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Leaders respond to difficult wildfire season HILARY DORSEY Country Media

Nearly 450,000 acres of land have already burned across the state during this year’s wildfire season, Gov. Kate Brown announced during a wildfire

briefing Tuesday, July 20. Nine large fires are currently burning.

“The weather conditions – windy and dry with lightning – are truly problematic,” Brown said. “It's shaping up to be another difficult wildfire season.”

There are extensive drought

conditions throughout the state, with 19 counties in drought emergencies. Teams from Utah and California have partnered with Oregon to respond to the Bootleg fire in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in Lakeview.

“Being prepared is one of the best ways you can help frontline firefighters do theirs jobs,” Brown said. “Make a plan with your family, sign up for local alerts at oralert.gov so you’re aware of fires in your community.”

Livestock take center stage at fair

Department of Forestry Fire Chief Doug Grafe said drought conditions across Oregon are driving the fire potential.

“Ninety percent of the state is in exceptional, extreme or severe Please see Wildfires, Page A2

Monitors work to keep beaches open, safe KNOX KERANEN Country Media

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Troy Hoffine spends some time with his steer during the first day of the Coos County Fair & Rodeo. Students arrived from throughout the county to show their livestock at the fair, which runs through Saturday in Myrtle Point.

After months of work, students ready to show their animals

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

The Coos County Fair & Rodeo opened with big crowds Tuesday. While spectators enjoyed carnivals rides, games and food, most of the activity was at

the livestock stalls as children prepared for the annual livestock shows.

As dozens of children washed, fed and prepared their animals, Troy Hoffine was gently talking to his steer, Gunpowder.

Hoffine, who came from Coos

Bay to the fair in Myrtle Point, has raised cattle for three years and has spent the last year with Gunpowder. The two worked together as the steer grew from a baby to a full-grown adult.

The effort was to prepare for the opportunity to do well in Myrtle

Point.

"I've worked with him a long time," Hoffine said. "He's one of the tamest animals I've worked with."

Hoffine was preparing to

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Sudden oak death a growing concern

Deadly tree pathogen moving closer to Coos County

By David Rupkalvis The World

Sudden oak death is nothing new to residents of Curry County, but despite decades of work to keep the pathogen that kills tanoak trees isolated, it appears to be moving.

Earlier this year, a researcher with Oregon State University noticed tanoaks dying at a site on Highway 101 just north of Port Orford. When the trees were tested, they came back positive for sudden oak death.

Since then, the U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University have been working to find other tanoak outbreaks in the Port Orford area. What they have found is troubling, to say the least. Hundreds of trees and close to 400 acres have been verified as infected, leading to an emergency quarantine area around Port Orford.

Sarah Navarro, a forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service, has been leading the research in the area. On Monday, she led a tour of the infected area, showing what she has found and laying out plans to Please see Sudden oak, Page A10

As a water quality monitoring technician with the state Department of Environmental Quality, Shane Bennett helps to keep swimmers and beachgoers safe from harmful fecal bacteria on Oregon’s beaches.

The state’s Beach Monitoring Program started in 2002 as an organized way to protect swimmers from harmful microbes. Technicians like Bennett use a variety of tools and mobile labs in their vehicles to test for Enterococcus, which is an indicator of fecal bacteria present in human and animal waste. It can enter marine waters from sources such as streams and creeks, storm water runoff, animal and seabird waste, failing septic systems, sewage treatment plant spills or boating waste. Human contact with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria can cause diarrhea, stomach cramps, skin rashes, upper respiratory infections and other illnesses.

Last week, Bennett was testing for Enterococcus in Harris Beach State Park creeks and ocean water. Harris Beach is one of 21 regularly tested beaches on the coast.

Other test sites on the South Coast include Mill Beach in Brookings, Hubbard Beach in Port Orford, and Bastendorff and Sunset Bay beaches in Coos Bay. The Beach Monitoring Program runs from Memorial Day to Labor day, when people are using the beaches the most.

Thanks to the mobile testing labs, technicians can know within 24 hours whether a site has high levels of fecal bacteria. When high levels are found, DEQ notifies the Oregon Health Authority, which issues a public health advisory, and then contacts state park officials, who are responsible for posting warning signs at beach entrances and notifying visitors.

Dani Padilla, Harris Beach State Park manager, said she is thankful for the quick turnaround time on testing, as Harris Beach gets about 3 million visitors each year, and many of them like to swim.

“You don’t see a whole lot of people swimming on the Oregon Coast, but for some reason this is the beach where I see the most of it,” said Padilla.

When a beach advisory comes in from OHA, Padilla said she gets the word out to her staff right away.

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Sarah Navarro, a forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service, shows a tree impacted by sudden oak death while leading a tour near Port Orford.

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Oregon delegation pushes FEMA to prepare for wildfires U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) — who serves as the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency — and Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley are leading U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3), Kurt Schrader (D-OR-5), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), and Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2) in pushing FEMA for maximum readiness for Oregon’s 2021 wildfire season, requesting the agency detail the steps it has taken to make it easier and faster to deliver disaster assistance in the wake of a catastrophic wildfire.

The push comes as the Bootleg fire in Southern Oregon — which has destroyed at least 21 houses, is putting nearly 2,000 more at risk, has killed cattle, and has caused urgent evacuations — continues to be the largest fire currently burning in the United States. Two other large fires, the Jack Fire in Southern Oregon and the Grandview Fire in Central Oregon, have also forced evacuations.

“As you know, Oregon, and the rest of the West, experienced an unprecedented and destructive wildfire season in 2020.

Over 50,000 fires burned 10 million acres, with fires lasting well into the fall. As we approach another potentially catastrophic wildfire season, many Oregonians continue to struggle to return to the pre-disaster state of normal.

The approval of the long-awaited cost-share adjustment for the 2020 wildfire season is critical

to our recovery efforts and we thank you for that,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.

“We appreciate the steps that you have taken to prepare for the 2021 wildfire season. For example, continuing to allow FEMA’s Regional Administrators to approve requests for Fire Management Assistance Grants will help expedite the flow of resources into the state and ensure that state agencies can quickly respond to fires knowing they have the financial resources to do so,” the lawmakers continued.

The delegation’s letter went on to pose the following questions: • What steps have you taken to ensure that there are sufficient commodities in FEMA distribution centers in the event of a major disaster due to wildfire, and can you provide a detailed accounting of what is immediately available in FEMA’s nearest distribution centers?

• What steps have you taken to streamline and strengthen approvals for registrants for FEMA’s Individual and Households Program to ensure that Oregonians who need federal assistance receive it?

• What steps have you taken to streamline review of applications for IHP and lessen the complexity of associated communication with registrants in light of the unprecedented number of requests received

by FEMA resulting from recent natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic?

• What resources does FEMA have available to help communities respond to the adverse impacts of wildfire smoke in the event of a major disaster?

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ShaneBennett,waterqualitytechnician,takeswatersamplesfromHarrisCreek—afreshwatercreekthatfeedsintotheoceanatHarrisBeach lastWednesday.Freshwatercreekscansometimesgatherupfecalbacteriafromfarmanimalrunoffandbringittobeaches.Below,theOregon BeachMonitoringProgramisateameffort.TheDepartmentofEnvironmentalQualityreliesonstateparkofficialslikeDaniPadilla,managerof Harris Beach State Park, to post signs and notify the public when a health advisory is issued.

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“I tell people that it’s still safe to recreate on the beach, but you want to stay out of the water. It’s very rare that we have to close the beach.”

Earlier this month, this system was used to flag Hubbard Beach after tests indicated high levels of fecal bacteria.

The advisory for Hubbard Creek was lifted July 6, and there are currently no beach advisories at any of Oregon’s 18 monitored beaches.

However, Sunset Bay State Park in Coos Bay has been plagued with high levels of fecal bacteria in recent years, and it’s still a mystery as to why.

A 2018 investigation launched by DEQ determined the contamination was likely coming from freshwater creeks feeding into the bay, but research

ers still couldn’t pinpoint the source of bacteria, according to the report.

The most recent health advisory at Sunset Bay was issued in September of 2020, and the site has also been listed as “impaired water” under the federal Clean Water act.

Bennett said the freshwater creeks are typically to blame for spikes in fecal bacteria on beaches.

“It’s just true that there’s not a ton of sources of fecal bacteria contamination on a nice pristine beach, if there’s not a creek running into it,” said Bennett.

In May, the Oregon

Beach Monitoring Program received $221,000 in an annual grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to continue their efforts.

Nevertheless, funding for the program has dwindled about 30% over time due to inflation, according to Mike Mulvey, natural resource specialist with DEQ. Mulvey said the decline in funding has reduced the scope of the longtime project.

“We used to monitor over 70 beaches throughout the whole year, but now we look at less

beaches over less time,” he said. “This program is really a great thing for protecting public health,” said Mulvey.

What’s more, this 20-year-old data collection program could help future researchers identify a link between warming waters due to climate change, and increased fecal bacteria growth, although that’s not the goal of the project right now, said Mulvey.

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soon.”

Grafe said the Bootleg fire, the largest fire in the nation, has had 387,000 acres burned and is 30 percent contained.

The fire began July 6.

Lines are established on the west side.

“The east side remains problematic,” Grafe said.

State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple said significant work has been done on the southeast side. Lines are being secured and work is being done to contain the fire in and around community structures.

The Elbow Creek Fire began July 15 and has grown over 16,000 acres and is 15 percent contained, Grafe said. The fire is in the Grande Ronde River drainage near Mud Springs.

The Grandview Fire, reported July 11, located near Sisters, is now 72 percent contained and 6,032 acres burned.

“That’s going to be turned over to the local district this Thursday,” Grafe said.

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drought conditions,” Grafe said.

The heat dome in late June – with 100 plus degrees – propelled the state into early fire conditions.

There have been 580 fires to date.

“The future forest for the remainder of the season continues to look above normal dry and above normal temperatures,” Grafe said. “This is not going to return to normal anytime

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show Gunpowder in showmanship Wednesday, confirmation Thursday and at the livestock auction Saturday. While both were prepared for the show, Hoffine admitted a win was a longshot.

"There's a lot of other animals here that have better confirmation," he said.

Depite acknowledging someone else would likely be crowned grand champion, Hoffine said he has enjoyed working with cattle. Working with an animal that weighs more than 10 times his weight is challenging and fun.

"They can be very friendly, but also very aggressive," Hoffine said.

Even without a win, Hoffine hopes to do well in the auction. He already has plans for the money he makes.

"I'm gonna get a four-wheeler," he said.

After more than a year, Hoffine's work with Gunpowder will end at the fair.

But as soon as it ends, he will begin working with another steer to prepare for 2022.

"I have one picked out that's in our herd, but I have not started working with him yet," Hoffine said.

Across the livestock arena, Kaley Chapanar was busy spraying water to keep the dust down near her hogs. Chapanar, who is in her third year in 4-H, brought two hogs to the

fair. She said she loves spending time with her pigs.

"They kind of act like dogs," she said. "They have a very good personality.

These guys, they follow me around."

Chapanar got her hogs in March and watched them grow from 30 or 40 pounds to 270. But her hogs will not be able to compete for a crown. Hogs are required to increase in size a certain percentage to be in the fair, and Chapanar's largest hog fell one pound short.

