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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Energy Regulation Commission denied requests to rehear its decision to allow the Jordan Cove project to move forward. The 3-1 decision, made on Thursday last week, was met with outrage from opposing groups. On March 19, FERC approved the Jordan Cove LNG pipeline conditionally. The Jordan Cove Project is a subsidiary of Pembina, a Canada-based natural gas company. FERC Director of Media Relations Mary O’Driscoll explained the decision, saying, “We basically

are allowing Jordan Cove to be built, but no construction can take place until they get their water quality certificate from the state.” Commissioner Richard Glick was the sole dissenting vote. In his opening statement, Glick voiced his doubts about whether the Jordan Cove Project would ever be built. Further, he stated his concerns about the ability for an LNG project to make a profit in the wake of COVID-19. On April 17, FERC received requests for rehearing from a list of groups and individuals nearly a page long. The list included the Cow Creek Band, Confederated Tribes, the Oregon Departments of Energy and Environmental Quali-

ty, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club, to name a few. Two of these groups, NRDC and the Sierra Club, also requested that FERC stay the Authorization Order until it decided whether it would rehear the issue. The stay requests were denied. However, those who wish to further appeal FERC’s decision can do so through the United States Court of Appeals. Representatives from the Sierra Club and homeowners along the pipeline route made public statements to the effect that they would pursue legal action against FERC. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Ore-D, said he would continue to oppose the project.

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Members of the Bandon VFW Honor Guard stand next to the Bandon Veterans Memorial in City Park on Monday afternoon, waiting to give a gun salute. The ceremony was organized by members of the VFW and the American Legion and honored veterans who died in service to their country, as well as members of the memorial committee. As requested, there were few in attendance who gathered in the parking lot wearing masks and social distancing. Following the ceremony, the VFW offered free hot-dog or hamburger meals to-go for the community outside the hall on Bates Road.

Need rises on the South Coast JILLIAN WARD The World

SOUTH COAST — Since the pandemic began, one local private nonprofit saw a 54% increase in food pantry access in both Coos and Curry counties. It also saw a 53.2% increase in emergency meals served in Coos County. Oregon Coast Community Action covers both Coos and Curry counties, with services that include the South Coast Food Share and home energy assistance. “It is alarming,” said Kim Brick, ORCCA’s newly named executive director. “Even if you were okay before (the pandemic), you may have lost your job and

you may be losing your home. People are falling. “People are scared.” According to Brick, ORCCA expects the need for services to level off soon before spiking between 10% to 25% in the next few months. And all of this hit just two weeks after she was selected to lead the organization, chosen from three final candidates to replace former Executive Director Mike Lehman. Brick believes one of the reasons she stood out is also something that has helped steer the nonprofit during these uncertain economic times. “Really, I think it came down to relationships and community,” she said. “I grew up here, I’ve

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Kim Brick talks to people gathered in February to meet while she was still an applicant for the executive director position at Oregon Coast Community Action in Coos Bay. Brick is now in charge of ORCAA.

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REDMOND (AP) — A spike in reported coronavirus cases in Redmond last week has been tied to family and social gatherings in the area. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports last week’s breakdown of coronavirus cases by ZIP code in Oregon reported eight new cases of COVID-19 in the central Oregon town. That brought Redmond up to only 18 reported cases to date, but amounted to an 80% change over the previous week – the highest in the state. Public health officials in Deschutes County told KTVZ on Friday that most of the county’s new cases can be traced to social gatherings with extended family, like barbecues and celebrations. Morgan Emerson, preparedness coordinator with Deschutes County Health Services, told the TV station that 18 of the county’s 25 new cases could be traced back to family or social gatherings, including some of the coronavirus cases in Redmond. “Some of this rise is due to multi-household gatherings,” Emerson told KPTV. “We have seen similar trends of cases associated with attending family and social gatherings in other areas of Deschutes County as well.” Emerson said the new cases predate Deschutes County’s recent approval for Oregon’s Phase 1 reopening plan. The majority of new cases came from known contacts, not strangers, she said. State officials have urged people to stay close to home for Memorial Day weekend, and to avoid large gatherings with anyone outside of your own household. “Even if you’re healthy, going to a large Memorial Day barbecue, a large event, many extended households getting together -- this isn’t the year,” Emerson said.

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Bailey’s Health Food Center to close ZACH SILVA The World

NORTH BEND — After first opening its doors in 1978, Bailey’s Health Food Center is set to close in June. After over four decades in the community, the closure of the local store is a result of a number of factors including a national chain health store coming to the area plus a global pandemic. According to Karen and Frank Hladky, a married couple who have owned the store for the past five and a half years, business was booming until, quite quickly, it wasn’t. “Well, we had about three years of … continued upward growth. We had a lot of support from the community. There were really only two health food stores in the area — that was Coos

Head Co-Op and Bailey’s Health Food Store. We had a really nice symbiotic relationship,” said Frank, 60, in a phone call last week. Coos Head Food CoOp moved to its current location in Coos Bay and both local establishments continued to do well. But two years ago, Frank saw that the arrival of a national chain health store changed business. “In 2018 Natural Grocers came to town and that’s when we really started to see a gradual decline in our business. And it just went away and went away,” he said. A two-year slide caused some worry about the future and that was before a global pandemic added to the mix of problems. “And of course then COVID-19. We’re about one-third of what we used

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Bailey’s Health Food Center will be closing in June after being open for the past 42 years. to be in our heyday. Think about it this way, we were three times bigger three years ago in terms of business revenue,” said Frank. Before becoming an owner of the store, Karen Hladky, 65, had worked at Bailey’s for 14 years. She had seen the store thrving. “We used to have about 100 customers a day more

