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The Coos Bay Boat Building Center on May 6. The center hosts the annual Festival of Sail which brings tall ships to the Bay Area.

Center loses funding Likely the first of many tough funding choices this year CHERYL UPSHAW The World

COOS BAY ­— Nearly half the funding for the Coos Bay Boat Building Center was slashed at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

City of Coos Bay council members cited lack of funding and uncertainty about the reduced hotel/motel taxes due to COVID-19.

The council’s vote removed

the center from consideration on the city’s 2020-2021 budget ahead of the annual budget meeting, which will be held starting May 14. The city’s proposed budget was posted to the city’s website this week.

The proposed budget for the hotel/motel fund has been reduced overall from 2019-2020’s $1.32 million to $1.06 million for 2020-2021. The amount allocated to the boat building center each year was previously $5,000.

The all-volunteer Boat Building Center hosts the annual Festival of Sail, referred to as the Tall Ships event at Tuesday’s meeting, which brings historical ship

replicas into the bay and hosts both the ships and their crews for two weeks. This year, like many local events, Tall Ships was cancelled due to COVID-19.

However, according to Coos Bay Boat Building Center Board President Tom Leahy, when the event does run, it brings thousands of visitors, and thousands of their dollars to the community each year.

“That was never mentioned.

I should have put that into the letter of request. I thought they’d know that,” Leahy said. He felt the funding cut was “short-sighted.”

Notably, other cuts to the pro-

posed hotel/motel fund expenditures include a $30,000 reduction to promotions, a $3,500 reduction to the Egyptian Theater, an $85,000 reduction to the Visitors Convention Bureau, a $65,000 reduction to Special Projects including Christmas lights, a $3,000 cut to the Visitor Information Center and a $10,000 reduction to the Art Museum.

Councilmember Stephanie Kilmer said the choice to eliminate city funding to the Boat Building Center was difficult because the city was contractually obligated to pay other costs from the hotel/motel fund and it was

COOS BAY — In a weekly town hall conducted by Coos Health and Wellness on Tuesday night, prominent figures from across the state presented information and answered questions about the novel coronavirus.

The hour-long Zoom call included former Senator Arnie Roblan; State Representative Caddy McKeown; Director of Oregon Health Authority Patrick Allen; Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections Colette Peters; Infectious Disease Specialist with the Department of Corrections Dr. Daniel Please see Town Hall, Page A9

33M sought aid since virus pandemic hit WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the viral outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades.

Roughly 33.5 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the seven weeks since the coronavirus began forcing millions of companies to close their doors and slash their workforces.

That is the equivalent of one in five Americans who had been

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COOS COUNTY — With Election Day right around the corner, The World reached out to all the candidates running Robert “Bob” Main

for Coos County Commissioner to learn more about why they decided to run, their plan’s to revitalize the local economy and what issues in Coos County concerned them the most today.

Five people are vying for the Coos

Edward Rosendo Cordova

Occupation: Coos County Commissioner

Occupation: Currently unemployed

Previous employment: Coos County Assessor, small business owner, local wood production mills

Previous employment: Emergency medical technician

Educational history: Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, mathematics, Southern Oregon College, Southwestern Oregon Community College, North Bend High School Political experience: Vice president of the Association of O&C Counties, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve board member, City of Coquille budget committee member, various other local and Please see Main, Page A3

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Educational history: Certified EMT, San Joaquin Delta College, Brookside Christian High School Political experience: Appointed primary care paramedic Why are you running for Coos County Commissioner?

I believe it’s a civic duty that I’m carrying out and I think everyone should take it as a learning experience to how they can make a difference in their community. A lot of it starts at the local level and at the community level. So, you know, instead Please see Cordova, Page A3

County Commissioner Position No.1 seat. The candidates include incumbent Robert “Bob” Main, Edward Cordova, Katy Eymann, Pamela Lewis and Sam Schwarz.

Over the past few weeks, The World

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sent candidates a questionnaire which some answered via email and others over the phone. Some of the answers have been edited for length and clarity.

The full questionnaires can be found at www.theworldlink.com.

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Sam Schwarz

Occupation: Attorney

Occupation: Registered nurse

Previous employment: Business owner, business coach, non-profit executive

Previous employment: Health professional at number of Coquille and Bandon healthcare facilities, emergency room nurse, volunteer-EMT intermediate, public health nurse

Educational history: Law degree from University of Oregon’s School of Law, associate’s degree from Lane Community College, Thurston High School Political experience: Board member on Southwestern Oregon Community College’s Board of Education, chairperson of Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots Why are you running for Coos County Commissioner?

Elections are about the future.

The leadership Coos County needs to change. Our current

Educational history: Nursing degree from Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coquille High School Political experience: Shift supervisor for City of Coquille EMS training,Coquille Valley Ambulance Association Why are you running for Coos County Commissioner?

Continuing to do the same thing over and over again while

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COOS COUNTY — Paul Frasier has never faced a contested bid for his spot as Coos County District Attorney.

He chalks this up as being either “who is crazy enough to want the job?” he laughed, or because he’d like to think “the legal community — at least — respect what I’ve been doing and that’s why I haven’t had competition from another lawyer in the county.”

The long-sitting Coos County DA is on the ballot again this month for what he plans to be his last term.

“I’m 62 now and after this term I will be 66 and it is my intent to retire then,” Frasier said.

What has he accomplished?

Frasier’s career in the criminal justice system has spanned 35 years so far, having graduated from Willamette University College of Law in 1984. He became a prosecutor the same year, but found his way to Coos County in 1990 when he was offered the spot of Chief Deputy DA. When the district attorney at the time, Paul Burgett, retired a year before his term ended, Frasier was appointed as the county district attorney by former-Gov. Ted Kulongoski in 2008.

Quickly after being elected to the position later that year, Frasier

says he initiated the transition of how child abuse allegations were handled.

“When I became DA in 2008, I had to handle a lot of the child sex abuse cases and still handle the more severe ones,” he said. “I began to realize, while handling those, that while the Children’s Advocacy Center was doing a good job getting interviews from the victims, we weren’t addressing other things that needed to be done in terms of if they were getting the medical care and psychological care they needed.”

At the time, the Children’s Advocacy Center was what Frasier described as “prosecution-based and went after the evidence it needed to get the bad guy.” There was a second model though, which was medical-based, that emphasizes how the victim can be helped.

The Children’s Advocacy Center was shifted under Bay Area Hospital, where it became the Kids’ HOPE Center.

“Moving to what we have at the Kids’ HOPE Center is one thing I’m proud of,” Frasier said. “I brought up the idea and pushed it.”

He acknowledged that “other people took the ball” in making it happen.

Looking at his career over the years, he says he has personally prosecuted thousands of cases and has been involved in close to 100 ho-

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Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier sits in a conference room at the Coos County Courthouse in Coquille. micide investigations.

Looking ahead With no one to contest his bid for another term as district attorney, Frasier is already working to solve some of the pressing issues his office is facing. He said last month, the Coos County Commissioners cut a vacant deputy DA position.

“I had a vacant deputy DA position that’s been vacant for a while partly due to the shortage of lawyers and a shortage of people who want to come work on the South Coast,” Frasier explained. “While we’ve adjusted the pay scale for deputy DA’s in the county, we’re competing

against other counties.”

He had hope that new graduates would apply for the position this summer before the position was cut.

“This is putting me in a hard spot,” he said. “… I’ve talked with the commissioners about this before … we’re on the edge of the windowsill and have been for a long time. We’re barely hanging on by our fingernails in terms of cases coming in versus people being able to get to the work.”

However, he said in 2007 “the county made horrendous cuts (after) timber money (stopped) coming in.

We’ve tried to maintain and do the best we can with what we have and faced shortfalls.”

While the deputy DA position was vacant, his office prioritized person crimes like assaults, sex crimes and felonies.

“We concentrated on those,” he said. “There were things we didn’t get to like criminal trespass, shoplifting an item less than $100.”

Then as the COVID-19 pandemic limited court appearances, Frasier and his staff hoped to go through the backlog of 500 to 600 cases, some as far back as 2018.

“We hoped to get through the back intake and this new person would come in and we’d be caught up,” Frasier said. “With that position gone, we’re not able to prosecute some of these cases. I’m afraid we’re going to have to reject cases because we don’t

have resources.”

Last year, his office had 3,600 cases referred to them by law enforcement.

Right now on staff, he has one deputy DA who is funded by the state’s Justice Reinvestment Act and is assigned to work with parole and probation cases. Another deputy is assigned to the juvenile department and child support cases, which range anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 cases a year in addition to the 3,600 cases his office receives.

Meanwhile, Frasier carries the murder cases. Currently, three are on the shelf that require his attention, one with a trial slated for August. He says he also handles the first-degree sex crimes, which “are time-consuming cases.”

That leaves four deputy DA’s to look at the 3,600 cases.

“I don’t know how we will do that,” he said. “When cases are rejected, they are sent back to agencies and aren’t prosecuted. We will only do that with the backlog ….”

Possible solutions would include a law enforcement levy for the county that would fund the Sheriff’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, and potentially the jail.

“It’s a matter of funding,” he said.

“If you don’t have the money, you can’t fill the position.”

Ballots have been mailed to voters.

Election Day is May 19.

Oregon reports 2 new COVID-19 deaths DeFazio announces The World PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 115, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.

Oregon Health Authority reported 70 new confirmed cases and seven new presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, bringing the state total to 2,916.

The new confirmed and presumptive cases reported Wednesday are in the following counties: Baker (1), Benton (1), Clackamas (4), Columbia (1), Deschutes (1), Jefferson (4), Lane (2), Lincoln (1), Linn (1), Marion (18), Multnomah (24), Polk (7), Umatilla (4), Wasco (1), Washington (6), Yamhill (1).

To see more case and county level data, visit the Oregon Health Authority website, which OHA updates once a day: www.healthoregon.org/coronavirus.

Oregon’s 114th COVID-19 death is an 88-year-old man in Multnomah County, who tested positive on April 30 and died on May 2 at Adventist Medical Center. He had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 115th COVID-19 death is a 95-year-old man in Polk County, who tested positive on April 27 and died on May 4 at Salem Hospital. He had underlying medical conditions.

