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New online hub connects locals with mental health providers

BY BREE LAUGHLIN

The World Community healthcare workers are creating a hub to take the mystery out of navigating the healthcare process.

The Coos Curry Behavioral Health Hub is a free online network being created to connect Coos and Curry County residents with local professionals who can help them with a variety of mental and behavioral health services.

“The issue is people don't know where to go, so we want to have this hub site be the place for people to find the services that they need,” said Community Mental Health Coordinator Devyn Downum.

Downum is creating the hub alongside Waterfall Behavioral Health Center’s Behavioral

Health Program Manager

Jordon McLaren. The mission of the Coos and Curry County Behavioral Health Hub is to remove the barriers that make it difficult to access behavioral healthcare. Whether it’s in person or through telehealth, the hub aims to make the process easier and faster by connecting local residents to a therapist or psychiatric provider that meets their needs.

The cooscurryhub.com directory can be used to search for a provider by selecting from a variety of categories. The client can enter their age and their language preference. Clients can also pick a therapist preference if they have one.

They can search within Coos County, Curry County

or Telehealth providers. They can also match their insurance preference (or no insurance) with those that the providers accept. Clients can search for therapy for addictions, ADHD, anger management, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, chronic illness/pain, codependency, depression, eating disorders, family issues, grief, learning disabilities, life transitions, trauma, sexual abuse, sleep issues and many more. They can also choose the type of therapy they

family issues, grief,

Local culinary graduate wins global chef competition

BY BREE LAUGHLIN

The World

A 2010 Graduate of the Oregon Coast Culinary School recently earned himself a gold medal and coveted title of “Global Chef of the Americas.”

Chef Reilly Meehan competed at the Worldchefs Global Chefs Challenge Regional Semi-Final culinary competition in Santiago, Chile. This challenge is known for attracting top culinary talents from around the world who demonstrate their prowess in the kitchen and exhibit adaptability under pressure.

Chef Meehan's culinary creations exemplified these

requirements, impressing the judges and securing his first-place finish. Chef Meehan will now move on to compete in the Global Chefs Challenge Finals, which will take place in Singapore in October 2024.

“It's so much fun to meet people from all over, travel somewhere new and really challenge myself,” Meehan said.

Meehan told “The World” that during the latest competition, he was tasked to compose three multi-course dinners which included a seafood starter course, a veal entrée and a dessert course using mango, tea and chocolate.

BY BREE LAUGHLIN The World

Less than a year into shooting competitively, Bandon Gun Club member Jaime White is taking home Rookie of the Year and State Championship Trapshooting titles.

White said he joined the Bandon Gun Club to pick up a hobby in his retirement. Although he has experience with hunting with rifles, White had never tried TRAP

“My wife and I both shoot, so it's something we can do together and we both enjoy it,” he said. “We started by shooting pistols. Then we see everybody out there shooting shotguns, so we decided to try that. Then, I decided I wanted to try the trap.” Trapshooting is a specific form of clay target shooting, and is a game

Although Meehan is a savory chef, he suspected it was his skill at making the dessert which took him to the top of the competition. He competed as a pastry chef when he was on a youth competition team in Oregon, and still enjoys making desserts.

Meehan

“I think that's one of the things that set me apart for sure,” Meehan said. The chef said he enjoys the creative process coming up with dishes and researching how different flavors come together.

of movement, action and split-second timing. It requires the accuracy and skill to repeatedly aim, fire and break discs as they fly through the air.

The 63-year-old Bandon resident said when he first started trapshooting, he wasn’t very good at it. But he kept practicing and decided he wanted to shoot competitively.

“It just went on from there,” he said.

When he first started shooting competitively in early January, White said he was hitting about 60 out of a 100 targets.

“When I just got done at Medford, I shot 200 straight for the state championship,” he said.

White will be heading to Olympia, Wash. to compete against trap shooters from eight different states in an effort to pick up a Rookie of the Year title with the Pacific International Trap Shooting Association

(PITA). “I don't know why, but there is something in me that drives me to get better and I just want to see how far it will go,” he said.

Trapshootings’ continual growth and expanding popularity is due to the fact that people of all ages, incomes and abilities can compete, according to the Amateur Trapshooting Association.

White said when he was in Klamath Falls, he was beat by a female who was in the third grade, and he has shot with a man in his nineties.

“I think I'm pretty close to being the oldest rookie of the year ever,” White said.

The Bandon Gun Club member said the people involved in the organization have a lot of fun.

“We have a lot of young

Photo by Bree Laughlin

Waterfall Behavioral Health Center’s Community Mental Health Coordinator Devyn Downum and Behavioral Health Program Manager Jordon McLaren are creating an online community health hub to remove the barriers that make it difficult to access behavioral healthcare.

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Chef Reilly Meehan, who graduated from the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute, recently earned the title of Global Chef of the Americas.

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Retired Bandon resident picks up rookie of the year trap shooting titles

are looking for.

“This platform has counselors, so people that do that provide mental health therapy, and then also psychiatric providers, those who provide medication management for a myriad of different mental health, conditions and symptoms,” Downum said. The list of providers will be narrowed

down to include only those that match the categories that the clients choose. The hub provides a headshot of the local and telehealth providers, information about the services they provide, access to their websites and contact information.

If someone is in crisis, the hub includes a resource tab that will connect them with local crisis and mobile

response teams. While Downum and McLaren are both employed by Waterfall Behavioral Health Center, the hub includes providers from many different networks. Their goal is to get a comprehensive list of all community partners together in one spot.

“The need is so great, we can’t do it alone,” McLaren said. “It can be really challenging

navigating this field, so this tool was created to make it easy and straightforward and get all of those providers together in one spot.”

The Coos Curry Behavioral Hub can be accessed at cooscurryhub. com. It also includes a link to reach Community Mental Health Coordinator Devyn Downum, if clients have any specific questions related to the site.

Local student selected for elite journalism internship

College student Ella Hutcherson, from Coos Bay was selected for a prestigious paid internship that places promising student journalists in media outlets across Oregon. Hutcherson, who graduated from North Bend High School in 2019, is a journalism major at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. She will be working as a reporting intern for the Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, this summer.

The internship is part of the 10-week Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism. Students are handpicked for these competitive internship opportunities for their remarkable reporting experience, commitment to ethics, exceptional academic performance and deep passion for journalism.

Hutcherson has enjoyed her time working for the University of Oregon’s student-led Ethos Magazine and the local alt-weekly, Eugene Weekly, while pursuing her journalism degree. She is eager to make new connections and learn new skills in this internship before transitioning to another news or magazine publication, or radio station, to continue her professional career.

Hutcherson applied because she was ready to take the next step by working for a full-time professional publication.

“I hope to gain audio reporting experience, get to know a new community, and create some new, exciting work,” she said.

Not only do Snowden interns receive true on-the-job experience while helping to make a real difference in the communities they serve, but they also receive a stipend to help cover living expenses. Many of the program’s community-based media partners don’t have budgets to pay interns, and many students can’t afford to take an unpaid internship. The stipend allows for more equitable access to internships for the students and for the participating media outlets.

The interns, working as reporters, photographers and multimedia journalists, practice working under deadline in a real newsroom while they gain experience, clips and contacts that can help catapult them into a career as a journalist.

The Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism was established by the Snowden

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kids, from third-grade to high school shooting out there,” he said. “We are hoping to get more of the younger crowd started.”

If someone is interested in trying out the Bandon Gun Club, they can get a sponsorship from a member to try it out, and learn about the safety rules.

“We’d like to see new members. It doesn't matter what age, they can come on out,” he said. “We have everything you really need to get started if it's something you want to do.”

