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Suspected rapist arrested in Lakeside

BY DAVID RUPKALVIS

For The World

After a suspected rapist hid from law enforcement for three days, the man was quickly captured after the Coos County Sheriff's Office asked the public to help.

Sgt. Adam Slater reported deputies arrested Sigmund “Ray” Cas-

well, 33, Monday as a suspect in an alleged sexual assault that occured Friday in Lakeside.

After the assault, deputies were able to identify Caswell as a suspect, but despite searching through Lakeside, they were unable to locate him.

Early Monday afternoon, the sheriff's office asked the public for

help. Several local news agencies, including The World, posted the story online with a photo, and in about three hours, Caswell was located and arrested.

Slater said Deputy Hannah Francis was dispatched to the Presbyterian church around 6:30 p.m. January 27, where she met with a woman who reported the rape. As

Francis talked with the victim, she learned the woman was forcibly raped and help against her will in the 600 block of Airport Way in Lakeside.

During the investigation, deputies learned Caswell was the suspect and that he fled from the area on a bicycle after the attack.

Slater said probable cause has

Chess tourney draws huge crowd to Coquille

been established to arrest Caswell on charges of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree and extortion and coercion.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Coos County Sheriff’s Office at 541-3962106.

Plummer named citizen of the year at chamber banquet

BY DAVID RUPKALVIS

For The World

A longtime community volunteer was named the Citizen of the Year during the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet last weekend at The Mill Casino.

The award, which is designed to honor a person who has routinely given back to the community, was awarded to Pam Plummer. During the presentation, Plummer was called someone who “is the definition of community service.”

Plummer has served on the board of the United Way, South Coast Development Council and the Bay Area Health District Finance Committee. She has also volunteered for years with the chamber, including a year as chamber president.

During her time with the chamber, Plummer was the chair of the Business Development Committee and chair of the Marketing and Communication Team. While leading the marketing team, the chamber developed a new website, expanded its social media presence and created new ways to communicate with members. Plummer later volunteered to serve as chamber treasurer, and helped revamp and simplify the financial systems.

Finalists for House District 1 seat chosen

BY DAVID RUPKALVIS

For The World

Curry County Commissioner Court Boice is among the finalists nominated to represent House District 1 in the Oregon Legislature.

Boice was joined by Jeremy Dumire, Karl Popoff and Denesa Rains as finalists after Republican precinct committee members met and discussed the vacancy. The list of the candidates was sent to county commissioners in Coos, Curry and Douglas counties, who met Thursday to choose the next state representative. Look at www.theworldlink.com to see who commissioners chose.

The move to find a new state representative came after former Representative David Brock Smith was appointed in the same process to the state Senate. Brock Smith replaced Dallas Heard, who resigned at the end of the year.

When Brock Smith was chosen to move to the Senate, it left the House seat vacant.

House District 1 includes all of Curry County, the eastern portion of Coos County, including Bandon, Coquille and Myrtle Point, and a

smaller portion of Douglas County.

Boice, who is serving his second term as county commissioner in Curry County, is the most well known of the candidates. He won both of his elections to the county commission easily, but has been involved in controversy with other commissioners in recent years.

Boice told The World he was happy to see Brock Smith get the Senate seat, saying it was great for Southern Oregon and the region. He said he was not campaigning for the open House seat, but he feels things have improved a lot in Curry County and he would consider it.

The decision, for him, came down to where he could have the greatest impact and offer the most help.

Dumire is the current emergency manager in Curry County, where he works with the sheriff’s office to make sure the county is prepared for any emergency.

Popoff was the mayor of Gold Beach for many years, and he has also run for Curry County commissioner. Popoff, who served 16 years in Gold Beach, also ran into some controversy before he left

the council. Rains is the only finalist not from Curry County as she has ties to Coquille and Myrtle Point. A marketing manager for DB Western, Rains has also been active in Boy Scouts of America. After the commissioners vote

on the replacement, the candidate with the most votes will be sent to the House to be sworn in. By state law, if commissioners cannot choose a replacement, Gov. Tina Kotek will be tasked with naming the next representative.

South Coast Family Dentistry was named Business of the Year at the banquet. The award is given to a business that has “exhibited excellence in products and customer service; contributed time, manpower and resources to community improvement projects; and excelled in employee relations and training.”

During the ceremony, attendees heard that South Coast Family Dentistry has done just that “with an emphasis on the values of integrity, ambition, collaboration, kindness and positivity. Additionally, they strongly support their employees volunteer efforts in every aspect of community service.”

Steve Nye was named the Chamber Member of the Year after stepping up in many ways. Nye was one of the team members that produced the successful Mother’s Day event in 2021. In 2022, he took over the challenge of bringing the chamber finances into its next form after the COVID financial challenges and staff changes, as chamber treasurer.

“Our member of the year has been actively leading a marketing team revival which includes a tiered sponsorships program this year,” Chamber Executive Director Timm Slater said. “In his spare time, he is president of the North Bend Main Street program, which is working on the renaissance of downtown.”

Frontline educators, namely teachers were given the 2022 Community Award to honor a group which has stood in the forefront of the area’s response to Please see PLUMMER, Page A2

Photos by Dr. Nancy Keller

The Coquille Chess Club hosted a tournament last weekend that showed how popular chess is becoming in the area. More than 45 people took part, with winners from all over the county. See more on Page 2.

Kotek unveils her budget recommendations for the 2023-25 biennium

The World Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has unveiled her budget recommendations for the 202325 biennium, titled “Mission Focused.”

The recommendations focus on three top priorities:

• Building more housing and reducing homelessness

• Improving access to mental health and addiction services

• Improving outcomes in early literacy and K-12 schools.

“Every Oregonian, no matter their race or zip code, deserves to have the same chances,” Kotek said. “My mission as Oregon’s Governor will always be to deliver results and move the state forward to build the Oregon we all want to live in. This vision for Oregon’s future cannot be realized in one budget cycle. But this plan provides a roadmap for how we are going to reach our state’s long-term goals.”

Oregon is entering a challenging and complex budget environment with about $3.5 billion of one-time funding, spurred by resources from the federal government, about to expire, according to Kotek, adding that the recommended budget still includes a path to make targeted investments because of prudent budget management to build historic reserves in recent years.

Kotek has recommended keeping the existing $2 billion of reserve funds in place, and redirect $765 million that would have been automatically added to these reserves into targeted investments aimed at better serving Oregonians in these three key areas. Highlights of the budget

recommendations include:

Housing and Homelessness

To reduce unsheltered homelessness, rehouse Oregonians, build and preserve more affordable housing, and increase homeownership, Kotek included the following investments: An urgent, $130 million package to reduce unsheltered homelessness. The Governor is urging the legislature to move forward with this initial investment as quickly as possible, and released the details last week.

New affordable housing $770 million: General obligation bonds to build more affordable homes for both renters and new homeowners.

Moving Oregonians out of unsheltered homelessness

$172.2 million: Rapid rehousing resources and connections to long-term rent assistance to maintain housing stability. This reflects the state’s first investment in an on-going, long-term rent assistance program.

New permanent, supportive housing

$130 million: Create new units of permanent supportive housing, and maintain the rent assistance and services needed for this housing.

Affordable housing preservation

$118 million: Lottery and General Fund to preserve existing affordable homes, including manufactured homes.

On-going homelessness prevention

$73 million: Create an on-going homelessness prevention program in Oregon.

