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Kidtown is located in Azalea Park at 640 Old Country Road in Brookings.

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Art and pirates keep summer busy at the Port

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The summer event season at the Port of Brookings Harbor closes out its run with the fourth annual Art at the Port, the 12th staging of the Pirates of the Pacific Festival, and finishing with Docktoberfest.

Art at the Port

Art at the Port continues through Sept. 10. Awards are decided and posted Labor Day weekend. The artwork displays 83 entries along the Boardwalk fence. They were hung in mid-May, to be judged People’s Choice ballots available through Sept. 1. On Labor Day Weekend the winners will be announced by hanging ribbons on the Boardwalk fence. The winners will be displayed at Manley Art Center for the month of October.

The exhibition is curated by the Pelican Bay Arts Association. Three categories will be judged, all by people’s ballots: adult, 18 and older; teen 13 – 17; youth, 12 and under. First, second, and third place ribbons will be awarded, along with cash prizes for each of the ribbons in each of the age categories, with additional cash awards for each age group, chosen by the show’s sponsors: Oregon South Coast Fishermen, Commissioners of the Port of Brookings Harbor, Curry Equipment Company, Fred Meyer, and the Pelican Bay Arts Association.

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Kidtown to be replaced

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A cornerstone of Azalea Park for many children and families throughout the years, the Kidtown wooden play structure is scheduled to be replaced. The new project includes a new wooden structure, improved with a soft and safe ADA accessible floor and an added covered picnic area, according to a release from the City of Brookings. Parking lot improvements were made in Fall, 2022.

A Kidtown reconstruction groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 11 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 14 and will include the presentation of a check in the amount of $30,000 from Natures Coastal Holiday for the project.

The pickets surrounding the play structure commemorating those who contributed, volunteered and donated time to construct Kidtown in 1995 will be removed during Rogue Credit Unions Rogue Rally event Aug. 13. The donor pickets will be preserved and re-implemented into the project.

the first Kidtown, and the new one will continue this tradition with improvements and greater accessibility,” Brooki ngs Mayor Ron Hedenskog said. “The Parks and Recreation Commission is spot on with the replacement” Playgrounds by Leathers has been contracted to supply and build the project. Grant funding from Oregon Parks Recreation Department was obtained with the City supplying a portion of funds. Kidtown will be closed during reconstruction with an anticipated completion date in October. Country Media, Inc.

“A great community effort was put into building

Community mourns loss of Forest Service firefighter

ELLIOT SCHWARZ

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Emergency response vehicles from at least 25 local and nearby fire and first response agencies formed a miles-long Corridor of Honor along Ellensburg Avenue in Gold Beach to honor Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest firefighter Benjamin Sapper. More than 70 crew members, emergency responders, and staff from the Incident Command Post

(ICP) stood at attention as three cars with the family of the 21-year-old firefighter, drove past the ICP, during the memorial procession Wednesday, Aug. 9.

Sapper was a first-year hand crew member with the Gold Beach Ranger District. He died in a traffic crash Saturday, Aug. 5.

“This is a devastating loss of one of our own Gold Beach firefighters,” Gold Beach District Ranger Kailey Guerrant said. “We have a tight-knit

community on the Gold Beach and Powers ranger districts, and we stand together in grief and support for his family, friends, and fellow firefighters during this heartbreaking time.”

“My heart goes out to the family and colleagues of Benjamin Charles Sapper whose life was taken too soon,” State Rep. Court Boice (R-Gold Beach) said. “His heart for service is continually echoed, and Courtesy from the U.S. Forest Service Benjamin Charles Sapper, a first-year hand crew member with the Gold Beach Ranger District, died in an Aug. 5 traffic collision. See FIREFIGHTER, Page 10

Courtesy photo from Facebook Above: A “pirate” gets into character.

Courtesy photos Left to right is some of the artwork at the Port of Brookings.

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New report shows underage tobacco sales violations

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Curry County Prevention Specialist Coordinator

Lauryn Akbar has issued the latest inspection report, which shows of the 31 licensed tobacco retailers in the county, one-third of the retailers sold to the underage inspectors.

The report illustrates that the county’s underage tobacco sales rate is at 32%.

The inspections have been taking place since January of this year.

Akbar said Curry County Prevention will work with retailers on compliance with ORS 431A.175. The sale of tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems to persons under 21 years of age is prohibited by law and ORS 431A.178. Any person who sells, or

allows to be sold, a tobacco product or inhalant delivery system to a person under 21 years of age is in violation of Oregon law and will be fined $1,000 for first time offenses.

Curry County Prevention also monitors the counties Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act, which protects all Oregonians from the harms of secondhand smoke. For public places and places of employment, smoking, vaporizing, and aerosolizing of inhalants is prohibited within 10feet of all entrances, exits and accessibility ramps that lead to and from an entrance or exit, windows that open and air-intake vents. Any violation of this law can be reported at 1-866-621-6107.

Curry County Prevention, under Curry County

Juvenile Department is now contracted with Oregon Health Authority for Local Retail licensing and Minimum Legal Sale Age Compliance Inspections. Director Wendy Lang reports the goal is to get all 31 licensed tobacco retailers educated and compliant to support prevention efforts in Curry County.

Curry County Prevention officials encourage all tobacco retailers to contact them for free staff compliance training and other compliance materials for new employees. The officials also provide Oregon Clean Air Act signs for businesses and Quit Smoking Tools for all residents.

For more information, call 541-698-1954.

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Any person who sells, or allows to be sold, a tobacco product or inhalant delivery system to a person under 21 years of age is in violation of Oregon law and will be fined $1,000 for first time offenses.

There’s advantages to knowing your neighbor

LINCOLN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Take advantage of the summer weather and host a neighborhood BBQ, drop off some summer produce, or find another excuse to connect with your neighbors.

Getting to know your neighbors is a great way to foster a sense of community and offers many benefits. One of the most significant advantages of knowing your neighbors is that it helps keep the neighborhood safer.

When you have a connection with your

Brookings Police

Aug. 3

• Suspicious conditions were reported on Susan Place and Chetco Avenue.

• Illegal camping was reported on Elk Drive.

• Disorderly conduct was reported on Old County Road.

• An explosion was reported on Fifield Street.

• Someone on Glenwood Drive reported receiving a bad check.

• A theft was reported at Harris Beach.

• A loud noise was heard on Boat Basin Road and Hoffeldt Lane.

Aug. 4

• Criminal trespassing was reported on Harris Beach.