The Bandon Gun Club is located at 88771 Trap Club Ln in Bandon, OR 97411. More information about the organization can be found at bandongunclub.org.

family to honor the life and career of Charles Snowden, a longtime editor at the Oregon Journal and The Oregonian. Snowden is remembered as a topnotch editor and mentor for young journalists, and the endowment has funded over 300 internships for students since 1998.

Snowden interns have landed jobs at top media outlets across the country, including the Associated Press, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, The Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio.

“The Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism sends a total of 20 interns to community news organizations across Oregon,” said Nicole Dahmen, the co-coordinator of the program and professor at University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

“This opportunity for the interns and news partners comes at an extraordinary moment when local journalism has never been more important.”

Hutcherson is one of 20 students selected

for the 2023 Snowden internship program. The cohort also includes the following students from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication, working for media outlets throughout the state: Bentley Freeman at the Baker City Herald, Chrissy Booker at The Columbian, Sophia Cossette at the Portland Tribune, Chrissy Ewald at KLCC, Brienna Haro at the Ben Bulletin, Jeremiah Hayden at Street Roots, Krista Kroiss at Pendleton East Oregonian, Nicholas LaMora at the Portland Tribune, Hannarose McGuinness at Roseburg News-Review, Janea Melido at Redmond Spokesman, Jacob Moore at Willamette Week, Ilene Morrisette at KEZI, Angelo Paoli at the La Grande Observer, Caden Perry at Oregon Public Broadcasting, Hannah Seibold at the Roseburg News-Review, Natalie Sharp at the Salem Reporter, Abby Sourwine at the Daily Astorian, Madelyn Stellingwerf at The Oregonian and Berit Thorson at Salem Capital Press.

The cohort also includes students from

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other four-year universities in Oregon: Chrissy Ewald from Willamette University will intern at KLCC, Brienna Haro from University of Portland will intern at Bend Bulletin, Jeremiah Hayden from Portland State University will intern at Street Roots, Janea Melido from University of Portland will intern at Redmond Spokesman, Angelo Paoli from Oregon State University will intern at La Grande Observer and Natalie Sharp from Oregon State University will intern at the Salem Reporter. Visit https:// snowden.uoregon. edu to learn more.

Zonta Club announced Barton Memorial Scholarship recipient

The Coos Bay Area Zonta Service Foundation is proud to announce that the fourth Patty J. Barton Memorial Scholarship is awarded to Courtney Jeffs of North Bend. This is a $20,000 renewable award to be issued over qualifying terms as the requirements of performance are met.

Patty J. Barton was a long time Zonta member with a passion for women choosing to face their life's challenges by improving their status through education. Courtney

Jeffs is doing just that, studying for a business degree at Portland State University, with a major in advertising management. Patty's husband, Jon Barton, began the scholarship fund from donations received after Patty’s death in 2018. Through club fundraising efforts, we have

been able to grow and now use the funds to honor Patty with this award which will support Courtney with her education. Courtney, a 2020 Marshfield High School graduate, has achieved an associate degree from Southwestern Oregon Community College. Both at MHS and at SWOCC, Courtney was an active member of Z Club and Golden Z Club respectively. She began building her foundation in business while still at MHS, earning multiple Adobe certifications with which she could do freelance work in the Coos Bay area. As a 1st generation college student, she maintains a 3.8 GPA at PSU and continues her community volunteer service there. Dr. Joel Bettridge, one of Courtney’s professors at PSU, wrote “Courtney is exceptionally focused on her education and is tenacious in her pursuit of it; I believe that she will go on to do outstanding work in whatever field she chooses and is just the kind of student who deserves financial support.”

The Zonta Foundation received applications from 17 amazing students from both Coos and Curry Counties for this scholarship. The selection process reduced the pool to five applicants who received personal interviews.

Shirley MacAdam, the PJB Scholarship Chair, said, “It is inspirational to witness the many women in our community pursuing their college educations all over the United States and in a variety of fields. We encourage all of you to keep an eye on our club website. Every January we post applications for the many scholarships we plan to offer. A fifth PJB Scholarship will be awarded in 2024. Donations to the Coos Bay Zonta Service Foundation are always appreciated.”

Zonta is proud to support women like Courtney on their journey to build a better life for themselves through education. We look forward to watching Courtney accrue many accomplishments and continue her contributions to our community in the years ahead.

Marshfield High School Z Club donates

Upon receiving a Community 101 grant from The Oregon Community Foundation for a second year, Marshfield High School administrators again chose the Marshfield Z Club to handle the 2023 program. Per grant requirements Z Club members surveyed the student body to determine what students believed were the most important community needs in Coos County. Survey results determined substance abuse and addiction was the major problem in Coos County. Z Club members proceeded to research local nonprofits and hosted speakers familiar with the problem and from the programs identified as addressing this problem at club meetings.

$5,500 to Local Nonprofits

In addition to the $5,000 grant from OCF, Z Club contributed $500 the club had earned. During a ceremony at Marshfield at the end of May, the following grants were awarded: Alternative Youth Activities $1,316; Coos County Friends of Public Health $500; Nancy Devereux Center $1,026; HIV Alliance $1,366; and Waterfall Community Health Center $1,316.

Z Club President Kiri Goodson said: “Working through the Community 101 program has been truly enlightening. Not only did we learn about the grant writing and review process, but we also learned the impact of substance abuse in our community and programs that are working to help solve it.”

Marshfield Z Club is

a student club of Zonta International, sponsored by the Coos Bay Area Zonta Club. The Z Club describes itself as a “community action club,” and it is active with school and community service projects. The club provides an opportunity for students to develop leadership skills, to become more

involved with the community, and to explore career opportunities.

Administered by the Oregon Community Foundation, Community 101 is a program that provides student leadership and civic engagement through charitable giving. The Ford Family Foundation helps fund the program at Marsh-

field. Over the last 22 years, Community 101 has taught civic engagement, grantmaking, leadership and teamwork skills to Oregon students; approximately 22,550 Community 101 students have granted $5 million to thousands of organizations throughout Oregon, volunteered 100,000

hours and raised more than $200,000 to give to causes they care about. For information about how to become involved or to support a class at your local school, please contact Katie Dearing, Oregon Community Foundation, kdearing@oregoncf.org or 503-227-6846.

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Members of the Marshfield High School Z Club distribute $5,500 in grant funds to several local agencies that help fight substance abuse and addiction.

Oregon Coast Music Association Announces Festival Events for July 15 to 29

The 45th Annual Music Festival features two full weeks of musical and educational events, Saturday, July 15 through Saturday July 29. Below is an overview of all events. Additional details are available online, also in printed programs and future press releases.

The 2023 image by Susan Chambers highlights sea otter restoration (story https:// www.oregoncoastmusic.org. Posters will be available for sale at events, and at the OCMA Office.

Bay Area Concert Band Festival Kickoff

Saturday, July 15 @ noon, Mingus Park, Coos Bay. Free

The Bay Area Concert Band opens the Festival at Mingus Park @ noon. Band conductor Stephen Simpkins has selected an array of typical band music including light classical, medleys from composers of Broadway and movie hits, Latin music, and marches. All are encouraged to attend and bring a picnic. Festival volunteers will be available with merchandise, tickets and information for events.

Aaron Johnson Jazz: Blues, Ballads & the American Songbook

Sunday, July 16 @ 2 pm, OIMB Boat House. Reception by Black Market Gourmet. $50 tickets, limited seating. The OIMB boathouse auditorium provides a unique location for a Jazz performance. The afternoon event features Aaron Johnson, saxophone, clarinet, and flute; Ilya Lushtak, vocals and guitar; Liam Hathaway, bass, and Brigitta Teuscher, vocals. Black Market Gourmet provides a lovely spread for attendees at intermission.

