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McGuffin files federal lawsuit JILLIAN WARD The World

COQUILLE — A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday morning against numerous police and other officials in Coos County.

The case surrounds the wrongful conviction of Nicholas McGuffin, who spent nine years in prison for the death of Leah Freeman.

According to a press release from his legal team at Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner, PC., the lawsuit alleges that local agencies manufactured “false evidence and (hid) other evidence that would have cleared him.”

The lawsuit is filed against

the City of Coquille, the City of Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon State Police, as well as Sheriff Craig Zanni. The lawsuit is also filed against individuals from those departments, including Mark Dannels, Pat Downing, Susan Hormann, Mary Krings, Kris Karcher, Shelly McInnes, Raymond McNeely, Kip Oswald, Michael Reaves, John Riddle, Sean Sanborn, Eric Schwenninger, Richard Walter, Chris Webley, Anthony Wetmore, Kathy Wilcox, David Zavala, the estate of Dave Hall, and the Vidocq Society.

“Nicholas McGuffin had at least 20 alibi witnesses for the time when his girlfriend, Leah Freeman, was abducted and

murdered on June 28, 2000,” the release said. “A decade later, he was wrongly convicted of manslaughter by a non-unanimous jury and spent nine years in prison after police fabricated evidence against him, coerced witnesses, and withheld DNA and other evidence that would have cleared him.”

“Leah’s abduction and murder was the ‘crime of the century’ for the small town of Coquille,” said Janis C. Puracal, one of McGuffin’s attorneys, in the release. “The police were under enormous pressure to solve the case, and they cracked under that pressure. They created false evidence and sent an innocent man to prison for nine years.”

The release states that after Freeman disappeared, and her body was later found, a “deeply flawed” cold case investigation was launched but “focused almost exclusively on McGuffin.”

The lawsuit alleges that investigators on Freeman’s case “knew that the Original Investigating Officers crafted a false narrative of McGuffin’s guilt based on junk science, including a ‘statement analysis,’ fabricated polygraph results, and other fabricated evidence….”

The lawsuit goes on to allege that investigators “…also deliberately suppressed, tampered with, and/or destroyed relevant and material impeachment evidence that undermined the credi-

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bility of key prosecution witnesses, including evidence of their own misconduct and violations of McGuffin’s rights….”

“The police appeared on national television to gin up rumors and publicize the false evidence before McGuffin’s criminal trial, and the prosecutor presented the same fabricated evidence to the jury at that trial,” the release said. “A decade later, after McGuffin was exonerated

by DNA evidence, that same national news program, ABC News ‘20/20,’ came back to Oregon to help correct the record and expose the police misconduct.”

“This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Leah’s abduction

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Local COVID cases continue to rise JILLIAN WARD The World

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Grass blows in the wind at Cape Arago State Park. Visitors to the park near Charleston can expect a lot of wind and sun this week.

Federal agents asked to leave Portland as protests continue PORTLAND (AP) — With unrest continuing, the federal government is coming under increasing scrutiny for the activities of agents trying to clamp down on protests in Oregon’s largest city — demonstrations that President Donald Trump says are led by “anarchists and agitators.”

Protesters outside Portland’s U.S. courthouse set a fire in the building’s entryway early Monday, part of yet another night of conflict with federal agents who repeatedly tear-gassed the demonstrators to drive them away, officials said.

The latest unrest happened as local and state leaders expressed anger with the presence of the federal agents, saying the city’s protests had started to ease just as the federal agents started taking action on the streets of Portland.

Authorities over the weekend erected large fences around the building in an effort to keep away the protesters who have been on Portland’s streets daily since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis nearly two months ago.

But video posted online showed demonstrators taking

down the fencing. And a statement from Portland’s city police department described the protesters’ tactics as they repeatedly headed toward the courthouse and were repelled by federal agents who emerged from inside.

Hundreds of protesters were at the scene Sunday night into Monday morning. At one point, “dozens of people with shields, helmets, gas masks, umbrellas, bats, and hockey sticks approached the doors” of the courthouse until federal officers came out and dispersed them, the Portland police statement said.

The protesters later lit a fire at about 1:30 a.m. Monday within the portico of the courthouse, said Portland police. The department said its officers were not involved in any crowd-control measures, did not fire tear gas and “were not present during any of the activity described.”

Other people added wood and debris to the fire to make it larger.

Federal agents came out of the courthouse, “dispersed the crowd and extinguished the fire,” the statement said.

Speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ Portland’s Democratic

Mayor said federal officers “are not wanted here.”

“We haven’t asked them here.

In fact, we want them to leave,” Ted Wheeler said.

On Friday, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued Homeland Security and the Marshals Service in federal court, alleging that unidentified federal agents grabbed people from Portland’s streets “without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action.”

Rosenblum said she was seeking a temporary restraining order to “immediately stop federal authorities from unlawfully detaining Oregonians.”

Top leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives said Sunday they were “alarmed” by the Trump administration’s tactics against protesters in Portland and other cities, including Washington, D.C. They’ve called on federal inspectors general to investigate.

“This is a matter of utmost urgency,” they wrote in a letter to the inspectors general of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.

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The signers were three leading Democrats: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-New York; Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi; and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, D-New York.

The Democratic lawmakers are seeking an investigation “into the use of federal law enforcement agencies by the Attorney General and the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security to suppress First Amendment protected activities in Washington, D.C., Portland, and other communities across the United States.”

President Donald Trump has decried the demonstrations. His Homeland Security secretary, Chad Wolf, labeled the protesters “lawless anarchists” during a visit to the city last Thursday.

“We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing in action. We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE. These were not merely protesters, these are the real deal!”

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COOS COUNTY — New COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Coos County.

At a Monday afternoon press briefing, Coos Health and Wellness announced 54 positive COVID-19 cases and 14 presumptive positive cases.

Incident Commander Eric Gleason said two of the new cases come from the two virus outbreak areas: Rye Tree Service and healthcare center Avamere Rehabilitation of Coos Bay. Gleason said it is unknown at this time if the new COVID-19 case at Avamere is a staff member or patient.

Gleason said there was also no update on the one COVID-19 patient hospitalized at Bay Area Hospital.

As for the other positive case and new presumptive positive case, Gleason said it is unclear where in the community it originated.

“They’re doing contact tracing on both of those since they popped up this weekend,” he said.

In regards to the state’s face mask and social distancing mandate, which went into effect last week, Gleason said enforcement is being handled through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

It was mentioned that OSHA allegedly did a sweep of the South Coast enforcing the mandate over the weekend.

“Employees and customers in Coos County concerned about businesses not complying to statewide guidance … (can) file an online complaint,” Gleason said. “That is the only enforcement that seems to be in effect right now.”

Editors Note: For an update on case counts state wide see story and chart on page A3.

In numbers released Sunday, Curry County was up to 10 confirmed and presumptive cases, and Douglas County was up to 85 confirmed and presumptive cases, including one death.

State wide the number of cases has climbed above 14,500, including nearly 800 new cases over the weekend.

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Langlois library reopens to the public The World

LANGLOIS — The Langlois Public Library has reopened to the public.

“We would like to thank all our patrons for their understanding and patience as the library moves forward to improve access and availability of services in a safe and efficient manner,” stated a news release from the Langlois Public Library Board of Directors.

New library hours are 2-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Facial coverings are required and the number of patrons monitored to ensure social distancing. Patrons are asked to check back on the Langlois Library’s information sites, including the reader board outside the library, the website at langloispubliclibrary.org and the Facebook page, as library staff expects to expand the business hours in the near future.

Curbside service does remain available for those who do not wish to enter

the library. An appointment may be made by calling 541-348-2066.

Patrons can also order books and DVDs from all libraries in Coos and Curry counties or download e-books and audiobooks at the web site: https:// library2go.overdrive.com.

Library personnel are happy to assist with ordering and downloading.

The library is once again ordering new books and DVDs. A new feature — coming soon — will be the posting of newly cataloged items on the library’s website.

“Who knows, you may even find the exact book that you didn’t even know you were looking for,” said a library spokesperson.

In other news: The long-standing book club will be restarting this month on the library’s outdoor patio, with dates and the August book selection to be determined.

New members are always appreciated. For more information, contact the

Langlois Public Library library.

Several grants have been received to greatly enhance services and safety, including security cameras and plastic

shields at the front desk.

An upgraded wifi system extends connectivity to the farthest areas of the parking lot.

Finally, the library

board extends more gratitude than can be expressed to the Friends of the Langlois Public Library for funding the badly needed replacement of the

facility’s heat pumps.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC.

Street Park at Fourth and Elliott. As the result of a driving complaint, arrested Andrew Lee Lawson, 33, on two counts of felon in possession of a restricted weapon. Lawson was cited in lieu of custody.

7:50 p.m., Coos Bay Police Department serving Coquille Police Department warrant in the 200 block of E. Johnson Avenue. Arreested Terry Handsaker, 66.

8:45 p.m., report of several people in dispute

in the area of 10th and Central.

9:21 p.m., assisted outside agency in the 94000 block of Sunnyside Lane.

10:02 p.m., assisted outside agency in the 700 block of Sixth Ave. Enroute with Coos County Sheriff’s Office to fight at location.

11:16 p.m., assisted outside agency at Highway Deli Mart, 240 W. Highway 42. Out with Coos County Sheriff’s Office at location.

Coquille Police Log July 17 8:23 a.m., menacing reported at business in the 50 block of W. Highway 42. As the result of threats arrested Nicholas Braque Sucec, 36, on a charge of menacing and disorderly conduct 2, also arrested Trent H. Farley, 18, on a charge of menacing, unlawful use of a weapon, disorderly conduct and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle. Sucec and Farley both cited in lieu of

custody.

10:38 a.m., illegal dumping reported in the 80 block of N. Dean St. Assisted citizen.

12:39 p.m., suspicious subject at 580 N. Central Blvd., Ron’s Oil Compnay.

2:47 p.m., criminal mischief reported in the 1200 block of W. Central Ave. 7:45 p.m., possible burglary reported to residence in the 1000 block of W. 10th St. 9:31 p.m., illegal fireworks going off in the area

of Elliott and 10th Street.

Ticketed person for using illegal fireworks.

July 18 12:07 a.m., suspicious circumstances at McKay’s Market, 400 N. Central Blvd.

3:12 a.m., suspicious circumstances at the Coquille Community Center, 115 N. Birch St. 5:41 a.m., driving complaint reported on Highway 42 at mile post 20.

9:29 a.m., warrant

service in the 400 block of Highway 42. Arrested Adam Jeffrey King, 47, on a state warrant charging probation violation on an original charge of robbery.

King was cited in lieu of custody.

10:25 a.m., attempt to locate driving complaint on Highway 42 relayed from Oregon State Police.

3:25 p.m., assisted Fire Department in the 900 block of N. Myrtle Street.

4;10 p.m., weapons offense in the area of Fifth

North Bend Police Log Sunday, July 19 Disturbance At 2:57 a.m. on Broadway Avenue, a third party reported via text of a disturbance at location. Officers made contact and advised to separate for the evening.

Suspicious Conditions At 8:12 a.m. on Laura Lane, a caller requested police check his vehicle parked at location after receiving an alert of a car broken into. Officers checked the vehicle and advised it is secure.

At 8:50 p.m. on Inland Drive, a third party text reported needing police at location. Officers made contact with female and male at location who had a verbal argument and were

advised to separate for the night.

At 9:45 p.m. on Wall Street, a report was made of neighbors riding ATVs in the yard and side street.

Officers made contact and advised of city ordinance and traffic ordinance violation. Owner put the vehicle away for the night.

At 11:33 p.m. on Virginia Avenue, a report was made of a suspicious male inside a store. An officer made contact and advised he was waiting for a cab.

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Found Property At 10:38 a.m. on Oriole Road and East Bay Road, a phone and needle were found. The needle was seized for destruction. The individual who found the items will have to attempt to contact the owner to

Unauthorized Entry into Motor Vehicle At 12:28 p.m. on 13th Street, a report was made of an unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, theft of purse and keys from vehicle sometimes in the last 15 minutes before calling.

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May’s stories have taken him across the United States and Europe. He has told at schools, corporations, professional groups and festivals across the land.

Chicagoans know him

from appearances on WGN and from the Studs Terkel radio show on WFMT-FM. He received a 1989 Chicago Emmy award for a production of his original story, “A Bell For Shorty.”

This series, called “Stories at Seven,” is in celebration of the summer reading program theme, “Imagine Your

Disorderly Conduct At 11:41 a.m. on Broadway Avenue, multiple 9-1-1 reports were made of a subject throwing rocks at vehicles. Officers located the subject at Pine and Newmark. The subject claimed he did not throw the rock but that he threatened to because the vehicle almost hit him. The subject was instructed to call law enforcement in the future instead.

Officers responded and checked surrounding areas and trail systems but were unable to locate. A report was taken and a request made for extra patrol in the neighborhood.

Suspicious Subject At 7:12 p.m. on Hamilton Avenue, a report was made of a tent behind a garage at location. An officer responded and advised it was just a princess playhouse that likely blew there from the wind. No one was inside.

Mental Subject At 10:33 p.m. on Channel Street, a mental subject was reported.

Criminal Trespass At 11:49 p.m. on Broadway Avenue, a subject was

Library features ‘Stories at Seven’

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NORTH BEND — At 7 p.m. on Friday, July 24, the North Bend Public Library holds its adult storytelling series with Emmy Award-winning teller Jim May. This will be live on Zoom and streaming on YouTube.

His performance will be available for later

Story” and features professional tellers presenting stories for adults.

For more information about this event and other library programs, contact the North Bend Public Library at 541-7560400, email ddouglas@ coastlinelibrarynetwork. org or visit the website at http://northbendoregon. us/library.

Reader board at family market holds history of celebration ZACH SILVA The World

NORTH BEND — Every trip past the corner of Virginia Avenue and Lincoln Street in North Bend there is a celebration.

The celebration isn’t coming from the people in the car driving by or pedestrians passing through, but the excitement comes from a reader board at Lillie Family Market.

“It’s something we enjoy doing because it helps us be part of the community,” said Shari Lillie, owner of the store. “You know, wish people joy during their happy times. Whether it is a birthday, anniversary, graduation, retirement, new babies — all those good things.”

