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JULY 4, 2012 I WEDNESDAY
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Looking beyond the horizon
Choppy reception for marine reserve rules Local fishermen continued their argument against three newly established marine reserves they say will threaten their livelihood at a June 26 public hearing in Depoe Bay. State officials called the meeting at Depoe Bay Community Center to seek comment on the administrative rules that will help manage the reserves at Cape Perpetua, Cascade Head and Cape Falcon. See story, Page A5
Feds set sights on protecting shipping
eral legislators have drawn attention to the threats posed by debris that remains floating at sea. “It’s what you can’t see that is our biggest concern,” U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader said PATRICK ALEXANDER on a June 30 visit to Agate The News Guard Beach with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden to see the Japanese Days after Oregon author- dock that washed up on ities established a network of June 5. collection stations for tsunaWyden said he wants to mi debris that washes up on see the federal government the state’s beaches, two fedbe a “better and smarter
partner” in tackling the threat that floating debris could pose to fishing boats, barges and tugs along the Oregon Coast. “This is an enormous part of our economy,” he said, and, of course, lives could be at stake as well.” After visiting the dock, Schrader and Wyden met PATRICK ALEXANDER/THE NEWS GUARD with members of the fishing industry , local emergency Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Kurt Schrader used a June 30 visit to the
Japanese dock at Agate Beach to call for greater focus on the See HORIZON, Page A8 threat tsunami debris could pose to navigation.
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WEEKLY OUTLOOK Chances are good that the Fourth of July weather will be close to perfect for the Gleneden Beach parade and Lincoln City fireworks. Fly your flags proudly. Don’t expect this pattern to last. The weekend could be cloudy but dry.
Seven local students will show off animals they’ve raised at the Lincoln County Fair July 13- 15 in Newport. In top photo, Kristy Morris coaxes her pack goat, Oreo, up a ramp, while, right, Justin Roberts gets ready to take his piggy, Maxwell, to market. The students, members of the local Focus Pocus 4H Club, are involved in all areas of showing and marketing their animals.
4H students and friends ready for the show JIM FOSSUM
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A group of young local businessmen, accountants, economists, secretaries and salesmen will be among the exhibitors at the 104th Lincoln County Fair. Farmers by virtually every sense of the word, seven local elementary school children will exhibit the numerous behind-the-scenes skills they have developed as
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members of the Focus Pocus 4H Club from Friday, July 13, through Sunday, July, 15, at the county fairgrounds, 633 N.E. 3rd St., in Newport. While the 4-H livestock program provides area youth with an opportunity to gain skills in raising, showing and marketing livestock, it also teaches record-keeping, responsibility, financial accountability and marketing skills, in addition to animal-care skills that last a life-
time, local 4H club leader Jennifer Roberts said. “The organization also helps youth meet the diversities and challenges of today’s society and brings together youth and adults to design programs that will teach skills for living,” she said. Four of the local youth, who have purchased and raised these animals to prepare them for market, will compete in the market program.
Justin Roberts, 11, is raising two market hogs in his second year in the project area. “My favorite thing about the swine is raising them,” he said. “I love to get them when they are little and watch them grow. When I take them to auction, they will weigh around 275 pounds.”
Consolidation of the two fire and rescue agencies serving North Lincoln County has emerged as the top recommendation from a consultancy firm hired to explore the possibilities for improving efficiencies in local fire and rescue delivery. Don Bivins, of Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI), said a consolidation of North Lincoln Fire & Rescue District #1 (NLFR) and Depoe Bay Rural Fire Protection District (DBRFD) has a high likelihood of success due to the agencies’ history of cooperation and similar tax rates. Such a district would have nine fire stations covering an area of 94 square miles from Otter Rock north. Bivins said the North County consolidation seems the most feasible of the six consolidation options his firm examined – a list that included creation of a single, countywide fire district, which he said currently has little chance of success. According to ESCI’s projections, a consolidated North County fire district would be able to achieve a secure financial future through relatively small increases in property tax –
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See FAIR, Page A3
Controversial election contest rocks senior center PATRICK ALEXANDER
candidate on the ballot. But, after a disputed decision to reopen nominations for the position, A contested race for Bass lost handily to Shields, presidency of the Lincoln who gathered 58 votes to City Senior Center led to his 24. chaotic scenes at the A few weeks ago Bass group’s annual general had appeared to be a shoomeeting (AGM) on in to take over from Thursday, June 28. Arguments about parlia- Margaret Miller, who served as president for mentary processes and a confused counting process more than nine years. But, in the run up to the obscured the issues in the AGM, Miller sent out a letcontest between senior ter saying a member had center veteran Jan Shields asked to nominate Shields and relative newcomer for the position and that Michael Bass, who had entered the AGM as the sole members could reopen the The News Guard
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