Note: The number of deaths in the 60-69 age group has dropped by one. During routine data reconciliation, the person’s date of birth was updated. This person has been re-categorized to be in the 80 and over age group.

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.

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Monday, April 27 At 10:58 a.m. on Sixth Street, restraining order service was carried out where subject was cited in lieu of custody.

At 3:11 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 and U.S. Highway 101, a driving complaint was handled.

At 10:40 p.m. on Roseburg Road, a welfare check was handled.

Tuesday, April 28 At 11:36 a.m. on Miller Lane, a suicidal subject was handled.

At 5:20 p.m. on East Willow Street, a juvenile problem was handled.

At 8:35 p.m. on Willow Street, suspicious conditions were handled.

Wednesday, April 29 At 5:41 p.m. on Spruce Street, information was gathered regarding a report of suspicious conditions.

At 7:55 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 near Milepost 22, a driving complaint was handled.

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At 2:26 p.m. on Lehnherr, driver issued a warning following a driving complaint.

At 10:00 p.m. on Maple Street, an alarm was handled.

Friday, May 1 At 11:07 a.m. on Maple Street, a theft was handled.

At 6:19 p.m. on Roseburg Road, a disturbance was handled.

At 7:56 p.m. on U.S. Highway 42 near Milepost 18, criminal trespass was handled.

Saturday, May 2 At 2:36 a.m. on Fourth Street, suspicious conditions were handled.

At 7:16 a.m. on Ash Street, an assault was reported.

Sunday, May 3 At 1:33 p.m. on Maryland Avenue, suspicious condition were reported.

At 14:34 p.m. on Willow Street, a suspicious subject was handled.

At 7:56 p.m. on 8th Street, fraud was reported.

$350k grant for Coquille Tribe WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., announced Wednesday that the Coquille Indian Tribe has received $350,000 in federal grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to assess the Ko’Kwel Wharf Property as a possible brownfield location.

“The brownfields program has a proven record of success in transforming contaminated or otherwise unusable sites into a real positive for the environment and the community, and I am pleased the Coquille Indian Tribe has the opportunity to benefit from this program,” said DeFazio. “In 2013, the City of Eugene received a grant from the brownfields program and now the popular Ninkasi Brewing Company sits on the site of what was a former brownfield. I am hopeful that this funding for the Coquille Indian Tribe can replicate that success.”

DeFazio has long supported the brownfields program, and included a nearly $3 billion investment in brownfield cleanup in his Moving Forward Framework announced earlier this year.

Brownfields are defined as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.” Brownfields are, by definition, not contaminated to a level that would define them as potential Superfund sites. However, because of the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances on these sites, potentially responsible parties associated with brownfields sites may be liable for cleanup of the properties.

Through the EPA’s Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup grant programs, communities receive funding to study the site, determine if it is in fact contaminated, and may move forward with redeveloping the property.

Brownfield restoration helps communities fix up these abandoned and contaminated properties for new use which can be huge drivers of economic growth for local communities and tribes.

Coquille Police Log Saturday, May 2 At 6:18 p.m. on South Cedar Street, a welfare check was requested.

At 9:43 p.m. on East 8th Street, a family dispute was reported.

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Sunday, May 3 At 11:51 a.m. on North Cedar Point Road, information of a possible criminal trespass was collected.

At 1:59 p.m. on Johnson Mill Pond, officers provided assistance to Coos County Sheriff’s Office after they received a report of possible threats.

At 7:10 p.m. on North Baxter Street, officers responded to a report of a subject drinking in public and criminal trespass.

Monday, May 4 At 12:41 a.m. on North Central Boulevard, a suspicious vehicle was reported.

At 8:30 a.m. on North Folsom Street, unlawful entry into a motor vehicle was reported.

At 12:02 p.m. on North Folsom Street, suspicious conditions were reported.

At 12:48 p.m. on North Folsom Street, a dispute was reported.

At 4:29 p.m. on West 10th Street, a narcotics investigation was launched after officers received a bag of white powdery substance.

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statewide committees Why are you running for Coos County Commissioner?

Well, I enjoy helping people and trying to make a difference in the community. Also, I personally like it. About every half hour to hour we have to handle something on a daily basis and it runs from anywhere from 7 in the morning until about 9 at night, weekends, holidays and all of that.

It’s challenging for me and I really enjoy the challenge. You know, working with people and trying to help them on daily basis.

Almost every other day I get a call from somebody or a text or an email from somebody saying, “I have this problem can you help me out,” and I’ve been able to be very successful in those things.

If re-elected, how would you address the local

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of running for something else this is something that could really affect the community and our coastal community.

If elected, how would you address the local economic crisis facing the county today due to the COVID-19 outbreak?

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economic crisis facing the county today due to the COVID-19 outbreak?

Right now, I’ve been on I don’t know how many calls. It seems like my whole life right now is constant phone conferences with different state agencies like state parks, like Department of Corrections, Oregon Health Authority, etc. trying to get the governor’s office to reopen the state and the county and to get people back to work.

When I am out and about I get stopped all the time about, “When are we going to reopen the restaurants? When are we going to do this?” and it’s a challenge because it isn’t up to the commissioners like reopening the parks, that was shut down by the governor’s executive order 20-12.

We would like to reopen.

We’ve lost more than a quarter of a million dollars in the shutdown so far just in lost revenue from the county parks, but I don’t understand sometimes why

you know when you have people very close together in the grocery store why that’s okay, but you can’t have people in their cars going to church service and staying in their car and listening on a radio or why people can’t be in a restaurant 10 feet apart….

We would like to get the parks reopen. We lifted our restrictions on the motel, hotel, RV parks on May 1 and while we know some people were not happy with that, some of them may not know that Douglas and Lane counties never even enacted (restrictions to its lodging) and they didn’t notice any increase in traffic whatsoever…. There’s downsides and upsides with whatever we do. We’re just trying to take the best route that we know how.

Well, the only thing I know is we need to be back up and running because they’re bleeding out pretty much to the point where they’re not going to be able to survive this closure period. A lot of them don’t have that type of security to be able to bunker down for a few months and keep going, but that’s just really the biggest issue that we need to stimulate our economy.

A lot of it has to do with lots of overbearing regulations that prevents people from being able to produce things such as straight from the producer straight to the buyers’ type of deal. There’s all these middle men involved and that’s where the biggest issues lie. You don’t need that middle man and typically the middle man is the government…

build that industry and maintain it from now until forever…

As Coos County Commissioner, I will bridge the gap between the Industrial and Environmental Communities, defining both short and long-term goals in the trajectory of socioeconomic viability.

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benefits for those elected officials. I don’t believe that as a civil officer you’re going to be expecting pension or any type of long-term payment plan for having authority. That’s not right and that completely defeats our government system and the way it works.

Trying to run Coos County like it’s a big metropolitan area that’s the biggest thing too that we don’t need here.

We need to steer away from

that because this is not a big city and we only have finite resources especially from property owners. ... You need to maintain that job which they are there to keep checks and balances fairly and the finance director position well it’s overseen by who? It’s overseen by the county commissioners and that’s not very secure.

So those are really the key issues I have as far as the county and the area goes.

nomic shutdown are fine as long as social distancing again is maintained. Businesses that reopen need to require or provide masks to their customers like the county commissioners are requiring for the lodging industry and businesses also need to use hand sanitizer or other sanitizer for commonly touched items.

I also think we should open up the parks to give people an outlet for their energy and again require people maintain social distancing. As for the economic crisis locally, I as a commissioner would work closely with the state and federal government officials to increase the direct stimulus money for local businesses. I would use newspapers, social media, and local

chambers of commerce to educate business about how to get that money and I’m a fighter….

implement the housing action plan so we can have a healthy housing market in Coos County. … Secondly, a major problem in Coos County is the failure of Coos County Commissioners to engage in long term financial planning for the county budget.

This has been recommended by everyone who has ever looked at the issues including the Portland State University Hatfield School of Government in 2012.

They told the county government you need to do some long term financial planning so the Coos County Commissioners developed a five-step yearlong plan to do that planning and they never even took the first step that would come in

so handy right now as we face this economic crisis here in Coos County. I as a county commissioner would do everything I can to engage in long term financial planning for the benefit of everyone.

Thirdly, there’s the threat of the LNG terminal. While that will improve tax revenue to a select group it won’t be much use if there is no one living here because they don’t want to be next to a very hazardous facility. It’s going to drive out families who are concerned and it’s also going to be an economic disaster for the county because of the economic boom, bust (meaning workers come in to build the facility and then leave when it’s completed).

If elected, how would you

address the local economic crisis facing the county today due to the COVID-19 outbreak?

I would begin with meeting with the different cities to discover their specific dynamics, then

assist with developing a supportive plan for our businesses recovery. We are all going to have a new culture to maneuver through, it will take everyone’s participation.

What are some of the issues that most concern you in Coos County?

Growth and development. We have the fourth largest port on the west coast and it sits nearly bald from industry. We

need to make it work for us, develop it as well as accessing and developing our other local assets.

We have got to become visionary and creative, let’s become famous for something productive.

address the local economic crisis facing the county today due to the COVID-19 outbreak?

Covid-19 has shown us where we are strong and where we are weak, allowing us to determine what we can do locally to be strong in a rapidly changing world.

We would be more equipped to keep our businesses operating smoothly during crisis as a self-reliant community, focusing

emergency preparedness around building regional resilience as a “business as usual” normality. Regional isolation that would limit in-and-out flow to essential needs between surrounding regions could allow us to continue operating, keeping people working and “staying open” while following appropriate safety protocol for the immune compromised.

In the long-term, local food and energy produc-

tion is crucial. Maintaining access to outdoor recreation is key for health and moral. Knowing when to self-isolate while following proven safety guidelines will minimize threats to the community as a whole. I am confident that we will overcome this crisis. We are Resilient.

dant resource, there is no need to witness so much poverty. From homelessness apparent in the streets and in our schools, to substance abuse and unemployment, it is undeniable that Coos County needs to address economic reform.

We have what it takes and now is the perfect time to re-create our path that is beneficial for all inhabitants of our beautiful coastal region. Working with existing agencies for skills training,

boosting local manufacturing and processing capacities, coupled with an invitation for welfare reform, we will add value to our local economy and our existing natural resources.