Lillie didn’t start the tradition but has kept it going.

Adjusting the board has become part of the day.

“We change it each evening so that we make sure it’s up for the whole day. It’s one of those final things we do for the day.

That way, it’s new and fresh for the following day,” Lillie said.

She has owned the store for the past three years and the tradition of celebratory notes goes back further.

But exactly how far back is unclear.

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The reader board at Lillie Family Market has displayed community messages for decades.

“I think it might go back, probably more than 50 years. I bet they’ve been doing that for a long time,” said Tony Crane, a previous owner of this building. “They’ve been doing birthday messages on that reader board since before me. I bought the store in 1998.”

Crane was at that location for 18 years and he said he was the seventh owner of the building that was first built in the 1960s.

Throughout his time at this spot, those celebratory messages were a staple that have reached seemingly everyone in the community, by his estimation.

“I would say a large number have somehow come across that reader board. Whether it was their name specifically or a child’s name or their parents or their grandparents or an anniversary. Any event, every event imaginable,” he said. “It is a cool small-town type of thing.”

People would come into the store and schedule out dates in advance to make sure they had a coveted view of a message on Virginia Avenue.

“We kept a calendar in the store and you could reserve the day but so many people wanted on there that it became such

a pain in the butt. Rain or shine I’m out there putting up letters on the reader board,” said Crane.

Crane charged $5 to get on the board as does Lillie. With both of them it wasn’t about making a profit, but in hopes of making their lives easier in the future.

The only reason we charge for it is because we are setting all that money aside to try and get an electronic reader board up there,” said Lillie. “Because when the wind and the rain and all that good stuff happens, the letters tend to go flying. We do live in North Bend.”

State has nearly 800 new cases The World

PORTLAND — COVID-19 cases continue to grow statewide, with 789 new confirmed and presumptive cases reported over the weekend and six new deaths, the Oregon Health Authority reported.

The state’s death toll is now at 260 people and the total number of confirmed and presumptive cases totals 14,579, the OHA reported.

The new cases reported Sunday are in the following counties: Clackamas (19), Coos (2), Crook (5), Curry (1), Deschutes (13), Douglas (3), Hood River (6), Jackson (16), Jefferson (15), Josephine (4), Lake (1), Lane (10), Lincoln (1), Linn (4), Malheur (11), Marion (46), Morrow (8), Multnomah (123), Polk (5), Umatilla (78), Wallowa (1), Wasco (1), Washington (57), Yamhill (6).

The new cases reported Saturday are in the following counties: Benton (4), Clackamas (15), Clatsop (2), Coos (3), Crook (2), Deschutes (11), Douglas (4), Hood River (8), Jackson (7), Jefferson (2), Klamath (4), Lake (3), Lane (37), Lincoln (3), Linn (3), Malheur (5), Marion (31), Morrow (11), Multnomah (87), Polk (7), Sherman (3), Tillamook (1), Umatilla (35), Union (4), Wallowa (2), Wasco (5), Washington (47), and Yamhill (7).

Oregon’s 255th COVID-19 death is a 78-year-old man in Marion

County who tested positive on July 14 and died on July 17, in his residence.

Additional details are still being confirmed.

Oregon’s 256th COVID-19 death is a 60-year-old man in Wallowa County who tested positive on July 8 and died on July 16, in his residence. He had underlying conditions.

Oregon’s 257th COVID-19 death is an 81-year-old man in Lincoln County who died on July 4 in his residence and tested positive post-mortem on July 15. He had underlying conditions.

Oregon’s 258th COVID-19 death is a 90-year-old woman in Marion County who tested positive on July 8 and died on July 17 at Salem Hospital. She had underlying conditions.

Oregon’s 259th COVID-19 death is an 80-year-old man in Marion County who tested positive on July 8 and died on July 17 in his residence. He had underlying conditions.

Oregon’s 260th COVID-19 death is a 62-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive on July 14 and died on July 18, at OHSU. She had underlying conditions.

See table at right for total cases, deaths, and negative tests by county.

Stay informed about COVID-19: Oregon response: The Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Office of

County Cases1 Deaths2 Negative tests3 Baker 13 0 715 Benton 128 6 7,164 Clackamas 1,130 30 31,211 Clatsop 62 0 3,058 Columbia 61 0 3,679 Coos 69 0 3,276 Crook 27 1 1,298 Curry 10 0 849 Deschutes 352 1 13,896 Douglas 85 1 6,445 Gilliam 2 0 135 Grant 1 0 440 Harney 2 0 476 Hood River 130 0 3,064 Jackson 238 0 15,290 Jefferson 199 0 2,538 Josephine 70 1 5,494 Klamath 150 1 6,047 Lake 28 0 373 Lane 394 3 31,856 Lincoln 369 8 5,528 Linn 200 10 8,709 Malheur 489 5 2,578 Marion 2,140 60 23,519 Morrow 194 1 905 Multnomah 3,486 75 71,640 Polk 205 12 3,691 Sherman 8 0 203 Tillamook 23 0 1,733 Umatilla 1,340 9 6,624 Union 383 2 2,092 Wallowa 18 1 550 Wasco 130 3 2,767 Washington 2,208 21 45,340 Wheeler 0 0 131 Yamhill 235 9 7,697 Total 14,579 260 321,011 1This includes cases confirmed by diagnostic testing and presumptive cases. Presumptive cases are those without a positive diagnostic test who present COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. County of residence for cases may change as new information becomes available.

If changes occur, we will update our counts accordingly.

2For additional details on individuals who have died from COVID-19 in Oregon, refer to OHA press releases.

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United States response: The Centers for Disease Control and

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Coos Bay Police Log Sunday, July 19 Arrest At 12:53 a.m. on Airport Lane, Stephanie Tichnell, 30, was arrested by Oregon State Police on a Coos Bay Police Department warrant for alleged theft 2.

At 6:51 a.m. on North Ackerman Street, Caleb Moffett, 22, was arrested for alleged criminal trespass 2 and cited in lieu of custody and released.

At 7:06 a.m. on Central Avenue, Bryan McCall, 46, was arrested by Coos County Sheriff’s Office on a Coos Bay Police Department warrant for alleged DUII. At 10:05 a.m. on North 10th Street, Thomas Phillips, 33, was arrested for alleged unauthorized entry into motor vehicle and theft 2. He was cited in lieu of custody and released.

At 1:36 p.m. on Boardwalk and Anderson, Darren Corzine, 61, was arrested for alleged disorderly conduct 2 and cited in lieu of custody.

At 2:52 p.m. on Thompson Road at Bay Area Hospital, Melissa Lucas, 38, was arrested after a report was made of a security guard allegedly being assaulted. She was arrested for alleged harassment and cited in lieu of custody.

Criminal Trespass At 3:29 a.m. on Newmark Avenue, a subject was reportedly in the dumpster at location throwing trash

everywhere.

At 9:33 a.m. on South 7th Street at McKays, subject was trespassed from business.

At 10:41 a.m. on South 7th Street at Fresh Mart, criminal trespass was reported.

At 3:26 p.m. on South Front Street, criminal trespass was reported.

At 11:44 p.m. at North Bayshore Drive, subjects refused to leave and a request was made for them to be trespassed.

Unauthorized Entry into Motor Vehicle At 9:09 a.m. on Newmark Avenue at Star of Hope, unauthorized entry into motor vehicle was reported.

At 1:22 p.m. on South 4th Street, it was reported that an ex-boyfriend took vehicle and dog. The vehicle was returned and report cancelled.

Caller was referred to civil courts over the custody of dog.

At 2:41 p.m. on Newmark Avenue at Walmart, theft of jacket from vehicle was reported.

Criminal Mischief At 9:11 a.m. on Newmark Avenue, criminal mischief was reported.

At 10:11 a.m. on Crocker Avenue, criminal mischief was reported.

Robbery At 10:52 a.m. on South 1st Street at Fred Meyer, possible dispute and robbery was reported.

Red Cross Blood The World BANDON — Blood supplies are critically low and the public’s help is needed. Those willing can donate blood at an American Red Cross Blood Drive from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, July 23, at Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center’s Outpatient Specialty Clinic, 913 11th St. SE. The American Red Cross bus will be located at the far end of the main parking lot. Screening protocols

will be in place and social distancing and masking guidelines will be followed for everyone’s safety.

This is a community blood drive and all blood types are invited to participate. All donors will be checked for the COVID-19 antibodies with results back to each donor 7-10 days after the drive. Visit www.

RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-733-2767, download the Red Cross Blood Donor app or text BLOODAPP to 90999 to schedule an appointment.

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We are safer as one

We are Safer as One. We have proposed to establish a community-led committee serving as advisory to the City Council and the City Manager as the voice of direct representation of the many sub-communities in the Coos Bay area. It would go by the name of “Safer as One: Committee for Social, Cultural, and Community Development and Representation”, shortened to Safer as One. The sub-communities represented by Safer as One shall not inherently infringe on the Life, Liberty, or pursuit of Happiness of another sub-community.

Giving sub-communities the opportunity to negotiate, not just with the City, but with each other, would aid in the realization of a more equitable and just local community. We believe that Coos Bay can vastly improve equal representation and move toward a community that not only supports, but also protects the rights of sub-communities, particularly minority groups, by providing a form of representation that gives citizens each the same opportunity to be represented by members of their respective sub-communities, rather than those who can only observe and listen from the outside.

We believe Safer as One can be established in a way that will allow Coos Bay to set an example for city-wide communities that represent and protect the dream that was set forth at the inception of this country: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, for ALL. Among the duties of this committee would be the following: 1. Establish and maintain a network of social, cultural, and community support 2. Promote education on inclusivity in relation to the sub-communities of at least the Coos Bay area 3. Provide resources to assist

community members on educating themselves and others on various sub-communities of the Coos Bay area 4. Give sub-communities a representative voice in the conversations and decision making process of the Coos Bay City Government.

Our current sub-communities represented include: Hispanic/ Latinx, Indigenous/Tribal,Tsalagi, Black, Taiwanese, LGBTQ+, Straight allies, those affected by mental health issues, those affected by homelessness, those affected by disability, intellectual delay, or developmental disability, African Methodist, Christian, Christian Adventist, Episcopalian, Buddhist, Pagan, Wicca, Shamanist, Agnostic, Atheist, Cyclist, Widows/widowers/grieving families, Veterans, and Environmentalist.

We look forward to including: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, those affected by or recovering from addiction, Jewish, and any sub-communities willing to work with us and their fellow community members.

There are two active members of Safer as One currently filed to run for City Council. Below are their statements in regards to Safer as One: “I stand with minorities, unheard community members, and the LGBTQ+ community of Coos Bay because, as one myself, I have some understanding of what it’s like to be left out and unheard.” — Cody Skoff: https://www.facebook. com/CodySkoffForCityCouncil “I’m running for city council to represent the people in our community, not the establishment.” — Cameron Langley: cameron4cbcouncil@gmail.com You can contact Safer As One at saferasone@gmail.com or check us out on our Facebook page.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Please be considerate of neighbors Upon moving to Bandon a few years ago, I made it clear to the realtor that I could not have any trees to prune or grass to mow which knocked a lot of houses off my list. I just wanted a maintenance-free outdoors living area.

Economically, I cannot afford to have trees professionally pruned which can run up to $1,500 per tree, nor can I climb 20 feet in the air myself. From my top story I can actually touch with a yardstick the neighbor’s tree, which continues to grow over the fence into my property.

Asking them to do some thing proved futile.

I heard the people in Bandon were so friendly and yet I find pockets of areas where it’s just the opposite. When you ask people to maintain their property they become extremely unfriendly and hostile. Add that to the sweet morning glories which are endemic and come right through the fence to the east and west of me so I spend about a half-hour each day pulling morning glories through the fencing to dispose of them.

Would it be nice to think

of other people for a change?

How about if the neighbor is elderly or infirm and can’t disable these vines from taking over their property? But if they have neighbors who are inconsiderate, how about in bad wind storms the limbs break off and smashed through the neighbor’s window …. Then they will pay more thann if they had just done the right thing and pruned the trees and maintained their property. These people cannot afford to pay for new windows and yet it could’ve been prevented.

Is that the way it is these days — just think of yourself? Again, I really thought Bandon would be different. Please consider your neighbors as you may be young and healthy but not everybody is able-bodied. If you see morning glories on your property growing onto other people’s property, please get off the cell phone, turn off the Netflix and go do something about it. There is a dark side to Bandon. I at least want to raise awareness that people have to take care of their own property and maintain it or sell it.

Kathleen McCusker Bandon

Is America up for a naval war with China?

Is the U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing’s claims to the rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea? For that is what Mike Pompeo appeared to threaten this week.

“The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire,” thundered the secretary of state.

“America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources ... and (we) reject any push to impose ‘might makes right’ in the South China Sea.” Thus did Pompeo put Beijing on notice that the U.S. does not recognize its claim to 90% of the South China Sea or to any exclusive Chinese right to its fishing grounds or oil and gas resources.

Rather, in a policy shift, the U.S. now recognizes the rival claims of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.

To signal the seriousness of Pompeo’s stand, the U.S. sent the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz carrier battle groups through the South China Sea. And, this week, the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson sailed close by the Spratly Islands.

But what do Mike Pompeo’s tough words truly mean?

While we have recognized the claims of the other littoral states of the South China Sea, does Pompeo mean America will use its naval power to defend their claims should China use force against the vessels of those five nations?

Does it mean that if Manila, our lone treaty ally in these disputes, uses force to reclaim what we see as its lawful rights in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy will fight the Chinese navy to validate Manila’s claims?

Has Pompeo drawn a red line, which Beijing has been told not to cross at risk of war with the United States?

If so, does anyone in Washington think the Chinese are going to

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give up their claims to the entire South China Sea or retreat from reasserting those claims because the U.S. now rejects them?

Consider what happened to the people of Hong Kong when they thought they had the world’s democracies at their back.

For a year, they marched and protested for greater political freedom with some believing they might win independence.

But when Beijing had had enough, it trashed the Basic Law under which Hong Kong had been ceded back to China and began a crackdown.

The democracies protested and imposed economic sanctions.

But the bottom line is that Hong Kong’s people not only failed to enlarge the sphere of freedom they had, but also they are losing much of what they had.