• Illegal burning was reported on Sea Cliff Drive.

• A traffic hazard was reported on Seacrest Lane.

• A fight was reported on Payne Road.

• A theft was reported at a Fifth Street business.

• A loud noise was heard on Collis Lane.

• A traffic hazard was reported on Chetco Avenue.

Aug. 5

• A loud noise was heard on Ransom Avenue.

• A theft was reported by a Chetco Avenue business.

• Someone on Fir Street reported being harassed.

• An explosion was

neighbors, you become an additional set of eyes and ears in the community. By looking out for one another, you can collectively identify and report suspicious activities, making your neighborhood a less attractive target for criminal activity. When something isn’t right Being familiar with your neighbors enables you to check on each other regularly and recognize when something isn’t right. If you notice unusual behavior or potential signs of distress, you can reach out to offer help or alert

reported on Oak Street.

• Illegal burning was reported on McVay Creek Road and Pelican Bay Drive.

• A hit and run collision was reported on Benham Lane.

• A loud noise was heard on Boat Basin Road.

• A fight was reported on Fir Street.

Aug. 6

• An injury collision was reported on Carpenterville Road.

• Criminal trespassing was reported by a business on Chetco Avenue.

• A non-injury collision was reported on Highway 101 and Bridgeview.

• A theft was reported by

appropriate authorities. Your early detection of something being off, such as noticing a garage door is unattended and open after dark or noticing a neighbor hasn’t gotten their mail in several days can make all of the difference.

In either of these cases, you may be preventing damage to, or theft of, property or you may be able to get help for a neighbor that has fallen or has had another accident that requires attention. When you notice something isn’t right, take a moment to check in with your neighbor (call, text, or knock on their

a Fifth Street business.

• Illegal burning was reported on Beach Avenue.

• A fight was reported at a Highway 101 rest area.

Aug. 7

• A fight was reported on Driftwood Drive.

• A loud noise was heard on North Bank Chetco River Road.

• A theft was reported from an Old County Road location.

• A traffic hazard was reported on South Bank Chetco River Road.

• A traffic hazard was reported on Highway 101 and Cape Ferrelo.

• Illegal camping was reported on Oak and Hemlock streets.

door).

When there is an emergency

Another benefit of knowing your neighbors is the ability to understand each other’s needs and resources during emergencies. In times of crisis, such as natural disasters or power outages, having a support system close by can be invaluable. By building relationships with your neighbors, you can collaborate and help each other in times of need, whether it’s by sharing supplies, providing shelter,

• A tree was down on Highway 101 South.

• A fight was reported on Pleasant Hill Drive.

• A fight was reported on Chetco Avenue.

• A fire was reported on Harris Beach.

• A fight was reported on Tribur Lane.

• A hit and run collision was reported on Blueberry Drive.

or simply offering moral support.

In addition to increasing safety and security, knowing your neighbors can also provide a sense of belonging. Take time to

get to know your neighbors to help build a healthy community.

For more information and tips visit www. lincolncountysheriff.net

Coast Moment

Daily: Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane

Daily Meal, 11:15 a.m. –

12:30 p.m.

• Manley Art Center and Gallery, Tuesday –Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., 433 Oak Street, plein-air paintings by Jonathan Gaetke.

• Fog and Fine Art Gallery, Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., 810 Chetco Avenue. Call 541-469-7900 for information.

Wednesday, August 16

• T’ai Chi, 9 – 10:30 a.m., Chetco Activity Center

• Line dance lessons, Elks Lodge. Membership not required. $1 donation.

Beginner lessons Noon –1 p.m. Intermediate lessons 1 – 2 p.m.

• The Walking Group, 11 a.m., Azalea Park. Meet by Capella by the Sea. If raining meet at Brookings Harbor Shopping Center by the barbershop. For information 541-412-8664

Thursday, August 17

• Bridge, 11:45 a.m., Chetco Activity Center

• Widows and Widowers Coffee Clique,10:30 –11:30 a.m., Community Center, Airport Way, Gold Beach

Friday, August 18

• T’ai Chi, 9 – 10:30 a.m., Chetco Activity Center

• The Walking Group, 11 a.m., Azalea Park. Meet by Capella by the Sea. If raining meet at Brookings Harbor Shopping Center by the barbershop. For information 541-412-8664

Saturday, August 19

• No tag sale, Trinity Lutheran Church, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., 1200 Easy Street. For more information call 541469-3411.

• Lucky 7 PPA Benefit Car Show, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., Lucky 7 Casino, Highway 101, Smith River.

Sunday, August 20

• Monthly potluck, 4:30 p.m., Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane

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Call to artists

The Crescent Harbor Gallery is inviting all artists to participate in its upcoming show. Two-dimensional works (wet or dry medium) are allowed. The is more than $1,000 in prizes with the grand prize being $500.

For more information go to www. crescentharborgallery.com or call 707-4649133. Entry deadline is Aug. 26.

New Exhibit at Manley Art Center and Gallery

Artist Jonathan Gaetke will be showing his works through Sept. 2 at the Manley Art Center and Gallery, 433 Oak Street. Gaetke combines his love of nature and painting into one, also called “plein air” painting.

The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call 541-469-1807 or visit www.manleyartcenter.com.

No tag sale coming

Lutheran Trinity Church is hosting a no tag sale on Saturday, Aug. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There’s something for everyone and all money raised goes toward mission activities. For more information call 541469-3411.

Benefit car show announced

The 24th annual Lucky 7 PPA Benefit Car Show will be Aug. 19 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lucky 7 Casino, Highway 101 and Smith River.

Cars, trucks, motorcycles and 4 x 4s will be on display. Those attending can also enjoy food, t-shirts, casino giveaways and a DJ.

For more information go to www. lucky7casino.com/carshow.

Learn English country dances

Wild River Dance Studio is hosting an English Country Dances event on Aug. 21 at 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

All ages are welcome, no experience is necessary. The dances will be taught and called. Entry is $5 per person and they money goes toward scholarships for student dancers.

The studio is located at 616 Hemlock Street.

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Fall webworm on the prowl

CHIP BUBL Pilot Guest Column

Reports of the tell-tale webbing in deciduous trees of the fall webworm are coming in.

There is a notion afoot that these are devastating insects, on par with the justly feared gypsy moth (which fortunately we don’t have yet). They aren’t. The webbing is unsightly, and the larvae can eat a lot of leaves. But it is amazing how fast the trees recover once the adults pupate.

