 2005.

In the past 15 years, ridership at the airport has tripled. Fewer than 20,000 passengers flew into and out of North Bend in 1986.

Kelso, Wash., chief named to NB post A 29-year veteran of the Kelso (Wash.)

Police Department has been named the successor to North Bend Police Chief Gil Zacarro.

Steve Scibelli will assume his post in early August.

“I’ve loved the Oregon Coast,” said Scibelli during a telephone interview on Tuesday. “A goal of mine has been to put in my time in Washington and come down to the Oregon Coast.”

The 53-year-old Olympia, Wash., native has been the chief of the Kelso department for the past five years. He attended St. Marin’s College in Lacey, Wash., before moving to Kelso — a community of about 13,000 — in 1972.

Scibelli said he sees a lot of similarities between the Bay Area and the communities of Kelso and its big brother, Longview. The communities all share a proximity to major transportation routes as well as a close-knit relationship between law enforcement in the sibling cities.

“I-5 runs through Kelso,” Scibelli said.

“We see a lot of career criminals hopping off and committing crimes. We’re a very busy department here.”

The North Bend Police Department is about half the size of Kelso’s, which will mean fewer calls and different challenges, said Scibelli. Among those issues will be the ongoing effort to combat methamphetamine-related crime in the Bay Area.

Scibelli currently serves as executive director of a six-member narcotics task force.

He said Kelso has not experienced the same problems with meth manufacturing and trafficking as Coos County, but that the drug has infiltrated communities near Kelso 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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California driver races to Speedweek win JOHN GUNTHER The World

COOS BAY — Corey Day of Clovis, Calif., won the first leg of the Western Sprint Tour Speedweek on Monday at Coos Bay Speedway.

The race was the first of five in the state during the week and drew 18 drivers from Oregon, Washington and California.

Clovis moved up from the fifth position and beat pole-sitter Justyn Cox of Sacramento, Calif., for the featured win. Colby Copeland of Roseville, Calif., was third, followed by a pair of Oregon drivers — Tanner Holmes from Jacksonville and Tyler Thompson from Harrisburg.

The night also featured three heat races, won by Thompson, Jodie Robinson of Del Oro, Calif., and Drake Standley of Yuba City, Calif.

Joel Myers Jr. of Santa Rosa, Calif., set a new track record during qualifying when he turned a lap on the clay oval in 11.667 seconds.

The evening also included racing in three local divisions.

Steve Dubisar of Coquille won both the heat race and main event in the Street Stocks division, finishing ahead of Justin Krossman, also of Coquille.

In the Mini Outlaws division, Tristen Davison of Coos Bay won the main event, ahead of Jason Kellam of Coos Bay. Davison and Jeff Thurman of Coquille won the heat races.

And in the Junior Stingers division, Madilynn Hardy-Ashley of Jasper was the winner, ahead of Tallon Dubisar of Coquille.

Hardy-Ashley and Alex Butler of Bandon won the heat races.

It was the second event in three nights for the local drivers, who also competed Saturday night in the annual Eve of Destruction.

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by Wayne Butler while Braden Fugate took the heat race. All three racers are from Bandon.

Dustin Hitner of Coos Bay won the Sportsman Late Models division, ahead of heat winner Ryan Emry of Corvallis.

Seth Christian of Roseburg won the Street Stocks division ahead of Dubisar after they won the two heat races.

Christian also won the Hornets class, ahead of Kris Parker of Florence.

Christian and Kenneth Dill of Prineville won the heat races.

Kellam won the Mini Outlaws division ahead of Thurman. Kellam and Davison won the heat races.

And Griff Smith of Bandon won the Junior Stingers division, with Heather Burton of Coos Bay second. Smith and Tallon Dubisar won the heat races.

The local racers are back on the track twice this coming week, with the third Wednesday Night Throwdown on July 21 and Ken Ware Chevrolet Night on Saturday, July 24.

Wednesday’s action starts at 7 p.m., with the grandstands opening at 5. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and students 7 to 17 and free for children 6 and under. A family pass is $25.

On July 21, the grandstands open at 4 p.m., with racing starting at 6:30. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and students and $35 for a family pass. In addition to the local drivers, the evening includes a visit by the OTRO Hard Tops series.

Before all of that action next week, though, the speedway hosts one of the season’s biggest events for the drag racers, the annual Wally Weekend.

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The winners of the divisions each day will race Sunday afternoon for the prestigious trophies.

Both days the gates open at 8 a.m., with time trials starting at 11 a.m. and bracket racing at 1 p.m.

Admission each day is $12 (free for children 6 and under) and the entry fee for drivers is $50.

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Brody Montgomery, Bandon; 3.