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than we’ve had the past two years. Do the math! We probably should have closed a year ago,” she said in a text message. “We worried about the future of our employees, who almost became like our children to us. … We loved and cared about our customers who became our friends (and) … we thought our

customers would return and that we’d have a turnaround. So we hung on to hope.” There was a brief surge in sales at the start of the shutdown but not enough to sustain the business in the long run. Additionally, lots of the employees came down with flu-like symptoms as things were getting shut down which filled the plates of Karen and Frank even more. “We just said, well, you know what, we’re older now, we’re in our 60s. This isn’t really something we wish on anybody. We just kind of made that decision that it’s time to bow out,” said Frank, who noted that it is also a simple economic problem that they are facing. “You look and the demand is being supplied elsewhere. We can point to big corporate or that long

line or we can point to major entities in grocery stores taking on a lot of organic foods which they didn’t use to carry. Companies like Safeway and Fred Meyer. We decided you know what, let’s just cut our losses and we kind of have to protect our health.” So now things will begin to wind down in the store. There will be final sales and some distant goodbyes to what the Hldakeys both separately described as their “loyal” customers. The couple will look to spend more time with their 18 grandchildren and for Frank, he is hoping to retire for good. “It’s the third time retiring for me because I worked for the state for 15 years and I worked in the public school district here for 13 years and retired from that and so we’ll see if this one sticks,” he said.

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Sunday, May 24 Suspicious Conditions At 12:34 a.m. on Myrtle Street, a report was made of an unoccupied vehicle parked at the caller’s property. Officers checked the area for the subject that was driving but was unable to locate. At 1:01 p.m. on Pine Street, suspicious conditions were reported about an ad online where two separate people came to the caller’s house about. An officer contacted the second subject. At 8:39 p.m. on State Street, a caller received threatening texts via phone and was provided information on how to block numbers and telephonic harassment. Criminal Mischief At 8:44 a.m. on Sheridan Avenue, Baycrest Village reported a broken lock to the shed. An officer responded and a report was taken for criminal mischief 2. Criminal Trespass At 9:26 a.m. on Broadway Avenue, an officer observed a previously trespassed subject at location. The subject moved off the property. Patrol Check At 11:07 a.m. on California Street at the boat ramp, a citizen reported bathrooms at the boat ramp were trashed. An officer responded and advised there was no damage, just oyster shells and a beer can. Items were thrown away. Accident At 2:32 p.m. on Broadway Avenue, a vehicle versus pedestrian accident was reported. North Bend Medical responded. The driver, 89, from Coos Bay was in a 2002 white Toyota Rav4. The pedestrian was a 61-year-old from Coos Bay. Report taken.

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Point Man Ministries Outpost 101 leader, Ron VanVlack, had hoped for more to attend the Memorial Day event on Monday. The event was held at David Dewett Veterans Memorial Wayside. He said they followed new pandemic guidelines, while also paying tribute to fallen soldiers.

No COVID-19 deaths, 19 new cases The World PORTLAND — The state’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged from Sunday and remains at 148, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.

Oregon Health Authority reported 19 new confirmed cases and four new presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Monday bringing the state total to 3,949. The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19

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COOS BAY — The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency approved the purchase of up to $140,000 worth of aluminum floats docks last week. The agency voted unanimously to replace damaged wooden floats at Empire Boat Dock on Tuesday, May 19. According to Public Works Director Jim Hossley, the aluminum floats would be more durable, though they cost twice as much as their wooden counterparts. The wooden floats currently in use cost approximately $7,500 per

20-foot section. The aluminum floats cost approximately $15,000 for each section. According to a staff report, the southern of the two floating dock lanes at Empire Boat Ramp was removed to encourage social distancing and comply with state orders regarding the novel coronavirus. Removing the lane allowed city staff to remove five damaged sections of the dock, which had rotted. Unfortunately, removing the southern dock lane resulted in faster degradation of the northern dock lane. Further, according to the document, the lack of

a southern dock makes the northern dock less safe to launch or load a boat. The issue was declared an emergency in order to quickly replace the floats. The project to replace the floats will go up for bid and the amount of floats that will be replaced will depend on the bidding process. Hossley estimated that between five and eight floating docks could be purchased with the money approved by the URA. The city will apply for grants to replace the remaining floats. The goal is for the floats to be replaced prior to the end of summer salmon run.

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Speech and Debate team prepares for Nationals 12 MHS students to compete in competition ZACH SILVA The World

COOS BAY — One of the many goals for the Marshfield High School Speech and Debate team this season was to go to New Mexico — the sight of the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament. While in-person version of the tournament had to be canceled due to COVID-19, 12 students from Marshfield qualified for the adapted online version of this competition that will take place from June 15 to June 20. “They’re learning how to present themselves on video and through recordings which is something that is super difficult because they don’t have the audience. They’re not allowed to have an audience when they’re doing their recordings and they’re learning how to debate with each other without being in the same room. So they’re having to practice that and how to use a different formal in order to debate together,” said head coach Kayla Crook, who was named South Oregon NDSA coach of the year. “It’s disappointing not traveling to Albuquerque, but this is that is going to change the way speech and debate is done and how it can be accessed.” To qualify for Nationals there was an application process that looked at how students had done this year taking into account tournament scores, points earned and if individuals had previous experience at Nationals. The 12 Marshfield students who qualified for nationals are Brianna Giacomini (Dramatic Interpretation), Bella Sperling (Dramatic Interpretation), Kaylin Dea (Humorous Interpretation), Brandon Arreola-Soto (Humorous Interpretation), Aryana Mill (Program Oral Interpretation), Madeline Deleon (In-

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The members of the Marshfield Speech and Debate team display their awards showing that they qualified for Nationals. formative Speaking), Conor Heckard (United States Extemporaneous Speaking), Cameron Miller (Congress: House of Representatives), Joshua Giacomini and Lucas Stephens (Public Forum Debate), Titus Simon (World Schools Debate) and Itzel Ramirez (World Schools Debate). In the new format, students competing in Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Program Oral Interpretation and Informative Speaking will record videos of their performances while those in the debate categories will be competing live online. Senior Brianna Giacomini said she has been

getting used to not having an audience. “Well it’s definitely not ideal. One of the most important aspects of any event in Speech and Debate is being able to connect with your judges and your audience and your piece in person,” she said. “My best performances have been when I’m able to give all that I can emotionally into my character and being able to see that emotion and energy reflected in the faces of the audience back at me.” Giacomini has fed on the emotion of an audience when performing “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. In this 10-minute piece, Giacomini delves

