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AUGUST 7, 2013 | WEDNESDAY LINCOLN CITY, OREGON
Death toll climbs at local beaches JEREMY C. RUARK The News Guard
and water rescue in the 3800 block of N.W. Highway 101. As North Lincoln Fire & Rescue arrived on the scene, they deployed two jet skis and located an unresponsive Bamford at approximately 9:01 p.m. about 200 yards from shore. Rescuers brought Bamford back to shore and began CPR before he was transported by Pacific West Ambulance to Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
The death of a Pasco, Wash. man on July 31 in the ocean at Lincoln City marks the third such mishap since March. Authorities said Kerry Eugene Bamford, 56, was bodysurfing with a friend at about 8:30 p.m. when he disappeared in the ocean about 100 yards from shore while trying to swim back to the beach. The friend notified onlookers, who called 9-1-1, initiating the emergency response
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Rescuers bring a Vancouver, Wash. woman out of the ocean on June 28 after she was found face down in the water. The woman had been caught in a rip tide while swimming beyond the breakers at the D River Wayside beach. She died at a hospital shortly after this rescue.
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WEATHER GUIDE PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS
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Relay For Life sets positive pace for cancer victims
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Weekly Rainfall: .18 inches Yearly Rainfall: 32.75 inches
WEEKLY OUTLOOK Don’t believe it until you feel it when it comes to 70-degree high-temperature forecasts for the Coast. If the fog and clouds give way to a.m. sun and the p.m. northwesterlies, lay low, it might happen. No rain in sight. Weather data provided by Roads End Weather Watcher Sheridan Jones
You might know Oscar Escalante because of his work with Lincoln City Police and as the Taft High 7-12 school resource officer. But you might not know that Escalante is also a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1985. “I had gone to the doctor to get a physical and found a lump in my neck,” said Escalante. “At that time, the doctor didn’t believe it was significant. I came back a month later to get a biopsy and that’s when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.” Over the next several months Escalante underwent tests and a procedure to remove his spleen to determine if the cancer had spread from his neck to any other part of his body. Doctors determined Escalante had Stage II cancer, which was localized to his neck area. He underwent five weeks of radiation therapy. “From there, it was watch and wait,” said Escalante. “I felt really good and all my blood tests were coming back negative. Everything was in pretty good shape.” Doctors had Escalante See RELAY FOR LIFE, Page A6
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Dozens of children and adults reach for wrapped taffy tossed from the Taft dock during the annual Siletz Bay Sandcastle Competition on Aug. 3. See more photos of the event on Page A10 and see video at thenewsguard.com.
Head-on crash kills one, sends three to hospital
Improvements planned for roadway JEREMY C. RUARK The News Guard
A Salem woman was killed and three other people injured Aug. 4 in a head-on traffic crash north of Lincoln City. Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers said at approximately 6:45 p.m., a 2001 Cadillac Deville driven by Patty Weissenfluh, 58, of Depoe Bay, was southbound on Highway 101 near East Devils Lake Road at milepost 111 traveling through a right curve when it crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a northbound 2012 Kia Soul driven by Donna Jeanne Ball, 71, of Salem. Ball was transported by REACH air ambulance to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, where she died about four hours following
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