The disappointment is just part of the learning process, Chapanar said.

"I learned a lot of responsibility and time management," she said.

"You learn the upside and downside of it. Raising livestock is unpredictable. It's definitely a lot of responsibility. You get up every morning at 7 to feed them and feed them again every night."

Getting ready for a livestock show is a lot more than just feeding, though.

Across the arena, students were washing, clipping and walking their animals.

Chapanar admitted that work was required if one wants to succeed.

"You have to clip them, you have to get all your supplies," she said. "You bathe them every day. It's a lot, but it's super fun."

The fun is why students continue to raise and show animals every year. That, and for Chapanar, one more reason.

"I love them from day one," she said.

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As the Coos County Fair kicked off Tuesday, there was a hum of activity throughout the fairgrounds in Myrtle Point. Above, Bella James, right, and Abby Sproul spend time with a cow that was scheduled to be shown. Left, despite all the activity around them, the hogs had no problem taking a nap.

Bottom right, away from the livestock arena, there were smiles and laughter as the carnival got going. Bottom left, Katie Carver of North Bend gave her unhapppy lamb, May, a bath to prepare for the show.

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Be careful with headlines

By June Casagrande It was the headline that launched a thousand linguistics blog posts: “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms.”

In 2009, a copy editor spotted this headline in Japan Today. Then he logged on to an internet language forum to ponder the question: “What’s a crash blossom?”

The rest is linguistics history. What had been a nonsensical pairing of two words became a term referring to just such nonsense.

Today, crash blossom means any headline that invites a misreading — especially a ridiculous one.

For example, the Japan Today headline didn’t mean that a violinist is linked to mysterious things called crash blossoms. It meant that a violinist who is linked to a crash is blossoming in her career.

How do we know that?

Certainly not from the grammar. As written, the headline has two meanings — one logical, the other nonsensical. We need logic to tell us which of the two valid interpretations is more likely.

Headline writing, which crams big ideas into very tight spaces, is uniquely vulnerable to such misunderstandings. Lots of wellknown examples go back more than a century.

“British Left Waffles on Falklands.”

“Giant Waves Down Queen Mary’s Funnel.”

“McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers.”

“MacArthur Flies Back to Front.”

“Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans.”

“Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.”

Why did Brits abandon their carb-laden breakfasts?

Why did the giant need a funnel to wave to the queen? Why did the potato farmers order their grail fried instead of broiled?

Obviously, they didn’t. But the headline writers failed to make that clear.

Headline writing usually chops out little words — articles like “the” and conjunctions like “and” and, more problematically, verbs like “to be” and auxiliary verbs like “have.”

A headline that means to say, “A violinist is linked” usually just says, “Violinist linked.” The “is,” a conjugated form of “to be,” is dropped. As readers, we’ve come to expect it. So when you see “violinist linked,” it’s logical to assume it means “is linked” and that the words that follow

constitute the think she was linked to.

In “McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers,” an omitted form of “to be” is again the culprit. This headline means “McDonald’s fries are the Holy Grail for potato farmers.” The headline writer left the “are” implied, raising the grammatical possibility that “fries” is the verb and “the Holy Grail” its object.

Sometimes, however, you can’t blame a missing verb. In “Giant Waves Down Queen Mary’s Funnel,” the first three words are all highly versatile.

“Giant” could be an adjective or a noun. “Waves” could be a noun or a verb.

“Down” could be an adverb or a verb. The verb form of “down” is so much less common than the adverb form (“He downed his drink”), it’s pretty understandable why you might at first think “waves” is the verb and a giant was the noun doing the waving.

“In everyday spoken and written language, we can usually handle this sort of grammatical uncertainty because we have enough additional clues to make the right choices of interpretation,” linguist Ben Zimmer wrote in a 2010 issue of the New York Times Magazine.

“But headlines sweep away those little words — particularly articles, auxiliary verbs and forms of ‘to be’ — robbing the reader of crucial context.”

Zimmer points out a unique, and I’d say unfortunate feature of our language that helps create these crash blossoms. In English, the letter S is used to form plurals, but it’s also used to conjugate verbs in the third person singular.

She waffles. She likes waffles. This makes it unclear at first that “waffles” is a verb in “British Left Waffles on Falklands.”

These double-take headlines are nothing new.

The 1915 manual “Newspaper Editing” warned headline writers confusion “can be avoided only by great care in the use of words with two meanings and especially words that may be used either as nouns or verbs.”

But since 2009, when violinist with ties to a crash blossomed, this old problem finally has a name.

— June Casagrande is the author of “The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should Know.”

She can be reached at JuneTCN@aol.com.

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Letters to the Editor Legislative session was not a success I got mad when reading the article about Boomer Wright’s first session in Salem. All the Democrats did this session is pass a bunch of do-nothing, feel-good pet projects. spending the taxpayers’ money without thoughts for saving for a rainy day (which is come).

Passing laws to make is easier for criminals to not pay for their crimes seems to be the emocratic way. Nothing for the plain working man and woman just more goofy laws for the Portland area. I would be ashamed if that's all I did for the people of Oregon.

Bill Conway Coos Bay

We need infrastructure upgrades I'm relieved at the prospect of a bipartisan infrastructure deal. We've forged ahead for far too long without meaningful investments from the federal government in roads, bridges, broadband and so much more. While I'm hopeful that this deal might break through partisan gridlock in Washington, I'm afraid it doesn't meet the standards that science and justice demand.

Congressman Peter DeFazio's Invest in America Act is a necessary climate compliment to this infrastructure deal.

His bill paves the way for further critical investments in infrastructure, climate resilience and environmental justice that will benefit the nation and our own community.

Oregon stands to receive $385 million for investments in carbon reduction, disaster preparedness, improving air quality, alternative transportation and improvements to recre-

ational trails. $4.5 million is set aside for overdue repairs to the Port of Coos Bay. That means good union jobs, safer roadways and bridges, improvements in public health - positive impacts that we'll feel in our community.

I commend Congressman Peter DeFazio for his work getting the Invest in America Act passed by the U.S. House. My eyes are on the Senate as I imagine the hopeful and exciting future of our community with these overdue investments.

Angela Garner Coos Bay

No more requests for money There is rarely a day goes by that I don’t get dunned for money by politicians. If it isn’t the RNC, it's the DNC. If it isn’t Trump, it's Biden. If it isn’t any of them directly, its one committee or another supporting one of them.

I’m even getting requests for money from some obscure congressman I never heard of from back east somewhere. The 2022 election season will soon be upon us and we can expect to be further deluged by requests for money from state and local aspirants.

“Enough,” I say!

With the help of social media, broadcast media, print media and our inherently partisan and divided nation, we have created a hydra-headed monster with a voracious appetite for money, your money and my money. Monsters have no time for conducting the peoples’ business. It has no moral compass to guide its decision making.

Its eyes are not on doing what is best for America.

No, it only has eyes for money – your money and my money.

When I give money, I want to see it goes direct-

ly to a candidate who I believe will do right by our country. Money that goes to a Mega PAC pays for a lot of overhead and what is left may go to candidates of which I don’t approve.

No matter what they tell you, there is no practical way to hold the organizers accountable. My views these days are quite Hamiltonian in nature – political parties are bad and, left unchecked history tells us, can lead to civil war as it has here, in England and many other countries throughout history.

We have created this monster and what is worse, we continue to feed it.

The more we feed it the stronger it becomes and the more ineffective our government gets. It is high time to forget about parties and focus on candidates that will work together responsibly and actually accomplish something other than marketing a T-shirt or a beer cozy with a snappy slogan to titillate your senses. Grow up, America, before it is too late.

Jon Barton Coos Bay

Who is the fascist here?

The ancient Romans had a symbol of power called a "fasces." It was a bundle of rods tied together with an axe facing outward.

The modern definition of "fascism" is "a government system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism" and a "fascist is a person who is dictatorial."

In a recent letter, a person used their free speech to write about 14 people who travelled to Washington on January 6 and implied that something should be done about them (freedom of travel).

The Family Faith and Fun event attendees should not get a pass (freedom

of association, freedom of religion). A man is criticized for circulating a petition and being elected to office (freedom of speech and freedom to vote for his opponent). A radio host is criticized (freedom to change the dial). A band that is playing a genre of music the person does not like should not get gigs at the county fair (right to work and freedom of speech and freedom to go to the animal barns or the carnival rides).

So, someone wants to place limits or "do something about" people and ideas they do not agree with. Our country is strongest when we listen to each other and work together and cooperate with each other. So, who is the "fascist" here? I spent a year in Vietnam and three years in the Air Force as a Race Relations Officer and have never been as disturbed as I was by that letter, yet I am glad to have spent the time in the service to allow the person to write it.

Jim Sinnott Coquille

Thank you so much A gigantic thank you to all who made our 1st annual nonprofits parking lot sale a huge success: Dolphin Theatre, Boys & Girls Club, Papa's Doggs, Bayside Coffee, Alternative Youth Activities, Bay Area 1st Step, Friends of the Coos Bay Public Library, Human Rights Advocates of Coos County, McKay's Empire Market, and all the folks who came by to shop. The Community Coalition of Empire Thanks all of you. See you next summer for our 2nd annual sale.

Andy Knight, president and Joanne Moss, vice president, CCE Empire District, Coos Bay

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OBITUARIES Bradley Richard Jones

George W. Scoville

February 6, 1950 – March 13, 2021

My earliest memory of my brother, Brad, is of him standing in the driveway on the south side of our house on Tenmile Creek near Lakeside, Oregon, pumping a football back and forth in the failing light before full dark, then launching it in a tight spiral into the damp sky above the house.

We were playing ball tag, he was “it”, and my two oldest brothers, Keith and David, the only worthy targets, had just hightailed it around the utility room to the north side of the house. The plan was bold, and, like many bold plans, bound to fail. I was maybe five years old, which would make Brad nine, and what I saw there I never forgot, a feat of athleticism that seemed almost miraculous, no doubt the foundation of my belief that Brad, middle child of five boys and seven siblings, was the best athlete in the family.

Brad’s greatest objective claim to athletic prowess owes itself to a small accident of history involving his two year stint as a distance runner at North Bend High School during his sophomore and junior years. He sharpened his natural skills against a skinny little kid from Marshfield High with an unusual name who apparently turned out for Cross Country because he couldn’t make the football team. I saw Steve Prefontaine race only once, in a two mile race at North Bend High School against my brother, Brad.

It was probably the spring of 1966. They lapped the entire field, and Prefontaine won that race by a single stride in front of a stand of screaming teenaged girls.

No one knew at the time what they were witnessing.

Over a two year period, the two young boys traded victories against each other in Cross Country and Track. Brad broke, and held for many years, North Bend’s two mile record.

Prefontaine famously told his coach late in his sophomore year that if he was going to keep running, he wasn’t going to lose. The nemesis he most likely had in mind was Brad. It seems my brother stepped off the track just in time.

We liked to joke that the only training Brad ever did consisted in running in his street shoes from our house on Tenmile Creek to his girlfriend’s house on Tenmile Lake, a one way trip of over six miles, much of it uphill.

Brad didn’t really love running; he loved Denise Schmidt. They married on July 3, 1969, just a year out of high school, had their first child, Travis, and moved to Portland, where Brad became an electrician. Their second child, Bridget, was born in 1974. After working in the private sector for twenty years, Brad spent the last two decades of his career as Electrical Inspector for Clackamas County. He retired early, in 1999, due to complications from early onset Parkinson’s disease.