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into ideas surrounding how both personal and universal the feeling of grief can be. “With the tournament being online with the recording, that factor to be able to personally connect with the judges — it’s taken away and that’s one of the things that I’m not really looking forward to because I would always rely on that nervousness,” she said. “We’re definitely trying to make the best of it. Definitely not ideal, but it’s for the seniors that are going. This is our last hurrah of

speech and debate and so we’re going to make the most of it as much as we can.” Two students on the Marshfield team — Ramirez and Simon — will be competing in the World School Debate event. To make it in this event, students were selected by coaches around the region and were then divided onto two different teams that will represent Southern Oregon. “It’s been a little rough,” said Ramirez of adjusting to both debating through a

computer and getting used to working with students from other schools. “I have a team member (Simon) who is also going and we both just get together on a call and bounce ideas off of each other and I really like doing that oneon-one thing because then I can just get out all my dumb ideas and just get to say whatever I want at that moment. He just tells me, okay that’s dumb, don’t say that, and then we come up with a different way to say it.” But as Ramirez gets used to the intricacies of the new format, she is thrilled to be a part of this Marshfield team that qualified a school-record amount of students to Nationals. “It’s amazing. We probably wish we could have gone (to Albuquerque) but it’s one of my biggest accomplishments on the team and in general. Speech and debate has kind of taken over my life for the past four years and I think I could say the same,” said Ramirez. “It’s so time consuming and to see the payoff of your hard work, it’s amazing. I don’t know how else to describe it.”

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Letters to the Editor The truth regarding COVID-19 The virus can travel 6 feet, it cannot travel 6 feet one inch or greater. It can live on all surfaces except anything that comes in the mail, especially from Amazon. It does not live on airplanes or buses, or in Target, Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, or any grocery store.

It is only deadly in bars, gyms, restaurants, small businesses, hair salons, bakeries, and especially churches. Not to be forgotten, it cannot live on food packaging and the food as long as you get it to go. Yes, it is quite novel. Oliver Woods North Bend

GUEST OPINION Scammers cash out using your ID to file for unemployment Unemployment claims are surging across the nation and the Secret Service recently confirmed there are scammers trying to add your name to the list of consumers collecting benefits. Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific is alerting the public to a fast-growing scam in the Northwest centered around unemployment. A recent news report explained that the Secret Service is currently investigating a Nigerian crime ring for targeting state unemployment funds using the personally indefinable information and social security numbers of American consumers. The con goes like this: Bad-actors target states that are already struggling to keep up with the overwhelming number of unemployment claims. Using stolen information, scammers file an unemployment claim on a consumer’s behalf. Only when the consumer receives a letter or is contacted by their state unemployment department about benefits, do they realize someone has filed using their info. Since the start of COVID-19, unemployment claims have skyrocketed. Following suit, agents say reports of unemployment fraud have also risen sharply as identity thieves look to cash in on COVID-19. Personally identifiable information used to file the claims may have been stolen from an earlier data breach similar to the one experienced by Equifax several years ago, which impacted millions of Americans. Believe it or not, it is not that hard for a bad actor to piece together an identity profile for you using what they can find publicly online combined with data from other breaches or hacks. In many of these cases, the victims were still employed when they were alerted to the fact that someone filed an unemployment claim on their behalf. Some also reported they were not aware of the issue until they were contacted by their employer’s Human Resources department. The Secret Service and consumer protection agencies, including BBB, are warning other states to be on high alert as

this scam can be difficult to spot right away. So far, Washington has taken the biggest hit. Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific has consumer tips for safeguarding information: Reach out to Human Resources. If you’re employed and feel a fraudulent unemployment claim has been made on your behalf, reach out to your HR representative as quickly as possible. They can help prevent funds from processing under your name or provide direction if a claim has already been paid out. Contact your state’s employment department. Fraudulent unemployment claims need to be reported directly to the office responsible for processing payments. Be prepared to provide information including your name, social security number and address. Give that information out only after you have confirmed that the link is secure, and the site is correct. File a report with local law enforcement. Instances of identity theft, including unemployment fraud, should be reported to the police department operating in your area. Keep a record of all the information available to better facilitate that process. Connect with each credit bureau. Make sure to report any instances of unemployment fraud to the three main credit bureaus: Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. Those institutions can facilitate any needed security measures, including freezing your accounts. Update and monitor your banking information. Continue to frequently change the password to your banking information. Remember to also review your banking information consistently for any unfamiliar charges, account openings, or withdrawals. Call to Action:Consumers are encouraged to report unemployment fraud and other scams to BBB.org/ScamTracker. Additional information on protecting your personal information is available at trust-bbb.org/coronavirus. Danielle Kane is the Oregon State Director for the Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific. DANIELLE KANE Better Business Bureau

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in Coos County history 100 YEARS May 26, 1920 New Warden Has Taken His Office J.M. Thomas Opens His Headquarters at County Seat Approve of Methods Is Going Over Trails and Telephone Lines to See They are in Shape for the Forest Fire Season J.M. Thomas, the new chief fire warden for the Coos and Curry Fire Patrol Association, went to Coquille today. He has opened an office near the First National Bank in the city and Coquille will be his headquarters during the season. Mr. Thomas was in his office today but right now is spending most of his time going over the various trails and telephone lines to see that they are in good shape before the fire season begins. He has just returned from a trip to the Allegany country. The association owns the telephone line from the Kruger place above Allegany out to Loon Lake. This line is almost completed and when it is finished there will be a direct line to Loon Lake. Order of Camels Reaches Coos Bay Members Are Seen Wearing Emblem Buttons in This City Order Is One Which is Opposed to Prohibition of Light Wines, Beers and Tobacco If you see a man in Marshfield wearing on his coat a button which you do not recognize it is very likely an emblem of the Order of Camel. If such is the case and you examine the button closely you will see that it bears the picture of a camel. This is a new organization which started in the east and which has found its way to Coos Bay. There are at least several members of the Camels here as some of the buttons are worn in this city. The Order of Camels is against prohibition. The head man is known as the “Sheik” and that office is held by L. Wallace Hopkins of New York.