Wayne Butler, Bandon; 4. Garret Smith, Springfield; 5. Mike Taylor, Reedsport; 6. Hannah Robison, Myrtle Point. Main Event: 1. Brody Montgomery; 2. Wayne Butler; 3. Mike Taylor; 4. Garret Smith; 5. Braden Fugate; 6. Hannah Robison.

Sportsman Late Models — Heat Race: 1. Ryan Emry, Corvallis; 2. Josh Kralicek; 3. Tahlan Rogers, Albany; 4.

Dustin HItner, Coos Bay; 5.

Roger Bell, Marcola; 6. Jacob Emry, Corvallis; 7. Jim Crabtree, Bandon. Main Event: 1.

Dustin Hitner; 2. Ryan Emry; 3.

Tahlan Rogers; 4. Jacob Emry; 5. Josh Kralicek; 6. Jim Crabtree; 7. Roger Bell.

Street Stocks — Heat Race 1: 1. Steve Dubisar, Coquille; 2.

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Tyler Tullos, Bandon; 6. Charlie Withers, Bandon; 7. Peyton Reigard, Coos Bay. Main Event: 1. Seth Christian; 2.

Steve Dubisar; 3. Ken Fox; 4. Leroy Rockwell; 5. Justin Krossman; 6. Dyllan Siewell; 7. Toby McIntyre; 8. Loren McIntyre; 9. Austin Morrow; 10. Joseph Wilson; 11. Peyton Reigard; 12. Tyler Tullos.

Mini Outlaws — Heat Race 1: 1. Jason Kellam, Coos Bay; 2. Jeff Thurman, Coquille; 3.

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Jayden Miller, Winston; 4. William Hitner, Port Orford; 5. Lily Metzgus, Myrtle Point; 6. Jim Van Loon. Main Event: 1. Seth

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Steve and the kids

Three youngsters follow Dubisar into racing at speedway JOHN GUNTHER The World

COOS BAY — For 14 seasons, Steve Dubisar has been racing cars at Coos Bay Speedway, preparing a car on Saturday nights throughout the spring and summer for races on the speedway’s dirt oval.

This year he’s getting four cars ready.

In addition to his Street Stocks car, Dubisar is helping three youngsters in their first year of racing in the popular Junior Stingers division.

Racing fans have gotten used to seeing the three cars, sharing similar blue and yellow color schemes to Dubisar’s, driven by his son, Tallon, and Tanner and Tucker, the twin sons of his girlfriend, Stephanie Kelner (the twins have taken his last name for racing purposes, meaning three Dubisars in the lineup).

It’s made for a busy, but enjoyable season for Dubisar.

“I have more fun watching them than racing myself,” he said Monday night, when the speedway hosted the opening night of Speedweek for the touring Western Sprint Car Series.

Between his own races, Dubisar was at the fence watching the three kids racing in theirs.

“It’s a pretty cool experience teaching them,” he said. “They’ve all been

watching me drive. They all listen pretty well.”

The Junior Stingers division is for drivers 11 to 14 years old. The twins are 11 and have been looking forward to the chance to race.

Tallon, meanwhile, is 13 and a racing veteran from years driving in the Karts class at Cottage Grove Speedway, though this is also his first year racing cars.

Tallon started racing when he was 5 and was the Karts division champion at Cottage Grove in 2015, when he won seven races.

“It’s just in the family,” he said of why he got into the sport. “It’s fun to race.”

This year has been an adjustment, of course, switching to a car. He’s also had to adjust to his car for the Junior Stingers being a front-wheel drive vehicle. He looks forward to moving up to the Street Stocks, maybe as early as next year, so he can be in a rear-wheel drive vehicle like his cart again.

While Tallon has been racing for years, the twins were completely new to driving this year.

But it’s something they’ve been looking forward to.

“When I started watching the other (young) people racing, it was something I wanted to do,” Tanner said. "I’ve been waiting forever because

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TheracingDubisarsofCoquilleinclude,fromleft,Tallon,SteveandtwinsTuckerandTanner,posingbeforetheirracesMondayatCoosBaySpeedway. you had to be 11. It was a long, long wait.”

They didn’t have much prep before they found themselves in races.

“We had two test-andtunes (at the speedway) and we drive at home,” Tucker said.

Stephanie Kelner said the twins have been blessed with their situation at home.

“We’ve got a long driveway down to the neighbor and a very supportive neighbor,” she said.

“She watched them learn and then she comes out and supports them every weekend.”

In addition to learning to drive, they’ve had to learn to race.

And a few elements stand out, the twins said.

“You have to hold your line and keep control of your car — and not to lose your temper,” Tanner said.