The fall webworm, unlike the earlier (April- early June) Western tent caterpillar, has a long pupal stage. The cocoons go through the winter tucked into creases on the bark of the host tree or in the debris on the ground. The adult moths (white wings with black dots) emerge in early June through July. They mate, lay eggs, and the eggs hatch into the webspinning larvae that start to munch on the leaves. After a rather short feeding cycle in August and September, they form pupae/cocoons and more or less disappear until next summer. The volume of these caterpillars vary widely from one year to the next. Usually a big year of them means they won’t be seen is much in the following years, though sometimes that is not the case.

Do you need to control them? On young fruit trees, control is probably warranted. But you need to apply sprays prior to the webbing being formed. A strong stream of water on the webbing often does the trick. The bacterial insecticide “Bt” will do a good job on these caterpillars, as will more conventional insecticides. Don’t cut off limbs as a control unless you want those limbs gone. Rarely do tent caterpillars kill healthy trees. Again, timing is the key.

Natural control is provided by diseases, insect parasites, and sometimes birds. Call me if you have any questions.

Fruit trees loaded with fruit

After a terrible fruit crop last year due to wet weather and poor pollination, most trees have rebounded extremely well. Too well, really. As a result, I have already gotten calls about limbs that have broken away from the trunk. In one case, a very large, old plum tree split in two. You can provide emergency help to the trees in two major ways. First, you can thin lots of apples or pears. That may not totally solve the problem as the remaining apples will grow bigger than they would with more competition unless you thin out a lot of fruit. Another option is to remove some limbs before they remove themselves. Try to do so evenly around the tree. Finally, find some sturdy 2x4s or better, 4x4s to brace the limbs most at risk. If done soon and you should have fewer limbs toppling down.

Summer pruning

Any shrub or tree can be pruned safely in the summer. It is an especially appropriate time to prune if the main reason for doing so is to keep down the size of the plant.

Unlike winter and early spring pruning, which tends to stimulate growth, summer pruning actually has a dwarfing effect. Removing leaves will slow carbohydrate storage and thus slow down growth the following spring and summer. Dwarf fruit trees, which seem to want to grow out of their assigned space, are especially good candidates for summer pruning. Besides keeping them small, summer pruning on fruit trees can allow more light into the canopy and ultimately help to produce better colored and better sugared fruits. That said, don’t prune just before a cycle of 90 degree plus weather or you will increase sunburn on your apples.

Summer pruning is best done from about mid-July to the latter part of August. Pruning earlier than this may stimulate a whole bunch of sprouts that will have to be removed. Pruning later than August can reduce the dwarfing effect you are trying to achieve.

It is important to follow the rules of proper pruning. Thinning cuts (which cut to where a branch joins another branch) work better than heading cuts unless you want to stimulate branching.

Heat and herbicide impacts on plants

The very high temperatures we have experienced can lead to sunburned fruit (including peppers) found on the southwest side of the plants, mostly. Rhododendrons feel the heat most and largeleafed varieties are more likely to have sunburned leaves. Rhododendron leaves droop in response to moisture stress. Most recover, but some may wither if not watered soon enough. Newly planted trees and shrubs need particular attention.

Some “ester” herbicides including triclopyr (Crossbow and others) and ester lawn herbicides volatize and move away from the target when it will be 80 degrees or higher even six hours after spraying. Don’t use these products in the weather we have been having.

You could damage your or your neighbor’s plants. Symptoms are twisted and “cupped” leaves. Tomatoes, squash, beans, and grapes are very sensitive.

Important notes

Donate extra garden produce and/or money to the food bank, senior centers, or community meals programs. It always is greatly appreciated.

Free newsletter

The Oregon State University Extension office in Columbia County publishes a monthly newsletter on gardening and farming topics. To receive an issue call 503-3973462 or go to extension. oregonstate.edu/columbia/.

Have questions?

If you have questions on any of these topics or other home garden and/ or farm questions, please contact Chip Bubl, Oregon State University Extension office in St. Helens at 503397-3462 or at chip.bubl@ oregonstate.edu.

The office is open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. To reach the Curry County OSU Extension Office, call 541572-5263.

Taking back our city

I am excited to see democracy in action here in Brookings.

The mayor and two councilors are not serving the people, so the people are taking steps to remove them from office. Mayor Hedenskog, Councilor Morosky and Councilor Schrieber didn’t listen to the people when it came to City Manager Janell Howard, who was caught and convicted of shoplifting at Fred Meyer.

The people who packed City Hall objecting to Howard’s reinstatement after she received 7 months of paid leave were ignored. The City employees who wrote a letter objecting to Howard’s reinstatement were ignored. The Law Enforcement officers who objected to Howard’s reinstatement to the point that one even resigned in protest,

were ignored. Now the petitions are circulating and it’s time to drain the swamp in Brookings. We need politicians and elected leaders who listen to the people. That’s what they’re elected to do.

If you live in Brookings and object to having a thief run our city, please sign the petition. This effort is bipartisan and it’s nice to see both the Democrats and Republicans working together on behalf of all of the people. You can sign the petition at either Party office, and there’s a petition table set up in front of Bernie Bishop Mazda Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:30 to 1:30.

We The People are taking back our city!

Tony Stoddard Brookings

Who pays really pays for the recall?

SKIP HUNTER Pilot Guest Column

In the Pilot’s front-page article (8/2/23), “Petitions seek removal of Brookings mayor, two councilors,” the article stated that the cost of a recall would be about $90,000. Fact checking with my sources, the estimated expense would be closer to $30,000 for the entire recall. Still, this is a lot of wasted tax money! I’m wondering if Mr.’s Triglia and Cunningham and Ms. Worth would be willing to “front” the funds for this frivolous action so that we “hard-working taxpayers” won’t have to “foot the bill”.

Mr. Triglia is quoted in the article as saying Mayor Hedenskog, “has squandered an excessive amount of hard-earned taxpayers’ dollars in

legal fees, reports, and investigations,” but Triglia is perfectly okay with spending an additional $30,000 of our “hard-earned tax dollars” rather than waiting a few months for the next election. Frivolous!

The article also quotes Ms. Worth saying recall circulators will be, “setting up at various spots around Brookings and Harbor.”

That is interesting because residents of unincorporated Harbor are not eligible to vote in Brookings’ (city) elections and ethically should not be signing recall petitions as they will not be allowed to vote. That is strictly a call to action to create the illusion of public outcry from Brookings’ voters.

