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Recall & Taft runners win district release Petitions question mayor’s actions GRETCHEN AMMERMAN gammerman@countrymedia.net CASSIE RUUD cruud@countrymedia.net
Two Lincoln City residents have taken out papers to begin the process of recalling Lincoln City Mayor Don Williams. Meanwhile, another Lincoln City resident has started a petition that asks the Lincoln City City Council to release the Poppe report, a confidential report written as part of an ethics investigation involving the mayor and the city council. The recall papers, initiated by MacNeale Smith and Dan Souza, were filed with the city recorder on Monday with the formal language of the petition. As of press time, the petition was awaiting filing with the State of Oregon Elections Division, which must sign off on the final form of the petitions. After that happens,the petitioners can begin to collect the 456 signatures needed for the recall. They have 90 days in which to do so. “My response is, ‘more power to them,’� Mayor Don Williams said in reaction to the recall petition. “This is how democracy works. The choice is bricks or ballots, and they are making the right choice.� The recall petition centers around the mayor’s conduct at the Oct. 24 city council meeting. The petition reads: “Lincoln City Charter (LCC), subsection 4.5 states the mayor’s function at city council meetings is to ‘preserve order, enforce the rules of the council, and determine the order of business.’ LCC, subsection 5, states, ‘the mayor shall be deemed a member of the See MAYOR, Page A7
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The above students are (left to right) Christian Chase, Lucas Hindman, Ean Wood, Cesar Fajardo, Preston Nightingale, Dawson Wood, Eli DeMello. who was fourth. At Haun’s back were Preston Nightengale (6th), Caesar Fajardo (10th), Eli Demello (13th) and Lucas Hindman (16th). The Taft cross-country team continued The difference in times between Haun and its practice of sending runners across the fin- Hindman was less than a minute. Horizon ish line in bunches at last Thursday’s district Christian finished a distant second in the championship in Salem, as the team swept team scoring. into the state championship meet, qualifyCoach Ian Schroeder said that it was ing seven runners to compete in the season Taft’s first district cross-country championfinale this coming Saturday, Nov. 5, at Lane ship since 2004. He seemed equally pleased Community College in Eugene. that for the first time in six years the Taft Five Taft runners finished among the top girls fielded a scoring team of five runners 16 places at district, led by Chance Haun, at district, led by Alani Cabal who ran the 5K JOHN FIEDLER for the News Guard
race two minutes faster than her previous best time. Freshman Trenton Fisher won the JV section of the boys race and will compete with the varsity runners at the state meet. Schroeder knows that Taft will face the toughest competition of the season on Saturday morning in Eugene. “We’ll have to move our 1 through 5 runners up a little bit,� he said, in order to outperform Taft’s current ninth place ranking among the 15 teams entered in the state meet. “This could be very much of a team effort for us to place higher at state.�
Affordable housing issue discussed
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CASSIE RUUD cruud@countrymedia.net
The definition of affordable housing, issues pertaining to Lincoln City’s lack thereof and the possibility of engineering tiny houses as a solution were all brought up at last Saturday’s affordable housing forum. The forum was held at the Congregational Church of Christ and featured a panel that included Executive Director of Housing Authority of Lincoln County Joanne Troy, City Councilor Dick Anderson, Lincoln County Commissioner Bill Hall, Rep. David Gomberg, Mayor Don Williams, Urban Renewal Director Alison Robertson and Planning Commission Director Richard Townsend. Pastor Mike Grogan moderated the panel—which included an introduction section for each panelist and NEWS GUARD PHOTO/CASSIE RUUD a question period.
Panelists Joanne Troy, Dick Anderson, Bill Hall, David Gomberg, Don Williams, Alison Robertson and Richard Townsend discussed affordable housing in Lincoln City last Saturday.
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