75 YEARS May 26, 1945 Tentative Budget Set Coos Bay’s 1945-1946 city budget committee Friday night tentatively approved an outlay for the coming fiscal year calling for $70,000 taxes on real property and reducing millage in the municipality approximately one mill over 1944-1945. The proposed budget, however, is exclusive of five mills special taxes voted in 1944 by citizens for a civic center fund.

Overall millage increases for 1945-1946 for city purposes will therefore approximate four mills. OPA Marketing Regulations Put Livestockmen in Bay Way Coquille, May 26 — (Special) — Meetings will be held soon in the north and south ends of Coos county in order to arrive at the best possible solution for the desperate financial situation in which livestock growers find themselves under present OPA marketing practices, County Agent George Jenkins said today. Livestock men, particularly marketers of lambs, suffered a serious financial blow last year due to OPA practices. And unless a new system of marketing is arranged for this year their losses will be greater, Jenkins says. The OPA rules, under its present marketing program, that anyone who sells dressed meat must have a permit. Under this permit he is allowed to sell 100 percent of his quota of a year ago. When a farmer butches all his quota, he then can sell only to plants that are federally licensed. In Coos county all growers have reached their quotas and can sell only to plants under federal inspection, the closest plant to this area being at San Francisco.

50 YEARS May 26, 1970 Coos Voters Face Many Key Ballot Issues Early Turnout Reported Light At 10 Bay Area Precinct Polling Locations Bay Area voters are asked to ballot on several key issues in today’s primary election, but interest generated by preelection campaigns was not reflected in the early-morning turnout at precinct polling sites. Election boards reported generally slow voting during the first 1 ½ hours, although an occasional site found the turnout above normal. Ten precincts out of about 45 in the Bay Area surveyed by The World this morning indicated results ranging from “very, very slow” to “a little better” than in the last election. Voting at the North Bend City Hall site, Precinct 11, where 26 had cast ballots by about 9:30 a.m., was “a little better” than usual. Lila Holmes, election board chairman, said senior citizens make up the bulk of her voters (322 registered) and “They always turn out well for any election.”

Purchasing Office OK’d by Coos COQUILLE — A $15,000 budget request to create a county purchasing department won quick approval from budget committee members during Monday morning’s abbreviated hearings on the 1970-71 Coos County budget. Also winning acceptance without a struggle was a motion calling for the establishment of a home-rule charter committee. Both motions were introduced by commissioner William Miller, who called them necessary first-steps of the county was to streamline and update its county government. Miller called the addition of a county purchasing department “an attempt to cut county spending through centralized purchasing.”

15 YEARS May 26, 2005 Cricket-ally’ acclaimed By Carl Mickelson, Staff Writer Mallory Crocker, a seventhgrader at North Bend Middle School, is no mad scientist, but for a little more than a week, she managed to drive a dozen house crickets crazy. With the aid of Darren Sinko, her physical science teacher last year, Crocker, 12, presented a science project at the Southwestern Oregon Regional Science Fair entitled: “Cricket Respiration: What Kind of Music Do Crickets Like?” With a title like that - as long as the experiment held up to the rigors of the scientific method - it would be difficult not to catch the eye of a science fair judge. CB fire department to state exercise tonight The Coos Bay Fire Department plans to burn a house at 368 Seventh Ave., in Eastside, at 6 p.m. The burnto-learn exercise will provide emergency simulation training for firefighters. A department press release on Tuesday said firefighters will be practicing exterior fire attack, water supply operations, rescue skills, ventilation and exposure protection activities. The release said wind conditions will be monitored, but suggested neighboring residents close windows during the exercise and notify the department if smoke enters homes. -----------------------------------These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository store in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www.theworldlink.com.

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BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump honored America’s war dead in backto-back Memorial Day appearances colored by an epic struggle off the battlefield, against the coronavirus. Eager to demonstrate national revival from the pandemic, Trump doubled up on his public schedule Monday, while threatening to pull the Republican National Convention out of Charlotte in August unless North Carolina’s Democratic governor gives a quick green light to the party’s plans to assemble en masse. The U.S. death toll from the pandemic approached 100,000; North Carolina two days earlier reported its largest daily increase yet in COVID-19 sickness. Trump first honored the nation’s fallen at Arlington National Cemetery. Presidents on Memorial Day typically lay a wreath and speak at the hallowed burial ground in Virginia. But

the coronavirus crisis made this year different. Many attendees arrived wearing masks but removed them for the outdoor ceremony in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Trump, maskless as always in public, gave no remarks. He approached a wreath already in place, touched it and saluted. Trump then traveled to Baltimore’s historic Fort McHenry, where he declared: “Together we will vanquish the virus and America will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights. No obstacle, no challenge and no threat is a match for the sheer determination of the American people.” He praised the tens of thousands of service members and National Guard personnel “on the front lines of our war against this terrible virus.” His Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, chose Memorial Day to make his first public appearance in the two months since the pandemic

closed down the nation. Biden emerged unannounced from his Delaware home to lay a wreath at a nearby park, with no crowd gathered to greet him. It was a milestone in a presidential campaign that has largely been frozen. Biden’s words were muffled through a black cloth face mask. “Never forget the sacrifices that these men and women made,” he said after. “Never, ever forget.” The U.S. leads the world with more than 1.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 98,000 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Trump tweeted his frustration with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who has been moving his state into a cautious reopening that will keep indoor entertainment venues, like its NBA arena, closed for the time being. The state reported a daily high of 1,100 new cases Saturday, and has lost about 750 residents to the pandemic.