Working hard in a cohesive plan for operations, pulling all of our resources together, we can all relish in the richness of what Coos County already provides.

Together, we are Coos County Strong.

study two small growing towns in Oregon and research their growth plans, then bring them home to my county. It’s time for a change in direction.

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What are some of the issues that most concern you in Coos County?

The biggest concern that I have is with local government giving themselves raises. I believe the pay is substantial as it is already, especially I’m talking about the level of a Coos County Commission.

The other thing I’m talking about or that I like to address is public employee benefits or PERS

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in forest revenue and that has helped with some grant funds from the U.S. Forest Service to get grants to patrol the dunes, the marine board to patrol the waterways, etc, but it comes down to be extremely tight.

If elected, how would you address the local economic crisis facing the county today due to the COVID-19 outbreak?

COVID-19 is really a science problem. Scientist tell us we need to test, isolate and that will allow us to eradicate this disease.

So we need to increase testing if possible. However, that is a federal problem and we need to do our part to get the testing here for everyone.

In the meantime, to address the economic problem. I think it’s okay that we open the economy back up so long as social distancing is maintained.

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expecting a different result is the very definition of ‘crazy maker.’ I want to

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… We’ve been trying to hold the county together. One of the few things that’s supplied the general funds for all the general fund departments is the county forest. We have roughly $3 million a year

leadership promotes that we are depressed and we need help from the outside and I know we have abundant natural beauty and natural resources. We also have strong industries here we have a strong medical, fishing, tourism, farming and our timber industry is good.

All of those need to be strengthened. We also need new industry to provide more jobs for young people. I am a strong supporter of off-shore wind energy jobs, it’s a great opportunity for Coos County.

I want to give Coos County a place at the table for all the money that is going to be flowing to

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and the county as well as a lot of other counties in western Oregon. We’re somewhat dismayed at the lack of timber revenue.

In fact, Coos County has 7,244 acres of trust land on the southeast side of the Elliot State Forest in Coos County. Do you know how much income we’ve gotten in the last six years from that 7,244 acres from the Oregon Department of Forestry? It was $54.

We used to get hundreds of thousands if not millions. We are trying to keep the jail running at 98 beds even though the total property taxes that the county gets to keep, when we send out the tax bills, most of all those go back out to the taxing districts.

We get to keep about $5.5 million which was estimated for this 2020-21 budget for the 98 beds.

Although we have capacity to house up to 250 (inmates) being that the costs to run the jail is about $6.6 million, property tax is short of just keeping the 98 beds by $1.1 million.

What are some of the issues that most concern you in Coos County?

Well, obviously it’s the C-19 going on, but even before that it was distinct lack of jobs for our area

What are some of the issues that most concern you in Coos County?

Coos County has a major housing issue. Our quality of the housing is too low and it costs too much. We need to implement the Coos County Housing Action Plan, which is available if people want to review it on my website at katyforcoos.com, and that’s going to require some money from the county.

I would be at the front of the line to get some of that stimulus money that was passed by the federal government to use that money for housing to

What are some of the issues that most concern you in Coos County?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A chance to make the right decision My father was born in 1911 and died in 2000. As a child he survived the Spanish Flu pandemic and, as an adult, the Great Depression and WWII. Every time I asked him what it was like to live through the Depression and the war he simply shrugged and gave the same offhand reply: “The world had a stretch of bad luck. Every generation suffers a bad patch like that.

Ours was the crash and that bastard Hitler. I only survived because I had some good luck while a whole lot of people were having bad luck.” In hindsight, his response was not only simplistic (historians argue that both calamities could have been avoided), but it also forgives the failures of elected leaders and the gullibility of the voters who placed them in roles of responsibility and power.

The current COVID-19 pandemic isn’t simply “bad luck.” In China, someone likely made unholy contact with a bat and people started getting sick — a LOT of people — and leaders in China and elsewhere deliberately minimized the health threat. In just 90 days that same lethal virus has wended its way thousands of miles to Bandon’s doorstep and is looking for a way into our homes. That the virus has made its way here so quickly is the result of two factors: the tenacious and virulent nature of this pathogen, and the timid, self-interested and incompetent decisions of governments at all levels. One needs look no further for an illustration of this than the Coos County Board of Commissioners’ decision to reopen the county economy and, in particular, its decision to allow hotels, motels and vacation rentals to throw open their doors. Too, the Bandon City Council was a whisker from making the same horrible decision, but thanks to the efforts of a swarm of rightfully alarmed citizens (thank you all) that decision has been kicked down the road to May 11. In the precious meantime, I would counsel the councilors to consider the following: 1) The science; epidemiology. The very last folk that should be driving this decision are the owners of hotels, motels and vacation rentals. This notion that business interests — singly or collectively — should have the same rights as individuals is ridiculous, especially in this instance. My wife and I check the boxes for several of the co-morbidities linked to death from the contraction of COVID-19. Councilors, this isn’t simply an issue of traffic, or parking or zoning, etc. If you get this wrong, if you make this decision based on economic self-interests, you could kill us, and many of our similarly affected Bandon brothers and sisters. When the U.S. Supreme Court passed down its warped decision in the Citizens United case, many social scientists predicted that it could lead to a moment like this very one: a business entity thinking it was as important as even a single human life (let alone, potentially, thousands). Yes, remaining closed presents economic hardship and I strongly empathize (our household is suffering, too), but if I’ve learned anything from Mary Schamehorn’s charming column over the years it’s that businesses come and go with saddening regularity around here but the death of beloved relatives and friends is forever. With pain, yes, and difficulty, new jobs can be found, but mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers are irreplaceable and the pain from those losses last your lifetime.

2) The map; any map, that details the distribution of COVID-19 (I recommend the time-lapse map produced by Johns Hopkins). A quick study of the updated county-by-county map tells me that Curry and Coos counties have the fewest cases of the virus of ANY counties situated along the entire western coast of the United States. If you live in New York or New Orleans or Chicago or (insert name of COVID-19 hotspot here), and you are look-

ing at this map, where would you choose to go for a break from the stress and anxiety of sheltering in place? Trust me — it won’t be one of those case-free counties in beautiful North Dakota. While I’ve been to the Dakotas several times and the area does have its charms, those states will never have the allure, the stunning beauty, of the southern coast of Oregon.

Never. Reopening hotels now, without the clear science to justify the risk, will be inviting a tragedy unlike anything this area has ever seen, including the 1936 fire.

Councilors, our lives are in your hands. Please choose science over business self-interests. Please error on the side of extreme caution (if there is ever “error” in choosing life over death). Choose wisdom over simply hoping for some version of my father’s “luck.” God help you, and all of us, if you get this wrong.

Joseph Byrne Bandon Masks protect all of us Folks seem unaware that when I wear a mask it helps to protect THEM against my transmitting to them. When they wear a mask it tends to protect ME from them.

For instance, BiMart employees do not wear masks which puts customers, even those wearing masks, at risk from their employees.

I think it is part of your communal duty to help inform people how this works.

Don Canavan Coos Bay Go figure!

Do you know how lucky we are with COVID-19?

It will not spread at grocery stores, big retailers, and hardware stores.

It’s crazy how it only spreads at small business.

Go figure!

Oliver Woods North Bend On Justice Tom Balmer To the Editor: Justice Tom Balmer is running for re-election in the May 2020 primary. He has been on the Supreme Court of Oregon since 2001. I served as a judge on the Circuit Court for Coos and Curry counties from 1980-2017, 36 years of which were as presiding judge.

I have known Justice Balmer since he joined the Supreme Court in 2001. He was elected by his fellow Supreme Court Justices to be Chief Justice in 2012. This gave me the opportunity to work more closely with him as a presiding judge.

I have always been impressed

by Justice Balmer’s legal opinions, his commitment to the law and his background as an attorney. He is well respected not only by his colleagues on the Supreme Court, but also by judges on the Court of Appeals and the Circuit Court, and the attorneys in Oregon. In addition to his superior legal ability, I found him easy to work with.

He is thoughtful and gracious and worked hard to make the courts accessible to the public. He also made sure that judges, court employees, and those persons, businesses, and agencies that worked with the courts were heard and their voices were respected. He led the Judicial Branch through one of its biggest challenges when the courts switched from paper to an electronic system, now called eCourt. The transition was a major undertaking, but Justice Balmer’s leadership made the transition smooth, thus bringing the court up to date with handling the court’s business electronically. The change has made the work of the court more efficient and more beneficial for the public.

I cannot stress enough having Justice Balmer reelected to the Supreme Court. It is important to have Supreme Court justices who know and follow the law and do so for the benefit of the public. Justice Balmer is a man of integrity who has earned the public’s vote. Please reward his integrity, knowledge of the law, ability, and work with your vote.

Richard L. Barron Senior Judge Coos Bay

Who Doesn’t Use Cash?

More People Than Ever

FROMA HARROP Last year seems a lifetime ago, but even then, cash was no longer king. The greenback had already lost its premier role as Americans’ medium of exchange in dollar terms. Plastic card and digital transactions had taken over. And that’s how stores, restaurants and other businesses seemed to want it.

COVID-19 has accelerated this process for several reasons. Cash cannot change hands at a distance of six feet, and besides, who wants to grab that dirty bill? Sheltering at home means more purchases are being done over the internet.

The move away from legal tender was well on its way pre-virus. Some stores and eateries had stopped accepting cash altogether.

If you’re a sandwich shop doing a brisk lunch business, processing plastic takes less time than waiting for someone to fish 55 cents out of their pocket. The restaurant chain Sweetgreen ran a stopwatch and found that cashless payments could be completed up to 15 percent faster than ones using paper money.

That would enable businesses to hire fewer of what we used to call “cashiers.”

The Federal Reserve reports that debit cards are the most frequently used means of paying. Cash is employed in 26 percent of all transactions and 49 percent of those under $10. But every age group up through the baby boomers is doing more of them using digital means and plastic than cash. Not surprisingly, millennials lead the pack.

Despite these trends, a few states and cities have passed laws requiring businesses to accept cash, and here’s why: Some elderly people still don’t do technology. They don’t even have a cellphone, much less a PayPal account for transferring money.

Many poor people don’t have credit cards or even bank accounts.