After three Brookings City Council votes went against their extremist

agenda, the “recall trio” continued trying to remove three council members who voted (their own conscience) — after being shown evidence not available to the public.

A recall based on a decision related to a nonjob-related incident in which intent was never proven is a recall that is simply meant to undermine a legitimate democratic process with an “I didn’t get my way” tantrumlike response. Are they intentionally trying to creating chaos? Recall madness will create a plethora of unintended negative consequences, regardless of their intentions, because it simply is a bad move.

Our Mayor Hedenskog and Councilors Schreiber and Morosky are honest,

hardworking, communityloving volunteers sharing years of their time and energy without compensation to help our city and its citizens thrive—yet their reward is an attempt to remove them from their positions because a group didn’t like the majority vote? The “Recall Trio” individually and collectively do not know the details of the incident, and neither do I. But the mayor and the councilors do… and, they have a sterling record as a Council. They have exercised their duties faithfully. The “recall trio” needs to accept this wellinformed decision so our City Council can move on to other city issues.

Skip Hunter is a Brookings resident.

I’m the grown up so I’ll decide

MICHELLE PIERSON YOUNG

Pilot Guest Column

When my oldest child, now a man, sizzled into teenagerhood, one of his regular quotes was, “I’ll decide!” Now that I know more about human development, this was a powerful and clear way of stating, I’m a fully grown human now, and I’ll be the one in charge of things.

Voyaging into the full range of human consequences as an adult is not as much fun as Hollywood led me to believe. By and large this son, as well as all three of my other brave

adventuring children, have done a wonderful transition into adulthood, all things considered.

Starting out his journey declaring to the world, “I decide” was so much more powerful than I realized at the time. He had been deciding for himself from the beginning, as we each do, but this was his moment of declaration.

Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been deciding for ourselves all the way along. We each decide what a person meant by a compliment, or if they meant it or not. We decide if we are “good” or “bad” students. While the world is more than willing to give its unvarnished “truth”, we decide which bits and pieces we’ll receive or not.

In my experience, one of the most dangerous ways of

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“deciding” in life is when we decide something isn’t what we expected, wanted or asked for. It’s easy to get distracted when the result we get is different than the one we imagined.

Let’s go to the Restaurant of Life for our example. We look at the menu, order the thing we think will be the most delicious, and then... we get what we get.

Maybe it looks like we thought but doesn’t taste like the one gramma made. Maybe it looks absolutely nothing like you’d imagined. If you order a torta at one restaurant of life, you’ll get a sandwich, in another, you’ll get a piece of cake.

What can one possibly decide about this? Is the sandwich good and the cake bad or vice versa?

Or is it that they are what they are and you’ve simply had a difficult time making peace with them? And if

ordering a snack can be this challenging, how can we possibly imagine life is going to turn out the way we thought? But we do, and then we decide all sorts of things about those results. What we don’t necessarily understand is when we decide what something is not, we blind ourselves to what something is, or could be.

When I decide I don’t like my job because it’s boring, I’m not currently noticing how much I like paying my bills, or even better, asking myself what it would take for my job to fit me just right? “It’s not my dream job,” may be a fact, but if we simply decide that’s true, we’re not exploring a possible ending for that sentence which could be, “right now”, and then, asking the question, what would it take to be

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Michelle Young

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Juanita Cora Ledford Brown Bolton

Juanita was born to Cora McCamment and Ewell V. Ledford at St. Joseph Hospital in Vancouver, WA on March 12, 1925. She was the 5th daughter of the Ledford family of six girls.

Juanita was born on her sister, June’s sixth birthday. They had a lifelong bond. She grew up in Woodland, WA until the family moved to Tacoma in 1935.

Juanita was salutatorian of the 1943 class at Clover Park High School. She attended the University of Puget Sound.

A true Rosie the Riveter of WWII, she helped build the war ships at Tacoma Boatyards. Her small, flexible build and great focus on detail made her perfect at crawling between the hull walls of the destroyers and tacking the metal. While working at the PX at Ft. Lewis she met the love of her life, Robert E. Brown. They married in June 1946.

Electricity demand expected to rise nearly 25% in next decade

Together with Robert’s parents they founded and built the mill complex of Brown Lumber Co. in Brookings, OR. Their home was on the same plot of land as the sawmill. There they raised their four children: Linda Ann Brown (deceased), Susan Marie Lee (Bob), Debra Jean Stangland (Ken), and Robert Arthur Brown (Pat).

They eventually moved to North Bend, OR, where Robert died of cancer in 1991.

In 1997 she married Sterling Bolton. Together they built a home in Redmond, OR, where Juanita was an active member of the Garden Club and TOPS. Sterling died in 2004.

Juanita enjoyed sewing, playing cards and spending time with her friends.

She loved her family.

Juanita never forgot any of her seven Grandchildren and eight Great Grandchildren’s birthdays and was actively interested in their lives. She will be deeply missed.

Juanita passed away surrounded by family in Walla Walla, WA on July 21st, 2023.

Franklin R. Hayes

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ALEX BAUMHADT

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Pilot Guest Article

Demand for electricity in the Northwest is expected to grow at its fastest pace in decades due to increasing industrial use, followed by the electrification of transportation, homes and businesses.

Demand for electricity in the region is projected to rise about 2.5% annually, and by nearly 25% within the next decade, according to an annual report on expected electricity demand. The report, Northwest Regional Forecast of Power Loads and Resources, is released each year by an industry trade group called the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee. For more than 70 years, the group has aggregated and analyzed annual demand projections from utilities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to paint a larger picture of future demand for electricity throughout the region.

The largest driver of demand during the next five to 10 years will be industry, the report finds, including data centers and semiconductor manufacturing.

The latest projections the trade group collected from the region’s utilities

surprised Crystal Ball, the group’s executive director.

Last year’s forecast showed demand for electricity in the region would grow a little less than 1% per year during the next decade.

Now, just a year later, it appears the region’s utilities are preparing for growth that is more than twice that.

“This rate of projected growth we haven’t seen in decades. It’s quite remarkable,” Ball said. She said the utilities will need to identify and invest in more energy sources to meet demand. Currently, Oregon gets most of its electricity from hydropower, followed closely by natural gas and then other renewables such as solar and wind.

“There are resources in our region that have been retired, that will be retired, fossil fuels will need to be replaced with cleaner resources, with more wind and solar. We’re going to have this steep step up in demand, and it’s not enough to just replace what’s retired, we need new resources to meet projected demand,” she said.