Brad’s prowess as an athlete expressed itself most fully in his life-long love of golf, an infatuation he acquired from our father, Bill Jones, and later passed along to his son, Travis.

Brad was a long-time member of Arrowhead Golf Club in Molalla, where he was four time Men’s Club Champion: 1988, ’89, ’91, and ’93. After his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1995, Brad continued to play competitive golf for many years. Aside from his family, it was his greatest joy. Our family wishes to express its heartfelt thanks to Arrowhead Golf Club for hosting a recent benefit in

Brad’s name.

Brad’s artistic side expressed itself in his love of landscaping and, in particular, his decades long shaping of his tiny forest of bonsai trees. They will be cared for in his absence by his son, Travis, who has helped care for his father for the past several years.

Family remained central for Brad throughout his life. He was vocal in his pride of his children, Travis and Bridget, for their character as well as their many achievements, and for the joyful gift of loving grandchildren.

Known as Papa and Yaya, Brad and Denise were ever present in the lives of their grandchildren, their days brightened by regular visits with Bridget’s children in Brad’s later years. In the waning months of our mother’s life, at a time when he could no longer travel, Brad continued to make daily calls and send weekly cards to her, referring to himself as #4, the one in the center.

Bradley Richard Jones, born February 6, 1950, in Coquille, Oregon to William and Severn Jones, is survived by the love of his life and wife of 51 years, Denise Jones; his son, Travis; his daughter, Bridget; his grandchildren, Kelson, Morgan, Lucy, Violet, Andrew, and Jackson; his great-grandchildren, James and Jace; and by his six siblings, David, Linda, Keith, Patrick, Robert, and Anita.

For the siblings, who have lost our center, I offer this final mythical image: that nine year old boy who sent the football spinning into the damp light above our home, he sprints around the front of the house, slipping in the driveway gravel, then recovers into the shade on the north side.

He is waiting there, where the ball falls back into his hands. He is still it.

For the family, Robert (and Linda) Jones

Donna Jean Stilllion April 25, 1938 – December 16, 2020

Cremation Rites have been held for Donna Jean Stillion, 82, of Coos Bay, under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary. Inurnment will be at the Sumner Cemetery, Sumner, Oregon.

Donna was born April 25, 1938 in North Bend, Oregon, the daughter of Albert and Evelyn (Catching) Yates. She was raised and educated in Coos

DEATH NOTICES Gary L. Schmith, 78, of Coos Bay died July 18, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel 685 Anderson Ave. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com Raymond Lee Chase Jr., 30, of Coos Bay, passed away July 18, 2021 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals. com Bernice Bergman, 97, of North Bend, passed away on July 18, 2021 in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-7560440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com.

Bay and graduated from Marshfield in 1957 where she was known for playing the accordion. She married Thomas Stillion on August 14, 1957 in Coos Bay. Donna and Tom owned and operated Tom & Gig’s Auto Body and Repair.

Donna enjoyed gardening, cooking and caning, and most of all, spending time with her family.

“Mom was the most caring, loving, warm hearted, beautiful spirited, family first, unselfish, mom anybody could ask

for, tremendous loss to this family. Un -Replaceable.”

She is survived by her husband, Tom Stillion of Coos Bay; son, Tim and Shanna Stillion of Coos Bay; son, Randy and Theresa Stillion of Springfield; daughter, Pam and Rodney Wood of Elmira; 6 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; and sister, Alberta Stout of West Linn.

Arrangements are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216

Born in Walden, Colorado in 1938 to Eugene and Edna Scoville. George moved to Oregon and graduated from Marshfield High School in 1957. He later worked at a newspaper in Redondo Beach, California where he met his wife, Sally and married

in 1961. A few years later moved his family back to Coos Bay, Oregon where he worked for The World newspaper, Hillstroms Ship building, and entrepreneur until retiring and later moving to Warren, Oregon in 2016.

Family, hunting, fishing, golf and working in his shop were his passion. He was an avid hunter involved in the NRA, Oregon Hunter’s Association and black powder club.

He enjoyed music and dancing as a lifelong member of the Eagles club.

George had quite the sense of humor and loved to play jokes.

On Saturday, July 10, 2021, after a hard fought

battle, George succumbed to cancer.

George is survived by his wife, Sally Scoville; children, George Scoville Jr, Aleshia Scoville Meranda, Steven Scoville and wife, Molly; 4 grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; and numerous extended family members.

Please join us in casual attire remembering him with a Celebration of Life on Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 1 pm at the St. Helen's, Oregon Best Western, 585 S Columbia River Hwy. We encourage you to share your stories and experiences in person or send to: AleshiaMeranda@ gmail.com.

Colonel (Retired) William Michael Harley USAF August 10, 1937 – June 3, 2021

Colonel (Retired) William Michael Harley USAF, age 83, of Brentwood, Tennessee, passed from this life on Thursday, June 3, 2021. He was born August 10, 1937 in San Francisco, California to the late Major William George Harley and Mildred Hallene Orme Harley. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his younger sister, Hallene "Cookie” Hageman.

Michael graduated from the US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the Class of 1963. After a year in AF Pilot Training, Michael first piloted the C-130 transport airplane for the next 7 years flying extensively in the States, in Europe and in the Pacific (including 235 combat missions in the Vietnam Conflict). Later, in 1974 Michael joined Strategic Air Command (SAC) where for 14 years

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he was a Strategic Bomber Pilot (B-52), a Squadron Commander and a ViceWing Commander. For his military Service, Michael received many decorations and citations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross and several Air Medal's.

After 34 years in the Air Force Michael retired with the distinguished rank of Colonel.

While in the Air Force, Michael earned two Master Degree's, one each from Georgetown and Auburn Universities. Michael served as an Adjunct Instructor, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

Retired from the Air Force, Michael edited corporate, professional and academic writing for three decades, and was a newspaper columnist for a dozen years. He won two annual national awards for his columns. Michael's love for God and his fellow man reached new heights, when he wrote curriculum for Southern Bible College, and many of his Bible studies have been published. In 2009, he published his book, The Rapture, What the Bible Really Says.

Michael was an avid fly fisherman and enjoyed sharing the sport with his son. His love for the water while on the West Coast

brought a fondness for walking the beach while collecting driftwood. He would use the driftwood to carve walking sticks with humorous characteristic faces. His great sense of humor exhibited with his sharp wit and artistic abilities as a Cartoon Artist.

He brought enjoyment to many through his carvings and cartoon's. He was respected by many and enjoyed by all who knew him.

Michael will be remembered as a loving husband, dad, friend and true American Patriot. He is survived by his loving wife, Carolyn J. Daniels of Brentwood, Tennessee; son, Jeff T. Harley and wife, Ganette Harley of Lowell, Oregon; daughter, Christy M. Curtis and husband, Chris Curtis of Eugene, Oregon; grandchildren; Abby Curtis and Nate Curtis; and sister, Illona (Robert) Wilken of Eugene, Oregon.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held September 14, 2021 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Service will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Academy Chapel. Burial to be at the Academy Cemetery.

Reception following at the Academy Golf Club.

A Celebration of Life for Ronald Allen Oakes will be held Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Coos County Museum, 1210 N. Front Street, Coos Bay. A Toast to Ron will be held that evening 6:00 p.m. Closing at the Coney Station, 295 S Broadway, Coos Bay with Timberwolf Musicians.

DEAR ABBY: I have a much older sister who has become very religious.

Most of her life decisions are based on her faith, so conversations tend to develop into faith-oriented topics and justifications. I don't initiate these conversations, and I make a genuine effort to understand her perspective. When I am not able to, I have mastered the "smile and nod."

My problem is, anytime I bring a friend or date to a family function, she drags them off to the side and begins to question and discuss the importance of faith. Since religion is a widely varied and highly sensitive topic, this can sometimes be uncomfortable. I recently asked her to stop doing it, and I haven't heard from her since. How can I explain healthy boundaries to her so we can have a respectful relationship? -YOUNGER BROTHER IN GEORGIA DEAR YOUNGER BROTHER: If part of your sister's religion is advancing it or converting others to her faith, you won't be able to convince her to stop.

I agree that what she's doing can come across as obnoxious. Because you can't control what she says or does, you may have to stop bringing friends or dates to family functions where you know she'll be present. Otherwise, warn them in advance so they can either avoid being cornered or get away from her.

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend was my first crush in grade eight. We are in our late 40s now. He was in a relationship for 17 years with a woman who has three daughters. One hasn't talked to either parent in years. The other

two drink, use drugs and have kids of their own. They often ask to "borrow" money, but never pay it back. One of them asked me for enough to put down a deposit for rent on a house. I have two of my own children and my exes don't support them, so I'm wondering how responsible I am for his ex-girlfriend's kids. -- NOT GONNA HAPPEN DEAR NOT GONNA: You have no legal, moral or ethical obligation to the children your boyfriend raised with his former girlfriend. Stick to your guns, dear lady, because you are off the hook if you have the backbone to stay that way.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 50-year-old male. When I interact with a woman whose name I don't know, I address her as "Dear." Surprisingly, many of them respond in a negative way, regardless of age. Is it wrong to call someone "Dear"?

And if so, what should I call them if I don't know their name?

-- UNSURE IN IOWA DEAR UNSURE: The women may respond the way they do because they consider being called "Dear" by a stranger to be overly familiar or even condescending. (Other titles to avoid would be "Honey" and "Young Lady," if the woman appears to be past the age of 30.) Be safe -- and respectful -- by addressing them as Miss or Ma'am.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

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Scholarships offered by Southern Coos Health Foundation BANDON – In an effort to encourage and support local students to pursue or continue education in the health care field, the Southern Coos Health Foundation has opened the scholarship application period for the annual Mary Richards Memorial Scholarship.

All those who are entering into their second year of a post-secondary healthcare program, those who are currently employed

by Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center or a child/dependent of a current employee may enroll.

The scholarship program is funded by the proceeds of the Southern Coos Health Foundation’s Hospital Gift Shop.

The foundation is the nonprofit fundraising arm for the hospital and primarily contributes funds

to continuing education for employees, patient comfort items and equipment, as well as additional funding for free mammograms for those in need.

Mary Richards, for whom the scholarship is named, was a long-time member of the Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center Auxiliary, who started the scholarship program before the auxiliary became the hospital’s volunteer corps.

She worked for much of her career at Harbor Lights Middle School.

When she passed away, she instructed her family to devote any donations to be given to the SCHHC Auxiliary.

In order to memorialize the impact that Mary Richards had on the auxiliary and on the Bandon community, the SCHHC

Auxiliary designated the funds as the Mary Richards Memorial Scholarship fund.

Since the fund was created, thousands of dollars have been awarded in scholarships from this fund.

To be eligible for a Mary Richards Memorial Scholarship, applicants must fulfill one of the following criteria: 1. Is an employee of Southern Coos Health District who wishes to pursue or continue education in a healthcare field and has been accepted into a program; 2. Is a child of an employee of Southern Coos Health District who is enrolled in a degree program in a healthcare-related discipline; 3. Is a member of the Bandon community who is enrolled in at least the second year of post-sec-

Since 2006, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has hosted seven different USGA amateur championships, including last year's U.S. Amateur. The club’s commitment toward supporting amateur championship golf continues with the 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur and a 25-year partnership to bring 13 USGA championships to Bandon in the years to come.

