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DA discusses backlog NICHOLAS JOHNSON The World COOS COUNTY — In the midst of the COVID-19 public health crisis, court systems across the country are facing huge potential backlogs of cases once things resume and Coos County is no exception.

“For lack of a better term, we’re going to be swamped,”

Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said.

Out of custody trials, which account for the majority of Coos County’s criminal trials, have been postponed until at least June, 1.

“On June 1, the chief justice for Oregon is going to reassess where we’re at, and hopefully we’ll start putting things back into a normal calendar,” Frasier

said.

Frasier said that all in-custody trials are still proceeding as normal.

“If you are in custody and you’ve invoked your 60-day trial rights, those cases will proceed within 60 days. If you have waved the 60 day statute, or it doesn’t apply to you and you’re in custody, then the trial is going to be moved to sometime after

June 1,” Frasier said.

According to Frasier, when the chief justice allows for non-custody trials to be scheduled again it’s going to be an issue for the court.

“It’s going to be a pretty huge issue, because we’re going to have all these cases,” Frasier said.

On the bright side, with fewer cases each day Frasier said he

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and his staff have been able catch-up on work that has been piling up due to lack of staff.

“I’ve been down a lawyer for almost a year know here, and I haven’t gotten anybody, frankly, to apply. We’ve got some in-take that we haven’t been able to get to. Most of it is misdemeanor stuff, and that’s one of the things my people are working on now,” Frasier said.

Homeless woman talks about pandemic JILLIAN WARD The World

Top: A stack of books pile up at a book drop off site in front of the Coquille Public Library on Tuesday, April 7. Most Coos County libraries have temporarily closed their doors in order to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Right: A quiet afternoon near downtown Coquille. The streets have been a little emptier than normal with more people staying home.

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Local stores restocking essentials ADAM ROBERTSON The World SOUTH COAST — Some items have become increasingly hard to find in stores as people stock up for social isolation, but some stores are hoping to get more inventory soon while others were able to keep a supply available.

On Tuesday, the Reedsport Pharmacy announced they had

hand sanitizer and other essentials back in stock. They reported having sanitizers, gloves, rubbing alcohol, aloe, vitamin C, and zinc. Stores in general have been unable to get masks, and the Reedsport Pharmacy has limited thermometers.

According to Jamaica Sandiford, Reedsport Pharmacy has maintained stock of some of hard-to-find items throughout the crisis. She recalled there

were only two days where they didn’t have them. She said she buys stock through a wholesaler, checking throughout the day, and orders some whenever she sees they’re available.

“I’ve been fortunate,” she said, adding that most of her customers have been good about only buying one or two of a given item. “Thankfully we haven’t had a lot of greedy people around.”

The pharmacy has also been reaching out to businesses and individuals they know have a strong need, to make arrangements to provide some of these items.

The Safeway grocery stores in Coos Bay and Reedsport have been struggling to get other essentials in stock, such as hand sanitizers and toilet paper.

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SOUTH COAST — As homeless individuals filter into the Nancy Devereux Center for food, showers and supplies, they are now being screened for basic novel coronavirus symptoms.

“We have a no-touch thermometer,” said Tara Johnson, executive director for the nonprofit, though she added that the honor system is still being used as well. “I will say we listen during the day and haven’t had anyone coughing more than their normal.”

While the pandemic pitched hundreds of people into unemployment and affected businesses everywhere, Johnson mentioned in previous interviews that the homeless population hadn’t taken much notice of the crisis yet. However, one homeless individual contacted The World to share her concerns as she finds herself unsheltered and vulnerable to the disease.

“All things are not created equal in this world and especially in America,” Sierra Fox said, currently living out of her car in Brookings. “This pandemic is really bringing to light the heartlessness of our society.”

Fox says she understood early on that the virus was a concern.

“But I didn’t realize it would reach the proportions that it is now,” she said.

From the perspective of someone living without a home, Fox said it is difficult to keep clean. She initially used public restrooms north of Brookings, but said once they were closed had no choice but to come into town.

“By forcing me to come into town, I’m more exposed to people and they’re more exposed to me as well,” she said. “There are wonderful people in this community, both with a house and without, and none of us want to make each other sick.

We all want to be safe.”

When asked what she feels could be done to help the homeless population during the ongoing pandemic, Fox said she’d like to see trailers with showers provided or for hotels to open up so the homeless can shelter through the crisis.

As for what is being done in Coos County, Johnson said the Homeless Taskforce led by Coos Health and Wellness is making headway.

“We’re working on a location that would be available to quarantine people and have taken a few steps forward, a few steps back, as with everything,” Johnson said. “… Obviously now they found a few cases in Curry County, so in my mind it’s a matter of ‘when’ (it is found here) … not necessarily for the homeless community, but we’ll see.”

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Reedsport law enforcement offer support to essential workers ADAM ROBERTSON The World REEDSPORT — Over the weekend, the Reedsport Police Department, Oregon State Police, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Reedsport Fire Department and other entities, showed support for essential employees working at the hospital and stores during the ongoing health crisis.

“We gathered a bunch of law enforcement, fire department and rescue personnel to show our support,” said Reedsport Police Chief Matt Smart.

“We just want to make sure they know how much we support them.”

The April 4 procession started at the Lower Umpqua Hospital parking lot, as well as the Reedsport medical clinics and emergency services. Smart recalled they gathered in a space where they could practice social distancing, then smaller groups went by the hospital.

The event was coordinated by Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Brad O’Dell, along with local entities.

“We wanted to say thank you for everything they do to support us each and every day,” he said. “We wanted to show our support as well.”

Hospital staff members came out to the front of the hospital and cheered as the vehicles went by. Dr. Greg Shank, general surgeon at LUH, said it was nice to see the support from everyone. LUH Chief Administrative Officer Ryan Fowler also expressed his

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Law enforcement and rescue personnel stand in the Lower Umpqua Hospital parking lot as a show of support to the medical staff. gratitude.

“The support of our fire, rescue and law enforcement means everything to us during this difficult time,” he said. “We appreciate their recognition of health care workers as we continue to serve our community.”

From there, the caravan went to the grocery stores, restaurants and other essential businesses. They drove

by McKay’s and Safeway to cover most of the businesses that are still open.

Smart said these businesses are providing food for the community and maintaining a sense of normalcy.

“While we may not have visited every location, we want to make sure that our community knows that we support them in our continued effort to get through this together,” stated the RPD on its Facebook page.

Smart added that they wanted to keep the procession small and low-key to avoid a large gathering that

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Reedsport police, Douglas County Sheriff, and Reedsport Fire vehicles make their way to the Lower Umpqua Hospital to show their support for the work hospital staff is doing during the COVID-19 crisis. couldn’t maintain social distancing. He offered an apology to anyone who

thinks they should have been involved and weren’t contacted.

The RPD encourages the community to use local businesses, whenever pos-

sible, to support the local economy during the health crisis.

County passes resolution declaring public health crisis NICHOLAS JOHNSON The World COOS COUNTY — At Tuesday’s Coos County Board of Commissioners meeting, commissioners adopted a resolution put forth by the Coos County Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee to join other counties

statewide in working to find funding and develop programs to help treat addiction.

This resolution was crafted by the LADPC to open up dialogue between local addiction services and local government, so that public needs regarding addiction can be discussed with the Oregon Legisla-

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“This isn’t just a justice system problem or a healthcare problem, this is a community problem that affects almost every family in our county,” said Kate Frame, a consultant who’s been working with the LADPC. “And when we look at statewide data, it’s clear that our county is not alone in this fight.”

In 2018, Oregon Governor Kate Brown released an executive order that acknowledges addiction as a public health crisis. In

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approving this resolution, the Coos County Commissioners have joined a number of Oregon counties in recognizing that health crisis.

“We do agree with Governor Brown’s executive order that addiction is a public health crisis, and additional funding needs to go to dealing with addiction,” Coos County Commissioner Mellissa Cribbins said.

The resolution cites local statistics to express need for improved addiction treatment in Coos County. According to data the resolution pulls from the Oregon Health Authority, more than 65% of children in foster care in Coos County have a parent with diagnosed substance use disorder.

Among statewide statistics, the resolution declares that the current system of care in Coos County is insufficient to meet the

necessary levels of care for a continuum of recovery treatment. The resolution argues that since addiction recovery and treatment is lifelong, a continuum of services should be developed to reflect that.

“This slow response is unacceptable and is costing Coos County residents their lives and unjustly burdening our local systems. Addiction is a lifelong disease that requires a continuum of care that supports long term recovery, and we need our elected officials to prioritize this,” Frame said.

