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Car crashes into Newport business Saturday

STEVE CARD L incoln County Leader

The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a building in Newport’s Deco District on Saturday afternoon, June 8 was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of intoxicants.

The incident occurred at around 4 p.m. when a Kia Amanti, driven by Christopher Daniel Johnson, 38, of Newport, jumped the curb, took

out a streetlamp, and struck a building at 437 SW Coast Highway. That building houses Red Lotus Music.

Johnson had been traveling north on Highway 101 in fairly heavy weekend traffic when the crash occurred. According to the police report, he told law enforcement officials that he had fallen asleep at the wheel, and the last thing he remembered was crossing over the

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Graduation ceremonies were held around Lincoln County last week as communities honored their Class of 2024 at the various schools. Above, Toledo High School graduates walk onto Hargett Memorial Field for their commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday. According to the Lincoln County School District, Toledo had 31 graduates this year. Numbers of graduates at other high schools around the district were: Newport, 150; Taft 103; Waldport, 43; Compass Online, 22; Eddyville, 18, and Siletz, 12. (Photo by Steve Card)

Pictured right is a Taft High School senior as she prepares to walk across the stage to receive her diploma, also on Saturday. (Photo by Jeremy C. Ruark)

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The idea of consolidating portions of the Newport Fire Department and the Depoe Bay Fire District was discussed this month during a work session of the Newport City Council. In attendance at that June 3 session were Newport Fire Chief Rob Murphy and Depoe Bay Fire Chief Tom Jackson. Murphy said Oregon law gives broad authority to local government

The Newport City Council, at its meeting on June 17, is expected to initiate a discussion on the possible consolidation of administrative services between the Newport Fire Department and the Depoe Bay Fire District. (Photo by Steve Card)

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Lincoln City Parks & Recreation (LCP&R) has announced the official groundbreaking for construction of Schooner Creek Discovery Park at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 20 This public celebration of the Phase 1 construction will highlight the first inclusive and accessible playground on the

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It began as a key economic development driver for Lincoln City, but the city’s $2 5 million purchase in 2012 of 375 acres of the Villages at Cascade Head have been sitting idle following the COVID pandemic and the procedural process.

“The properties at the Villages is a very substantial part of our buildable lands, and it is also close to, and partially includes city and public utilities,” said former Lincoln City Planning and Community Development Director Richard Townsend, now acting as the city’s interim director. “So we want to encourage the area to be developed while still protecting the important parts of it. That’s largely been done already with re-zoning.”

DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES

Townsend said while the city wants to encourage

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A car driven by Christopher Daniel Johnson, 38, of Newport, jumped the curb, took out a streetlamp, and struck a building at 437 SW Coast Highway in Newport Saturday afternoon. Johnson was later charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants. (Photo by Steve Card)

Students, school staff look beyond graduation

JEREMY C. RUARK L incoln County Leader

For the 2024 graduating seniors at Taft High School, the last four years have been “an amazing journey,” according to Principal Nick Lupo.

“Their freshman year was not in person due to the COVID pandemic and that was difficult and that transition kind of moved them up the chain and they couldn’t finish school, so to start your high school career off like that and to come through and pull through, is a great accomplishment,” he said as he prepared for the graduation ceremony June 8

According to Lupo, the transition from the pandemic was also a challenge.

“Teaching changed, education changed, and there were many digital changes, so both the students and the teachers had to adapt a lot to figure out a new pathway that would lead them towards graduation,” he said. “This class and all the classes after COVID are going to see the differences and make great strides.”

Lupo said helping the students return to school following the pandemic was important.

“Helping them socially,” he said. “Teachers made a lot of efforts to get them back into the schools. Getting them into game

clubs and helping them socially is one of the biggest challenges. Getting them into the building, talking, participating, developing the relationships, so they can feel like thy are a part of the school.”

DIGITAL IMPACT

The digital age has overcome school, according to Lupo.

“So many things are online,” he said. “A lot of communication is just different, so instead of coming to school, sitting down and picking up a pencil, just about all the teachers are using the digital tools. So there are pluses and minuses. Teachers and students are trying to find that balance.”

Lupo said he encourages parents and students

to look for a balance to successfully embrace education’s new technology.

“The visual age and technology is crucial,” he said. “It’s like moving forward in life. Having that balance, having that socialization, and that connection with people is still crucial, so not losing that and having the connection to artificial intelligence, we are trying to successfully marry those things. I tell parents not to be afraid to use technology, social connection, getting out, having activities, sports, and clubs. I love that part of it, so parents need to engage with their children. That’s always the foundation.”

Lupo’s message to the students during the June 8 graduation ceremony held in the Taft High School gym was all about giving back.

“Throughout those years that we’ve been with you, we’ve given a lot to you to reach these moments, so we want you to come back and give back to the community, to your friends, to your family. That’s the way of life, making sure you are of service to other people.”

SUPERINTENDENT’S INSIGHT

“The goal of the district is to raise critical thinkers, so that they are ready to problem solve and move forward,” she said. “All of our students and staff have learned how to have critical conversations, how to problem solve, how to change and adapt very quickly, and show their resiliency.”

Tolan said the district was prepared for the learning challenges triggered by the pandemic.

“We already had all the devices we needed and to work on the technology bases,” she said. “We started training our staff and students before the pandemic started with programs to help them access learning through technology, so that gives us the chance to force the issue in developing our skills.”

To help reach students with mental health issues, Tolan said the district has increased counseling services, providing counselors in all the elementary schools.

“We’re working with county mental health, and we have on-site staff that are not mental health providers, but they are trained in practices that can help support students in adaptations, through change, so it is really a district-wide focus.”

Lincoln County School District Superintendent Dr. Majalise Tolan agreed with Lupo that the 2024 graduating seniors at all the district’s high schools faced difficult challenges.

Speed reduction on Newport road is subject of public hearing

The Newport City Council will conduct a public hearing on Monday, June 17, to consider reducing the maximum speed limits on portions of Northwest Oceanview Drive. The council meeting begins at 6 p.m. at city hall.

Northwest Oceanview Drive experiences higher traffic volumes than surrounding streets, and over the years, the city has received numerous complaints about vehicles being driven at excessive speeds. Also, police and fire department personnel have responded to traffic accidents that resulted in injuries and property damage. The city retained the services of a transportation engineering and planning consulting firm to conduct a traffic operation and safety assessment along Oceanview Drive and has identified several steps it can take to improve traffic safety. One such step is to change the posted maximum speed limit as follows:

• Reduce the maximum speed limit along Oceanview Drive from 25 to 20 mph between Northwest Spring Street and Northwest 19th Court; • Retain the existing 25 mph maximum speed limit along Oceanview Drive between Northwest 19th Court and Northwest Edenview Way;

• Reduce the posted speed limit along Oceanview Drive from 35 mph to 30 mph between Edenview Way and Highway 101

Interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing to share their views with the city council. Written testimony may be mailed to Newport City Hall, Attn: Erik Glover, 169 SW Coast Highway, Newport, Oregon 97365, or emailed to publiccomment@newportoregon.gov. Written comments must be received by 2 p.m. on the date of the hearing, or they may be submitted at the hearing.

The Taft High School graduation ceremony in Lincoln City has a unique starting time each year, with the opening minute being the same as the year of the graduating class. Graduates are pictured here as commencement begins at 11:24 a.m. on Saturday, June 8. (Photo by Jeremy C. Ruark)

Aquarium receives $500,000 challenge grant

The Marcia H. Randall Foundation has gifted $500,000 to the Oregon Coast Aquarium to support the construction of its Marine Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. The foundation has also issued a $500 000 matching challenge grant, bringing the total donation to $1 million once the match is met. The aquarium’s Sees-Ha Xwee-Nish Marine Wildlife Rehabilitation Center will expand its capacity for providing critical care to injured or endangered marine species. The facility will have the space and equipment necessary for both immediate and long-term medical attention, giving vulnerable wildlife a second chance at survival.

The Marcia H. Randall Foundation will match all gifts and pledges made to the aquarium’s wildlife rehabilitation fund from now through Dec. 31, up to $500,000. At a 1:1 ratio, the grant doubles the impact of each dollar donated.

“We appreciate the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s dedication to the construction of a Marine Wildlife Rehabilitation Center,” said Foundation President Marcia H. Randall. “We are proud to

help fund this new facility that will not only significantly improve outcomes for injured wildlife, but also serve as a research and teaching facility for veterinary practicums and students interested in marine science careers.”

The Oregon Coast Aquarium is one of three facilities in the Pacific Northwest, and the only in the state of Oregon, authorized to provide critical care to endangered marine animals like sea turtles, northern fur seals and snowy plovers. Construction on the center is set to begin in 2025

“The Marcia H. Randall Foundation board of directors have been incredible partners,” said Aquarium President/ CEO Carrie Lewis. “We are grateful for the

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and equipment necessary for both immediate and long-term medical attention for wildlife.

foundation’s generous gift and support in getting us closer to closing the gap.”

Donations of any amount are welcome and can be made online at aquarium.org/donate.

With questions about the aquarium’s capital campaign, progress and future, reach out directly to the aquarium’s

Oregon beach monitoring season is now underway

This year’s Oregon Beach Monitoring Program (OBMP) is now underway, with two-dozen coastal recreation areas being tested for bacteria during summer and early fall.

The 24 beaches on the list of places being tested include some of the most frequently visited beaches in Oregon. It also includes beaches where the program has found bacteria present, or beaches for which local partners and the public have requested monitoring due to potential pollution concerns.

Sites being monitored in Lincoln County include:

• D River Beach –Lincoln City

• Siletz Bay Beach –Lincoln City

• Beverly Beach

– Newport

• Agate Beach – Newport

• Nye Beach – Newport

• Ona Beach (Brian Booth-Beaver Creek State Park) – Seal Rock

• Seal Rock Beach –Seal Rock Beach monitoring season runs from midMay to mid-September. Beach advisories are only issued for beaches that are actively being monitored within this sampling window. Other beaches will be investigated for inclusion in the next beach monitoring season. OBMP works with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to identify beaches that need monitoring based on several established criteria. These criteria include: pollution hazards present; previous beach monitoring

Street closure planned in Toledo

Beginning on Monday, June 17, construction will begin on a water line replacement project on Southeast Fir Street in Toledo.

The stretch of road between Southeast Seventh Street and Southeast 10th Street will be closed to through traffic. Motorists will need to take alternate routes for the duration of this project, with is expected to run through the month of July.

data that identify water quality concerns; type and amount of beach use; and public input. As part of an adaptive sampling plan, beaches and sampling locations are routinely re-evaluated to ensure available resources best protect public health. A copy of DEQ’s beach evaluation is available upon request. For more information and current beach monitoring conditions, visit www.healthoregon. org/beach, or contact OBMP at Beach.Health@ odhsoha.oregon.gov or 971-673-0400

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Newport set to begin city manager transition

STEVE CARD

L incoln County Leader

The city of Newport is preparing to transition to its new city manager with the retirement of the current manager, Spencer Nebel, quickly approaching.

Nebel, who has served as city manager for the past decade, will officially retire on July 8, and the following day, July 9, Nina Vetter will take over that position.

Nina Vetter

After a lengthy interview process in April involving four candidates, the Newport City Council voted unanimously to offer the position to Vetter. The interview process, facilitated by Jensen Strategies of Portland, included staff and community receptions and panel interviews by community leaders, peer public administrators, city department heads, and the city council.

Vetter recently served as the city manager in

Gresham. She previously served as city administrative officer for the Pueblo West Metropolitan District in Colorado; strategy, performance and contract compliance manager and senior budget management analyst for Colorado Springs, Colorado; and financial and administrative services associate for the USAID-State Department for the Country of Georgia.

Vetter holds a master of public administration degree from Northern Illinois University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from George Washington University.

At a meeting last

month, the Newport City Council authorized a temporary position for Vetter during a transition period, so that she could became more familiar with issues and personnel before her official start date. At the council’s meeting on June 3, Nebel updated the council on that plan. Vetter will be in Newport June 18, 19, 27 28 and July 1-3

“She’s going to be spending time with various departments in the city during this interim period,” Nebel said. “It’s going to give her a great opportunity — before she gets burdened and trapped into the office I’ve enjoyed being trapped in for the past

10-and-a-half years — to really kind of understand what we are doing as a city, to meet some of our staff and really start developing her opinions about the way she wants to take this organization going forward when she starts on July 9.”