The stage is set and club can't wait to watch the best men and women amateur golfers compete at the highest level.

This week, Bandon Dunes announced it has been chosen by the USGA to host the following events: 2022 - U.S. Junior Amateur 2025 - U.S. Women’s Amateur 2029 - Walker Cup 2032 - U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur 2035 - U.S. Girls’ Junior 2037 - U.S. Amateur FourBall and U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball 2038 - Curtis Cup 2041- U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur 2045 - U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior For more information on the selection of Bandon Dunes to host the USGA championships, see Sports on Page A8.

Golfers and spectators make their way past the ghost tree at Old Macdonald during the 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. The course is ranked 66th best by Golf.com.

ondary education in a health care-related field.

Applications are available at the following locations: 1. The Gift Shop at the Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center 2. The front desk of the Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center 3. Online, at http://southerncoos.org/mary-richards-memorial-scholarship/.

Applicants may submit materials in one of three ways: 1.Mail your application to: Mary Richards Memorial Scholarship c/o Southern Coos Health Foundation PO Box 1933 Bandon, OR 97411 2. Hand-Deliver your application to the Southern Coos Hospi-

tal & Health Center front desk: Mary Richards Memorial Scholarship c/o Scott McEachern Southern Coos Health Foundation 900 11th Street, SE Bandon, OR 97411 3. Download your application from our website; then scan and email your application to: foundation@southerncoos.org.

All applications must be received by 5 p.m. Friday, July 30.

More information, including the application packet, may be found at http://southerncoos.org/ mary-richards-memorial-scholarship/.

For questions about the application process, please contact Scott McEachern at 541-3291040 or foundation@southerncoos.org.

Bandon Dunes to host 13 USGA championships

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Bilderbacks named volunteers of the month

Diane and Dave Bilderback were recognized by the Greater Bandon Association as Bandon’s Volunteers of the Month for July at the July 12 meeting of Bandon’s City Council. GBA presents the award to one the many outstanding individuals that contribute to making Bandon a better community to live in. Diane and Dave were presented the award in the form of a plaque and a gift certificate from Edgewaters.

Much scientific research and studies depend upon volunteers to make observations and report their data to the lead researchers for analysis. In Bandon, it is Diane and Dave that contribute hundreds of hours each year to this citizen science.

Currently, they are leading a Black Oystercatcher reproduction survey, observing nests up and down Bandon’s coastal rocks. They began this work with Oregon State University dozens of years ago, which has now been passed onto to Portland Audubon Society as part of an effort in the three western coastal states. The Bilderbacks have monitored over dozens of nests annually and have recruited and trained other Bandonites to assist them in the effort.

Some may wonder what happens to the dead birds and other carcasses that they encounter in the sand on our beaches. Diane and Dave have been part of the beach cleanup in our area for many years. When they come across an unusual specimen that can be preserved, they prepare and take it to the Marine Life Center in Charleston. Some of the displays that you see there have been contributions for the Bilderbacks.

And at the end of each year, the Bilderbacks have been participants in the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. They have led the south Bandon sector of that count for many years, an important sector as it is the one in the count that is home to the endangered species, the Western Snowy Plover.

The Greater Bandon Association will be honoring one of Bandon’s many volunteers that are making a difference in the community each Contributed photo month. Nominations for the August award should be e-mailed to ninerharv2@msn.com or mailed to Dave and Diane Bilderback were honored as volunteers of the month by the Greater Bandon Association. The two were honored for their many projects working outdoors.

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By Mary Schamehorn The first picture I am I have shared pictures of Moore Mill & Lumber Co. several times in past columns, but never with such interesting information as I found in a picture caption in the Jan. 8, 1959, Western World. " 'Bandon's Bread Basket' is what it has often been called, and true enough that is what it has been for more than a half-century. This is a photo of the Bandon plant of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co., showing much of the lumber storage area on solid ground.

"Since D.H. Miller, Sr., took over the management there have been a lot of improvements made. Now his son, Walter, is in charge and improvements and successful operations are continuing.

"Among recent betterments were the filling in of tidal areas to make storage space for lumber. It took thousands of yards of dirt to make the fill, but it has paid off, and probably will continue to do so as wooden wharves, built on piling, are gradually supplanted.

It adds to the permanency of the institution by cutting down on maintenance costs.

"The year just concluded by the mill has not been unusual but resulted in the normal cut of about 40 million board feet of lumber. Including plant, woods, and associated services and facilities, the plant provided payroll for at least 250 families. In addition to this, some 40 contract haulers obtained much of their subsistence from this source.

"Permanency of payroll is the desire of every community, therefore it is interesting to note that several employees of the Moore Mill have been on the job for more than 50 years. It is pointed out as an indication of the healthful management-employee relationship that has existed over the years.

Fathers, sons, and grandsons have been, and are still, employed at the plant.

Truly, it has been, and still is, a community 'bread basket.' " By the mid-80s, the mill had discontinued operations, and was in the process of being dismantled when it burned in 1987.

The second picture I am sharing is headlined "Freight Teams Operated Between Bandon and Curry Points." It was in the April 23, 1959, Western World.

The caption reads: "Transportation was not as speedy in the 'good ole' days' as witnessed by the photo above. Fourhorse teams furnished the 'horse-power' that conveyed freight from the Bandon seaport to northern Curry County communities.

"Most of the freight, which included merchandise for stores, came by steam schooners from San Francisco, and was unloaded at the Central Warehouse in Bandon and either transported by boat up-river or by horse-drawn vehicles south to Curry points."

I love this third picture of a man who would often be referred to as "Mr. Little League." Ernie Luther was responsible for many of the good things that happened with the Peewee baseball program during its early years.

Ernie and his wife, Dona, owned Beach Junction Grocery and raised their family in Bandon.

Ernie is pictured here with his son, Jim, a member of the Lions team, at left, and Rick Howard, who was on the K&W team. My guess is that Rick is now in his early 70s, so you can figure out how long ago this photo was taken. *

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Moore Mill & Lumber Co. long-time Bandon businessman Larry Hardin had died July 14th at the age of 78. Larry and his wife, Joyce, moved here in 1976 and started Hardin Optical, which has provided jobs for many Bandon families.

A service for Larry will be held Saturday, July 24, at 1 p.m. at Bandon Christian Fellowship.

Among his immediate survivors in addition to his wife are a daughter, Rebecca Maul, and his son, Michael and wife, Megan.

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A new child tax credit being paid out to U.S. parents will supposedly prove the virtues of universal basic income.

The child tax credit will deliver $3,000 per child ($3,600 for children 5 and under) to the vast majority of families over the next year. Half the amount will be provided in monthly payments over the next six months, and the rest after families file their tax returns in 2021.

This is said to be the closest the federal government has ever come to funding a nationwide experiment in the concept known as universal basic income.

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Last week, I shared part of Reg Pullen's piece about the salmon crisis on the Coquille River, and promised that I would share the rest of the story this week.

It is clear that the days of the "salmon derby" are over for our area .... at least for the Coquille River, which has been completely closed to all salmon fishing in 2021.

Among the problems are an abundance of stripedbass, which thrive in the poor water conditions that may be dooming salmon smolts.

In 2019, the wild Chinook bag limit was reduced to one fish a day and two per season, and fishing for salmon was closed above Coquille's Sturdivant Park. Also, efforts began to eradicate striped and smallmouth bass by electroshocking, and all size and bag limits were dropped to encourage anglers to kill as many bass as possible. The situation was deemed so serious that spearfishing for bass was allowed on the upper river.

"Now, for 2021, all salmon fishing has been closed on the entire river, and the war on the introduced bass species in accelerating," said Pullen.

"However, very little effort is going into rebuilding the faltering hatchery program, that at one time held so much promise. Bandon anglers fondly remember the glory days in the mid 1980s when smolt releas-

Photos contributed by the Mary Schamehorn collection

For many years, Moore Mill & Lumber Co. was the "bread basket" of Bandon. The mill closed in the mid-80s. Middle, transportation in the Bandon area was not always as fast as it is now, with teams of horses carrying freight. Bottom, Ernie Luther is pictured with his son, Jim, a member of the Lions team, at left, and Rick Howard, who was on the K&W team.

es at the mouth of Ferry Creek created a 'sidewalk fishery' where anglers stood shoulder to shoulder along the marina to catch their limits of salmon. The Port of Bandon is installing a handicapped accessible fishing pier along the marina this year in the hopes that one day that fishery can return.

"The hope would appear to be unlikely in the near future. Since 2014, the ODFW has planned to release around 155,000 smolts to the lower river, from an acclimation site on Seven Mile Creek near Rocky Point as well as at the mouth of Ferry Creek at Bandon. Although their plan called for the release of 100,000 unfed fry from hatch boxes along the river, no effort has been made to achieve that goal.

Since 2019, they have not released any smolts at Seven Mile Creek, due to a dispute with the landowner whose property they were using as the release site, and releases at Ferry Creek have been minimal," Pullen added.

He said that up until 2018, the 70 pairs of wild spawners needed to reach target smolt goals were being netted from the river near Myrtle Point, but only 20 were netted in 2018.

Since then, no wild fish have been used to augment hatchery production, nor are there any planned for this year. The ODFW held out hope that increasing smolt releases at Ferry Creek would result in enough returning spawners to support the hatchery program, but that has not happened.

"The initial thought was that returning hatchery Chinook would swim up Ferry Creek to the hatchery, where they could be spawned. Due to a severe drought and ever later fall

freshets that would allow salmon to navigate the brush- and beaver-damchoked creek, no salmon have returned to the hatchery. In 2020, a trap was installed just upstream from the Face Rock Creamery, but only seven fish were captured. Seal predation at the mouth of the creek may account for the poor returns, but it appears likely that the entire hatchery program is doomed to failure unless drastic measures are taken."

Pullen thinks ODFW seems unlikely to change their position, given the Wild Fish Policy that discourages hatchery production.

I will talk more about that in next week's column.

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by Norbert Johnson and newly sworn-in member Mary Schamehorn voting I will have to say that in favor, while Chairman my first meeting as a David Allen voted against member of the board of the motion. Treasurer Edie directors of the SouthJurgenson was present, but ern Coos Health District proved to be interesting, to had tendered her resignation prior to the vote, effecsay the least. tive immediately," accordA press release written

by Amy Moss Strong, mar- ing to the press release.

"The executive sesketing and development coordinator for the district, sion was held to consider a report from a human explained that "following resources attorney who an executive session, the conducted an investigation board exercised the termiunder unanimous direction nation clause of the CEO of the board into serious Eugene Suksi without cause, saying they had 'lost complaints board members had received from hospital confidence in his ability employees. to effectively lead the "Following the execuhospital.' tive session, the board vot"The board voted 3-1 ed 3-2 (Bischoff, Johnson in favor of the motion, and Schamehorn) to hold made by secretary Brent the report as private and

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confidential under attorney-client privilege."

At that time, Jurgenson announced her resignation from the board, and handed Allen a prepared letter, citing health concerns.

The next morning following the termination of Suksi, Allen submitted his resignation from the board, effective immediately.

He served on the hospital board for 17 years.