PORTLAND (AP) — Cherry industry officials in Oregon and Washington state estimate a tree infection has substantially depleted the fruit for this year’s harvest. The infection known as little cherry disease has chopped an estimated 40 million pounds of cherries from the forthcoming harvest, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Sunday. The Northwest harvest begins around the end of May every year. Nearly 21 million boxes of cherries weighing 20 pounds each are expected to be picked in Oregon and Washington, down about 20% from a record-setting 2017 crop. The disease involves a phytoplasma similar to a bacteria and a separate virus causing similar symptoms that are spread by insects including leafhoppers and mealybugs, officials said. Northwest cherry growers have to cut down infected trees to prevent the disease from spreading before entire orchards are reduced to stumps.

Little cherry disease has devastated growers in California and Canada. Northwest farmers can request training from Washington State University Extension staff or obtain a booklet to help identify fruit affected by the disease. “They’re small and pale, but they’re either bland or bitter,” said Tianna DuPoint, an extension staff member in Wenatchee, Washington. “So they won’t hurt you if you eat them, but they’re not marketable.” B.J. Thurlby of the Northwest Cherry Growers industry group said the crop will be reduced largely because of little cherry disease and spring frost. Exports to China will be down, but may be offset by exports to other parts of Asia, Thurlby said. “We’re expecting at least two million boxes just to (South) Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam,” Thurlby said. “So that should be a good export deal for us.”

SALEM (AP) — A Junction City man is behind bars this weekend after police say he caused a fatal car accident while intoxicated, killing two teenagers on Highway 228. KVAL-TV reports the accident happened just east of Brownsville on Saturday morning. Oregon State Police say that 21-yearold Austyn Hillsman crossed the west-

bound lane in his truck, crashing into a Honda Pilot. The crash killed the driver — 19-year-old Caleb Simonis, of Sweet Home, and his 16-year-old passenger. A 15-year-old passenger was also hospitalized with serious injuries. Hillsman faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide, and driving under the influence. It was not immediately known if he has a lawyer.

Associated Press Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday. His wife, Eleana Tee Cobb, announced on Facebook that her husband died at his New York City home from lung cancer. He was 91. Born in Washington, D.C., Cobb told The Associated Press in 2019 he listened to jazz albums and stayed up late to hear disc jockey Symphony Sid playing jazz in New York City before launching his professional career. He said it was saxophonist Cannonball Adderley who recommended him to Davis, and he ended up playing on several Davis recordings. But Cobb’s role as a drummer on the “Kind of Blue” jam session headed by Davis would forever change his career. That album also featured Adderley and John Coltrane.

The president said Republicans will be “reluctantly forced” to find a convention site in another state unless Cooper can guarantee that the GOP will be able to fill its convention spaces, including the arena in Charlotte. Cooper’s office said state officials are working with the GOP on convention decisions. Changing sites would be difficult for numerous reasons, including the contract between Republican officials and Charlotte leaders to hold the gathering there. Trump is intent on accelerating his own schedule as he urges the country to get to work. This month, Trump has toured factories in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan that make pandemic supplies. He plans to be in Florida on Wednesday to watch two NASA astronauts rocket into space, and he played golf at his private club in Virginia on Saturday and Sunday.

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The album, released on Aug. 17, 1959, captured a moment when jazz was transforming from bebop to something newer, cooler and less structured. The full takes of the songs were recorded only once, with one exception, Cobb said. “Freddie Freeloader” needed to be played twice because Davis didn’t like a chord change on the first attempt, he said. Davis, who died in 1991, had some notes jotted down, but there weren’t pages of sheet music. It was up to the improvisers to fill the pages. “He’d say this is a ballad. I want it to sound like it’s floating. And I’d say, ‘OK,’ and that’s what it was,” Cobb recalled. The album received plenty of acclaim at the time, yet the critics, the band and the studio couldn’t have known it would enjoy such longevity. He and his bandmates knew the album would be a hit but didn’t realize at the time how iconic it would become.

“We knew it was pretty damned good,” Cobb joked. It has sold more than 4 million copies and remains the best selling jazz album of all time. It also served as a protest album for African American men who looked to Davis and the jazz musicians to break stereotypes about jazz and black humanity. Cobb would also work with such artists as Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly and Stan Getz. He’d also release a number of albums on his own. He performed well into his late 80s and played in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2017, as part of the New Mexico Jazz Festival. Jazz fans from throughout the American Southwest came to pay their respects in what many felt was a goodbye. Cobb released his last album, This I Dig of You, with Smoke Sessions Records in August 2019.

ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren Virgin Orbit fails in first DEAR Sister is jealous of the happy life woman made for herself. rocket launch attempt LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday in its first test launch of a new rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The inaugural launch had appeared to be going well until moments after the rocket was dropped from beneath the left wing of the jumbo jet dubbed Cosmic Girl. “We’ve confirmed a clean release from the aircraft. However, the mission terminated shortly into the flight. Cosmic Girl and our flight crew are safe and returning to base,” Virgin Orbit said in its official Twitter commentary on the launch. There was no immediate word on what went wrong with the rocket, which carried a test satellite. Will Pomerantz, Virgin Orbit’s vice president for special projects, commented during a preflight briefing Saturday that about half of first rocket launches fail. “History is not terribly kind, necessarily, to maiden flights,” he said. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hart said during the briefing that there had been numerous tests, discussions and introspection to verify that the system was ready. “In the end the questions are always, has everything been thought about and are there any gaps or seams, and those are the questions you only learn when you commit to flight,” Hart said. The highly modified jumbo jet took off from Mojave Air and Space Por t in the desert north of Los Angeles and flew out just beyond the Channel Islands, where the drop occurred. The rocket was supposed to