Maintain shelter operations

$24.1 million: Maintain shelter operations in the state, including the operation

of the 600 new shelter beds created through the early investment package and Project Turnkey projects.

Housing Production and Accountability Office (HPAO)

$2.2 million: Create a new state office to reduce land use and permitting barriers that stand in the way of building more housing.

Mental Health and Addiction Services

To disrupt the harmful and expensive homelessness-jail-hospital pipeline, decrease preventable deaths from substance use and behavioral health needs, and stabilize the behavioral health workforce, Governor Kotek included the following recommendations:

Continue investments in substance use treatment and services

$278.9 million: Addiction treatment, overdose prevention, peer support services, housing assistance, and employment services – funded by Measure 110 grants and a 1115 waiver allowing for Medicaid coverage of substance use disorders (SUD) facility-based treatment and peer services.

Continue funding new 2021 investments

$195.7 million: Continued funding for aid and assist services, Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHCs), Peer Respite Centers, co-occuring disorder treatment, System of Care Advisory Council, Interdisciplinary Assessment Teams for children and housing for transition-age youth.

Community mental health

$127.4 million: Continue 30% Medicaid rate increases for increased behavioral health worker wages.

Continue behavioral health provider incentives

$60 million: Loan repayment, scholarships and tuition stipends for licensed behavioral health providers and students in the workforce pipeline.

Oregon State Hospital

$50.2 million: Increase positions at the state hospital to support a sustainable 24/7 staffing model; establish a dedicated Health Equity Unit at the state hospital to address the needs of staff; support the OSH Complex Case Management Unit to meet the needs of patients with complex needs and ensure the safety of staff and patients; and upgrade OSH facilities to improve patient recovery and safety of both patients and staff.

Mobile crisis teams

$47.6 million: Ongoing funding for programs like CAHOOTS to divert individuals from hospital and jail, including response and stabilization services for youth and their families.

Increase residential and facility capacity

$40 million: Ongoing funding to support operation of additional mental health residential capacity funded in 2021 and to continue the state’s investment in the development of additional residential and facility capacity.

Harm reduction clearinghouse

$40 million: Continue support of the harm reduction clearinghouse to reduce preventable deaths associated with opioid use.

Health Care Provider

Incentive Program

$20 million: Nearly double OHA’s Health Care Provider Incentive Program, with a priority to increase Oregon’s behavioral health workforce and to continue to recruit and retain diverse health care

providers.

Crisis prevention system

$18.4 million: Fund 988 call centers, the nationwide service connecting people with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Early Learning and K-12

Education

To improve student literacy, stabilize early childhood services and ensure Oregon children are better served by K-12 schools, Kotek included the following recommendations:

Increase the State School

Fund

$9.9 billion: Kotek is recommending increasing the State School Fund to $9.9 billion and fully funding High School Success (formerly Measure 98) to help improve graduation rates and give students the tools to be career and college ready.

Ensure all kids are learning to read, and reading to learn $100 million: Evidence-based, targeted literacy strategies to ensure preschool and elementary school educators have the training, time, materials, and ongoing coaching they need to integrate evidence-based literacy strategies with culturally responsive approaches.

Expanding physical capacity of early learning facilities

$100 million: Create and upgrade the physical space early learning providers need, along with technical assistance to navigate the expansion and renovation processes.

Early Learning Program

Enhancement

$62.5 million: Provide a living wage to early learning professionals to stabilize and value the workforce by enhancing rates for Oregon Pre-Kindergarten (OPK), Preschool Promise, Healthy

Families Oregon, Relief Nurseries, and the Early Childhood Equity Fund.

Employment-Related Day Care (ERDC) Enhancements

$41.3 million: Increase rates for ERDC providers, provide funding for a limited caseload expansion for ERDC, support the transfer of ERDC from Oregon Department of Human Services, provide funding to make IT system changes to expand program eligibility, and support child care supply building and ERDC access.

Enrichment programming for all grades $30 million: Continue to offer students opportunities to connect with each other to support their well-being following years of pandemic-impacted learning. Funding will be provided by Tribes and community-based organizations.

Literacy-focused summer programming provided by districts $20 million: Evidence-based strategies and integrated with culturally responsive approaches for preschool and elementary (P-5) students. Requires districts to provide a 50% local match.

Expand and enhance existing targeted strategies

$18 million: Increase investments in Student Success Plans (e.g. American Indian/ Alaska Native State Plan, African American/Black Student Success Plan, LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan) and add funding for additional plans for Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders and Refugees and Immigrant student populations. Kotek outlined her state budget proposal during a media briefing Tuesday, Jan. 31 in Salem.

Tina Kotek’s

“My mission as Oregon’s Governor will always be to deliver results and move the state forward to build the Oregon we all want to live in." Tina Kotek, Oregon Governor

letters to the editor

Godwin's law

Godwin's law is alive and well. The usual suspects have now written in letters comparing Rod Taylor to Hitler. This is what you do when you don't have a cogent argument to make. And you lose the argument by default for invoking Hitler. Look up Godwin's law if you don't understand.

Yes it was a very close election and yes Mr. Taylor won. That's what happens in elections there are winners and losers. Sometimes by very thin margins. And they have consequences. Reading the names of the people hysterical over our new county commissioner and comparing them to the archives of this column pretty much says it all.

The same folks whining about every leftist agenda item gone away by the voters are all in a tizzy about Rod. If he doesn't do a good job we will vote him out next time. But for now let's just see what happens shall we?

John Chaplin Coos Bay

Guest Column

By tim LyDon

In Girdwood, Alaska, we’ll long remember the snowstorm of Dec. 6, just three months ago. But it won’t be for the school cancellations.

We’ll remember it as the night dozens of residents traveled a snow-packed highway to testify at a public meeting — about housing.

Residents across the West will recognize why so many came out that snowy night. A proposed development, called Holtan Hills, would expand our town’s footprint but include almost nothing affordable for teachers, firefighters, wait staff or others who comprise the soul of our community and drive its economy.

With no guardrails to support local homeownership, second-home real estate investors would likely gobble up the project’s predominantly high-end units. It’s happening already, with most shunning the long-term rental needs of a few thousand people in this south-central Alaskan community. New owners often offer nightly rentals or just leave their houses unoccupied.

That would mean more empty houses in a town with a severe housing shortage. The dozens who testified that night, and the hundreds who wrote letters, described the impacts.

They included Emma, who runs a fishing boat with her husband, and whose young-adult daughter can’t find a place to rent in the town where she grew up and now works. And Amanda, the pizza shop owner, who is overwhelmed trying to help her employees find housing, including the 65-year-old man whose landlord recently booted him out on short notice.

Erin described bailing on her long-held dream of raising a family here after 11 years of pouring her talents into nonprofit youth

education programs. She reminded me of Autumn, my daughter’s former piano teacher, who recently moved away after years of teaching music to local kids. She had been unable to find steady housing.

Such stories swirled into that winter night from the heroes every mountain community knows — the ones who clean rentals, provide health care, build houses and teach our kids to speak, spell, ski and say “thank you.”

Business owners were there, too, detailing how the lack of attainable housing causes employee shortages that curtail operating hours, leaving fewer visitor services.

Some who didn’t speak that night included the local workers who sleep in their cars or in drafty cabins on the edge of town. We also didn’t hear from the Filipino parents of my daughter’s close playmate, who are trying hard to remain in the town where their accounting jobs are located, and where their daughter is thriving.