“You need to step on the gas and not to let off way before the turn,” added Tucker.

They also have learned to appreciate those who have made racing possible.

“I’d like to thank my sister (Taylor) for helping me get on the track, and my mom,” Tallon said.

“And the sponsors help us out a lot.”

The family has a large group of sponsors who have helped with various racing expenses, including Li’l Stinker, Brad Irving Dubisar Notary Service, Denny’s Pizza, Coastal Soft Wash, Y Marina, Coquille Supply, Craig Gurney Trucking, Colt Signs, RHR Heating, Econo Rooter, Marty Luscombe, Jon Inskeep Racing Engines, Toby McIntyre, Shawn Taff, Johnson Rock Products, Coastal Construction, Boblins and Tim and Connie.

Those people have given the kids a chance to get their start in racing.

They’ve had mixed results. Tallon has won a pair five heat races during the season and also finished second in five main events.

He currently sits third in the points standings (Tanner is fifth and Tucker seventh).

“I’m happy,” Tallon said. “I could have done better some nights.”

Tanner got his first heat race win on June 19 and regularly finishes in the middle of the pack in the main events.

Tucker also has a single heat race win. The past few events, he’s had mechanical issues.

“Right now my car is crapping out,” he said.

SteveDubisarpassesJustinKrossmanontheinsideduringthemain event for the Street Stocks division Monday night.

The twins said they were nervous for their first race, but have been fortunate not to have any bad accidents.

Tucker said another driver hit him one night and he almost went into the wall.

Tanner’s scariest moment was watching another driver roll over during a crash in one of his races.

Kelner said she doesn’t get nervous watching them race.

“I was worried in the beginning when they all wanted to race together that it would create competition between them and it hasn’t,” she said. “It’s been neat. It’s brought them all together.

“They all go out and help each other with their cars and have a good time.”

Dubisar said the kids do a lot of the work on the cars themselves, including changing the oil and other maintenance elements.

“They do as much as they can,” he said.

The kids also painted their own cars, following the same colors as Dubisar.

“It’s our whole team’s colors,” Tucker said. “I really like them.”

There is a pattern to their colors.

Tallon, the oldest of the kids, has yellow on the front of his car, with the rest blue. Tanner, who is just older than his twin

brother, has yellow in the middle and Tucker in the back.

One neat trend that has developed during the season is the kids becoming close friends with the other drivers in the Junior Stingers division.

“They don’t see each other at schools — they are from different towns,” said Ashley Dubisar, Tallon’s mom and Steve’s former wife. “It’s kind of like a club sport.”

“On a Saturday night, they all run around together,” Kelner said, adding that all the drivers across the divisions get along.

“The whole racing community is that way. There’s not a lot of competition off the track.

“It’s a good place to raise kids around.”

Tallon has been making trips to the track since he was a young child, along with his younger sister, Lauren.

“I would bring them here and they would fall asleep to race car noises,” Ashley said.

It’s only fitting that Dubisar has passed on the love of racing. He says he got hooked watching his dad and uncle race.

Now Tallon and the twins are gaining the same appreciation for the sport.

“It’s fun,” Tanner said.

“It’s something fun to do every weekend.”

Tallon,right,andTannerleadtheJuniorStingersracerstothegreenflagduringthemaineventMonday.

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A Sunday Drive

Coquille Surprising peace, quiet in Devils Kitchen to smoke test sewer system

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A family flies kites while enjoying a day out at Devils Kitchen beach in Bandon. Below, the beach offers a lot of space and smaller-than-normal crowds in the Bandon area.

Unusual name does not tell the story of Bandon beach

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BANDON - The name first got my attention – Devil’s Kitchen.

The beach kept it.

I made a trip to Bandon earlier this week to do a story and decided to take a few minutes to see what areas there might be to explore.

Earlier in this space, I wrote about Coquille Point and Face Rock Beach. After viewing those two, I knew there had to be more beaches in the Bandon area worth looking at, so I followed Beach Shore Drive waiting to see what popped up.

That’s when I saw the sign with the arrow that read “Devil’s Kitchen.” What? So I had to look.

I spent some time wandering around Devil’s Kitchen, but to be honest, I found no obvious reason for the name. I’m sure some old timers know where the name came from, but that’s a story for another day.

I was just excited to see another beach I hadn’t had a chance to visit before. The first thing I noticed about Devil’s Kitchen is it wasn’t crowded. As I drove down the road, passing Coquille Point and Face Rock Beach, I noticed every parking spot was full at both beaches. But at Devil’s Kitchen, there was a lot of room.

Second, it is much easier to

As part of the Wastewater Facilities Plan process, the city of Coquille will be conducting smoke tests of sanitary sewers throughout the city the week of July 19.