The direct orders of the resolution are to support governor Brown’s executive order, monitor the work of the Oregon Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, and to advocate to state and federal elected leaders to develop and implement a comprehensive statewide addiction recovery continuum of care, with funding to match.

“This resolution shows a couple of things, one is the fact that we acknowledge a problem, and two is that we believe more resources need to go toward treating addiction. We’re willing to lobby and put our foot behind finding those resources,” Cribbins said.

Passing the resolution

is just the beginning of the work that the LADPC hopes to do with the Commissioners. There are continued efforts to open up dialogue between local partners on this issue and government in order to seek state funding for new programs.

“I think this has made our commissioners more aware of the issues in our community,” LADPC Chairperson Ross Acker said. “My expectations as the chair is to continue conversations with the commissioners and bring them further into our conversations topics that are important to the committee.”

In partnering with other counties that have also declared a public health crisis regarding addiction, a dialogue is also opened with programs throughout the state to develop programs that best fit the needs of the community.

“We’ve talked about having a small cohort of professionals from the committee visiting other sobering centers like the one in Grants Pass, and other facilities like that.

Contacting other facilities to try and find out which model will make the most sense for our county,” Acker said.

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High school seniors face unanswered questions ZACH SILVA The World SOUTH COAST — While the transition from high school to whatever is next is often full of questions with some confusion along the way, it has never been more true than this year.

The high school graduating class of 2020 is being met with a spring term that has been drastically altered due to the coronavirus.

This has left administrators and students alike trying to figure out what the next two months hold.

“Oh we have questions about whether or not they’re coming back, what the requirements for graduation are going to be and what the actual graduation will look like,” said North Bend High School principal Darrell Johnston on Tuesday morning.

Through an executive order from Governor Kate Brown, schools across the state are closed until at least April 28. But on Tuesday Johnston was eagerly anticipating guidance from the Oregon Department of Education on what the next two months will hold for students. While the future is currently in flux, he was spending time having conversations with his seniors.

“The thing is, they all think I know what’s going on. That’s the funny thing,” said Johnston.

“This is so new and such an adventure and it would

be great to have answers but it has been fun talking to kids about well, what are you going to do? What are your plans going to be when you graduate because you know you’re going to graduate, what’s next?”

The question of what’s next has been popular.

Especially regarding how graduation requirements will adjust to this period of time away from school followed by distant learning.

“There are going to be some changes. There has to be. Because we can’t hold kids accountable for the last few weeks. Even the last nine weeks of distant learning, it’s not going to be like they were here at school. It’s not going to be exactly that opportunity,” said Bryan Trendell, the superintendent of Coos Bay Public Schools, on Monday on KMHS radio.

“It’s going to be tougher for kids to earn those credits so we’ve got to make some concessions for kids. And that’s going to be okay.”

Now local schools are transitioning into that distant learning that will have students working with their teachers in a new setting.

As local school districts have passed out devices for students to work on and teachers have worked to put together lesson plans, students have been looking to see what this will exactly look like.

“I would say I’m pretty good with this technology and even getting all of this

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North Bend seniors react to a speech during last year’s graduation ceremony. Plans are up in the air for this year’s senior class with no certainty schools will reopen to students this school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. at the same time, here are all of your classes and I’m getting email after email after email, I’m getting multiple random remind texts on my phone from one class or another. Even for me, who is used to this and used to scheduling my stuff around online classes, it’s like almost overwhelming,” said Marshfield High School senior Alex Hernandez.

Online courses are nothing new for Hernandez, who has been taking them through Southwestern

Oregon Community College as he works toward earning his Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer. The AAOT allows students to satisfy various general-education requirements while at a state university.

Hernandez is currently leaning towards attending the University of Oregon in the fall.

While he has made up his mind on his college decision, for some students this has been a continued challenge as universities and colleges have

cancelled campus tours.

Schools across the state have also shifted deadlines adding time for students to accept offers.

While Hernandez has his fall plans set, now it is about what happens next.

Classes are being moved online, his tennis season has been postponed, prom has been canceled and the next big item on the table is what to do about graduation.

“I think most people realize that a graduation in the form of what we’ve

seen before with the entirely full gymnasium and hundreds of people coming to watch us all gather and walk down the stage probably isn’t going to happen,” Hernandez said.

“People are disappointed and didn’t want stuff to be canceled but I think most people have realized, especially people my age … it’s more important that we follow the rules and follow them to the best of our ability and, essentially, save lives.”

Coos Bay man arrested for burglary, trespass and stolen vehicle COOS BAY — A Coos Bay man was arrested on multiple charges following the report of a burglary last Thursday.

According to a press release from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, on April 2 at approximately 4:23 p.m. the deputies were dispatched to the report of a burglary of an occupied residence off of East Bay Road in Coos Bay. Deputies arrived at the location and made contact with one of the victims. The male victim informed the deputies the suspect had forced entry into the front of the residence, stole multiple firearms, tactical gear and other miscellaneous items, the release stated. The male told deputies his wife was inside the residence during the incident but the suspect did

not enter the room she was in, and Bend Police Department was she was unable to move or leave. notified.

After clearing from the first On April 4, the stolen vehicle residence on East Bay Road, depwas located in the Englewood uties were dispatched to a report area of Coos Bay by a conof criminal trespass just down the cerned resident. Bradley-Olson road from the residence where the was in the driver’s seat of the burglary took place. The owner of vehicle and was placed into the second property had a male, custody. later identified as 27-year-old The vehicle was located by a Dallas Bradley-Olson, no town of Dallas Bradley-Olson combined effort from the Coos residence listed, on surveillance video driving County Sheriff’s Office, North Bend Police onto the property, allegedly taking items and Department, Coos Bay Police Department then leaving. and the Oregon State Police.

It was later discovered the vehicle BradThe search of the vehicle found some of ley-Olson was driving was a stolen Volvo the stolen items and narcotics. The stolen station wagon out of North Bend. The North property, including the vehicle, was returned

to the owners on scene. Deputies and officers on scene were able to connect Bradley-Olson to the burglary, trespass and stolen vehicle, according to the press release.

Bradley-Olson was later transported to the Coos County Jail where he was booked and housed on multiple charges, including one count of first-degree burglary-occupied dwelling, two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft, one count of second-degree criminal trespassing, one count of second-degree criminal mischief, six counts of felon in possession of a firearm and on count of possession of a controlled substance, as well as other charges from the other agencies.

City of Powers declares state of New Powers police chief sworn in after months of searching emergency over coronavirus AMANDA LINARES The World POWERS — The Powers City Council declared a state of emergency Tuesday night at a meeting held via telephone conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The declaration, which ends Dec. 31 or until the emergency has subsided, authorizes city officials and council members to enact a number of safety measures to minimize or mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

In compliance with Gov. Kate Brown’s stay-home order and other statewide mandates related to COVID-19, the city has already initiated a number of temporary closures of its city-owned facilities, parks and other property.

The Powers City Council voted 6-1 to approve the resolution declaring a state of emergency. Like other cities around Coos County, the declaration will allow the City of Powers to request FEMA reimbursement for costs associated with battling the coronavirus.

It will also allow the city to remain compliant with the governor’s orders as well as provide assistance to local businesses that have been adversely affected by COVID-19 in seeking state and federal funding, said Powers City Recorder Stephanie

Patterson.

“Councilor Wanda Blanton is my liaison, along with Mayor Robert Kohn, and both have been instrumental in assisting to get vital information on the COVID-19 pandemic and related Governor’s orders out to our community members,” wrote Patterson in an email.

Over the past few weeks, the team has collaborated to produce and distribute numerous informational flyers and signage around the city as a way to keep citizens informed of the nationwide outbreak.

According to Patterson, the city has also implemented social distancing guidelines at its city offices

and facilities as well as provided local businesses with social distancing signs and hand-wipe sanitization stations for their high-traffic areas to reduce potential transmission of COVID-19.

“The Council and city staff are committed to providing essential services to the Powers community, including continuous informational updates and referrals to resources for assistance,” wrote Patterson. “We are, after all, servants of the public.”

As of Tuesday, April 7, there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 in Coos County.

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POWERS — The City of Powers now has a new police chief.

According to Powers City Recorder Stephanie Patterson, Kevin Macho was sworn in as the new Powers police chief at a ceremony held Monday, March 30.

The Powers City Council interviewed Macho for the position on Feb. 19 and at a special meeting the next day presented him with a conditional job offer, said Patterson.

After completing all the required conditions

of hire, the council voted unanimously to approve Macho’s employment.

Councilor Jim Adamek did not participate in the vote as it was noted he was absent.

“The council and I are very pleased to have Chief Macho on board,” wrote Patterson in an email. “He has been working with us collaboratively and has been a real team player already, working to streamline communication and work on issues together effectively.”

