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Ahoy! Art and pirates keep summer busy at the Port ELLIOIT SCHWARZ Country Media, Inc.
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he summer event season at the Port of Brookings Harbor closes out its run with the fourth annual Art at the Port, the 12th staging of the Pirates of the Pacific Festival, and finishing with Docktoberfest. Art at the Port
Art at the Port continues through Sept. 10. Awards are decided and posted Labor Day weekend. The artwork displays 83 entries along the Boardwalk fence. They were hung in mid-May, to be judged People’s Choice ballots available through Sept. 1. On Labor Day Weekend the winners will be announced by hanging ribbons on the Boardwalk fence. The winners will be displayed at Manley Art Center for the month of October. The exhibition is curated by the Pelican Bay Arts Association. Three categories will be judged, all by people’s ballots: adult, 18 and older; teen 13 – 17; youth, 12 and under. First, second, and third place ribbons will be awarded, along with cash prizes for each of the ribbons in each of the age categories, with additional cash awards for each age group, chosen by the show’s sponsors: Oregon South Coast Fishermen, Commissioners of the Port of Brookings Harbor, Curry Equipment Company, Fred Meyer, and the Pelican Bay Arts Association. In case you’re wondering - while hanging throughout See EVENTS Page 10
Courtesy photo from Facebook Above: A “pirate” gets into character. Courtesy photos Left to right is some of the artwork at the Port of Brookings.
Kidtown to be replaced STAFF REPORT Country Media, Inc.
Country Media, Inc. Kidtown is located in Azalea Park at 640 Old Country Road in Brookings.
A cornerstone of Azalea Park for many children and families throughout the years, the Kidtown wooden play structure is scheduled to be replaced. The new project includes a new wooden structure, improved with a soft and safe ADA accessible floor and an added covered picnic area, according to a release from the City of Brookings. Parking lot improvements were made in Fall, 2022. A Kidtown reconstruction groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 11 a.m.
Monday, Aug. 14 and will include the presentation of a check in the amount of $30,000 from Natures Coastal Holiday for the project. The pickets surrounding the play structure commemorating those who contributed, volunteered and donated time to construct Kidtown in 1995 will be removed during Rogue Credit Unions Rogue Rally event Aug. 13. The donor pickets will be preserved and re-implemented into the project. “A great community effort was put into building
the first Kidtown, and the new one will continue this tradition with improvements and greater accessibility,” Brookings Mayor Ron Hedenskog said. “The Parks and Recreation Commission is spot on with the replacement” Playgrounds by Leathers has been contracted to supply and build the project. Grant funding from Oregon Parks Recreation Department was obtained with the City supplying a portion of funds. Kidtown will be closed during reconstruction with an anticipated completion date in October.
Community mourns loss of Forest Service firefighter ELLIOT SCHWARZ Country Media, Inc.
(ICP) stood at attention as three cars with the family of the 21-year-old firefighter, drove past the ICP, during the memorial procession Wednesday, Aug. 9. Sapper was a first-year hand crew member with the Gold Beach Ranger District. He died in a traffic crash Saturday, Aug. 5. “This is a devastating loss of one of our own Gold Beach firefighters,” Gold Beach District Ranger Kailey Guerrant said. “We have a tight-knit
Emergency response vehicles from at least 25 local and nearby fire and first response agencies formed a miles-long Corridor of Honor along Ellensburg Avenue in Gold Beach to honor Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest firefighter Benjamin Sapper. More than 70 crew members, emergency responders, and staff from the Incident Command Post
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community on the Gold Beach and Powers ranger districts, and we stand together in grief and support for his family, friends, and fellow firefighters during this heartbreaking time.” “My heart goes out to the family and colleagues of Benjamin Charles Sapper whose life was taken too soon,” State Rep. Court Boice Courtesy from the U.S. Forest Service (R-Gold Beach) said. “His heart for Benjamin Charles Sapper, a first-year hand crew service is continually echoed, and member with the Gold Beach Ranger District, died in See FIREFIGHTER, Page 10 an Aug. 5 traffic collision.
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