The Americans, seeing Hong Kong being absorbed into China, are now canceling the special economic privileges we had accorded the city, as the British offer millions of visas to Hong Kong’s dissidents who fear what Beijing has in store for them.

In June, Pompeo also charged Beijing with human rights atrocities in Xinjiang: “The world received disturbing reports today that the Chinese Communist Party is using forced sterilization, forced abortion, and coercive family planning against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, as part of a continuing campaign of repression.”

These reports, said Pompeo, “are sadly consistent with decades of CCP practices that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity.”

China has rejected U.S. protests of its treatment of Uighurs and Kazakhs and of its handling of Hong Kong as interference in its internal affairs and none of America’s business.

As for the South China Sea, China dismissively replied, the U.S. seems to be “throwing its weight around in every sea of the world.”

These American warnings, and Beijing’s response, call to mind the darker days of the Cold War. So, again, the question: Is America prepared for a naval clash in the South China Sea if Beijing continues to occupy and fortify islets and reefs she claims as her own? Are we prepared for a Cold War II -- with China?

While China lacks the strategic arsenal the USSR had in the latter years of the Cold War, economically, technologically and industrially, China is a far greater power than Soviet Russia ever was. And China’s population is four times as large.

Can we, should we, begin to assemble a system of alliances similar to what we had during the Cold War -- with NATO in Europe and Asian security pacts with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand? Should we adopt a policy of containment of Communist China, which, says Pompeo, is an expansionist and “imperialist” power?

Should we start issuing war guarantees to China’s neighbors?

Should we start putting down red lines China will not be allowed to cross?

Before we plunged into our half dozen Middle East wars, we didn’t think through where those would end. Have we considered where all our belated bellicosity toward Beijing must invariably lead, and how this all ends?

Is remote work the road to downward mobility?

When I was a wee business reporter, I covered manufacturing in southern New England. Costume jewelry, a major industry then, has largely decamped to cheap-labor countries.

But I recall the vast differences in the quality of these mostly low-skilled jobs. At the top were great employers, offering decent wages and clean working spaces.

From there, one descended to the sweatshops, some with puddles of nasty electroplating chemicals on the floor. At or near the bottom dwelled the home workers, people who would glue the backs of earrings to the fronts, often in their unventilated basements. They were paid by piecework, which meant by the number of earrings assembled, not hours worked.

If the COVID-19 lockdowns set in motion a permanent move of office work to employees’ homes, piecework could become more of the norm in the white-collar world.

Forty percent of U.S. jobs can be done entirely from home, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In the classic 9-to-5 office job, one is physically present for the eight hours and generally gets paid a set sum. If the bodies aren’t there, how can employers measure their worth other than the number of contracts signed, phone calls fielded or payments processed? And if there’s a slowdown in business, could they shrink their paychecks accordingly?

Piecework already exists in some

FROMA HARROP skilled fields. Those providing phone-based tech support already get timed for minutes devoted to each customer.

Most doctors have long been paid in a piecework fashion, that is, per patient visit or hip replacement.

But when medical care moves to telemedicine, more patients can be worked on in the same number of hours. The average time a doctor in the U.S. physically spends with a patient is supposedly 17.4 minutes.

Physicians using telemedicine are clocking average “visit” times as low as 12 minutes.

There are undoubtedly advantages, financial and otherwise, to remote white-collar work. Employees don’t have to buy and maintain a spiffy office wardrobe. Some can economize on child care services.

And there’s the time and money saved from not commuting to an office.

On the other hand, employees are paying for their own internet and office supplies. The more one’s job

becomes permanently home-based, the more home space might be needed to do it comfortably. Sharing a kitchen table with a child’s Lego set would get old fast. And I don’t see employers paying for the extra square footage a respectable home office would require.

The work-life balance thing, meanwhile, gets shot to hell. It was already hard to manage when employees could be reached at home or campsite at any hour via email or text. What happens when email, text and videoconferencing become the only way of connecting employers to workers and workers to customers?

After all, 2 p.m. in Beijing is 4 a.m. in Casper, Wyoming.

And Christmas is not a day off in Morocco, Japan and Cambodia.

Surfshark, a provider of virtual private network services, reports new spikes in usage from midnight to 3 a.m. The reason could be foreign business or job anxiety.

Without a formal quitting time, workers operating from home are never entirely “off.” Since the lockdown began, they’ve been putting in three more hours than before, according to NordVPN, which tracks its users.

A hit to income can take the form of lower paychecks or more toil for the same pay. Many companies hurt by these lockdowns are desperate to cut costs. What better way than to replace the 15 minutes wasted on the office staff’s coffee breaks with time to log in three more sales calls from the bedroom?

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(AP) - Rights activists, politicians from both parties and many other people touched by the legacy of John Lewis mourned the congressman and pillar of the civil rights movement Saturday, lauding the strength, courage and kindness of a man whose lifelong struggle against racial discrimination took him from a bridge in Selma to the nation’s Capitol.

“As a young man marching for equality in Selma, Alabama, John answered brutal violence with courageous hope,” said former President George W. Bush. “And throughout his career as a civil rights leader and public servant, he worked to make our country a more perfect union.”

Former President Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, recalled being sworn in for his first term: “I hugged him on the inauguration stand before I was sworn in and told him I was only there because of the sacri-

fices he made.”

Lewis died Friday, several months after the Georgia Democrat announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.

Lewis, 80, often recalled his upbringing in the segregated South, including how he was denied a library card because the library was for “whites only.” He was determined to destroy segregation, joining with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to help plan the 1963 March on Washington.

Two years later, Lewis helped lead the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march intended to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. White police, state troopers and thugs blocked their way on the bridge out of Selma, attacking the peaceful marchers with clubs, bullwhips and tear gas. Lewis suffered a cracked skull.

He went on to make a career in politics, representing Atlanta in Congress for more than 30 years, and all the while imploring people to press for justice — to make what he came to call “good trouble, necessary trouble.”

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms described that call as “a generational rallying cry for nonviolent activism in the pursuit of social justice and human rights.”

“He fought harder and longer than anyone in our nation’s continuing battle for civil rights and equal justice,” the NAACP said in a written statement.

He also scrapped with President Donald Trump, refusing to attend his inauguration and calling him a racist. Trump ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor Lewis — as required by law for sitting members of Congress. More than 14 hours after his death, following an array of unrelated retweets and a golf outing, he offered

condolences.

“Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing,” Trump tweeted. “Melania and I send our prayers to he and his family.”

Those mourning included baseball legend Hank Aaron, who said he and Lewis “connected to the roots.”

“By that I mean we were born and grew up in the highly racist and segregated south, in the state of Alabama,” Aaron said.

“He committed his life to the struggle for justice and equality for all people.”

Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California noted that Lewis stood not just for an end to racial discrimination, but for gay rights, such as when he opposed the federal ban on gay marriage, and for immigrant rights, such as an end to family-separation policies.

There was no immediate announcement on funeral plans, which could be affected by the coronavirus

pandemic. In an order, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said flags on state buildings would be lowered through sunset on the day of Lewis’ interment.

Kemp praised Lewis as “a Civil Rights hero, freedom fighter, devoted public servant, and beloved Georgian who changed our world in a profound way.”

State law says Kemp must schedule a special election to fill the current term of Lewis, who was first elected to represent Georgia’s majority Black 5th District in 1986, said Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs. A vote would have to be held within 30 days.

Separately, Democrats can appoint a replacement candidate to fill Lewis’ slot on the November ballot since he already had won the nomination for another term, said Fuchs.

In Congress, Democratic senators signaled a fight over Lewis’ legacy after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a state-

ment lionizing him.

“I will never forget joining hands with John as members of Congress sang We Shall Overcome at a 2008 ceremony honoring his friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” McConnell wrote. “It could not have been more humbling to consider what he had suffered and sacrificed so those words could be sung in that place.”

The Democrats noted that McConnell had refused to bring the 2020 Voting Rights Act, passed by the House, up for a vote before the Republican-controlled Senate. The measure would restore federal oversight of state elections, after the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated much of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 2013.

Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others urged McConnell to allow a vote, and several said it should be given a new name: the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

NANTES, France (AP) — French officials launched an arson inquiry Saturday after a fire broke out in the famed Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the western French city of Nantes. The blaze destroyed the organ, shattered stained glass windows and sent black smoke spewing from between the cathedral towers.

Residents and tourists watched aghast, and emergency workers cordoned

off the area around the monument, in the historical center of this city on the Loire River.

A City Hall official said the fire broke out Saturday morning inside the cathedral, and the cause is unclear. The official is not authorized to be publicly named. No injuries have been reported.

The local firefighter service said the roof is not affected by the fire and was“under control.”

They brushed aside comparisons with Notre Dame cathedral in Paris whose lead roof and spire burned down in April 2019. For many, the Nantes fire will have brought back memories of that devastating blaze that threatened to topple the medieval monument in the capital.

“After Notre-Dame, the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, in the heart of Nantes, is in flames. Support for our firefighters who

take all risks to save this Gothic jewel of the city,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter.

Saturday’s fire broke the main stained glass windows between the two towers of the 15th-century cathedral, and destroyed the organ, which dated from the 17th century and was called the “soul of the cathedral” by faithful.

“The damage is concentrated on the great organ which appears to be be

completely destroyed. The platform on which it is located is very unstable and risks collapsing,“ said Gen. Laurent Ferlay, head of the firefighters in the Loire Atlantique area, during a press briefing in front of the cathedral.

The cathedral had been built over five centuries and completed in 1891. The main organ had previously survived a serious fire in 1972, which annihilated much of its wooden struc-

tures.

“It is a part of our history, a part of our heritage” Nantes Mayor Johanna Rolland told reporters. “We all have these images in mind, this story in our hearts, but at this stage the situation does not seem to be comparable to that of 1972.”

That devastation had one upside — the burntout wood was replaced by concrete that helped limit the scope of Saturday’s catastrophe, Ferlay said.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A coalition of states is following California’s lead in setting goals to jump-start a transition to electric-powered trucks, vans and buses in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for communities choked by diesel fumes.

The 15 states, plus Washington, D.C., announced last week that they’ve agreed to develop an action plan aimed at having 100% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold be zero-emission by 2050, with an interim target of 30% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2030.

“This is a really big deal in sending a powerful signal to industry with directions on where we need to be going with transportation,” said Bill Van Amburg, executive vice president of CALSTART, a nonprofit consortium focused on building a clean transportation industry.

“You can now justify further investment to develop more products.”

Details are yet to be worked out. One option would be to adopt the mandate California’s Air Resources Board announced in June requiring that all new commercial trucks and vans purchased must be zero-emission by 2045, with milestones along the way. Or the states could focus more on subsidies and incentives, as well as investment in charging infrastructure.

“This memorandum of understanding magnifies what California did in adopting its regulation,” said Paul Cort, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. “It tells manufacturers that they not only have to produce these trucks for California but also for these other states,” which represent the market for 40% of truck sales.

The states that signed the agreement are California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

The group had already committed to an action plan to foster electrification of passenger vehicles.

“The important step will be the details that emerge from this agreement,” said Jimmy O’Dea, a vehicles analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “The direction the states need to go should be in response to the urgency of the situation, both on air quality and climate change.”

There are about 28 million trucks and buses — about 10% of all vehicles — in the United States, according to a 2019 report authored by O’Dea. They account for 28% of total carbon emissions in the transportation sector.

Truck and engine manufacturers, oil companies, and farming and other industries opposed California’s mandate, saying it was expensive and unrealistic. Jed Mandel, president of the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, said the California rule would “collapse” for lack of charging infrastructure.

Van Amburg said growth

of the industry could be fast-tracked by federal incentives to support charging infrastructure and purchases of zero-emission trucks.

In New York, a package of clean transportation initiatives announced

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday includes a utility-funded program to deploy more than 50,000 charging stations by 2025.

There’s also an allocation of nearly $50 million from

the Volkswagen diesel emissions settlement to boost the use of electric transit and school buses and expand charging infrastructure.

The U.S. and Canada are on track to have 169 models of zero-emission commercial vehicles available for purchase by the end of 2020, compared to 95 models in 2019, according to projections from CALSTART’s Zero-Emission Technology

Inventory, launched in March.

The fastest-growing segments are transit buses and urban delivery trucks that have known routes and the ability to recharge at depots overnight.

Amazon, IKEA, FedEx and UPS have made commitments and investments in manufacturers of zero-emission commercial vehicle companies such as Rivian, Arriva and Chanje in recent months.

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We both have current relationships with others that are not satisfying. We have both had failed relationships as well. No relationship I have ever been in compares to the one I have with this man. He’s successful and buries himself in his work. Even though he never says it, I know in my heart he has hidden feelings toward me as well.

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DEAR ABBY: My mother has no faith in me, mostly because I have a disability. Even though it’s not that bad, she still doesn’t think I can do anything hard. Although I’m almost 40, she still tells me what to do and criticizes me in any way she can, including my parenting. I can’t spend a day with her without wanting to come home and take a bat to the walls.

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Dental office installs system to filter virusThe World

BANDON — Now that recent restrictions have been scaled down, health care offices are back to seeing patients.

Some offices in the South Coast area used the “break” time to make impressive changes in how patients and employees are protected. One of those is the dental office of Sharen C. Strong DMD in Bandon.

That office has installed a new air handling system in each of the treatment rooms to provide fresh filtered air and eliminate most airborne contaminants, including viruses.

Dr. Strong says she is happy about the project.

“We weren’t required to make changes in our air system, but we knew it would help protect everyone who is in the office,” Dr. Strong said. “You can feel the difference right away when you walk in, and patients really appreciate it.”

Dr. Strong wanted to model her treatment rooms after the surgery rooms in hospitals, so she consulted with administrative professionals at Bay Area Hospital about their

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Lead dental assistant Leana Spencer, left, and dental hygenist Claudia Perez sanitize between patients at Dr. Sharen Strong’s dental office. systems. Then she met with a local heating and air conditioning contractor. A plan was made. She would install a custom-designed exhaust system under the building.

The system is called a high volume directed air

flow system. Here’s how it works: • Fresh outside air is drawn into the heating/ cooling system through a filter near the roof.