“We are looking forward to having a continued positive police presence in town to serve the community.”

Macho replaces former Powers Police Chief Robert Baker, whose controversial termination last year received mixed reactions from the city’s citizens.

According to Patterson, over the next few weeks Macho will be hosting numerous meet-and-greet sessions with community members outside the Powers Police Department.

The sessions will follow social distancing guidelines and other cautionary actions passed down from the state to protect citizens against the potential spread of COVID-19, Patterson added.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t cut our heritage trees

Attention, users of Simpson Park and any tree lovers out there. The City of North Bend has put out a request for bids to clear cut most of the south half of Simpson Park. This will destroy the most historic part of the park and our heritage with it. The trees to be taken are all marked with orange Xs on the trunks of the trees, but facing into the park. They are not visible to passersby.

All the giant redwoods but two or three are to go, as are the giant Monterey cypresses, almost certainly planted by L. J. Simpson, North Bend City founder, before he deeded the land to the city in 1915. That makes them over 100 years old.

The redwoods should easily live to be 1000 years old or more. That is what is called HERITAGE. In addition, two big leaf maples, a half dozen or more large Douglas firs and about a dozen specimen trees are doomed.

I’ve learned indirectly, that the Parks Director wants them gone because they are shading out the playground. Why was the playground constructed where it would be shaded out, if that is a concern? Why not place it where the museum was — much sunnier and less windy conditions? Much cheaper to move the playground than remove the trees in question which would normally be expensive. Yes, access to the new parks headquarters would have to be reconfigured, but is doable.

This decision is a terrible one and badly needs to be reconsidered — for financial reasons, for climate warming and for future park users.

Playgrounds are important but many of us go to the parks for the trees. Let’s keep as many of them as we can.

Steve Skinner North Bend

Leave the majestic trees for all to enjoy

I share the concerns of other North Bend residents regarding the proposed logging of many mature trees in Simpson Park.

A few of the marked trees are not healthy, and it would be beneficial to cut them.

However, the majority of them are incredibly strong specimens, most of which were planted

by L. J. Simpson and left as a legacy for the citizens of North Bend when he deeded the property to the city in 1915.

These include five huge 100+ year-old redwoods and three Monterrey cypress, six Douglas firs, two big leaf maples, all of similar age as the redwoods.

A few of these trees need care and would benefit from the trimming of dead branches, but they are all beautiful, sturdy specimens, and without them, Simpson Park would be profoundly changed. Because trees need care is not a valid reason for cutting them down.

Another reason given is the plan for a parking lot at the south end of the park. There is plenty of available space for parking without taking all of the trees along Union Avenue.

Some of those trees that were planted too close to larger ones are not prospering and could be cut for the benefit of all, but please leave the majestic redwoods, firs, and others for the benefit of all North Bend residents.

There was a song back in the 70’s with the lyrics, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” North Bend should not follow suit.

Natalie Ranker North Bend

In defense of the editor

Michael Nagy’s letter in the Monday edition seems to ignore that The World also carries conservative columns

by Pat Buchanan, John Stossel, and Byron York. Does he think his viewpoint is the only one deserving to be printed?

I commend the publisher and editor for continuing to present editorials from both sides in approximately balanced numbers.

Keep on doing what you do, and know that you have support out here.

By the way, I have been a registered Republican ever since getting the right to vote at age 21 (yes, that long ago). I have supported such noted Oregon Republicans as Tom McCall, Mark Hatfield, Bob Packwood, and (in House Dist. 23) John Schoon, Lane Shetterly, and Jim Thompson, and I voted for Knute Buehler two years ago.

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Thank you for sane letter

Thank you Michael Nagy for your correct and very sane letter.

Anne Wilson Coos Bay

The emperor is naked!

GENE LYONS As was only fitting on St. Patrick’s Day, my brother Tommy and I congratulated each other on our hardy Irish peasant genes. Centuries of living on dirt floors with pigs, we smugly agreed, have rendered us Micks immune from contagion.

Um, except for our grandfather Michael Sheedy, who died in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic -- the last time a highly contagious virus with no immunity and no vaccine spread worldwide. He’s buried in Elizabethport, New Jersey, within walking distance of the salt water that carried his family here from County Cork on socalled “coffin ships” (because so many passengers died at sea) during the Great Irish Famine.

He was 32.

That’s basically all we know. Our mother was 2 when her father died; her mother remarried. We must have Sheedy cousins somewhere, but we’ve never met them.

But no, Tommy and I are hardly immune. Nor is anybody else we love.

Meanwhile, we also agreed that if anything good can possibly come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it could only be the decline and fall of Boss Trump, the world’s biggest and most incompetent bluffer.

Now we begin to understand how the man managed to go bankrupt running casinos. He never knows what he’s talking about, refuses to be corrected and surrounds himself with flatterers. Eventually, people quit believing his lies and the merrygo-round shudders to a stop.

Then he’s off to the next scam, playing a savvy businessman on TV, fleecing gullible students at “Trump University,” laundering dirty money for Russian gangsters, whatever. Everything he touches is crooked; the illusion ultimately fades.

Polls are beginning to show that Trump is pretty much down to the core of his cultlike base.

According to The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin: “A new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll finds only 37 percent of Americans ‘now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they’re hearing from the president.’ Sixty percent have ‘not very much or no trust at all in what he’s saying.’”

There will be far fewer before the COVID-19 crisis ends.

Especially now that Trump has reversed himself and begun repeating what experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have been telling him all along. About two months too late.

Besides, you know he can’t stick to it.

Remember when Trump kept telling us the virus was, like, this big nothingburger, and Democratic concerns were a “hoax” meant to take him down?

On Jan. 22, he announced: “We have it totally under control.

It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

One month later, on Feb. 24, Trump tweeted, “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. ... Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

On March 6, Boss Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control. He said scientists there were awed by his knowledge of immunology. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’” Trump boasted. “Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

Or maybe he’s just full of it. I believe no doctor said any

such thing. But who’s going to contradict Trump? A dedicated professional like Dr. Fauci has a profound duty to do as much as he can in the face of the crisis.

We’ve all seen what happens to government professionals who contradict the boss.

Then there was this classic Trumpian pronouncement, explaining why he prevented a cruise ship infected with the COVID-19 virus from docking: “I like the numbers being where they are,” he said. “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”

Got that? Trump wanted the Grand Princess, with more than 3,000 souls on board, to remain at sea -- essentially a huge, floating petri dish of contagion.

Not for the sake of passengers and crew, but his own political convenience. If a crasser, more amoral pronouncement has been made by an American president, I’d like to know what it is.

Oh, and this: “I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s “nasty” question about dumping the White House pandemic response team apparently just because President Obama had created it.

Trump pretended no knowledge of any such thing.

Down at the county courthouse, this is known as the “Some Other Dude Done It” defense. It almost never works.

Meanwhile, the court flatterers on Fox News have pivoted on a dime. Yesterday’s Democratic hoax is today’s existential crisis, and Trump’s bold, decisive leadership has protected us all.

Seriously, that’s the new Trumpist line: Big Brother was always right.

Except on the crackpot fringes, it’s not going to play.

This time, Trump’s sheer, malign incompetence is going to cost thousands their livelihoods and lives. All but the most far gone cultists will turn against him.

Kissinger’s call for a New World Order

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was “A World Restored,” his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars.

The balance-of-power peace these men achieved lasted -- with the significant exception of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 -- for the full century, from 1815 to 1914.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal Friday, Kissinger declared that it is now an imperative that the world’s leaders, even as they deal with the raging pandemic, begin to make the “transition to the post-coronavirus order.”

“Failure to do so could set the world on fire.”

Yet, the ingredients Kissinger considers essential for establishing that new world order appear, like ventilators, to be in short supply.

“Sustaining public trust,” asserts Kissinger, “is crucial ... to international peace and stability.”

But how do we trust again our adversary China, after its criminal cover-up of the menace and magnitude of the virus unleashed in Wuhan?

How do we trust again this regime that was, until recently, blaming the coronavirus on U.S. Army troops visiting Wuhan?

Observing governments thrashing about in the crisis, the phrase that comes to mind is not “public trust” as much as “every nation for itself.”

On Monday, The Wall Street Journal described Europe’s recent behavior thus: “EU countries unilaterally shut borders and hoarded vital medical gear, leaving people stranded far from home, grocery stores struggling to stock shelves and hospitals desperate to save critically ill patients.

“When Italy and Spain, reeling from some of the world’s most deadly outbreaks, urged their richer and healthier Northern neighbors to help, Dutch politicians brushed off the appeals as new signs of southerners’ mismanagement.”