The tests will assist the city in locating breaks and defects in the sewer system. During the test, you may see smoke coming from vent stack on buildings or from holes in the ground. Don’t be alarmed.

The smoke has no odor, is non-toxic, non- staining, does not create a fire hazard, and will dissipate in a few minutes.

Before the city conducts the smoke test, please pour water into your basement floor drains and into any unused sinks. This will seal the drain traps so smoke will not enter your building through the drain.

If smoke should enter your building during the test, it probably means that there are defects in the plumbing that could allow dangerous sewer gas to enter. Note the location of the smoke and call Dane Ramirez at City Hall at (541) 396-2115 x 205 to arrange a meeting and inspection. Open doors and windows to ventilate any smoke that enters the building.

Please notify the before the test if you have any of the following situations: • Dogs, birds or other pets that will be confined alone in the building during test; • A person who may be alone (youth, physically impaired or sleeping) during the test and may be alarmed by the smoke; • Any individuals with respiratory problems who will be in the building; or • Elderly persons who will be alone and might be alarmed or confused if they see smoke.

If you have any of these situations or have questions regarding the smoke test prior to the week of July 19, contact Mark Denning, public works director at (541) 396-4336.

Turner to exhibit her work at Coos Art Museum Carol Turner, selected artist of the month by Bay Area Artists Association, will exhibit three works at Coos Art Museum from August 1-31. One of the three oil paintings is actually a triptych connected with rods and hung as one unit.

Turner grew up in Oregon and studied art at Contra Costa College in California before

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The Chamber Minute: Planning for the future Isn’t it amazing how quickly time passes and what is important to community life changes? Do you remember Vollsted Volkswagen or the Emporium or the Hub in downtown Coos Bay? Change, that is directed with vision, can chart a course to a great future.

Let’s continue to focus on those BOLD ideas.

BOLD is a community defining its vision, mission and values and collaborating with civic officials and leaders throughout the community to come together for the success of the Bay Area. Our community has survived because of the passion of the people that live here. Where would this area be without the John Whitty’s, the Louie Simpson’s, the Gordon Ross’s or dozens of others throughout our history. Where would this community be without

all of us that care enough about it to come to activities like EOF and learn what opportunities and challenges are facing our economy in the future, so that we can plan to succeed? You are all leaders.

Everyone plays a role in this community. It’s our time to come together with a common vision for, and a common voice defining, what our home is and will be. It is time that we took the reins and define who we are, what we want to be and what is good for us and our children. Now that’s a BOLD idea.

In a study about nations, it was asked, is a nation’s positive image of its future a function of its success or is its success a function of its positive image of its future?

What they found was, in all cases, significant vision preceded significant success. Many nations began

their climb to greatness without the right resources, population base or strategic advantages. What they did have was a detailed, extensive and significant vision of what they could become. This is also true about communities, businesses and even you. So, how about helping detail our vision for Oregon’s Bay Area.

What are the most noticeable differences you would like to see here in 2031? What would be different? How will the population mix differ from what it is now?

What lifestyle changes have taken place?

How will these differences affect your city? How will local government be different? What would it be like to live here? What would be the same?

While some of you have participated before, I’m asking each of

(Timm Slater is executive director of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. For more information on your Chamber, email timmslater@oregonsbayarea.org.)

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embarking on a 40-year career in graphic design and painting in her spare time. She took oil painting classes upon returning to Oregon, but she was most influenced by studying the works of the Hudson River School landscape artists of the nineteenth century.

Eventually, along with a 28year career as a jazz vocalist, she focused full time on her painting. She currently travels extensively to paint… especially magnificent waterfalls. Her upcoming trip to Puerto Rico likely will inspire paintings of the tropics.

Turner continually studies to enrich and refine the color, atmosphere and detail in her realistic landscapes and wildlife.

She teaches painting by appointment at her studio and occasionally guides plein air excursions.

She has been honored with many awards at exhibitions, and her work is in many collections across the country. Her work is marketed from her website (carolturnerart.com), at her studio and at exhibits. She is a member of the Bay Area Artists Association, Coos Art Museum and the Coquille Valley Art Association.

you to take some time, put some thought into it and detail your 2031 vision for our home. Use some of your BOLD ideas in the plan.

This is an open book test, so get as much help from your family and friends as you want. Please share your thoughts with me at the chamber office prior to month’s end. This is really the first step in creating our own future. So, like the old hymn, we can truly “brighten the corner where you are.”

Remember our business is helping your business. And like us on Facebook.

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The work of artist Carol Turner will be on display at the Coos Art Museum during August. Turner was recently selected as artist of the month by the Bay Area Artists Association.