Nebel noted that during that transition period, Vetter won’t be available to meet with the general public “because we’ve got her pretty booked out, so we want to get her as familiar with the organization as we can before she starts being in a position where she’s dealing with specific issues on July 9.”

When contacted by the Lincoln County Leader,

Vetter said, “I’m really excited and looking forward to moving to Newport, being part of the community and being able to work with the community.

“There’s a lot on the plate, and there’s a lot of great things that the city is working on,” she added. “I definitely plan to take some time when I first start to listen to the staff, the council and the community to really get a better understanding of what they see as key challenges, what’s working well, what could be working better. I really think it’s important to start with trying to better understand the community.”

No fireworks ban anticipated in Newport

Although the city of Newport has the authority to ban the use of fireworks during the Fourth of July if dangerous wildfire conditions exist, it doesn’t appear there will need to be any restrictions enacted this year.

Newport Fire Chief Rob Murphy spoke to the Newport City Council at its June 3 meeting to share the latest predictions for the upcoming fire season.

“For the fireworks ordinance … based on the weather predictions that I’ve been looking at, this year I don’t think it’s needed. I still expect early July conditions to be fairly good,” Murphy said. “As far as the display fireworks that the city pays for every year,

those will go off as normal. It should be a show comparable to last year, and it will be on July 4 at 10 o’clock, shot off from the same location, which is the west end of the International Terminal.”

Murphy told council members that the weather in this area is transitioning from El Niño to La Niña conditions. “They expect the transition to be fairly quick and for it to happen toward the summer and then throughout the end of the year,” he said. “What that tends to mean for us here in the Pacific Northwest is it’s a fairly normal pattern, fairly average weather is basically what it says. There’s a slight increase for thunderstorms, but that’s not usually a huge concern for us on the coast.”

Murphy said that at least through July, “we’re

Based on the latest weather predictions, Newport isn’t planning to restrict the personal use of any legal fireworks within the city this year. (File photo)

looking at a fairly normal season. This bit of rain we just had sure didn’t hurt things. What a good soak like that in June does is it tends to push back the start of fire season a little

more.” Nevertheless, the fire department is still preparing for summer wildfires. “I think we live in a time when not preparing is just not a realistic option,”

said Murphy. “So I’m having all the crews take wildfire prevention training, (and) we have some upcoming countywide wildfire training.”

Fire chiefs at

departments around the county have agreed that when the area does reach high fire danger levels, “we will augment our response for any highrisk fire in the county,” Murphy said. “What we do when we augment our response is we send the three closest agencies … so you get a much bigger response when we do it this way. Plus, normally Oregon Department of Forestry is also going.” It was also pointed out that backyard burning will be closed throughout the county on June 15 “Assuming conditions are normal, we’ll probably close June 15 most summers, and we’ll open it back up Oct. 15,” Murphy said. “We’re trying to give folks some predictability on when burning is allowed and when it’s not.”

STEVE CARD

L incoln County Leader

How to contact government officials

Gov. Tina Kotek Citizens’ message line: 503-378-4582 www.governor.oregon.gov

Oregon State Legislature

General information line: 1-800-332-2313 oregonlegislature.gov

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley D-Ore.

Oregon: 503-326-3386 Washington D.C.: 202224-3753 www.merkley.senate.gov

U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle D-Ore., 4th District

Oregon: not yet set up Washington D.C.: 202225-6416 www.hoyle.house.gov

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore. Oregon: 503-326-7525 Washington D.C.: 202-224-5244 www.wyden.senate.gov

State Rep. David Gomberg D-10th district Salem: 503-986-1410 rep.davidgomberg@ oregonlegislature.gov oregonlegislature.gov/ gomberg

State Sen. Dick Anderson R-5th district Salem: 503-986-1705 sen.dickanderson@ oregonlegislature.gov www.oregonlegislature. gov/anderson

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Coffee Cup Cosmology: pondering over my morning java

BY CRIS TORP

I like a good cup of coffee; the stronger the better. Home-brewed; not some designer, driveup with “just a twist of Madagascar Cinnamon,” thank you. Nothing better than a good, kitchen-table cup of java while looking out at Oregon’s persistently inclement weather and thinking to yourself: “Let it rain and pour! Another reason to not mow the grass.”

I don’t remember when I had my first cup of coffee, though I do remember getting my mom’s first morning “Cuppa Joe” ready by percolating it in a stovetop pot. We lived next door to my aunt, and she and my mom would coffee clatch

the mornings together. I think the caffeine made them giddy — in a nice kind of way. When there were two of us, we’d get our morning coffee ready the night before and have the auto-brew work its magic and send up fresh-brewed aromas. Today, in my suddenly singular universe, I make coffee for one and have regressed to making it on as as-needed basis: This INSTANT!

I find the preparation of instant coffee rather intriguing and mildly paradoxical.

Unlike brewed coffee that’s hot and homogenized, adding the freeze-dried crystals to the cup is like watching the creation of a contained universe: “creatio

ex nihilo;” creation from nothingness. First, this added something just sits there, then its expansion begins. The something dissolves and dissipates and spreads out to the edges of its bordered infinity. Then it re-groups, takes shape and populates its mini-verse: swirling coffee-colored galaxies, amorphous systems, tadpole-like entities swimming, teeming and populating new stars and new worlds; infinitesimally tiny worlds, but worlds nonetheless; all contained in my coffee cup I tried to count these innumerable, whirling, still-forming processes and galaxies, but they were spinning at a rela -

tive light speed, and I just couldn’t keep up. I stood there in amazement at my universeencapsulating petrie dish, and I couldn’t help thinking about our own rather insignificant solar system and its location at the further edges of the Milky Way (not necessarily unique, itself), and the other uncountable galaxies within the cosmos. I started asking some beginner’s questions. If I looked through the bottom of the cup, wouldn’t these clockwise spins become counterclockwise? If I stirred the other way, would it make a significant difference? How wide is the Milky Way? What is a universe? What lies beyond the edges of infinity? Is the

universe infinite? Is there anything beyond infinity? Is there an infinity of infinities? Isn’t there an “nth” power? How does that fit in?

I got bolder. If a light year is measured by the speed of light over some distance (at the rate of 186,000-plus miles/ second), how many years would it take to travel just to the other side of our Milky Way? How many heartbeats in a minute? How many times has my heart beat over the last 80 years? If Lincoln County has a population of 55,000plus, how many times do our collective hearts beat in one day? Should we include the hearts of our pets, wild things, furry friends, fishes, pinnipeds, mollusks?

Planned, accepted and forced ignorance

Then, the nth-degree of the simple math overwhelmed me, and I stirred my cosmos. But as I walked over to the kitchen table, another set of questions erupted, and I tried to ask them as engagingly as possible: What percentage of the world’s population is represented here in Lincoln County? In a single minute, how many human heartbeats are there in the world? Does the number approach or surpass a trillion? Isn’t the U.S. national debt something in excess of 13 trillion?

Questions like that, all from a cup of instant coffee.

Cris Torp is a resident of South Beach.

BY PAUL HAEDER

Right on target, June is yet another month of those “it’s lemon and cucumber” June celebrations.

I’m thinking about 40-plus years of teaching and 50-plus years as a journalist. Students today, young and old, are in this amnesia, or in some cases lobotomizing syndrome. Many radical thinkers like myself consider the infantilization and Walmartization/McDonaldsization in the United States as part and parcel the strategy to distract and then erase memory. Few know about the horrendous crimes of Israel before Oct. 8, 2023. The attack on the USS Liberty, which left 34 Americans dead and 174 others injured — twothirds of the crew in

total, according to a press release organized by the Liberty Veterans Association — has been veiled in controversy. Survivors and former senior intelligence officials have pointed to a deliberate bombardment by Israel and a subsequent U.S. dismissal of the event to pardon its ally. That was on June 8, 1967.

“For 55 years, we’ve tried to honor the crew, with little to no support from our government, just like the lack of support we received when we were under attack. Our government has tried to cover the entire attack up as a mere accident. Nothing could be further from the truth,” said president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Larry L. Bowen.

Now, go back to the Bonus Army soldiers. On

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July 28, 1932, our government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of so-called heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. These WWI vets were part of a Bonus Army who came to Washington, D.C. to make a demand for their promised wartime bonuses.

Disregarding orders, MacArthur decided to finish the job by destroying the Bonus Army. After nightfall, the tanks and cavalry leveled the jumbled camps of tents and packing-crate shacks. It was then put to the torch.

We should continue with the absurdity of ignorance: The Civil War is rarely taught right. Go back 160 years for a little bit of added ignorance: June 19, 1865.

Juneteenth should be a history lesson to illustrate that Abraham Lincoln was not the great emancipator. The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people only in states like Texas, which were in rebellion against the federal government.

They were safely able to continue the institution of slavery until they were forced to end it. Old Abe tied emancipation to colonization, the plan to send Black people out of the country. He actually established one such colony in Haiti.

This event occurred two months after the Civil War. Enslaved Texans were well aware that the war had ended. But they also knew that the absence of federal troops who could enforce the law made any legalities moot.

Ahh, so here we are, 2024, and I have students wondering why the country is “falling apart … our infrastructure frayed … medical care lacking … inflation over 300 percent for many items … and why so much goes to the rich and the war mongers.”

It’s not a red-blue thing, which so many insist now it is, in this carnival-freak show called presidential campaigning.

JP Morgan Chase, Blackrock, Amazon, Palantir or Google and the other Fortune 5000 corporate thieves give little care about which red or

blue candidate gets into office. It’s all about the Benjamins. The reality is Biden, Trump, 535 members of Congress and 100 senators are all beholding to their donors, to their political action committees and to the chambers of capitalist power.

Which brave independent tough politicians are calling Biden an enabler of genocide? A dozen? Five? One? Rep. Rashida Tlaib blasted President Biden’s handling of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, deriding him as an “enabler” of genocide.

And the other freak, Donald Trump, what’s his ignorant take on lawful and First Amendmentprotected campus rallies for Palestine? Trump told some donors that the student demonstrators are part of a “radical revolution” and promises to defeat them, and even deport individuals en mass.

I have long conversations with older folk, on fixed incomes, who utilize free meals and food. Some are in their 80s, and they have no safety nets to rely on for recovering from a surgery (hmm, $19,000 a month for a rehabilitation center) or no recourse for getting badly needed hearing-aids less than $10,000 a pair. One woman I know lived in her compact car with her husband for two years before landing some subsidized housing. This woman is grateful for work here on the Oregon

coast. Leaving Portland after some dead-end jobs and an apartment with a jacked-up rental hike, the couple found themselves utilizing campgrounds, parking lots, and any other resource they could find. She knows that those tens of billions of dollars thrown at military offensive weapons companies equate to an inequitable society. She knows the lack of history around how the eight-hour work week was codified hurts current unionization movements. She knows her own plight and her husband’s are repeated millions of times a day in America.

From Black author, radio commentator, activist Margaret Kimberly: “Juneteenth’s only value is if it becomes a day of serious study and political education. That process can start with learning why ‘Jim Crow Joe’ Biden received 90 percent of the Black vote or why the 2020 rebellions after George Floyd’s murder created a need for the state to placate Black people, if only symbolically.”

It is fitting that June is also National PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month.

Paul Haeder is a novelist, journalist, educator and author of “Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam,” Cirque Press.

Work begins on transportation package

Seven years ago, lawmakers poured more than $5 billion into improving roads, bridges and public transit in Oregon, touting plans to add lanes to congested urban highways, redesign intersections that served as hot spots for crashes and make safer walking routes to school for students across the state.

Now, lawmakers are in the earliest stages of crafting the next likely multibillion transportation package — but this time around, the focus is more on maintaining existing roads than expanding or building new ones. During a recent meeting that served as a primer for a series of meetings around the state, lawmakers on the Joint Transportation Committee heard that Oregon’s roads and the systems in place to pay to maintain them are struggling.

Kris Strickler, director of the Oregon Department of Transportation, told lawmakers that the department needs about $2 8 billion annually just to meet current needs — nearly $1 8 billion beyond its current resources.

“We’re at a point where asking for projects just feels like, pardon the pun, a bridge too far,” Strickler said.