• Powerful fans beneath each operatory produce negative pressure.

• Air is drawn into the operatory from the HVAC system by the negative pressure of the exhaust fans.

• The main filter in the system is a HEPA-type filter. Particles as small as one micron are filtered

Gold Beach, is a special place. The coastal headland supports a wind-sculpted shrub community with a diverse mix of species such as crowberry, coast silk tassel, Pacific wax myrtle and more and protects most of the watershed.

The preserve features a rare forest with a unique combination of mature sitka spruce and grand fir, a stream and wetlands that are critical for amphibious and aquatic species such as beavers, river otters and Pacific giant salamanders and unique coastal bluffs habitat.

A section of the Oregon Coast Trail borders the property as does the Giesel Monument State Heritage Site. It has historical

significance as the probable location of the 1850s mining settlement called Elizabethtown that was the site of a major event in the Rogue River Indian War. Nesika Beach came under the threat of subdivision and development before TNC and others stepped in to help protect the land, help keep the coastal forest intact and establish the Nesika Beach Preserve, according to a WRLT press release.

“After developing a strong partnership by working on this and other projects, staff at TNC know that the dedicated conservationists at WRLT will be excellent long-term stewards of Nesika Beach Preserve, working to ensure its health and vibrancy for

generations to come,” said a spokesperson for The Nature Conservancy.

“We are thrilled to have developed a strong partnership with TNC, and we look forward to working on other regional projects in the future,” said Ann Schmierer, executive director of the WRLT. “The long term conservation of special places, such as Nesika Beach is paramount to the missions of both TNC and WRLT,” said Derek Johnson, deputy director of operations and communications for TNC in Oregon. “The transfer of Nesika Beach Preserve secures the future of the forest and watershed, enables positive growth for the Wild Rivers Land Trust and conservation along the South Coast and helps TNC focus resources where we are uniquely positioned to achieve ambitious outcomes for nature and

out. The average size of airborne viruses like coronavirus is 1.2 microns; bacteria are about 20-50 microns.

• The exhaust fans produce complete air exchange every 2-5 minutes.

• Exterior doors that close

weathertight are installed at each operatory. This prevents air in the hall from coming into the operatory.

• Air flows across the patient chair and out through a filtered vent in the floor, back to the outside.

• With this new system, the operatories are similar to a hospital surgery suite.

• Patients are increasingly protected from aerosols, airborne particles, pollen, bacteria and viruses.

This is not a “recycled air” type of system.

Instead, filtered fresh air from outside comes into the building. There are actually three filters that air passes through on its way through the operatories. This way, air in the operatories is kept as free as possible from airborne particles, Dr. Strong explained.

A patient in the operatory never breathes inside air which has been simply recycled through a portable “air purifier.” It is a true high-volume directed air flow system.

“We are really proud of the way our new system works,” Dr. Strong said.

“It’s one more way we can help everyone stay healthy.”

Groups work together on Nesika Beach Preserve The World

PORT ORFORD — The Nature Conservancy and Wild Rivers Land Trust announce they have completed the transfer of TNC’s Nesika Beach Preserve property in Southern Oregon to WRLT. The transfer of the 71.5 acre preserve will ensure the continued protection of this unique coastal forest habitat and watershed while advancing WRLT’s “Summit to Sea Stacks” conservation goal for the South Coast, linking protected upland woodlands, agricultural lands and rivers to coastal woodlands.

Nesika Beach, located almost 9 miles north of

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SOLVE hosts two large events each spring, the Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup and SOLVE IT for Earth Day, bringing in thousands of volunteers to projects along the coastline and across the state, according to a news release from SOLVE. The Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup, traditionally held in March, responds to the need for volunteerism to help clean up marine debris and microplastics washed ashore from winter storms.

SOLVE IT for Earth Day, traditionally held in April, is Oregon’s largest Earth Day volunteer event and brings together Oregonians at over 140 environmental service

projects across the state.

Projects focus on cleaning up litter, planting native species in anticipation of the high pollination season and removing invasive species that are a detriment to the vitality of local natural areas.

“As Oregon took safety measures to protect against the peak of COVID-19, SOLVE made the difficult decision to postpone both events,” stated the release.

“Months later, with the state reopening, it is apparent that volunteerism is needed now more than ever before and SOLVE is ready, thus introducing SOLVE’s two new summer events.”

The Summer Beach Cleanup Series will be held from July through August and SOLVE IT for Oregon will be held from Aug. 1-15. Each event series will support outdoor volunteerism that combats some of Oregon’s most pressing environmental issues.

Both event series will have new safety measures in place, designed to keep volunteers and community members healthy. Those interested in hosting a beach cleanup, inland cleanup, or restoration event, are asked to contact SOLVE at info@solveoregon.org to express their project idea and learn ways SOLVE can support their efforts.

Visit solveoregon.org for more information.

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PORTLAND — SOLVE announces the addition of two new events this summer: the Summer Beach Cleanup Series, presented by AAA, and SOLVE IT for Oregon, presented by Portland General Electric. These new events were created in response to the urgent need for volunteerism to support Oregon’s environment as counties reopen.

While most of the state was on hold during the pandemic, environmental issues such as growing invasive plant species, microplastics washing onto local beaches and litter entering the waterways only continued. Typically,

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Virus overwhelms some rural areas in Oregon SALEM (AP) — Heather Griggs presses a phone to her ear in a makeshift office in the small brick courthouse that once served as a jail in rural Pendleton, a place best known for its annual rodeo.

Her assured tone masks her exhaustion when she tells the person on the other end that they may have been exposed to COVID-19. It’s a call she has made thousands of times since March, but lately there has been a heightened sense of urgency.

The coronavirus has torn through the small Oregon community where farmers grow crops such as potatoes, onions and grains. In Umatilla County, where Pendleton is located, the rate of people testing positive for COVID-19 is about 16%. That’s a measure of how widespread the disease is in the community, and the World Health Organization recommends it stay below 5%.

In the county with a population of 77,000, the virus has infected more than a thousand people and killed nine, overwhelming its limited resources and employees.

“I’m tired,” said Griggs, who’s working as a contact tracer.

The pandemic sweeping through major U.S. cities is now wreaking havoc on rural communities, with some recording the nation’s most new confirmed cases per capita in the past two weeks. The virus

is infecting thousands of often impoverished rural residents every day, swamping struggling health care systems and piling responsibility on government workers who often perform multiple jobs they never signed up for.

Officials attribute much of the spread in rural America to outbreaks in workplaces, living facilities and social gatherings.

Food processing plants and farms, where people typically work in cramped quarters, have proven to be hot spots.

Umatilla County has Oregon’s highest number of confirmed infections per capita, sometimes reporting a figure this month above that of Multnomah County, which is 10 times larger and includes Portland. The surge in Umatilla and most of Oregon’s rural counties is driving the state’s rise in confirmed cases.

In response to the pandemic, Umatilla County divided virus-related tasks among the 30-person public health department.

For Griggs, that meant her role supervising the agency’s maternal-child section turned into contact tracing and investigating. She spends her days asking people with positive test results about those they interacted with and then calling to warn those people.

“We are a small county, so I don’t think there is a single person here at public health

who hasn’t been involved in some way,” said Griggs, who works with eight other contact tracers.

Other rural counties also are seeing virus cases soar.

Forested Hot Spring County in Arkansas leads the nation in the number of confirmed new cases per capita in the past two weeks, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.

Also near the top of the list are even more remote places, such as Scurry and Crockett counties in Texas.

The Scurry County judge announced last week that 169 inmates and 11 employees at the prison there had tested positive for COVID-19. In Crockett County, whose population density is less than two people per square mile, 71 people have tested positive. The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick.

Officials recognize that rural case numbers are low compared with city totals, but even a slight increase can push a small community over the edge.

“We’ve discovered we are getting really overwhelmed by the rapid numbers in the rise we are seeing now,” Umatilla County Commissioner George Murdock said. “We really need help.”

The county has received

guidance, contact tracers, case investigators and equipment from the state, but Murdock says more help might be necessary.

Officials need housing alternatives for people who have COVID-19 or are living with multiple families and field teams to serve at-risk residents and distribute federal aid to poor families, he said.

The fact that many rural jobs can not be done from home has exacerbated the virus’s impact, Murdock said. Officials have noted cases where people continued to work despite having minor coronavirus symptoms, which led to outbreaks.

“They are forced to go to work in order to survive. They don’t have benefits. You can’t telecommute on a production line,” he said.

Of Oregon’s 23 rural counties, 12 have reported workplace outbreaks at farms or meat and seafood processing plants.

Umatilla County has reported six workplace outbreaks since mid-June.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some — especially older adults and people with existing health problems — it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.

To confront the surge in cases, rural governments are rearranging and shuffling responsibilities

for workers already juggling multiple roles.

Lt. Melissa Ross updates journalists about drug busts and fatal crashes as the public information officer for the Morrow County sheriff in eastern Oregon. She also oversees the records and civil department. Adding to her duties, she’s now the spokeswoman for the county’s Emergency Management Team, which gives updates on case numbers and other virus-related information.

“That’s what happens when you live in small rural America I guess,” Ross said.

Those communities are relying on already limited medical systems.

Lake County, where southern Oregon meets California and Nevada, has just one hospital.

The next one is 90 miles (145 kilometers) away.

To serve its 7,000 residents, the county took the unusual step of asking the Lake Health District to not only run the hospital but also oversee its health department during the pandemic.

“We think that works better on coordinating care for our entire population,” district CEO Charles Tveit said. “That’s why we got involved.”

Murdock of Umatilla County said that while rural areas have fewer resources than major cities, they have the same responsibility to keep people safe.

“Out here, we are kind of used to being on our own,” he said.

“But this is bigger than us.”

States try again to block coal sales that trump revived California, New York, Washington and New Mexico join in lawsuit BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A coalition of states on Monday renewed its push to stop the Trump administration from selling coal from public lands after a previous effort to halt the lease sales was dismissed by a federal judge.

Joined by environmentalists and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Democratic attorneys general

from California, New York, New Mexico and Washington state filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s coal program in U.S. District Court in Montana.

They alleged the administration acted illegally when it resumed coal sales that had been halted under Obama due to climate change and other concerns.

Under Trump, the Department of Interior lifted a 2016 moratorium on federal coal sales and concluded they have limited environmental impacts.

The states behind

Monday’s lawsuit said that conclusion was based on a flawed review that ignored hundreds of existing coal leases and pending applications.

“The Trump Administration has repeatedly thrown out the rule book in order to benefit super polluting coal companies. It’s not only immoral – it’s illegal, and we intend to prove it,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

Interior Department officials did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on the

lawsuit.

Federal coal sales account for about 40% of U.S. coal production, primarily from large strip mines in western states including Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Utah.

Coal mining companies saw demand for the fuel drop dramatically over the past decade due to competition from natural gas and renewable fuel sources.

Trump has sought to prop the industry back up, but that’s done little to slow its downward spiral and the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the decline.

In May, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said the administration had fixed its initial failures to consider the climate change consequences from ending the moratorium.

That ruling came after the administration in February released an analysis that said resuming coal sales would mean little difference over time in greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal.

But Morris declined to weigh in regarding the accuracy of the administration’s conclusions, saying only that the analysis

was enough to fulfill the administration’s immediate obligations.

The state attorneys general said the administration considered emissions only from a handful of leases and failed to capture the cumulative, long-term impact of the coal program.

They argue the Interior Department analysis also ignored other harms, including damage to wildlife and the land from coal mining, pollution from burning the fuel and the vast quantifies of toxic ash that is generated by coal-burning power plants.

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House leaders call for investigation of federal officers PORTLAND (AP) — Top leaders in the U.S. House said Sunday they were “alarmed” by the Trump administration’s tactics against protesters in Portland, Oregon, and other cities, including Washington, D.C., and called on federal inspectors general investigate.

“This is a matter of utmost urgency,” wrote House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, D-New York, in a letter to the inspectors general of Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.

The Democratic lawmakers are seeking an investigation “into the use of federal law enforcement agencies by the Attorney General and the Acting Secretary

of Homeland Security to suppress First Amendment protected activities in Washington, D.C., Portland, and other communities across the United States.”

The mayor of Oregon’s largest city said Sunday the presence of federal agents is exacerbating tensions in Portland, which has seen nearly two months of nightly protests since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler said federal officers “are not wanted here. We haven’t asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave.”

President Donald Trump has decried the demonstrations, and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf blasted the protesters as “lawless anarchists” in a visit to the city on Thursday.

“We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it,”

Trump tweeted Sunday.

“Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators.

They are missing in action.

We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE. These were not merely protesters, these are the real deal!”

Late Saturday, protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires, police said.

The fire at the Portland Police Association building was put out a short time later, Portland police said on Twitter. The department declared the gathering a riot, and began working to clear the area in North Portland.

“As the crowd was dispersed, several people in the crowd were arrested and officers were able to extinguish the fire. Portland Police did not use any CS gas,” the bureau said in a statement early Sunday.

Police said protesters

had first gathered at the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct, vandalizing patrol vehicles and taunting officers as they reported for work. Police dispersed the group, which then went to the Portland Police Association building.

Tear gas was deployed against another group of demonstrators near the federal courthouse in downtown Portland on Saturday night, the Oregonian/Oregon Live reported. Fencing that had been placed around the courthouse had also been removed by protesters and made into barricades, police tweeted.

Before the aggressive language and action from federal officials, the unrest had frustrated Wheeler and other local authorities, who had said a small cadre of violent activists were drowning out the message of peaceful protesters in the city. But Wheeler said the federal presence in the city

is now exacerbating a tense situation.

“What we’re seeing is a blatant abuse of police tactics by the federal government, Wheeler said Sunday.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued Homeland Security and the Marshals Service in federal court late Friday. The complaint said unidentified federal agents have grabbed people off Portland’s streets “without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action.”

Rosenblum said she was seeking a temporary restraining order to “immediately stop federal authorities from unlawfully detaining Oregonians.”

However, federal officers and Portland police advanced simultaneously on demonstrators to clear the streets early Saturday, making arrests as protesters threw bottles and pieces of

metal fencing.

The action by Portland’s police was condemned by Jo Ann Hardesty, a prominent member of the City Council. Hardesty said Saturday that local police “joined in the aggressive clampdown of peaceful protest.”

