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Victims identified in Newport City Center fire THE NEWS GUARD
Police and fire personnel have accounted for all guests registered at the City Center Motel in Newport in the aftermath of the fire that devastated the hotel on August 5. At 4 p.m. two bodies, one male and one female, were discovered deceased beneath burned rubble. The bodies were later identified as motel guests Tammi Sue Hepner, 51 years of age, and Allen Arthur Hepner, 63 years of age; Portland, Oregon residents. They had been staying in room 221. Next of kin has been notified. At approximately 8 p.m., two additional bodies were discovered deeper in the burned rubble. The bodies were later identified as motel guests Sandra Sue Shoemaker, 60 years of age, and Danny Keith Shoemaker, 64 years of age; Springfield, Oregon residents. They had been staying in room 220. As a result of the fire, room 220 and 221 became engulfed in flames, which blocked the entry/exit of each room. As the fire spread, the second floor collapsed onto the first floor. Preliminary investigation showed that the Hepners and the Shoemakers died from causes related to the fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The origin of the fire was determined to be in room 103, which is a ground level room. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The Newport Police Department, and Newport Fire Department are conducting the investigation, with assistance by the State of Oregon Fire Marshall’s Office.
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Illegal dumping creates a threat to the use of private timberlands for recreational use.
Trashy treatment threatens recreation on private lands GRETCHEN AMMERMAN gammerman@countrymedia.net
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Hunters, hikers, and lovers of back roads benefit from a program not many people know about. Yet without it, the lands owned by private timber companies would likely be closed to all users, all year, not just during fire season. Because there is one other popular use for our surrounding forestlands: illegal dumping. If you are picturing a bag of household trash or some beer cans left around an abandoned fire ring, you are thinking too small. On a recent trip I took with Sheriff’s Deputy Gary Davey, we saw an entire hot
tub that had been dumped off of the side of Forest Road 1726. “It’s a huge problem,� said Davey, who has been operating as the Forest Enforcement Officer for the last eight years. “There is far too much of this going on.� The loads he removes from the forest, alone or with help from programs like the county’s juvenal work crew and the Cougar Mountain Riders, a Lincoln City based ATV group, usually fill one or more truck beds and can include items like cars and full size trailers. “Since 23rd Street towing closed we have seen way more abandoned vehicles,� Davey said. See TRASH, Page A2
City Council talks sanitary service, panhandling, overnight camping
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Rate increases from North Lincoln Sanitary and ordinances pertaining to panhandling and overnight camping in public parking areas dominated the City Council meeting Monday. The Vacation Rental Dwelling licensing ordinance will go through an additional special meeting on Aug. 29 at 3 p.m. and was not discussed during the meeting. North Lincoln Sanitary Service Report Owners of North Lincoln Sanitary, Lonnie and Tina French, presented their annual service report, which showed various increases and decreases within their programs. NLSS had a 2 percent decrease in recycling (excluding wood), a 19 percent increase of material sent to landfills and a 61 percent decrease in wood and yard waste.
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The Frenches outlined changes to the recycling center—items that would continue to be free to recycle and items that would come with a charge. Items free to recycle include electronics, athletic shoes, paint, auto batteries, cooking oil, CDs and DVDs, cell phones and rechargeable batteries. Items that will cost a fee to recycle include fluorescent lights, woody debris, concrete, propane, scrap metal and appliances. The company experienced program and rate changes—the recycling center in town will no longer collect plastic bags and alkaline and lithium batteries. On Sept. 1, a rate increase of .425 percent will begin. This will result in, for example, an increase of 7 cents for weekly customers with a 32 gallon roll cart, and 53 cents for a commercial customer with a 1.5 yard container. Additionally, on July 15 rates for mixed solid waste dropped off at the
Schooner Creek Transfer Station increased to $16 per cubic yard and to $8 per cubic yard for woody debris. Tina explained that this is the first rate increase the Schooner Creek Transfer Station has had since 2005. There has been a steady decline in price for mixed recycling, in 2014 NLSS was paid $29 per ton of recycled material but are currently paying $2 per ton. This and other shifts in the market, Tina explained, had led the company toward the aforementioned changes. Council thanked NLS for their services after the presentation. Panhandling ordinance In the second reading of Ordinance 2016-17—in which the term “begging� would be removed from Municipal Code title 9, but would add a new section concerning the “unlawful transfer on Vehicular Portion of the Right-of-Way.� City Attorney Richard Appicello
explained that these amendments would only pertain to traffic and pedestrians—for example, if a pedestrian walks into the road to accept any kind of exchange from a vehicle, otherwise entering the “right of way.� Donation charities such as North Lincoln Fire and Rescue’s “Fill the Boot� campaign, wherein firefighters approach vehicles to fill a fireman’s boot with money, would need a special permit in order to do so. This is not prohibiting speech, Appicello said, just conduct. Councilor Kip Ward asked if this would remove panhandlers from the corners of McDonald’s and Burger King. Appicello explained that that would be at the discretion of the private property owner and that these amendments would remove pandhandlers from the vehicular part of the street.
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