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JANUARY 30, 2013 | WEDNESDAY

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LINCOLN CITY, OREGON

Road woes challenge city’s public works

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It’s lunchtime — in other words, recess — at Taft High 7-12 and kids by the hundreds scurry about getting in as much relief as possible from their busy school day. Chris Knudson heads to his truck in the school parking lot to share sandwiches with a couple of special-needs classmates he calls friends. “I feel a deeper connection with them than I do with most people,” the 17-year-old senior said. See Page A9

main and a sewer main, that were displaced when this road began to sink,” said Hawker. “The utilities also began to sink. We don’t believe that there is any immediate cause for concern and we think we have stopped the source of the water that caused the road to sink, but we are going to be watching it close.” The long-term solution would be to replace the water line and that could cost $100,000, according to Hawker. “We don’t like to have

Lincoln City Public Works Department crews have closed SE 48th Street after a 160-foot section of the roadway began to sink in early January. Ground water-like springs that the city was not aware of saturated the road fill leading to the sinking, according to City Manager David Hawker. “The concern is that we have two very deep utilities, a major water transmission

water mains that deep because they are hard to get to,” he said. “They are about 12-feet deep. It should be 3 or 4 feet deep so if there is a problem you can get right to it.” Hawker isn’t sure if the city would move to replace the water main within the next year. “We don’t believe the road would collapse,” Hawker said. “We have a geo technician looking at JEREMY C. RUARK/THE NEWS GUARD

SE 48th Place is closed after the city discovered the roadway was sinking.

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Dotson voices concern on gun controls

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and dance study in upstate New York. “What I am offering here is recreational,” she said. “It is for fun and fitness. It is about having fun and being exposed to an art form.” The 27-year-old conducts ballet, jazz and modern dance for children and adults. This year she has about 45 students in her classes. She especially enjoys the time she spends with the children. “I am so excited to watch each girl skip for the first time,” said O’Brien. “It’s like watching them walk for the first time.”

Iliana Buell likes to stand on her tippy toes. That’s the best part of taking dancing lessons, she said. The 3-year old Lincoln City child is one of several taking ballet and other dance lessons from Nicole O’Brien at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. O’Brien is into her second year of teaching dance at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Her background includes time as a soloist with a dance theater in Colorado

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She said children taking dance for the first time can be intimidated. “Most often they can be pretty scared,” she said. O’Brien helps by walking the children around the dance room showing them the mirrors and the bars so that they can get used to the space. “I try to have fun with

it,” she said. “I call myself a goofball teacher. Ballet can be extremely foreign to the body so I tell the students to walk like a penguin. I use imagery to lighten it up.” O’Brien designs the classes to be fun and educational, but she acknowledges that there are challenges. “The 3-year-olds just love to have fun and are distracted constantly,” she said. “The adults tend to be a little more hesitant to jump right in.” “You have to be ready

Lincoln County Sheriff Dennis Dotson is taking his objection to President Obama’s gun control efforts to the Oregon Sheriff’s Association meeting in Salem Jan. 31. Dotson will ask the association to lobby against a federal ban on military-style assault rifles and other portions of the controls. “I expect the executive board to discuss this and make a statement to the Oregon congressional delegation and possibly to the White House that we are not supportive of all the proposals the Sheriff Dennis President has Dotson discussed,” said Dotson. “We have had so many of our sheriffs who have already spoken out about this, but a statement from our association that represents 36 sheriffs might have more impact than the voice of individual sheriffs.” Dotson supports Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller who has sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden telling him he would not enforce a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Dotson cites a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Printz v. United States case,

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VRD report likely to trigger new management ordinance I get behind “ efore something like the zone

The Lincoln City City Council is moving ahead to develop an ordinance that would better allow the city to manage the growth of vacation rental dwellings (VRDs). The council decided at its regular session Jan. 28 to hold a second workshop to review 13 of the 20 recommendations made in a report by Willamette University professor Richard Birke and a working group of 21 members representing a

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ing the VRDs and allow the planning commission to review those. The council will take up review of the remaining 13 recommendations at a second workshop scheduled for Feb. 26 from

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