Dozens of us highlighted how communities across the West have fought similar battles for an entire generation now. We talked about Whitefish, Tahoe, Breckenridge, Boise and other towns. We explained their use of sensible deed restrictions, limits on nightly rentals, incentives that promote local home ownership, and concessions from developers. All helped local workers attain housing.

I know the benefits. Living in Colorado in the 1990s, I accepted a financial incentive to put a deed restriction on my modest condo. After my wife and I sold the condo, the payment became seed money for our first house. Meanwhile, the condo still holds a deed restriction that helps locals enter the market. Under such reasonable measures, developers could still make buckets of money while workers gained access to housing. Someone else who didn’t

show that night was the developer, who instead dropped a guest column in the state’s largest newspaper maligning her project’s critics.

Some of our elected officials were equally indifferent. One blithely suggested that someone just needs to build a hardware store in town so that building costs could come down. Another asked why our town hadn’t solved the housing issue earlier. Others grilled residents on how many more houses it would take to solve the problem.

Of course, as with many Western communities, the issue is not an actual shortage of houses. It’s the blizzard of cash that second-home speculators and others can throw at any property that enters the market.

The meeting ran almost to midnight, as snow blanketed the cars outside. I imagined this must have been the scene two decades ago, as housing proponents in the West’s mountain towns spent nights eking out seemingly small wins. But those wins are now the proven programs that can help communities today.

We just need elected officials to understand that people can’t work here if they have nowhere to live.

Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring conversation about the West. He writes in Alaska.

Guest

Opinion: Deficit Ceiling Theater

By Antony DAvies AnD JAmes R. HARRigAn InsideSources.com

It’s time again for Debt Ceiling Theater.

Since 1940, Americans have caught this show about every eight months. The actors and dialogue change, but the characters and the plot never do. “Party out of power” shows that it’s tough on spending by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. “Party in power” trots out the poor, the military, or whatever else will get the voters all worked up and cries that the “party out of power” is holding the country hostage.

Even the media have a cameo appearance as “a concerned institution holding politicians’ feet to the fire.”

In fact, the actors are all there to make a buck. The media attracts viewers and advertising dollars by scaring people with the implications of impending societal collapse. The two parties get to rile up their bases in a between-elections slugfest. But everyone knows how the show will end.

Once in a while, to get the crowd on their feet, the president will perform a showstopper in which he “shuts down” the government. But the shutdown only applies to non-essential government services (don’t ask why we’re spending on anything non-essential, anyway).

And as soon as the shutdown ends, all the money that would have been spent during the shutdown is then spent retroactively, leaving us with less of a shutdown than a deferral.

The show’s ending hasn’t changed in more than 90 performances. In the nick of time, Congress raises the debt ceiling, and everything returns to normal. To resonate with voters, the show is advertised as a story of a household grappling with its debts and doing the right thing. The true story is more of a person making and breaking a New Year’s resolution. There’s nothing binding about the debt ceiling; Congress can raise the ceiling whenever it wants with the same majority vote that’s required to approve spending.

The public spectacle gives voters the impression that our politicians are making tough decisions and whipping our financial house into shape. But that’s nonsense. The federal debt is more than $31 trillion, not counting the unaffordable retirement benefits the government promised to federal workers and

Social Security recipients. It’s unclear how much the unaffordable benefits are, but Social Security estimates at $50 trillion. Not only are politicians not getting this mess under control, but they have given up even trying. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal debt will increase by almost $1.5 trillion annually over the next 10 years. Given that the CBO has underestimated the future debt in 80 percent of its past 200-plus forecasts, the actual number is likely closer to $1.8 trillion.

If interest rates remain at their pre-inflation levels, then the interest on the debt will consume 16 percent of annual federal receipts by 2033 (up from 15 percent today). But here’s the twist: if the Federal Reserve continues to help finance the government’s trillion-dollar deficits as it has since 2020, then we’re going to see continuing inflation as the growth in the money supply outpaces the growth in the economy. Eventually, that inflation gets priced into bonds, so interest rates rise. But, to keep inflation under control, the Fed needs to slow the money supply growth, which raises interest rates. Either way, low interest rates are a thing of the past. And being $31 trillion in hock, just a 1-percentage-point increase in interest rates would increase the government’s annual interest expense to 24 percent of its revenues by the end of the decade.

So when the Profligate Democrats are stuck in their tracks by Responsible Republicans, do your best to forget that those roles were reversed just a couple of years ago. Convince yourself that This Time It Will Be Different, all evidence to the contrary. And by all means, fool yourself into believing that we deserve better.

But we don’t. We deserve precisely the government we have insisted upon for all these years. We also deserve the heavy price that will come for our own irresponsibility in repeatedly re-electing this troupe.

ABOUT THE WRITERS

Antony Davies is associate professor of economics at Duquesne University. James R. Harrigan is senior editor at the American Institute for Economic Research. This article first appeared at aier.org and is being distributed by InsideSources.com.

Eastern Oregon University announces 2022 fall term Dean's List

Eastern Oregon University named 572 students to the Dean's List for the 2022 fall term. Qualifying students achieve and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale while completing a minimum of 12 hours of graded EOU coursework. View the full list at eou.edu/ua/deans-list.

EOU congratulates each of these high-achieving students, and acknowledges their dedication to academic excellence. As Oregon's Rural University, EOU serves as a center for education, culture, and scholarship. Students receive personal attention from their professors while building strong relationships with peers and mentors. Learn more at eou. edu/about.

The following students from your area earned this distinction:

Bandon - Nicholas Turner, STM and Health Science, Computer Science

- Katelin Wirth, Business, Accounting Coos Bay - Krista Lindt, Arts, Humanities & Soc Science, English/Writing

North Bend

- Miles Wheeler, STM and Health Science, Health and Human Performance

Nathan Searles Girdwood Valley

Tim Lydon

Marshfield girls bounce back with win over Bulldogs

NORTH BEND — Marshfield’s girls basketball team bounced back from its first league loss, topping host North Bend 49-13 on Tuesday.

It was a game matching very different teams — a veteran, athletic Marshfield team against a young North Bend club. But that didn’t make the outcome any less important for the Pirates, who lost by two points to Marist Catholic on a last-second shot on Friday.

“I needed a game — the kids did, too,” Marshfield coach Doug Miles said. “We had a flat practice yesterday.”

The Pirates were in control all the way against North Bend, finishing the first round of Sky-Em League play 3-1. They jumped out to a 15-4 lead through one quarter and limited the Bulldogs to six or fewer points each quarter.

“We shot the ball well,” Miles said. “(North Bend) played good defense, and we shot the ball well.”

The Pirates didn’t do that

against Marist Catholic, he said, but did a good job setting up opportunities Tuesday.

“I thought we moved the ball really well tonight,” he said.

Kate Miles had 13 points and Trinity Barker 11 for Marshfield, in what was a typical scoring night for the team. Nine different players scored in the contest.

“We have a lot of weapons,” Doug Miles said. “Our leading scorer is rarely over 12 points.”

Marshfield also stifled the Bulldogs with its tough defense. Now the Pirates turn the focus to the second round of league play, starting with a game at Junction City, a challenging environment, on Friday.

It was important for the team not to stay down after the loss last week.

“We’re still in good shape,” Doug Miles said. “We’re fourth in (the) state (rankings).

“Now we go into a tough

game against Junction City and we need to keep getting better.”

He expects that.

“We’ve got a good group of kids,” he said. “They’re fun to be around.”