Hardesty also slammed Wheeler, telling the mayor he needed to better control local law enforcement.

Hardesty, who oversees the city’s fire department and other first-responder agencies, said in an open letter to Wheeler if “you can’t control the police, give me the Portland Police Bureau.”

In a statement Saturday, Portland Police said as they responded to the overnight protests some federal agencies took action “under their own supervision and direction.” Portland Police said city officers arrested seven people, and one officer sustained a minor injury.

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into McGuffin’s case and uncovered evidence that led to his exoneration in November last year. Her findings were evaluated by the Malheur County Circuit Court, which ruled that “the Oregon State Police lab violated McGuffin’s constitutional rights by failing to report DNA evidence that would have cleared him of the crime,” the release read.

When the State of Oregon chose not to appeal the ruling and the Coos County District Attorney’s Office dropped charges against him, the Coos County Circuit Court dismissed the case against him. McGuffin walked “out of prison a free and innocent man….”

While incarcerated, the release pointed out that McGuffin missed most of

his daughter’s childhood and that his career as an executive banquet chef “was destroyed by years of harassment preceding his wrongful imprisonment and the nine years behind bars that followed.

“He is still trying to put the pieces of his life back together.”

“Even after Nick was exonerated, and his presumption of innocence

fully restored, the people responsible for his wrongful conviction are out in public and in the press calling him ‘guilty’,” said Andrew C, Lauersdorf in the release, one of McGuffin’s lawyers. “They have really left Nick no choice but to file this lawsuit to reveal the truth about what they did to him, and, hopefully, persuade them to reopen their investiga-

tion and get to the bottom of what really happened to Leah. Today we start that process.”

The lawsuit concludes that McGuffin seeks “economic and non-economic damages,” as well as “an award of punitive damages,” as well as the cost of his attorney fees and “such other relief as the Court finds just and equitable.”

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and murder, and we are still trying to find out what really happened to Leah,” Puracal said in the release.

“The police wasted the last 20 years and destroyed McGuffin’s life in the process.”

Puracal, with the Forensic Justice Project, looked

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Timbers advance to MLS knockout round LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ebobisse and Diego Valeri scored and the Portland Timbers clinched a spot in the knockout round of the MLS is Back tournament with a 2-1 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.

With a pair of wins to open the World Cup-style tournament, the Timbers have secured one of the top two spots in Group F going into Thursday’s match against the Los Angeles Football Club.

“It feels good to win. Our first goal was to reach the knockout stage,” Portland coach Giovanni Savarese said. “At the beginning, we were too conservative and

made sure we had enough numbers to cover but once we had players going forward we were able to take more chances. We were able to control the match the majority of the time.”

Alberth Ellis scored on a penalty kick for the Dynamo, who have one point through two matches. They would need a win over the LA Galaxy on Thursday to have any hope of advancing.

“We are in a group with three difficult opponents, so every game is a must win,” Houston coach Tab Ramos said. “At the moment, we have one point and still have a chance.”

Valeri’s score in the 61st min-

ute not only gave the Timbers breathing room, but puts him one goal away from becoming the third player in MLS history to record 80-plus goals and 80-plus assists in their career during the regular season.

Valeri took a crossing pass from Eryk Williamson at the top of the box, shook off pressure from Houston’s Aljaz Struna and placed a left-footed shot into the bottom right corner. It is the Argentine’s third goal of the season.

The Dynamo pulled within a goal in the 86th minute when Elis converted a penalty kick, which was awarded after Portland’s Jorge Villafaña was called for a

handball in the box. Ellis, who has two goals in the tournament, received his second yellow card of the match two minutes later as Houston played a man down the remainder of the match.

Portland opened the scoring in the 35th minute when Sebastian Blanco split the midfield in transition and lofted a pass to Ebobisse to the left side of the box. The Timbers forward then beat two Houston defenders and fired a left-foot strike that eluded Houston goalkeeper Marko Maric and found the bottom right corner.

It is Ebobisse’s second goal in the tournament and his second in five career matches

against Houston.

Houston had a chance to even it three minutes later, but a wide open Elis placed it wide right in the center of the box after getting the feed from Darwin Quintero.

Portland’s Steve Clark made three saves and Maric five. The Timbers had a 7-4 edge in shots on target.

The Timbers opened tournament play with a 2-1 win over the LA Galaxy and have won three straight this season after dropping their opener to Minnesota. The Dynamo (0-2-2) are still searching for their first win under Ramos, the former coach of the national under-20 squad.

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John Gunther, The World

New Marshfield wrestling coach Bo Hampton stands in what will become the future wrestling room for the school in the basement of Pirate Palace.

Marshfield building new wrestling room

By John Gunther The World

COOS BAY — Bo Hampton didn’t envision his summer turning out this way.

Most recent years, he has been preparing Reedsport wrestlers for big summer regional and national tournaments.

After taking the head coaching job at Marshfield, he’s spent this summer preparing a space for his new team to train.

The Marshfield wrestling room was part of the Harding Building, which has been torn down to make way for the new Marshfield Junior High. With no permanent home for a new wrestling room — discussions included having it at either Blossom Gulch or Millicoma schools at one time or other — Hampton instead pitched the idea of converting an unused former boys PE locker room in the basement of Pirate Palace into a wrestling room.

That was easier said than done.

“My family has been spending a lot of time up here,” Hampton said last week, when showing off the work that has been done.

Hampton and a number of oth-

ers who have volunteered their time removed the benches from the room, cutting the piping at its base, and also removed the old concrete that served as a base for lockers, as well as the walls from an old storage room.

“We had to take (the concrete) out with a jackhammer,” Hampton said.

It was the first time he had ever used the tool, which he borrowed from Marshfield construction teacher Jesse Ainsworth.

Hampton, former wrestler Ricky Jansma an Derek Hite, who has helped the wrestling program for several years, took the concrete chunks out of the building a wheelbarrow load at a time (popping a few tires in the process because of the weight of the loads.

A number of donations have made the work possible — so far all expenses have been covered by donations and volunteer labor, Hampton said.

Chris Swanson of Chris Swanson Construction set up an account that paid for the blades to cut the benches as well as concrete chisels and also used a laser to measure the room and determine how much concrete

and sand will be needed to make it level — it currently is sloped in a few different places for drains.

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by Marshfield graduate Casey Waterman, donated time to look at the wiring and what needed to be done and Kyle Electric moved the fire alarms and some other wiring in the walls.

“It’s been awesome how many people have stepped up,” Hampton said.

There’s still much more to be done.

After the floor is leveled, some work needs to be done, including putting up the walls for a single-person restroom and painting, in addition to adding the elements that make the wrestling room as efficient as possible.

Hampton is designing the room after the Movement Center in Corvallis, which was designed

by Jason Lara, an assistant coach at Oregon State University who has given Hampton advice, too.

He credited Lara’s work with helping give Crescent Valley High School the tools to become an elite program.

Henry Delaney, a local fitness expert, will help design a workout area on the wall with

additions including pull-up bars and training ropes.

“It will be nice,” Hampton said. “We can design it to be a high-performance mat room instead of just a room with mats in it.”

It will also bear a special name, the Wayne Van Burger wrestling room in honor of the former Marshfield coach who died earlier this year.

Van Burger had first suggested using the space for a wrestling room, Hampton said.

“Bill Burgher (of BNT Embroidery) will donate a blown-up picture of Van Burger with the words Wayne Van Burger Wrestling Room, Hampton said.

When it’s finished, Hampton thinks it will be a room Van Burger would be proud of.

“It was very intimidating when we first looked at it,” Hampton said. “Thanks for COVID. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have time to be doing it.”

He hopes to be done with the room by the middle of August.

“It’s hard to be picky when people are volunteering their time,” he said.

“It’s not a very beautiful room yet. It’s going to be.”

Lillard turns to recording music inside NBA bubble JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. Associated Press

When Damian Lillard finishes his daily hoop duties for the Portland Trailblazers, he will spend most of his downtime inside the NBA bubble working on his other passion: music.

The All-Star point guard turned part of his suite into a mini recording studio at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex, where his team will make a push for a playoff berth. The league constructed a social bubble to resume the NBA season and protect 22 teams from COVID-19 while at the resort, which features several activities such as walking trails, a bowling alley and a lake to fish or boat.

But under his rap persona Dame D.O.L.L.A., Lillard expects to turn his attention to laying down tracks when he is not occupied with basketball.

He’s striving to make his rap persona just as known as his pro basketball identity, like the Emmy-winning actor Donald Glover who won multiple Grammys under his alter ego, Childish Gambino.

“That’s the point I want to get to,” he said. “I admire him with how he’s established himself into two different lanes. People respect him in each lane. That’s my goal.”

Lillard’s room is equipped with a microphone perched on a stand, headphones, laptop with recording software and audio interface to control everything. He said the thick carpet in his room should help the sound quality.

He said the setup is “simple,” but it’s good enough for him to create music in a room where he can isolate himself.

“I saw people saying that there would be complaints of him recording music, but I don’t

have any speakers. Everything is in the headphone speakers,” he said. “I’m rapping out loud, but not screaming to the top of my lungs. Nobody is going to hear me rapping.”

Lillard has earned respect in the hip-hop world as a socially conscious lyricist as Dame D.O.L.L.A., which stands for Different On Levels the Lord Allows. He’s recorded songs with some of the biggest names in the music industry including Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz and Jamie Foxx. He also performed with Wayne during NBA All-Star weekend earlier this year.

Last month, Lillard released “Goat Spirit” featuring Raphael Saadiq and the powerful “Blacklist,” a song addressing police brutality of unarmed Black people. It’s a song he felt compelled to put out after the killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer

pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes.

Once the NBA season restarts, Lillard will have the words “How Many More?” stitched on his jersey. He said he does not consider himself an activist, but he wants to express his feelings on the good and negative matters impacting his community.

That’s what also led Lillard to release his new song and music video “Home Team” on Friday.

The song pays homage to his family and closest friends that he financially helped start their entrepreneurial journey.

“They do all these things and those are the things that I’m investing in to make my people deeper and stronger,” said Lillard of his friends who have become a businessman, chef, handyman and even a farmer. “It’s not an entourage of people that hangout with me, because I’m an NBA player. It’s my strong circle.”

TORONTO (AP) — The Blue Jays won’t play their home games in Toronto this year because Canada’s government doesn’t think it’s safe for players to travel back and forth from the United States, one of the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.

Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Saturday the federal government had denied the Blue Jays’ request to play at Rogers Centre, confirming what an official familiar with the matter had told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement.

The Blue Jays were informed via a phone call. The team’s alternate sites for home games include its training facility in Dunedin, Florida, which is among the states that are virus hotspots, as well as Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York, which is home to Toronto’s Triple-A affiliate and just across the Niagara River from Canada.

The Blue Jays are scheduled to start the season July 24 at Tampa Bay. Their home opener was set for five days later against Washington.

Mendicino told the AP frequent travel to the U.S., where COVID-19 cases are surging, was the biggest issue.

“There were serious risks if we proceeded with the regular-season proposal of the MLB and the Jays and therefore we concluded it was not in the national interest,” Mendicino said.

The team had been given clearance by city and provincial governments to play in its home stadium and was awaiting approval from Canada’s federal government. The other 29 Major League Baseball teams plan to play in their home ballparks, without spectators, when the pandemic-shortened 60-game season begins on July 23.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz have pushed for the team to relocate to the city.

“Let’s find a way to make them the ‘Buffalo Blue Jays’ this year,” Poloncarz wrote in a text to the AP. Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro said player health is a concern in Florida. He said the team has spent more time examining Buffalo in recent days but said the stadium has infrastructure challenges. A lack of space in the clubhouse makes social distancing difficult, but Shapiro said some players could have their lockers set up in suites.

Sahlen Field also needs upgrades to its field lights and its training facilities, he said.

“Dunedin is the only one that is 100% seamless right now and ready to go. That from a player-health standpoint has some challenges,” Shapiro said.

“Buffalo is certainly one that we’ve spent an increasing amount of time on in the past few weeks.

That is not done. There are some infrastructure and player-facility challenges to get that up to major league standards. And then we have other alternatives that are real that we continue to work through that may be better for us.”

He declined to say what other sites they are considering. He said they would look to improve batting cages, weight rooms and training rooms in Buffalo if it is picked.

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Dillon holds on for NASCAR win FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie teammate Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Richard Childress Racing its first 1-2 NASCAR Cup finish in nine years.

With spectators spread out in the stands on a scorching Sunday, a very dehydrated Dillon got the checkered flag and did some celebratory burnouts on the frontstretch before going to the infield care center.

“I got a couple IVs in me, feeling great. I felt great once I kind of got in air conditioner. I was wanting to come back out because it stinks to win the race and you’re falling out,” Dillon said when finally on his postrace Zoom call. “But I gave it all. I left it all out there. At least I can say that, and left it all on the track.”

Dillon raced to his third career win and first since Daytona at the start of the 2018 season. It was Dillon and Reddick in the front on the final three restarts, the first after an incident with 29 laps left that shuffled the fast car of Ryan Blaney to a lap back.

“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, huh?” Dillon, the grandson of Childress, said immediately after the race. “Tyler Reddick, he raced me clean. 1-2 for RCR. This has been coming. We’ve had good cars all year. I’ve got my baby Ace back home, my wife.

I’m just so happy.”

It was the first 1-2 finish for RCR in the Cup Series since Clint Bowyer won at Talladega in 2011 ahead of

Busch wins trucks race after Xfinity DQ in Texas FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race at Texas on Saturday night, getting the victory in his second race of the day after a postrace disqualification took away an apparent Xfinity Series win.

“Technically, I haven’t won yet, so put it over the sticks,” Busch quipped when he got out of his truck at the start-finish line to gather another checkered flag after the nightcap race.

Busch’s truck victory did stand, one when he retook the lead after a somewhat chaotic final greenflag stop with 36 laps to go. He had to slam his brakes on entry to pit road to avoid a penalty, then almost pulled into the wrong pit stall. He initially veered toward the No. 18 markers — the number of his Cup car — instead of the box a few yards further ahead for the No. 51 Toyota truck he was driving.

