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How To Cook A Holiday Meal
Local kids write their own recipes plus Kenny’s IGA offers tips & coupons
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How to Cook a Holiday Meal INSIDE:
• Local school children write their own recipes for how to cook a turkey
• Kenny’s IGA of Lincoln City shares tips and recipes to make all your holiday meals delicious
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Sports = BIG profits for bars
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The activity of the past several days, which included Friday’s Civil War game between Oregon and Oregon State, other key college and pro rivalry games and Monday night’s NFL game featuring the Seattle Seahawks, underscored the impact sports plays in attracting customers to local establishments. The translation is big bucks — or at the very least a giant spike in profits for local businesses relying on sports to help foot the bill. “It can be difficult to quantify in an exact number what sports does for us, but obviously sports has a huge impact,” said Matthew Retoske, manager of Chinook Winds Casino Resort’s Aces Sports Bar and Grill at the hotel’s golf course in North Lincoln City. Several factors weigh heavily on sports bars’ success, but the label can also have negative connotations. Look
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no further than the planned closure this week of BK Mulligan’s Sports Bar on Highway 101 in the middle of town for evidence (see story Page A6). “We’re either empty or packed,” said Desiree Garding, who owns Mulligan’s along with her mother and dad. “The drawback is lot of people who really aren’t into sports don’t bother coming in, so it can be good and bad,” Garding’s mother said. Fellow sports bar owners can relate, but not all are even convinced they own a sports bar despite the insistence of their customers. “We do a lot more food than we do alcohol, so I really never considered us a sports bar until a couple of years ago when we put TVs in and now every time we read reviews or answer the phone people say sports bar, so I guess, yeah, we’re a sports bar, even though we’re really a restaurant,” said Mark Szabo, owner of Szabo’s Steakhouse & Seafood north of Newport off Highway 101. “I guess when you have 12 TVs and offer all kinds of packages, that makes you a
sports bar.” Not that Szabo is complaining. He says he has relied on his food and service to build his restaurant’s glowing local reputation, but that sports is of major significance when it comes to putting people in the seats. “It’s a double-edged sword,” he said. “Even though people can see games at home, they still come in here to see TV and have a good time because we have that reputation of being a sporting place with really good food and service. With sports, we try to hit all three dimensions on that.” Chinook Winds Food & Beverage Director Dean Konecny knows the feeling. “It’s very critical to our success to have both the size and the scope of the type of business that we do,” he said. “Whether it’s event-type menus or a standard-type menu, we’re really trying to cater more and more to the pub crowd, the sports crowd. As an overall property amenity, this kind of fills a void that is currently nonexistent over at the casino. Couple that with the golf course and it’s become quite the place See SPORTS, Page A6
Even though North Lincoln Fire & Rescue District #1 (NLFR) is considered a volunteer fire district, the volunteers are eligible for compensation. But under a new system approved by the NLFR board, part of that compensation, a stipend program, has been discontinued to prevent the District from violating state and federal regulations. NLFR volunteer firefighters had been receiving compensation from two District funds —a $170,000 annual stipend budget and the District’s Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) budgeted at about $70,000 annually, as incentive and rewards. But a few months ago, NLFR received a notice from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that it was increasing its review and enforcement of employee contribution laws. That notice triggered concern and action by NLFR Chief Don Baker to make certain the District was in compliance with state and federal regulations. “Other agencies had struggled with the same issues and some have faced fines in the tens of thousands of dollars for not being in compliance,” said Baker. Under the NLFR stipend program, volunteer firefighters receive $4 See FIREFIGHTERS, Page A5
Local Pearl Harbor survivor recounts attack
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