The annual Zonta Club yard sale will take place Saturday, July 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 1848 Thomas Ave, Coos Bay, at the CASA Office across from Community Action. The fundraiser offers quality merchandise priced to sell: Furniture, housewares, dishes, tools, electronics and more.

This year as in years past, proceeds will fund our many programs that support women and girls. In addition to our other projects, this year the Zonta Club is offering a oneweek day camp for girls ages 8-12, called Girls Rock (it) Tools and Trade. The camp will run August 16-20. Information can be found on the club’s Facebook page.

The mission of Zonta International is to improve the legal, economic, health, educational and professional status of women world-wide through service and advocacy. Zonta clubs are in 63 countries throughout the world. For more information about the local Zonta Club or GRiTT, visit www.zontacoosbayarea.org or find them on Facebook.

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27th Maritime Art Exhibition to open at Coos Art Museum On Saturday July 17, Coos Art Museum opens its 27th Maritime Art Exhibition in the first floor Maggie Karl Gallery. The juried exhibition displays maritime-themed artwork by major artists from across the United States and Canada. 68 works by 36 of the nation’s leading maritime artists are featured. The works are in a variety of media, including, oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel and sculpture. The exhibition runs through September 25. It is sanctioned by the American Society of Marine Artists, co-sponsored by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay and funded by a grant from the Coquille Tribal Fund.

Coos Art Museum’s annual Maritime Art Exhibition is the American Society of Marine Artists regional competition for the entire western United States. It is the oldest continuous maritime art competition on the West Coast. The ASMA jurors include Richard Boyer of Salt Lake City, Utah, Jon Olson of Seal Beach, California, and Len Tantillo of Nassau, New York. Works will be honored for Best in Show; Peoples’ Choice Award; Oregon International Port of Coos Bay Award; Coos Art Museum Board of Directors Award and Honorable Mention Ribbons.

Kimberly Wurster of Coquille is the featured maritime artist and her paintings will be highlighted in the adjacent Perkins Gallery during the exhibition. Prior to moving to Oregon, Wurster and her husband Scott developed

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The27thMaritimeArtExhibitwillopenSaturdayattheCoosArtMuseum.Previousworksincluded“SunriseoverCharlestonMarina”oilbyWilliamA.Selden,whichwonthePortAward in the 2019 Maritime Exhibition. Below,“Call of the Wild”oil by Captain Greg Freedman won the People’s Choice Award in the 2019 Maritime Exhibition. wildlife refuges in Montana. A classical cellist for over 40 years, Wurster shifted her artistic focus in 1995 to painting. Kimberly creates her paintings primarily in pastel, watercolor or acrylic, sometimes incorporating ink and other forms of mixed media. She enjoys painting a variety of subjects including landscapes but has a particular fondness for birds and wildlife.

The museum will host its annual maritime fundraising dinner beginning at 5 p.m., July 17. This exciting event features the popular silent art auction, beer and wine sales and enjoyable camaraderie.

Delicious food offerings will be catered by Black Market Gourmet of Coos Bay. Auction artworks include pieces by participating 27th Maritime Art Exhibition artists and local artists. A special facet of the auction is the sale of recently completed plein air maritime paintings.

Tickets for the dinner

and auction are $50 for museum members and $55 for non-members. The tickets are available by calling Coos Art Museum at (541) 267-3901 or by visiting the museum at 235 Anderson Avenue, Coos Bay. Credit

cards are accepted. Please RSVP for dinner tickets by Friday, July 9.

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. Museum admission is$5 general, $2 students, veterans and seniors and free to museum members and active-duty military through the Blue Star Museum Program.

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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.

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Legal Notices Applications are now being accepted for the Noble B. Goettel Charitable Trust.

Annual grants are awarded to 501(C)(3) organizations for projects which provide substantial benefits to residents of Douglas County, Oregon. The Trust will be accepting applications until September 17, 2021.

Applications are available from the U.S. Bank Trust Department in Eugene and can be requested by emailing lindas.thomas-bush@usbank. com AND tena.carlton@usbank.com. If you do not have access to email, please call 800-922-0678.

Published: July 16 & July 20, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:320781) -----------------------------------------IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE STATE OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY, PROBATE DEPARTMENT. In the Matter of the Estate of Michael S. Freeman, Deceased, Case No. 21PB05317.

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS. Notice is given that CASEY R. FREEMAN has been appointed personal representative. Any person or entity having claims against the estate are required to present them to the personal representative in the care of the attorney designated below at: 1 SW Columbia Street, Suite 900, Portland, Oregon, 97204 within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or the claims may be barred. Persons who believe they are an unknown heir of MICHAEL S. FREEMAN must present evidence of such relationship to the personal representative in care of the attorney designated below at: 1 SW Columbia Street, Suite 900, Portland, Oregon, 97204 within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or any right of such person may be extinguished.