While many utilities

are planning to expand the amount of energy they source from sun and wind to meet electricity demand, energy storage and transmission remain central challenges, according to the report.

Impact of electric cars

Aaron Orlowski, a spokesperson for the Eugene Water and Electric Board, which participates in the annual forecast, said the utility is looking at both diversifying its energy sources and trying to reduce demand during peak periods. The board – which is the largest consumerowned utility in Oregon –predicts about 2% growth in electricity demand annually starting in 2030, largely due to an increase in electric cars.

About 75% of the utility’s customers currently heat their homes with electricity from renewable energy, primarily hydropower, Orlowski said.

“If half of the people currently using natural gas in our area switch to electric, then that demand rises a lot quicker and we

need more sources,” he said.

Diversification of energy sources for the utility includes investing in more solar and wind as well as power generated from the burning of biomass, such as wood and animal products, and small modular nuclear reactors. The latter is likely a bit further off. Only one design, by the nuclear power company NuScale based in Tigard, has been approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Beyond diversification, Orlowski said part of the utility’s future planning involves trying to change consumer habits and reward reduced consumption.

The utility’s customers could reduce demand and stress on the grid caused by electric vehicle charging by 40% if they charged their vehicles overnight after 10 p.m. when electricity used for other activities – such as air conditioning and lights –is much lower. He said the utility is also looking at the impact of improving energy efficiency in buildings as a way to curb demand that exceeds energy available. “Making homes and businesses more efficient is the best first choice. If we don’t need to use the energy, that’s all the better,” he said.

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A memorial service will be held on August 11, 2023

3PM at Redwood memorial chapel for Franklin R.

Hayes who passed away in Brookings, Oregon August 2, 2023.

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The largest driver of demand during the next five to 10 years will be industry, the report finds, including data centers and semiconductor manufacturing.

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier

Becerra visits with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in a roundtable discussion in Portland about preventing youth overdoses from fentanyl. Bonamici is planning legislation that would make a prevention curriculum available nationwide in schools.

Delegation wants opioid prevention

BEN BOTKIN Oregon Capital Chronicle

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Friday visited the Portland region, which has become a poster child for fentanyl and drug addiction in America.

He met with Oregon officials, who would like lessons learned in the state replicated on a national scale.

Among their stops, they visited Tumwater Middle School in Beaverton School District and talked about preventing youth drug abuse and addiction in a roundtable with educators, students, advocates and behavioral and addiction specialists.

Oregon is in the midst of an addiction crisis. The ease of obtaining opioids and other drugs with the decriminalization of lowlevel drug possession through Measure 110 have created a public health tsunami of overdose deaths and a lack of resources to treat people with addictions. Oregon officials and Becerra said prevention is key to driving down the overdoses and drug usage.

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici plans to introduce a congressional bill in September that would provide funding for school districts nationwide to have curriculum modeled after what’s in place at the Beaverton School District, which was the first in Oregon to launch a fentanyl awareness curriculum after an a.

“This really is about saving lives,” said Bonamici, a Democratic congresswoman who represents Oregon’s First Congressional District.

The Beaverton program was created through Jon and Jennifer Epstein’s advocacy after they lost their son Cal to fentanyl poisoning in 2020 when he mistakenly took a fake blue pill while on a break home from college. Their son believed it was oxycontin, but it was fentanyl, which is more than 100 times more powerful than morphine.

They channeled their grief into advocacy and asked Beaverton School District, where their son had attended schools, to use his story to educate youth. As a result, the Beaverton School District became one of the first in the country to mandate yearly fentanyl lessons for all middle and high school students.

‘’These youth deaths are the most preventable deaths,” Jon Epstein said during the discussion. “Solutions like this bill being proposed present a greater opportunity for consensus.”

Jennifer Epstein said they found their son unresponsive in his bed when he was home from college in Hawaii. She found a small bag of blue pills.

Cal was looking for oxycontin and instead received fake pills.

“We had to say our goodbyes,” she said. “Our amazing, beautiful 18-yearold son was gone.”

Epstein said Cal made a poor choice in looking

New laws signed to address Oregon’s behavioral health crisis

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed six bills passed during the 2023 legislative session to address the behavioral health crisis in Oregon.

for oxycontin pills and struggled with anxiety issues. But, she said, they believe if he had known about the lethal danger of fentanyl and how it can be disguised to look like pills, he would have made a different choice.

The district has not had any fentanyl-related deaths since, but Portland schools have. Two McDaniel High School students died in 2022, and earlier this year a teen at Franklin High died from a suspected fentanyl overdose.

This session, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 238, which requires the Oregon Health Authority, Board of Education and Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to develop education materials to teach schoolchildren about the dangers of opioids, as well state laws that protect people who report overdoses or seek treatment.

Students take part

The roundtable, which included health, medical and school professionals, also heard from students.

Alexa Merriwether, a 16-year-old senior at Beaverton School District’s Sunset High School, said the lessons learned from the curriculum help students to bemindful of their choices.

“It does help me make sure I’m aware of my actions,” Merriwether said. “It’s so easy for students to access drugs these days.”

Oregon faces an opioid crisis, with 280 fatalities in 2019, 472 in 2020 and 745 in 2021, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Many of the deaths are attributed to fentanyl, which is so potent that the equivalent of two grains of sand can kill. It is often laced in illicit pills made to resemble prescription oxycodone or tranquilizers such as Xanax.

Tackling the issue requires a change in mindset, Becerra said. For example, federal dollars can be used for fentanyl test strips, which test drugs, including street drugs, for fentanyl, he said. That approach could help addicts avoid overdoses.

“We want to go where the evidence takes us,” he said.

Bonamici said she’s drafting the bill and doesn’t know how much funding would go towards the project.

Becerra praised the idea and said it’s needed along with other efforts.

“I hope she asks for lots of money,” he said. “It won’t come a minute too quickly.”

U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, a Democratic member who represents the state’s Sixth Congressional District, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, another Democrat, also met with Becerra.

Salinas said many people purchasing the pills don’t realize what they’re buying and believe they are getting medications for a mental health challenge.

“Instead of getting the help they need, they’re getting a deadly pill,” Salinas said. “It’s going to take an all-hands-on-deck approach.”