It was a 1-2 finish for Busch’s team, with the veteran finishing 0.777 seconds in front of 19-yearold rookie Christian Eckes, the driver of that No. 18 Toyota that Busch owns.

The victory was the 212th for Busch in NASCAR’s top three series, one he thought ad earlier in the Xfinity race. After finishing nearly a second ahead of Austin Cindric, the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Toyota failed postrace inspection because the left rear was too low. Cindric was declared the winner of that race, his third Xfinity win in a row.

Jeff Burton.

Childress watched the race from a command center at the team’s race shop in North Carolina.

“I mean, it’s great. ...

Having Tyler right there, to work with, he’s got a teammate that he’s really working good with,” Childress said. “And to see both of those guys racing for the win, I knew they weren’t going to, I was hoping they didn’t wreck each other. It was pretty cool to see RCR in the front.”

On the final restart in Texas, Dillon got a good jump, holding off his rookie teammate and some

veteran drivers.

Joey Logano finished third, with Kyle Busch fourth a day after he finished ahead of the field in two races — his Xfinity Series victory was taken away after his car failed a postrace inspection, and he then won the Trucks Series race. Series points leader Kevin Harvick, the winner of the last three fall races at Texas, was fifth.

“Can’t ask for much more than what we got there,” said Reddick, the Xfinity Series champion each of the past two seasons. “I just wanted it to be between us. I didn’t

want bring other cars into it, make sure that we could fight it out. We just got the restarts that kept giving us opportunities.”

There were an estimated 15,000-20,000 spectators at the track, where it reached 97 degrees late in the first summertime Cup race at Texas — it was supposed to be a spring race nearly four months ago, before the coronavirus pandemic postponed and then shuffled NASCAR’s schedule. Inside the cars, it was 130-140 degrees.

After leading six times for 150 laps, both highs for the race, Blaney finished seventh.

Blaney, who had given up the lead when he pitted on Lap 287, fell a lap down after the field got shuffled when rookie Quin Houff crashed hard out of Turn 4.

Cole Custer, the rookie driver for Stewart-Haas Racing coming off a win last weekend at Kentucky, was one of 11 drivers involved in a chain-reaction crash on Lap 218 that brought out a red flag.

His crumbled No. 41 Ford came to rest near the exit of pit road.

That pileup on the frontstretch came the lap after restart with most of the cars still jammed together as they came off the fourth turn, when Blaney appeared to be among several cars to get loose, though he was out in front of the melee when cars started crashing.

Track workers took water to drivers in their parked cars on their track during the red flag that lasted more than 11 minutes.

Newgarden gives Penske IndyCar sweep at Iowa NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Josef Newgarden was seething after a fifthplace finish in the opener of the IndyCar doubleheader at Iowa, insisting he had the best car of the night and it was merely misfortune that cost him the win.

The two-time series champion left nothing to chance Saturday night.

Newgarden started from the pole and led nearly wire-to-wire to win Race 2, giving team owner Roger Penske a sweep of the two IndyCar races after Simon Pagenaud’s win in the opener. It also gave Team Penske its fourth victory across three series this weekend with the NASCAR Cup Series drivers still to come Sunday.

“I don’t know what we have to do to keep the bad luck off us, but hopefully this is a start,” Newgarden said. “I was so disappointed for the guys yesterday. I was angry for them because I thought we had the best car. So I thought everyone was determined to come back and have a good race.”

More like a dominant one. The Tennessee driver led 214 of the 250 laps to become the first to win an Iowa IndyCar race from the pole.

“I heard that stat and I don’t think I’ve ever been on the pole here before,” he said, “so I was sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t know why we can’t do that. We can convert from the

pole.’ I was totally confident.”

Will Power finished second after wrecking out of the doubleheader opener. Graham Rahal was third for his first podium in more than a year, while Pagenaud again came from the back to finish fourth and series leader Scott Dixon was fifth.

“It feels good just to have a solid day,” said Power, who doused himself with bottled water after stepping from the car on a night where the heat index hovered around triple digits. “We’d loved to have the win, of course, but seeming like if you do a good job in this series you get screwed. I’m glad for once we actually got a good result out of it.”

Hamilton wins Formula One race in Hungary BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time to equal Michael Schumacher’s single-venue record and take the championship lead on Sunday.

Hamilton’s latest victory from pole position was as comfortable as the nearly 9-second margin over second-place Max Verstappen suggested. The British driver’s 86th GP win moved him just five behind the German great Schumacher’s F1 record of 91.

“It would have been so far-fetched to believe that could possibly come true. I remember watching Michael on TV win all his races,” Hamilton said.

“Now I’m getting closer to the amount of wins he has, it just reminds me of the dominance and excellence he showed for so long. I can understand the position he was in and I can understand the pressures he had.

It’s pretty remarkable.”

Schumacher won the French GP eight times

when it was held at Magny-Cours. Hamilton first won here in 2007 and his first success with Mercedes also came at the Hungaroring track in 2013, the year after replacing Schumacher on the Silver Arrows team.

Verstappen drove superbly to hold off Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who finished less than one second behind him in third to relinquish the championship lead after three races.

Hamilton took a record-extending 90th career pole on Saturday to match Schumacher’s record for seven poles on the 4.4-kilometer (2.7-mile) track nestled among rolling hills outside of Budapest.

He made a clean start but Bottas made a poor one from second and was overtaken by Lance Stroll starting third; the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc; and Verstappen from seventh.

Red Bull only just managed to get Verstappen’s car on the grid. About 20 minutes earlier, he dam-

aged the front wing when going over a kerb and sliding into the barriers on a warmup lap.

Team principal Christian Horner looked on anxiously as mechanics replaced it and repaired the suspension, working frantically to get his car ready with the clock ticking down.

“The mechanics did an amazing job. I don’t know how they did it but they were incredible ... Just on time,” a jubilant Verstappen said. “To be able to split the two Mercedes cars was great for us. I thought I was not going to race so to be second was like a victory today.”

In a demoralizing sign of the times for Ferrari, both cars were lapped by Hamilton.

Stroll placed fourth ahead of Red Bull’s Alexander Albon, with Vettel sixth and Leclerc out of the points in 11th.

Hamilton and most drivers again took the knee against racism before the start.

Shortly after the start,

drivers changed onto the slick tires for damp conditions, causing a flurry of activity.

But Hamilton had already streaked eight seconds ahead of Verstappen by lap 6 of 70.

It took Bottas 11 more laps to pass the Ferraris and Haas drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen to move into fourth behind Stroll.

Haas surprisingly found itself up the leaderboard because the team astutely changed tires before the others. Pierre Gasly’s race ended at this point, when his AlphaTauri limped into the pits.

Halfway through, Hamilton was 20 seconds clear of Verstappen. Bottas moved ahead of Stroll’s Racing Point and within six seconds of Verstappen, after all moved onto quicker medium tires.

That left Bottas with 32 laps to catch Verstappen — a long time for most, but most drivers don’t have Verstappen’s nerve and composure.

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Players plead with NFL to address safety concerns Rob Maaddi

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NFL players are publicly pleading with the league to address several health and safety concerns on the eve of training camp.

The league informed teams on Saturday that training camps will open on time even though discussions with the players’ union regarding testing for the coronavirus and other health and safety protocols are ongoing.

Rookies for Houston and Kansas City are set to report Monday and rookies for other teams are due on Tuesday. Players for all teams are scheduled to report by July 28.

Many prominent players expressed their thoughts in a social media blitz Sunday.

“We need Football!

We need sports! We need hope!” Saints quarterback Drew Brees wrote on Twitter. “The NFL’s unwillingness to follow the recommendations of their own medical experts will prevent that. If the NFL doesn’t do their part to keep players healthy there is no football in 2020. It’s that simple. Get it done @NFL.” Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said he is concerned because his wife, Ciara, is pregnant.

He wrote: “My wife is pregnant. @NFL Training camp is about to start.. And there’s still No Clear Plan on Player Health & Family Safety. ???? We want to play football but we also want to protect our loved ones. (hashtag) WeWantToPlay.”

NFL Players Associ-

ation executive director DeMaurice Smith and President JC Tretter addressed the union’s concerns in a 90-minute videoconference call with reporters on Friday.

They want players tested daily for the virus.

A joint committee of doctors, trainers and strength coaches formed by the NFL and NFLPA recommended testing every other day.

Other outstanding issues include number of preseason games. The league has planned to cut the exhibition schedule from four games to two while the union wants none.

Players also wanted a 45-day acclimation period to help avoid injuries.

The league asked them to report early but the union declined. Questions remain on protections for players who want to opt out of playing.

All 32 teams have sent the union their Infectious Disease Emergency Response that have been approved by joint infectious disease experts and NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills, according to a person familiar with the details.

The person, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because protocols haven’t been finalized, said the union has approved several and continues to review them.

On Friday, the league sent players and teams an Education Protocol for camp which requires clubs to distribute joint educational materials and to conduct educational sessions for players, staff and family members.

Rahm’s wild day ends with win, No. 1 ranking DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The drama was more than Jon Rahm wanted. The result was what he always imagined.

Rahm became the No. 1 player in the world Sunday with a victory in the Memorial in which he watched an eight-shot lead at the turn shrink to three shots with three holes to play, and then hit what he called the greatest shot of his life that turned into a bogey because of a penalty.

All that mattered was that fist-bump — not a handshake — with Jack Nicklaus, and taking his place along his idol Seve Ballesteros as the only Spaniards to reach No. 1 in the world.

With a two-shot penalty for his ball moving the length of a dimple on his chip-in behind the 16th green, Rahm closed with 3-over 75 for a three-shot victory over Ryan Palmer.

Rahm got up-and-down on the final four greens, which made it feel even sweeter.

“One of the best performances of my life,” Rahm said. “Yesterday was probably one of the best rounds of my life, and finished today with some clutch up-and-downs. As a Spaniard, I’m kind of glad it happened that way.”

The fiery emotion is his hallmark. He showed it with a tee shot that sailed left into a creek on the 11th hole, Rahm slamming his club into the ground in a pique of anger. And it was evident with that ferocious fist-pump when his flop shot from deep rough

behind the 16th green rolled into the cup. Birdie or bogey, it was a winner, a shot that would have made Ballesteros proud.

“I still can’t believe it, I’m not going to lie,” he told Nicklaus off the 18th green.

With the penalty — Rahm had no idea it was an issue after his round, but accepted the penalty when he saw a video that zoomed in close on the ball — he finished at 9-under 279 for his 10th career victory, fourth on the PGA Tour.

Muirfield Village played its toughest in 42 years, with only five players under par, the fewest for the final round since this tournament began in 1976. Rahm’s 75 was the highest finish by a winner since Roger Maltbie shot 76 the inaugural year.

The rough wasn’t cut all week. The greens were allowed to go to the edge because they are being replaced. Crews already had stripped the entire fifth green as the leaders were on the back nine.

Rahm looked to be playing a different course.

He played bogey-free on the front nine with birdies on the two par 5s. That put him eight shots clear on his way to No. 1.

And then he made bogey on the 10th. Not a problem.

He yanked his tee shot into a creek on the par-5 11th and made double bogey. Palmer made birdie on the 12th, and then Rahm made another bogey from the bunker on the 14th.

Just like that, the lead was three shots.

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APN: 25S1327BA00500 7304500 LOT 3, BLOCK 1, HIGHCOURT PARK ADDITION, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as: 1645 N 15th, Coos Bay, OR 97420 The undersigned hereby certifies that based upon business records there are no known written assignments of the trust deed by the trustee or by the beneficiary, except as recorded in the records of the county or counties in which the above described real property is situated. Further, no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the trust deed, or, if such action has been instituted, such action has been dismissed except as permitted by ORS 86.752(7). Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.752(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes. There is a default by grantor or other person owing an obligation, performance of which is secured by the trust deed, or by the successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of such provision. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sum: TOTAL REQUIRED TO REINSTATE: $11,900.87 TOTAL REQUIRED TO PAYOFF: $106,258.75 Because of interest, late charges, and other charges that may vary from day-to-day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. It will be necessary for you to contact the Trustee before the time you tender reinstatement or the payoff amount so that you may be advised of the exact amount you will be required to pay. By reason of the default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the trust deed immediately due and payable, those sums being the following, to-wit: The installments of principal and interest which became due on 11/1/2019, and all subsequent installments of principal of principal and interest through the date of the Notice, plus amounts that are due for late charges, delinquent property taxes, insurance premiums, advances made on senior liens, taxes and/or insurance, trustee’s fees, and any attorney fees and court costs arising from or associated with\cs0 the beneficiaries efforts to protect and preserve it’s security, all of which must be paid as a condition of reinstatement, including all sums that shall accrue through reinstatement or pay-off. Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms of the loan documents. Whereof, notice is hereby given that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned trustee will on 10/27/2020 at the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Front Entrance to the Coos County Courthouse, located at 250 North Baxter Street, Coquille, OR 97423 County of COOS, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee.

Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.778 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee’s and attorney’s fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days be-

Sealed Bids for the City of Coos Bay Unplanned 2020 Downtown Infrastructure Improvements will be received by electronically means only

by Jennifer Wirsing, PE, City Engineer until 2:00 PM local time on August 11, 2020, at which time the Bids received will be publicly opened at City Hall. The City will receive and accept bids only through www. questcdn.com via their electronic VirtuBid͐ ™ online bid service. No bids will be accepted after this time. This project has 4 schedules. Schedule A - Anderson Ave Storm Drain Culvert consists of removing and replacing 75 lineal feet of 8-inch diameter culvert.

Schedule B - South 8th Street Sewer Replacement consist of removing and replacing 25 lineal feet of 8-inch sewer line and 1 manhole. Schedule C - North 2nd Street Sewer Replacement consists of removal and replacement of 175 lineal feet of 8-inch diameter sewer line. Schedule D - 3rd and Commercial Storm Drain Culvert Replacement consists of removal and replacement of 36 lineal feet of 12-inch diameter storm drain line.

The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: The Dyer Partnership, Engineers & Planners, Inc.; Brian Allen, PE. Bidding Documents can be obtained at www.questcdn. com. To be qualified to submit a Bid the Contractor must obtain the Bidding Documents and submit their bid electronically at www.questcdn. com, QuestCDN Project No. 7218957. All pre-Bid questions and responses will be posted on QuestCDN. A pre-bid conference will not be held.