The agency is in a “deep, deep struggle” that’s only getting worse, he said. That’s because the state transportation system relies on what Strickler calls a threelegged stool for funding — and that stool’s legs are giving out. The first leg, revenue from the state’s 40-cents-per-gallon gas tax, is faltering as more Oregonians drive fuel-efficient cars or electric vehicles. The average driver now uses almost a quarter less fuel than they did a decade ago, paying about $40 less per year in gas taxes.

The second, fees paid to the Driver and Motor Vehicle Services division, isn’t steady because some DMV fees aren’t enough to cover the cost to administer services, let alone bring in additional revenue. That puts more weight on the third stool leg, weight-mile taxes charged to commercial truckers, who are now suing the state alleging they’re being overcharged.

Strickler recommended lawmakers consider adding more legs, including tolls, fees on electric vehicles and road usage charges. Most importantly, he said every fee should be indexed to inflation.

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Lincoln City Police Department receives award

JEREMY C. RUARK L incoln County Leader

The Lincoln City Police Department (LCPD) was recognized recently with the LEXIPOL Gold Plaque award.

LEXIPOL is a policy management and training program designed to enhance officer knowledge and to standardize department procedures.

An administrator with LEXIPOL said the LCPD has shown dedication to updating the program’s policies and procedures, as well as training officers. It is important for law enforcement agencies

to keep up to date with the most recent case law, criminal procedures, and ethical standards, according to the agency.

The LCPD also is recognizing Lt. Jeffrey Winn, who spearheads the LEXIPOL program at the police department and is instrumental in ensuring officers are completing their training.

“He also creates and update our policies on a regular basis,” Sgt. Torin Liden said in a release. “Without his work, our department would not have achieved this award.”

The award was presented to the LCPD

On Tuesday, May 28

Congressional delegation presses for fishing industry support

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Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, alongside U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), and Andrea Salinas (OR06) have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Administrator Bruce Summers, who oversees the agency’s Agricultural Marketing Service, calling on the USDA to deliver critical federal support to West Coast fishermen and seafood harvesters, processors, and distributors.

“Commercial fishing and seafood processing on the West Coast are significant contributors to the nation’s seafood production and agricultural economy,” the lawmakers wrote. “The industry serves as the economic backbone for numerous small ports and rural coastal communities in Oregon. Fishing activities are deeply ingrained in the local culture and way of life across the Oregon coast.”

The West Coast seafood industry has been largely left out of previous USDA commodity purchasing programs in the past, until the lawmakers successfully pushed for major purchasing breakthroughs in recent years, including the USDA’s $52 million purchase of Pacific groundfish and seafood products last year. This change has proven essential, especially for Oregon’s smaller coastal communities that are continuing to recover from the devastating impacts spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, international conflicts, and many other factors.

“In addition, an influx of imported species and substitutes from other countries has intensified competition in the domestic market, making it difficult for domestic producers to sell their inventory at desired prices,” the lawmakers stated in their letter. “Specifically, rockfish and whiting harvesting and production has been subject to changing economic

factors such as changes in disposable income, unemployment rates, and consumer confidence that have impacted the demand for seafood products, leading to surplus inventory.”

The lawmakers’ letter calls on USDA to include Pacific Northwest and West Coast seafood products that are currently produced in large volumes and that are easily accessible and transportable in this year’s Section 32 purchases for immediate distribution to food assistance programs. This includes West Coast whiting fillets and rockfish fillets in 2024

“We greatly appreciate the efforts that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made to support our industry in recent years. These continue to be extremely challenging times, and we cannot overstate the significance of the USDA’s actions to expand procurement programs to include greater quantities of domestically produced seafood,” the lawmakers concluded.

Nighttime paving on Highway 20

The Oregon Department of Transportation advises motorists to expect delays during a nighttime repaving project now underway on Highway 20, from milepoints 24 4 to 29 4

Single-lane closures will be in place from Sunday night to Friday morning, 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Flaggers and pilot cars will be used to direct traffic.

According to ODOT, this section of the highway is in poor condition,

and the existing driving surface needs to be removed and replaced. The project will include repaving the road, adding new striping, sealing the surface of the bridges and installing rumble strips. The estimated cost of construction for the entire project is $6 25 million. This work is weather dependent. Go online at Tripcheck.com to find the most current information on traffic impacts.

MEETINGS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

North Lincoln Fire & Rescue District #1 Board of Directors: 4 p.m., Bob Everest Station, 2525 NW Highway 101, Lincoln City.

Lincoln City Public Arts Committee: 4 p.m., public works conference room, city hall.

Newport Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee: 5:30 p.m., council chambers, city hall. Depoe Bay Planning Commission: 6 p.m., city hall. Toledo Planning Commission: 6:30 p.m., council chambers, city hall.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

Port of Toledo Board of Commissioners: 1 p.m., work session, 496 NE Highway 20, Toledo.

Seal Rock Water District Board of Directors: 4 p.m., water district office, 1037 NW Grebe St., Seal Rock.

Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District Board: 6 p.m., 914 SW Coast Highway, Newport. Seal Rock Fire District Board: 6:30 p.m., 10349 Rande St., Seal Rock.

MONDAY, JUNE 17

Newport City Council: 4 p.m. work session, 6 p.m. regular session, council chambers, city hall.

TUESDAY, JUNE 18

Siletz Valley Fire District Board of Directors: 6 p.m., main fire station, 149 W Buford Ave., Siletz. Depoe Bay City Council: 6 p.m., city hall. Lincoln City Planning Commission: 6 p.m., council chambers, city hall.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

Yachats City Council: 1 p.m., Yachats Commons. Oregon Coast Community College Board of Education: 6 p.m., North County Center, 3788 SE High School Drive, Lincoln City.

The Lincoln City Police Department was recently recognized for its efforts to enhance officer knowledge and to standardize department procedures.

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Rocky shores of Pacific Northwest show low resilience to changes in climate, research shows

STEVE LUNDEBERG

Oregon State University

A 15-year period ending in 2020 that included a marine heat wave and a sea star wasting disease epidemic saw major changes in the groups of organisms that live along the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest.

The study by Oregon State University scientists, involving four capes in Oregon and California, suggests these communities of species may have low resilience to climate change. Findings were published recently in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Researchers learned that sessile invertebrates — those that stay in one place, such as mussels and barnacles — became more abundant during the study period, while seaweed species like kelps declined.

“These changes occurred after the loss of adult ochre sea stars due to an epidemic of sea star wasting disease and during a three-year marine heatwave when water temperatures were extremely warm,” said Zechariah Meunier, a doctoral graduate of the OSU College of Science and the lead author on the paper. “Sea stars are like the wolves of rocky

A study by Oregon State University scientists found that some organisms that live along the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest may have low resilience to climate change. (Photo courtesy of

shores because they normally eat enough mussels and barnacles to prevent these invertebrates from dominating the lower elevation areas. And many kelps did not survive the thermal stress during the heat wave.”

Of further concern to the scientists: When the epidemic ended and ocean temperatures cooled, the rocky shore communities did not return to their baseline conditions. That suggests the communities

have low resilience to changes in both temperature and predator numbers.

“Diminishing resilience may lead to degraded rocky shore communities under future climate conditions,” said Meunier, who along with OSU professors Sally Hacker and Bruce Menge looked at 13 sites spread among Oregon’s Cape Foulweather, Cape Perpetua and Cape Blanco and California’s

Cape Mendocino. “And a warming climate will make restoring baseline conditions more difficult –regime shifts to degraded states are likely to last longer and put community structure and ecosystem function at risk.”

Hacker and Menge have been studying Northwest coastal ecosystems for decades. Healthy marine ecosystems are important because the ocean, and the species that live in it, are critical to the

proper functioning of the planet. For example, the ocean supplies half of the oxygen humans breathe and annually absorbs one-quarter of the carbon dioxide people emit into the atmosphere.

The scientists note that climate change and pollution are combining to force marine ecosystems to experience unprecedented stressors including harmful algal blooms, ocean acidification and hypoxia. The stressors

often work in concert and exacerbate one another, resulting in damage to marine habitats or species diversity loss.

When stressors are especially severe, they can lead to habitat transitions from one state to another in what’s known as a regime shift.

“A classic example of multiple stressors causing a regime shift is the transition from kelp forests to urchin barrens in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of North America,” Meunier said. “That transition is attributed to a marine heat wave, urchin overgrazing, historical extirpation of the sea otter and recent mass mortality of the sunflower star. Digging even deeper, the sunflower star demise was itself driven by two stressors: a sea star wasting disease epidemic and a marine heat wave.”

While sunflower stars have not recovered, adult ochre sea stars on rocky shores are growing in size and number to what was measured before the disease epidemic. Thus, there is hope that the sea stars will be able to limit the expansion of barnacles and mussels in the future, the researchers say. The study by Meunier, Hacker and Menge was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Oregon’s psilocybin industry, a year old, seeks customers

GRANT STRINGER

Oregon Capital Chronicle

A year in, Oregon’s experiment with the first regulated psilocybin mushroom market in the world is short on customers. To attract them, advocates say the industry needs to get the word out about its benefits.

“We think everybody knows that psychedelics can help them because we’re in this little bubble. But 99 percent of people have no idea what they could get out of a journey,” said Heidi Venture, founder of a Hood River mushroom center, Vital Reset, where customers undergo supervised “trips”

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to about half of the service centers in the state. She said competition will intensify next year, when out-of-state business interests can begin launching their own psilocybin ventures in Oregon.

“Overall, marketing seems to be a big challenge. But places are doing well, and there’s product going out to a lot of people,” Armbrust said.

Courtney Campbell, founder of the center Chariot in Northwest Portland, recently told a Capital Chronicle reporter that a steady stream of customers has kept his business afloat, but not lucrative.

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on psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms.

She was among about 100 local psilocybin entrepreneurs who attended a recent industry conference in Portland.

Attendees included business owners like Venture who run state-licensed centers where customers can trip on mushrooms, and trained guides, known as facilitators, who accompany them on the hours-long journey.

The conference was hosted by the Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Association, a nonprofit that’s trying to raise awareness of the health and spiritual benefits detailed in studies on the supervised use of psychedelics like psilocybin.

Panelists recalled a year of challenges, red tape and waning interest in guided mushroom trips under Oregon’s pioneering legal model, but also life-changing experiences for clients. They pledged to share information and lobby lawmakers for regulatory improvements.

A majority of Oregon voters in 2020 approved Measure 109, which

directed the Oregon Health Authority to create a legal system for offering psilocybin. Unlike marijuana, customers can only buy and use psilocybin mushrooms under the watchful eye of a statelicensed facilitator and in a service center like Vital Reset. Prices usually range between $800 and $2 500 for a trip and two therapeutic sessions with a facilitator — although advocates say discounts are often available.

Activists in other states are watching Oregon’s experiment closely, including in Colorado, which is debuting a more relaxed system. Like Oregon, that state will license centers and facilitators but has also decriminalized the use and sharing of psilocybin and other psychedelics.

When Oregon’s first psilocybin center opened in Eugene in June 2023, it was the first in the nation to offer access to the drug in a licensed setting. The drug is still illegal by federal standards, categorized as a Schedule I substance, meaning that it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

To date, roughly 3,500 clients have taken a supervised trip in one of Oregon’s 25 psilocybin centers.

The nonprofit Healing Advocacy Fund, which advocates for psilocybin policy and supports entrepreneurs, estimates that number to increase to about 7 000 by the end of the year. That’s lower than some observers expected, who predicted a surge of interest in the nation’s first legal opportunity to use a psychedelic drug.

‘IT’S

GOING TO GET OVER-SATURATED’

Oregon has 25 licensed centers, but not all of them have made it. In March, The Journey service center in Portland became the first to fold for a lack of customers.

“Unfortunately we’ve seen one service center close down. I imagine there will be more because very quickly it’s going to get oversaturated,” said Tori Armbrust, owner of Satori Farms PDX. Armbrust grows psilocybin mushrooms and sells them

Oregon has also seen a spike in the number of training programs, which are pumping out hundreds of facilitators. Coeli Dwivedi, owner of the Entheogen Institute, has only been able to give herself one paycheck despite graduating about 70 students in the last year.