Last week, the EU’s Court of Justice ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic broke EU law by refusing to relocate refugees during the migrant crisis in 2015. The three nations offered no apologies.

Last month, Greece used force to stop Syrian refugees from entering its territory.

According to Human Rights Watch, Greek troops and armed men at the Greece-Turkey land border sexually assaulted, robbed and stripped asylum seekers and migrants, driving them back into Turkey. The EU has stayed largely silent.

When Donald Trump’s issued his Jan. 31 travel ban on those who had recently been in China, candidate Joe Biden denounced Trump for “hysterical xenophobia and fearmongering.”

Biden now thinks Trump did the right thing.

Even lifetime liberals can put ideology on the shelf when the voice of the people is loud and clear enough.

We must “struggle to heal the wounds to the world economy,” said Kissinger.

Yet, the crisis has revealed that a prominent feature of this global economy is that China controls the production of medicines essential to keeping Americans alive. Do we want to continue that dependency?

Says Kissinger: “The world’s democracies need to defend and sustain their Enlightenment values ... (and) safeguard the principles of the liberal world order.”

But did not March 2020 prove the superior wisdom of Alexander Hamilton: “Every nation ought to endeavour to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply.”

Today, borders are everywhere being strengthened as nations compete ferociously for N95 masks and ventilators. Authoritarian rulers are seizing broader powers. The claims of family, faith, tribe, nation and country seem ascendant over all.

“The founding legend of modern government,” writes Kissinger, “is a walled city ... strong enough to protect the people from an external enemy. ... This pandemic has produced ... a revival of the walled city in an age where prosperity depends on global trade and

movement of people.”

Kissinger calls the concept of the walled city an “anachronism,” a “legend.”

But is the idea of the nation-state, whose principal duty is the defense of the health, safety and security of the unique people who created it, the “legend”?

Or is the real legend, the myth, the idea of some New World Order of countries traveling and trading happily with one another in a federation of the world?

In this coronavirus crisis, we can see clearly now, no longer as through a glass darkly.

As in most wars, it is to the men of action not the men of words to whom the people turn -- to governors, not legislators or members of Congress, who are taking action, as states outbid one another for critical medical equipment.

As for Donald Trump, suddenly, the elites are berating him for being insufficiently dictatorial.

Trump, they rail, did not move swiftly enough to invoke the Defense Production Act. He failed to use its authority to dictate to U.S. companies what they must produce.

He did not shut down the country quickly enough. He failed to issue orders soon enough to governors who delayed shutting down their states.

People are dying, it is now said, because Trump did not immediately become the autocrat that progressives were denouncing him for being during the impeachment hearings two months ago.

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Dedicated dieter is criticized for refusing offers of food

JEANNE PHILLIPS DEAR ABBY: How would you suggest I deal with people who continually want to sabotage my diet?

I worked very hard to drop more than 30 pounds. I also have digestive health issues that are no one’s business.

An example: During the coffee break at a meeting at work, someone offered me lovely homemade baked goods. I said, “No, thank you.” I then got a snide remark about being ungrateful for all the “effort that went into them” and was urged to “just try a little bit to be sociable.”

Another time someone plunked a huge chunk of frosting-laden something in front of me. Or, a friend brings me a large quantity of candy or wine or strange “gourmet” stuff I can’t eat, all of which wind up in the trash even after I have asked them to please don’t.

When I visit my mother, she continues to pile stuff on my plate even after I repeatedly say, “No more, thank you.” Then I get a lecture about wasting food.

What do I need to be doing or saying differently? -SABOTAGED IN CONNECTICUT DEAR SABOTAGED: Take your easily offended co-workers aside and tell them, individually, that you cannot eat their tempting pastries because your doctor has told you you mustn’t. I am sure it is the truth, and you should not feel guilty.

As to your mother, who really should know better, the next time she accuses you of wasting food, I don’t think you would be out of line to tell her in plain English that she, not you, is the one wasting food by piling more than you can comfortably eat on your plate.

DEAR ABBY: When I married my wife, “Celia,” I was still in college, and she was a well-paid professional with an advanced degree.

She told me that while she supported my goals, she expected me to be an equal partner and contribute my fair share. I worked, took out student loans, and we evenly divided our expenses and maintained separate

bank accounts.

Flash-forward 30 years: Celia’s finances are a disaster. While I saved, spent wisely and planned for retirement, she spent foolishly and is now mired in a mountain of debt with no savings at all.

She ignored my commonsense financial advice over the years and chose to live beyond her means -- new cars, long vacations, expensive jewelry, etc.

I am now comfortably retired, but Celia lives paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford even the smallest of unforeseen bills.

I pay for all home repairs, vehicle maintenance, new appliances, etc.

Realistically, without financial help, Celia, now 60, will never be able to retire. Her “plan” is for me to die first, then collect my pension, savings, life insurance and Social Security.

Whichever one of us goes first, she’s set, in her mind.

Question: Am I ethically or morally obligated to help her financially? Sometimes I want to, other times I don’t.

-- TORN IN THE WEST DEAR TORN: You and Celia are long overdue for consulting a financial adviser who can help you get this problem under control.

I suggest you find a credit counselor affiliated with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

I am not going to weigh in on the subjects of ethics and morals, but I will say this: As Celia’s husband, you are LEGALLY obligated. (If she is truly counting on your death to be her retirement plan, you may need to hire a food taster.)

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Celebrated singer-songwriter Prine dies from COVID-19 virus complications MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press John Prine, the ingenious singer-songwriter who explored the heartbreaks, indignities and absurdities of everyday life in “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” “Hello in There” and scores of other indelible tunes, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

His family announced his death from complications from the coronavirus; he died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

His wife Fiona said last month that she had tested positive for COVID-19 and she has since recovered, but her husband was hospitalized on March 26 with coronavirus symptoms. He was put on a ventilator and remained in the intensive care unit for several days.

Winner of a lifetime achievement Grammy earlier this year, Prine was a virtuoso of the soul, if not the body.

He sang his conversational lyrics in a voice roughened by a hard-luck life, particularly after throat cancer left him with a disfigured jaw.

He joked that he fumbled so often on the guitar, taught to him as a teenager by his older brother, that people thought he was inventing a new style.

But his open-heartedness, eye for detail and sharp and surreal humor brought him the highest admiration from critics, from such peers as Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson, and from such younger stars as Jason Isbell and Kacey Musgraves, who even named a song after him.

In 2017, Rolling Stone proclaimed him “The Mark Twain of American songwriting.”

Prine began playing as a young Army veteran who invented songs to fight boredom while delivering the U.S. mail in Maywood, Illinois.

He and his friend, folk singer Steve Goodman, were still polishing their skills at the Old Town School of Folk Music when Kristofferson, a rising star at the time, heard them sing one night in Chicago, and invited them to share his stage in New York City.

The late film critic Roger Ebert, then with the Chicago Sun-Times, also saw one of his shows and declared him an “extraordinary new composer.”

Suddenly noticed by America’s most popular folk, rock and country singers, Prine signed with Atlantic Records and released his first album in 1971.

“I was really into writing about characters, givin’ ‘em names,” Prine said, reminiscing about his long career in a January 2016 public television interview that was posted on his website.

“You just sit and look around you.

You don’t have to make up stuff. If you just try to take down the bare description of what’s going on, and not try to over-describe something, then it leaves space for the reader or the listener to fill in their experience with it, and they become part of it.”

He was among the many promoted as a “New Dylan” and among the few to survive it and find his own way. Few songwriters could equal his wordplay, his empathy or his imagination.

“I try to look through someone else’s eyes,” he told Ebert in 1970.

His characters were common people and confirmed eccentrics, facing the frustrations and pleasures anyone could relate to. “Sam Stone” traces the decline of a drug-addicted Vietnam veteran through the eyes of his little girl. “Donald and Lydia” tells of a tryst between a shy Army private and small-town girl, both vainly searching for “love hidden deep in your heart:” They made love in the mountains, they made love in the streams they made love in the valleys, they made love in their dreams.

But when they were finished, there was nothing to say, ‘cause mostly they made love from ten miles away.

“He writes beautiful songs,” Dylan once told MTV producer Bill Flanagan. “I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene.

All that stuff about Sam Stone the soldier-junkie-daddy, and Donald and Lydia, where people make love from ten miles away -- nobody but Prine could write like that.”

Prine’s mischief shined in songs like “Illegal Smile,” which he swore wasn’t about marijuana; “Spanish Pipedream,” about a topless waitress with “something up her sleeve;” and “Dear Abby,” in which Prine imagines the advice columnist getting fed up with whiners and hypochondriacs.