As a new member of the board, I can only say that more employees and past employees of the hospital (both doctors and nurses) have reached out to me in the last month than have city employees reached out to me in the 17 years that I have served as mayor. And their concerns coupled with the investigator's report guided my votes.

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Bandon Dunes to continue relationship with USGA

By JOHN GUNTHER For The World

BANDON — The partnership between Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and the United States Golf Association will include the resort hosting another 13 championship events over the next quarter century, the USGA announced Tuesday.

Starting with the U.S. Junior Amateur next year, the resort will host eight different amateur events, including both the men’s and women’s competitions between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland and two times hosting the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur in the same year. The latter two events have never been hosted by one site the same season.

“As a result of our longstanding relationship with the USGA and the successful amateur championships that we have hosted at Bandon Dunes, we have committed to a long-term agreement with the USGA,” Bandon Dunes General Manager Don Crowe said. “Amateur golf will always have a place at Bandon Dunes, and we are thrilled to be welcoming such significant championships.

“The stage is set, and we can’t wait to watch the best men and women amateurs in the game compete at the highest level for years to come.”

Bandon Dunes has hosted a total of seven USGA championships in the past 15 years, starting with the Curtis Cup in 2006. That event, which matches the top female amateurs from

the United States against Great Britain and Ireland and is held every other year rotating between the two continents, will return in 2038. The Walker Cup, the men’s equivalent to the Curtis Cup, comes to Bandon Dunes for the first time in 2029.

The most recent USGA event at the resort was the 2020 U.S. Amateur, the most prestigious championship yet to come to Bandon Dunes, and the telecast was the highest-rated for the event in the past 30 years.

Bandon Dunes owner Mike Keiser has long considered the U.S. Amateur as the fifth major and last year’s version was the 120th of the prestigious event.

Since the first USGA event at Bandon Dunes, Keiser has spoken often of his fondness of both amateur golf and the USGA’s variety of events that showcase it.

“I love amateur golf,” he said. “What the USGA does for amateur golf and to grow the game is exceptional.

“I built Bandon Dunes for all amateurs to enjoy the great experiences and spirited competition that golf provides, and we are thrilled to be hosting the USGA’s signature amateur events for years to come.”

The resort will host the U.S. Women’s Amateur for the first time in 2025 and will host both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2032 and 2041.

First up is the U.S. Junior Amateur next year, which will make Bandon

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A crowd of onlookers watches from a hillside overlooking the the sixth and seventh holes at Bandon Dunes.

Dunes the first site to host eight different USGA events.

The tournament will be conducted July 25-30 and include the Bandon Dunes and Bandon Trails courses, just like the U.S. Amateur last year, with Bandon Dunes hosting all the matches and Bandon Trails and Bandon Dunes being used for qualifying rounds.

Bandon Dunes previously hosted the now-retired U.S. Amateur Public Links and Women’s Amateur Public Links at the same time in 2011, the first time a single facility had hosted two USGA events of that stature simultaneously.

The resort also hosted the inaugural U.S. Women’s Four-Ball Championship in 2015 and stepped in on short notice to host the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship in 2019.

Also coming to the resort in the same year will

be the U.S. Amateur FourBall Championship and U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship — both events Bandon Dunes has previously hosted — in 2037 and the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship and U.S. Girls Junior in 2045. The resort will host the U.S. Girls Junior for the first time in 2035.

To date, the resort’s Bandon Dunes (U.S Mid-Amateur and U.S. Amateur), Pacific Dunes (Curtis Cup, U.S. Amateur Four-Ball and U.S. Women’s Amateur FourBall), Bandon Trails (U.S. Amateur Public Links and Women’s Amateur Public Links and U.S. Amateur) and Old Macdonald (U.S. Amateur Public Links and Women’s Amateur Public Links and U.S. Amateur Four-Ball) courses have hosted USGA championships, but John Bodenhamer, the USGA senior managing director of

championships, suggested that Sheep Ranch, which opened in June 2020, also could be a host for some of the future events.

“With five championship-caliber courses and incredible support from the resort’s ownership, Bandon Dunes is the perfect location for these championships,” Bodenhamer said.

He added that he looks forward to the continued partnership between the resort and USGA. “Mike Keiser has been an incredible advocate for amateur golf and his ongoing support for the USGA and our mission served as the vision for this partnership. We are excited to work together for years to come.”

Keiser, in turn, praised the USGA and CEO Mike Davis (who leaves his USGA post at the end of this year) for their support of Bandon Dunes and willingness to partner with

USGA EVENTS AT BANDON DUNES Past Tournaments 2006 Curtis Cup 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links and Women’s Amateur Public Links 2015 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship 2020 U.S. Amateur Upcoming Tournaments 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur 2029 Walker Cup 2032 U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur 2035 U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur 2037 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball and U.S. Women’s Amateur FourBall 2038 Curtis Cup 2041 U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur 2045 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Amateur the resort.

“We are particularly grateful to Mike Davis, who has been an advocate of Bandon Dunes since the resort’s earliest days,” Keiser said. “Amateur golf will always have a place at Bandon Dunes, and this commitment from the USGA is significant.

“We welcome all the great championships that the USGA will bring to the resort as Bandon Dunes is the home of amateur golf.”

This week in Coos County history: July 21-24 100 YEARS — 1921

50 YEARS — 1971

Race wrong man on the highway

First ace carded at Sunset Bay

Norm Wilson is cited for speeding yesterday Was trying out new car with purchaser and showing him what it could so Norm Wilson has decided that henceforth when he has to speed an auto to pass another car he will first find out who is in it.

Yesterday, Norm was demonstrating a new car for H.A. Wells, with a possible purchaser on the highway. They were going about 25 miles per hour when a Dodge car shot around them.

The prospective purchaser made some remark about it being funny that a little care could run away from a Hudson like that.

Immediately, Norm jazzed up his car and went around the Dodge.

He later slowed down while demonstrating and the Dodge passed him again and stopped.

State Highway Engineer Chandler was driving the Dodge and is vested with power to arrest for violation of traffic laws.

He cited Wilson to appear before Justice Joehnk for speeding.

Mr. Chandler left last night for Salem before he had a chance to sign the complaint so Norm is still wondering how much his fine will be.

A United States Air Force man from the North Bend radar station claimed the honors of the first hole-in-one at Sunset Bay Golf Course when he aced the No. 9 hole during play Wednesday.

Greg Ladewski used a nine iron for his hole-in-one on the par-3 130-yard hole.

The ball went into the hole on the fly, said Art Hystad, manager of the pro shop at the golf course. It was hit hard enough to damage the cup. “It took enough of the cup edge that we had to remove the cup,” said Hystad.

Ladweski’s feat was witnessed by Stanley McSwain and McSwain’s brother-inlaw, Grady Southworth, visiting here from New Mexico.

The Air Force man completed the 18 holes in 77, five over par. Tuesday, he shot 74, two over par, on the same course, said Hystad, who called Ladewski a “cracker-jack golfer.”

Joyriders take another machine Coos Bay bakery delivery auto used by boys Car deserted in Ferndale where gears got stuck — no damage is done The Coos Bay Bakery delivery auto which was stolen from in front of the Masonic Temple about 9:45 last evening was found this morning on North Eighth street, Ferndale, where it was deserted when the gears stuck.

Surprisingly, no damage was done to the machine.

Carl Evertsen had left the car while he attended the Masonic meeting. Dennis Sorenson, driver for the bakery, who lives across the street, heard the car start up but at first through it was Mr. Evertson driving away.

This morning Adrian Morris reported where the car was. He said that when he and others were coming along last evening, the car had stuck and as they approached two youths left the road, going back in the brush.

Marshall Carter thinks he has practically established the identity of the offenders.

Bay Area mills gear for S-P rail strike ‘Can’t go on forever’ Bay Area woods products plants told The World today they expect to move some shipments by truck and to keep operating, at least within the near future.

Comments followed announcement today that Southern Pacific Railroad is preparing for a strike Saturday.

Georgia-Pacific general manager of the Coos Bay Division, Ambrose Caudle, commented “We can’t go on forever.”

However, he said the company is preparing to move plywood and lumber by truck and will utilize company trucks and enormous carriers.

Caudle pointed out that other companies and businesses will also be turning to trucks for shipments and that the supply of trucks could become limited.

The only other alternative would be to fill up the available storage and shut down the plants, said Caudle. Plants to be affected by a rail strike in the area are Norply at Norway between Coquille and Myrtle Point, the plant in Coquille and the Bunker Hill plywood and hardboard plant in Coos Bay. Bob Abel, wood products manager for the Weyerhauser plant in North Bend, said the company will be looking at the shipping situation on a week-by-week basis, but declined to comment on how the company will move products. “We could be looking toward truck shipments,” said Abel.

Pro baseball first due in Bay Area Monday A “first” for professional baseball in the Bay Area crops up Monday night when the Coos Bay-North Bend Athletics take on the Eugene Emeralds of the Pacific Coast League in an exhibition contest at North Bend Municipal Ball Park.

The Athletics will return home from their five-game series with Bend over the weekend to engage the Emeralds who are the Triple-A farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Preceding the exhibition will be an “Oldtimer’s Game” between former players in the Eugene area and one-time horsehiders from the Bay Area.

The Oldtimer’s game begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday and the Ems-A’s tilt starts at 7:45.

20 YEARS — 2001 Chamber shares advice on creating drug-free workplaces Others have done it: Five-step plan carries out policy effectively “If you want to work in Coos County you can’t use drugs.”

If Dick Leshley had his way, that would be on the county’s logo.

Leshley, owner of Yellow Cab Company, and chairman of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce’s new “Drugs Don’t Work Task Force,” was the primary speaker and moderator of a panel presentation on drugs in the workplace Wednesday at the chamber’s monthly forum.

“The reality is we do have a drug problem in this county,” Leshley told the chamber members at the lunch forum, “and that leads to domestic abuse, child abuse and crime.”

Leshley is a drug-free-workplace veteran. Six years ago, he said, his business was fraught with absenteeism, employee turnover, customer complaints and damage to vehicles and equipment.

There was an “us-against-them” mentality prevalent at the cab company, Leshley said. The problem grew so overwhelming that he and his wife had decided reluctantly to sell or even close the business.

Instead, they established a drug policy for the business and the change has been as overwhelming as the problems initially were.

“Four of our 25 drivers failed the test or quit,” Leshley said. “But another four kept their jobs and gave up drugs.”

Leshley said other business owners can effect changes in their communities by

creating drug-free workplaces. He advised a five-step plan to do so: Establish a written drug policy; Train supervisors to carry out the policy; Educate employees about the policy; Provide information about how employees can access drug treatment; and Enforce the policy with testing.

Natural resources consultant restores wetlands into a thriving habitat BANDON — It might seem like no big thing — restoring the ebb and flow of tidal waters between a river and a nearby lagoon. In reality, creating a rich home for wildlife and an accessible escape for the public requires vision, patience and more than a bit of help from Mother Nature.

“I’m fully convinced after this project that there are certain forces in nature that conspire against us,” pondered Michael Salici, the natural resources consultant hired by the Port of Bandon to revitalize an estuarine habitat on the north spit of the Coquille River. “But I keep trying.”

Scalici — of “Migs” as most know him — is proudo f what has been accomplished in two years of planning, digging and planting in the shifting sands just north of the Coquille River Lighthouse.