Madi Barrena & Michael Somers: African American Jazz Composers and Performers. Wednesday, July 19 @ 7 pm, Hales Center, SWOCC, Coos Bay. $20

Madi Cristina Barrena, Piano and Michael Somers, Bass provide an interactive performance of the history and contributions of five African American composers and performers. Barrena and Somers recently moved to Coos Bay after a career of perform-

ing together at venues in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 20 years

Steven Moeckel & Joanna Goldstein: Hidden Voices Highlighting Diverse American Women Composers

Thursday July 20 @ 7 pm, Hales Center, SWOCC, Coos Bay. $25

Steven Moeckel, violin, and Joanna Goldstein, piano, provide a program of selected compositions by women composers from the time of suffrage to the present. The program will delight and educate the audience regarding the achievements of the featured women.

The Gothard Sisters: Celtic Music & Dance in the Gardens Saturday, July 22 @ noon, Shore Acres State Park, Charleston. Free. Parking $5 without State Parks Pass Greta, Solana and Willow Gothard provide an afternoon of contemporary Celtic music in the lovely gardens of the park. Bring a picnic and chairs and listen to their arrangements, blended with violin, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bodhran, djembe, whistle and vocal harmonies.

Dear Darling:

Sunday July 23 @ 7 pm, 7 Devils Brewing Co., Coos Bay

7 Devils Brewing hosts Dear Darling, a Sacramento-based trio of Natalie Hagwood (cello and voice), Casey Lipka (bass and voice) and Hannah Jane Kile (guitar and voice).

Together, their joyous meld of jazz, folk, classical and pop delivers a fresh new sound that is being recognized both locally and nationally.

Adam Stern & Steven Moeckel

Preview Concert:

Monday, July 24 @ noon, Umpqua Hall, SWOCC, Coos Bay. Free

The Festival features educational seminars and concert previews led by Associate Conductor Adam Stern the day before each Orchestra concerts. This first preview features a conversation with Steven Moeckel, violin soloist who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra in Marshfield Auditorium Tuesday, July 25.

Orchestra Concert I: James Paul Conductor, Steven Moeckel, Violin

Tuesday, July 25 @ 7:30 pm, Marshfield HS Auditorium, Coos Bay.

$20/$25

Welcome the full 80-piece OCMA Festival Orchestra on the stage of Marshfield auditorium, for the first of three concerts. The orchestra will perform the overture from Hector Berlioz’s opera, Benvenuto Cellini. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in b, D. 759, Unfinished, and conclude with Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra, Steven Moeckel, violin.

Adam Stern & Elizabeth Galafa Ylaya

Preview the Pops

Wednesday, July 26 @ noon, Umpqua Hall, SWOCC, Coos Bay. Free

The second educational seminar preview the music of Latin America and Hispanic composers. Meet the featured soprano soloist, Elizabeth Galafa Ylaya. The event includes Spanish and English conversations and a discussion of the influence of Latin music and rhythms. Details about the free open rehearsal on Thursday morning at Marshfield Auditorium will be provided.

Pops Concert I:

Latin American and Hispanic Music: Adam Stern. Conductor & Elizabeth Galafa Ylaya, Soprano

Thursday, July 27 @ 7:30 pm, Marshfield HS Auditorium, Coos Bay. $20/$25

The music of Latin America and Spain has long been prized by lovers of music of all types.

Think of the many types of music specific to certain lands: the Spanish zarzuela, the Brazilian samba, the Argentinian tango, the mariachi bands of Mexico…all of these a perpetual gift to the music lover. Enjoy a lovely evening with a diverse menu of compositions played by the full orchestra, and featuring several songs by emerging soprano Elizabeth Galafa Ylaya.

Adam Stern Previews Orchestra Concert II

Friday, July 28 @ noon, Umpqua Hall, SWOCC, Coos Bay. Free This final preview will include a review of the music to be played at the Saturday concert as well as a special

tribute to the legacy of Conductor James Paul, having conducted the Festival Orchestra for 30 years. Paul’s conducting career abroad and in North America has been extensive, and he was instrumental in attracting the high caliber of musicians that continues today in the Orchestra.

Redfish String Quartet

Friday, July 28 @ 7 pm. First Presbyterian Church, North Bend. $20 OCMA collaborates

with the Redfish Music Festival to provide an opportunity for a chamber music concert within this year’s Festival. Fritz Gearhart, Miya Saito-Beckman, Jason Bonham and Andrew Smith provide an evening recital program of varied styles in the string quartet repertoire, including compositions by Webern, Still, Turina and Mozart.

Orchestra Concert II: The Virtuoso Orchestra. James Paul Conductor

Saturday, July 30 @ 7:30 pm, Marshfield HS Auditorium, Coos Bay. $20/$25

The Festival concludes with three well known symphonic performances. The Prelude to Parsifal by Richard Wagner is followed by the ballet music from the Perfect Fool by Gustav Holst. Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor closes our Festival as a grand finale.

Community Calendar of Events

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Prints every Friday in The World!

Picnic in the Park

Through August 18th

Picnic in the Park –Free. Monday-Friday, 1 year to 18 years. June 26th-August 18th, closed July 3rd & 4th. USDA requires all meals served to be consumed on site.

Only one meal per child per day please. North

Bend sites: North Bend Middle School 8:15 am-8:45 am & 11:30 am-12:30 pm, Ferry Street Park 11:00 am11:15 am, Simpson Park 11:20 am-11:35 am, Airport Heights Park 11:45 am-12 pm, Airport

Housing Complex 12:05 pm-12:20 pm, Oak Street Park 12:25 pm-12:55 pm and Boynton Park 12:15 pm-12:45 pm. Lakeside/ Hauser/North Bend:

Lakeside Library 11:00 am-11:30 am, North Bay Elementary 11:40 am-12 pm. North Bend Middle is an open site this year!

Bring your family, come in and enjoy lunch! Adult lunches are $4. Children are free! No change carried by drivers. As a reminder food must be consumed on site. Free breakfast available at North Bend Middle School 8:15 am-8:45 am. For more information call North Bend School District #13 541-756-6779 or 541-756-2521.

Langlois Library Book Sale

10-4 pm, July 15th

Langlois Library

The Friends of Langlois Library is holding a book sale on the lawn at the Langlois Library. Saturday, June 15, 2023, 10 am – 4 pm. Proceeds benefit the Langlois Library.

SPANGLISH: Spanish Conversational Program 10:30-11:30 am, July 15th

Coos Bay Public Library will be offering ¡SPANGLISH!: Spanish Conversational Program via Zoom (virtual meeting software) and in-person. We meet twice a month: every first Thursday on Zoom and every third Saturday at the library. July sessions will be on Thursday, July 6 from 5:00pm-6:00pm (Zoom) and Saturday, July 15 from 10:30am-11:30am (Library). Program is for those who wish to practice their Spanish conversational skills and help other learners in a friendly setting. Attendees will have the opportunity to converse in Spanish as a group for one hour in a casual, informal environment. This is NOT a class, but we will provide ideas for conversational topics. Beginners are welcome. Let’s talk! This program

Austin Leon Howell

November 6, 1943 – June 17, 2023

Austin Leon Howell was born November 6, 1943 in Eugene, Oregon. He was the first male born to Austin and Virginia Howell in Deadwood, Oregon. He died June 17, 2023 at his home in Coquille.

is FREE and open to anyone who wishes to sharpen their Spanish conversational skills. Register for Thursday Zoom sessions @ https:// bit.ly/3bihvqB

Children’s Cultural Books Program

10:30-12:30 pm, July 15th

Bandon Library

Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 10:30 am12:30 pm, in the Sprague Room of Bandon Library, the Bandon Inclusivity Group will present its third Children's Cultural Books Program. For children 4-8, along with their families, the third event will feature The Paletero Man by Micah Player and Lucky Diaz. Each family will receive a copy of the book or a coupon to receive the book at a later date if supplies run out.