“You have no complaint,” his Abby writes back: You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t so listen up Buster, and listen up good stop wishin’ for bad luck and knocking on wood!”

Prine was never a major commercial success, but performed for more than four decades, often selling his records at club appearances where he mentored rising country and bluegrass musicians.

“I felt like I was going door to door meeting the people and cleaning their carpets and selling them a record,” he joked in a 1995 Associated Press interview.

Many others adopted his songs.

Bonnie Raitt made a signature tune out of “Angel from Montgomery,” about the stifled dreams of a lonely housewife, and performed it at the 2020 Grammys ceremony. Bette Midler recorded “Hello in There,” Prine’s poignant take on old age. Prine wrote “Unwed Fathers” for Tammy Wynette, and “Love Is on a Roll” for Don Williams.

Others who covered Prine’s music included Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, John Denver, the Everly Brothers, Carly Simon, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Norah Jones and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Prine himself regarded Dylan and

Cash as key influences, bridges between folk and country whose duet on Dylan’s country rock album “Nashville Skyline” made Prine feel there was a place for him in contemporary music. Though mostly raised in Maywood, he spent summers in Paradise, Kentucky, and felt so great an affinity to his family’s roots there he would call himself “pure Kentuckian.”

Prine was married three times, and appreciated a relationship that lasted.

In 1999, he and Iris DeMent shared vocals on the classic title track of his album “In Spite of Ourselves,” a ribald tribute to an old married couple.

In spite of ourselves we’ll end up a-sittin’ on a rainbow Against all odds, honey we’re the big door-prize We’re gonna spite our noses right off of our faces There won’t be nothin’ but big ol’ hearts dancin’ in our eyes Prine preferred songs about feelings to topical music, but he did respond at times to the day’s headlines. Prine’s parents had moved to suburban Chicago from Paradise, a coal town ravaged by strip mining that inspired one of his most cutting protest songs, “Paradise.” It appeared on his first album, along with “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore,” which criticized what he saw as false patriotism surrounding the Vietnam War. Many years later, as President George W. Bush sent soldiers to war, Prine had a song for that, too. In “Some Humans Ain’t Human,” he wrote: “You’re feeling your freedom, and the world’s off your back, some cowboy from Texas, starts his own war in Iraq.”

Prine’s off-hand charisma made him a natural for movies. He appeared in the John Mellencamp film “Falling From Grace,” and in Billy Bob Thornton’s “Daddy and Them.” His other Grammy Awards include Best Contemporary Folk Recording for his 1991 album “The Missing Years,” with guest vocalists including Raitt, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Everly. He won Best Traditional Folk Album in 2004 for “Beautiful Dreamer.”

Prine didn’t let illness stop him from performing or recording. In 2013, long after surviving throat cancer, he was diagnosed with an unrelated and operable form of lung cancer, but he bounced back from that, too, often sharing the stage with DeMent and other younger artists.

On the playful talking blues “When I Get to Heaven,” from the 2018 album “The Tree of Forgiveness,” he vowed to have the last laugh for all eternity.

When I get to heaven, I’m gonna shake God’s hand Thank him for more blessings than one man can stand Then I’m gonna get a guitar and start a rock-n-roll band Check into a swell hotel; ain’t the afterlife grand?

His survived by his wife, Fiona, two sons Jack and Tommy, his stepson Jody and three grandchildren.

Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl Graves Sr. dies NEW YORK (AP) — Earl Graves Sr., who championed black businesses as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black entrepreneurs, has died. He was 85.

Graves died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his son, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr, said in a post on Twitter.

Graves launched his magazine, Black Enterprise, in 1970. He later said his aim was to educate, inspire and uplift his readers.

“My goal was to show them how to thrive professionally, economically and as proactive, empowered citizens,” Graves

wrote in his 1997 book “How To Succeed In Business Without Being White.”

According to an obituary published

by Black Enterprise, Graves grew up in Brooklyn and gained an economics degree from Morgan State University. He held jobs in law enforcement and real estate before working on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s staff.

After Kennedy’s assassination in 1968, he moved to found the magazine, which is now headed by his son.

He served on the boards of several major corporations, including American Airlines, Daimler Chrysler and Rohm & Hass and

backed the presidential bids of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, Black Enterprise wrote.

In addition to Black Enterprise, Graves also ran Pepsi-Cola of Washington, D.C., one of the nation’s largest soft-drink distributors owned by African Americans. He sold his stake in the bottler to PepsiCo in 1998.

“As a little boy, I saw a magazine with something I’d never seen—a picture of a Black man as the owner: Black Enterprise Founder & Publisher Earl G. Graves,” tweeted Rev. Cornell William Brooks, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy

School and former president and CEO of the NAACP. “Graves has died — after inspiring MILLIONS to succeed in business & beyond. Inspired kids & so many others mourn his passing.”

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was among others eulogizing Graves.

“As the founder of Black Enterprise, Earl Graves Sr. was a trailblazer in his own right, a leader in the American business community, and paved the way for many Black entrepreneurs to realize their dreams,” the former vice president wrote on Twitter.

Wisconsin voters forced to choose between health, democracy MADISON, Wis. (AP) — If Wisconsin was a test case for voting in the age of the coronavirus, it did not go well for many voters.

Thousands were forced to congregate for hours in long lines on Tuesday with no protective gear. Thousands more stayed home, unwilling to risk their health and unable to be counted because requested absentee ballots never arrived.

Voters reported being afraid, angry and embarrassed by the state’s unwillingness to postpone their presidential primary elections as more than a dozen other states have already done.

Neither Joe Biden nor Bernie Sanders will be declared a winner at least until next Monday in accordance with one of several court orders that shaped the contest.

And there was evidence

that minority voters were disproportionately impacted by widespread poll closures in their communities. Michael Claus, 66, wore a protective mask and a Tuskegee Airmen cap, as he waited to vote.

The African American man said he tried to vote absentee and requested a ballot in March but it never showed up. His only option was to vote in person. He blamed the Republican-controlled state legislature.

“They could have delayed the election with no problem,” Claus said. “They decided if they can suppress the vote in Milwaukee and Madison, where you have a large minority presence, you can get people elected you want elected. And that’s sad.”

The chaos in Wisconsin, a premiere general election battleground, was expected to

reverberate across states that still have primaries ahead.

Alaska, Wyoming and Ohio are conducting contests by mail this month, and other states, including Georgia, are slated to hold in-person voting in May. Election experts warned that Wisconsin was an example of what not to do. And the experience added immediate context to the broader debate about protecting voting rights this November.

“We have moved forward with an election, but we have not moved forward with democracy in the state of Wisconsin,” warned Neil Albrecht, executive director of Milwaukee’s election commission.

With results not coming until next week, the state did not offer Biden the knockout blow he hoped for in his presidential nomination fight against

Sanders. The candidates spoke out late Tuesday on separate livestreams from the safety of their homes hundreds of miles (kilometers) away but had little to say about the Wisconsin contest.

Sanders didn’t say a word about the election on Tuesday after warning the night before that the holding the election was “dangerous” and “may prove deadly.” Biden, too, said

in-person voting shouldn’t have taken place.

Democrats in and out of Wisconsin had pushed for the contest to be postponed, yet Republicans — and the conservative-majority state Supreme Court — would not give in. The fight over whether to postpone the election was influenced by a state Supreme Court election also being held Tuesday. A lower turnout was

thought to benefit the conservative candidate.

Lest there be any doubt about the GOP’s motivation, President Donald Trump on Tuesday broke from health experts who have encouraged all Americans to stay home by calling on his supporters to “get out and vote NOW” for the conservative judicial candidate.

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Secondhand Clothes, FirstClass Style Consignment shopping is an excellent way to purchase clothes for kids and babies. You can often fine brand-new clothes for less than one-third of the retail price. And most cities now have specialty consignment shops for babies, children and teens.

The consignment process is simple. If you are a seller, the store sets its criteria for accepting merchandise and sets the price -- usually 50% of the new retail price.

Expect a consignment shop to have very high standards for what they will accept: must be a current style; must be brought in clean; and must have no visible wear, holes or stains.

You can even bring in new items with tags still attached (you won’t believe all the new things in a consignment store). You bring your items to the store to be reviewed and submitted for sale (most stores have limited hours for this process, so call ahead).

Your items will be put on the sales floor and displayed for 30 to 60 days. Once sold, you will receive 30% to 50% of the purchase price, depending on the store’s policy.

Most consignment shops reduce the sales price regTHE FAMILY CIRCUS ularly until the item is sold or the time runs out. At that time, you have the option of either picking up your items or agreeing to have the shop donate them to a charity.