Some 6.5 percent of American households are “unbanked,” according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Cashless establishments discriminate against this group.

The Pew Research Center found 29 percent of adults reporting that they made no purchases with cash during a typical week. But those making less than $30,000 a year were about four times as likely as higher-income Americans to say they make all or almost all of their purchases using cash.

Given that the average check price at the Dos Toros Taqueria was only $11.50, it seemed odd that the fast-food chain would attempt a nationwide ban on cash payment.

But it did before reversing course when forced.

Some of us who are not poor prefer cash for valid reasons. Those wanting to control spending like

it because psychologically, cash still feels like real money in a way plastic cards do not. Cash is anonymous, making transactions more private. That protects users from identity theft (though it makes them more vulnerable to pickpockets). Meanwhile, waiters, drivers and hairdressers seem to like cash tips.

For business owners, on the other hand, not having a lot of cash in the register deters robberies and saves them the trouble of hiring armored trucks. And they don’t have to worry about counterfeit money.

Cash has long been a medium for hiding criminal activities. The society that no longer uses it can better monitor drug dealers and tax cheats. The federal government in 1969 made the $100 bill the highest bank note obviously to force drug cartels to carry more bills, making them more detectable. The $500 bill with William McKinley’s face on it is no longer issued, as well as the $1,000 (Grover Cleveland) and $5,000 (James Madison) bills.

Of course, there’s nothing new about cashless societies. Centuries ago, peasants typically conducted transactions by bartering -- say, trading two sheep for a strawstuffed bed. Come to think of it, that wasn’t very sanitary during plagues, either.

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Greenpeace, call those disease fears “misinformation.”

“There are no studies or evidence that reusable bags are transmitting viruses,” says Alex Truelove of the Public Interest Research Group, in my new video.

He’s right. There are no human studies, but COVID-19 is so new.

Millions of piglets died from swine coronavirus. The agriculture department concluded that reusable feed bags were probably the cause.

Still, even now, some politicians can’t wait to ban plastic again. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says “as soon as this crisis is over we’ll go back to all paper bags and reusable bags.”

“Politicians are always just looking for something to do,” complains supermarket executive Andrea Catsimatidis.

She points out that paper bags cost five times what plastic costs.

“When you’re talking billions of bags, it really adds up!”

And paper bags don’t hold as much. They rip.

Plastic is more convenient. Why must politicians take away what’s convenient?

“Over two-thirds of everything we use is not recycled or composted and ends up in a landfill,” complains Truelove.

So what?

People think America is running out of room for landfills, but that’s not true.

“All America’s trash for the next century would fit in one landfill just 18 miles square,” says environmental economist Ross McKitrick. Landfills take up so little space that “if you look the air you wouldn’t even be able to see where landfills are.”

And modern landfills hardly pollute. They’re surrounded by layers of clay and plastic that keep nasty stuff in the garbage from leaking out.

But what about all that plastic in the ocean?

Plastic bags are sometimes eaten by animals. Some sea turtles mistake the bags for jellyfish and then starve. Islands of floating garbage have formed in the Pacific Ocean.

Green groups have convinced Americans that we are to blame.

But we aren’t! Even if you litter -- and today, fewer Americans do -- your litter is unlikely to end up in an ocean.

Almost all the plastic in oceans comes from Asia and Africa. Less than 1% comes from North America.

In other words, banning plastic bags in America will accomplish roughly ... nothing.

What it will do is inconvenience Americans and make some of us sick.

Truelove says, “We should ... set an example for the rest of the world.”

“That’s posturing,” replies McKitrick. “The rest of the world isn’t looking to see what you do with your Starbucks cup.

“If we are concerned about other countries’ waste going into their river systems,” he adds, “there are better things we can do. We can share technology with them so they process their waste better. That’s better than imposing on consumers’ tiresome inconveniences in hopes that it will somehow change behavior on the other side of the planet.”

Politicians “looking for something to do” routinely do more harm than good.

John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

Ban This! No, Never Mind!

JOHN STOSSEL Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags.

California and Hawaii banned them, then New York. Then Oregon, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont passed laws against them. More than 400 cities did, too.

Why? Because plastic bags are evil, didn’t you know?

Look at the damage done by plastic bags! It is everywhere!” complained New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

A Washington state senator cited “videos of animals choked by plastics, tangled in garbage!”

So what should we use instead of plastic? Cloth bags! They’re reusable! “Certainly the way to go!” said New Jersey’s assembly speaker.

But now, suddenly, politicians are canceling their bans. Instead, they’re banning the once praised reusable bags.

It’s because of COVID-19, of course.

Reusable bags already brought bacteria into stores. We’re supposed to wash them, but almost no one does. Studies found reusable bags crawling with dangerous bacteria.

After plastic bags were banned in San Francisco, food poisoning deaths increased sharply.

But environmental groups, like

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020 | A5

The World

OBITUARIES Mark Timothy Pflaum

Robert George Taylor

August 17, 1957 – April 11, 2020

July 31, 1929 – April 22, 2020

Robert George “Uncle Bob” Taylor of Coquille, OR let go of Earth and entered Heaven after 90 spins around the sun on April 22, 2020. He just had so much stuff to do and he couldn’t do it here.

Bob was born in Coquille across the street from the house he lived nearly the entirety of his life. Why change a good thing. He had a childhood filled with friends, sports, the outdoors, hunting and fishing. After graduating from Coquille High School he went to Willamette University where he played football and ran track. He had a football “shimmy shake” move that even his nephews and nieces couldn’t quite figure out.

He served in the army after University, including time at the Pentagon. If you asked him what he did there he’d cheekily tell ya, “If I told you I’d have to kill you.” Bob couldn’t wait to get back to his beloved Coquille where he joined his Dad running Taylor Sports Shop. Many of you

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bought your first fishing poles, guns and sports equipment from the Coquille Legend that was Uncle Bob. He retired from the Sporting Good shop and donated the building to become what is now the Coquille Valley Museum. Bob was no ordinary man. He was a friend to all and a foe to few.

He made a mean milkshake but not much else. Therefore, he got really good at taking people out to dinner. He was a tease and always made trouble for his nephews and nieces with his ornery ways. He also loved them as if they were his own and had a passion for following their sports. Bob was an avid tennis player, coin and stamp collector, sportsman, woodcarver, advice giver, and boat maker among many other skills and hobbies.

He was a loving brother, uncle and friend. Bob also loved his cats, both real and mechanical.

Bob got sweeter with age and never lost his quick-witted one-liners. Bob cared fiercely about what he loved most, Coquille and his favorite place on the planet, Croft Lake.

It’s safe to say all of his best memories are from these two places. He was the “banana belt tour guide” and loved sharing his knowledge of its history and its flora and fauna.

Every outing with Uncle Bob was an adventure and we felt lucky to make it out alive.

“See you later alligator”. Bob was a lifelong member of the Pioneer United Methodist Church and involved in Kiwanis Club and the STEP Program.

Bob is survived by his sister Helen Howe; nieces and nephews, Karen Pflaum, Jan (Jeff) Pratt, Diane (Bill) Riddell, Linda (Tim) Cashman, Kent (Sheila) Howe, Steve (Alicia) Howe, Brad Howe, Geri (Jim) Olbrich, and numerous grand and great-grand nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his parents, George and Esther Taylor; sister, Joyce (Wes) Hedeen, brother-in-law Ed Howe and nephew-in-law Tim Pflaum.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Coquille Valley Museum or Coquille Riverfront Project. Bob will have a celebration of life in Coquille but due to COVID-19 restrictions, it will be postponed to a later date.

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On this day in Coos County history 100 YEARS May 7, 1920 ROAD DEPENDS ON THE BOND ISSUE S. Benson Talks of Myrtle Point-Roseburg Route Says It Is One of the Most Important Highways in State — Hopes Measure Will Carry The road between Myrtle Point and Roseburg is one of the important highways of the state and its completion depends upon the passage of the bonding measure, according to S. Benson, president of the State Highway Commission, who with the other members of that body, has been at Roseburg.

In an interview Mr. Benson said: “Continuation of work and the completion of new projects depends largely upon the outcome of the road bonding act to be voted upon by the people of the state at the coming election. We have many new plans in mind, but our finances are limited and until more money is forthcoming we will be unable to give many contracts that we would like to see under way.

75 YEARS May 7, 1945 Premature Celebration Lacking on Bay

Citizens of Coos Bay didn’t know exactly what to believe or what do today.

Radio station KOOS announced at 6:27 a.m., by way of its news service, the Associated Press, that representatives of the allies and Germany had signed unconditional surrender terms at a schoolhouse in Rhiems.

At 6 a.m. the Coos Bay Times was informed by its news service, the United Press, that Adm. Karl Doenitz had announced the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces and that an official announcement of the signing of the surrender terms was likely to be announced at 9 a.m. PWT. The announcement, according to the United Press, hadn’t come at 9 a.m. and it was still being awaited when this edition of The Times went to press.

50 YEARS May 7, 1970 Group to Show Bay Pollution

Slides presenting a poor pollution picture for the Coos Bay-North Bend waterfront will be shown May 20 at a public open forum in Coos Bay, according to Nathan Douthit, chairman of the Bay Area Environmental Committee.

The slides were taken during a recent “See Your Bay Day” waterfront march from Coalbank Slough in Coos Bay to the Simpson Heights area in North Bend.

Included are scenes showing logs, wood, bark and miscellaneous debris in the bay, raw sewage flowing into the bay, piles of scrap metal along the shoreline, abandoned wood structures, discarded battery cases, trash declared deliberately dumped and some billboards surrounded at the bottom by trash.

CB Fire Equipment To Be On Display In Mall

Coos Bay Fire Department equipment will be on display Saturday in the mall during “Fire Service Recognition Day” events, according to Fire Chief John Mekkers.

He said firemen will be present and will gladly visit and take with residents about the department, fire safety and fire prevention.

The chief encouraged citizens to visit the fire department headquarters during the day. Firemen will demonstrate use of equipment and explain its function in fire fighting, according to the chief.

15 YEARS May 7, 2005 Local students are degree candidates

More than 650 University of Oregon students are candidates for degrees at the end of winter term 2005. Three of those students are from the South Coast.