‘STAY POSITIVE’ Despite the business challenges, Oregon’s psychedelic entrepreneurs are often floored by the positive impact felt by customers who use psilocybin, particularly people with treatment-resistant depression, addiction and trauma.

“If we just hang in there, stay positive, it will evolve into something we can all be proud of,” said Mary Nielsen, owner of Brain Brew PDX in Beaverton.

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agencies to make agreements with each other, whether it be to share some administrative services or create an entirely new intergovernmental entity.

“There’s been discussions about consolidation/ merger with various fire agencies in the county going back probably 12-14 years, maybe even longer than that,” Murphy told members of the city council. “My predecessor, Chief Phil Paige, had put together a proposal for consolidation/merger with a couple different entities, including Depoe Bay, that ultimately was decided

not to pursue.”

Late last year, Murphy, Jackson’s predecessor Bryan Daniels, and City Manager Spencer Nebel again began discussing the idea of consolidating efforts.

“We had some initial discussions,” said Murphy. “Depoe Bay went through a period of transition during which Chief Daniels left and Chief Jackson has been appointed as fire chief.”

He added, “One of the things that really kind of keyed us in to the idea that this might be a good time to look at this is who we have in administration for both agencies. We all get along and work together very well. We felt like if we were to

look at combining administrations, that we could work very well together.”

Murphy told council members that merging fire departments has taken place elsewhere around Oregon. In some cases it has worked out well, and in others it hasn’t, he said.

“Our idea to start with would be an agreement between the city of Newport and Depoe Bay Fire District that would merge administrations … the chief officers and executive assistants into one management structure that would oversee the fire operations for both agencies,” said Murphy. That would include operations like fire prevention, code enforcement, fire

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development, “the way the conditions of approval were originally made back in the ’90s have largely functioned, unfortunately, to discourage development and have created uncertainty and obligations that developers seem to shy away from,” he said. “The city has had the property for a long time and it hasn’t moved, so it is really just facing up to the fact that it is discouraging development. The city wants to meet the goals of why it was purchased in part to provide some affordable market-rate housing and open space.”

According to Townsend, the range of market-rate development that could best fit the Villages includes affordable housing.

“Primarily residential,” he said. “It could be small, single-family dwellings, duplexes or townhouses, or it could be apartment type housing. Probably some limited commercial, such as small markets, restaurants, and service places,” he said.

NEXT STEPS

Townsend’s charge is to go through all the existing conditions of approval that were established for the Villages over the years and looking to revise those conditions or eliminating some of them.

“That then would go before the city’s planning commission to make decisions on that,” he said. The planning commission’s decision could be pulled to the city council.

Townsend’s review process is expected to take about two to three months. Other property at the villages, approximately 40 acres owned by other interests, could also see development triggered by the review.

“There has been property there for sale for years,” he said. “Once we get things revised, the private owners will probably be moving towards getting approval for their parcels. That might encourage selling if we remove some restraints, some of the uncertainties, from the properties.”

Townsend said 175 acres of the city’s purchase at the Villages continues to remain as open space, including the popular Knoll, set aside from any development. He said the city has not funded any major infrastructure improvements at the Villages.

“The city had conducted an asphalt lift on the existing road to make it more livable and to preserve the work that had been done.” he said. “When the city bought the property, we used Open Space money, affordable housing money, and we used

investigation, public education, and the training of personnel.

Fire department employees and volunteers would remain employees of their parent organization, Murphy said, although Depoe Bay doesn’t have any volunteer firefighters at this time.

The consolidation of the departments would be overseen by members of the Newport City Council and the city manager, and members of the Depoe Bay Fire District Board of Directors. “That oversight board acts as the policy maker and provides oversight for this intergovernmental agency, for the fire authority,” Murphy said. “It does not

There are two developers the city is under exclusive negotiating agreement with — one to develop Fernwood with housing, and one to develop the

mean that they have complete control over the fire authority. The city council and the fire district retain the right to either end the agreement or modify the agreement.”

Newport City Councilor Cynthia Jacobi asked Murphy if the purpose of the consolidation would be to save on administrative costs.

“The initial intention would not be to save money for administrative staff because we would not be cutting the number of FTEs for administration,” Murphy replied.

Nebel added, “I think the advantage of this sort of a situation is not necessarily reducing the number of folks, but having clearer roles for these

neighborhood scale commercial site. Once those developers are able to move ahead with their projects, the city will be able to discuss these

individuals. For example, we could have a training officer between the two departments ... and have one take over the fire marshal for both the district and the city as well, so they could be focusing on those areas.”

Murphy agreed. “That’s the initial benefit. We get (services) that we don’t have today and can’t provide today.”

City council members were in favor of initiating a discussion on the topic of possible consolidation/ merger of the two departments. The council is slated to take action at its meeting on June 17 to initiate this discussion, but any formal vote on the matter would not happen until a later date.

projects publicly.”

“The council wishes to find the best fit to develop this property,” Lincoln

Virginia Bittler

May 9, 1935 - May 26, 2024

Virginia Bittler, 89, formerly of Newport, Oregon died on May 26, 2024 at Settler’s Park Senior Living Facility in Baker city, Oregon.

Virginia Lee was born on May 9, 1935 in Toledo, Oregon. She was raised in Toledo and graduated from high school there. She met and married Joe Bittler at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Newport, Oregon They had 4 children – 2 boys and 2 girls.

Virginia worked for the Lincoln County School District as a secretary at the Toledo High School. In her spare time, she enjoyed knitting, reading, quilting and spending time with her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband

General Fund money.”

The city’s economic development director, Alison Robertson, said, “Developing the cityowned property within the Villages at Cascade Head development has been a priority of council since including the residential Fernwood site within the 2018 Request For Expressions of Interest development offering.

Virginia

For those who would like to make a memorial donation in memory of Virginia, the family suggests the Sacred Heart Catholic Church through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services PO Box 543 Halfway, Oregon 97834. Online condolences may be shared at www. tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com

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Ann and John Skow

John - May 5, 1937, Ann -January 28, 1940 - April 15 and 16, 2024

Ann and John Skow died within one day of each other, April 15 and 16, 2024. She was 84, he was just shy of 87.

Born near Lewiston, ID on May 5, 1937, John David was one of four children of Nels and Helen (Goodwin) Skow, a sharecropper family who moved often, looking for work. They finally settled near Cheney, WA on a rented farm where John learned to hate chicken–his chore: raise, butcher, muck out the barn before new chicks arrived.

Ann (Anna Dean Ary) born January 28, 1940, in San Bernadino, CA, the daughter of a rodeo bull rider who left before she was born. At two, Ann already had the sparkly personality we knew her to have-she looked like Shirley Temple and known to dance on tabletops in Big Bear, CA where her mother worked. Adoring men threw silver dollars at her feet, helping put food on the table. Her mother, and the father she came to know, Bill and Nadene (Holmes) Ary, moved to Spokane in 1947.

Ann, one of four children, attended West Valley schools. An honor roll student, she won second place for an iron lung she constructed in a science fair, her doll as the patient. Born to be a mother, when Ann was 12, she dressed her doll in pajamas each night, then changed it into daytime clothes before school.

Ann spent weekends in Cheney with her

grandmother. During a cousin’s 1956 high school graduation she met John. John was giving graduation kisses to cousins in the car. He didn’t know Ann, sitting in the back, but he gave HER a kiss too. He went home that night, woke up his mother to say he just met the girl he was going to marry.

Engaged in March,1957, they married in June, at Millwood Presbyterian Church. Their reception at her aunt’s home, once the estate of owner of Spokane Siberian Arctic Fur Manufacturing Company, a showplace in Spokane valley with sunken gardens and landscaping. Settling in Cheney, their two boys arrived soon.

Always a hard worker with strong work ethic, John worked multiple jobs to support his young family.

Ann’s father was a Spokane Fireman. John took entry exams for both Spokane Fire and Police Departments. He passed both-the police department called first to offer him work. He walked the night beat in Hillyard, a seedy part of town, then was assigned the motorcycle

division taking his training on a brand new Harley Davidson. His training saved him one slick, rainy night as he crossed train tracks, his front wheel lodged in the slant of the tracks, taking him down. He rode out the long, wet slide on the pavement hanging on to the handlebars like he’d been taught-coming out of the fall unscathed. In 1965 Ann and John got a call that changed their lives.

Ann’s uncle, City Manager in Juneau, Alaska, called to say the Juneau Police Chief needed policemen. John flew to Juneau, starting his new job immediately-a scruffy, unshaved convict in jail. The chief asked him to go undercover with a suspect in a cell, accused of stealing firearms. Assignment: Stay locked up until he could find out where the guy hid stolen rifles. The caveat-Nobody knew John’s identity but the chief, not even the jailer. Two days later John asked for the chief, provided the information and testified in court against the thief. Ann only found out after the fact.

Their family moved to Juneau, a new daughter

arrives, then moving to Sitka, and Skagway where John worked construction, they managed a restaurant, Ann made 25 pies a day for a restaurant, they owned the city garbage route, and John worked on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway. They moved back to the lower 48 to join John’s brother in a chiphauling business in Heppner, Oregon. While hauling chips, they bought the town’s motel, invested in real estate.

They sold the motel getting ready to retire when John’s health was affected by a stroke. He recovered, and Ann began managing other people’s motels with John as her supportive right-hand man in Lake Oswego, and the Oregon coast, living in Florence, Newport, and Redmond. Finally settling in Lincoln City, they enjoyed a wonderful community of friends. Several small strokes contributed to John’s health declining. Ann succumbed to a sudden intestinal difficulty. They passed away the way they lived lifewith deep devotion to one another, side by side, in the same hospital room, a lucky couple, with three kids, five grandchildren, six great grandchildren. They adored all dogs.

Memorial contributions may be made to Friends of Lincoln County Animals. Address: FOLCAS PO Box 2264 Newport, OR 97365 June 15, 2024, 2-4pm at Coronado Shores Clubhouse

Joe, daughter Marci Bittler; son Gregg Bittler; grandson Dylan Thomas; brothers Don and Dick Persinger.

is survived by her daughter Janet Frink of Toledo, OR; son Bruce Bittler and wife Teresa of Baker City, OR; 6 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; sister Mary Persinger.

City Major Susan Wahlke said.

Qamar Architecture and Town Planner Company’s Laurence Qamar, a city of Lincoln City consultant, points to a location on a flyover photo of the Villages at Cascade Head to then Lincoln City Manager Ron Chandler, left, and then Lincoln City Planning and Development Director Richard Townsend during a tour of the undeveloped property in November 2017. (File photo)

Oregon coast, including a public parking lot and ADA-access, according to LCP&R Director Jeanne Sprague.

The public is invited to view the groundbreaking, enjoy “new park” cookies, view design boards, purchase commemorative pavers, and meet Ollie the Octopus, the new LCP&R mascot.

Guests for the June 20 groundbreaking ceremony will include State Rep. David Gomberg, State Sen. Dick Anderson, Mayor Susan Wahlke and city council members, Parks and Recreation Advisory Board members, parks and recreation staff and others.

Schooner Creek

Discovery Park is the first new Lincoln City community park in more than 20 years. The 6 71-acre park is located at 4815 SE 51st St., the former Taft Elementary School site.

NUMBER ONE GOAL

The development and

construction of the new park is stated as the number one goal of the 2016 Lincoln City Parks System Plan and will address a recreation gap in Lincoln City.

The park will also host many first public sites in Lincoln City, and on the coast, such as the first inclusive and accessible playground, first permanent pickleball courts, first covered multi-sports court, first public turfed multi-sport field, a special event stage and lawn, picnic shelters, open space trail, and more, according to Sprague.

Phase 1 construction of the park is expected to be completed by the end of this fall, with the new inclusive and accessible playground being opened to the public.

The development and construction of this park occurred through partnership with Lincoln City City Council, the Lincoln City Parks & Recreation Board, the Friends of Lincoln City Parks and Recreation 501c3, many community donors, and the Design/Build team

led by LC Parks & Recreation, LC Public Works, K&E Excavating, DOWL, and Understory Landscape Architecture.

“Schooner Creek

Discovery Park is being built for our Lincoln City community and for all of our visitors. Community engagement was a vital part of the design process for this park, and we continue to work with the public by fundraising for the park,” Sprague said. “Our community is getting the park they’ve asked for, (and) we couldn’t be more thrilled to break ground.”