Stores will often give you the choice of taking your proceeds outright or crediting it to your own store account. Most people discover that building their account to allow for shopping in the store is the best option. With this choice, money rarely changes hands.

Have you ever paid a lot of money for an outfit only to find you don’t like it after all? Of course you have!

Many times, people are reluctant to part with clothes they paid a lot for and never wore for one reason or another. Consignment shopping solves the problem.

The first step is to let go of the guilt and get rid of the clothes. When you start buying your clothes at consignment stores, that guilt is never there. If you decide you don’t like something you bought, take it back and consign it. You didn’t pay much for it in the first place, and you can use the money you get from consigning it to buy something else.

If you don’t have a consignment store in your town, check one out the next time you’re in the nearest big city.

Even if you make a trip once or twice a year to clean out your closet or add to your wardrobe, it will be worth the effort.

These days, there’s no reason you should spend a large percentage of your income on new clothes. Let your kids see all the great bargains at a consignment store. Even your teens will be impressed, provided you MODERATELY CONFUSED scout out the best stores ahead of time.

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NEW YORK (AP) — If he wanted, Mark Hamilton could show off his World Series ring at work.

But the fill-in first baseman for the 2011 champion St. Louis Cardinals prefers to keep that prize safe at home.

“The surgical scrub tub, not the most conducive place to wear it,” Hamilton said.

On Friday, under an accelerated schedule prompted by dire circumstances, the former big leaguer is set to graduate a month early from medical school on Long Island.

Next stop for the rookie doc, the first-hand fight against the coronavirus pandemic in one of the world’s hardest-hit areas.

“I could get the call tomorrow, that it’s time to go in,” Hamilton said this week. “I have had an incredible journey to becoming a doctor over the last four years, and not once did I think that I would find myself entering the field in a time like this.”

“Over both my careers, it’s the same thing. You’ve got a job to do, you’re needed, do them to the best of your ability,” he said.

The 35-year-old Hamilton spent the first half of the 2011 season with the Cardinals. He subbed for slugger Albert Pujols a few times and even got a winning hit that ultimately helped St. Louis squeeze into the playoffs by one game.

The left-handed hitter who played 47 games in the majors will join another lineup once he leaves the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

“That’s a great story, what Mark’s done. That’ll be a high point at this period,” said Hall of Famer Tony La Russa, Hamilton’s manager with the Cards.

“What he’ll be doing, out there on the front lines helping people, that’s really something,” he said.

Throughout baseball history, plenty of guys have

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Mark Hamilton bats for the St. Louis Cardinals during a 2010 baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in St. Louis. Hamilton’s new career is as a doctor in New York, starting when he graduates from medical school Friday. of pathology and laboratory Cueto gave the Cardinals a radiology. But before that, drawn the nickname Doc medicine at MD Anderson 1-0 win over Cincinnati. his first year as an internal -- Dwight Gooden and Roy Cancer Center in Houston.

His reward? An on-field medicine resident is certain Halladay among them.

He currently holds the same pie in the face during the to be dominated by the Far fewer have earned position at the City of Hope postgame celebration. virus outbreak, managing the title in the classroom center in Southern Califor“Felt pretty good,” he patients admitted at Long -- including Moonlight nia. said.

Island Jewish Medical Graham, the real-life “My dad jokes that the Within a week, Hamilton Center and North Shore ballplayer-turned-doctor athletic ability skipped a was sent back to Triple-A University Hospital in the portrayed in the film “Field generation,” Hamilton said. for good. He spent parts of Northwell Health system. of Dreams.”

A 6-foot-4 power hitter, the next three years in the He’ll also spend elective Perhaps the most promiHamilton helped Tulane St. Louis, Boston (getting weeks in the ICU. nent was Bobby Brown, an reach the 2005 College a big welcoming hug from “My role in the COVID October star for the New World Series. The next David Ortiz) and Atlanta crisis will be considerably York Yankees in the 1940s year, he was a second-round organizations. more involved once that and ’50s who also was a draft pick by the Cardinals.

After nine productive starts,” he said. “Entering military veteran, president “Good size, live bat, pro seasons that included the front lines straight out of the American League good pop,” La Russa reover 100 home runs in the of school is daunting. But and longtime cardiologist. membered. “Good intelliminors, he was released in I’m ready, I’m prepared.”

It’s a path Hamilton -gence. He knew what was July 2014, three days before Hamilton lives in who played at Tulane, as going on.” his 30th birthday.

Queens, about a 15-minute did Brown -- planned on In September 2010, Hamilton’s final major drive from the New York long ago.

Hamilton got the call to the league stats, including Mets’ home at Citi Field, “Academia was always time as a left fielder and with wife Lauren and their important to me,” Hamilton majors and posted his first two hits. In 2011, he stayed designated hitter: 12 for 61 9- and 6-year-old daughters. said. “I always felt like I with St. Louis almost all the (.197) with three doubles, He said he can’t pinpoint was going to do this.” way to the All-Star break, four RBIs and five runs the last time he swung a Hamilton comes from mostly as a pinch hitter. scored. baseball bat. a family that has achieved Hamilton’s highlight Plus, a World Series ring He’s not playing the success on and off the field.

His brother played soccer came on July 4 before a big that he says he rarely wears. what-if game, either.

“I wasn’t on the field “Would I trade it now? in college, his sister is a top crowd at Busch Stadium.

Batting for ace Chris Carwhen we won,” he said. “In No, I wouldn’t. I couldn’t equestrian. His grandfather penter with two outs and a a way, I was part of it. In a be happier with the way was a basketball star in the runner on third in the eighth way, I wasn’t.” things have worked out,” he forerunner of the NBA. inning of a scoreless game, Hamilton plans to enter said. “No regrets.”

Hamilton’s father, Stanhis infield single off Johnny the field of interventional ley, was the longtime head

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www.theworldlink.com/classifieds 541-266-6045 z 541-266-6069 LEGALS ADMIN/MGMT JOBS ______________________________ IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of GEORGE SHERMAN CUTLIP, Deceased. Case No. 20PB00902 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of said estate. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same, with proper vouchers, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, as stated below, to the Personal Representative at the office of James R. Martin, P.C., P.O. Box 29, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420, or they 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, the Personal Representative, or the attorney for the Personal Representative.

Dated and first published: April 1, 2020 /s/ Mary Ann McDonald Mary Ann McDonald Personal Representative 243 W. Commercial Ave. Coos Bay, OR 97420. Published in The World and ONPA April 1, 8 & 15, 2020.

(ID:279808) ______________________________ NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE On June 15th, 2020, at the hour of 10:00am at the front door of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, 250 N. Baxter St; Coquille, the defendant’s interest will be sold, subject to redemption, in the real property commonly known as: 990 OREGON AVENUE, NORTH BEND, OREGON 97459. The court case number is 19CV24279, where U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR NRZ PASS-THROUGH TRUST VII (NPL)., is plaintiff, and SCOTT D. MILLER; COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC.; QUICK COLLECT, INC.; MAN DATA INC. d/b/a PACIFIC COAST CREDIT and ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY COMMONLY KNOWN AS 990 OREGON AVENUE, NORTH BEND, OREGON 97459, is defendant. The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check, in hand, made out to Coos County Sheriff’s Office. For more information on this sale go to: http://oregonsheriffssales.org/.

Published in The World April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2020. (ID:280836) ______________________________

statute addressed to the trustee’s “Urgent Request Desk� either by personal delivery to the trustee’s physical offices (call for address) or by first class, certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the trustee’s post office box address set forth in this notice. Due to potential conflicts with federal law, persons having no legal record or equitable interest in the subject property will only receive information concerning the lender’s estimated or actual bid. Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.778 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligations or trust deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee’s and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS 86.778.

Requests from persons named in ORS 86.778 for reinstatement quotes received less than six days prior to the date set for the trustee’s sale will be honored only at the discretion of the beneficiary or if required by the terms of the loan documents.

In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor� includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, and the words “trustee� and “beneficiary� include their respective successors in interest, if any DATED: April 8, 2020.

Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.752(3); the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sums: Monthly principal and interest installments of $601.00 each beginning September 05, 2019, until paid, delinquents property taxes, if any; cost of foreclosure report; attorney fees; together with any other sums due or that may become due under the Note or by reason of this foreclosure and any further advances made by Beneficiary as allowed by the Note and Deed of Trust.

By reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: The principal sum of $34,555.68 with interest on the principal balance at the rate of 8% percent per annum, from August 25, 2009, until paid; cost of foreclosure report; attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, together with any other sums due or that may become due under the Note or by reason of this foreclosure and any further advances made by Beneficiary as allowed by the Note and Deed of Trust.

WHEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will on June 2, 2020, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., in accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, at: Main Lobby Coos County Courthouse 250 Baxter Street Coquille, OR 97423 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 grantor of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or grantor’s 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 for reinstatement or payoff quotes requested pursuant to ORS 86.786 and 86.789 must be timely communicated in a written request that complies with that

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Jeffrey L. Pugh, OSB No. 762946 Successor Trustee Published in The World April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2020. (ID:281026) ______________________________

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE Reference is made to that certain trust deed by Wayne Johnston, as Grantor, to Jeffrey L. Pugh, as successor trustee, in favor of Mary A. Becherer, as beneficiary, dated August 20, 2009, recorded in the Records of Coos County, Oregon, Instrument number 2009-8695, covering the following described real property situated in the above-mentioned county and state, to-wit: Beginning at a point 978.92 feet North and 512.55 feet West of the quarter Section corner on the South line of Section 35, Township 24 South, Range 13 West of the Willamette Meridian, Coos County, Oregon; thence North 51° 27' West 652 feet, more or less, to the true point of beginning of the parcel to be herein conveyed; thence North 51° 27' West 140 feet, more or less, to the Southeasterly corner of that certain parcel conveyed to Rudolf C. Van Baren and Effie M. Van Baren, husband and wife, by deed recorded January 5, 1959 in Book 269, Page 318, Deed Records of Coos County, Oregon; thence North 38° 33' East along the South line of said Van Baren parcel 124.63 feet; thence South 63° 45' East to a point which is 10 feet North 63° 45' West of the Northwesterly corner of that certain parcel conveyed to Ray L. Stephens and Helen Stephens, husband and wife, by Deed recorded November 14, 1956 in Book 254, Page 658, Deed Records of Coos County, Oregon; thence South 38° 33' West 138 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

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East’s jump to three no-trump was imaginative. He hoped dummy had the club ace, and that he could collect one spade, six diamonds and two clubs. Here, three no-trump would have gone down two, but North was not willing to risk it.

West should have realized that his partner had a solid diamond suit, and if he had led a diamond, four spades would have had no chance. When he chose the club jack, South was still alive.

Declarer won with the club ace and cashed his three heart tricks, discarding a diamond from the dummy.

Then he played a trump to the queen. East won with his ace and did what?

East could see only three defensive tricks: one spade, one diamond and one club.

Clearly declarer would duck the second round of clubs to bring down the king.

In desperation, East cashed his club king, then led a low diamond!

South should have put up his jack, but without thinking, he played low.

West, after being told that he really had won the trick with his 10, returned a club, which East ruffed to defeat the contract.

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Oregon reports 4 new COVID-19 Oregon governor deaths, 49 new COVID-19 cases extends dine-in ban THE WORLD PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 33, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Oregon Health Authority also reported 49 new cases of COVID-19 as of 8 a.m.

Tuesday, bringing the state total to 1,181. The new COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Clackamas (7), Clatsop (1), Deschutes (4), Klamath (1), Lane (1), Linn (1), Marion (6), Multnomah (15), Polk (2), Washington (11). To see more case and county-lev-

el data, Oregon Health Authority updates its website once a day: www. healthoregon.org/coronavirus.

Oregon’s 30th COVID-19 death is an 83-year-old female in Marion County, who tested positive on March 28 and died on April 5 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center. She had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 31st COVID-19 death is a 98-year-old female in Marion County, who tested positive on April 1 and died April 5 in her residence. She had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 32nd

COVID-19 death is a 71-year-old female in Marion County, who tested positive on March 30 and died April 2 in her residence. She had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 33rd COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old female in Washington County, who tested positive on March 27 and died April 6 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. She had underlying medical conditions.

New weekly report on COVID-19 cases in Oregon: Starting Tuesday, OHA will begin posting a weekly report that represents

a snapshot of COVID-19 risk factors, clinical and demographic characteristics, and includes data on cases with pending investigations. You can review the report on the OHA website.

Stay informed about COVID-19: Oregon response: The Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Office of Emergency Management lead the state response.

United States response: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leads the U.S. response.

Global response: The World Health Organization guides the global response.

CDC considers loosening guidelines WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its guidelines for self-isolation to make it easier for those who have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus to return to work if they are asymptomatic.

The public health agency,

in conjunction with the White House coronavirus task force, is considering an announcement as soon as Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday.

Under the proposed guidance, people who are exposed to someone infected would be allowed

back on the job if they are asymptomatic, test their temperature twice a day and wear a face mask, said a person familiar with the proposal under consideration.

The person described the proposal on the condition of anonymity because the draft had not been finalized.

The new policy is aimed

in particular at workers in critical jobs. But it also comes as the Trump administration is eyeing what it calls a “stabilization” in infection rates and looks toward rolling back some of the restrictive social distancing guidelines and restarting the nation’s stalled economy.

Essentials According to customer service employees, who could not be named, it’s been hard to get stock in, and when some does come in they sell out almost immediately.

The Coos Bay Safeway is expecting to get a shipment this week, and

hopes to receive more sanitizers and other essential supplies.

The Centers for Disease Control and President Donald Trump recently encouraged everyone to wear face masks any time they go out. Reedsport Police Chief Matt Smart said he supports everyone taking the extra precaution, even though the cases in the area are limited. He added

that the lack of availability is not a good reason to not do it, since handkerchiefs, scarfs, and other homemade masks have been found to work well enough for going out.

“We’re rural, but everyone’s being affected,” he said. “We need to do our part to keep it from becoming an issue here.”

Sandiford and Smart both noted that there’s

lots of mixed information about the effectiveness of masks. However, they both said they would rather see people taking precautions while saving the surgical masks in stores for the medical personnel.

While some essential supplies are coming back in stock, people are encouraged to not overbuy and hoard items. Coos

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PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown extended an order Tuesday prohibiting dine-in service at restaurants and bars as state officials reported four more deaths from the coronavirus.

Oregon’s State Emergency Coordination Center said the total number of deaths had reached 33 as of Tuesday while confirmed cases increased to over 1,180 statewide. The deaths were a 71-year-old woman, an 83-year-old woman, and a 98-year-old woman in Marion County and a 91-year-old woman in Washington County. All had underlying medical conditions.

Brown’s original order banning dine-in service was set to expire next week but now aligns with her Stay Home, Save Lives order. Both will remain in effect until lifted by Brown.

Businesses can continue take-out or delivery service.

“We all want to return to a day where we can frequent the restaurants and businesses that have given Oregon its well-deserved culinary reputation and

provided so many jobs,” Brown said in a news release. “But it would be irresponsible to lift these restrictions in the middle of this outbreak.”

Brown also said her COVID-19 Medical Advisory Panel met for the first time Tuesday. The panel of doctors, infectious disease experts and other medical professionals will meet twice a week and have been asked to comment on the needs of Oregon’s health care system, provide advice to the governor, and serve as a resource to the Oregon Health Authority. Oregon’s health care provider community can also give input about the state’s COVID-19 response to the panel, Brown said.

“With the collective experience on this panel, we can work together to make sure we have this crisis covered from every possible angle,” Brown said, adding that if current projections hold, Oregonians’ continued adherence to social distancing measures will flatten the curve of COVID-19 spread in Oregon.

Health and Wellness notes that when people panic buy all of a given item, it makes it harder for health care providers and high risk people to find essentials. They recommend people buy for their current household need, and leave the remaining stock for others.

“That’s perfectly fine to ensure that your household

would have the necessary supplies for that period of time,” said Florence Pourtal-Stevens, public health director for CHW, in a previous story for The World. “However, it has been reported to us that people are purchasing all of the meat that’s available in the store, storing things for long set of time, or hoarding toilet paper.”

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Eugene worlds have new dates in 2022 MONACO (AP) — The track world championships were rescheduled for July 15-24, 2022, on Wednesday, the first major sports event to be repositioned in the wake of the 12-month postponement of the Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The event, which draws around 1,800 athletes from more than 200 countries, will still be held at Hayward Field

in Eugene, Oregon, which was expanded and remodeled for the event that was originally supposed to take place in August 2021.

Instead of simply pushing back the worlds by a year, the new dates were chosen to coordinate with other major events set for 2022. The Commonwealth Games, which draws athletes from more than 70 countries in a wide array of sports, are sched-

uled for July 27-Aug. 7. The European track championships are set for Aug. 11-21.

“This will be a bonanza for athletics fans around the world,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said.

It will mark the first outdoor world championships held in the United States, and will be the first worlds to be held in an even-numbered year. They had been held in odd numbered

years since they started in 1983.

The delay sets up track and field for a long stretch of yearly major events: The Olympics in 2021, worlds in 2022, then again in 2023 (in Budapest), followed by the Paris Olympics in 2024 and another world championships at a site still to be determined in 2025.