Supported by Coos County Cultural Coalition, Oregon Cultural Trust, and South Coast Equity Coalition. This event is not sponsored or endorsed by the Bandon Public Library.

Altered Journal Workshop

1-4 pm, July 15th

Coos Art Museum Altered Journal Workshop with Natalie Laswell July 15th, 1-4 pm. $45 ages 16+. Bring your own journal, all other supplies included. Explore mixed media through journaling! Learn how to alter various surfaces and create a unique keepsake.

Kids Summer Art Camp

1-3 pm July 17th - 19th

Coos Art Museum Ages 6-12 years. July 17-19, 2023, Monday-Wednesday, 1-3 pm. Get ready for some summer art fun at Coos Art Museum’s Kids Summer Art Camp! 3 days – 3 themes – 3 art projects! $35.00 per child. For more information, contact us: arted@ coosartmuseum.org 541-267-3901. We do offer scholarships for our summer camps; please submit a request to arted@coosartmuseum.org.

Write Your Voice 11 am, July 18th & 25th North Bend Public Library

Every Tuesday at 11:00 AM, starting June 13 through July 25, the North Bend Public Library will be hosting a group writing session entitled “Write Your Voice.” The session is designed for writers of CALENDAR OF EVENTS continued on page 10

Leon started school in Mapleton, Oregon, then the family moved to Florence where Leon and his siblings explored their 80 acre ranch, fished in the little stream and on Sutton Lake. The family moved to Myrtle Point, Oregon in 1955. In high school Leon was a manager for the wrestling team. He graduated high school in 1961 and attended Oregon Technical Institute in

Klamath Falls. He was an avid hunter, fisherman, vintage and race car buff. He was very active in his church. He was the owner of Howell Automotive in Myrtle Point, then in Coquille. His sense of humor was well known by his family and friends. Leon liked all types of motor racing, but his real love was drag-racing. He had several cars he raced through the years. He was best known for his 1969 Chevelle that he raced and was his daily driver.

Leon began his relationship with Jesus when he was a teenager. He was very serious about his commitment to the Father, Son, and Holy

Linda Ann Bass

June 9, 1948 – June 30, 2023

Linda Ann Bass, 75, of Clarksburg and formerly of Bandon, Oregon, passed away on Friday, June 30, 2023 in Morgantown. She was born on June 9, 1948 in Decatur, Illinois; a daughter of the late Wilbur Tucker and Kathryn Travis Tucker. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Guilford "Guil" Bass, Jr. whom she married on June 10, 1969. She is also survived by her son, Jeffrey Scott Bass and his life partner, Kerry Trahan; granddaughter, Kathryn Marie Bass, one great grandson, Amias Trace Aaron Miller; two sisters, Carolyn Hendricks and Jan Roberts; her best friend from Oregon, Bonnie Acosta; and previous daughter-in-law, Chris Nutter. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her

brother, Kenneth Tucker. Linda was a medical assistant working in various fields for over twenty five years. She was an excellent caregiver to her husband, Guil and she enjoyed spending time with her family. She and Guil also enjoyed traveling and sharing many wonderful stories of their adventures along the way.

Family will receive friends at Davis Funeral Home 124 Olen Thomas Drive, Clarksburg, WV 26301 for visitation on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 from 2:00 pm-5:00 pm. Interment will be scheduled at a later date.

Online condolences can be made at www. DavisFuneralHomeWV. com. Davis Funeral Home and Onsite Crematory is honored to serve the Bass family.

Spirit. He taught Sunday school classes for grade schoolers and high schoolers at the Nazarene church in Myrtle Point for several years. He was also a youth group leader, and influenced the lives of many young people. Leon wrote this in his journal. Jesus you are the deepest cry of my heart. I want you to have all that I am, all that I have, and all that I will be. The gift of your life on the cross of Calvary made it possible to be forgiven, and one day be present in heaven to see you, Jesus, faceto-face and dwell there forever.

Leon is survived by his sisters, Ruth Marble, Linda Boise, and Diana

Wagoner; brothers, Robert Howell, Karl Howell and Michael Howell. He also has many nieces and nephews. We know that Leon is in the presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that brings us comfort.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Bandon Christian Fellowship, 1190 Face Rock Road Bandon, OR 97411 at 1 PM, Saturday, July 22, 2023. Online remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.westrumfunerlservice.com

Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service – Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846

Dea Notices

Katherine L. Hodgin, 81, of Coos Bay died June 17, 2023 in Springfield. Cremation rites were under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com

Sharon L. Wolfe, 77, of North Bend, passed away on June 28, 2023 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-7560440. www.coosbayareafunerals.com

Donald Edwin Huntley, 93, of Bandon, died June 29, 2023 in Bandon. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling Schroeder Funeral Service, Bandon.

Howard J. Hollingsworth, 80, of Coos Bay, passed away on July 3, 2023 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com

Vicki Lynn Schafer, 52, of North Bend, passed away on July 3, 2023 in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-7560440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com

Peggy Sue Fors, 65, of Coos Bay, passed away June 29, 2023 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com

Angela was born September 15, 1954 to Monte LaBarge and Violet Hagstrom in Mitchell, South Dakota.

As a little girl mom lived in New Mexico, Arizona, North Dakota and Nevada as her father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Mom loved her animals. As a little girl she had a Siamese cat that she would dress up and push in a stroller. She was the happiest little girl. She loved to please everyone and she was a giver.

Angela graduated from Lemmon High School South Dakota. She would marry and from that marriage she had Misty, Alex and Amie. Mom had many nights of dealing with colicky babies but none the less she loved her children. Times were hard. Mom was always resourceful; she would sew clothing and bonnets to keep the hot Wyoming sun off our faces. Mom would remarry

and from the union a son was born, Frank John Jr. Mom moved to Coquille, Oregon in 1984 later she married Patrick Mahlberg. From that union Crystal Rose was born. Mom fished a lot on the Coquille River. She and Pat would grow large gardens. Each home they lived in, always had beautiful flowers growing outside Mom lived in Coquille, Keizer, Shedd, Albany, and Corvallis. Mom went to Linn Benton Community College and graduated with an Associate’s degree in Metallurgy. It was an exciting time for mom. Mom worked several jobs which involved care taking of the elderly. 2016, mom and Pat would return to Coquille, Oregon. Mom will be remembered for her caring nature towards animals. She passed that onto her daughters and granddaughters. Mom

loved her flowers and to garden. She always was excited to give even though there were many financial hard times. The small things mattered the most to her. She always had a story from her life to share with those who had an ear to listen. She had a smile on her face and was excited to get a visit from her children and grandchildren.