The students are Tané Nicole Bechtold, bachelor of arts, geography and Jeremi Nathan Sanders, bachelor of fine arts, multimedia design, both of Florence; and Chelsea Piper Ponte Hogue, bachelor of arts, history of North Bend.

NB superintendent suspended

By Carl Mickelson, Staff Writer

A year and one day after being hired, North Bend School District Superintendent Michael Struiksma has been suspended with pay.

North Bend School Board Chairman Rick Evans suspended Struiksma on Monday under the advisement of counsel Jim Coffey.

The school board chairman had little to say about the suspension.

---------------------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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Mark Timothy “Tim” Pflaum sprinted over home plate on April 11, 2020.

He played his game of life, enduring all the curveballs it threw at him and fastballs he threw at it, for a full 62-year inning stretch.

Tim was ready to run after living in a wheelchair for almost half his life due to Multiple Sclerosis.

He was proud to say he was born in San Diego but spent most of his growing up in Gresham, Oregon. It was here he became known for his athletic prowess in both baseball and basketball.

Tim strove to be the best and hardest worker in whatever he did starting with a paper route at eight.

This mentality never left him. Tim continued sports into his college years where he met his wife the first week at Oregon State…yet he didn’t ask

her out until his last week because, “she wasn’t the kind of girl you date, she’s the kind of girl you marry.”

He started his career as a business teacher at Gaston then Tigard High School, and ended his career as a high school Principal/administrator in the Coquille School District. After retiring Tim moved up to Monmouth where he got involved in the community and continued to make his corner of the world a better place. There was no such thing as an awkward interaction or a stranger to Tim. Tim was a lifelong learner, always trying to make himself and others around him better, even recently asking about singing lessons.

Yes, seriously. Tim loved sports; playing, coaching or watching. He justified being a bandwagon fan because “Life’s too short to cheer for a losing team.”

But also, Go Beavs! Tim never had a dream where his legs didn’t still work and of course, was usually playing sports where naturally he made the winning plays. Tim was a clever, gifted storyteller, full of wit and humor. When he laughed his wheelchair rocked and his whole body shook. He learned to laugh at life and himself in a way that few do because of his MS, whether he was tipping his wheelchair into the Willamette River or knocking over multiple tables in a restaurant. Tim liked to keep you guessing and definitely made things interesting. He was also courageous in a way few of us have to be. Tim lived hard and didn’t let his disability get in his way.

He maintained his independence and competitive nature until the day he died. Even though he was a guy in a wheelchair he

never wanted to be known as “the guy in the wheelchair”. Tim was social and had a way of bringing people together. He loved a party. Tim loved to be generous, was a cheerful giver and gave encouragement wherever he could.

Amazon Prime changed his life and many people in his orbit reaped the benefits. You had to be careful what you said around Tim or you’d end up with a trinket. Tim loved his multitudes of friends from all walks of life, his family and the Lord deeply.

He is now STANDING 6 feet 2 inches tall playing sandlot style baseball and hooping with Jesus.

Tim is survived by his three children who he fiercely loved, Erik Pflaum (Lana), Katy Pflaum and Mary Jo Pflaum; his siblings, Mike Pflaum (Elaine), Toni Gress (Sam), Richard Pflaum (Bing) and Tricia Wegener; sisters in law, Jan Pratt (Jeff), Diane Riddell (Bill) and many nieces and nephews. Tim is also survived by his wife, Karen, who will miss him every second of every day for the rest of her life. And his dog Haka, his sidekick.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Leonard and Mary Pflaum, and his in-laws, Wes and Joyce Hedeen.

Memorial contributions can be made to Ella Curran Food Bank or food bank of your choice. Tim will have a celebration of life but due to COVID-19 restrictions, it will be postponed to a later date. Kind of like a weather delay in baseball.

Farnstrom Mortuary is caring for the family.

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DEAR ABBY By Abigail Van Buren Teen chafes under dad’s strict style of parenting DEAR ABBY: I am a teenage girl in an average family. I started getting interested in LGBTQ+ and other social justice topics when I was in fifth grade.

Since then, I have realized that, among other things, I’m a lesbian, a liberal and an atheist. This wouldn’t be a problem, but my father hates many of the things I am or stand for. He’s an extremely conservative, Christian, gun-rights person, and he wants me and my brothers to join the military. He constantly pushes me to be the best that I can be, and I try, but his idea of “best” is very different from mine.

I have several mental problems, which resulted in me getting special privileges in school. I use them whenever I can, but it is never enough for him. He keeps searching through my grade book until he finds something new for me to do, regardless of the date it was assigned or whether it can be graded anymore.

I have various restrictions on my use of technology, so I can barely contact my friends. It has gotten to the point that I am worried about when I come out and looking forward to college just so I can get away. Please tell me what to do in the meantime because college is five years away. -- WAITING IN VIRGINIA DEAR WAITING: You and your dad have very different outlooks on life, and that’s OK. That said, you must live under his roof for the next five years, so be diplomatic and keep some of your opinions to yourself as long as possible.

You may think your father is heavy-handed in parenting you, but has it occurred to you that when he goes through your grade book, he’s trying to make sure you know how to work all the problems in it? Placing restrictions on a minor’s use of technology is intelligent parenting, at least for someone just entering her teens. Please try to cut him some slack. Recognize there is a bright future ahead of you if you concentrate on your studies to the best of your ability and buckle down now.

DEAR ABBY: My 32-year-old son, “Jerry,” wanted to propose to his girlfriend, but didn’t have money for a ring.

My husband offered him my original engagement ring, assuming for some reason (or maybe just not thinking) that my old ring didn’t hold sentimental value to me, although I wore that 1/3-carat diamond every day for 32 years before getting a new, larger one.

After the ring was offered, I felt forced to let him have it. I knew it wouldn’t fit his girlfriend, and I also didn’t think she would settle for such a small diamond, but I figured he would have the diamond put into a setting that fit her. I got over my feeling of loss knowing he would use the ring.

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GEMINI (May 21June 20) -- Set up an interview, answer online job postings that appeal to you and put your plans in motion. Offer your skills and services, and don't be afraid to brag about your accomplishments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A cherished relationship will strengthen if you have a discussion that promotes positive change. A contribution you make will boost your reputation.

Take a unique approach to an old problem.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don't put up with pressure tactics. Walk away from discord and people looking for a fight.

Put your time and energy into personal gains, investments and better health.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) -- Learn all you can. Take an online course, listen to experts and make adjustments that will improve your lifestyle. An unusual partnership will encourage personal growth.

A commitment looks

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A change you make will encourage someone close to you to join in and explore the possibilities.

A different lifestyle will intrigue you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -Address your current economic situation and make a change. Cut your overhead, sell things you don't need or arrange to share your expenses with someone in a similar position.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Suggest positive changes, alternatives and ideas for future contributions. Taking a unique path will offer a different perspective regarding lifestyle and relationships.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) -- Know when to say no. Don't get involved in someone else's venture. Put more time and thought into what you want and whom you want to work alongside.

Romance is in the stars.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Use your skills to make a difference. Reaching out to an old friend will be enlightening and will encourage you to make a personal change that will result in added stability.

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ing can be attended via the link found on the flyoth.com/administration website. The meeting will take place on the 19th day of May 2020 at 5:30 pm.

This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget will take place. The Budget Committee will receive the budget message and recommended budget, and take questions or comments from the public on the document. Public comments can be made in writing and submitted via email to info@flyoth.com, fax at 541751-1010, or delivered to the terminal lobby at 1100 Airport

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283952 NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

A public meeting of the Coos County Board of Commissioners will be held on May 19, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. at the Owen Building Conference Room, 201 N. Adams St., Coquille, Oregon. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 as approved by the Coos County Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inpsected or obtained at the Finance Office, 250 N. Baxter St., Coquille, Oregon, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

Telephone: (541) 396-7730

Contact: Megan Simms

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount 2018-2019 40,724,447 Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital 13,119,275 Fees, Licenses, Permits, Fines, Assessments & Other Service Charges Federal, State & all Other Grants, Gifts, Allocations & Donations 35,650,628 6,962,675 Interfund Transfers / Internal Service Reimbursements All Other Resources Except Current Year Property Taxes 9,565,914 Current Year Property Taxes Estimated to be Received 10,510,660 Total Resources 116,533,599 TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS

Email: treasurer@co.coos.or.us Adopted Budget This Year 2019-2020 44,744,587 15,570,992 39,811,563 6,864,231 11,314,577 10,571,799 128,877,749

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Personnel Services 31,773,247 Materials and Services 28,577,169 Capital Outlay 2,909,025 Debt Service 1,385,131 Interfund Transfers 6,962,675 Contingencies 0 Special Payments 640,379 Unappropriated Ending Balance and Reserved for Future Expenditure 44,285,871 Total Requirements 116,533,497

Approved Budget Next Year 2020-2021 36,516,969 17,425,838 27,802,141 8,851,704 6,779,148 11,064,212 108,440,012

39,931,424 38,960,536 12,202,357 1,642,924 6,864,231 12,811,291 636,600 15,828,386 128,877,749

37,493,335 30,346,333 7,025,704 1,611,250 8,851,884 10,981,074 605,600 11,524,832 108,440,012