Merkley said prevention is key, along with stopping

“As your Governor, I’m fighting for a behavioral health system that supports healing and recovery no matter where you live,” Kotek said. “And to the friends and family who have watched a loved one struggle with an untreated mental health issue or addiction, I recognize your suffering and am moved by your hope. Know that I am focused on improving outcomes across our state. “That’s why today is so important. The bills I am signing mark progress towards building a behavioral health continuum of care that incorporates harm reduction, suicide prevention, stronger tools against substance abuse among youth and adults, and improvements to the implementation of Measure 110.”

Below is the list of bills

Governor Kotek signed:

SB 238: Requires the

Oregon Health Authority, State Board of Education, and Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to collaborate on developing curricula for school districts related to dangers of synthetic opioids.

SB 1043: Requires hospitals, sobering facilities, and detox facilities to provide two doses of opioid overdose reversal medication and necessary medical supplies to administer medication to specified patients upon discharge or release.

HB 2395: Expands access to emergency shortacting opioid overdose reversal medications, like Narcan and naloxone,

including by allowing law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services providers, educators, school administrators and others to store and administer this life saving medication in the event of an overdose.

HB 2513: Strengthens

Measure 110 by increasing staffing and improving application processes to speed up approval and get funds out the door, centralizing the support hotline to get people connected to services more efficiently, and improving program data collection and accuracy.

HB 2757: Establishes the 9-8-8 Trust Fund for

improving the statewide coordinated crisis system, including maintaining and improving 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.

HB 3610: Establishes the Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services to study and report on: alcohol addiction and prevention; distribution of resources for alcohol addiction treatment; overall funding for alcohol addiction treatment programs; cost of alcohol addiction to the state; and additional funding options for alcohol addiction treatment.

Kotek signed the bills during a ceremony Aug. 8.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the obligation secured by the Trust Deed described below is in default, and that the beneficiary has elected to foreclose the Trust Deed pursuant to ORS 86.705 to 86.795. No action is now pending to recover any part of the debt secured by the Trust Deed. The Beneficiary Exemption Affidavit is on file with the Oregon Foreclosure Avoidance Program. Information required by ORS 86.771 is as follows:

1. Grantor:

Rosemary J. Donahue; Trustee: First American Title Insurance Company of Oregon; Successor Trustee: Joseph E. Kellerman, 14 N. Central Ave., Suite 104, Medford, OR 97501; Beneficiary: Rogue Credit Union, successor in interest to Chetco Federal Credit Union. 2. Property covered by the Trust Deed: Lot 2 of MEADOW WOODS SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, City of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, according to the official plat thereof, now of record. 3. Trust Deed was recorded on September 30, 2004, as instrument no. 2004-6388 of the Official Records of Curry County, Oregon.

requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this property at the trustee’s sale. 10. In construing this notice and whenever the context hereof so requires, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, and their successors in interest, the word “trustee” includes any successor trustee and the word “beneficiary” includes any successor in interest of the beneficiary named in the Trust Deed, and any collateral beneficiary, and their successors in interest.

DATED this 24th day of May, 2023. HORNECKER COWLING LLP By: /s/ Joseph E. Kellerman, Successor Trustee

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4. Default for which foreclosure is made is failure of Grantor to make required monthly payments under the terms of the Promissory Note and failure to keep and maintain insurance.

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6. The Beneficiary has and does elect to sell the property to satisfy the obligation.

7. The property will be sold in the manner prescribed by law on the 6th day of October, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. standard time as established by ORS 187.110, outside of the public entrance to the Curry County Courthouse, 29821 Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach, Oregon, 97444, Curry County, Oregon.

In the Matter of the Estate of: RICHARD JOHN SHIELDS, a.k.a. JOHN RICHARD SHIELDS, Deceased NOTICE IS HEREBY

& Misc. Items Unit #3, Steven Reed Lien sale will be held: August 19, 2023 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Reidel Mini Storage 125 Fred Haight Dr., Smith River, CA 95567 Published: August 9 and 16, 2023. Triplicate T368370

8. Interested persons are notified of the right under ORS 86.778 to have this proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by payment of the entire amount then due, other than such portion as would not then be due had no default occurred, together with costs, trustee and attorney’s fees, and by curing any other default complained of in this Notice, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale.

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GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the undersigned Administrator or her attorney at the address below, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, the Personal Representative, or the lawyer for the Personal Representative, David C Johnston. Dated and first published on August 2, 2023.

/s/ Cindy T. Lawson, Personal Representative Lawyer for Personal Representative: David C. Johnston, OSB #140957 Law Office of David C Johnston 517 Chetco Ave.; P.O. Box 4884 Brookings, OR 97415 (541) 373-8706

Published: August 2, 9, and 16, 2023. Pilot & ONPA P367883

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Published: August 16 and 23, 2023. Triplicate

T368564

NOTICE OF PETITION

TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Danny L. Coltra, Deceased Case Number: CVPB-2023-7037

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Danny L. Coltra

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: John Wiens in the Superior Court of California, County of: Del Norte.

The petition for probate requests that: John Wiens be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This Authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as

follows:

Date: September 29, 2023

Time: 10:00 am Dept.: 2

Address of the Court: 450 H Street, Crescent City, CA 95531

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner:

Timothy J. Wykle Matthews, Kluck, Walsh, Wykle & Latt, LLP 100 M Street Eureka, CA 95501

(707) 442-3758

Publish: August 16, 23, and 30, 2023 Del Norte Triplicate T368654

LIEN SALE WINCHUCK STORAGE

A lien sale will be held on August 25, 2023, at 11:00

AM, with a preview at 10:45

AM at Winchuck Storage, 99198 Winchuck River Rd., Brookings, OR 97415, on the following units:

UNIT No. 32 \emdash Various items, garden/lawn tools & equipment, tools and personal effects.

Belonging to:

Don Cooper PO Box 2632 Brookings, OR 97415 and Charlotte Reese 99222 Winchuck River Rd., Apt.7 Brookings, OR 97415

UNIT No. 23 \emdash (10X20 unit) Various items, totes, tools and personal effects.

Belonging to:

Jason Britt

2170 Holben Rd. Crescent City, CA 95531

Published: August 16 and 23, 2023 (online August 1023). Pilot & ONPA P368656

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGS

The Curry County Soil & Water Conservation District is holding its regular meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 29. In addition to routine business, the board will approve a resolution setting the date for the 2022-23 annual meeting. Other matters may be discussed. The meeting will be held at the Curry Watersheds Partnership office located at 29286 Ellensburg Ave., Gold Beach. The location is accessible to persons with disabilities. An electronic option to join is also available. To access the meeting electronically, please contact Tammy Wills at tammy. wills@currywatersheds. org or (541) 247-2755 ext

6. To request an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with disabilities, please contact Tammy Wills at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Published: August 16, 2023. Pilot & ONPA P368749

FICTITIOUS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

William Torres Case Number: CVPB-2023-7038

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of William Torres

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Danny Torres, in the Superior Court of California, County of: Del Norte.