Slowly, water has begun to flow between the river and an eight-acre basin that once teemed with wildlife.

With the return of the water has come a resurgence of life, from juvenile coho and Chinook salmon to shellfish, shorebirds and waterfowl that together keep the habitat thriving.

“It’s a project constantly in progress,” Scalici said on Saturday as he unveiled a network of manmade channels to the world, or in this case, three women from Bandon.

Leading his guests on a mid-morning jaunt along a trickling stream connecting the Coquille with the tranquil basin, the bearded biologist reflected upon the challenges and rewards offered by the restoration.

“For me, it’s exciting,” he said. “I’ve always been interested in this kind of project. It’s a high energy type of estuary, so it’s extremely challenging.”

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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The World

Clyde Allen Field preparing North Coos to host Babe Ruth tournament sweeps Brookings

to close out season

By JOHN GUNTHER For The World

NORTH BEND — The South Coast has never hosted a Babe Ruth tournament as prestigious as the Pacific Northwest Regional in the 14-year-old prep division that starts Tuesday at Clyde Allen Field, and the North Bend ballpark is getting a fresh coat of paint — and much more — in preparation for the event.

South Coast Babe Ruth President Rob Laskey estimated more than 20 volunteers had combined for more than 250 hours of work at the stadium by Tuesday afternoon, with much more planned.

“We’ve got seven days left,” Laskey said.

Some of the upgrades are quickly obvious — fresh coats of paint in the entryway, grandstand and press box — while others take a little more investigation.

Much of the outfield fence has bene replaced with pressure-treated lumber that local officials hope will last at least 20 years.

The bullpen on the visitor’s side of the stadium is being moved and improved for safety purposes and to create a better quality warm-up area for relief pitchers.

The buildings that house the batting cages and bullpen on the home side of the stadium have new siding, and the older of the buildings a new roof.

The entryway for the stadium also has a new roof.

And just inside that entry is the first of a number of additions planned to highlight the ballpark’s rich history.

A panel explaining who Clyde Allen was and how the stadium came to be has been installed to give visitors a taste of the history.

Much of the work planning that information

The World North Coos finished its summer American Legion season with a sweep at Brookings on Saturday.

North Coos won the opener 11-1 and the nightcap 11-4.

Carter Brock had a big twin bill for the Waterfront, finishing with two hits in the opener and three hits in the nightcap and scoring two runs in each game.

Jason Garcia pitched a complete game in the 11-1 win, allowing just two hits and striking out 10. Garcia also had three hits, including a double, three runs and two RBIs in that game.

Nick Williams also scored two runs in that win.

In the 11-4 victory, Knoll Gederos had two hits and three runs, ?

Peters added a single and double and two RBIs, Williams drove in two runs, Garcia scored twice and Ian Sissell had two runs and an RBI. North Coos finished he summer with a 12-10 record.

Photo by John Gunther

VolunteerMikeTaylorpaintstheentrywaytoClydeAllenFieldonTuesdayafternoon.Muchoftheballpark hasreceivedafreshcoatofpaintinadvanceofnextweek’sPacificNorthwestBabeRuthRegionalinthe 14-year-old prep age group. panel was done by North Bend baseball coach Brad Horning and it is dedicated to his father, who died in 2019 and was a groundskeeper at the facility in the 1960s and 70s and coach there in the 80s and 90s.

Horning also is planning panels about the histories of Babe Ruth, American Legion and North Bend High School baseball in the stadium, another explaining the significance of an old sign inside the

stadium about the North Bend Lumberjacks, an early team that used the stadium, and numbers along the outfield fence for each member of the North Bend High School Hall of Fame who had a tie with baseball, as well as one for Bud Grant, the longtime manager of the North Coos American Legion team, who died in early 2020.

Horning has been among many people replacing the outfield fence — they did the left-field portion as part

of a long day Tuesday.

The wall already includes the names and numbers of two former North Bend High School baseball players who died in the past 14 months — Ian Spalding and Cody Anderson — whose fathers will throw out ceremonial first pitches before the evening game on the opening day of the regional tournament next Tuesday.

That ceremony, slated to begin at 6 p.m., also will include the introduction of all eight teams participating in the tournament. Laskey said the national Babe Ruth organization said the tournament could not include a banquet or other traditional opening ceremony activities because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

But he was happy to find a way to recognize the teams, and hopes the fans for the visiting clubs stick around for the game, which will feature the South Coast squad.

Earlier in the day, North Bend City Council member Bill Richardson will throw out the opening pitch before the first game of the tournament.

No admission will be charged next week, with games scheduled for 9 a.m., noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesday through Thursday, when the teams in each of two foursquad pools will play in round-robin format.

On Friday, the fourthplace teams from each pool will play at noon, followed by games between the second-place teams and third-place squads from the opposite pools at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The winners of those two games advance to Saturday, when they will face the first-place teams at 9 a.m. and noon, with the championship game scheduled for 3 p.m. The winner of the championship contest advances to the 14-year-old Babe Ruth World Series.

While no admission will be charged, Laskey hopes fans will take advantage of the Clyde Allen Field concession stand, which will be open throughout the tournament and is renowned for its quality.

And whether or not the fans notice, the stadium will have a shiny new appearance.

“It does look good,” Laskey said. “We’re happy about that.”

Nooks top unbeaten Roseburg The South Coos Nooks handed Roseburg Pepsi its only Area 4 North Division loss when Landon Croff spun a brilliant one-hitter in the opening game of a twin bill between the American Legion teams at Legion Field in Roseburg on Monday.

The Bottlecaps, who already had clinched the league’s berth in the upcoming Legion-A State Tournament, bounced back from the 5-0 loss with a 17-4 win in the nightcap, to finish league play at 7-1. The Nooks finished 4-4 and North Coos finished 1-7.

Monday’s opener was one of the highlights of the season for South Coos.

“Landon Croff pitched

a really good game,” South Coos coach Chilly Peck said.

In addition to allowing just one hit, Croff struck out eight and walked just one batter.

Croff also had a triple in the win, while Drake Rogers had a double and single, two runs and two RBIs. Wyatt Peck had two hits and drove in two runs and Cobin Bouska had two hits, a run and an RBI. Ryder Easton also had two hits and scored a run and Joseph Herbert had a hit and a run.

But the South Coos pitching staff had trouble with its control in the nightcap, and the Bottlecaps took advantage of the 14 walks.

Peck had a two-run triple and also scored a run in the loss. Dom Montiel had two hits and a run and Luke Parry had two hits and an RBI. Herbert and Easton also scored runs and Bouska had an RBI. A day earlier, South Coos finished a season sweep of the Grants Pass Diggers with wins by 10-5 and 20-8 margins in American Legion play at Marshfield High School.

Wyatt Peck had two hits, including a double, two runs and an RBI in the opener. Rogers and Daniel Cabrera each had two runs and Bouska drove in two runs. Perry, Colton Siewell and Dean Tucker each had a run and an RBI. Siewell hit a double. Cabrera pitched the first four innings and picked up the win.

In the nightcap, Herbert had three hits, three runs and two RBIs and also picked up the win on the mound.

Bouska had two hits, including a double, scored three runs and drove in four. Henry Rankin added two hits, two runs and three RBIs. Jonathan Calvert scored four runs and Perry had two runs and two RBIs.

Officials overcome challenging year JERRY ULMER OSAAtoday

As difficult as this year was for high school athletes and coaches, it might have been more challenging for shorthanded sports officials associations.

“There was all kinds of stuff going on, but we managed to get through the season,” said Jack Folliard, executive director of the Oregon Athletic Officials Association. “There's no playbook on how to handle a pandemic. Nobody knew what to do, really. Not all games were covered. But it's behind us.”

The timing of the crisis couldn't have been worse for Oregon officials associations, who already were dealing with a steady decline in members for the past decade.

The number of officials registered in Oregon was 2,552 in 2020-21, a 26.4 percent decline from the previous year. It represents a 42.1 percent drop from 2010-11, when the state had 4,412 officials.

Many officials didn't register due to health concerns. Some didn't come back due to scheduling conflicts created by the crisis. Some multi-sport officials decided to focus on one sport, in part due to seasonal overlaps.

Associations now must try to repair the damage.

“The commissioners are going to try to contact all the people that didn't work last year and try to talk them into working the up-

coming seasons,” Folliard said.

If past experience is any indicator, commissioners have their work cut out for them.

“What happens to an official, if you're thinking about retiring, and you stop working for a year, it's really hard to decide to come back,” Folliard said. “Your lifestyle changes, that type of thing. Sometimes when people stay out for a year because they're hurt, and they've been working for 20-some years, they say, 'Hey, it's time to hang it up.'”

The Portland Basketball Officials Association lost one-third of its membership from 2019-20, down to 206 from 311. Of the 105 that did not return, 55 gave reasons related to COVID-19, according to PBOA commissioner Steve Scott.

“I expect to see 75 percent of those people back,” Scott said. “Traditionally when somebody sits out for a year, for whatever reason, we get about 40 percent of those people back. But I expect to see a higher percentage come back this year.”

Scott said this season was the most challenging of his eight years as commissioner because of the combination of being shorthanded and having a condensed schedule.

“There were a ton of games every week,” Scott said. “Every day was like a Tuesday or Friday in basketball."

A10 | FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021

Sudden oak From A1

eradicate the pathogen.

While sudden oak death is a threat in both regions of the county, there is a difference. In the Brookings area, the trees are under attack from a variant called NA1. In Port Orford, a new variant called NA2, is responsible for the trees that are dying.

“This is the first time the NA2 variant has been found in the forest,” Navarro said. “They have been in nurseries since 2012, but the incidents in nurseries have been declining.”

The experts on the tour said it is possible the new variant came from the county transfer site, which sits just feet from the earliest outbreaks. While mostly home garbage is dumped at the site, it has accepted yard waste, including tree clippings for years.

While the research in Port Orford is new, Navarro said the outbreak is not. She said based on the damage seen on trees in the forest, it likely has been around for at least four years.

“It was most likely cooking in the area, and the reason we caught it was along the highway,” she said.

Navarro said the U.S. Forest Service hired a contractor, who flew the entire area last week to take high-definition photos of the forest. When those pictures are reviewed, it will give a greater idea how widespread the outbreak is.

“We still have a lot of looking to do in this area,” said Randy Wiese with the Oregon Department of Forestry.

The new outbreak is 21 miles north of the quarantine area near Brookings and only 17 miles from the Coos County border.

Sudden oak death has also been found in Del Norte County across the California border. It appears to be moving north, likely fol-

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lowing the wind patterns.

When trees are infected, the first sign is leaves begin to die and turn reddish-brown. In time, the entire tanoak will die.

“They’ll turn that reddish color in about three months,” Wiese said.

“They’ll have it for up to four years. Eventually, they’ll go leafless and fall over.”

While 127 different tree species can carry sudden oak death, the tanoaks and rhododendron are impacted the most.

The only way to treat an outbreak is to cut down and burn infected trees.

Generally, all tanoaks and rhododendron trees near an outbreak are also destroyed. Property owners can safely cut down their own tanoaks and use the wood for burning.

Navarro said there is concern the spread could continue moving north.