Angela is survived by her husband of 38 years, Patrick Mahlberg of Coquille; daughter, Misty Harris (Gary) of California; son, Alex Wise (Amy) of Corvallis; daughter, Amie; daughter, Crystal of Coquille; son, Johnny Krebs of Pinehaven, Wyoming; stepson, Patrick (Stacy) of Siletz; stepson, Albert of Siletz; 19 grandchildren; her mother, Violet; two sisters, Maxine (Ed) and Sharon (David Fischer); also numerous other family and friends. She is preceded in death by her father, Monte LaBarge; stepmother, Norma; stepfather, Wal-

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE T.S. No.: OR-23955950-SW Reference is made to that certain deed made by, CLAUDE DOUGLAS COFFMAN as Grantor to TICOR TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR STEARNS LENDING, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 10/3/2019, recorded 10/8/2019, in official records of COOS County, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. and/or as fee/file/ instrument/microfilm/ reception number 201909134 and subsequently assigned or transferred by operation of law to Pingora Loan Servicing, LLC covering the following described real property situated in said County, and State. APN: 3928900

3929500 3929600 LOTS 1 THROUGH 7, BLOCK 45, CRAWFORD POINT ADDITION TO THE CITY OF COOS BAY, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:

94250 PACIFIC LN, NORTH BEND, OR 97459

County Courthouse, located at 250 North Baxter Street, Coquille, OR 97423 County of COOS, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.778 of Oregon

ERTY HAVE CERTAIN PROTECTIONS AFFFORDED TO THEM UNDER ORS 86.782 AND POSSIBLY UNDER FEDERAL LAW. ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE OF SALE, AND INCORPORATED HEREIN, IS A NOTICE TO TENANTS THAT SETS FORTH SOME OF THE PROTECTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO A TENANT OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY AND WHICH SETS FORTH CERTAIN REQUIRMENTS THAT MUST BE COMPLIED WITH BY ANY TENANT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE AFFORDED PROTECTION, AS REQUIRED

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The undersigned hereby certifies that based upon business records there are no known written assignments of the trust deed by the trustee or by the beneficiary, except as recorded in the records of the county or counties in which the above described real property is situated. Further, no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the trust deed, or, if such action has been instituted, such action has been dismissed except as permitted by ORS 86.752(7). Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.752(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes. There is a default by grantor or other person owing an obligation, performance of which is secured by the trust deed, or by the successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of such provision. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sum: TOTAL REQUIRED TO REINSTATE: $12,401.68 TOTAL REQUIRED TO PAYOFF: $218,302.94

Because of interest, late charges, and other charges that may vary from day-to-day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. It will be necessary for you to contact the Trustee before the time you tender reinstatement or the payoff amount so that you may be advised of the exact amount you will be required to pay. By reason of the default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the trust deed immediately due and payable, those sums being the following, to- wit: The installments of principal and interest which became due on 8/1/2022, and all subsequent installments of principal and interest through the date of this Notice, plus amounts that are due for late charges, delinquent property taxes, insurance premiums, advances made on senior liens, taxes and/ or insurance, trustee’s fees, and any attorney fees and court costs arising from or associated with the beneficiaries efforts to protect and preserve its security, all of which must be paid as a condition of reinstatement, including all sums that shall accrue through reinstatement or pay-off. Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms of the loan documents. Whereof, notice hereby is given that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned trustee will on 10/18/2023

Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee’s and attorney’s fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. Other than as shown of record, neither the beneficiary nor the trustee has any actual notice of any person having or claiming to have any lien upon or interest in the real property hereinabove described subsequent to the interest of the trustee in the trust deed, or of any successor in interest to grantor or of any lessee or other person in possession of or occupying the property, except: Name and

Last Known Address and

Nature of Right, Lien or Interest

CLAUDE COFF-

MAN 94250 PACIFIC LN

NORTH BEND, OR 97459

Original Borrower For Sale

Information Call: 800-2802832 or Login to: www. auction.com In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to this grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the trust deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Pursuant to Oregon Law, this sale will not be deemed final until the Trustee’s deed has been issued by QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON. If any irregularities are discovered within 10 days of the date of this sale, the trustee will rescind the sale, return the buyer’s money and take further action as necessary. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Without limiting the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this property at the trustee’s sale.

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS PROBATE NO. 23PB04731

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that I, CURTIS ALAN NORRIS, have been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of KENNETH ALLEN BINGHAM, by the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Coos County and all persons having claims against said Estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative at the office of the Personal Representative’s attorneys, Hornecker Cowling LLP, Attn: Shane\~ J.\~ Antholz, 14\~ N. Central Avenue, Suite 104, Medford, Oregon 97501, within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding are advised that additional information may be obtained from the court records, the Personal Representative, or his attorneys. DATED and first published June 30, 2023.

CURTIS ALAN NORRIS

PERSONAL REPRESEN-

TATIVE

Published on June 30, July

7 and 14, 2023

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE TS NO.: 23-64470 Reference is made to that certain Deed of Trust (hereinafter referred as the Trust Deed) made by ROBERT D. MILLER AND SHIRLEY MILLER as Grantor to TICOR TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), AS DESIGNATED NOMINEE FOR CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., BENEFICIARY OF THE SECURITY INSTRUMENT, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 1/13/2021, recorded 1/15/2021, as Instrument No. 2021-00569, in mortgage records of Coos County, Oregon covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit: LOTS 4 AND 5, BLOCK 7, BAY PARK, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. The street address or other common designation, if any for the real property described above is purported to be: 63491 2ND STREET LOOP COOS BAY, OREGON 97420-4538 The Tax Assessor’s Account ID for the Real Property is purported to be: 26S1302AA-06600 / 4560600 Both the beneficiary and the trustee, ZBS Law, LLP have elected to foreclose the above referenced Trust Deed and sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed and a Notice of Default and Election to Sell has been recorded pursuant to ORS 86.752(3). All right, title, and interest in the said described property which the grantors had, or had power to convey, at the time of execution of the Trust Deed, together with any interest the grantors or their successors in interest acquired after execution of the Trust Deed shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed and the expenses of sale, including the compensation of the trustee as provided by law, and the reasonable fees of trustee’s attorneys. The default for which the foreclosure is made is:

The monthly installment of principal and interest which became due on 8/1/2022, late charges, and all subsequent monthly installments of principal and interest.

You are responsible to pay all payments and charges due under the terms and conditions of the loan documents which come due subsequent to the date of this notice, including, but not limited to, foreclosure trustee fees and costs, advances and late charges. Furthermore, as a condition to bring your account in good standing, you must provide the undersigned with written proof that you are not in default on any senior encumbrance and provide proof of insurance. Nothing in this notice

should be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the beneficiary under the deed of trust, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the loan documents. The amount required to cure the default in payments to date is calculated as follows: From: 8/1/2022

Total of past due payments: $11,060.04 Late Charges: $67.34 Additional charges

(Taxes, Insurance, Corporate Advances, Other

Fees): $3,102.00 Trustee’s

Fees and Costs: $1,456.00

Total necessary to cure:

$15,685.38 Please note the amounts stated herein are subject to confirmation and review and are likely to change during the next 30 days. Please contact the successor trustee ZBS Law, LLP, to obtain a “reinstatement’ and or “payoff’ quote prior to remitting funds. By reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed due and payable. The amount required to discharge this lien in its entirety to date is: $210,873.53\emspace Said sale shall be held at the hour of 11:00

AM on 9/11/2023 in accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, and pursuant to ORS 86.771(7) shall occur at the following designated place: At the front entrance of the County Courthouse, 2nd and Baxter Streets, located at 250 N. Baxter St., Coquille, OR 97423

Other than as shown of record, neither the said beneficiary nor the said trustee have any actual notice of any person having or claiming to have any lien upon or interest in the real property hereinabove described subsequent to the interest of the trustee in the Trust Deed, or of any successor(s) in interest to the grantors or of any lessee or other person in possession of or occupying the property, except: NONE Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.778 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation(s) of the Trust Deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, together with the trustee’s and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided by ORS 86.778. The mailing address of the

trustee is: ZBS Law, LLP

5 Centerpointe Dr., Suite 400 Lake Oswego, OR 97035 (503) 946-6558

In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words “trustee” and ‘ beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Without limiting the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this property at the trustee’s sale. Dated: 4/28/2023 By Amber L. Labrecque, Esq., OSB#094593 ZBS Law, LLP

Authorized to sign on behalf of the trustee

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Published on June 30, July 7, 14 and 21, 2023\uc1\u10

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OREGON FOR COOS COUNTY

In the Matter of the Estate of STEVEN M. KELLER Deceased, Case No. 23PB05663

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that David Keller has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the claim, with proper documentation, within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, as stated below, to the Personal Representative at the office of GOULD LAW FIRM, P.C., 243 W. Commercial, P.O. Box 29, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, or the claim may be barred.