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program GENERAL FUND Assessor's Department 1,311,417 1,444,119 1,394,949 FTE 15.500 15.500 14.500 Juvenile Department 825,647 917,366 890,841 FTE 7.000 7.000 6.000 Maintenance Department 600,369 757,118 767,929 FTE 4.500 4.500 4.500 Planning Department 468,944 470,893 420,380 FTE 4.000 4.000 4.000 Sheriff's Department - Criminal Division 4,439,059 4,308,317 4,590,194 FTE 30.000 30.000 30.000 Sheriff's Department - Jail Division 5,522,435 6,268,401 6,450,389 FTE 42.000 42.000 41.000 Sheriff's Department - Marine Division 322,336 384,641 481,769 FTE 2.500 2.500 2.500 Sheriff's Department - Dunes Division 346,138 378,018 409,419 FTE 2.500 2.500 2.500 Surveyor's Department 202,761 225,009 252,541 FTE 1.800 2.750 2.470 Finance & Tax Department 632,083 726,587 796,269 FTE 5.670 5.670 5.670 Veteran's Department 181,711 196,530 211,530 FTE 1.800 1.800 2.000 Treasurer's Department 50,156 58,449 54,457 FTE 0.330 0.330 0.330 Board of Commissioners Dept - Commissioners Division 404,387 431,199 457,595 FTE 4.000 4.000 4.000 Board of Commissioners Dept - Information Technology Division 709,617 735,476 725,365 FTE 3.500 3.500 3.500 County Counsel Department 549,334 746,413 777,570 FTE 6.000 6.000 5.650 County Clerk's Department 576,088 644,464 644,999 FTE 5.000 5.000 5.000 District Attorney's Department - Prosecution Division 1,162,010 1,333,783 1,293,655 FTE 11.500 12.500 11.500 District Attorney's Department - Medical Examiner's Division 150,144 176,521 200,192 FTE 1.500 1.500 1.500 District Attorney's Department - Support Enforcement Division 176,632 182,353 185,866 FTE 2.000 2.000 2.000 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 7,798,098 4,358,656 3,635,883 26,429,366 24,744,313 24,641,792 151.100 153.050 148.620 ANIMAL CONTROL FUND 575,987 492,656 445,434 FTE 3.000 3.000 3.000 PUBLIC WORKS FUND Surveyor's Department - Road Survey Division 23,338 24,017 29,901 FTE 0.250 0.250 0.330 Public Works Department - Road Maintenance Division 5,185,527 6,659,279 6,038,469 FTE 24.124 24.774 25.774 Public Works Department - Fleet Services Division 1,140,052 1,200,947 1,221,995 FTE 3.582 3.582 3.582 Public Works Department - Capital Projects Division 1,446,639 3,638,298 3,185,834 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 6,677,419 5,184,999 5,384,998 14,472,975 16,707,540 15,861,197 27.956 28.606 29.686 PUBLIC HEALTH FUND 4,022,232 5,044,292 5,158,156 FTE 22.750 20.500 25.650 PLANNING FUND 22,900 0 0 LAW LIBRARY FUND 289,035 329,816 384,500 LNG FUND 1,186,052 3,255,000 0 FTE 15.000 18.000 0.000 COUNTY PARKS FUND 2,868,343 2,595,529 2,590,870 FTE 10.450 9.800 11.000 COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FUND 4,832,277 4,716,807 4,602,352 FTE 19.000 19.000 19.000 CRIME VICTIM ASSISTANCE FUND 248,808 266,605 278,031 FTE 3.450 3.450 3.450 SCINT FUND 204,673 387,338 224,987 FTE 1.000 1.000 1.000 HEALTH & WELLNESS FUND Health & Wellness Department - Local Administration Division 3,227,908 4,008,185 3,887,389 FTE 22.150 22.400 22.350 Health & Wellness Department - Behavioral Health Svcs Division 12,444,319 14,974,996 8,863,926 FTE 57.666 62.832 50.832 Health & Wellness Department - Alcohol & Drug Svcs Division 462,835 1,423,553 0 FTE 5.000 8.000 0.000 Health & Wellness Department - Promotion & Integration Division 0 0 2,729,045 FTE 0.000 0.000 9.400 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 7,016,520 1,681,697 3,211,277 23,151,582 22,088,431 18,691,637 84.816 93.232 82.582 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND 376,270 357,200 400,500 BANDON DUNES ASSESSMENT FUND 1,229,728 1,200,200 1,250,000 PL 110-343 TITLE III FUND 290,042 56,150 236,728 COUNTY FOREST FUND 12,927,044 17,805,318 12,751,785 FTE 4.000 4.000 4.000 ADMINISTRATIVE GRANT FUND 1,287,210 2,664,167 900,349 COUNTY SCHOOL FUND 169,550 220,600 210,600 LIBRARY SERVICE DISTRICT FUND 3,818,117 3,896,052 4,041,747 4H & EXTENSION SERVICE DISTRICT FUND 705,389 692,985 713,946 FOOT PATHS & BICYCLE TRAILS FUND 560,283 608,000 680,283 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND 56,432 57,238 32,732 PUBLIC HEALTH TITLE XIX FUND 237,203 242,829 260,000 MENTAL HEALTH TITLE XIX FUND 867,870 790,418 661,870 COOS COUNTY MEDIATION FUND 171,855 174,559 214,642 911/DISPATCH FUND Sheriff's Department - Dispatch Division 771,771 891,991 907,079 FTE 6.820 6.820 6.820 Sheriff's Department - PSAP Division 562,176 649,018 661,240 FTE 5.180 5.180 5.180 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 47,467 5,628 6,017 1,381,414 1,546,637 1,574,336 12.000 12.000 12.000 COUNTY CLERK RECORDS FUND 124,925 111,500 132,000 PUBLIC LAND CORNER PRESERVATION FUND 183,774 135,205 117,400 FTE 1.950 1.500 1.200 EFORCE ADVISORY BOARD FUND 0 0 67,457 COOS COUNTY AREA TRANSIT SERVICE DISTRICT FUND 1,389,336 2,715,455 0 COUNTY FOREST RESERVE FUND 1,839,401 4,806,550 1,601,729 DISPATCH EQUIPMENT RESERVE FUND 5,923 11,531 17,711 COOS COUNTY FAIR FUND 436,004 449,667 532,167 FTE 1.420 1.420 1.830 WASTE DISPOSAL FUND Waste Disposal Department - Operations Division 1,537,844 3,167,136 3,111,953 FTE 3.768 3.768 3.818 Waste Disposal Department - Closure/Post-Closure Division 76,167 194,734 192,015 FTE 0.173 0.203 0.203 Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 3,220,203 1,138,227 1,471,743 4,834,214 4,500,097 4,775,711 3.941 3.971 4.021 WASTE DISPOSAL RESERVE FUND 767,039 870,816 959,574 HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE FUND 711,192 681,852 808,205 FTE 0.353 0.323 0.273 GAS PIPELINE FUND 2,379,890 2,305,400 1,270,000 BONDED DEBT FUND 1,479,162 1,348,996 1,349,584 Total Requirements 116,533,497 128,877,749 108,440,012 Total FTE 362.186 372.852 347.312

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING * The bulk of the decreases in FTE's and overall budget total was due to the LNG Fund losing it's revenue source. The General Fund cut four vacant positions.

Permanent Rate Levy (rate limit $1.0799 per $1,000) Levy For General Obligation Bonds

LONG TERM DEBT General Obligation Bonds Other Borrowings Total

PROPERTY TAX LEVIES Rate or Amount Imposed 2018-2019 1.0799 1,335,795 STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS Estimated Debt Outstanding on July 1. $3,680,000 $745,190 $4,425,190

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Rate or Amount Imposed This Year 2019-2020 1.0799 1,288,600

Rate or Amount Approved Next Year 2020-2021 1.0799 1,388,382

Estimated Debt Authorized, But Not Incurred on July 1 $0 $0 $0

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Published: May 7 & 13, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID: 284014)

NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING HAUSER RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT A public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Hauser Rural Fire Protection District, County of Coos, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 will be held in the

Hauser Fire Hall, 93622 Viking Lane, North Bend, OR 97459.

The meeting will take place on May 18, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to receive the budget message and to receive comment from the public on the budget. A copy

of the budget document may be inspected or obtained on or after May 10, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., weekdays, by contacting Billi J. Grimes, CPA, at Wheeler & Grimes, CPAs, LLC, 817 Roseburg Rd., Myrtle Point, OR, tele-

phone (541) 572-0290. The May 18, 2020 meeting is a public meeting where deliberations of the Budget Committee will take place. Any person may appear at the meeting to discuss the proposed budget with the Budget Committee.

Published: April 30 & May 7, 2020 The World & ONPA (ID: 282557)

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NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

A public meeting of the Coos County Library Service District Board will be held on May 19, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. at the Owen Building Conference Room, 201 N. Adams St., Coquille, Oregon. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 as approved by the Coos County Library Service District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inpsected or obtained at the Finance Office, 250 N. Baxter St., Coquille, Oregon, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

Bridge

Contact: Megan Simms

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knave. It is a good play, but

Shakespeare wrote, "How

don't fall for it. Play low

absolute the knave is! we

smoothly. Declarer must

must speak by the card, or

have A-K-8-5-2. He is try-

equivocation will undo us."

ing to persuade you to

Back when England

cover, in which case he will

ruled the waves, a jack in a

pick up the suit for no los-

pack was known as a knave.

ers, later finessing you out

When playing bridge, be-

of your 10. If you play low,

ware of the knaves. If de-

he is bound to put up his

clarer leads an unsupported

king, expecting a 2-1 break.

knave from the board or his

However, I once saw

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a player with numerous

be in your best interest to

world team titles make that

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no trouble defeating the

opened one spade and

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his partner raised to four

day's deal.

the

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and another heart. Declar-

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spade knave. Don't even

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TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital All Other Resources Except Current Year Property Taxes Current Year Property Taxes Estimated to be Received Total Resources

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount 2018-2019 48,422 207,776 3,561,919 3,818,117

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PROPERTY TAX LEVIES Rate or Amount Imposed 2018-2019 0.7289

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Rate or Amount Imposed Rate or Amount Approved This Year 2019-2020 Next Year 2020-2021 0.7289 0.7289

283948

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

Contact: Megan Simms

Telephone: (541) 396-7730 TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS

Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital All Other Resources Except Current Year Property Taxes Current Year Property Taxes Estimated to be Received Total Resources

Email: treasurer@co.coos.or.us

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES Actual Amount 2018-2019 238,284 33,081 434,024 705,389

Adopted Budget This Year 2019-2020 220,000 25,750 447,235 692,985

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Materials and Services 467,592 Contingencies 0 Unappropriated Ending Balance and Reserved for Future Expenditure 237,797 Total Requirements 705,389

Approved Budget Next Year 2020-2021 225,000 22,500 466,446 713,946

486,400 103,796 102,789 692,985

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 705,389 692,985 FTE 0 0 Total Requirements 705,389 692,985 Total FTE 0 0

Permanent Rate Levy

515,269 107,090 91,587 713,946

713,946 0 713,946 0

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING *

No prominent changes

(rate limit $0.0888 per $1,000)

PROPERTY TAX LEVIES Rate or Amount Imposed 2018-2019 0.0888

Rate or Amount Imposed Rate or Amount Approved This Year 2019-2020 Next Year 2020-2021 0.0888 0.0888

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A public meeting of the Coos County 4H & Extension Service District Board will be held on May 19, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. at the Owen Building Conference Room, 201 N. Adams St., Coquille, Oregon. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 as approved by the Coos County 4H & Extension Service District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inpsected or obtained at the Finance Office, 250 N. Baxter St., Coquille, Oregon, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The budget is for an annual budget period. This budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.