SOD is a mold-like pathogen. Right now, there are no spores because it takes moisture to reproduce. But after rain, SOD can make new spores, which are carried by wind to areas not impacted.

“We know natural spread can be up to five to six miles, and we know tanoaks go into Coos County,” Navarro said.

To determine how widespread the impact is, forest pathologists like Navarro hike through the forests, mostly on private land. They look for signs of SOD on trees and cut chunks out of the trees that are sent to Oregon State University to be tested.

Long-term, if not stopped, the spread of SOD could impact the timber industry and export industry throughout the whole region. While SOD does not kill Douglas Fir, the most cut tree from the timber industry, it does infect the tree and it can be spread from the Douglas Fir. The Asian market, where most local timber is sold, will not allow imports if SOD is in the region.

State Rep. David Brock Smith has been working on SOD issues since he

Photo by David Rupkalvis/The World

Curry County Commissioner John Herzog gets a close look at a tree dying from sudden oak death. Below,sudden oak death will cause leaves on tanoak trees to turn brown within three months. Over time, the leaves will fall off and the tree will fall over. become a Curry County commissioner is 2013. He said the future of Oregon’s South Coast is on the line if SOD can’t be stopped.

“If we can’t get a handle on this stuff, it’s going to have long-term impacts on the industry,” Brock Smith said. “Thanks to all the good work of everyone here, I have been able to move forward to really elevate this and the need at the state. We have gotten $1.7 million every biennium. Sen. Merkley has gotten even more money.”

And the money is desperately needed. With the Port Orford site estimated at 388 acres, and a cost to treat and destroy infected trees averaging $5,000 an acre, the full $1.7 million from the state will be needed just to slow the spread near Port Orford.

One thing the researchers would like to get is an air-curtain incinerator.

With burning in the deep forest challenging and threatening due to wildfire danger, the incinerator could be used to safely burn nearby.

The equipment would also limit smoke and other particulates from entering the air.

“If you need anything, I’ll call the governor and

say this is what we want to do,” Brock Smith told Navarro.

With SOD moving across Curry and Del Norte counties and threatening Coos County, Navarro said the key to finding and stopping the pathogen is property owners. In the Port Orford area, SOD has likely been present for at least four years, but it was

only located when it infected trees along Highway 101.

Navarro said property owners can keep an eye on their trees. If they notice tanoaks or rhododendron with leaves turning brown, they should contact the Oregon Department of Forestry, which can determine if SOD is present.

Norma Kline with

Oregon State University Forestry and Natural Resources Extension in Coos and Curry counties plans to provide information sessions about the disease to the public this summer in Port Orford. This will help local residents identify symptoms of sudden oak death so they can report any signs of it on their property.

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A Sunday Drive

Battle Rock Wayside Park worth a visit

Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World

At Battle Rock Wayside Park in Port Orford, the rock tells the story. It is pounded by waves all day, serves as a respite for sea birds and breaks the beach into two different sections. Below, visitors walk along the sand at the beach.

Port Orford park more than just breathtaking scenery

By DAVID RUPKALVIS The World

If you say the name Battle Rock Wayside Park, I would expect few people would know exactly where it is. But if you have ever driven south on Highway 101 to Gold Beach, I promise you have seen it.

When you make that drive from Coos Bay, almost the entire trip is through the forest. As you move through Port Orford, near the end of town, you make a left on Highway 101. And then to your right, the Pacific Ocean emerges. No matter how many times you have made the trip, the view is breathtaking.

That is Battle Rock Wayside Park. I have made the trip dozens of times over the last few months, but I never stopped at the park until this week.

Here’s my advice. Stop and spend some time at the park.

First, the city of Port Orford, which has Battle Rock as a city park, does an excellent job maintaining and telling the story of Battle Rock Park. The city has placed extensive signage in the area telling the story of the park, the beach and the animals that live in the area.

There is plenty of parking, clean bathrooms and paved trails to and from the beach. This week, the trail down to the beach was surrounded by flowers, adding to the surprise. But the real

Zonta, Rotary partner to continue Little Red Schoolhouse Project

The Coos Bay Area Zonta Service Foundation has announced that its Little Red Schoolhouse Project will continue for the 2021-22 school year, thanks to a partnership with the Rotary Coos Foundation. The Rotary Coos Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant for the project, which will provide school supplies to Coos County elementary school students K-5, and to students in transitional housing through the Alternative Youth Activities program.

“The Zonta Foundation is most grateful to the Rotary Coos Foundation for this award, which doubles the amount of funding we have available this year for buying supplies,” says Debbie Schade, Zonta project coordinator.

The Zonta Foundation has helped school children with basic supplies as tools for learning since the year 2000, thanks to community support from organizations such as Rotary Coos Foundation.

COVID pandemic challenges have recently limited the Zonta Foundation’s ability to raise funds for this and other projects serving women and children in Coos County.

Rotary funding will make it possible to provide supplies, from pencils to hot spots, as requested by each school for one more year while the Zonta Foundation addresses future possibilities for the Little Red Schoolhouse Project.

For information about the Zonta Club or to donate to the Little Red School House Project visit www.zontacoosbayarea.org

‘Garlic Greatness’ planned at NBPL At 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 18, North Bend Public Library presents “Garlic Greatness,” a webinar by Cheryl O’Dell of Natural Grocers.

This program will highlight the nutritional benefits of garlic as well as the way garlic enhances most foods. Attendees will receive a free garlic bulb.

As the COVID-based precautions and restrictions are being lifted, NBPL is expanding services to include some faceto-face programming. “Garlic Greatness” will be presented as a Zoom meeting, but patrons will also be allowed to come watch the presentation at the library.

The room limit will be capped at 15 people.

For those preferring to watch from home, the registration link is https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf--qqj0pGtSiWYY2IBGjiD2gvgIpCQB0.

Please see Battle Rock, Page B8

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The Chamber Minute: Finish what you start

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When I entered the word “initiative” into my computer, I got a definition. When I typed “finishative” into it, I’m told it isn’t a word. But it should be. The two words are defined as follows, initiative: the first step, the act of setting a process in motion, the ability or willingness to take the lead. Finishative: the last step, the act of completing, the willingness to take a project or mission to its logical conclusion in optimum time.

Both of these are essential to character, to growth and success

in an individual, and for successful community development. Too often, folks aimlessly wander through life and end up with a load of guilt and regrets because of the many things they wanted to do but never got around to start. Others wind up with the same guilt and regrets because they had dreams, with some initiative, started many projects but never finished most of what they began.

This community can grow if our leaders will genuinely take the lead, exercise wisdom and initiative in getting work under-

way; if citizens involve themselves willingly to accomplish it and if all will focus on finishiative. While there are many ways to promote your community, let me suggest you look at your chamber.

Are you interested in economic development, education, tourism, developing leaders, promoting local business or improving transportation to Oregon’s Bay Area?

Your chamber has people, your friends and neighbors, working on these and more. So grab the issue important to you and come on down and join us. In the Bay Area

Chamber of Commerce, we know that “Success is our Journey, not our Destination” and are all willing to make a difference for our families on the southern Oregon coast.

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

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

Awards announced at Coos Art Museum’s 27th Maritime Art Exhibition Three artists have been awarded top honors at Coos Art Museum’s 27th annual Maritime Art Exhibition. “Best of Show” was awarded to Austin Dwyer of Mukilteo, Washington for his oil “Opus 4, Symphony of Rust.” In a vote by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, Dutch Mostert of North Bend received the “Port Award” for his oil “Coos Bay Quintet.”

William A. Selden of Coos Bay received the “Directors’ Award” for his oil, “Charleston Marina.”

The “Directors’ Award” is selected through a vote by the Coos Art Museum Board of Directors.

The “Best of Show” juror and featured artist of the 27th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition is Kimberly Wurster of Coquille. Wurster creates her paintings in pastel, watercolor or acrylic. She enjoys painting a variety of subjects including landscapes but has a particular fondness for birds and wildlife. Her work has earned numerous awards for excellence in domestic and international competitions. Recently the Circle Foundation for the Arts named her as a finalist in their November/December 2020 contest for publication in Art Ideal Magazine.

She has exhibited at Coos

Art Museum on many occasions including a one-person exhibition in 2009. Kimberly is member of the American Society of Marine Artists and a Signature Member of Artists for Conservation. As Featured Artist a solo exhibition of her work is also on view at the Museum through the end of the Maritime Exhibition.

This year’s “Peoples’ Choice Award” is yet to be determined. Visitors to the museum will be able to vote for their favorite work through Labor Day, September 6, at which time this important honor will be given to the work with the most votes. The 27th Maritime Art Exhibition continues at Coos Art Museum until September 25.

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

It occupies an historic 1936 Art Deco U.S. Federal Building in downtown Coos Bay. The museum offers a wide range of arts activities including exhibitions, art classes and lectures. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Museum admission is $5 general, $2 students, veterans and seniors and free to museum members and active duty military.

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“Opus 4, Symphony of Rust” by Austin Dwyer was named best of show at the 27th annual Maritime Exhibition at the Coos Art Museum. Below, “Coos Bay Quintet” by Dutch Mostert won the Port Award.

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Coos County Fair & Rodeo gets underway

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During the first day of the Coos County Fair, some of the youngest participants began the festivities by showing their calves. Middle left, some of the early attendees wasted little time participating in games on the fairway.

Middle right, Chase Radway of Roseburg gives his best shot while riding a mechanical bull. The young cowboy made it eight seconds before being thrown off. Bottom left, smiles were a common sight as participants enjoyed the many rides at the fair. Bottom right, a group of llamas stop and stare as a spectator walks by.

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Monday - Friday, 9am - 5:30pm 541-347- 2207.

-----------------------------------------U-Pick Certified Organic Blueberry Farm. Located in Fairview. By appointment only.

Call for more info between 10-5 pm 541-396-1899

The Southern Coos Health District Board of Directors is seeking interested community members who reside within the Southern Coos Health District for consideration of appointee placements for board positions numbers 1 and 3. Appointees will serve through June 30, 2022 with the opportunity to participate in the general election in May 2022. Please send letter of interest and resume

by Friday, August 6, to: SCHD Board of Directors, Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center, 900 11th Street SE, Bandon, OR 97411 or email community@southerncoos.org.

-----------------------------------------Applications for the position of Water Utility Operator will be accepted by the City of Reedsport, 451 Winchester Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon 97467 until 5:00 PM, Friday, July 30, 2021.

A complete job description and required City application is available at Reedsport City Hall or online at www.cityofreedsport.org.

The salary range for this position is $3,004.77 - $3,975.49 per month with a full competitive benefits package. This position is covered by a collective bargaining unit agreement.

Please mail or hand deliver completed applications and materials to Kim Clardy, Public Works Director, at 451 Winchester Ave., Reedsport, Oregon 97467 or email to kclardy@cityofreedsport.org The City of Reedsport provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants without unlawful regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, Oregon, or local law.

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VALENTINE BLUEBERRIES. U-pick/pre-picked every day 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sydnam Rd., 11 mi. south of Bandon. Credit cards accepted. 541-253-1104

The Best Western Inn at Face Rock is now hiring!

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Depending on the position and the experience you bring to the role, your starting hourly compensation will be a minimum of $13.50 per hour. Most positions are seasonal, and schedules may include Weekends and Holidays.