All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, 250 N. Baxter Street, Coquille, Oregon, 97423, the Personal Representative or the attorney for the Personal Representative.

Dated and first published:

July 7th 2023 David Keller Personal Representative 7374 Altiva Place Carlsbad, CA 92009 (612) 805-9610

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JLF 23-128290 TRUST-

EE’S NOTICE OF SALE

A default has occurred under the terms of a trust deed made by Robert E Fields and Diana Fields, whose address is 61451 Lower Mattson Road, Coos Bay, OR 97420 as grantor to Key Title, as Trustee, in favor of Washington Mutual Bank, a Washington Corporation, as named Beneficiary, dated October 29, 2002, recorded November 4, 2002, in the mortgage records of Coos County, Oregon, as Instrument No. 2002-14551, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association is the present Beneficiary as defined by ORS 86.705(2), as covering the following described real property:

Beginning at the Southeast corner of Government Lot 4 Section 21, Township 26 South, Range 12 West; thence West 763.0 feet to the centerline of a 60.0 foot roadway; thence North 41° West 97.0 feet; thence North 30° 30’ West 211.0 feet; thence North 18° West 90.0 feet; thence East 947.0 feet; thence South 01° East 332.0 feet to the point of beginning.

TOGETHER WITH Easements for ingress and egress purposes, including the terms and provisions thereof, as disclosed

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On Wednesday, July 19 at 6:00 PM, the North Bend Public Library will host Dr. Aaron Coyner, SOCC astrophysicist and NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, to give a talk entitled, "Finding Voices in the Starlight: The Sonification of Solar and Cosmic Events." His discussion will focus on data sonification. Data sonification is the process of taking image data from NASA missions and converting the brightness and intensity into an auditory signal making science data more accessible and providing new perspectives on events. Dr. Aaron Coyner is a solar physicist and faculty member at Southwestern Oregon Community

by instrument recorded November 12, 1971, as Microfilm No. 71-11-65522, records of Coos County, Oregon. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 61451 Lower Mattson Road, Coos Bay, OR 97420. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.752(3); the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantor’s failure to pay when due the following sums: Delinquent Monthly payments from September 1, 2022 in the sum of $9,769.02, and monthly payments in the amount of $1,067.10 from June 1, 2023 plus prior accrued late charges in the amount of $116.19, plus the sum of $148.81 for advances, together with all costs, disbursements, and/or fees incurred or paid by the beneficiary and/or trustee, their employees, agents or assigns. By reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation that the trust deed secures immediately due and payable, said sum being the following, to-wit: $71,036.75, together with accrued interest in the sum

College. He has research experience having spent graduate school at Rice University, and a 3 year post-doctoral research term at NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center. Since 2019, he has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador with a goal to make space accessible to everyone. For more information about this program, contact the library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@ northbendlibrary.org.

ASL Practice Place 12 pm, July 20th Coos Bay Public Library has partnered with instructor, Kandy Bergquist, to offer ASL PRACTICE PLACE via Zoom (virtual meeting software). Bergquist teaches American Sign Language and Signed English at Southwestern Oregon Community College. She has worked with the deaf and hard of hearing as an interpreter, classroom aid, and Speech Pathologist. We meet every third Thursday of the month @ 12:00pm. Next event: Thursday, July 20. Program is for those who wish to practice their ASL conversational skills and help other learners in a friendly setting. Attendees will have the opportunity to sign in ASL as a group for one hour in a casual, informal environment. This is NOT a class, but we will provide ideas for conversational topics. Beginners are welcome. Let’s sign! This program is FREE and open to anyone who wishes to sharpen their ASL conversational skills. Register for this event @ https://bit.ly/3m6j2WG

Telephone Talk Craft (all ages)

2 pm, July 20th

North Bend Public Library

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Unlimited Book Club

6 pm, July 20th

Thursday, July 20 at 6:00 pm, the Unlimited Book Club will meet on Zoom. Unlimited is a joint venture of the Coos Bay Public Library and the North Bend Public Library. We formed to encourage awareness and foster community discussions on equity, diversity, and inclusion

of $3,551.80 through May 31, 2023, together with interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum from June 1, 2023, plus prior accrued late charges in the amount of $116.19, plus the sum of $896.58 for advances, together with all costs, disbursements, and/or fees incurred or paid by the beneficiary and/or trustee, their employees, agents or assigns. WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will on October 18, 2023, at the hour of 10:00 AM PT, in accord with the standard time established by ORS 187.110, inside the main lobby of the Coos County Courthouse, located at 250 N Baxter Street, in the City of Coquille, OR, County of Coos, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor has or had power to convey at the time of the execution of said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is

through reading and thoughtful conversation. Unlimited meets every third Thursday of the month. This meeting will be an opportunity for members to meet and discuss our next title, selected by book club members, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Suggestions for future readings will come from members of Unlimited. Those interested are invited to attend the meeting, there is no obligation to stay. To receive Zoom link for meeting, register for free @ https://bit. ly/3R6E57M

Modern Life Skills for Older Adults

2 pm, July 24th North Bend Public Library

Our recurring program

“Modern Life Skills for Older Adults,” will be held on Monday, July 24 at 2:00 PM. This month Providence Senior Health will join us to provide information about preventing falls. An interactive tai chi demonstration will follow the presentation. Also, a resource table with related services and program materials from local organizations will be available during the program. Attendees can participate in-person or register at https:// tinyurl.com/8mfd54h3 to attend via Zoom. The program is part of NBPL's Summer Reading Program and an ongoing collaboration with the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative. For more information about this event, contact the library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@ northbendlibrary.org.

Book Talk with Rebecca Dobkins

2 pm, July 25th North Bend Public Library

The North Bend Public Library will host a book talk with Professor Rebecca J. Dobkins on Tuesday, July 25th at 2:00 PM. Rebecca Dobkins is author of the book, The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon. In The Art of Ceremony Dobkins provides a contemporary and historical overview of the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon and through conversations with tribal representatives shares their commitment to continuing ceremonial practices and

further given to any person named in ORS 86.778 that the right exists, at any time that is not later than five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by paying to the beneficiary of the entire amount due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligations or trust deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS 86.778. Notice is further given that reinstatement or payoff quotes requested pursuant to ORS 86.786 and ORS 86.789 must be timely communicated in a written request that complies with that statute, addressed to the trustee’s “Reinstatements/Payoffs - ORS 86.786” either by personal delivery or by first class,

renewing the language, art, ecological systems, kinship relations, and political and legal sovereignty. Rebecca Dobkins received a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a professor of anthropology and the curator of Native American art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Dobkins has curated over two dozen exhibitions at the museum since its opening in 1998 and is responsible for caring for the collection of Native American art and for working with contemporary Indigenous artists and communities, particularly those in Oregon and the Northwest. Dobkins teaches courses in cultural anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and museum studies. For more information about this program, contact the library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@ northbendlibrary.org.