Bidders must qualify with Owner per ORS 279C.430 as specified in the Instructions to Bidders, at the time of bid submittal. The Contract is for public work and is subject to ORS 279C.800 to 279C.870 regarding prevailing wage rates.

Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive any technicalities or informalities in connection with the bids. No Bidder may withdraw their bid until thirty (30) days after the bid opening.

By order of: City of Coos Bay Jennifer Wirsing, PE, City Engineer Published:July 21, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID:291251) City of Lakeside PUBLIC NOTICE RECEIPT OF A BALLOT TITLE: AUTHORIZING ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (ATV) ACCESS CITYWIDE Notice is hereby given that a ballot title has been received by the City of Lakeside Elections Official from the Mayor and City Council for a referral to be placed on the November 3, 2020 election ballot for the approval or denial authorizing all terrain vehicle (ATV) access citywide. Any registered voter who is dissatisfied with the ballot measure title may file a petition with the Coos County Circuit Court for review of the ballot title. The deadline for filing such a petition is July 24, 2020. Notice of such petition must also be provided to the City of Lakeside City Manager no later than 5:00 P.M. on the 1st business day after the petition is filed with the Circuit Court.

A copy of the ballot title may be obtained by contacting Loree Pryce, Acting City Manager at City Hall, 915 North Lake Road, Lakeside, OR 97449, telephone 541-7593011, email: manager@cityoflakeside.org or on the City of Lakeside website at https:// www.cityoflakeside.org/ Published: July 21, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID:291231)

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Notice is hereby given that a ballot title has been received by the City of Lakeside Elections Official from the Mayor and City Council for a referral to be placed on the November 3, 2020 election ballot for the continuation of Ordinance 20293 authorizing an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) access route.

Any registered voter who is dissatisfied with the ballot measure title may file a petition with the Coos County Circuit Court for review of the ballot title. The deadline for filing such a petition is July 24, 2020.

Notice of such petition must also be provided to the City of Lakeside City Manager no later than 5:00 P.M. on the 1st business day after the petition is filed with the Circuit Court.

A copy of the ballot title may be obtained by contacting Loree Pryce, Acting City Manager at City Hall, 915 North Lake Road, Lakeside, OR 97449, telephone 541-759-3011, email: manager@cityoflakeside.org or on the City of Lakeside website at https://www. cityoflakeside.org/ Published: July 21, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID:291232) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of MICHAEL O. LINDSAY, Deceased. Case No. 20PB04534 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michael Owen Lindsay, II has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the claim, with proper documentation, within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice, as stated below, to the Personal Representative at the office of GOULD LAW FIRM, P.C., 243 W. Commercial, P.O. Box 29, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420 or the claim may be barred.

All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, P.O. Box 865, North Bend, Oregon 97459, the Personal Representative or the attorney for the Personal Representative.

Dated and first published: July 11, 2020 Michael Owen Lindsay, II Personal Representative 13553 Reefer Ct. Grass Valley, CA 95945 (530) 575-5309 Published: July 14, 21 & 28, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID: 290545) NOTICE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT DECISION The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Coos Bay District, will replace one fish-bearing culvert on BLM Road 20-1023.1, remove a concrete sill and boulder from Spencer Creek falls, and place approximately 10 logs and 30 boulders\emdash at approximately 24 sites\emdash in Spencer Creek and its tributaries, which are within the Lower Smith River 6th field watershed. The BLM has prepared a Documentation of NEPA Adequacy (DNA) for this project (Spencer Creek Passage and Instream Improvements DNA; DOI-BLM-ORWA-C030-20200002-DNA). The DNA and the Decision Record are available on the internet at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ project/1503080/570.

The decision to implement this forest management project may be protested under 43 CFR 5003 - Administrative Remedies. As outlined in 43 CFR 5003 (a) and (b), protests of a forest management decision may be made within 15 days of the publication date of the decision notice and shall contain a written statement of reasons for protesting the decision. Protests should be delivered to the Umpqua Field Manager, Glenn Harkleroad, at the Coos Bay District Office, 1300 Airport Lane, North Bend, OR 97459, or due to covid-19, may be emailed to BLM_OR_CB_ MAIL@BLM.GOV. For further information, contact Heather Partipilo, at 1300 Airport Lane, North Bend, OR 97459 or (541) 756-0100, or email at BLM_OR_CB_MAIL@ BLM.GOV, Attn: Heather Partipilo.

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Other than as shown of record, neither the beneficiary nor the trustee has any actual notice of any person having or claiming to have any lien upon or interest in the real property hereinabove described subsequent to the interest of the trustee in the trust deed, or of any successor in interest to grantor or of any lessee or other person in possession of or occupying the property, except: Name and Last Known Address and Nature of Right, Lien or Interest Barbara Runn 1645 N 15th Coos Bay, OR 97420 Original Borrower For Sale Information Call: 800-280-2832 or Login to: www.auction.com\ cs0 In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to this grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the trust deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any.

Pursuant to Oregon Law, this sale will not be deemed final until the Trustee’s deed has been issued by QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON. If any irregularities are discovered within 10 days of the date of this sale, the trustee will rescind the sale, return the buyer’s money and take further action as necessary. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Without limiting the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic.

Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid\cs0 for this property at the trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO TENANTS: TENANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY HAVE CERTAIN PROTECTIONS AFFORDED TO THEM UNDER ORS 86.782 AND POSSIBLY UNDER FEDERAL LAW. ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE OF SALE, AND INCORPORATED HEREIN, IS A NOTICE TO TENANTS THAT SETS FORTH SOME OF THE PROTECTIONS THAT ARE\ cs0 AVAILABLE TO A TENANT OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY AND WHICH SETS FORTH CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT MUST BE COMPLIED WITH

BY ANY TENANT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE AFFORDED PROTECTION, AS REQUIRED UNDER ORS 86.771.

TS No: OR-20-883166-RM Dated: 6/18/2020 Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, as Trustee\cs0 Signature By: Patrick Lynch, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1st Ave South, Suite 202, Seattle, WA 98104 Toll Free: (866) 925-0241 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202, Seattle, WA 98104 Toll Free: (866) 925-0241 IDSPub #0172269 7/21/2020 7/28/2020 8/4/2020 8/11/2020 Published: July 21, 28, August 4 & 11, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID: 288629)

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Trump not ready to commit to results if he loses WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it’s too early to make such an ironclad guarantee.

“I have to see. Look ... I have to see,” Trump told moderator Chris Wallace during a wide-ranging interview on Fox News Channel. “No, I’m not going to just say ‘yes.’ I’m not going to say ‘no,’ and I didn’t last time, either.”

The Biden campaign responded: “The American people will decide this election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.”

Trump also hammered the Pentagon brass for favoring renaming bases that honor Confederate military leaders — a drive for change spurred by the national debate about race after George Floyd’s death. “I don’t care what the military says,” the commander in chief said.

The Republican president described the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as a “a little bit of an alarmist” about the coronavirus

pandemic, and Trump stuck to what he had said back in February — that the virus is “going to disappear.” On Fox, he said, “I’ll be right eventually.” The United States tops the global death toll list, with more than 140,000, and has the most confirmed infections, with 3.7 million.

It’s remarkable that a sitting president would express less than complete confidence in the American democracy’s electoral process. But for Trump, it comes from his insurgent playbook of four years ago, when in the closing stages of his race against Hillary Clinton he said he wouldn’t commit to honoring the election results if the Democrat won.

Pressed during an October 2016 debate about whether he’d abide by the voters’ will, Trump responded he’d “keep you in suspense.” His remarks to Fox are certain to fuel conversation on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers had already been airing concerns in private about a scenario in which Trump disputes the election results.

Trump has seen his presidential popularity erode over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and in the aftermath of nationwide protests centered on racial injustice that erupted after Floyd’s death in Minneapolis nearly two months.

Trump contends that a series

of polls that show his popularity eroding and Biden holding an advantage are faulty. He says Republican voters are underrepresented in such surveys.

“First of all, I’m not losing, because those are fake polls,” Trump said in the taped interview, which aired Sunday. “They were fake in 2016, and now they’re even more fake. The polls were much worse in 2016.”

Trump was frequently combative with Wallace in defending his administration’s response to the pandemic, weighing in on the Black Lives Matter movement and trying to portray Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as lacking the mental prowess to serve as president.

Among the issues discussed was the push for wholesale changes in policing. Trump said he could understand why Black Americans are upset about how police use force disproportionately against them.

“Of course I do,” he said, adding his usual refrain that “whites are also killed, too.”

He said he was “not offended either by Black Lives Matter,” but at the same time defended the Confederate flag, a symbol of the racism of the past, and said those who “proudly have their Confederate flags, they’re not talking about racism.”

“They love their flag, it

represents the South, they like the South. That’s freedom of speech. And you know, the whole thing with ‘cancel culture,’ we can’t cancel our whole history. We can’t forget that the North and the South fought.

We have to remember that, otherwise we’ll end up fighting again. You can’t just cancel all,” Trump said.

Wallace challenged Trump on some of his claims, such as when Trump falsely asserted “Biden wants to defund the police.”

The former vice president has not joined with activists rallying behind that banner. He has proposed more money for police, conditioned to improvements in their practices.

Trump stood behind his pledge to veto a $740 billion defense bill over a requirement the Defense Department change the names of bases named for Confederate military leaders. That list includes Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Benning in Georgia.

The president argued there were no viable alternatives if the government tried. “We’re going to name it after the Reverend Al Sharpton?” Trump asked, referring to the prominent civil rights leader. “What are you going to name it?”

Trump, 74, stuck to a campaign charge that Biden, 77, is

Election officials seek poll workers as pandemic surges CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Wanted: Poll workers willing to brave a global pandemic in November.

Governments across the country are scrambling to find people to staff polling places for the presidential election this fall as the coronavirus sows doubt about how safe it will be to cast a ballot in person and thins out an already scarce pool of workers.

Recruitment efforts are increasingly targeting younger people, who are less at risk of developing serious illness from the virus, as officials and advocates aim strategies toward professional associations, students and sports teams to make sure election sites stay open. Still, a big unknown remains.

“Everything having to do with this election will be determined by where we are with the virus, and obviously, indicators are not very encouraging,” said Neil Albrecht, former executive director of the Milwaukee election commission, which had worker shortages and was forced to shutter all but five of the city’s 180 polling places earlier this year.

Experts say finding enough poll workers is always difficult, even when there isn’t a pandemic killing thousands of people, forcing widespread shutdowns and spawning a series of evolving safety rules.

Normally, long hours, low pay and lots of stress might keep folks away.

Now add face shields, protective barriers and fears of getting sick.

More than two-thirds of poll workers are over age 61, putting them at higher risk of the COVID-19 disease. Scores of workers dropped out during this year’s primary season, taking with them decades of experience as the pandemic stifled efforts to train replacements.

Richard Dayton, 68, has been a poll worker for five years in Colum-

bus, Ohio, but decided not to work the state’s primary over concerns about the pandemic. He’s not yet certain whether he’ll be staffing an election site in the fall.

“I’m not a young man anymore, and I have to look out for my health,” he said.

State and local elections officials hope to have their recruiting and polling place staffing in place well before Election Day in November.

In primaries held during the initial coronavirus outbreak, some polling places were late to open after poll workers failed to report.

“If on Election Day morning people just weren’t showing up for work, that would be among the worst case scenarios,” said Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

Local governments are typically responsible for recruiting poll workers, but states have been stepping in as the pandemic exacerbates an already fragile system. Some states are partnering with professional organizations such as real estate commissions and state bar associations to have their members staff the polls in exchange for continuing education credits. Ohio has a program to encourage high schoolers to work election sites.

In Georgia, local election officials and the Atlanta Hawks have announced they will use the NBA team’s arena as an early voting site for a primary runoff in August, and will train stadium and team staffers to be election workers. Other sports teams are moving forward with or are considering similar measures.

West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner has urged young people to work the polls as a call-to-arms similar to joining the military after the 9/11 terror attacks.

“What that poll worker effort does is it keeps those options to vote open,” he said, adding that officials have been reaching out to county clerks, civic groups, rotary clubs,

athletic teams and other groups.

Kayleigh Bergh, a 23-year-old recent college graduate from Haverhill, Massachusetts, plans to work a polling place this November. She said her decision to do so was about stepping up during a pandemic and getting politically engaged. Plus, she said, it doesn’t look bad on a resume.

“I want to help the state and make everything better since I know my generation is going to take over at some point,” said Bergh, adding that she’s been trying to recruit friends who have been furloughed from their jobs.

Advocacy groups also are mobilizing.

Scott Duncombe of Power the Polls, a newly-formed poll worker recruitment group that includes Comedy Central, Levi Strauss & Co., the Fair Elections Center, Uber and several other organizations, said it plans to flood digital media, offer incentives for poll workers and have companies encourage staffers to volunteer. Duncombe said the group will gear a lot of its campaign toward young people, hoping that it can harness the nation’s recent political activism into civic duty.

“This is really the first step to make sure the government and civic life looks like us and feels like us,” he said of becoming a poll worker.

Election officials said making sure poll workers feel safe on the job is key to the recruitment effort.

Mary Cringan is a 65-year-old retired school principal in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who has worked the polls in just about every election over the last five years. She plans to wear a mask when she staffs a polling place later this year.

“I would just hate to have the scare of health not allow people to go out and exercise their right to vote,” she said. “The clerks in all the cities and towns have their work cut out for them.”

Gunman kills son of US District judge Associated Press A gunman posing as a delivery person shot and killed the 20-yearold son of a federal judge and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home before fleeing, according to judiciaary officials.

The shooting occurred Sunday evening at the North Brunswick home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and killed her son, Daniel, Chief District Judge Freda Wolfson told The Associated Press. Her husband, defense lawyer Mark Anderl, was injured in the attack, Wolfson said.

Salas was in the basement at the time and wasn’t injured, according to a judiciary official who wasn’t authorized to comment and spoke anonymously to the AP. The perpetrator, believed to be a lone gunman posing as a FedEx delivery person, was not in custody, the official said. The U.S. Marshals and the FBI said in a series of tweets that they are looking for one suspect in the shootings.