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Celebrating the Life of RONALD ALLEN OAKES Saturday, July 31, 2021 Celebration of Life Ceremony 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Coos County Museum 1210 N. Front Street, Coos Bay A Toast to Ron 6:00 p.m. - Closing Coney Station w/ Timberwolf Musicians 295 S Broadway, Coos Bay -----------------------------------------PRESCHOOL NOW ENROLLING 2 spots available Ages 3-5, Sensory and STEM focused learning With a fun, faith based curriculum!

RESTORATION EDUCATION CENTER Call Mrs. Kristy 541-347-4900 x 4 Facebook.com/RWCIM

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

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

Please stop by for an application, 3225 Beach loop DR., Bandon OR EOE Small, local company seeking welder-fabricator for fulltime/- permanent position. Our ideal candidate is looking for long term employment, to be part of a good crew, and is certified D1.1 or with equivalent experience. You will be working with a small, experienced, and dedicated team. Please email resume to jack@ watchtechnologies.com or call 541-479-2427.

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-----------------------------------------South Coast Head Start is hiring! Teacher/Advocates, Teacher Assistants, Classroom Assistants, Inclusion Classroom Specialist, Assistant Cooks www.orcca.us/careers 541-435-7080 -----------------------------------------Wanted: A reliable housekeeper to clean a one bedroom, one bath house once a week. Will furnish cleaning supplies, Pay is $15/hour. Please contact Linda in Bandon at 541-551-0566.

-----------------------------------------Are you a professional caregiver looking for top pay and benefits? Harmony Home Care is looking for you! We currently need full and part time caregivers to work in our client's homes. Starting pay is $14 per hour with a $300 hiring bonus. We offer paid time off, retirement plan with matching contribution, bonuses and company paid AFLAC. We have fun Christmas parties and are a great place to work! Locally owned agency serving Coos County for 17 years. Call our office at 541-267-3190 to set up an interview.

Small 2 bdrm 1 ba House Olive Barber Rd. Big deck, view of bay, storage shed, lg. yard. No smoking/pets. Water/ garbarge pd. $925.00 mo + dep.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of WARREN E. HOFSTAR Deceased. Case No. 21PB05487 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Marilee Harris has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the claim, with proper documentation, within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice, as stated below, to the Personal Representative at the office of GOULD LAW FIRM, PC., 243 W. Commercial, PO Box 29, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, or the claim may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, 250 N. Baxter, Coquille, Oregon 97423, the Personal Representative or the attorney for the Personal Representative.

Dated and first published: July 16, 2021 Marilee Harris Personal Representative 5110 Rancho Vista Way Redding, CA 96002 (530) 941-3772 Published: July 16, July 23 and July 30, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:320800)

Notice of Adoption of the Empire Urban Renewal Plan Amendment City of Coos Bay The City Council of the City of Coos Bay has adopted Ordinance No. 543 on July 20, 2021 approving the Empire Urban Renewal Plan Amendment. The Amendment has been adopted in conformance with the applicable legal requirements and shall be conclusively presumed valid for all purposes 90 days after the adoption of the ordinance. No direct or collateral attack on the action may thereafter be commenced.

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541-266-6047 -----------------------------------------Estate Sale! 884 S 7th St., Coos Bay. Everything must go.

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

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30’ deep garage. Fenced Yard.

Concrete Patio. $405,000 Call Fred Gernandt, Broker, 541 290-9444.

D. L. Davis Real Estate -----------------------------------------Two rental units for sale. One with bay view in North Bend, the other closer to the bay in Coos Bay. Both with space to add additional unit. Call for more info 541-267-3704 -----------------------------------------FIRST TIME ON MARKET Architect designed Ocean View home. Dramatic Ceilings, 2 lofts, 4 Bedrooms three baths. $875,000 Call Fred Gernandt, Broker 541-290-9444 D L Davis Real Estate -----------------------------------------COASTAL SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Located south of Bandon across from airport, two small acreage parcels available.

One is 4 Acres on Batson Lane that has a 30’ x 40’ Metal Pole building with power already installed.

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-----------------------------------------IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS In the Matter of the Estate of KATHERINE SOLANGE JACKSON, Deceased. Case No. 21PB05899 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Susan M. Jackson has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the personal representative, c/o Daniel M. Hinrichs, Attorney at Law, 590 Commercial, Coos Bay, OR 97420, within four months after the date of the 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- Probate Department, 250 N Baxter, Coquille, OR 97423, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative, Daniel M. Hinrichs, Attorney at Law, 590 Commercial, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420.

Dated and first published: July 23, 2021 Published: July 23, July 30 and August 6, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:321381) -----------------------------------------IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS In the Matter of the Estate of TERRANCE LEE BISHOP, Deceased. Case No. 21PB05536 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DONALD J. BISHOP has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the personal representative, c/o Daniel M. Hinrichs, Attorney at Law, 590 Commercial, Coos Bay, OR 97420, 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- Probate Department, 250 N. Baxter, Coquille, OR 97423, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative, Daniel M. Hinrichs, Attorney at Law, 590 Commercial, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420. Dated and first published July 16, 2021.

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-----------------------------------------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.

Published: July 16, July 20, July 23, July 27, July 30, August 3, August 6, August 10, August 13, August 17, August 20, August 24 and August 27, 2021.

The World & ONPA (ID:320988) -----------------------------------------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) -----------------------------------------Request for Proposals for a Municipal Court Judge The City of Bandon is soliciting proposals for Municipal Court Judge. The Court provides a local forum for the resolution of City municipal code violations, Oregon motor vehicle law violations, and misdemeanor or violations in Bandon as cited/investigated by the Bandon Police Department. Interested parties, please see full RFP at www.cityofbandon.org/ rfps. Submissions are due by August 13, 2021, at 4:00 P.M. Published: July 23, 2021 The World & ONPA (ID:321302)

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Local Briefs Coos Bay Library offers Spanglish program two times

Coos Bay Public Library will be offering ¡SPANGLISH!: Spanish Conversational Program via Zoom (virtual meeting software) and in-person.

We meet twice a month on every first Wednesday noon on Zoom and every third Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the library. The August sessions will be on Wednesday, August 4, from noon-1 p.m. (Zoom) and Saturday, August 21, from 10:3011:30 a.m. (in-person).

The program is for those who wish to practice their Spanish conversational skills and help other learners in a friendly setting.

Contributed photos Attendees will have the SandFjords,photographbySusanDimock,isondisplayattheCoosArtMuseum.AreceptionforDimockandClaireDuncanisscheduledFriday, opportunity to converse in Spanish as a group for one July 23. Below, Watchful Encounter, Ominous Alarm, acrylic by Claire Duncan. hour in a casual, informal environment. This is not a class, but we will provide A free public reception ideas for conversational for two recently opened topics. Beginners are welexhibitions will take place come. Let’s talk. on the second floor of This program is free the Coos Art Museum on and open to anyone who Friday, July 23, from 5 to 7 wishes to sharpen their p.m. The reception honors Spanish conversational two Oregon artists Susan skills. Register for WednesDimock of Bandon and day Zoom sessions @ Claire Duncan of Ashland. https://is.gd/QCvWD8 The exhibitions are Rocks, Vines and Lines in the Gospel jubilee concert Sand (Susan Dimock) and planned August 1 at Reflections on the Human Epoch (Claire Duncan).

Shoreline Church This would also be a The next gospel jubilee wonderful opportunity to concert will be at 4 p.m. view the Museum’s 27th August 1 at Shoreline Maritime Art Exhibition.

Community Church, 1251 Coos Art Museum has Clark St., N. Building in downtown lectures. Usual hours are $2 students, veterans and been a cultural focal point The event will be Coos Bay. The museum 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday seniors and free to museum hosted by Tom and Debbie of Oregon’s scenic Southoffers a wide range of through Friday and 1 to 4 members and active duty ern Coast since 1966. It Trammel, who will also be art activities including p.m. Saturday. Museum military through the Blue occupies an historic 1936 performing many songs. exhibitions, art classes and admission is $5 general, Star Museum Program.

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Public reception for Dimock, Duncan at Coos Art Museum

The guest artist will be The Blums, from Oakland, Oregon.

Steve and his grandsons, Toby and Bo, will sing some of your favorite songs, while playing the electric guitar, bass, mandolin and banjo. Their goal in life is to sing His praises and glorify our Lord.

The concert will be outside, so bring your chair and get ready for a blessed day.

There is no charge, CDS are available. There will be a free-will offering.

Affordable food presentation set at Coos Bay Library Coos Bay Public Library will co-host a presentation, Affordable Food and Nutritional Education, by Natural Grocers’ Nutritional Health Coach Cheryl O’Dell, MSN. The event will be held Wednesday, August 4, from 3-3:45 p.m. online via Zoom (virtual meeting software).

Cheryl will share opportunities at your local Natural Grocers to increase food security and food literacy. Learn how to access affordable, healthy food and take advantage of Natural Grocers’ free nutritional, educational opportunities such as free classes and 1-on-1 health coaching. Cheryl will go over how to access classes, sign up for coaching and how {N}power members can save on meal deals for the family.

This presentation is free and open to everyone.

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treat is down on the sand near the water.

Battle Rock Wayside Park stands out for several reasons. As you must know by now, I love the beach.

The sand, the waves, the sounds – they all put me at ease. But at Battle Rock Park, the massive rock is the story.

As the waves move in, they pound against Battle Rock. The rock is a refuge for lots of sea life. When I stopped by, I saw four different kinds of birds resting on or flying near the rock. I saw a few people climb it, but I stayed on the sand.

A sign I saw leading down to the sand talked about the sea life at the park, listing no less than 26 different kinds of sea life that can be seen in the area. I didn’t see them all, but it would be almost a treasure hunt to search for the species one by one.

The different animals, birds and grasses can be seen at different times and

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locations depending on the tides. They range from surf grass and sea cabbage to anemone, urchins and sea cucumbers. The 26 on the list doesn’t even include the birds that are flying in the area.

Several times when I drove by Battle Rock Wayside Park, I noticed surfers out in the water. This week, the surf was low and the only people there were a few walking and exploring. It was mostly quiet despite being just feet from a major highway.

If you visit the park, go to both sides of Battle Rock. When you walk down to the beach, you will likely be on the left of the rock. On that side, there are miles of beaches in front of you and water as far as you can see.

But on the other side it feels almost like a private beach. Battle Rock serves as a protector, slowing the waves and the water. A small cove has been created, which offers a quiet place to sit or even play in the water.

I found only a few shells on the beach, but there

Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World

AcovenexttoBattleRockoffersanalmostprivatebeachatBattleRockWaysidePark.Middleleft,BattleRockisauniquestructurewithseveral cave-like elements. Middle right, Battle Rock holds a lot of life. Bottom, sand and waves stretch for miles.

were dozens of smaller r ocks. Every time I visit the rocky beaches, I am surprised by the smooth rocks and pebbles on the beach.

As rocks bounce around the ocean, moving the sand and salt, it smooths them almost to a polish. It reminds me of the rocks I used to purchase to put in fish tanks.

When I stopped this week, I had about 30

minutes to explore before another appointment pulled me away.

That time flew by way too fast. I will definitely return and would love to bring my family.

Getting to Battle Creek Wayside Park is easy.

From Coos Bay, head south on Highway 101 and drive for about an hour.

When you see the Pacific Ocean, you have arrived.