Any person whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate (including any heirs of the decedent), may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, the personal representative, or the attorneys for the personal representative.

Dated and first published July 2, 2021. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Casey R. Freeman, 7564 SW Applegate Drive, Beaverton, OR 97007. ATTORNEYS FOR THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Mary L. Dougherty, OSB # 076950, Brownstein Rask LLP, 1 SW Columbia Street, Suite 900, Portland, OR, 97204.

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Published: July 16, July 23 and July 30, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:321031) -----------------------------------------IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS, NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS, No. 21PB04853 In the matter of the estate of ALAN P. ALSWORTH, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JAY ALSWORTH has been appointed personal representative of the abovereferenced estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them to the undersigned personal representative at 2372 Brussells, North Bend, OR, 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 attorney for the personal representative. Dated and first published on 7/2/2021. By Jay Alsworth, Representative.

Published: July 2, July 9 and July 16, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:319844) -----------------------------------------NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD The North Bend City and CoosCurry Housing Authorities will be accepting written and oral comments on the Annual PHA Plan and Capital Fund Program at a public meeting to be held on August 30, 2021 at 10:00 AM at 1700 Monroe Street, North Bend. Both documents as well as supporting information can be reviewed, or a copy requested, at the same address. For more information, call 541-751- 2042.

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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 lawyer for the personal representative, Nathan B. McClintock.

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Nathan B. McClintock, OSB #841520 Attorney for Personal Representative Published: June 25, July 2, July 9 and July 16, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:319131) -----------------------------------------Notice of Port Commission Vacancy July 1, 2021 The Port of Umpqua is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy for Position #3 on the Board of Commissioners. This is a volunteer position; the appointee will not receive compensation. The appointee’s term will expire June 30, 2023.

To be eligible for appointment, the applicant: 1) Must live within the Port District (includes Gardiner, Reedsport, Winchester Bay, Ash Valley, Scottsburg, Elkton, parts of the Smith River area and other rural areas within Western Douglas County); and 2) Must be a registered voter in the Port District Applications must be received in the office by August 2, 2021, and are available at the Port office: 1877 Winchester Ave, Reedsport or on the Port web site: portofumpqua.net For additional information, contact Charmaine Vitek 241271-2232 1877 Winchester Ave, Reedsport OR 97467 or email; portofumpqua@ portofumpqua.net Published: July 2, July 6, July 16 and July 27, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:319697) -----------------------------------------NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE On August 9th, 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: 590 NORTH CEDAR ST, COQUILLE, OR 97423.

The court case number is 19CV53635, where REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC is plaintiff, and THE ESTATE OF PEGGY COOK; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, ASSIGNS AND DEVISEES OF PEGGY COOK; RITA J. HOOVER; THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; STATE OF OREGON; and ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY COMMONLY KNOWN AS 590 NORTH CEDAR ST, COQUILLE, OR 97423, 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: July 2, July 9, July 16 and July 23, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:319754)

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Stewart Holbrook, spirit of mid-century Oregon

By Finn J.D. John Then he turned and walked away. Probably he walked straight to the logging locomotive for his last ride into town. Nailing the hat to the stump was a symbolic act — Stewart H. Holbrook was quitting the logging business forever.

For Holbrook, the hat was an especially significant object, and if he’d thought more about it he probably would have realized he really wanted to keep it. He had bought it three years earlier in Boston, where he had found himself at loose ends and with some money in his pocket. He’d used the money to buy two things: The derby (brandnew, from the Jordan Marsh Emporium) and a round-trip ticket to British Columbia. He’d planned on a nice scenic train trip, a little time wandering around seeing the enormous trees he kept hearing about and another nice scenic trip home.

If it sounds a bit weird to book a cross-continental train trip just to see some trees, well, it wasn’t for Holbrook. Timber was practically in his blood.

He was born in a timber town — Newport, Vt., pop.

5,000.

This was river-pig country, and every small boy growing up in Newport wanted to be one of the brave, brawny men who worked the great log drives down the Connecticut River. Holbrook was no exception.

In high school, Holbrook worked summers in the logging camps that his father operated. When he was 18, the family moved to Winnipeg, and he didn’t bother finishing high school; instead, he took a job as a cub reporter for the local newspaper, played on a minor-league baseball team, and made a little extra money on the Vaudeville stage as a yodeler.