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

In anticipation of park construction, generous donors are already contributing to the new park, including:

• $1 million from State Bill 5202, thanks to Rep. Gomberg and Sen. Anderson;

• $750k grant funding from Oregon Parks and Rec Department;

• $485k donation from the William Byrd Upjohn estate;

• $100k grant from

The Schooner Creek Discovery Park will include the first inclusive and accessible playground in Lincoln City and along the Oregon coast. (Courtesy graphic)

Travel Oregon;

• Musical instruments donation from Christmas Cottage in Lincoln City;

• $25k grant from Ford Family Foundation;

• $15k grant from Lincoln County Community & Economic Development;

• $10k grant from Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund;

• and many other individual community donors.

“We have such solid

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support from our community, the Oregon Legislature, Oregon State Parks, Lincoln City City Council, and many others. Because of them, we are now building Phase 1 of the new park, which is our inclusive playground,” Sprague said. “We then look towards Phase 2 and 3 construction in 2025-26 when we can fully realize the opening of the entire new park.”

“I’m convinced the new community park in Lincoln City will become a staple of this community,” Gomberg said. “This is a visionary use of the space, and we’ll see the results for decades to come.”

For more information about Schooner Creek Discovery Park development, see https://www. lincolncity.org/departments/parks-recreation/ schooner-creek-discoverypark-development

the

“At first I thought he just hit the sandwich board and kept going,” said King, “but then that light pole fell down and I had that first moment of shock … and then I felt the whole building shake.” The broken street light, parts from the

Darius King was working at Pulling the Pros Sports Cards, a business located in a building next

Yaquina Bay Bridge. Officers on the scene observed multiple signs that the driver appeared to be impaired, according Newport Police Lt. Tyson Haynes. Field sobriety tests were conducted that showed impairment, and Johnson was arrested for DUII. He was later lodged in the Lincoln County Jail. There were no reported injuries, but the incident certainly generated a lot of attention, both from passing motorists and others who happened to be in the area at the time.

and glass from the store windows were strewn about the sidewalk.

A Newport police officer looks at the remains of a streetlamp that was struck by a northbound car before that vehicle ran into a building in Newport on Saturday. (Photo by Steve Card)

This

25 YEARS AGO (1999)

BONES ON BEACH NOT HUMAN, SAYS MEDICAL EXAMINER

Bones discovered on the beach in the Roads End area on Sunday, June 6, were not human, as they were originally thought to be.

According to the police report, the remains had been described as a fused, lower leg bone, possibly belonging to a child.

“They are not human bones,“ said Lt. Dennis Dotson of the Oregon State Police. “They turned out to be something like a bear. “

Dotson said Dr. Richard Beemer, the county medical examiner, spent Monday morning examining the bones and came to the conclusion they were not human.

YAQUINA BAY BREAKWATER DEDICATED

The new breakwater in Yaquina Bay was dedicated Wednesday during a celebration held by the Port of Newport and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The 180-foot-long aquamarine-painted structure is located on the north side of Yaquina Bay and is designed to protect fishing boats and docks in the bay.

Newport Mayor Mark Jones, speaking during the dedication ceremony, said, “The breakwater means a lot to us for the commercial fishermen and recreational fishermen. It was a long time coming.”

BEACHCOMBER PARADE IS SATURDAY AT NOON

The 1999 Waldport Beachcomber Days mark the 43rd

anniversary of the festival.

This year’s parade will be held Saturday at noon. The theme is “Beachcombers 99: A Gate to 2000.”

A BIG TIME AT THE CIRCUS

Barbara, an African elephant, entertained circus goers at the Culpepper & Meriwether Circus Friday, June 4, at the Taft High School grounds in Lincoln City.

Barbara helped put up the big top and provided rides for those brave enough to take them. The circus appearance was sponsored by Lincoln City Kiwanis.

50 YEARS AGO (1974)

HOTEL, HOMES FOUND ON COUNTY ROAD

County commissioners have received a report from County Surveyor John Hanna indicating that 19 residences, as well as the Adobe Motel, are located in the right-of-way for County Road 804 in the Yachats area.

Property owners are seeking to have the road vacated, while others in the area have objected to the vacation, saying that the right-of-way is used as a beach access.

POLICE

PROBE

WARD’S BURGLARY

Nearly $275 worth of items were taken from the Montgomery Ward store at 834 SE Lee St. in Newport June 7, police said.

Entry was made by force.

An eight-track stereo, speakers, watches, headphones, tapes, clocks, shock absorbers, and towels were taken.

MCCALL APPROVES BEAVER CREEK REMOVAL JOB

Gov. Tom McCall has recommended to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that a permit be granted to remove material from the mouth of Beaver Creek to allow flooded pasturelands to drain.

The governor’s action came Tuesday afternoon following a meeting with State Rep. Gordon Macpherson last Friday. However, the corps still has to complete an environmental evaluation of the project before the permit will be granted.

SERVICES HELD FOR 12-YEAR-OLD ACCIDENT VICTIM

Funeral services for 12-year-old Bobbie Ekblad, of Newport, were held June 8

Bobbie was killed June 5 when he fell from his bike under the rear wheels of a tanker truck at Highway 101 and Northeast Fourth Street.

Police said witnesses reported the northbound truck was turning right onto Fourth Street, with the signal going, and at a slow rate of speed when Bobbie, who was also northbound on Highway 101, tried to stop and slid under the rear wheels of the truck. He was dead on arrival at Pacific Communities Hospital,

The driver of the truck was not cited.

75 YEARS AGO (1949)

ELECTRIC CLOCK ERECTED AT MILLERS

An attractive electric clock with colored neon lights has been installed in front of Miller Bros. jewelry store on Main Street in Toledo.

The clock will remain lighted during the night so that it can be read from any point on the street.

PICK YOUR BOAT; PLACE YOUR BET

Get out your bettin’ money, there’s going to be a tugof-war between boats.

Seems there’s been some argument among local Coast Guardsmen about which is the most powerful, the station’s new 113-horsepower lifeboat, or the old

75-horsepower model.

Chief Boatswain F. E. Barnett, station commander, decided to settle it.

The contest will be run off, probably next week, in the bay off the Coast Guard dock. A line will be run between the two vessels from stern to stern, and at a signal, they’ll pull against each other.

RENEWED SERVICE BY PACIFIC COAST BELIEVED IN THE OFFING

Pacific Coast Line, which started direct bus service between Salem and Newport via Lincoln City in late May, then suspended operations in a few days, will probably resume schedules in the near future. At least that was the opinion expressed by a member of the public utilities commission office in Salem Wednesday. It was explained that John Ratzlaff, owner of the line, was forced to suspend his operation due to the inability to secure a second bus.

HOUSE-TO-HOUSE DELIVERY OF MILK TO BE SUSPENDED

Lakeview Dairy will discontinue home delivery of milk in north Lincoln County on June 15, according to Duane Church, owner and operator of the local dairy.

The dairy has given home delivery service for the past two years, but the service has definitely not been a paying proposition, according to Church.

One of the main reasons for discontinuing this home service is the poor condition of most of the roads in this area, particularly in winter, it was pointed out.

100 YEARS AGO (1924)

EFFORT BEING MADE TO BUILD HOSPITAL IN CITY OF TOLEDO

There has been considerable talk at Toledo and in Lincoln County on the hospital question. It is an evident fact to all who have thought about the matter that Toledo and Lincoln County need a hospital very badly. The county’s opening up, new people moving in, many concerns are now employing numbers of men, all of which points to the need of a local hospital.

In the past, the sick and injured people have been compelled to take a ride of some 60 miles before receiving hospital treatment, oftentimes to the great harm of the patient.

TURNER MAN WANTS FLAX INTRODUCED IN LINCOLN COUNTY

The flax industry is the coming industry of the state of Oregon, according to P. E. Thompson of Turner, Ore., who was a Toledo visitor Monday.

Mr. Thompson says that the farmers of his county have simply “gone nuts” over the proposition as they have in the past few years raised themselves out of financial ruts into a community of prosperity.

Mr. Thompson is very anxious that flax be given a tryout here as he says the climate is ideal.

JIMMY BOYD SKIPS OUT, ‘FRIENDS’ HOLD SACK

If cussing would do any good, the air in Toledo would have been blue for the past few days.

One Jimmy Boyd, proprietor of the Boyd’s Lunchroom, skipped town last week and left bills in the neighborhood of $1,500 owed to merchants, milkman and others.

“Jimmy” is a bad egg, and it is thought he headed south from Toledo in company with his wife.

He had plenty of money to pay his bills because he had been doing a good business, and it was found after he had left town that he hadn’t paid any bills for a considerable spell.

Local financial advisor publishes new book

Local financial advisor Julia Carlson, whose Financial Freedom column appears twice monthly in the Lincoln County Leader, has just published a new book, “Money Loves You: Transform Your Relationship With Money and Grow Your Wealth.”

An entrepreneur at heart, Carlson launched into the financial planning field at the age of 19 and started her own business at age 23. She has more than 27 years of experience helping families and business owners with their wealth management and financial planning needs. She is the founder of Newport-based Financial Freedom Wealth Management Group, LLC, which serves more than 1 600 families across the United States. She was also named by Barron’s this year as one of America’s top financial advisors.

When asked what prompted her to write a book, Carlson said, “For me, personal finance

is very personal. I have seen people get stuck on advice that’s too rigid, such as ‘This is the right way to do it, and if you do it any other way you’re wrong.’ I set out to approach personal finance from a perspective of love and grace to empower the reader, so they can determine what’s the right decision for them after they’ve educated themselves and understand their money story.

“We all have a relationship with money,” she added. “I wanted to activate people to think about that relationship in a new way, to give money another chance. ‘Money Loves You’ is about challenging conventional wisdom and bringing a fresh approach to finances.”

Carlson said that working in a rural community, “many of my clients are hardworking, blue-collar Americans and small business owners such as fishermen, mill workers, loggers, plumbers, homebuilders and other trade workers. I’m serving people who are really good at what they do, but often they have had little education around money.” She has helped people from all different backgrounds in the common pursuit of wanting to build a solid financial future.

Carlson said a key principle of her book is to give people hope “that someone is willing to come alongside them, even though they don’t have millions of dollars, and help them figure

out the questions they are facing in their finances.”

These are questions such as: How much money do I need for retirement? How do I set up a retirement plan for my business? How do I pay myself first? And how do I help my employees save for retirement? “So it’s that willingness to meet them where they’re at and help them create a tailored strategy that’s right for them,” she said. Carlson said her book is written to meet readers wherever they are and whatever their level of financial literacy, with strategies that are universal and available to everyone. “I’ve been using the strategies shared in the book since I first started out, and it’s working for me still as

a successful entrepreneur. Also, it is love-based. If you’ve made money mistakes — and who hasn’t at one time or another — there’s no judgment. It’s about how you can pick up the pieces and move forward.”

Carlson also points out that people don’t need to be financially independent to have financial freedom. “Financial freedom can happen in an instant. It’s yours the moment you decide to create a plan and take inspired action toward your financial goals and aspirations.” More information about Carlson, her book and her approach to financial freedom can be found online at juliamcarlson.com and financialfreedomwmg.com

Supporting rescue efforts Wound care nurse at SNLH is DAISY Award recipient

During a recent ceremony at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City, the 2024 DAISY Award recipient, Amanda Carpenter, RN, was recognized for her patient advocacy and evidence-based quality care she gives her wound care patients.

Carpenter said afterward that when she saw her husband and a family friend walk into the hospital doors near the award ceremony, her first thought was that they were heading to the emergency room. Her second thought was, “I think I’m getting the DAISY Award!”

The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a nationwide recognition established to “honor the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day wherever they practice, in whatever role they serve and throughout their careers, from student through a lifetime of achievement.”

Carpenter joined Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in August 2018 as a registered nurse in the medical-surgical inpatient unit. Four years later, she transferred to the wound care clinic, where she has continued to shine. In fact, she was named the hospital’s Employee of the Month in March for working tirelessly on a complex patient case.

Carpenter was nominated for the DAISY Award by her manager, Norma Bono, who wrote, “Our patients respect her and appreciate her professional, kind and thoughtful actions. She assures and informs our patients of what is next to expect with their care, often checking their appointments to coordinate care. She goes above and beyond to help not only our patients, but the staff here at the clinic. She is rational and knowledgeable, and always quick to respond. Her actions are highly trusted and greatly valued in the department.”