fall for a few seconds before the first of its two stages ignited and hurtled it down the coast toward the South Pole for insertion of its demonstration payload into a low Earth orbit. The purpose of the flight was to gather data on every step of the launch process rather than to have a useful satellite in orbit; the demonstration payload was described as an inert mass and the intended orbit was very low to avoid contributing to the problem of space junk. The attempt followed five years of development of the 70-foot-long (21.3 meter) LauncherOne rocket. How long the setback will affect the company was not immediately clear. It has six additional rockets under construction in its factory. “The team’s already hard at work digging into the data, and we’re eager to hop into our next big test ASAP,” the company tweeted. “Thankfully, instead of waiting until after our 1st flight to tackle our 2nd rocket, we’ve already completed a ton of work to get us back in the air and keep moving forward.” A successful launch by Virgin Orbit would have marked a dramatic step in getting back on track after the coronavirus pandemic sent most employees home earlier this year while work spaces, procedures and mission control were adjusted. Virgin Orbit is targeting the market for launching satellites ranging in size from toasters to household refrigerators. The time is right for the small satellite launch market, Hart said on Saturday. Technology advancements have enabled satellites much smaller than traditional payloads

to do “real work” in space, typically from low Earth orbit, and for markets ranging from commercial to national security, he said. While other companies are developing rockets for the small satellite market and builders of big rockets like SpaceX can carry them into orbit in a ride-share arrangement with large satellites, Virgin Orbit’s air launch system based on the aviation industry’s workhorse 747 is intended to put a satellite up when and where a customer needs it, Hart said. “We can fly to space from any place that can host a 747, which is almost any place,” he said. Virgin Orbit says it has dozens of missions on the books for customers including the U.S. Space Force and the Royal Air Force. Internationally, it is working on plans for launches from the United Kingdom and Japan. Hart did not provide a specific dollar value for the missions it has on the books but characterized it as “hundreds of millions.” Air launch technology dates back decades, including use by X-15 rocket planes in the 1950s and ’60s. For satellites the method is currently in use by what is now Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket program, which has had several dozen launches since 1990. Virgin Orbit, headquartered in Long Beach, California, began as a sister company of Virgin Galactic but has since separated. Virgin Galactic is preparing to begin flights carrying passengers into the lower reaches of space from southern New Mexico.

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Patterson, Clinton team up for another political thriller among other works, and Little, Brown and Company, Patterson’s longtime publisher. “I never imagined I’d be writing a book with a master storyteller like Jim, much less two,” Clinton said in a statement. “I was grateful for the success of the first book, and I believe readers will enjoy reading ‘The President’s Daughter’ as much as I’m enjoying working on it.” Added Patterson, one of the world’s best-selling and most prolific authors:

“Working with President Clinton has been a highlight of my career, and I’m thrilled to have the chance to write with him again.” Clinton and Patterson will give interviews for the book, although specific plans are undetermined, in part because of uncertainty about the endurance of the coronavirus pandemic. “The President’s Daughter” is not a sequel to “The President Is Missing,” but a stand-alone novel

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Congress: ‘Go big’ on virus aid or hit ‘pause’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is at a crossroads in the coronavirus crisis, wrestling over whether to “go big,” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants for the next relief bill, or hit “pause,” as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists. It’s a defining moment for the political parties heading toward the election and one

that will affect the livelihoods of countless Americans suddenly dependent on the federal government. Billions of dollars in state aid, jobless benefits and health resources are at stake. As questions mount over Washington’s proper role, it’s testing the ability of President Donald Trump and Congress to do the right thing.

“These are the eternal debates in American history,” said Richard Sylla, a professor emeritus of economic and financial history at New York University. “It’s a bit like what Alexander Hamilton was facing in 1790,” he said, describing the plan to have the new federal government assume the Revolutionary War debts

of the states, despite protests of a bailout. It was, he said, as Hamilton framed it, “the price of liberty.” As negotiations develop on Capitol Hill, the coronavirus response offers Congress an opportunity to shape the country’s post-pandemic future but also carries the risk of repeating mistakes of past crises, including the 2008-09

recession, that history does not easily forget. Trump and McConnell huddled late last week on next steps after rejecting Pelosi’s plan. The Democratic speaker set the table with passage of the sweeping $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which includes $1 trillion to shore up states and cities to avert municipal layoffs,

$1,200 stipends to Americans and other aid. “We could have done bigger,” Pelosi told The Associated Press in a recent interview. With more than 38 million unemployment claims, the Republican response centers on kick-starting the economy to reduce the need for more federal intervention.

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began sweeping across the globe. Brick said she, like the rest of the South Coast, had been alerted to what was happening worldwide. “But then the lockdowns came,” she said. “We were trying to learn how to function in a world that did not know how to function in this pandemic. … We had to figure out how to serve the clients we had and not do it in a traditional way like we had been.” To make her early days as executive director even harder, once Gov. Kate Brown announced the school closures, ORCCA’s Head Start program aligned with the orders and also shut down. “…That’s a ton of kiddos down the coast and in Reedsport,” Brick said, referring to the families with children enrolled in the program. The program offered research-based curriculum, free and healthy meals, as well as inclusive services for children with disabilities. “… So, we asked ‘how

can we serve those guys?’” Brick said. “And I credit the teams for thinking outside the box.” Knowing that, first and foremost, families needed food, ORCCA reached out to new partners to meet the area’s needs. According to Brick, ORCCA increased its food distribution by 101,142 pounds just in March alone. “We were seeing a ton of people access our food banks who never had before,” she said. “People were getting laid off, so we asked how can we get food out to folks who don’t have transportation and are the neediest of the needy?” ORCCA got creative and utilized its Head Start buses, as well as its family engagement specialists, to work with the South Coast Food Share. Together, a larger system was made to get food out to families. “They are packaging other items like backpacks and literacy tools, taking them to families with the buses and delivering them like a

knock-and-run,” Brick said, adding that then the family is notified when the items are outside. Because there was such an increased need seen at the food share, ORCCA looked at expanding the service even more. To meet the need, the warehouse and cooler space for the food required wasn’t enough. “One of our directors for our Early Learning Hub reached out to the City of North Bend to work out a deal to use the North Bend Community Center,” Brick said. “They are letting us use it free of charge.” ORCCA now has staff at the community center “because there is such a demand and increase in need right now,” she said. But to continue programs while people practice social distancing, video conferencing, like for most now, has helped connect ORCCA services to the public. One of the benefits has been to the organization’s Socialization for Family Group