The Pirates have three seniors — Kate Miles, Barker and Rylinn Clark. The rest are a mix of juniors and sophomores, several who were part of the state champion volleyball team in the fall.

The group has the respect of North Bend coach Mike Forrester.

“Their size just killed us,” he said. “And their guards are really good. Kate (Miles) is as good a player as we’ve played against this year.”

North Bend has a roster that is much different, with just one senior and with two freshmen in the starting lineup and three others who see playing time.

“It’s a good group of

girls,” Forrester said. “We’re just young and inexperienced and it shows.”

The Bulldogs do have one league win — they beat Cottage Grove last week. In that game, Carley Lucero and Mirra Riddle provided a ton of pressure against the Lions’ guards and North Bend got off to a strong start offensively when Lennon Riddle scored 10 points in the first quarter.

That win was good for the

young squad, which has kept battling despite losing most of its games.

“We’ll just keep trying to get better,” Forrester said.

“The girls are working hard.”

The two starting freshmen scored the most points for the team Tuesday, with Lucero scoring five and Erica McClintock four.

North Bend is home against Marist Catholic to start the second half of the league season Friday.

North Bend boys end league win drought

NORTH BEND — It

didn’t matter that neither North Bend or Marshfield had won a game in the SkyEm League boys basketball season when the teams met at North Bend on Tuesday.

In front of a big, vocal crowd the teams played their hearts out, with the Bulldogs making shots down the stretch to beat the visiting Pirates 66-53.

It was North Bend’s first league win in four seasons and a sign of progress for the club.

“I’m very excited (for the team),” said North Bend coach Jasper Sawyer, in his first year leading the Bulldogs. “To get a win, to get a win at home and to get a win over your local rival (is big).”

North Bend finished the first round of Sky-Em play 1-3 while Marshfield is 0-4.

The Bulldogs got their last league wins in the Midwestern League in February of 2020, when they beat Eagle Point twice. The 2021 season was shortened due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Bulldogs went winless in their final year in

the Midwestern League last winter.

They led almost all the way Tuesday, though Marshfield used a big third-quarter surge to take a two-point lead to the fourth.

In the final quarter, North Bend’s Paolo Florez scored 11 of his 15 points, including two big 3-pointers and two late free throws to help seal the victory.

Jason Padgett led the way with 16 points and Peyton Forrester added 14.

The win was a treat for a team that is working hard to do things the right way, Sawyer said.

“It’s a good group of kids and they have great energy,” he said.

Many of them were part of the team that only had two wins all last season, both early in the preseason.

Sawyer was assistant to head coach Bill Callaway last year, but their roles are reversed this year in what Sawyer described as a good transition.

The players have embraced the philosophy of “changing the narrative,” he said.

“We have to get North Bend basketball back on the map,” Sawyer said.

They are doing that through hard work and a renewed commitment to each other.

“It’s a family environment,” Sawyer said. “To be able to impart life and family values is important. Of course it’s fun when we win, but we’re having a blast.”

The team has at least one family style activity or dinner every week.

“We’re really building community and family,” Sawyer said. “If they know you love and care for them, they will go to war for you.”

This group, which includes three seniors and a big group of juniors, is special to Sawyer because they were among the first students he taught and coached when he first came to North Bend several years ago.

They put things together Tuesday for their first league win.

Marshfield, meanwhile, is going through a building year with a club that had zero varsity experience when the season started — last year’s

team was all seniors.

Jesse Ainsworth, who like Sawyer was assistant last year to his assistant this year (Casey McCord), said the team’s inexperience hit home early in the season when the Pirates got their first win at Brookings-Harbor and all the players were celebrating like it was a huge victory.

“That was a reality check for me,” he said, adding that he tried to focus on how to turn that into a positive.

The Pirates have had ups and downs, including several good preseason wins before a current five-game losing streak, but Ainsworth loves how the team has kept working.

“The two things that have been consistent all year are attitude and effort,” he said. “I’m so appreciative of that.

“A lot of times, the two things that leave a program first are attitude and effort. We’re on a five-game skid and last in league. It’s human nature to quit (in that situation). That has not been this group. That’s refreshing.”

The Pirates battled hard all game against North Bend.

The Bulldogs led by 11

after a big dunk by Padgett early in the third quarter, but Marshfield responded with three 3-pointers and several other plays to get back to the lead.

Sophomore Steele Carpenter finished with six 3-pointers and 21 points for Marshfield in the loss. Senior Mekhi Johnson added three 3-pointers and 15 points.

Ainsworth expects the Pirates to keep battling in the second half of the league season, hoping to catch up with North Bend and third-place

Cottage Grove in the league standings. Both of those teams visit the Pirate Palace in the next few weeks.

“We’ll get back into practice and keep grinding,” Ainsworth said.

Marshfield opens the second half of league play Friday with a tough game at league-leading Junction City, one of the state’s top teams. North Bend, meanwhile, will try to keep its momentum going when Marist Catholic visits Friday.

Myrtle Point girls pick up key Skyline League victory

Myrtle Point girls pick up key Skyline League victory

Myrtle Point’s girls basketball team picked up a big Skyline League win Tuesday when the Bobcats topped host Camas Valley 59-37.

BOYS:

Powers 56, Pacific 27:

The Cruisers beat the visiting Pirates on Tuesday to nearly clinch a spot in the Skyline League playoffs.

Powers is at Yoncalla on Friday to close its regular season. The Cruisers improved to 5-4 in league play and Yoncalla has just one league win. A victory over the Eagles would guarantee at least sixth place for Powers (the top six teams advance to the league’s postseason).

Pacific fell to 1-8 in league and has one more league contest, next Friday against Elkton.

“It was a great team win,” coach Jennifer Sproul said. “I really liked the balanced scoring attack and the conscious effort to get good ball movement on the perimeter. And our defensive rotations led to several good fast breaks.”

Grace Bradford had 15 points, Milena Miller 14 and Olivia Brophy and Jakelynn

Bandon 67, Reedsport 12:

The Tigers stretched their win streak to nine games with the road win Tuesday.

They have one more road game Friday at Oakridge and at 12-1 in the Valley Coast Conference have wrapped up the title in the league’s south division. Central Linn, which handed Bandon its lone league loss, is unbeaten and in first place in the north division. Reedsport, which is winless on the season, is at East Linn Christian on Thursday.

Powers 39, Pacific 34:

The Cruisers overcame a two-point deficit entering the fourth quarter to pick up their second Skyline League win.

Charlie Shorb and Rene Sears each had 17 points for Powers in the victory.

Tucker Long had a big game for Pacific with 20 points, but the Pirates remained winless in league.

Powers visits Yoncalla on Friday while Pacific is at Glendale. Powers finishes the regular season with a trip to Glendale next Friday.

Hermann 12 each in the win.

Myrtle Point improved to 7-1 in league play, alone in second behind North Douglas after the Warriors handed Umpqua Valley Christian its second league loss Tuesday. Camas Valley fell to 5-3.

Myrtle Point is at Days Creek on Friday and has one other big hurdle when it finishes

Myrtle Point 62, Camas Valley 38:

The Bobcats beat the Hornets on the road Tuesday to stay perfect in league play.

Myrtle Point has a big test Friday with a trip to Days Creek. The Bobcats edged the Wolves in a nonleague game as part of their current 12-game win streak. Days Creek is tied for second in the league standings with North Douglas, which Myrtle Point beat earlier in the league season.

the league season at home next Friday against New Hope Christian, another of the league’s top teams. If the Bobcats finish second, they will have a bye straight into the league tournament at North Bend and also a guaranteed spot in the Class 1A playoffs.