The petition for probate requests that: Danny Torres be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This Authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 10:00am Dept.: 2

Address of the Court: 450 H Street, Crescent City, CA 95531

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner:

Gino de Solenni

384 G Street Crescent City, CA 95531 (707) 464-6181

Published: August 16, 23, and 30, 2023. Triplicate T368751

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Cheryl Lynn Tomlinson

Case Number:

CVPB2023-7030

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Cheryl Lynn Tomlinson

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Heather Bolen, in the Superior Court of California, County of: Del Norte.

The petition for probate requests that: Heather Bolen be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This Authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as

follows:

Date: August 25, 2023

Time: 10:00am Dept.: 2

Address of the Court: 450 H Street, Crescent City, CA 95531

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are

a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Gino de Solenni 384 G Street Crescent City, CA 95531 (707) 464-6181

Published: August 9, 16, and 23, 2023. Triplicate T368354

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JKPS Service 225 Willow Glen Court Crescent City, Ca 95531

This Business is conducted by: an individual

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on: 2/8/2023

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to this section that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Signed:/s/ Jack K Price

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Del Norte County on: 6/23/2023 Alissia D. Northrup County Clerk-Recorder

Claire Landay, Deputy File No. 20230060

Published: July 26, August 2, 9, and 16, 2023. Triplicate T367616

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Irene’s Hair and Beauty Salon 1329 Northcrest Drive Crescent City, CA 95531

This Business is conducted by: an individual

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on: 6/29/2023

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to this section that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Signed:/s/ Irene Contreras

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Del Norte County on: 6/29/2023 Alissia D. Northrup County Clerk-Recorder Claire Landay, Deputy File No. 20230064

Published: July 26, August 2, 9, and 16, 2023. Triplicate T367649

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Joe’s Cabin 2575 Morehead Road Crescent City, CA 95531

This Business is conducted by: a married couple

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on: 7/21/2023 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to this section that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Signed:/s/ Michael O’Connell

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Del Norte County on: 7/21/2023 Alissia D. Northrup County Clerk-Recorder Claire Landay, Deputy File No. 20230069

Published: August 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2023. Triplicate T367834

IN THE COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR CURRY COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE of JOHN CLYDE RIDDLE, JR., Deceased. Case No. 23PB01593

NOTICE TO INTERESTED

PERSONS

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that I have been appointed personal representative of the above estate. All persons having claims are required to present these claims to me at the offices of Frohnmayer, Deatherage, Jamieson, Moore, Armosino & McGovern, P.C., 2592 E. Barnett Road, Medford, Oregon 97504, within four (4) months from the date of first publication of this notice or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by these proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, from the personal representative or from my attorney. DATED and first published this 2nd day of August, 2023.

John Riddle, III Personal Representative

Published: August 2, 9, and 16, 2023. Pilot & ONPA P367705

Kotek signs new measures to increase funding for schools

ALEX BAUMHARDT

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Pilot Guest Article

Oregon’s 197 school districts will have record funding this year to improve literacy and to pay for school operations.

Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday, Aug. 2, signed into law seven new education initiatives, including the largest state school fund budget ever allocated, $140 million to improve student reading and writing and a host of other bills aimed at growing the teacher workforce, improving access to child care and enhancing student equity.

Kotek signed the bills flanked by teachers, school staff, politicians and education advocates from across the state. She was also joined by the new director of the Oregon Department of Education, Charlene Williams, as well as Williams’ predecessor Colt Gill. Several lawmakers spoke at the signing, including the chairs of the Senate and House education committees, Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, and Rep. Courtney Neron,

D-Wilsonville. Dembrow applauded lawmakers for getting key education legislation passed after being stalled for six-weeks during the Republicanled Senate walkout over bills on gun control, abortion rights and gender-affirming care. In an interview with the Capital Chronicle, Dembrow said it was an unsettling time.

“The walkout definitely brought us to the brink. Had it not been resolved exactly when it was resolved, I think it would have had great consequences,” he said. “If you’d asked me a month before the end of the session, I could not have said any of these bills would pass given what we were up against.”

Educator workforce

The bills signed include Senate Bill 283, which was largely the work of Dembrow. He met with teachers, school

staff, educator unions, associations and leaders at the state’s colleges of education and state education agencies to try and understand and tackle Oregon’s pervasive teacher shortages. Dembrow said these conversations influenced the key components of the bill, which include incentives for teacher retention, a process for making substitute licensure easier for retired teachers and extending greater benefits to substitute teachers. Demand is greatest for special education teachers and support staff, so the bill also creates a group that will study offering higher pay to special education teachers and provisions to make hiring easier. Dembrow was not able to pass a 20% pay increase for special education teachers over general educators that was originally in the bill. He said the state’s educator workforce shortages were becoming acute pre-COVID and that the pandemic worsened them.

A 2022 statewide Educator Equity Report found that more than 60% of first-year teachers in

Oregon did not return to their positions in 2021. Another Dembrow-led proposal, Senate Bill 279, was signed by Kotek on June 16, allowing Oregon to serve on the steering committee for an interstate compact that will allow teachers licensed in other states to teach in Oregon and vice versa. The law was signed just in time for Oregon to be one of 10 states that will create the rules and standards for interstate licensure.

“For kids to be successful they need good teachers, good support workers, they need educators who want to be there. I think that these bills will help,” Dembrow told the Capital Chronicle.

Literacy

The Early Literacy Success Initiative, which Kotek championed, will send money to school districts and community groups for new elementary reading curriculum, reading tutors and after school reading programs, and to train teachers in reading instruction based on a large body of cognitive and neuroscience showing how the brain learns to read.

The law allocates nearly $150 million for that for the next two years.

The initiative, House Bill 3198, was developed to address low reading proficiency among Oregon students during the past several decades as measured by state and federal standardized test scores. The Capital Chronicle determined that Oregon has spent more than $250 million in the past 25 years to try and improve reading instruction in schools. But that money has failed to help more than a generation of students.

Over the last 25 years, nearly two in five Oregon fourth graders and one in five eighth graders have scored “below basic” on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often

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“Pills are going to exist,” he said. “Kids are going to think about trying them. Education is a significant factor in taking on this challenge.”