Bono told of the care Carpenter provided to one of her wound patients.

“She was able to secure an ICU room in the hospital so the patient could be comfortably weighed and cared for in a hospital bed instead of a chair. She spent countless hours on the phone numerous times with various people on multiple days to get a hospital bed delivered to the patient’s house, monitored the labs for pre-albumin to ensure nutritional value was optimal for

healing, and helped get supplements paid for by the insurance company.

“Amanda spent numerous hours finding a rehabilitation facility that could meet the patient’s needs for optimal healing and corresponded with the facility’s care team to secure a bed. After the patient was there, Amanda continued advocating for the patient’s care, going to the extent of calling insurance to get his treatment authorized and to get him a particular mattress for his bed and then into a care facility when he was having nutrition issues,” Bono wrote.

“Amanda goes above and beyond for her patients to ensure they receive evidencebased quality care,” Bono wrote.

As a DAISY Award winner, Carpenter received a DAISY pin, award certificate and a hand-carved stone sculpture titled “A Healer’s Touch.” Along with the public recognition, DAISY award winners receive financial discounts for nursing certification training, reduced tuition for continued education, conference scholarship opportunities and are eligible for the national DAISY Award.

To learn more, visit daisyfoundation.org.

To nominate a Samaritan nurse, go to samhealth.org/DAISY.

Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital’s DAISY Award recipient Amanda Carpenter, RN (center), is pictured with manager Norma Bono and Samaritan Health Services CEO/ President Doug Boysen.

“Money Love You,” by Julia Carlson, points out that people don’t need to be financially independent to have financial freedom.

(Courtesy photo)

Local financial advisor Julia Carlson just published a new book, “Money Loves You: Transform Your Relationship With Money and Grow Your Wealth.” She is pictured during a recent book-signing event.

(Photo by Sharon Biddinger)

COAST LIFE

This Saturday, June 15, the new outdoor spaces of the Lincoln City Cultural Plaza will be filled with food, music, information and family activities at the second annual Juneteenth Celebration. This year’s event, presented by Lincoln City Parks & Recreation in partnership with local nonprofits, will begin at 11 a.m. at the plaza, located at 540 NE Highway 101. Parking and admission will be free, as will the barbecue picnic lunch, while supplies last.

The theme “Amplify Black Voices,” and the keynote address will be given by Zachary Stocks, executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, at 11:45 a.m. Also providing history and context to this national and state holiday will be Roderick Fields, a substance abuse counselor based in Yuba City, California. These guest speakers will

JEREMY C. RUARK L incoln County Leader

The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation (MLCF) and Explore Lincoln City (ELC) are partnering with Lincoln City’s popular Finders Keepers program, adding a philanthropic twist to support coastal nonprofits and celebrate the legacy of the foundation’s namesake, Marie Lamfrom.

In honor of what would have been Lamfrom’s 128th birthday, MLCF is partnering with the Finders Keepers program

to drop an additional 128 handcrafted glass floats, each uniquely marked and assigned to an Oregon coast nonprofit. When a float is found, a donation will be made to the assigned organization. These special floats were to be distributed by the Finders Keepers “Float Fairies” during the first two weeks of June.

The 128 glass floats are in addition to the 3 000-plus glass treasures that are hidden along Lincoln City’s seven miles of

Art students and their families, along with any other interested community members, are invited to help create a new mural for the Siletz Public Library in the children’s library.

“In the Valley of the Siletz River” will be a mosaic and sculptural ceramic panel

Writing can be a lonely exercise, yet one of the best parts of being a writer is heading out into your community and connecting with other writers. How do you introduce yourself? How do you talk about your work? Join Kate Ristau, the executive director of Willamette Writers, at the Newport Public Library this Saturday, June 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. to talk about finding your place in a community of writers.

showing the river valley with blue heron, river otter, elk, chinook salmon, osprey, rainbow trout, and

The Seal Rock Garden Club is happy to announce the return of its annual Plant Sale, Flower Show and Garden Art this Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the clubhouse, located at 10377 NW Rand St. in Seal Rock. There will be a plethora of ornamental plants suited to the coastal conditions, all grown by club members. The plant sale also honors long-time club member, mentor and educator Betty Bahn, who shared

People attending are also invited to participate in an open mic session.

Ristau will explore how you can find the community that’s right for you, introduce yourself and your work.

In this interactive workshop, the group will explore the writing world, talk about Willamette Writers programs, then dive into introducing you. Bring your notebook, pen, and a fellow writer. The program is free and

open to the public.

During the open mic, each participating writer will have five minutes to read a work of their choice. Authors will sign up for a slot before the meeting begins.

In addition to being the executive director of Willamette Writers, Ristau is an author and folklorist. She is the author of three middle grade series,

Jimi Hardin and Hip Deep will perform this Saturday during the Juneteenth Celebration at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, 540 NE Highway 101. (Courtesy photo)

Volunteers are wanted to help create “In the Valley of the Siletz River,” a mosaic and sculptural ceramic panel that will be installed in the Siletz Public Library. (Courtesy image)

The Seal Rock Garden Club’s annual Plant Sale, Flower Show and Garden Art is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, June 15, at 10377 NW Rand St. in Seal Rock. (Courtesy photo)

Kate Ristau, the executive director of Willamette Writers, will be at the Newport Public Library this

(Courtesy photo)

A total of 128 handcrafted glass floats, commemorating the life of Marie Lamfrom, are being hidden along Lincoln City’s beaches this month. (Courtesy photo)

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Newport gallery spotlights pair of artists in show

Artists Lila Passarelli and Kevlar

Sant are being featured through June 21 in a spotlight show at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery, located at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport.

Passarelli’s seascapes and animal paintings will be featured in the exhibit. She has been an active member of YAA for more than 45 years and first studied with professional artists Bill Runyan and Harry Niemela. Despite being in her 90s, Passarelli will be in the gallery most days during her show. She lives full time in South Beach. Her commissioned pet portraits have covered dogs to donkeys.

Sant found his expression in designing

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“Clockbreakers,”

“Mythwakers,” and “Wylde Wings,” and the young adult series, “Shadow Girl.” You can read her essays in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is also the producer of the Nebula Awards, the chair of the Tigard

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share the dais with state Rep. David Gomberg and Lincoln City Mayor Susan Wahlke. Providing the soundtrack for Lincoln City’s Juneteenth party will be Jimi Hardin and Hip Deep, featuring Rebecca Westby. Hardin, the drummer and band leader, will be playing songs from the Motown and Stax songbooks along with five musicians (guitar, bass, keyboard and two vocalists). They’re planning two sets on the east side of the cultural center in the Kiwanis

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sandy beach every year. When someone finds a float, it’s theirs to keep.

SPECIAL LABEL

Each of the 128 hidden floats are labeled as a “Marie Lamfrom Specialty Float,” along with information about how the finder can authenticate its discovery, thereby prompting a donation from MLCF to the participating nonprofit.

feathered earrings after years of tying flies for fishermen, including himself. The result is often vibrant, playful and almost weightless. For those who want to show off their attraction to fly fishing, he also has earrings on barbless hooks.

The Yaquina Art Association Gallery

Hours is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. For more information, call 541-265-5133

Interested in becoming a member of the Yaquina Art Association or taking one of the free classes? Visit the gallery in Nye Beach to learn more, and find them online at www.yaquinaart.org and on Facebook and Instagram.

Public Library Board of Directors, and the vice-president of the Oregon Poetry Association. Meet her online at Kateristau.com, or at a Willamette Writers event near you. This program is co-hosted by the Newport Public Library.

To become a member of a chapter and the parent organization, join Willamette Writers at their website, willamettewriters.org.

Outdoor Art Classroom.

The free barbecue lunch will be catered by Phill’s Smoke/N/Grill and Pat-E-Mac’s, locallybased Black owned businesses. Food will be served by volunteers from the Lincoln City Rotary Club, while supplies last. The event will also feature:

• The opening of a new exhibit on the life of Letitia Carson, a 19th century farmer and homesteader in the Willamette Valley, one of the first Black women to settle in Oregon. These informational panels, curated by Oregon Black Pioneers, will be on display in the cultural center hallway

through July 15;

• Children’s art kits, assembled by the volunteers of the Lincoln City Cultural Center, that celebrate the legacy and accomplishments of Louis Southworth, a Black pioneer on the Alsea River, near Waldport;

• Children’s books on Black history and culture, provided by the Driftwood Public Library;

• A table of local history and resources, presented by event partner the North Lincoln County Historical Museum;

• A prize table and children’s games, sponsored by the Lincoln City Parks & Recreation Department and Explore Lincoln City.

Free Food Hero Recipe Taste at Newport 60+ Activity Center

The Newport 60 + Activity Center invites people to attend a free Food Hero Recipe Taste event on Tuesday, June 18 , from 11 : 30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is offered by OSU Extension SNAP-Ed Lincoln County. Pick up tips and

tricks for healthy eating during this demonstration and tasting event. Coconut Chicken Salad is on the menu for this month. Attendees will receive a taste of the recipe, a paper copy of the recipe to take home, and additional recipes to try at home.

For questions about the event, call SNAP-Ed at 541 - 574 - 6534 , ext. 57423

There is no charge to attend this event, and participants of all ages are invited to attend. The 60 + Activity Center is located at 20 SE Second St., Newport.

Learn about Oregon Black pioneers

View the Future is proud to present an educational talk by Zachary Stocks, executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, at 2 p.m. this Sunday, June 16, at the Yachats Commons, 441 Highway 101 N. Admission is a suggested donation of $5

This event will explore the legacy of Black pioneers in an engaging journey through Oregon’s rich historical landscape.

Stocks brings a wealth of expertise, boasting a distinguished career as a public historian, museum professional, and former

seasonal National Park Service ranger. He is known for his dedication to historical preservation and education. As a testament to his commitment, Stocks has previously interned at institutions such as Colonial Williamsburg, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of William & Mary, complemented by a certificate in public history from the National Institute for

Barbecue and car show

Oceanview Senior Living, located at 525 NE 71st St. in Newport, is celebrating Father’s Day this Friday, June 14, with a barbecue and car show.

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her knowledge and plant offerings for more than 20 years.

People can also enjoy a complimentary flower show of arrangements with locally grown flowers and foliage, which are

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other characters.

Hundreds of ceramic elements have been created over months of prep work to assemble the work of art. The design is by staff artist Lizzy Hilton, with the Oregon Coast Children’s Theatre

The first 10 floats found will prompt donations between $5 000 and $10,000 for their designated nonprofit, with subsequent finds generating smaller donations to the participating nonprofits, ultimately totaling $128 000 in grants, according to the partnership organizers. All participating nonprofits will be awarded funding, even if floats are not found by July 31

“My grandmother adored the Oregon coast — especially beachcombing and looking for treasures like agates and glass fishing floats — so we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate her legacy than by supporting

the coastal communities she loved so dearly,” MLCF co-founder and Marie Lamfrom’s granddaughter Sally Bany said. “She also loved art, so the tie-in with Lincoln City’s glass artists makes this an especially appealing initiative to commemorate our annual birthday celebration.”

Talented artisans at two Lincoln City glass studios — Lincoln City Glass Center and Alder House — created the special glass floats.

“This is the first time we’ve collaborated with an organization to integrate a major fundraising

American History and Democracy, as well as a master’s degree in museology from the University of Washington. Currently residing in Astoria, Stocks continues to be a leading figure in the preservation of African American history. View the Future is a locally based, nonprofit organization that has been responsible for stewarding and conserving lands for scenic views, wildlife habitat, environmental health, cultural preservation and recreation in the Yachats area. Learn more at viewthefuture.org

at Oceanview

Lunch will be from noon to 1 p.m., followed by the car show featuring the Bay City Cruisers Car Club. To RSVP, call 541-574-0550

works of art themselves. And there will be a raffle featuring a variety of items.

Cash, checks, credit and debit cards are accepted.

Parking is available along the front and side driveways. Entry will be through the front of the clubhouse, so people can

and Center for the Arts.