Time. Usually these were help when parents come together with their infants or toddlers, accompanied by a learning activity. Instead, it is being done via video conferencing. “The teacher will come on and sing songs to the kiddos and all FaceTime together,” Brick said. “… I participated in one and it is so sweet. The kids are happy to see their friends. … That piece is so important because for some kiddos, this is the only stable place in their lives, so to get them where they can see friends and teachers and still get packets to work on is beautiful.”

helping the public work with electric companies and utility companies to make sure they don’t lose those vital services. While the moratorium on shutting off services has helped, it will be over soon and “then those bills will rush in.” “This is not a vacation from your responsibilities, it is a stop gap,” Brick said, adding that ORCCA is in the process of securing some of the COVID-19 rent release funds to help those who aren’t able to pay bills once the moratorium is lifted. That way, through ORCCA, funds will be accessible for those people. Until then, Brick said ORCCA is looking at additional ways to be a strong support for the community. “It has been trial by fire, for sure,” Brick said of her first three months as executive director. For more information about ORCCA’s programs, or to benefit from these services, call 541-435-7080.

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worked for the organization for 20 years, and I have a strong foundation and a real passion and love for the citizens of our county.” Brick remembered that the board spoke early on its desire to bring ORCCA’s teams together, from its early childhood program Head Start to its Court Appointed Special Advocates program, which benefits children in the foster system. “Getting those teams together and having a more cohesive foundation for the whole organization, I think, was a big deal for the board,” Brick said. She wasted no time adding folks to ORCCA’s leadership team to represent more areas of the organization, from CASA, the food share, to technology. Then two short weeks after she was selected as executive director, COVID-19

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Ewing out of hospital after treatment Associated Press

Georgetown basketball coach and former NBA great Patrick Ewing has been released from the hospital and is recovering from COVID-19 at home, his son said Monday. The 57-year-old Hall of Famer, who played for the Hoyas in college and the New York Knicks in the NBA, announced Friday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and was being treated at a hospital. Patrick Ewing Jr. said three

days later on Twitter that his father was getting better after receiving treatment and thanked the doctors and nurses who looked after him during his hospital stay. He also thanked fans for their thoughts and prayers after his father’s announcement. “My father is now home and getting better,” Ewing Jr. wrote. “We’ll continue to watch his symptoms and follow the CDC guidelines. I hope everyone continues to stay safe and protect yourselves and your loved ones.” As a player, the 7-foot Patrick

Ewing helped Georgetown win the 1984 NCAA men’s basketball championship and reach two other title games. During his four years playing, Georgetown went 121-23, a winning percentage of .840. He was taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1985 draft after the Knicks won the NBA’s first lottery. Ewing wound up leading New York to the 1994 NBA Finals, where they lost to Hakeem Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets. Ewing played 17 seasons in

the NBA, 15 with the Knicks. After retiring as a player, he spent 15 years as an assistant or associate coach with four teams in the pros. In April 2017, he returned to Georgetown for his first job as a head coach at any level. In his first three seasons at his alma mater, Ewing’s teams went a combined 49-46, with zero trips to the NCAA Tournament. In 2019-20, Georgetown finished the season with seven consecutive losses and a 15-17 record.

Sports Briefs AUTO RACING Busch wins Xfinity race with pass on last lap CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Busch passed Austin Cindric on the final lap in overtime to win his 97th career Xfinity Series race in dramatic fashion at Charlotte Motor Speedway. After a crash involving several cars sent the race into overtime, Cindric passed Busch on a restart starting at the inside lane of the front row. But Busch battled back and pushed the pedal to the floor, passing Cindric on the last lap to earn his 18th overall win at Charlotte Motor Speedway across NASCAR’s top three series — the most of any driver. Busch has now won 210 career races across NASCAR’s top three series. Daniel Hemric edged Cindric for second. Cindric finished third followed by Ross Chastain and Justin Allgaier. Busch appeared in control for most of the race winning the first two stages, but was assessed a speeding penalty on pit row with 38 laps to go, dropping him to 10th place. But Busch battled back through the field with the help of a series of strong restarts on cautions in the final 30 laps.

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North Bend and North Eugene battle in a boys soccer match last fall. This year’s fall sports season is unclear as the state deals with the COVID-19 pandemic.

OSAA turns dial toward reopening

Agency provides guidelines to schools for reopening their facilities to students JERRY ULMER OSAAtoday

The return of sports from the coronavirus shutdown can’t come soon enough for Oregon high schools. But as is apparent in the OSAA’s Wednesday memo offering summer guidance to schools, the process is going to require plenty of patience. “It’s not like coming back we’re going to flip on a switch. It’s going to be like a dial,” OSAA executive director Peter Weber said. “It’s going to be more of a gradual type of reopening.” The association year ends May 25, which means OSAA rules prohibiting the use of school facilities and coach/student physical interaction will be lifted May 26. However, state-imposed restrictions will remain. Schools in the 31 counties that

received approval to reopen May 15 will be under the state’s Phase 1 guidelines through June 5. Schools in the other five counties – Marion, Polk, Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah – will be in Phase 1 for 21 days after those counties are approved to reopen. The OSAA, working closely with its sports medicine advisory committee, provided schools with an outline that aligns with Phase 1 directives from the Oregon Health Authority. That guidance was posted on the OSAA website Wednesday after the executive board met in an online closed work session. “The goal was to try to provide some things for schools to consider as they look at reopening things for the summer,” Weber said. “The obvious goal would be as we move forward in the next few weeks that we provide some Phase 2 guidance, then some Phase 3 guidance, as well.” Gov. Kate Brown had ordered school facilities closed through June 30, but the OSAA has received clarification from the Oregon Department of Educa-