The roundtable was part of Becerra’s three-stop day in the Portland area on Friday. The first was at Tigard High School, where Becerra participated in a roundtable to talk about Oregon’s challenges in

referred to as the nation’s report card. That means they struggle to read and understand simple words.

Kotek said the initiative is the first of more investments that will need to be made in the years ahead.

“This effort will take more than one bill, more than one budget line, or one session to see all the progress,” she said. “This funding is the first step of a broader strategy to improve how we support our kids, and how they learn to read and write.”

Child care

Last year legislators approved a Department of Early Learning and Care to try and boost pre-K education opportunities and child care access across the state. House Bill 3005 gives the department resources to develop the infrastructure needed to support those goals, including $50 million in grants for child care spaces and technical assistance from the state.

“We need more child care supply, and we have providers who are ready to do it, but they need some help from us to make those upgrades and expand that capacity to make it happen around the state,” Kotek said

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders

House Bill 3144 directs $2 million toward creating a student success plan for the state’s more than 12,000 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students. Such plans for Black, Latino and American Indian and Native Alaskan students have helped provide professional development for teachers to meet the needs of students of different ethnic backgrounds, to develop strategies for diversifying the teacher workforce and to provide extra college and career readiness support.

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It’s my declaration that I’m choosing my life and responding to its outcomes.

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developing the behavioral health workforce, which faces struggles to recruit and retain enough professionals to meet the demands for service.

And at a Rite Aid Pharmacy in Tigard, Becerra touted President Joe Biden’s lower cost prescription drug law, called the Inflation Reduction Act. It caps a month’s supply of Medicare-covered insulin at $35 and makes recommended and preventative vaccines available for free for people with Medicare prescription drug coverage.

Adarino Pete and Kapiolani Micky, both from Micronesia and living in Salem, attended the bill signing ceremony and said they hope the new student success plan can benefit their 15 year old son, who attends South High School.

“This will provide assistance that will make school easier on him,” Micky said.

Civil rights and ethnic studies

Under House Bill 2281, all districts will need to have a civil rights coordinator on staff to ensure state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination are followed and enforced, and to investigate allegations of discrimination in Oregon schools.

Another new law that stems from Senate Bill 1050 directs the education department to provide training and professional development for teachers ahead of new academic standards and instruction on the Holocaust, genocide and ethnic studies. Ethnic study standards adopted in 2017 will apply to students in kindergarten through 12th grade, and go into effect in 2025. They will apply to the study of Native Americans and people of African, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latino Chicano and Middle Eastern descent.

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on the fact that when I do, I feel happy and hopeful, and suddenly the world responds on that same wavelength. Go on, I dare you, claim it, say it with me, “I decide,”

Michelle Pierson Young is a local life coach and may be reached at Michelleatplay.com.

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Gov. Tina Kotek

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Events

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Flat Fire. We all must do our part to prevent additional fires throughout our state.”

Sapper graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and was also a graduate of Boulder High School.

or wayward seabird. Art center volunteers clean and inspect them through the works’ summer stay. All the art is waterproof, so a spray bottle of water and a soft

He joined the U.S. Forest Service to serve the community and be part of a team, according to a release from the forest service. The agency said Sapper enjoyed playing baseball, chess, skiing, as well as math and philosophy. He was set to

begin graduate school in the fall at the University of British Columbia to study earth sciences. Two other Forest Service firefighters were injured in the crash that occurred near Powers. Those firefighters were treated and released at

a local hospital.

Coquille Fire & Rescue officials, who attended the scene of the crash, said a truck with the firefighters left the road above Powers.

The Forest Service described the incident as an “on-duty vehicle accident.”

Specific details about what caused the crash had not been released by press time.

Sapper is the first fire fighter in Oregon to die this season, according to Kyle Sullivan of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

cloth do the job. Pirates at the Port

The Pirates of the Pacific Festival designed

for the whole family was conducted Friday Aug. 11 through Sunday Aug. 13, and included two music stages, rum the Cutthroat Inn, hosted by the pirates of Chetco Pelican Players, a Pirate’s Village with pirate reenactors, cannons that go boom, Mermaid Village, food and beer gardens. The Pirate Festival is one of the Port’s most popular events, attracting more than 20,000 locals and tourists to the port in previous years according to Bruce Ellis. He tells its history.

“Created by Bruce Ellis (Capt. Curry), and Mike Moran (Capt. Squishee’) and brought to the community by the Insider of S. Oregon Entertainment Newspaper, the event was designed to bring something back to the area for the support Ellis received in getting the Insider of S.O started (now in its 14th year) from the local businesses, residents, and tourists. The Pirate Fest not only brings revenue to Brookings Harbor, but also to Crescent City and

Gold Beach, filling hotels and bringing customers to local businesses and establishments in all of these cities and surrounding areas as well.

In 2021 Crissy Cooper (Capt. Esmeralda) came onboard to help out and this trio along with the many behind the scenes people have managed to make this the highlight event of the year complete with an ocean view.

This year, in addition to all the pirates who typically disembark at the port for rest, recreation and celebration they were scheduled to make landfall with the Pirates of Macklyn Cove. Steve Rushton, a member of the Chetco Pelican Players was set to bring his crew to the festival. They’ve banded together to bring “fun for youth” to this and other events around town. Rushton, known to his mates as Captain Buttonhead, said that when he attended local events, even when they were billed as family fun, “there

wasn’t much for him to do,” referring to his 10-year-old son Daemon. Having shanghaied some friends as crew, Claire Willard, Steve Scruggs Jeff Walker, Vincent Chiantelli (The Whimsical Griffin), along with sponsors, Jay Cabrera (The Dutchman of local community radio KCIW) Kim Devine (Kim’s Garden Party) and Beacon Broadband, the Pirates of Macklyn Cove were ready to hand out gold, silver, and bronze coins that the kids can spend on treasure at their booth. Also set to dispense the loot was Misty Mountain Brewing (who have kid friendly food and drink), Lord and Lady Towers, Harbor Fire District, and the Cutthroat Inn.

Follow Port of Brookings events at currypilot.com and in the Wednesday print editions of The Pilot. For more information about the Port of Brookings, visit https://www. portofbrookingsharbor. com/

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Firefighters, first responders, and incident command staff and family of fallen firefighter Bengamin Charles Sapper lined the street as the memorial procession passed by.