Bandon 59, Reedsport 42:

The Tigers held off a tough challenge from the host Brave before pulling away in the fourth quarter to improve to 9-4 in league play.

Bandon is a game behind Oakland in the race for second place in the league’s south division after the Oakers lost to unbeaten Gold Beach on Tuesday.

Owen Brown had 27 points and Will Panagakis 14 in Tuesday’s win at Reedsport.

“The intensity was good for the most part,” Bandon coach Vince Quattrocchi said, giving Reedsport credit

for narrowing the gap in the third quarter when the Tigers’ focus dropped slightly.

“We dug in and started taking control of the game in the fourth quarter,” Quattrocchi said.

Jay B Noel had 16 points and Jaden Morgan 10 for Reedsport, which is 2-11 in league play.

Both teams have long road trips for their second games this week, with Bandon going to Oakridge on Friday and Reedsport headed to north division leaders East Linn Christian on Thursday.

NB-MHS girls Marshfield's Alie Clark looks for a teammate as the Pirates run their offense Tuesday

NB-MHS girls Marshfield's Trinity Barker blocks a shot by North Bend's Ayla Riddle during Tuesday's game

NB-MHS North Bend's David Roberts applies tight pressure to Marshfield's Mekhi Johnson on Tuesday

PATRICK MYERS TREE

SERVICE. Certified arborist, 50 yrs. exp. Free estimates. 541-347-9124 or 541-290-7530. Lic. #116632. Stump grinding, hazardous removal, pruning hedges and brush clipping. Serving Bandon area since 1995.

If you’re a logistics professional looking to advance your career with an established company, look no further. At Tidewater Contractors, Inc., the Dispatch Manager schedules and routes product deliveries, manages employee drivers, coordinates and schedules independent truckers, updates customers on delivery statuses and ensures safety and compliance in the Trucking division.

Now is the time to clear that Gorse! Big Foot Stump Grinding LLC does Gorse and Brush Clearing. Stump Grinding, Tractor Services, Landscape Maint. We are Licensed, Bonded and Insured. LCB#9933 Serving Bandon and Surrounding Areas, Find us on FB. Big Foot Stump Grinding LLC (541) 366-1036

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Misc Services

PAHLS FAMILY DENTISTRY offers single-visit crowns, dental implants and sedation dentistry. Accepting new patients. Call to reserve your appointment today. 541.396.2242, Coquille

Pete’s Wood Furniture Repair & Refinish. We pick up & deliver in Bandon area. 480-415-5419.

Lost & Found 308

LOST DOBERMAN! Black & tan. Missing since Wed., Jan. 25th. Lakeside area off of 101. 541-252-6720.

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Announcements

Clearance Sale 30% - 50%

OFF ALL Items @ Abandoned Goods Bandon January - Tues. - Sun. 10 - 4

Everything marked Down

BUNKER HILL SANITARY DISTRICT monthly meeting - Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. at the office of Dyer Partnership Engineers & Planners, 1330 Teakwood, Coos Bay, Oregon.

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Events

Join us for the Roses for Rett Ball & Silent Auction, a night of dancing and music with hor d’oeuvres, hosted wine and cash bar to benefit Rett Syndrome research in honor of Sabra Hampton. Saturday, Feb 25 at 6:30 PM at the Mill Casino Purchase tickets online: give.rettsyndrome.org/ rosesforrett2023 More info: 541.808.4289

Tidewater Contractors, Inc. is a leading supplier of highway building materials in Brookings, Oregon, and surrounding cities. The company has been in business since 1978. Specific duties may include: Scheduling and routing product deliveries Making sure truck loads fall within standard weight limits for each vehicle Assessing job site delivery requirements and assigning appropriate delivery vehicles Keeping customers informed of delivery status

Reviewing employee timecards and customer scale tickets for accuracy before submitting for processing Working with the Dispatch Clerk to acquire RUAF permits for larger equipment transports Participating in the hiring of drivers and material handlers, as well as their performance management Coordinating fleet maintenance with Shop Supervisor and ensuring all

Bandon Inn is accepting applications for ALL positions:

Front Desk Position (All shifts)

Continental Breakfast Servers

Laundry Attendant Housekeepers Maintenance

If you are professional, a team player, honest, reliable, dependable and flexible, please pick up an application at the front desk. Experience desired, but not necessary. Positive and team player attitude is a must! We offer a competitive wage and benefits. Apply at front desk.

Knowlege of QuickBooks, Excel, Word, and dis patch. Needs to be proficient in customer service. Organized and detail oriented. Reach us at 541-347-6529, southcoastseptic@gmail.com, or come into our office at 50414 Hwy 101 Bandon, OR 97411.

BE PART OF A GREAT TEAM!

The Best Western Inn at Face Rock seeking a Front Desk Manager Responsible for assisting the General Manager while creating exceptional guest experiences.

Minimum 2 years’ experience in hotel industry and high school diploma or equivalent required. Previous supervisory responsibility preferred.

Full time position offering competitive wages and incentives.

Apply in person at 3225 Beach Loop DR., Bandon OR or send resume to innatfacerockgm@gmail.com EOE

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Recreational Vehicles

BUYING RVs. Gib's RV is looking for clean pre-owned RVs to buy/consign. No fee consignments. We make house calls. 541-888-3424.

Pets 736

ANIMAL CREMATORY

The Bay Area’s only pet crematory with COOS BAY CHAPEL. 541-267-3131 coosbayareafunerals.com

Misc For Sale 750

For sale: Elec. wheelchair paid $1850, asking $1500. 3-wheel elec. scooter paid $1100, asking $850. Electric toilet seat lifter paid $900, asking $650. Sit-to-stand lift elec. rated for 300 pounds paid $1600, asking $1350. Also ADA ramps, shower pole, sliding shower seat, regular wheelchair and more All are gently used.

(530) 913-9323

Visit The World online, and follow us on social media

Serving Coos Bay, North Bend, Charleston, Coquille, Bandon and Reedsport.

RV spaces near Bandon. Quiet safe park. Pets welcome. Ask about our move in bonus. Includes ALL utilities. $690 541-347-2175

BANDON MINI-STORAGE. Temp. controlled RV & boat storage. 50317 Hwy. 101 South. 541-347-1190.

BANDON E-Z STORAGE. Affordable plus Boat/RV. 370 11th St. SE, 541-347-9629.

BANDON MINI-STORAGE, temp controlled, 88371 Hwy. 42S, 541-347-5040. Ask for Manager's Special.

Real Estate/Trade 900

PACIFIC PROPERTIES!$559,500 Well maintained residence off Seabird Drive. Upgraded kitchen cabinets, granite counters, quality stainless steel appliances, low maintenance landscaping, RV Parking, decorative concrete work, vaulted ceilings, and oak hardwood flooring. Short stroll to Ocean/Beach access. An excellent residence for a comfortable scaled down lifestyle. The abutting parcel to the south is also available as a combined transaction. Call Principal Broker Dan Cirigliano 541.297.2427

LA KRIS INN 12 suite Boutique Inn w/manager apartment. Awesome Financials, $1,600,000 .57 Acres Harrison Ave. Cleared, power nearby. Up and coming ‘hood. $85,000 SPINNAKER DR Jason Eichelberger masterpiece home. Dramatic high ceilings, wood floors, Hunter Douglas Wood Window Shutters. $820,000

285 ACRES Two Mile Road Ranch. Includes creek, bridge, three bedroom home, octagon studio, shop. Remote $980,000

Fred Gernandt, Broker David L. Davis Real Estate 1110 Alabama SE 541 290 9444

1.23 acres just east of town. End of the road. Completely private and lush. If you like close in, yet private, with lots of trees - this is the building site for you! Offered at $180,000.