Daniel Anderl, a college student,

was the judge’s only child, the official said.

Salas, seated in Newark, was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2011.

Prior to that she served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in New Jersey, after working as an assistant public defender for several years.

Asked if officials thought the shooting was linked to the judge’s work or the current climate of political unrest, Wolfson said, “We really have no idea.”

Her highest-profile case in recent years was the financial fraud case involving husband-and-wife “Real Housewives of New Jersey” reality TV stars Teresa and Joe Giudice, whom Salas sentenced to prison for crimes including bankruptcy fraud and tax evasion. Salas staggered their sentences so that one of them could be available to take care of their four children.

In 2017, she barred federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against an alleged gang leader charged in several Newark slayings, ruling the man’s intellectual disabili-

ty made him ineligible for capital punishment. Salas later sentenced the man to 45 years in prison.

More recently, Salas has presided over an ongoing lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank investors who claim the company made false and misleading statements about its anti-money laundering policies and failed to monitor “high-risk” customers including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, who backed Salas’s nomination to the federal bench, said in a statement Sunday night, “My prayers are with Judge Salas and her family, and that those responsible for this horrendous act are swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.”

In an emailed statement, Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the shooting “a senseless act” and said “this tragedy is our latest reminder that gun violence remains a crisis in our country and that our work to make every community safer isn’t done.”

unable to handle the rigors of the White House because of his age. As for polls showing the incumbent is trailing, Trump noted he was thought to be behind for much of the 2016 contest. “I won’t lose,” he predicted.

The president and top advisers have long accused Biden of using the pandemic as an excuse to stay in “his basement” in his Delaware home. Biden has indeed shifted much of his campaign online but frequently travels in Delaware and Pennsylvania, organizing speeches and small gatherings with voters and community leaders within driving distance of his home. Biden’s campaign says it’ll begin resuming normal travel and campaign activities when health officials and state and local authorities say it’s safe.

Questioned about the coronavirus, Trump chided Fauci, the National Institutes of Health expert, and repeated false claims that anybody could get a test and that increased testing was the only reason that the U.S. was seeing more cases.

Case are rising because people are infecting each other more than they were when most everyone was hunkered down. The percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus has been on the rise across nearly the entire country.

Trump faces divisions with Senate GOP on new virus aid package WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted “good things” were underway on the next COVID-19 aid package Monday as he met with Republican congressional leaders, but new divisions between the Senate GOP and the White House posed fresh challenges as the crisis worsened and emergency relief was expiring.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But the administration criticized more virus testing money and interjected other priorities that could complicate quick passage.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” Trump said as the meeting got underway.

But the president acknowledged the “big flare up” of rising caseloads and deaths in the states. “Unfortunately, this is something that’s very tough,” he said.

Lawmakers were returning to a Capitol still off-limits to tourists, another sign of the nation’s difficulty containing the coronavirus. Rather than easing, the pandemic’s devastating cycle is rising again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue.

Businesses are shutting down again, many schools will not fully reopen and jobs are disappearing, all while federal aid expires.

Without a successful federal strategy, lawmakers are trying to draft one.

“We have to end this virus,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Monday on MSNBC. Pelosi said any attempt by the White House to block money for testing “goes beyond ignorance.”

The political stakes are high for both parties before the November election, and even more so for the nation, which now has registered more coronavirus infections and a higher death count of 140,500 than any other country.

McConnell and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy huddled with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and acting chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Mnuchin vowed passage by month’s end, as earlier benefits expire, and said he expected the fresh $1 trillion jolt of business tax breaks and other aid would have a “big impact” on the struggling economy.

Mnuchin said he’s

preparing to start talks with Democrats. He and Meadows were headed to the Hill later to brief lawmakers.

“We can’t pass the bill in the Senate without the Democrats and we’re going to talk to them as well,” McConnell agreed.

The package from McConnell had been quietly crafted behind closed doors for weeks and was expected to include $75 billion to help schools reopen, reduced unemployment benefits and a fresh round of direct $1,200 cash payments to Americans, and a sweeping fiveyear liability shield against coronavirus lawsuits.

But as the administration was panning some $25 billion in proposed new funds for testing and tracing, said one Republican familiar with the discussions. Trump was also reviving his push for a payroll tax break, which was being seriously considered, said another Republican. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.

Trump insisted again Sunday that the virus would “disappear,” but the president’s view did not at all match projections from the leading health professionals straining to halt the alarming U.S. caseload and death toll.

“It’s not going to magically disappear,” said a somber McConnell, R-Ky., last week during a visit to a hospital in his home state to thank front-line workers.

McConnell also faces divisions from some in his ranks who oppose more spending, and he is straining to keep the package at $1 trillion.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned Monday his side will block any effort from McConnell that falls short.

“We will stand together again if we must,” Schumer said in a letter to colleagues.

The New York Democrat is reviving his strategy from the last virus aid bill that forced Republicans to the negotiating table after McConnell’s original bill was opposed by Democrats. This time, the House has already approved Pelosi’s sweeping $3 trillion effort, giving Democrats momentum heading into negotiations.

Trump raised alarms on Capitol Hill when he suggested last month at a rally in Oklahoma that he wanted to slow virus testing. Some of Trump’s GOP allies wanted new money to help test and track the virus to contain its spread.

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C4 | TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020

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This week in Coos County history: July 19-21 100 YEARS — 1920 Telephone rate raise granted Public service commission reports its findings Change for business houses of North Bend and Marshfield will be made higher by company The state public service commission has made public its findings in matter of the application of the Coos and Curry Telephone Company has authority to increase certain telephone rentals in Marshfield and North Bend and to increase its charges for farmer line and private telephone connections.

The commission grants the rights to increase the rates which apply to business telephones only in Marshfield and North Bend. The rate is about 75 center higher and puts the Coos Bay cities on the same rating with Grants Pass and Eugene. In addition the company is allowed to discontinue the discount of 5 per cent previously allowed for payment before the 15th of each month.

Lumbermen to file complaint Car supply has been cut down for this section Delegation will be sent to appear before the terminal committee in Portland Lumbermen in this part of the state are indignant because a part of the car supply has been cut off. The Union Pacific railroad was to furnish the Southern Pacific 25 cars a day for distribution in this section of the state. Now the terminal committee has cut off this supply and ruled that 25 cars a day need not be furnished.

This will greatly hamper the lumbermen of southwestern Oregon. A meeting will be called in the next day or two and a committee appointed to go to Portland and appear before the terminal committee and make complaint.

Plan to rebuild shingle mill Smith company to build at Eastside mill Fred Moore will be placed in charge of it — little salvage in machinery The C.A. Smith Co. plans to replace the shingle mill which burned a week ago with a shingle plant in connection with the Eastside mill of the company instead of rebuilding it as a separate mill.

Reconstruction will begin as soon as arrangements can be made. Whether much of the machinery of the burned mill can be salvaged is doubtful.

Fred Moore who had a lease on the burned mill will have charge of the new department.

Meet Saturday to fix schedule Baseball teams to arrange twelve games North Bend loses Sunday at Reedsport by score 8 to 7 — sensational finish A meeting of the managers of the amateur baseball teams will be held at North Bend next Saturday to arrange a schedule of 12 games, beginning in August. Marshfield, North Bend, Powers and Reedsport will be represented.

Next Sunday, Reedsport will play in Marshfield and North Bend will play either Powers or the Oregon Export company team.

Game at Reedsport At Reedsport yesterday, North Bend lost by an eight to seven score. North Bend had the lead up to the last half of the ninth when four errors allowed Reedsport to score two men.

Peterson and Harrison were the North Bend battery. Hendrickson started in the box for Reedsport but gave way to Perkins.

The North Bend team was accompanied north by quite a crowd of fans.

Power company wants increase Bandon concern asks to raise its rates Public service commissioner William Conducts a hearing at Bandon yesterday Fred A. Williams, public service commissioner at Bandon yesterday conducted a hearing on a petition of the Bandon Power company. The company has not asked for an excessive raise in rates but asks simploy that it be allowed to make an increase which will be sufficient to meet the interest on the bonded indebtedness, regardless of interest on the investment.

In short the company wants an increase in rates which will be sufficient that it will not be at a loss to operate.

The company is now giving a daytime service of power and light. The matter of securing fuel was brought up in the evidence. It was shown that wood fuel fluctuated in cost and was sometimes difficult to obtain. There is coal at Riverton and this could be used. It was shown, if it was mined in sufficient quantities.

Big lumberman visits coos Bay Edward A. Hines of Chicago here with officials Rumor has it that he may negotiate for Buehner holdings in this section Edward A. Hines of Chicago, the biggest lumber broker in the world, is on Coos Bay for a short stay. He is accompanied by several of the officials of his company and his visit may mean an entry in an extensive way into Coos Bay lumber operations. Whether it will be simply as an extensive purchaser of the cut of the mills on contract or as an actual operator is still unannounced.

Mr. Hines was here previously, about a year ago, and has had some of his cruisers going over timber in this section. The firm became interested in a new source of supply to take the place of the southern lumber which will be pretty well cut out in a few years.

Stolen car has been recovered H.F. Downer’s auto found near Myrtle Point Engine was overheated and thief evidently was making for Roseburg and abandoned attempt H.F. Downer’s car, which was stolen from in front of the Chautauqua tent several days ago, was found by a little boy several miles out of Myrtle Point on the Roseburg road. The boy reported it to Dr. Masson and the latter investigated and found that it was the stolen car and had taken it to the garage at Myrtle Point and the owner notified.

The engine was overheated and whoever took the car had several blowouts.

Evidently, the car thief was making for

Roseburg and drove too rapidly and finding that he could not make it to Roseburg, abandoned the auto.

50 YEARS — 1970 Woman has baby in truck at Brookings BROOKINGS — A young Happy Camp, Calif., couple, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Danner, came to Brookings for a weekend of fishing and camping, but left Sunday with unusual “catch.”

Mrs. Danner, 18, gave birth to a 6 ½ pound girl unexpectedly about 2:40 p.m. Sunday in the back of the Danners’ canopy covered pickup truck. They were camped at Sporthaven Park in Harbor.

A registered nurse who was hastily called by the park attendant, assisted with the birth.

Both mother and child were said in good condition a short time later by Dr. J. Robert Schmidt. He sent them to a Medford hospital for observation. The child was not expected for two or three weeks.

Dodd captures Bay Area Golf Classic in playoff A three-way, sudden-death playoff was resolved Sunday by Gene Dodd when he coolly stroked par for two holes to wrest the Bay Area Golf Classic championship from George Gant and Don Young at Kentuck Golf and Country Club.

Dodd, who’d completed his Sunday round earlier in the day, had already departed for home, only to be called back for the playoff when Gant and Young came in with 150 gross totals — the same as Dodd — to fore the playoff in the fourth annual classic.

The threesome all carded par on the first playoff hole, but it was on the parfour No. 2 green that Dodd picked up tournament honors.

North Bend AC wins own invitational meet North Bend Aquatic Club, by the scant margin of nine points, won its own Invitation Age Group Swim Meet at North Bend Pool over the weekend by compiling 299 ½ points to 290 ½ for runner-up Benton County Y. River Road of Eugene placed third with 269 points, while the newly formed Gold Coast Swim Team was a not-so-distant seventh with 180 points.

High point honors in each event for girls included (8-under) Teri Mcay of Oregon City, (10-under) Heidi Weissert of North Bend AC, (11-12) Karen Andrus of Oregon Athletic Club, (13-14) Jill Cummings of Gold Coast ST and (Open) Irene Arden of Vancouver, who established a pool record in the 1650 Freestyle on Friday with her 19:43.0 clocking.

For the boys, high point winners included (8-under) Randy Enquist of Vancouver, (10-under) Bruce Sawyer of River Road, (11-12) Joel Sims of the Lebanon Warriors, (13-14) Jeff Ward of Benton County Y and (Open) Bill Counce of Gold Coast ST.

Shoplifting bail to climb to $150 in CB Shoplifters in Coos Bay will face higher bail costs and probably higher fines as a result of action taken by Municipal Judge

Robert F. Walberg, who announced the scheduled bail will triple, going from $50 to $150 for each offense. This places the bail in Coos Bay on a par with the figure in North Bend.

Al Tucker and Associates of Coos Bay reported to Coos Bay police the theft of 20 blank checks from the firm earlier this month. Subsequently, alleged forged checks were cashed in the Bay Area totaling $587.73; another $250 check was listed as obtaining money by false pretenses.

Within the last week 13 drivers were cited for speeding in radar checks made

by Coos Bay police. Other traffic offenses included stop sign violations, improper turns and other minor violations.

Some 28 dog owners have been placed on probation for one year on charges of allowing a dog to run at large in Coos Bay. Others have not yet appeared in court on the charge. Within the last 10 days, some 14 new violations were noted.

20 YEARS — 2000 Dieu a double winner at Junior Olympic regionals Track & Field: Coquille youth races to wins in 800 and 1,500 Coquille seventh-grader Holli Dieu took regional titles in two events and two other South Coast athletes won one event each at the Junior Olympic Regional Championships in Springfield over the weekend.

Dieu, competing in the midget (11-12-years-old) division, won both the 1,500 (5:04) and 800 (2:28) for the Zephyrs track club.

The top three finishers in each event qualified for the upcoming national meet in Buffalo, N.Y., though it hasn’t yet been decided whether Dieu will compete.

The meet included athletes from Oregon and Washington.

The other two titles were won by members of the Coast Track Team, which includes runners from the Bay Area.

Alison Worthen won the midget high jump by clearing 4-5. She also finished sixth in the 400 (68.4) and eighth in the 80-meter hurdles (16.2).

Andrea McElyea won the youth girls (13-14) pole vault by clearing 8 feet, 4 ¼ inches.

New field, grandstands progressing Hundreds of truckloads of gravel cover the floor of Pete Susick Stadium at Marshfield High School.

Seven weeks from today, brand new turf will be in place when Marshfield opens the football season with a home game against Churchill.

While the field will be ready for the opener, the new south grandstands might not be.

“The field is great,” said Steve Cox of HGE Ind., the project engineer. “I wish it was going a little faster, but it’s going to be good.”

These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield High School courtesy of Coos Bay Schools.