One thing led to another, and a few months later, Yodelin’ Holbrook had joined a traveling stock-theatre troupe, the Harry St. Clair Stock Company. Holbrook later characterized this as “the worst dramatic stock company an amused God ever permitted to roam.”

It must have been a decent enough outfit, though, because one of the other members was a young Boris Karloff. But Harry St. Clair himself was an old rascal of the first water.

He insisted on playing all the male romantic leads himself (although he was 71 years old) while Stewart played supporting roles.

It was exasperating and sometimes embarrassing; but, that was the job, and it was a living.

Until one day it wasn’t.

A year after Holbrook joined, Harry St. Clair dissolved the company through the simple expedient of disappearing in the night with the cash box, leaving his players flat and unpaid to make their way home as best they could.

Shortly thereafter, the U.S. joined the First World War, and Holbrook enlisted. Over the next couple years, he rose to the rank of first sergeant. He fought in the trenches in France, and between military activities he wrote, directed and acted in plays for the troops over there.

Back stateside after the war ended, Holbrook achieved his childhood ambition of working as a river pig on one of the last great log drives on the Connecticut River.

That was probably where he got the money that he spent on the derby hat and the tree-viewing ticket, that day in 1920.

It would change his life forever.

When Stewart Holbrook arrived in British Columbia, he found his new derby hat was an object of considerable interest among the locals there.

Such headgear was common for loggers to wear when coming to town to “blow ‘er in” in the Northeast woods, but not on the West Coast.

“I think that at that time, in 1920, it was the only derby hat in all the province,” he wrote, in a 1931 article in The American Mercury. “I had noticed people on the street looking at it. It got me the job, anyway.”

By which he means, when he interviewed for a job on a logging crew in the B.C. woods, the owner found his headgear so amusing that he decided to offer him the job.

Sometime later, Holbrook decided he was here to stay. He rode the logging locomotive on its next trip into town and cashed in his return ticket.

Over the next three years, he did a little of everything: scaling logs, supervising fallers and buckers, setting chokers, serving as camp medic, and so on.

He spent a lot of time in the camp chatting up the loggers, too. Holbrook was the kind of guy who could, and would, talk to anyone. And he used the stories he heard in articles that he started submitting, under the byline “Hols Holbrook,” to various lumber-industry magazines.

By 1923, he was making more money writing than he was logging, and the time it required was cutting into his duties.

The tipping point — the log that broke the camel’s back, if you will — came when The Century magazine purchased his article “The Bull-Cook: When He Rings the Gong the Boys Have to Get up” for 100 American dollars. That was the equivalent of a little shy of $1,600 in 2021 currency.

That’s when he decided to nail the old derby to a stump and come to town for good.

He picked Portland for his new home because it had the best library, in his opinion, on the West Coast.

Plus, it was smack in the middle of logging country.

Upon arrival, he got a job as an associate editor of 4-L Lumber News. This was the official publication of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, a government-sponsored loggers’ union created during the First World War as an alternative to the more radical International Workers of the World union — the Wobblies.

This job more or less completed the apprenticeship of Stewart Holbrook as the premier voice of the American Mid-Century Timberman. For the next several years, he traveled all over the Pacific Northwest, interviewing loggers and lumbermen, learning about local stories and legends, and channeling it all into Lumber News.

Lumber News didn’t pay very well. Holbrook augmented his salary with freelance articles that went out to a growing list of regional and national publications: tony “slicks” like The Century, Sunset, The American Mercury, and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as tawdry “pulps” like Startling Detective. Still, money was always pretty tight.

He became a regular in The American Mercury, a magazine that paid rather poorly but was a true prestige title. “To write for The Merc in the ’20s and ’30s,” he later wrote, “meant that you had Arrived.”

In 1924, he married Katherine Gill, the program director for Portland radio station KOIN. This was very early in the era of radio broadcasting, long before the Federal Radio Commission was formed; recordkeeping wasn’t very strict, and stations were always hungry for content, so it’s very likely some of Holbrook’s work found its way onto her radio station.

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Stewart Holbrook (left) with Washington Governor Arthur Langlie, Oregon Governor Earl Snell, and Arthur Priault of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, standing on the Interstate Bridge in 1943.

In 1928 his work started appearing in The Portland Morning Oregonian, and didn’t stop appearing there until his death. He never held a staff position there — they paid him as a freelancer; but that seems to have worked out well for him. According to historian Brian Booth, for at least one month during the Depression years he made more money than the publisher did.

A lot of work that Holbrook did for The Oregonian ended up being rewritten, spiced up a little, and submitted to The American Mercury.