Call Keeli Gernandt, David L Davis Real Estate 541-297-9535.

Would like to trade private island off Maine coast for horse friendly real estate in Bandon area. 541-380-0257.

Legal Notices 999

Public Notice

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Port of Umpqua (Port) will hold a joint public hearing of its Board of Commissioners and its Local Contract Review Board regarding adoption of Public Contracting Rules on the 15th day of February, 2023, at 700 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Port Annex Building located at 1841 Winchester Avenue, Reedsport, Oregon. To attend the hearing virtually or for questions, contact Scott Kent, Port Manager at skent@portofumpqua.net The proposed Resolution will replace and update the Port’s current Public Contracting Rules and exemptions. The public hearing will be held for the purpose of taking comments on the Port’s draft findings supporting the exemption of certain classes of special procurements and public improvement contracts from competitive bidding requirements.

Published: February 3, 2023

The World & ONPA (ID:356962)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS Case No. 23CV01813 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

COOS COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Oregon, Plaintiffs, v. ILIKE H. BOYLE and ALL

OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN

CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN, Defendants.

TO: All Other Persons Parties Unknown Claiming any Right Title Lien or Interest in the Property Described in the Complaint Herein, which Property is: located at Map No. 26-13-24B TL0600 and identified as Coos County

Tax Account No. 535000, and more particularly described

as: Beginning at an iron rod

South 0° 02’ East 606.30 feet from the North quarter corner of Section 24, Township 26 South, Range 13 West of the Willamette Meridian, Coos County, Oregon; thence South 0° 02’ East 548.70 feet to an iron rod;thence West 450.00 feet to an iron rod; thence North 11° 15’ East 416.75 feet to an iron rod; thence North 1° 27’ East 140.00 feet to an iron rod;thence East 364.83 feet to the point of beginning, being a portion of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4, Section 24, Township 26 South, Range 13 West of the Willamette Meridian, Coos County, Oregon. IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend the complaint filed against you in the aboveentitled action within 30 days after the date of the first publication of this summons. If you fail to so appear and answer, plaintiff will apply for the relief demanded in the complaint, to wit: Declaring Plaintiff to be the owner in fee simple above described real property and entitled to possession thereof, free of any estate, title, claim, lien, or interest of defendants or those claiming under defendants and enjoining defendants and those claiming under defendants from asserting any estate, title, claim, lien, or interest in the premises or any portion thereof.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:

READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY!

You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must file with the court a legal document called a “motion” or “answer.” The motion or answer or reply must be given to the court clerk or administrator within 30 days of the date of first publication specified herein along with the required filing fee. It must be in proper form and have proof of service on the plaintiff’s attorney or, if the plaintiff does not have an attorney, proof of service on the plaintiff. If you have questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help in finding an attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at http://www.oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 (in the Portland metropolitan area) or toll-free elsewhere in Oregon at (800) 452-7636.

Date of First Publication

January 27, 2023

s/Patrick M. Terry Attorney for Plaintiff PO Box 630, Coos Bay, OR 97420 (541) 756-2056, assistant@ pmtlaw.net

January 27,

Published:

February 3, February 10 and

February 17, 2023

The World & ONPA (ID:357279)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS PROBATE DEPARTMENT

In the Matter of the Estate of:

David Lowell Hudson, Jr. Decedent. Case No.: 22PB09970

NOTICE TO INTERESTED

PERSONS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the undersigned personal representative at 145 Central Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 97420, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorneys for the personal representative, Stebbins & Co, LLC, PO Box 119, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420. Dated and first published January 20, 2023. Julie Hudson

Personal Representative

Published: January 20, January 27 and February 3, 2023

The World & ONPA (ID:356939) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS

In the Matter of the Estate of SHARI L. HEATH, Deceased. Case No. 22PB11489

NOTICE TO INTERESTED

PERSONS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them to the undersigned personal representative at Lawrence Finneran LLC, Attorney at Law, 405 North Fifth Street, PO Box 359, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative.

DATED and first published this 20th day of January 2023.

Robert D. Heath

Personal Representative

Published: January 20, January 27 and February 3, 2023

The World & ONPA (ID:356875) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS PROBATE DEPARTMENT In the Matter of the Estate of: Elizabeth Siroff, Decedent. Case No.: 23PB00353

NOTICE TO INTERESTED

PERSONS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the undersigned personal representative at PO Box 119, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative, or the attorneys for the personal representative, Stebbins & Co, LLC, 145 Central Ave, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420. Dated and first published February 3, 2023 Sylvia McLeod

Personal Representative Published: February 3, February 10 and February 17, 2023

The World & ONPA (ID:357800)

Join Toastmasters!

3:30 – 4:30 pm every Monday

The Barn, Bandon City Park or via Zoom

Join Toastmasters! Make new friends. See how much fun it can be to improve speaking, listening, and leadership skills in person, or on Zoom.

Toastmasters meet Mondays (excluding holidays) in the Barn, Bandon City Park, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Be our guest in person, or on Zoom. Call Richard (707) 599-5471, for Zoom link, or general information, Heddy Radkey, (714) 388-7662.

or 2:30 pm (5 – 12 yrs) February 4th

Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay

First Saturday of each month. $5.00 per artist. Space limited, register online www. coosart.org or call 541-2673901. Questions? arted@ coosart.org. Preschool class 1:30 pm, kids 5-12 yrs. 2:30 pm. Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay. 541-267-3901 www.coosart. org.

Marshfield High School

Charity Program Pageant

3 pm, February 5th

Marshfield High School Auditorium

Marshfield High School Charity Program Pageant

Community Calendar of Events

either a Valentine's Day or Anti-Valentine's Day theme. One cupcake from each category will be selected by the group to go head-to-head on the Library's Facebook page. The creator of the cupcake with the most votes on Facebook will win a prize. Cupcakes, decorating supplies, and snacks will be provided. For more information about this event, contact the library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@northbendlibrary. org.

Woodland Management Planning Webinar Series

3-4:30 pm, February 9th

Woodland Management Planning Webinar Series. This three session webinar series is ideal for anyone interested in starting a woodland management plan. Learn how to assess your site, integrate existing maps and resource data, collect field information, schedule management activities and how to get help.

Thursdays, February 2, 9, & 16, 2023. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. Register online at https://beav. es/5dx

Questions? Contact Norma Kline at norma.kline@ oregonstate.edu or 541-5725263 ext. 25294. This is a free series brought to you by the Oregon State University Extension Service.

Community Yoga with Kelli Bosak

6 pm, February 9th Via Zoom

Coos Bay Public Library, in partnership with yoga instructor, Kelli Bosak, will co-host Community Yoga. Kelli has been practicing yoga and mindfulness for over 16 years. She has taught yoga in community health centers, schools, and jails for adults and families with all levels of experience and abilities over the last 8 years. We meet every 2nd Thursday of the

month at 6:00pm. Next class: Thursday, February 9

This virtual Community Yoga class will be a foundational group practice that includes guided instruction (and live demonstration via zoom) of basic postures, simple movements guided by breath, and accessible exercises to build strength and flexibility. Ease of movement, standing postures, supported postures, and some passive stretches will be integrated into class. Time will be given to practice breathwork, visualization and meditation. Emphasis is placed on de-stressing the body and mind to help the student find a deep calm and inner sense of wellbeing.