The workdays will be Fridays and Saturdays — June 21 and 22 and June 28 and 29 — in the library’s community room. Sessions will go from noon to 3:30 p.m. each day. The library is located at 255 S Gaither St. in Siletz.

enjoy the flower show, garden art and raffle. The Seal Rock Garden Club was established in 1948 and is a 501(c) (4) nonprofit. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to local community organizations. For more information about the club, go to www.sealrockgardenclub.com

Volunteers should allow for at least 30 minutes, and no experience is required — staff will train volunteers. Besides the art for the library, the cultural charity will also be doing restoration work in Lincoln County this summer on several works of public art. Interested volunteers should call Lawrence Adrian, artistic director, at 503-801-0603 for more information.

component, raising crucial funds for nonprofits serving our region,” Explore Lincoln City Director Kim Cooper Findling said.

“Finders Keepers is one of our most popular programs among visitors and locals, and we’re excited to add a special drop of 128 extra floats to benefit our coastal nonprofits while celebrating the arrival of summer on the Oregon coast.”

BACKGROUND

Sally Bany’s grandmother, Marie Lamfrom, served as a nurse in World War I, escaped Nazi Germany with her family to live in Portland, and quickly became a champion for young people, especially the Girl Scouts, and served as a troop leader at Shriners Hospital for Children. MLCF was granted additional funds after the passing of Marie’s daughter and Sally’s mother, Columbia

Sportswear Chairman Gert Boyle, in 2019

The foundation continues to support nonprofit organizations focusing on education and mentorship, arts and creativity and health and wellness, with the majority of funds benefiting programs based in Oregon and Washington. The Marie Lamfrom birthday celebration occurs annually between the spring and fall, with the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Board of Trustees directing the celebration’s annual focus. Prior celebrations have supported women in STEM, health care workers, summer youth programs, and nonprofit employees. More details about the coastal nonprofits that have been selected as beneficiaries for this year’s birthday celebration can be found at www.marielamfrom. org/birthday.

This historic photo shows Marie Lamfrom enjoying one of her favorite pastimes — walking on the beach in Lincoln City. (Courtesy photo)

Kevlar Sant

Lila Passarelli

Newport Surfrider Auction ends

Bidding is still open for Newport Surfrider’s fundraising auction. Support Newport Surfrider’s beach protection efforts by participating in this online auction featuring surf gear, whale

Saturday

watching, steelhead fishing and more. There are items by local artists Leighton Blackwell, Ben Soeby, Jeremy Burke and many more. The items are available for viewing at newport.

surfrider.org (click on the auction tab). Bidding ends at 3 p.m. this Saturday, June 15, at the Otter Rock and Roll kids surf event. All proceeds will go to support the local chapter.

Summer reading program kicks off in Newport

The Newport Public Library has announced that it once again will be offering a summer reading program for all ages.

Children and adults are invited to stop by the library to register and receive all of the information (and goodies) needed to participate in the program.

Stop in Tuesdays through Saturdays to sign up, and get ready to reach your reading goals.

Whether you listen to stories on a device, read picture books aloud to your

kids, read graphic novels or peruse cookbooks, the library has a summer reading program for you. There are incentive prizes at time of signup for ages 0-18. Adult participants receive raffle tickets for each book they read or listen to — there is something for everyone.

Summer Reading 2024 will also bring nine programs for children and families live at Literacy Park behind the library, followed by crafts in the library’s McEntee Meeting

Room. Look for performances by some favorite performers. Alex Zerbe, “The Zaniac,” will open the season on Wednesday, June 26, at 1 p.m. For more information about performances or summer reading programs, contact the library by email at Reference@ newportlibrary.org or call 541-265-2153. People can also check out the website at www.newportlibrary. org The library is located at 35 NW Nye St. in Newport.

Fundamentals of the Unity movement is topic

The five fundamentals of the Unity movement will be explored at Ocean Unity in Waldport this Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with lunch provided.

The speaker will be Rev. Ruth Miller, an experienced teacher and practitioner in the practical spiritual components that have enriched the lives of millions around the world.

of talk

Spiritual seekers of all faiths and backgrounds are welcome. The event will be held at 385 Alsea Highway, suite 3, across from Ray’s Market in Waldport.

County teens invited to join Amplifying Voices art project

All Lincoln County teens, ages 13-19, are invited to unleash their creativity and make their mark in their community at a week-long Amplifying Voices teen art program. Samaritan Health Services ArtsCare Program and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology are teaming up to offer this unique and intensive art project guided by local professional artists.

The result will be two art installations — one at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City and another one at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in

Newport.

Participants who attend the entire week will earn a stipend. Free transportation, translation services, lunch and snacks will be provided. Teens can choose a single session or register to attend both.

The Newport project will involve designing a unified large-scale art piece comprised of individual pieces of art. It will take place at the Center for Health Education, directly west of the hospital, from Monday, June 17, through Friday, June 21 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, with an additional date to unveil and celebrate the artwork on Friday, July 12

The Lincoln City project will involve collaborating with peers to design and paint a mural on the hospital campus. It will take place from Monday, June 24, through Friday, June 28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, with an additional date to unveil and celebrate the artwork on Friday, July 19 Registration is required, and space is limited. Sign up at forms. office.com/r/BSjNvBih2s or contact ArtsCare Program Manager Erin Gudge at ArtsCare@samhealth.org or by text to 541-231-6947

TLC gifts $10,000 grant to SMART Reading Program THIS THING CALLED LIFE

TLC, a division of Fibre Federal Credit Union, gave a $10 000 grant to help provide shared reading support and new books for 284 students participating in SMART Reading at five Oregon Coast Title 1 schools. One of those schools is Oceanlake Elementary in Lincoln City, which serves 75 students in the reading program.

The schools recognized TLC as a book giveaway sponsor for the month of May, during which students collectively added 568 new books to their personal libraries. Each student received a branded bookmark commemorating the partnership between TLC and SMART Reading, and encouraging children and parents to be active, engaged readers. Also included in the sponsorship is reading support

TLC, a division of Fibre Federal Credit Union, awarded a $10,000 grant to purchase books for students participating in SMART Reading at five Oregon Coast Title 1 schools. One of those schools is Oceanlake Elementary in Lincoln City. (Courtesy photo)

provided by reading volunteers and program coordination by SMART staff.

“We support youth literacy programs like SMART because they help set up children for successful futures in school and in adulthood,” said

Crystal Garrison, TLC marketing and community development manager.

“Gifting a child a new book may appear a small gesture, but we believe this gift could instill a lifelong love of reading and learning.”

Art classes, Creative Arts Camp at VAC

Oregon Coast Council for the Arts has announced four art classes and a new Creative Arts Camp for youth coming to the Newport Visual Arts Center this summer. Registration is now open.

On June 24, from 6 to 8 p.m., artist Khara Ledonne will lead “Playing with Gold,” an introduction to gilding for adults and youth ages 6 and above (with an accompanying adult). Students can enjoy a playful introduction to the traditional art of gilding and learn techniques to apply gold to objects using gold foil, gold transfer foil paper, and multi-colored metal leaf. At the end of class, students will have their own gold-foiled card and a gilded wooden ornament to take home.

Jill Marks will lead a class in the Japanese art of Gyotaku (fish printing) for adults and youth ages 12 and above. In “Get to Kraken,” Marks, who studied the art form under the late Heather Fortner, will guide students step-by-step on making prints using an

octopus specimen. Those interested will have two class dates to choose from — June 24 or June 27 from 1 to 4 p.m.. The class is suitable for beginners and experienced students alike.

From 1 to 4 p.m. on June 26, NBC “Making It” alum Gary Herd will guide adults and youth (ages 12 and above) in making their own Valhalla Ladder, sometimes called a wind sculpture or driftwood garland. Attendees will begin with a stroll along the beach (weather permitting) to collect materials, then return to the workroom to work on their creations.

On June 28, adults and youth ages 10 and over can learn beginning Gelli Printing with Jill Marks. Students will make unique prints using a gel plate, acrylic paint, natural botanicals, and manmade objects. No need for prior art experience in this fun and approachable technique.

And coming in July, kindergarten through fourth-grade students

can participate in a new “Creative Arts Camp,” led by Crystal Meneses, July 15-19. In this week-long, half-day camp, students will experiment, explore, imagine, and create in a variety of mediums and art forms, including movement, music, and visual arts. Youth in kindergarten through second grade can attend in the morning (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.), and those in third and fourth grades in the afternoon (2 to 5 p.m.). Campers will paint, draw, sculpt, write, discover instruments, sing, dance, and more in this fun creative arts experience.

Tuition for these learning opportunities ranges in price from $65-$175, and those interested are encouraged to register early, as class sizes are limited. To learn more, visit www. coastarts.org/education Scholarships may be available through Oregon Coast Council for the Arts. If funds are a barrier to learning, students may apply for scholarships using links provided in each class listing.

A Personal Reset

MICHELLE

YOUNG Guest Column

My husband and I took three weeks and spoiled ourselves with a trip to France. We took our pleasures sleeping in, touring about, and learning about the culture.

One thing I learned is that breakfast is a difficult meal to get in southern France. Turns out restaurants aren’t about early morning meals there. We spent the last week in Paris where all things/ meals are possible. By the time we returned home, we were ecstatic to sleep in our own beds and, as you’d expect, we were tired.

We go on vacations for a fresh perspective, for rest and reset, but the truth is, we often come back and, say it with me now, “need a vacation from my vacation.”

What does one do when life calls and our energy wanes? It’s an age-old question woven through literature and tradition. We’re humans, we got stuff to do, and we have a certain amount of energy, bandwidth, capacity, whatever … allotted us, and sometimes we need more. The following are some of my tricks and tips on finding energy where you didn’t know there was any.

Biology trumps

psychology, so if you’re finding yourself low on energy and it’s not the obvious culprits (read: I’m tired because I go to bed very late and I’ve been drinking more than usual), we may want to get to the doctor to make sure our living equipment is in good working order. Look, one life, one body, no exceptions, so get the one you have in the best condition you can.

Now we’ve addressed the obvious, and physical issues aren’t the reason for your ennui, let’s talk about a vacation in a bottle. Our world consists almost exclusively in what we’re thinking about it. In other words, if we want a vacation, it’s very much a matter of what we’re thinking.

One of my clients, a very young woman, recently confided in me that she and her friends’ main pastime is complaining. What a rich field of study! Once I explained we get a very specific kind of energy from complaining, and it’s not the kind of energy that feels

good, she was interested in the alternatives. What would you be thinking if you weren’t thinking about things that make you unhappy? If you weren’t scared about money, what trips would you plan? What hobbies would you create? What meals might you make? Our brains are funny things. They think. That’s what they do, but we choose what they think. Depending on the topic we choose, our brains then send out all sorts of signals and chemicals in response to those thoughts. How cool is that?

Asking the question of life — “How does it get any better than this?” — puts that fun brain of yours on the path to finding for yourself how life gets better. Tell your brain the destination (dissatisfaction and hopelessness or pleasure and happiness) and your brain makes a path to that thing.

A mental reset can be as simple as allowing ourselves the pleasure of a good daydream. Add some fuel on that fire by having a conversation with others about pleasure, hope and happiness and watch hope spread like wildfire. What a world it would be if we all took the time for a personal reset. I think I’ll take one now.

Michelle Pierson Young is a Lincoln City life coach. She may be reached at Michelleatplay.com.

Transforming retired fishing material into art

A new exhibit has opened at the Fiber Art Studio/Gallery inside the Lincoln City Cultural Center, located at 540 NE Highway 101

“Weaving Maritime Ropes: Transforming Retired Fishing Material into Art,” presented by artist Rebecca Hooper, is on display through Aug. 3 Hooper practices the art of weaving retired fishing ropes and nets in her Gypsea Weaver Studio, nestled in

Newport.

Sourcing materials directly from commercial fishing vessels working out of the Port of Newport, Hooper said she weaves life into discarded gear, providing an eco-friendly alternative to the landfill. With each creation, Hooper said she celebrates Newport’s maritime heritage while advocating for sustainability.

Hooper makes doormats, baskets, hanging jelly fish and woven

tapestry art with the reclaimed line, and with a background in weaving cotton and wool, she has been experimenting and pushing this new material to see what it can do. Supporters said Hooper’s body of work demonstrates innovation and creativity at it’s finest. Hooper may be reached at rebecca@gypseaweaver.com. For more information, call 541-9949994, or visit lincolncityculturalcenter.org.