Artist Studio Group

10:30-3 pm, July 26th,

August 9th & 23rd, Sept. 13th & 27th

Coos Art Museum

Artists looking for more studio space or to work with a community of other like-minded creative people, should join Pat’s artist studio group. Members have access to the Coos Art Museum classroom and the mentorship of our local artist Pat Snyder to enhance their creative journey! Age Range: adults. Media: All 2-D media except oils. Fee: (8 sessions) $75 members, $90 non-members. All skill levels welcome.

Teen Open Mic Night Pizza Party 4 pm, July 26th North Bend Public Library

On Wednesday, July 26 at 4:00 PM the North Bend Public Library will be celebrating the end of our Summer Reading Program with an Open Mic Night Pizza Party for teens ages 13-18! Songs, poetry, or any other form of self-expression are encouraged, but not required. So, whether you plan to perform or simply applaud, all teens are welcome! There is no registration required for this program, and pizza, beverages, and snacks will all be provided. For more information about this program, contact the

certified mail, return receipt requested, to the trustee’s address shown below. Due to potential conflicts with federal law, persons having no record legal or equitable interest in the subject property will only receive information concerning the lender’s estimated or actual bid. Lender bid information is also available at the trustee’s website, www. logs.com/janeway_law_ firm. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Also, please be advised that pursuant to the terms stated on the Deed of Trust and Note, the beneficiary is allowed to conduct property inspections while property is in default. This shall serve as notice that the beneficiary shall be conducting property inspections on the said referenced property. Without limiting the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires

library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@ northbendlibrary.org.

Bouncing Back: Nutrition and Resilience

10-11 am, July 27th

Bouncing Back: Nutrition and Resilience. Discover foods that can compromise your immunity and those that build resistance and health.

Thu Jul 27 Online webinar, 10-11 am, PST. Login at https://beav.es/TSF.

Stephanie Polizzi, MPH, RDN, DipACLM Associate Professor of Practice | College of Health Oregon State University | Extension Family & Community Health W) 541-572-5263 ext. 25291 | M) 541-4047982 https://extension. oregonstate.edu/coos/ healthy-families-communities

OMSI: Amazing Whales (all ages)

2 pm and 4 pm, July 27th North Bend Public Library

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Enough Use Your Voice

6 pm, July 27th North Bend Public Library

On Thursday, July 27 at 6:00 PM, the North Bend Public Library will host a workshop with writer, teacher, and poet Annis Cassells. During this workshop, she will discuss the genesis of the book, ENOUGH "Say Their Names..." Messages from Ground Zero to the World. Published in 2020, this collection of poetry and prose was created in response to

the trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this property at the trustee’s sale. The Fair Debt Collection Practice Act requires that we state the following: This is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If a discharge has been obtained by any party through bankruptcy proceedings: This shall not be construed to be an attempt to collect the outstanding indebtedness or hold you personally liable for the debt.

Dated:

06-05-2023 JANEWAY LAW FIRM, LLC, Successor Trustee 1499 SE Tech Center Place, Suite 255, Vancouver, WA 98683 www.logs.com/janeway_ law_firm Telephone: (360) 260-2253 Toll-free: 1-800970-5647 JLF 23-128290 NPP0436094 To: WORLD (COOS) 07/07/2023, 07/14/2023, 07/21/2023, 07/28/2023 The World and ONPA (ID:366318)

the multiple protests of police violence in the United States. Annis will discuss her involvement with the book and the reactions the book has raised. Participants in this workshop will also engage in discussion about the nature and reason for protest, concluding with a time set aside for mindful writing and reflection. To register for this event please go to https://forms.office. com/r/VySvJDvZd3. Annis Cassells is a poet, memoirist, teacher, and life coach who spends time in Oregon and California. Her poems have appeared in Snapdragon Journal, Mom Egg Review, and Rigorous Magazine, and were also featured in ENOUGH "Say Their Names..." Messages from Ground Zero to the World. Her first poetry collection, You Can’t Have It All, is available at the North Bend Public Library, and her second collection, Five & Dime Memories, is coming out soon. For more information about this program, contact the library at (541) 756-0400 or email nbservices@ northbendlibrary.org.

KurinukiBox Workshop

1-4 pm, July 30th Coos Art Museum Kurinuki Japanese Pottery with Annie Pollard and the Coastal Clay Guild. July 30, 2023, Sunday, 1-4 pm. $45 member, $60 non-member. Kurinuki is the traditional Japanese technique of hollowing out a solid piece of clay to make a beautiful and unique shape. You will learn this slow and meditative process, which will result in a small ceramic box for your tiny treasures. This same technique can be used to create cups, planters, vases, and more.

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also been a chef at a fining dining restaurant at the Ritz Carlton, as well as a “super bougie” donut popup shop, and at The Bohemian Club in Meehan gives a lot of credit to the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute, which is housed at Southwestern Community College, for giving him the tools to become a topnotch chef. One of Meehan’s instructors was Chef Randy Torres, who has since become OCCI’s Executive Director.

“The instruction that I got, particularly from Chef Torres, was just incredible,” Meehan said.

“The way he runs that pro-

gram sets you up for success – obviously by learning all of the fundamentals – but also through the connections that he has. The way he pushes students is really invaluable,”

Chef Meehan said.

Chef Torres said it’s a big deal to see his students go on to become successful chefs.

“It's the reason why you do what you do,” the OCCI executive director said. “When you see them reach heights like that, it is quite the feeling.”

“Chef Meehan has always been inspiring from a very young age. And now he's in his adulthood of being a chef and he's still inspiring, so I am very proud,” Torres said.

The Oregon Coast Culinary Institute is a professionally accredited culinary institution and is committed to nurturing culinary talent and shaping the next generation of talented chefs.

Read next week’s issue for more information about OCCI and the lunch events students will be hosting over the summer.

Douglas County looking for camp hosts

These camp host positions are available immediately and will run for four to six months or possibly longer. Individuals interested in applying to be a volunteer camp host can email or call the Douglas County Parks Department at the information provided below. Camp hosts are responsible for being park ambassadors; assisting park patrons; cleaning restroom facilities; checking in guest(s); minor maintenance of outdoor facility; restocking supplies; picking up litter, cleaning day use areas and seeking compliance with park rules.

Douglas County Commissioners Tom Kress, Chris Boice, and Tim Freeman are sending out a recruitment notice for volunteer camp hosts at three Douglas County parks and campgrounds. Volunteer camp hosts are needed for the following parks/campgrounds:

Guest Column Opinion

A Word, Please: Plural possessives

by JUNE CASAGRANDE

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, but none — none of them — think that two apostrophes go in “men’s’ clothing.”

But then I saw “women’s’ clothing,” with two apostrophes. Then “children’s’ clothing.”

That’s when I knew that what I was witnessing was not a single accidental strike of an apostrophe key. Instead, it was the weirdest take on plural possessives I’ve ever seen.

Most writers, in my experience, stumble on plural possessives — even writers who have no problem with singular possessives or plurals that aren’t possessive.

They understand that the tail of a dog is the dog’s tail, singular possessive. And they understand that when one dog joins another dog, you have two dogs, plural, not possessive. But when they have to apply both those rules to the same word, they start to lose their grasp on them.

