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This Thursday, the Devils Lake Water Improvement District will observe a presentation from the Salmon Drift Creek Watershed Council and discuss two new resumes that have come in for the lake manager position. The News Guard reached out to interim lake manager Tom Wood for further details. TNG: What will the Salmon Drift Creek Watershed be presenting on? Wood: Josh Murphy, the Executive Director of the Salmon Drift Creek Watershed Council will present information on the water quality sampling of Thompson Creek. This may expand to related topics. TNG: Have any more applications for the lake manager position come in, since the increase in advertisement? If so, how many? Wood: We have two resumes for the vacant lake manager position; both applicants will be interviewed during DLWID board executive session on October 11. I expect an appointment vote during the October board meeting – October 13. The appointment will be subject to a successful background check. TNG: Looking at the ‘desirable experience’ section of the job qualifications, how much experience (in number of years) in the listed subjects is preferred for applicants?
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The light at S 32nd St. was causing an unintended traffic burden until a local business owner helped get the adjustments right. owner helped to find a solution. “I watch the traffic from my front door, and after the light was installed, it was getting terrible,� said Christmas Cottage owner Barbe Jenkins-Gibson, whose store is located just south of the new light at S. 32nd St. “They meant well, but it just wasn’t workGRETCHEN AMMERMAN ing.� gammerman@countrymedia.net Because cameras instead of weight pads in the street triggered the light, A new traffic light meant to help any car coming to cross, or simply to with the flow of traffic on Highway 101 turn onto, the highway would cause it through Lincoln City ended creating a to change. worse problem until a local business “During low traffic times a car
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“The Boy Scout motto is ‘be prepared’ and the slogan is ‘do a good turn daily.’ These boys did both those things. Jack Seagrove, Troop Committee Member
encountered a SAR team who were up on the mountain removing a lady who had had a seizure. The scouts helped the SAR team by helping carry the litter and getting her to where they could get her out by helicopter. They also NEWS GUARD PHOTO/GRETCHEN AMMERMAN helped carry things down out Star scout Jason Miranda of Lincoln City Troop 47 to the parking area. “The Boy Scout motto is helped was okay, and the no bleeding and that she medical emergency respond- ‘be prepared’ and the slogan was breathing,� he said. is ‘do a good turn daily,’� said ers commended him for his “Although she appeared Jack Seagrove, Troop Comactions. Jason has been recincoherent, I knew she was ommended for a meritorious mittee Member, “These boys at least stable, so I asked a award from the Boy Scouts of did both those things.� neighbor to stay with her, Troop 47 is sponsored America. and tried to help calm the by the Lincoln City Kiwanis Also this summer, Troop situation.� 47 was at summer camp and Club; $800.00 was presented Luckily helped arrived had gone to repel into a lava to the troop from the club on soon after and no one else Sept. 29. tube. On the way out, they was hurt. The woman Jason
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A story in the Sept. 21, 2016, edition of the News Guard misidentified the driver of a vehicle who was in an accident at 4009 SW Highway 101, near the Inn at Spanish Head, on Sept. 14. The driver of the vehicle was Devon Michael Eddings, born 1993. Eddings was taken into custody for DUII and criminal mischief. The accident was reported by Dean Coppage. The News Guard sincerely regrets the error.
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As seasonal weather moved into coastal Oregon last week, Lincoln City manager Ron Chandler convened a meeting at city hall to solicit information from local organizations that assist the area’s homeRon Chandler, less populaCity Manager for tion. Lincoln City Last Wednesday’s meeting was an opening move in the city’s attempt to assess the range and scope of services available for those who find themselves without adequate long-term shelter. The current city budget has $50,000 earmarked to address homelessness. Rather than spend even a fraction of that money on outside consultants, Chandler said the city council asked him to identify services already available, so that the council can pinpoint gaps in those services where city funds might be most effectively spent. “You are the people who are dealing with (homelessness) every day,� Chandler told the participants. “We want to tap into your expertise.� Among the groups represented at the meeting were Agape Fellowship, Driftwood Public Library, Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County, LDS Church, Lincoln City Homeless Solutions, Lincoln City Urban Renewal Agency, Lincoln City Warming Center, My Sister’s Place and St. James Episcopal Church. Also attending were two city councilors, Chester Noreikis and Kip Ward. One shared that the opinion of many of those in attendance—about 40 people in all—was that homelessness has many faces, and an adequate description has to go well beyond the common image of individuals sleeping rough in the woods. Participants offered first-hand experiences of the homeless suggesting See HOMELESS, Page A10
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would pull up to turn right onto 101 and it would make the light change,� Jenkins-Gibson said. “But by the time it changed, the car that triggered it would already be down the road and drivers on 101 would be stopped by the red light and be wondering why.� The worst affect, though, was the increase in times it changed during the high traffic season in the summer. “We always have heavy traffic during the high season, but after the light went in, it got significantly worse,�
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The Scouts of Lincoln See DLWID Page A2 City’s Troop 47 spent the summer showing what the Boy Scouts are about. Star level scout Jason Miranda was at home when he heard noises outside his VOL. 89 | NO. 39 window, loud enough to make him take notice. “I looked out and it looked like a mosh pit out there,â€? he said. “There were about 20 people and they were all fighting. I told my mom to call the police then I went outside to see if anyone needed help.â€? Once outside, Jason noticed an elderly woman on the ground that appeared to be have been knocked down in the mĂŞlĂŠe. Without hesitation, he did what the basic medical training he has received through the scouts and at Career Tech High School, where he is a student, prepared him for. “I checked and found
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