tion that the date was applied to align with the districts that are the latest to finish their school year. Districts can reopen facilities the day after their school year ends. “A school that ends on June 2, in theory, would be able to use their facilities on June 3,” Weber said. Weber encouraged schools to carefully review the recommendations the OSAA provided Wednesday. The NFHS offered its own guidance for state associations in a document it released Tuesday. “People that are thinking, ‘Hey, May 26, it’s just like last year when the summer season began,’ but it’s not,” Weber said. “If you read through that, there’s a lot of stuff that people need to be considering in terms of hygiene and pre-screening and cleaning the facilities. “And even what they’re allowed to do per the recommendations is pretty minimal – the small groups of kids, and no-contact, more conditioning-type workout stuff as opposed to sharing equipment. They shouldn’t be doing that.” The executive board plans to

meet for work sessions every two weeks, the next one scheduled for June 3. By then, the state should have guidance for Phase 2. “The goal would be to have that guidance out by the early part of June,” Weber said. Many summer activities are likely to hinge on state guidance for Phase 2. Contact sports are prohibited in Phase 1, but the OSAA has yet to receive a definition of the term from the OHA. “That was our first question to them a week ago,” Weber said. “Everybody knows football is a contact sport, but how do they view basketball or soccer, those things?” Defining restrictions for camps of contact sports also will be key. “What we’re saying in Phase 1 is you can do a contact sport, you just can’t have contact,” Weber said. “Well, then it’s not a contact sport. You have kids lined up in a drill, but they’re six feet apart, and they’re not touching each other, and they’re not sharing equipment. It’s more of a workout type of thing. “The contact piece is going to be an issue going forward.”

OSAA guidelines provide ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ JOHN GUNTHER The World

When the Oregon School Activities Association released its latest update on COVID-19 last week, athletic directors around the state began pondering what it means. The OSAA’s current moratorium-like suspension of facilities and coach/student physical interaction ended Monday, the end of the OSAA association year. Starting today, schools control what they allow to take place in their school facilities, though Gov. Kate Brown has extended restrictions on the use of facilities until the end of the school year for each respective school. OSAA also gave guidelines for how schools can reopen their facilities. “I think it gives us a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel,” North Bend athletic

director Mike Forrester said. “It lets us see that if we do our job and follow the rules, there is a possibility of us getting back and having kids in school before the summer’s over. “Hopefully at the end of it all, we are set up to have some kind of activities next fall.” It will take a while to get there, though. In the first phase, athletes can’t share any equipment. “Now kids can come in and shoot baskets (on their own), but they can’t pass a volleyball with a teammate or do anything with a teammate,” Forrester said. “In Phase 1, you can’t do anything together.” Coos County, and most of the rest of the counties in Oregon, are scheduled to enter Phase 2 on June 5 if they meet guidelines set by the governor. “Phase 2 is going to be less stringent,” Forrester said.

But just how much less is unknown. Administrators around the state had a meeting last week with Peter Weber, the executive director of OSAA, and Forrester came away from that encouraged. He hopes athletes can start to share equipment in Phase 2. But schools are going to have to constantly be cleaning equipment and facilities. “Putting all these measures in place, it’s not going to be cheap,” Forrester said. “It’s going to cost money.” And there are many more questions than answers about what things look like when the school year starts in the fall. Football might not be an option, since it’s a contact sport. “That’s the one that’s a highrisk activity,” Forrester said. But even with the other sports, there might be questions about

whether teams from the South Coast might travel to other areas of the state that might be hit harder with the virus, where there could be a risk of students being exposed and bringing the virus back to the area, Forrester said. “(Peter Weber) said there might be a lot more regional look next year than there has been,” he said. Schools should know more soon, with OSAA expected to provide further guidelines by June 5, but the bottom line remains the same, Forrester said. “The first conversation has to be can we do this and keep kids safe,” he said. “The other thing is if we open it up, how many parents are going to say, ‘Great, but my student is not going to be part of it.’” Still, Forrester is encouraged. “I think it was a positive,” he said of the meeting with Weber.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR suspended three critical crew members for Denny Hamlin’s team because a piece of tungsten fell off his car on the pace lap before the Coca-Cola 600. The tungsten is required to meet minimum weight requirements on the car and the NASCAR rule book states if it is separated at any point it is an automatic four-race suspension for the crew chief, car chief and engineer. Chris Gabehart, the crew chief, was suspended along with car chief Brandon Griffeth and engineer Scott Simmons. Joe Gibbs Racing said it would not appeal the penalty and already had roster replacements for Wednesday night’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NASCAR’s next four races are at Charlotte, Bristol, Atlanta and Martinsville between Wednesday night and June 10, when the suspension ends. NASCAR is trying to squeeze in eight postponed Cup events from a 10-week suspension for the conavirus pandemic.

GOLF Charity match draws big ratings over weekend ATLANTA — Two of the biggest names from the PGA Tour and the NFL proved to be must-see TV. Turner Sports said the Sunday telecast of “The Match: Champions for Charity” attracted an average of 5.8 million viewers across four of its networks. Turner says it was the most-watched golf telecast in cable TV history. It said the previous record was 4.9 million viewers on ESPN at the 2010 Masters, the year Tiger Woods returned to golf for the first time since the scandal in his personal life. Woods and Peyton Manning scored a 1-up victory over Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady at Medalist Golf Club, a match that featured high entertainment with shots and with words, along with raising $20 million for COVID-19 relief funds. It was the second straight Sunday of live golf on television after the pandemic shut down the sport on March 13. The previous week, Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson defeated Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff at Seminole in an exhibition that NBC Sports said attracted 2.35 million viewers across all formats.

SOCCER NWSL will allow small training groups The National Women’s Soccer League says players may start training in small groups, provided it is done under league protocols and meets the requirements of local authorities. Teams will be able to progress to full team training on May 30 once they complete five days of small group training.