This FREE class is appropriate for all levels. Register for this event @ https://bit.ly/3CbG1VR *Registrants will need to complete a new student & liability form.

Free Dance Lessons

6-7:30 pm, February 9th

Downtown Health & Fitness

440 Central Ave, Coos Bay

Free Dance Lessons! For those with two left feet and a dancing soul, get ready for The Clambake Music Festival, March 9-12, 2023 with our Beginner Swing Dance Lessons. Come to any or all of our classes. For any information about The Clambake Music Festival please contact us at 541-2677665 or check out or website at www.clambakemusic.com.

Drawing Trees for Beginners

2-4 pm, February 11th

Coos Art Museum

235 Anderson Ave, Coos Bay

Learn how to break down the complex designs. How to create texture, foliage and much more. Saturday, February 11, 2023, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. Cost: $25.00, 13 yrs old – adult. All supplies provided. Register online. Coos Art

Museum 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay. 541-267-3901 www.coosart.org.

ASL Practice Place

12 pm, February 16th

Via Zoom

Coos Bay Public Library has partnered with instructor, Kandy Bergquist, to offer ASL PRACTICE PLACE via Zoom (virtual meeting software). Bergquist teaches American Sign Language and Signed English at Southwestern Oregon Community College. She has worked with the deaf and hard of hearing as an interpreter, classroom aid, and Speech Pathologist. We meet every third Thursday of the month @ 12:00pm. Next event: Thursday, February 16 Program is for those who wish to practice their ASL conversational skills and help other learners in a friendly setting. Attendees will have the opportunity to sign in ASL as a group for one hour in a casual, informal environment. This is NOT a class, but we will provide ideas for conversational topics. Beginners are welcome. Let’s sign! This program is FREE and open to anyone who wishes to sharpen their ASL conversational skills. Register for this event @ https://bit. ly/3m6j2WG

Woodland Management Planning Webinar Series

3-4:30 pm, February 16th Woodland Management Planning Webinar Series. This three session webinar series is ideal for anyone interested in starting a woodland management plan. Learn how to assess your site, integrate existing maps and resource data, collect field information, schedule management activities and how to get help. Thursdays, February 2, 9, & 16, 2023. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. Register

online at https://beav.es/5dx

Questions? Contact Norma Kline at norma.kline@ oregonstate.edu or 541-5725263 ext. 25294. This is a free series brought to you by the Oregon State University Extension Service.

Free Dance Lessons

6-7:30 pm, February 16th

Downtown Health & Fitness

440 Central Ave, Coos Bay

Free Dance Lessons! For those with two left feet and a dancing soul, get ready for The Clambake Music Festival, March 9-12, 2023 with our Beginner Swing Dance Lessons. Come to any or all of our classes. For any information about The Clambake Music Festival please contact us at 541-2677665 or check out or website at www.clambakemusic.com.

Creating Canvas Journals with Tracy Dihle

1-5 pm, February 18th Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave, Coos Bay

Make your own custom canvas journals that are great for personal sketchbooks or as unique gifts! All supplies provided. Saturday, February 18, 2023, 1pm – 5 pm, ages 13 – adult. $45.00 member, $60.00 non-member. Register online. Coos Art Museum 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay. 541-267-3901 www.coosart.org.

Lighthouse School

February 23rd & February 28th

Lighthouse School

The Lighthouse School is a Waldorf inspired Public Charter School right here in Coos Bay with a specific focus on holistic education through project based learning and interactive play.

The Lighthouse School offers

no tuition cost and is FREE to attend, if you are interested in learning more about this school or want to inquire about enrolling your student for the 2023-24 school year, we invite you to attend our one-hour Orientation event on either Thursday February 23 or Tuesday February 28th, 2023. Please call The Lighthouse School at 541751-1649 to reserve your spot today!

Free Dance Lessons

6-7:30 pm, February 23rd

Downtown Health & Fitness

440 Central Ave, Coos Bay

Free Dance Lessons! For those with two left feet and a dancing soul, get ready for The Clambake Music Festival, March 9-12, 2023 with our Beginner Swing Dance Lessons. Come to any or all of our classes. For any information about The Clambake Music Festival please contact us at 541-2677665 or check out or website at www.clambakemusic.com.

Free Dance Lessons

2:30-4 pm, February 25th

North Bayside Grange, 67577 E Bay Rd, N. Bend

Free Dance Lessons! For those with two left feet and a dancing soul, get ready for The Clambake Music Festival, March 9-12, 2023 with our Beginner Swing Dance Lessons. Come to any or all of our classes. For any information about The Clambake Music Festival please contact us at 541-2677665 or check out or website at www.clambakemusic.com.

Free Dance Lessons

2:30-4 pm, February 26th North Bayside Grange 67577 E Bay Rd, N. Bend

Free Dance Lessons! For those with two left feet and a dancing soul, get ready for The Clambake Music

Central Boulevard.

• 11:59 am, family dispute, 800 block of E 5th Street.

Reedsport

• 1:12 am, animal problem, 900 block of Juniper Avenue.

• 5:05 pm, recovered stolen vehicle, Winchester Avenue and N 10th.

Saturday 01/28:

North Bend

• 4:16 am, dispute, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.

• 7:23 am, criminal mischief, Brussells and Newmark.

• 11:05 am, stalking, 2100 block of Meade Avenue.

• 11:46 am, 66 year old male

cited result of traffic stop, Sherman and Union.

• 1:13 pm, civil issue, 2100 block of Wall Street.

• 2:33 pm, 41 year old female cited result of traffic stop, Union and Florida.

• 3:48 pm, 51 year old male cited result of traffic stop, Bay and Sherman.

• 4:13 pm, 44 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on warrant, 2200 block of Pony Creek Road.

• 4:51 pm, civil problem, 2100 block of McPherson.

• 5:10 pm, 19 year old male cited result of traffic stop, Newmark and Broadway.

• 5:45 pm, someone breaking out window of vehicle, 700 block of Tower Street.

• 6:29 pm, disorderly conduct, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.

• 6:33 pm, theft of gaming voucher, 3200 block of Tremont Avenue.

• 11:31 pm, 35 year old male transported to Coos County

jail for domestic assault IV and strangulation, 2400 block of Lewis Street. Coos Bay

• 12:44 am, 35 year old male cited on warrant, 200 block of Norman Avenue.

• 1:31 am, weapons offense, 200 block of Norman Avenue.

• 1:41 am, recovered stolen vehicle, 100 block of N 4th Street.

• 4:09 am, 34 year old male cited for driving while suspended, 200 block of N Broadway Street.

• 4:35 am, 26 year old cited result of traffic stop, 1000 block of S 1st Street.

• 5:37 am, assault, 1700 block of Thompson Road.

• 5:39 am, burglary, 1300 block of Ocean Boulevard.

• 8:38 am, stolen vehicle/ recovered, 700 block of N Bayshore Drive.

• 9:46 am, dog complaint, 1800 block of N 28th Court.

• 11:10 am, criminal mischief, 2400 block of Woodland Drive.