“It would offer athletics center stage at a very public point of

the year,” World Athletics president Seb Coe said in an interview last month. “So let’s look at it from a slightly optimistic way of being able to punch our sport into the homes of many more people over a four-year consecutive cycle.”

Coe came under criticism when Eugene was awarded the event because of his ties to sportswear company Nike, which was founded there.

Sports Briefs COLLEGE BASKETBALL Pritchard among men’s national award winners BRISTOL, Conn. — Obi Toppin of Dayton won the John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s outstanding college basketball player.

Toppin, along with Saddiq Bey of Villanova, Luka Garza of Iowa, Myles Powell of Seton Hall and Peyton Pritchard of Oregon, also won positional awards from the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Toppin also received the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year.

Bey received the Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year award. He averaged 16.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.4 assists and shot 45% from 3-point range.

Garza was named the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year.

He averaged 23.9 points, 9.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks.

Powell earned the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year. He averaged 21 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists.

The Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year went to Pritchard, who averaged 20.5 points, 5.5 assists and shot 82% from the free-throw line.

Arizona’s Mannion will enter NBA draft TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona point guard Nico Mannion has joined fellow freshman teammate Zeke Nnaji in declaring for the NBA draft.

Mannion arrived in Tucson as the highest-rated recruit in a class that included Nnaji and Josh Green.

Mannion averaged 14 points and was second in the Pac-12 with 5.3 assists per game during his lone season at Arizona. The 6-foot-3 guard from Phoenix earned second-team all-Pac-12 honors.

Mannion was born in Italy, where his father, Pace, played professionally after being an NBA draft pick in 1983. A heady guard and creative passer, he’s projected to be a first-round pick in 2020.

HOCKEY NHL might skip rest of regular season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman raised the possibility Tuesday of not completing the regular season in order to squeeze in time to award the Stanley Cup. Bettman also acknowledged during an interview with NBCSN the league is considering having games played at neutral sites in the event not all teams will be allowed into their home rinks.

Bettman, however, stressed these are among myriad options being considered with nothing determined because it will take at least two more weeks to gain a clearer picture on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the league’s 31 markets.

Bettman had not previously raised the possibility of shortening the regular season, which was halted on March 12 with 189 games remaining.

OLYMPICS Athletes who have qualified will be in Olympics About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots for the Tokyo Games are in for 2021 under redrawn qualifying regulations published Tuesday by the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC released its rewritten roadmap for qualifying for the games, which were rescheduled due to the coronavirus. They’ll be held July 23 through Aug. 8 next year.

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Bandon’s Braydon Freitag releases a pitch against Reedsport during a playoff game in 2018. Freitag will play baseball for the University of Dubuque.

Bandon star will pitch for DuBuque ZACH SILVA The World

BANDON — A 33-hour road trip awaits Braydon Freitag.

The Bandon High School senior pitcher is headed to University of Dubuque in the fall to play baseball.

Having been a three-sport varsity athlete for the last four years, Freitag always knew what sport he wanted to play at the next level.

“I was always going to do baseball. Ever since I was little,” he said.

For Bandon head baseball coach Jay Ferrell, he learned of Freitag’s decision two years ago.

“He told me after (his sophomore) season that he was going to play college baseball. He had made that decision. And I was like, I know you can, so we just

need to figure out what we need to do and where you need to go,” recalled Ferrell.

Freitag had success since he entered high school. He was not only all-league each season but made it on the Class 2A-1A AllState team each year as well.

“When he came in as a freshman, very athletic kid. Already playing shortstop and No. 1 or 2 arm as a freshman and could play anywhere plus he could have been batting third or fourth since he started as a freshman as well. So the skill level has always been there,” Ferrell said.

In Freitag’s freshman season the Tigers made it to the playoffs while his sophomore year the team played in the state semifinals. Last year after finishing third in a topheavy league, the team lost in the first round of the playoffs.

Ferrell was looking forward

to seeing Freitag, who will be pitching at Dubuque, continue to grow this season.

“He’s always been good at slowing the game down, playing defense, slowing the game down at short or even pitching. I think he’s got a little better, which I was hoping we were going to see more of this year,” said Ferrell. “I was really hoping to see that this year to see how that was evolving as it was last year but again, everything is at a standstill.”

But before the current baseball season was put on hold, Freitag had been having conversations with coaches at Dubuque.

“About four, five months ago one of their assistant coaches reached out to me, telling me about the facilities and what not.

Wanted me to come visit and it’s 33 hours from home, so a visit wasn’t very likely,” said Freitag.

Earnhardt Jr. among nominees for NASCAR’s Hall of Fame CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards were among the new nominees for NASCAR’s next Hall of Fame class announced Tuesday under a revamped voting protocol.

Voters for 11 years elected five members per class first from a list of 25 candidates; it was trimmed to 20 beginning with the 2015 class.

The new process starting this year splits the nominees into three ballots; Modern candidates, Pioneer candidates and Landmark candidates. Two entries from the 10 Modern candidates will be elected, along with one entry apiece from the five-candidate Pioneer and Landmark categories.

Janet Guthrie, the first woman to run in the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600, returns as a nominee to the Landmark category after a one year absence. She was dropped in 2019 from the category, which has existed as an award for contribution to the sport, and her absence sparked a backlash toward the nominating committee.

Burton, Earnhardt, Edwards, Jake Elder and Banjo Matthews are all first-time nominees for the Hall of Fame. Burton and Earnhardt both moved to the NBC Sports broadcasting booth after successful careers

with big race wins but never the elusive Cup Series championship.

Earnhardt won 26 career Cup races, including a pair of Daytona 500s, and is a 15-time winner of NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award.

Burton counts wins in the Southern 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 among his 21 career Cup victories.

Edwards won 28 Cup races and twice failed to win the Cup title in the season finale. He tied Tony Stewart in final points in 2008 but Stewart won the race to earn the tie-breaker in the championship battle.

A late caution in the 2016 finale robbed Edwards of the title when, after leading 47 laps, the field was bunched back up for a restart and Edwards wrecked with Joey Logano as they battled for the lead. Edwards abruptly retired two months later at 37.

Others on the Modern ballot include crew chief Kirk Shelmerdine, Neil Bonnett, Harry Gant, Harry Hyde, Larry Phillips, Ricky Rudd, Kirk Shelmerdine and Mike Stefanik.

The Pioneer ballot is: Elder, Matthews, Red Farmer, Hershel McGriff and Ralph Moody.

The Landmark ballot is: Guthrie, Alvin Hawkins, Mike Helton, Dr. Joseph Mattioli, Ralph Seagraves.

“He just told me about it and told me that they would like me to be a Spartan next year.”

After weighing his options and factoring in a desire to get out of Oregon for the time being, Dubuque, a city the size of Corvallis, was the place he wanted to be.

“They just told me that it’s really nice and that I would feel at home even though I’m 33 hours away. Said that the whole team is a very welcoming family.

Coaching staff is awesome from what I’ve heard and I’ve talked to all of them,” said Freitag.

Now he is figuring out ways to continue to stay in shape as baseball becomes his only sport.

“Now it’s all-year, not just a season,” said Freitag. “Just going to workout I guess. Be going to the cages by myself. That helps to just stay in baseball shape.”

Ripken launches national campaign to feed families BALTIMORE (AP) — Cal Ripken Jr. has launched a campaign to help feed children and families across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, coordinating a contribution of $250,000 and opening a social media account for the first time to promote the cause.

Ripken spent his entire career with the Baltimore Orioles before retiring in 2001. He set a record by playing in 2,632 consecutive games and gained entry into the Hall of Fame in 2007.

His current focus is helping feed families impacted financially by the coronavirus, but he’s also looking forward to a time when baseball teams are back on the diamond. Ripken is encouraged by the effort of Major League Baseball to devise a plan to start the delayed season, suggesting that the games “can play an important part in the recovery of the country.”

In an interview with

The Associated Press on Tuesday, Ripken recalled how the resumption of the baseball season helped the nation rebound from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I’ve had a chance to witness the effect baseball has on getting us part difficult times,” Ripken said.

“Post-9/11, baseball played a really wonderful role in the national recovery. If we can get it back, it could be a return to some normalcy that we’re all looking for right now.”

Until that time, the Iron Man is seeking to help those in need.

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation has teamed with Ollie’s Bargain Outlet and the Kevin Harvick Foundation to commit a quarter-million dollars to the Strike Out Hunger campaign.

Ripken has kept a low profile in retirement, but opened a Twitter account (@CalRipkenJr.) to spread the word about his latest endeavor.