By this time Holbrook had more or less found his favorite topic. He was going to write about the people mainstream historians and community boosters found uninteresting or embarrassing. Not the brave pioneers and pious missionaries of the Oregon Trail, or the daring captains of industry, but ordinary people and local characters — loggers, of course, but also steel workers, Wobblies, communists, prostitutes, sailors, shanghaiers, and anyone else who led an interesting life.

Holbrook was especially interested in characters whom the “stuffed shirts” found embarrassing.

In other words, as he put it, his was a philosophy of “low-brow history.”

In combination with his witty writing style and amazing production rate — he was one of those writers who can belt out 5,000 high-quality words a day — this quickly propelled him to national prominence.

In 1935, he was named editor of Oregon: End of the Trail, one of the Works Progress Administration’s American Guide Series, featuring the work of 50 Oregon writers. The project was something of an exercise in herding cats, but it deepened even further Holbrook’s understanding of the Pacific Northwest in general, and Oregon in particular.

Stewart Holbrook created his first full-on hardcover book in 1938, nearly 20 years after he first started publishing his work. Throughout those 20 years, he’d been waiting for someone to publish a book about loggers, and he finally realized that someone was going to have to be himself.

The result was Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack.

The book was a huge success. Over the years, it went through 17 printings comprising a good 200,000 copies, and it pretty much cemented Holbrook’s national reputation as the guy editors looked to for articles and information about logging. Someone coined the term “The Lumberjack Boswell” for him,

and it stuck.

He and Kay moved to Massachusetts for a few years so Holbrook could more easily follow up on this new twist on his literary career.

Over the next four years, he cranked out five more books: Let Them Live (about industrial accidents); Iron Brew (about the steel industry); Ethan Allen (an irreverent take on the Revolutionary War hero); Murder Out Yonder (one of the world’s first true-crime titles); and None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (written during the Second World War).

Late in the war years, he moved back to the Northwest to run the new “Keep Washington Green” fire-prevention campaign, the first of its kind, which ended up being used as a model for similar programs in other states.

In 1947, Kay died, and a year later Holbrook married Sybil Walker. By that time, he’d moved back to Portland, where he not only lived for the remarkably productive remainder of his life, but became plugged into the community to an unusual degree.

“From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the best-known personality in the Pacific Northwest,” historian Booth writes. “The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks.”

During those years, he published about a dozen more, all full-length, thoroughly researched books.

Lost Men of American History, from 1946, kind of set the tone for his postwar output. It was a collection of profiles of “mavericks, malcontents, unorthodox thinkers — men and women who were going against the wind and tide,” he wrote; people who had contributed important elements to history and to America, but whom history had sort of overlooked, or forgotten.

Which is ironic, because Holbrook himself has been largely forgotten by history. When he died of a stroke in 1964, at the age of 71, he was Portland’s most celebrated literary figure; people mentioned his name along with those of writers like Lincoln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser, and of humorists like Will Rogers and Groucho Marx. His regular writings in The Oregonian kept everyone well acquainted with his witty, avuncular, eccentric style — historian Booth calls him a “24-carat character.”

Later in his life, he took up painting as a hobby, and invented a “modern artist” named Mr. Otis whom he claimed he was representing; in reality, it was Holbrook himself, wearing a French beret and painting in a style that was, as Booth puts it, something like a fusion of Grandma Moses and Salvador Dali.

These canvases, much to Holbrook’s surprise, soon started selling, and they’re highly prized today.

But, within a couple decades of Holbrook’s death, Oregon became a different place. The population grew rapidly as out-ofstaters discovered it; the

timber industry imploded, a victim of a combination of sawmill automation and environmental regulations exacerbated by a legacy of decades of irresponsible overharvesting. Although Holbrook was one of the earliest Oregon conservationists — you can see his influence clearly in the policies of Governor Tom McCall, especially in his notorious “visit but don’t stay” remarks — by the mid-1980s he was no longer a perfect fit for a state that had more or less moved into the postmodern era.

But any time a modern Oregonian wants a taste of the Golden Age, Holbrook’s books and stories are a pretty good portal back into a simpler time in Oregon. He’s preserved for us the life stories and the folklore of ordinary people from a time that’s gone, and never coming back.

(Sources: Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks, an anthology of Holbrook’s writings edited by Brian Booth and published in 1992 by Oregon State University Press; The Far Corner, a book by Stewart Holbrook published in 1952 by Macmillan; The American Mercury, March 1931; The Century, July and September 1926) 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 541-357-2222.

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There is nothing I saw at Devil’s Kitchen that makes it jump out as amazing.

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no real hook. No starfish like Face Rock Beach and no amazing low-tide spectacles like Coquille Point.

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While I was there, one family was flying kites in the gentle breeze. Another was playing in the water.

A third was trying their luck at surfing. Others were exercising by walking

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