• 11:47 am, dog bite 1300 block of Crocker Street.

• 12:15 pm, civil problem, 1600 block of N 17th Street.

• 1:27 pm, dispute, 1200 block of Newmark Avenue.

• 2:20 pm, dog at large, 400 block of Madison.

• 2:41 pm, disorderly conduct, S Broadway and Ingersoll Avenue.

• 3:47 pm, disorderly conduct, 200 block of N Wall.

• 4:44 pm, 22 year old female and 38 year old male cited for theft III, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.

• 4:45 pm, disorderly conduct, Hall and 1st.

• 4:47 pm, 44 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on warrant, 800 block of California Avenue.

• 5:29 pm, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.

• 5:32 pm, theft, 100 block of E Ingersoll Avenue.

• 8:19 pm, civil problem, 1100 block of S 1st Street.

• 8:54 pm, 27 year old male cited result of traffic stop, 100 block of S 7th Street.

• 9:46 pm, burglary, 600 block of Newmark Avenue.

• 11:28 pm, 25 year old male cited for driving while suspended, 1000 block of Evans Boulevard.

• 11:52 pm, noise complaint, 700 block of S Cammann St. Coquille

• 7:03 pm, dispute, 1400 block of Ivy Street.

Reedsport

• 1:32 pm, stolen vehicle, The Cut.

• 9:20 am, trespassing, Creative Merchantile.

• 12:04 pm, civil dispute, 2900 block of Ridgeway Drive.

• 12:48 pm, disturbance, 900 block of S Hill Drive.

Sunday 01/29:

North Bend

• 8:22 am, 31 year old male cited result of traffic stop, Marion and 14th Street.

• 8:57 am, injured dog, 1800 block of Clark Street.

• 10:18 am, neighbor dispute, 2800 block of Virginia Avenue.

• 10:29 am, juvenile

problem, 2000 block of 11th Court.

• 1:00 pm, disorderly conduct, Broadway and Inland Drive.

• 2:39 pm, juvenile problem, 2500 block of 13th Street.

• 5:01 pm, harassment, 800 block of California Avenue.

• 5:11 pm, 67 year old female cited result of traffic stop, Virginia and Maple.

• 5:51 pm, caught subject in vehicle, 3700 block of Pacific Avenue.

• 11:14 pm, stolen vehicle, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.

• 11:43 pm, Winston Police served 44 year old female on two North Bend Police warrants and two Coos Bay Police warrants, Winston.

Coos Bay

• 11:10 am, 21 year old cited result of traffic stop, Clark Street and Brussells.

• 11:51 am, subject armed with knife, 1200 block of Newmark.

• 11:54 am, Roseburg Police served male subject on Coos Bay Police warrant, 1000 block of SE Douglas Avenue.

• 12:14 pm, 39 year old female cited for driving while suspended, Newmark and Fir.

• 12:13 pm, animal complaint, Empire Lakes/ John Topits Park.

• 12:19 pm, fraud, 1300 block Myrtle Avenue.

• 12:14 pm, 33 year old male transported to Coos County jail, Commercial and Pine.

• 12:52 pm, civil problem, 900 block of Newmark Avenue.

• 2:49 pm, stalking, 700

block of Taylor Avenue.

• 3:37 pm, 60 year old male transported to Coos County jail for domestic menacing, 1400 block of Lakeshore

Drive.

• 3:59 pm, criminal mischief, 300 block of S 6th Street.

• 3:58 pm, dispute, Empire Lakes.

• 4:56 pm, threats, 900 block of Sanford Street.

• 5:24 pm, neighbor dispute,

Monday 01/23:

2000 block of Everett Avenue.

• 7:36 pm, burglary, 900 block of Augustine.

Coquille

• 3:51 pm, 46 year old female cited for driving while suspended, 500 block of N Collier.

Bandon Police Blotter

• 12:38 pm, juvenile problem, 900 block of 2nd Street SE.

• 1:48 pm, juvenile problem, 1000 block of Allegheny Avenue SE.

• 3:12 pm, identity theft, 40 block of Harlem Avenue SE.

• 8:23 pm, hit and run, Beach Loop Road.

Tuesday 01/24:

• 11:12 am, code violation, 1600 block of Oregon Avenue SW.

• 4:53 pm, missing person, 1000 block of Allegheny Avenue SW.

• 8:19 pm, restraining order violation, 800 block of Division Avenue NE.

Wednesday 01/25:

• 1:17 pm, minor in possession of

burglary, 60 block of 17th Street SE.

Saturday 01/28:

• 10:36 am, animal at large, 2600 block of Cascara Avenue.

• 4:00 pm, traffic hazard, Bullards Bridge.

• 5:01 pm, custodial interference, 60 block of Michigan Avenue SE.

North Bend police welcome

Aaron Mayo

The North Bend Police Department congratulated Officer Aaron Mayo (center) on graduation from the Department of Public Safety Standards & Training’s 16-week Basic Police Academy on Friday, January 20. Attending the graduation was North Bend Police Officer White, Sgt. Perry, Chief McCullough, and Captain Mitts. Officer Mayo is the first of three new police officers to be sent to the academy. He returned to North Bend to complete two more phases of in-house training before heading out on patrol alone come April 2023. Contributed photo

The Chamber Minute: What a great night

Wow, did we have a great evening this past Saturday with the Bay Area Chamber Awards Banquet—Together

We Create Opportunity!

Besides acknowledging the Officers, Board members, and Committee Chairs for the past year, and introducing the members who will serve in those roles for the upcoming year, we had a variety of awards and recognitions which truly made this a community celebration. Citizen of the year is an honor given to a member of our community who, by consistently giving of their time, energy and resources, has made Oregon’s Bay Area a better place to live. For 2022 that award was given to Pam

Plummer. Our Citizen of the year, while actively serving on a variety of local boards and committees, has focused much of her community volunteer work on the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce programs and projects. She is a former Chamber President who didn’t miss a beat in her involvement as she left that role. Pam headed and revitalized the Business Development team, Marketing and Communication and stepped into the role of Chamber Treasurer to revamp and simplify our procedures. Pam leads by example and invites you come along.

The Business of the Year award is given to a business that has exhibited excellence

in products and customer service; contributed time, manpower and resources to community improvement projects; and excelled in employee relations and training. This year’s Business recipient is well known for their excellent service and professional quality. They look to maximize their positive effect on the community, their team and their families through a hygiene driven practice of dentistry that focuses on the patients they serve. Beyond business their focus is community. They strongly support their employees’ volunteer efforts in every aspect of community service. The 2022 award went to South Coast Family

Dentistry, honoring their excellence in business and strong commitment to the community. Chamber Member of the Year is given to that member, who through their efforts, has carried us to a new level of community service and impact. In 2022 Our Chamber member of this year is Steve Nye. In the Chamber, he is one always willing to lead by doing. Besides the projects he has spearheaded in the past two years, he took over the challenges of Chamber Treasurer and heads a marketing team which is taking new approaches to membership and creating revenues.

Frontline Educators— Teachers were given the 2022

Community Award to honor a group which has stood in the forefront of our area’s response to our children’s needs during this pandemic over the last three years. Teacher representatives from Coos Bay, North Bend, South Coast Education Service District and Southwestern Oregon Community College were brought to the stage. The Prefontaine Athletic Award went to Dominic Montiel, a record setting outstanding football player and scholar.

What a great evening! See you at next year’s Banquet on the last Saturday of January.

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Timm Slater