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6.3 magnitude quake felt off Oregon Coast THE NEWS GUARD

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded about 178 miles west of Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast the morning of Aug. 29. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported the quake at about 8:07 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of 3.3 miles. USGS stated they have received over 100 reports of people feeling the shake but there is not a threat of a tsunami from this earthquake. No immediate damage or injuries have been reported at this time. Oregon Emergency Management Geological Hazards Program Coordinator, Althea Rizzo, said the earthquake is on the Blanco Fracture Zone and is where the Juan

Geared up!

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With school starting this week for local Lincoln County schools, that means the 2019-20 sports season is underway as well. Many of the Taft 7-12 Fall sports teams will have their first official games of the season this week and with several home games, locals will have the chance to see the new Tigers in action. First, volleyball starts the week with a home game against Amity, Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m., then the football team kicks off the season with a home contest against Harrisburg at 7 p.m. on Sept. 6. Over the weekend the cross country team will be up the road in Tillamook for the Ultimook race on Sept. 7 and the soccer teams start the year next week on Sept. 10-11. The girls will play Sept. 10, 4:15 p.m. against Amity at home and the boys will play Sept. 11, 6:15 p.m. against Delphian at Taft. Pictured are Taft football players Antonio Suarez and Logan Gilleo.

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Over 100 people on shore felt the earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, according to the USGS.

City Manager talks illegal fireworks MAX KIRKENDALL newsguardeditor@countrymedia.net

The City of Lincoln City’s new ‘Keep it Legal, Keep it Safe’ campaign used to limit illegal fireworks from town has raised some interesting questions among the City Council members.

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At the Aug. 26 City Council meeting, City Manager Ron Chandler gave a report on the results of their campaign that focused on Fourth of July firework activity in town. “Following the Fourth of July, we had a meeting with various interested residents that gave us some suggestions on things that we could implement to help improve the problems that we have with illegal fireworks coming in from the from outside the area,” Chandler said. Chandler said they know the illegal fireworks are generally coming in from the state of Washington and are being shot off throughout the city, on the beach, in neighborhoods and on the streets. This year, the City attempted a few things

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around the Fourth of July to try to limit that activity. We tried to strike a balance of saying we still love to have you here and don’t go somewhere else, but please don’t bring your fireworks,” Chandler said.

“That proved to be quite a challenge.” The City tried various things from distributing 1,500 flyers throughout the community detailing prohibited fireworks, they placed 20 large signs at all

beach access points in town and launched a Facebook campaign through both the Police Department and Explore Lincoln City. Through the social media campaign, the posts reached 546,000 accounts and generated 5,625 clicks that linked to their web page that gave more information. “From a financial standpoint, that’s a pretty successful campaign at just under $1 per click,” Chandler said. “By comparison with some of the other campaigns where they’ve used Facebook, it’s about half the price. So it turned out to in all total, this was about just under $5,000 for this campaign.” Despite the success of the campaign, Chandler said there were still issues throughout the City over the

holiday weekend involving illegal fireworks. So, the city got together again and began to look at more ways in which they can improve, the biggest area of improvement seemed to be in enforcement. “I have to say the number one request that we received from our residents was more ticketing, more actions, including arrests,” Chandler said. “It is a crime to have illegal fireworks, which is a misdemeanor. But what we really want to do is to try to create an offense that isn’t necessarily a misdemeanor, so that we can go beyond just confiscating.” Chandler stated that if someone voluntarily gives up their fireworks, they do See FIREWORKS, Page A3

Rekindled friendship Otis resident meets with old friend, accomplished writer after nearly 50 years MAX KIRKENDALL newsguardeditor@countrymedia.net

In 1960, Otis resident Cathy Walton met her good friend and world-traveling writer Lyn Hancock in Duban, South Africa. After living together off and on for nearly a decade, the two went their separate ways and hadn’t seen each other since; until this summer. In 1960, Walton was living in South Africa training to be a nurse where she met Australian Lyn Hancock, who was at the beginning of a hitchhiking trip from

South Africa to London. “I was hitchhiking and arranging rides, staying at the cheapest places I could and we met each other at the YWCA,” Hancock said. The pair formed an instant friendship and vowed to reconnect once Hancock reached London. When they met in London, Hancock and Walton decided to move into a large apartment together, along with four others, and they lived there for nearly a year. “Before we left London, we took a three-week ski vacation with her family

in Norway, and her family quickly became my second family,” Walton said. After they returned to London, they made plans to do more traveling. With an opportunity to immigrate to Canada, Walton and Hancock jumped at the chance and got on a boat to travel across the Atlantic. “We decided to go because Canada paid our way over and found us both a job in the country,” Hancock said. “I didn’t intend to stay because I had a job back in Australia teaching at University, so I was trying to pull the wool over the Canadian government’s eyes. But I’m still there today so I guess they’re the ones who pulled the wool over my eyes.” While in Canada Han-

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Writer Lyn Hancock visited friend Cathy Walton of Otis after traveling by bus from Canada. cock was given a job as a school teacher and Walton found a job as a secretary at Reader’s Digest. They continued to travel while in Canada, seeing much of the

country via a cross country bus trip from Eastern Canada to Western Canada. But after about five See REUNION, Page A3

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