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Approved Budget Next Year 2020-2021 40,000 173,000 3,828,747 4,041,747

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING *

No prominent changes

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Adopted Budget This Year 2019-2020 40,000 185,000 3,671,052 3,896,052

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM * Name of Organizational Unit or Program FTE for that unit or program Not Allocated to Organizational Unit or Program 3,818,117 3,896,052 FTE 0 0 Total Requirements 3,818,117 3,896,052 Total FTE 0 0

playing your queen!

Email: treasurer@co.coos.or.us

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Materials and Services 3,642,571 175,546 Unappropriated Ending Balance and Reserved for Future Expenditure Total Requirements 3,818,117

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laid-off workers receiving aid is now equal to 15.5% of the workforce that is eligible for unemployment benefits.

Those figures are a rough proxy for the job losses and for the unemployment rate that will be released Friday, which will likely to be the worst since modern record-keeping began after World War II. The unemployment rate is forecast to reach 16%, the highest rate since the Great Depression, and economists estimate that 21 million jobs were lost last month. If so, it would mean that nearly all the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession ended has vanished in a single month.

Even those stunning figures won’t fully capture the magnitude of the damage the coronavirus has inflicted on the job market. Many people who are still employed have had their hours reduced. Others have suffered pay cuts.

Some who lost jobs in April and didn’t look for a new one in light of their bleak prospects won’t even be counted as unemployed. A broader measure — the proportion of

adults with jobs — could hit a record low.

The official figures for jobless claims may also be under-counting layoffs.

Surveys by academic economists and think tanks suggest that as many as 12 million workers who were laid off by mid-April did not file for unemployment benefits by then, either because they couldn’t navigate their state’s overwhelmed systems or they felt too discouraged to try.

As the economy slides further into what looks like a severe recession, economists are projecting that the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of economic growth — is contracting in the current April-June quarter by a shocking 40% annual rate. As it does, more layoffs appear to be spreading beyond front-line industries like restaurants, hotels and retail stores.

GE Aviation, for example, has said it is cutting up to 13,000 jobs. Uber will shed 3,700 positions. MGM Resorts International has announced that the furloughs of more than 60,000 employees

could turn into layoffs.

But the job cuts have hammered workers at restaurants, hotels and retail firms particularly hard. According to the payroll processor ADP, about half the total jobs in the hotel and restaurant industry — 8.6 million — disappeared in April, based on data from its corporate clients. A category that includes retail and shipping shed 3.4 million workers.

As businesses across the country have shut down and laid off tens of millions, the economy has sunk into a near-paralysis. Even as some businesses are beginning to reopen in certain states, factories, hotels, restaurants, resorts, sporting venues, movie theaters and many small businesses are still largely shuttered. Home sales are falling. Consumer confidence and spending are sinking.

The difference between the 30 million-plus unemployment claims that have been filed in the past several weeks and the expected April job loss of slightly more than 20 million reflects differences in how the figures are compiled.

The government calculates job losses by surveying businesses and households.

It’s a net figure that also counts the hiring that some companies, like Amazon and many grocery stores, have done. By contrast, the total jobless claims are a cumulative figure; they include applications for unemployment aid that began in mid-March.

In addition, the government conducts its surveys for the monthly jobs reports in the middle of each month.

So layoffs from the final two weeks of April won’t show up in Friday’s jobs report.

They will instead be included in the May jobs report to be released in early June.

After problems with state computer systems had slowed the distribution of federal benefits for many laid-off workers, all 50 states are now paying the $600 extra weekly benefit that the federal government included in a relief package enacted in late March. That represents a significant help to millions of laid-off workers, many of whom still remain anxious

and uncertain.

Jamie Stewart is renting out a spare bedroom in her home to try to make ends meets after losing her job at a southwest Florida resort.

Having applied for unemployment benefits in late March, she finally received her first payment of $1,200 this week. Stewart, a 37-yearold resident of Bonita Springs, works as a concierge in the off-season and as a shift manager and bartender in the resort’s restaurants.

After her layoff, she deferred her car payment for two months and cancelled non-necessities like Zoom, Pandora and Netflix. She recently signed up for food stamps, which cover about half her monthly grocery bill.

“My mental health has deteriorated to a point that I don’t recognize myself anymore,” she said. “My eyes are swollen and bloodshot all the time now from regular moments of weakness that leave me completely inconsolable.

“It looks like I have aged 10 years since the lockdown started.”

of the next few months with this COVID crisis, pandemic, that we’re in,” she said.

The lost $5,000 accounted for close to half of the center’s annual budget. It takes between $10,000 and $12,000 to run the center’s programs each year. These include educational programs and the building of buddy benches and little free libraries, in addition to the hosting

needs for the Tall Ships event, according to Leahy.

The city’s funding also helped to cover basic maintenance, utilities and upkeep for the center. The rest of the center’s funding comes from memberships and fundraisers. Much of the fundraising is held during the Tall Ships event.

Additionally, the center is working to create an

additional funding source in the form of dry camping spaces for RVs. The council voted unanimously to exclude the center from the budget for next year. However, there is a chance that the funding could be restored later in the form of a budget amendment if the center is not added back to the budget during budget meetings.

Though he was disappointed in the result of the vote, Leahy said he plans to make a presentation at the upcoming budget meeting to win back the $5,000 the city provides each year.

Councilwoman Lucinda DiNovo’s comments during the meeting were not optimistic about re-adding the center to the city’s budget.

“This [the pandemic] isn’t going to be a couple months. So, I think we’re going to be dealing with lower occupancy in our community for quite some time,” she said.

DiNovo went on to say, “There’s probably other tough decisions we’re going to have to make this next year with lower revenues.”

Dewsnup; Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins; District Attorney Paul Frasier; and Coos Health and Wellness epidemiologist Brian Leon.

Allen, Peters and Dewsnup all gave brief updates before diving into questions.

“We really have flattened the curve and in fact have achieved, our independent modelers estimate, about 75,000 fewer cases than would have occurred in the state. That means significantly fewer hospitalizations, significantly fewer deaths,” said Allen.

“We have the fifth-lowest cases in the United States,

the ninth-lowest fatality rate in the nation and that’s really due to the hard, hard sacrifices that all Oregonians have made over the past little bit over a month.

That means we’re now at a place where we can basically start turning things back on; reopening things.”

As of Tuesday, there had been 2,916 positive cases of coronavirus reported in Oregon. Coos County has recorded 28 positive cases — 27 connected with Shutter Creek Correctional Institution — while there have been 24 cases in Douglas County.

Many questions and most of the conversation circled back to Shutter Creek where there are currently 20 pending tests.

“This is a scary time.

We’re all in a state of

hyper-vigilance right now (with) what the disease is going to do in our communities and our institutions,” said Peters before addressing a concern of releasing adults in custody who may have contact with the novel coronavirus.

“Please know that we cannot legally hold someone longer than their sentence. ... We are still releasing 400 adults in custody into the state of Oregon from our facilities every month. But there is no wiggle room here, once their sentence is up, we must release them back into the community.”

In the most recent count, the Department of Corrections tested 189 adults in custody. Peters added there is no limit on the amount of tests that can be con-

ducted by the Department of Corrections but that not all adults who are released will be tested.

“What testing does is it only tells you something in that flash of a moment in time. We have not done that, we have not done that becaue it’s not magic but because our doctors and the doctors at OHA have not recommended that,” said Peters, adding that it would require a large number of tests. “That would be a substantial number of tests over time if we release at least 400 people every month into the community.”

The conversation then shifted from Shutter Creek and into what reopening Coos County would start to look like.

“One of the things we’ve

been working with coastal legislators also is trying to figure the coordination of how we begin to open the coast,” said McKeown.

“This is a really complex piece of work out on the coast and one of the things that the coastal legislators wanted to be sure was that all of these entities our cities, our counties, our federal partners, our state partners are all coordinating how this happens.”

Individuals on the panel noted more information will be coming from Governor Kate Brown this week, but that to get to a place where more entities can get back to business will require a decrease in the presence of the coronavirus, making sure hospitals have adequate

resources and that health agencies have the ability to test and trace cases that will come up.

As those boxes are checked, the state will reopen allowing more people to the area.

“Tourism is an interesting challenge that will be managed in a state and local partnership fashion because you have parts of the state that are eager to open things and other parts that are really worried about a big influx of tourists from either other parts of Oregon or elsewhere in the region,” said Allen.

“So we’re going to have to work together to realize what that looks like and how that impacts especially coastal counties and different parts of the state.”

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employed back in February, when the unemployment rate had reached a 50-year low of just 3.5%.

The Labor Department’s report Thursday suggests that layoffs, while still breathtakingly high, are steadily declining after sharp spikes in late March and early April. Initial claims for unemployment aid have now fallen for five straight weeks, from a peak of nearly 6.9 million during the week that ended March 28.

Applications for jobless aid rose in just six states last week, including Maine, New Jersey, and Oklahoma, and declined in the 44 others.

The report showed that 22.7 million people are now receiving unemployment aid — a rough measure of job losses since the shutdowns began. That figure lags a week behind the figures for first-time unemployment applications. And not everyone who applies for jobless aid are approved. The number of

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unclear how much funding would be available. She also acknowledged the center was in an area the city was trying to develop.

“It’s a difficult decision to make at this point, because we don’t know what’s going to happen on the other side

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NFL sets protocols for reopening team facilities BARRY WILNER

Associated Press

The NFL has set protocols for reopening team facilities and has told the 32 teams to have them in place by May 15.

In a memo sent by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained Wednesday night by The Associated Press, several phases of the protocols were laid out. The first phase to deal with the coronavirus pandemic would involve a limited number of non-player personnel, initially 50% of the non-player employees (up to a total of 75) on any single day, being approved to be at the facility. But

College football return will be a challenge

state or local regulations could require a lower number.