Michelle Young

The Kitchen Wild

Shellfish Closures/Dungeness Crab Fettuccine Alfredo

By KATIE WILEY

With the sport harvest of razor clams, bay clams, and mussels closed along the entire Oregon coast from the Washington border to the California border for high levels of the marine biotoxins paralytic shellfish poison and domoic acid, our options for harvesting fresh local shellfish has just been drastically reduced, but thankfully sport crab harvesting remains open.

However, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife advises to “always gut the crab and throw away the “butter” (guts) prior to cooking. When whole crab is cooked in liquid, domoic acid may seep into the cooking liquid and then into the meat. Throw away the cooking liquid, and do not use it in other dishes, such as sauces, broths, soups, stews, stocks, roux, dressings, etc. Do not eat the butter (guts) of the crab.

so his wife would still feel safe eating it.

Shortly thereafter, on one of their many fishing and crabbing trips, Eugene — who is a graduate from OIT, design engineer, and an inventor by nature — surprised Tony with the very first prototype of the Crack’n Crab Cleaner. That first crab cleaner was made from a piece of aluminum mounted on top of a 2 by 6-inch board. It was big, clunky and not easy to store or clean, but it worked! Over the next six weeks, Eugene and Tony played around with the design, materials, and portability and came up with what we now know and love today as the Crack’n Crab Cleaner.

Thankfully we have a tool made right here in Oregon for fishermen, by fishermen, that was designed specifically for eliminating the risk of domoic acid exposure. It’s called the Crack’n Crab Cleaner.

The Crack’n Crab Cleaner was developed by Eugene Calkins and Tony Thiessen, two avid sportsmen who have always felt the most at home out on the water fishing and crabbing. However, in 2017, Eugene’s wife read an article about domoic acid found in Dungeness crab, causing her to be weary of eating the crab Eugene was bringing home. So it was imperative that Eugene figure out a safe and easy way to clean the crab prior to cooking

Not only does cleaning your crab with the Crack’n Crab Cleaner prior to cooking remove all of the harmful domoic acid, but because the meat has been separated from the guts, you can now keep the crab on ice and cook it up to 24 hours later.

With all of these current closures due to marine biotoxins, consuming shellfish could feel a bit worrisome, but thanks to the Crack’n Crab Cleaner and having the ability to quickly and easily clean crab before cooking, we can still safely enjoy the sweet flavor of Dungeness crab at this time. The Crack’n Crab Cleaner can be purchased at Englund Marine in Newport or online at www.tealcrab.com

Always be sure check the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for season opening and closing dates, rules and licenses for sport harvest of crab. Call the ODFW Newport Office at 541-867-4741

DUNGENESS CRAB FETTUCCINE ALFREDO

Ingredients:

• 2-3 whole Dungeness crab, cooked (picked crab meat would be even better but I needed a quick dinner and whole crab was faster and easier)

• 1 lb. fettuccine

• 1 stick butter

• 2-3 garlic cloves, minced

• 1 5 cups heavy cream

• 1 5 cups whole milk

• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for topping fettuccine

• 4 Tbs. flour

• 1 tsp. Salt

• Fresh cracked black pepper to taste

• Garnish with fresh parsley and J.O. Crab Seasoning No.2 or Old Bay

Directions:

1) In a saucepan over medium heat, add butter and let it melt. Add minced garlic and whisk together to combine.

2) Sprinkle the flour over the butter and garlic mixture. Whisk together and then slowly add the heavy cream and milk while whisking. Let sauce begin to boil and then reduce heat to low and allow it to simmer for 2-3 minutes.

3) Add Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper and whisk together.

4) Cook fettuccine per package directions.

5) Toss pasta in alfredo sauce and top with fresh Dungeness crab.

6) Garnish with fresh parsley and J.O. Crab Seasoning No. 2, or Old Bay and enjoy!

Calendar of EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

Waldport Wednesday Market

The Waldport Wednesday Market features vendors selling crafts, produce and more from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 265 NW Alsea Highway (Highway 34 ), Waldport.

Rock Painting Party

The Gleneden Beach Community Club at 110 Azalea St. is sponsoring a rock painting party from 2 to 4 p.m. All supplies will be provided (bring your own rocks, if you prefer). The cost is $ 5 per person.

Trivia Night

Enjoy Trivia Night from 6 to 7 : 30 p.m. at Beachcrest Brewing, located in suite E 5 at the Salishan Marketplace, 7755 Highway 101 Gleneden Beach. Free. Show off your knowledge for the chance to win prizes. Teams of up to six allowed.

‘Motive and the Cue’ on screen in HD National Theatre Live’s production of Jack Thorne’s play, “The Motive and the Cue,” will be shown in HD at 7 p.m. at the Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St. Info: www.coastarts.org/ events

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

Toledo Waterfront Market

Find craft vendors, fresh produce and a food court at the weekly Toledo Waterfront Market. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 311 NE First St.

‘Bakersfield Mist’ at Theatre West Theatre West, 3536 SE Highway 101 , Lincoln City, presents “Bakersfield Mist.” 7 : 30 p.m. Tickets are $ 15 for adults, and $ 13 for seniors ( 60 and over) and students. For reservations, call 541 - 9945663 . Info: theatrewest.com

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

Artisan Faire at Salishan

The Artisan Faire at Salishan, 7755 Highway 101 in Gleneden Beach, features a large assortment of vendors offering fresh produce, self-care products, and quality handmade crafts including housewares, decor, and jewelry. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: www. artisanfaireatsalishan.com

‘Bakersfield Mist’ at Theatre West Theatre West, 3536 SE Highway 101 , Lincoln City, presents “Bakersfield Mist.” 7 : 30 p.m. Tickets are $ 15 for adults, and $ 13 for seniors ( 60 and over) and students. For reservations, call 541 - 9945663 . Info: theatrewest.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

Newport Farmers Market

The Newport Farmers Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. across from Newport City Hall, on the corner of Highway 101 and Angle Street. Learn more at www.newportfarmersmarket.org or find them on Facebook.

Plant sale, flower show in Seal Rock

The annual Seal Rock Garden Club Plant Sale, Flower Show and Garden Art takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the clubhouse, located at 10377 NW Rand St. in Seal Rock.

Artisan Faire at Salishan

The Artisan Faire at Salishan, 7755 Highway 101 in Gleneden Beach, features a large assortment of vendors offering fresh produce, self-care products, and quality handmade crafts including housewares, decor, and jewelry. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: www. artisanfaireatsalishan.com

Juneteenth Celebration

The Lincoln City Cultural Center, 540 NE Highway 101 , is hosting “Juneteenth Celebration: Amplify Black Voices,” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Food, live music speakers, children’s activities and more. Info: www.lincolncity-culturalcenter.org

Music at the Library

The Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye St., kicks off its free summer music series from noon to 1 : 30 p.m. with a performance by Chayag en Familia, or Chayag Family, in Literacy Park behind the library. Find your place in a writing community Kate Ristau, executive director of Willamette Writers, will give a free talk at the Newport Public Library from 2 to 4 p.m. about

your place in a community of writers.

Live Music at Beachcrest Sonny Hess and Ellen White perform from 5 : 30 to

Beachcrest Brewing, located at the Salishan Marketplace, 7755 N Highway 101 , Gleneden Beach.

‘Bakersfield Mist’ at Theatre West Theatre West, 3536 SE Highway 101 , Lincoln City, presents “Bakersfield Mist.” 7 : 30 p.m. Tickets are $ 15 for adults, and $ 13 for seniors ( 60 and over) and students. For reservations, call 541 - 9945663 . Info: theatrewest.com

SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Yachats Farmers Market

MONDAY, JUNE 17

TUESDAY, JUNE 18

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Newport Cub selected to represent at United World Games basketball

By CHELSEA YARNELL For The Leader Guest Contributor

Playing basketball is not new to Newport’s Sahaylee Mason. But, playing basketball in another country will be.

Sahaylee was selected to play for Team USA u19 West Women’s Basketball Team at the United World Games hosted in Klagenfurt, Austria June 20-23

“I’m kind of nervous and really excited,” Sahaylee said. “I’m excited to hear about how they play as a team.”

Sahaylee, who recently wrapped up her sophomore year at Newport High School, played guard for the Cubs varsity basketball team this past season.

“Sometimes I would get to start and made the most out of my minutes,” she said. She estimates that during her 9-10 minutes of playing time per game, she’d average 10 points. Her accurate shooting and lefthandedness earned her a family nickname of “Logo Lefty.”

Sahaylee maintains a recruiting profile on YouTube that was discovered by Coach Lorie

cultures,” Sahaylee said.

Sahaylee was selected out of 59 student athletes for the team. She joins a roster of 10 with girls from Arizona, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Montana, Colorado, and California. The team will be coached by Russell Sage College Head Women’s Basketball Coach Allison Coleman.

Mason will travel, along with her father Justin Mason, to Europe for a 10-day tour.

“They’ll spend a day in Germany to play an exhibition team and then drive to Salzburg for another exhibition game,” Justin said.

Once at the United World Games, the West Women’s Basketball Team will play five games against teams from other countries.

“[It] will be very similar to the Olympics, minus the torch,” Justin said. “She will walk with 8 000 fellow student athletes behind their respective country’s flag in front of 15 000 people at the opening ceremonies.”

The community contributed financially towards Sahaylee’s trip through several

fundraisers.

“We’re just so grateful for all the support,” Justin said. “The entire Lincoln County community has rallied behind her and without all of you none of this would be possible.”

Outside of basketball, Sahaylee is an enrolled tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. She represented her tribe as a flag bearer at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials in Eugene in 2021. In her spare time, she enjoys going to pow-wows, beading, and hanging out with friends and family.

“She’s such a good kid,” Justin said. “The [United Word Games team] process isn’t just based on your skill, but also community involvement and grades.”

As for Sahaylee, her basketball dreams don’t stop with the trip.

“My dream is to play basketball at Oregon State,” Sahaylee said. “I have wanted to go there forever. It’s a nice campus and close to home. I also want to be an orthodontist.”

For schedules and results of the United World Games, visit unitedworldgames.com/en/.

Passing the Peace Torch in States Across the US

Students, Olympians, Mayors and More to Participate

The Sri Chinmoy OnenessHome Peace Run, an international torch relay, will be coming to your area soon. An estimated 50 000 children in over 1 , 000 cities and towns along the route are expected to participate when the Peace Run (peacerun.org ) visits

schools, youth organizations and local events. Runners will offer educational presentations that promote self-esteem and the oneness of humanity.

For over 35 years the Peace Run has traversed over 160 nations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia as a symbol of humanity’s universal aspiration for a more peaceful world.

A team of runners left New York City in April passing the Torch along the

over 10 000 -mile route. The continuous relay will also run through 3 provinces of Canada during the 4 -month journey before arriving back in New York mid-August. The European Peace Run started in Portugal in March and concludes in Hungary in October. Since the inaugural Run in 1987 , more than 7 -million people have participated. Commendations have come from many world figures including Pope Francis (who lit the Peace Torch in March at

the Vatican), President Nelson Mandela, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Teresa, Olympians, state governors, city mayors and celebrities across the world.

Carl Lewis, 9 -time Olympic Gold-medalist, said, “By carrying the Torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation. You will be the living proof of the ancient vision of having a beautiful and harmonious world.”

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The Peace Run was inspired by visionary Sri Chinmoy to give citizens a dynamic way to express their own hopes and dreams for a more harmonious world. An athlete, philosopher, artist, musician and poet, Sri Chinmoy dedicated his life to advancing the ideals of world harmony and said, “How can we have peace? Not by talking about peace, but by walking along the road of peace.”

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Khalil from Penn State Lehigh Valley. Coach Khalil nominated Sahaylee for the West Women’s

Basketball Team. “I was interviewed said that I wanted to go and see other

Newport’s Sahaylee Mason was selected to play for Team USA u19 West Women’s Basketball Team at the United World Games hosted in Klagenfurt, Austria June 20-23.

A team of runners left New York City in April passing the Torch along the over 10,000-mile route. The continuous relay will also run through 3 provinces of Canada during the 4-month journey before arriving back in New York mid-August. (Courtesy photo)