The individual clubs would decide which employees could return to the facility and when once facilities reopen. No players would be permitted in the facility except to continue therapy and rehabilitation for injuries that was underway when facilities were ordered closed in late March by Goodell.

“While these protocols have been carefully developed and reflect best practices,” Goodell wrote, “they can also be adapted and supplemented to ensure compliance with any state and local public health requirements.”

Goodell noted that the league is actively working on the next phase of reopening, which will involve both more staffers, and players. He said the players’ union is also being consulted on these steps. Those protocols are not yet fully developed.

Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s medical director, will speak with each team physician and the infection control officer to discuss implementation and medical aspects of the protocols.

The step-by-step requirements are: —Local and state government officials must consent to reopening.

—The team must implement all operational guidelines set by the league to minimize the risk of virus transmission among employees.

—Each club must acquire adequate amounts of needed supplies as prescribed by the league.

—An Infection Response Team with a written plan for newly diagnosed coronavirus cases.

—An Infection Control Officer to oversee all aspects of the implementation of the listed guidelines.

—Each employee who returns to work at the club facility must receive COVID-19 safety and hygiene training prior to using

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RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press

Gate 2 at Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium is empty because the annual Red-White matchup on April 18 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

There are 130 major college football teams, spread across 41 states and competing in 10 conferences, save for a handful of independents.

The goal is to have all those teams start the upcoming season at the same time — whether that’s around Labor Day as scheduled or later — and play the same number of games.

With each passing day it is becoming apparent the COVID-19 pandemic is going to make that goal difficult to achieve. Despite the best intentions of conference leaders, the possibility exists of college football being played in SEC country before it begins in Pac-12 territory — or something else entirely.

“I can’t say enough about the extent to which they’re working closely together, spending time together, communicating with each other,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said. “And I think that’s the most important thing. It gives us a chance to come up with an overarching policy and an ability to start together.

“Having said that, I think we all recognize that there is a significant chance that that may not be possible,” he said.

The coronavirus is affecting different regions of the country in different ways, prompting a wide range of responses to fight the spread and revive economies.

Some state such as Georgia and Florida have already begun to re-open businesses. Others such as California and Washington are going more slowly.

Where that leaves them all four months from now is hard to predict and the uncertainty is reflected across college sports.

College sports leaders have repeatedly said there can be no college sports without campuses being open to students. And those decisions will be made with guidance from state and local public health and government officials. Tennessee came out Wednesday with perhaps the most definitive statement yet from a school about re-opening in the fall.

The NCAA football oversight committee has agreed on a sixweek plan for teams to prepare to start the season. Teams would ideally be on campus by mid-July for the season to start on time.

Beyond that, the NCAA has little influence on the logistics of college football. The conferences are mostly in charge, with commissioners leading the way.

The commissioners of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference say they have been in almost constant contact since the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was canceled on March 12.

“Based on the very positive and close collaboration among the leaders in college football and discussions with schools, other leagues and the medical community, at this point in time we are planning to start the football season on time and together on a national basis,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said.

But can that plan hold?

An interview SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey did last week with a Jacksonville, Florida, radio station became a headline when he said: “There is room for different conferences to make different decisions.” In an interview with the Big Ten network, Commissioner Kevin Warren suggested something similar.

Penn State coach James Franklin wondered if even within conferences schools would be uniform in their return to play.

“Say you have six schools in your conference or eight schools in your conference that all are able to open, and there are one or two that can’t. Are you going to penalize all these schools not being able to reopen?” Franklin told reporters.

In an interview with the AP on Tuesday, Sankey noted the importance of nonconference games the SEC has scheduled such as Arkansas at Notre Dame, Colorado at Texas A&M and Southern California vs. Alabama in Arlington, Texas.

“There is a motivation to remain connected,” Sankey said of the Power Five.

He also said if a small number of schools cannot play it might not stop everyone else.

“What’s the critical mass? I don’t have that number. I don’t think there is a need to predict that now. In fact, I don’t even have to answer that now because we have an asset of time,” Sankey said.

Notre Dame is a member of the ACC for most sports, but one of six independents in major

college football. The Fighting Irish hold unique status, with their own multimillion-dollar television contract with NBC for football. Swarbrick is part of the College Football Playoff management committee along with the 10 Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners.

Swarbrick said a lack of uniformity could make it impossible to have a normal season.

“How many games do you need to have in a regular season to have a playoff?” he said.

“What might a re-engineered schedule do to the postseason and the bowl games? What about records? What about Heisman trophies? Is a team whose schools decides it can’t participate credited with a forfeit? I hope not.”

If there is an abbreviated season that prioritizes conference play, independents such as BYU, Army and UMass could be scrambling to fill schedules.

Notre Dame has a scheduling agreement with the ACC for five games per season; Swarbrick said he is confident the Fighting Irish would be fine.

Swarbrick said he has encouraged conferences to consider, if necessary, a scheduling model for a truncated season that allows teams to protect traditional nonconference rivalries like Florida-Florida State and Clemson-South Carolina.

“But I’m not concerned about our ability to have a challenging, robust schedule even if the conferences go to a conference-only model,” he said.

Sports likely will be on hold if school is not back in session at all the universities

er to follow suit or continue holding online classes.

“Given the realities of the COVID-19 crisis and the fact that there are numerous variables outside of our control, it is unlikely that our fall quarter will look just like last fall,” Oregon President Michael Schill said. “But I am committed to doing everything in my power to enable us to return to the type of residential university that is so special for all of us.”

The Pac-12 schools hoping to return to in-person classes this fall plan to put social distancing measures in place, including limited class sizes and extra spacing between seats in classrooms.

Colleges and universities have faced many of the same struggles as states in weighing public safety against reopening campuses for tens of thousands of students.

Every state in the Pac-12 footprint has begun easing stay-athome orders to varying degrees.

The next few weeks will likely determine whether those measures have worked, which will impact whether in-person classes can resume this fall — a key step needed for any sports to be played.

“If it gets to the point that football players can come back … and come back for training camp and start practicing and getting ready for the season, it will only be if it’s safe for students to be back on campus,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a Zoom interview with LightShed Partners last month.

The NCAA has laid out guidelines for sports to return and one of the first steps is getting s tudents back in school. NCAA chief medical officer Dr. Brian Hainline said widespread testing will be crucial, particularly in contact sports like football and basketball.

“It’s not going to be risk-free, that’s for sure,” Hainline said.

“If this is rolled out in stages and

reasonably, we’re really paying attention to proper surveillance and we get the tests available, I think we can have fall sports.”

Colleges and universities are facing big losses and the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament led to a $375 million shortfall in money that would have been distributed to member schools.

Cutbacks are already being made, including reducing coaches’ salaries, furloughing athletic department staffers and even cutting sports at some smaller schools.

Football is by far the largest revenue producer for most schools.

“We’re hoping for a full football season,” Utah athletic director Mike Harlan said last weekend. “We’re positive in that regard knowing that we have to be realistic, too. So as we look at our budget, our primary focus will always be making sure our student-athletes have what they need to succeed in all regards.”

Only five Pac-12 schools expect students on campus

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Five of the 12 schools in the Pac-12 expect to reopen their campuses this fall, a key step to the return of college sports.

Many more steps still need to be taken before football or any other sport is going to be played in 2020 as the world copes with the coronavirus pandemic. The football season begins Aug. 29 with a slate of games that include three Pac-12 schools.

Both Arizona schools, both Washington schools and Oregon anticipate holding in-person classes in the fall, but that leaves seven others still mulling wheth-

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the facility, and agree to report health information to the ICO. —The response team must consist of a local physician with expertise in common infectious disease principles; the team physician can fill that role. Also on the response team will be the infection control officer, the team’s head athletic trainer; the team physician, if he or she is not serving as the local physician; the human resources director; the team’s chief of security; its mental health clinician or someone with equivalent clinical expertise; and a member of the club’s operations staff such as the facility manager.

The NBA says some players can voluntarily return to their team practice facilities starting Friday, with some very specific conditions and only in places where local and state governments have signed off on such openings.

It’s unclear how many players will be back on the floor Friday when the league ban gets lifted.

Miami is allowed to open its doors for the first time in six weeks but won’t until at least Monday while it works out certain logistical details. Same goes for Orlando and Utah, the first NBA team to deal with the coronavirus after Rudy Gobert tested positive March 11 and the league shut down almost immediately.

And most teams aren’t allowed to open yet to because of local rules.

Basketball hasn’t been played in two months and the league, the teams and the players still seem to have a universal desire to get back to work, finish this season and crown a champion. But, perhaps mindful of challenges other leagues have faced in their efforts to resume play amid a coronavirus pandemic that has shut down the sports world, the NBA seems to be moving with extreme caution.

“The biggest goal is to have the confidence of the players and the staff that they can enter the facility safely,” Utah general manager Dennis Lindsey said.

Simultaneously, everybody wants to play, and everybody wonders if it’s safe to play. It’s like all parties involved know that a major misstep now could doom any realistic chance of playing anytime in the next few months.

“Our task force at the league is studying how do we get back to playing basketball again, following the data, looking at every possible model,” Magic CEO Alex Martins said this week.

And opening the practice courts is only Phase One. Phase Two, who knows when that will come. It’s not imminent.

Games are not close. Getting players back into facilities is not a precursor to games being played, it’s more about keeping them out of public gyms and playgrounds that are starting to reopen. Positive tests during individual training or practices could delay or destroy plans for games.

There are some reasons for hope. The NBA is still working toward a plan to test players if the season resumes. It has exchanged data with leagues across the world, and there have been some success stories. Baseball is being played again in South Korea. MLS teams returned to fields Wednesday for workouts with restrictions. Germany’s top soccer league has allowed players to return to training facilities, even though some staff and players have tested positive.

It’s the NBA’s turn to start seeing where it stands.

“There’s been this unprecedented collaboration and communication among scientists across the world right now,” said Dr. John DiFiori, the NBA’s Director of Sports Medicine. “What’s going on sports medicine sort of parallels that at a much different level of course. But there is an awful lot of that going on across the world right now. It’s at least daily communication in one way, shape or another with colleagues across the world in all these different leagues, because we’re all learning from each other.”