For regular nouns like “dog,” making the plural possessive isn’t tough. Many get it right: “the dogs’ tails,” with the plural S followed by the possessive apostrophe. But nouns with irregular plurals, like “man,” “woman” and “child” trip them

1923

Loganberry Week is to be heLdh

The North Bend chamber of commerce at its luncheon tomorrow noon will discuss putting on a “Loganberry Week,” when the ladies of Kentuck inlet will conduct a demonstration of the uses of these berries for canning and preserving. It is hoped through this medium to get each family in North Bend to use t least one crate of loganberries. This will help to market the berries which farmers in Coos county are raising. There are more loganberries than are adequate to the usual demand, and the strawberry crop is proportionally short. It is hoped to entertain Chas. S. Fee of San Francisco, John M. Scott of Portland, I.T. Sparks of Eugene, Southern Pacific company officials who are expected tomorrow. output of miLL sets neW record for Lumber pLant

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up. Throw in some confusing expressions like “each other,” and almost everyone loses their grasp on how to use apostrophes: childrens’? childrens? childs’? They’re not sure. So what’s the trick to writing plural possessives correctly? Just remember this basic rules and don’t get frazzled. To make a plural noun that ends in S possessive, add an apostrophe: kids’ clothes. If you want to make possessive a plural irregular noun that does not end in S, like children, add both an apostrophe and also an S: children’s clothes.

It’s easy. Or it should be. But plural possessives get confusing because the letter S has too many jobs in English and they all get jumbled in our heads.

In English, S is used to form plurals. To talk about more than one dog, you add S: dogs.

S also forms possessives of nouns: the cat’s pajamas.

S is also used for verb conjugations. For the verb “let,” for instance, the third-person form is “lets”: he lets the cat out.

S also stands in for not one but several different words in contractions, where it adds an extra layer of confusion by pairing with an apostrophe. “It’s raining” means “It is raining,” with the letter S serving as an abbreviated form of “is.” But in “Who’s been sleeping in my bed,” the S stands

Improvements have been made in the local plant of Coos Bay Lumber company which will greatly increase the output. Some of these improvements are completed and others are nearing completion. With the improvements and additions the output of the plant will be increased about 40 per cent, and 60 or more additional men will be given employment. The company will operate 8 hours a day. The two mills will turn out on the average 800,000 feet of lumber in eight hours. Some days the output will reach 1,000,000 feet, according to the nature of the lumber cut.

1973

pre ends his coLLegiate career in Win

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(UPI) — Steve Prefontaine finished his collegiate running career Saturday by setting another record to add to his long collection and winning an NCAA event an unprecedented fourth time.

Pre, the super Duck, led Oregon to a second place finish in the NCAA track and field championships.

The Ducks had 31 points behind winner UCLA’s 56. Oregon State finished with 12.

Prefontaine won the three mile for the fourth straight year with a time of 13:05.3, breaking the 13:20.1 standard he set

for “has.” And in “Let’s eat,” the S represents the word “us,” which is hard to remember because no one says, “let us eat.” Then come even more curveballs. For example, that rule that says you use an apostrophe and S to make a possessive out of a noun? Well, don’t try that with a pronoun. If you did, you’d write, incorrectly, “The dog wagged it’s tail” instead of the correct “The dog wagged its tail.” You’d also incorrectly write “Who’s car is parked outside?” when the possessive of “who” is not “who’s” but “whose”: Whose car is parked outside? “Each other” is easy to get wrong, too. When you’re making it possessive, the apostrophe goes before the S, “They shook each other’s hand,” because “other” is meant as singular. With all these confusing S rules, you can be forgiven if you stumble on plural possessives. But if you just remember the basic rule — add only an apostrophe to plurals that end in S, but add an apostrophe plus S to plurals that don’t — you’ll get men’s, women’s, children’s and even kids’ right every time.

— June Casagrande is the author of “The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should Know.” She can be reached at JuneTCN@aol.com.

in 1971.

Prefontaine, in a post race interview with Erich Segal, author and distance runner, said he hopes to brake a world record in one of the distances this year.

Oregon also got a first place from Mac Wilkins in the discus. Wilkins missed his goal of an NCAA record but heaved the plate 203-11, nearly 14 feet farther than second place finisher Ken Stadel of Rice. Wilkins had placed third in the shot put earlier.

Oregon State’s defending champion, high jumper Tom Woods had to settle for second place when Reynoldo Brown of California Poly had fewer misses. Both went 7-4, breaking the NCAA record of 7-3 ¼ set by Woods last year.

nation s Worst infLation in 22 years eases

FOOD PRICE INCREASES SLOW; COSTS STILL UP

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Meal prices fell and the rate increase in food prices generally slackened in May as the nation’s worse inflation in 22 years eased slightly, the government reported today.

The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said the cost of living still rose 0.6 per cent last month mainly because of higher prices for clothing, gasoline, used cars, household services and most foods.

But the BLS said the May increase was smaller than

Things were supposed to be so different by now. Futurists predicted that by the 21st century, we’d travel in helicopter cars, vacation on Mars, and all would be wearing those nifty space jumpsuits.

It didn’t turn out that way.

One thing they especially got wrong was food. However, Americans’ fascination with the early Space Age did send folks over the moon for several astronaut-related products.

Time to revisit three food fads from a future that wasn’t.

NASA’s early programs seized the country’s fascination like nothing before. Space was hip, cool and trendy. And one product shouted “space” like no other: Tang.

It burst onto the scene when John Glenn drank it during his Friendship 7 flight on February 20, 1962, one of several items he consumed to test eating in orbit.

General Mills shrewdly capitalized on the drink’s 15 minutes of fame. Everyday folks could taste the glamour of spaceflight themselves right in their own kitchen.

Tang was the brainchild of prominent food scientist William Miller. He also gave us Cool Whip, powdered egg whites, and that exploding candy that had absolutely no connection to space (despite many urban myths to the contrary), Pop Rocks. They disappeared for a while 30 years ago and later returned. Tang has always been available.

the price jumps in the three previous months — the highest three-month rise since 1951.

A further leveling off was expected as the result of the retail price freeze President Nixon ordered ast week for a maximum of 60 days. The BLS said its Consumer Price Index (CPI) now stood 5.5 per cent above a year ago — more than twice the government’s 2.5 per cent price guideline. The May CPI did not reflect the price freeze but it did show the full impact of the meat price freeze ceilings Nixon ordered late in March as meat prices declined 0.1 per cent in May after rising 13.2 per cent during the previous four months.

2003

youngsters hike to heLp reLay for Life event

COQUILLE — Lincoln Elementary School students took advantage of the hot weather Thursday afternoon to walk around a dusty track, raising money for cancer research.

“This is fun. We’re helping other people,” said 10-year-old Shaylee Kester as she took a big drink of water and resumed walking.

For the last couple of weeks, the school’s approximately 220 students have spent their spare time raising more than $2,000 for the Coquille-Myrtle Point Relay for Life event that will be held in late June. Thurs-

Then there was Astronaut Ice Cream. It was freeze-dried to eliminate water and sealed in a pouch, removing the need for refrigeration. It also removed anything recognizable to human taste buds. If you’ve ever had some, you know it tastes like fiberglass insulation.

Yet despite having “astronaut” in its name, the stuff never made it into space. NASA hired Whirlpool to produce freeze-dried foods that could be used during long trips to the moon. And this one didn’t go, despite widespread claims to the contrary.

A report somehow made it into the press that Astronaut Ice Cream was consumed during Apollo 7’s mission in 1968. But it wasn’t. Astronaut Walter Cunningham ought to know; he served on that mission and later told an interviewer, “We didn’t have any of that stuff.”

Astronaut Ice Cream still has a following among hikers and campers because it’s light and occupies little room on backpacks. Tastiness, apparently, is incidental to many hikers and campers.

That brings us to our final product. It had the least imaginative name of all: Space Food Sticks. Unlike Astronaut Ice Cream, this one really did take the E-Ticket trip aloft. Scott Carpenter consumed three small food cubes while traveling in Aurora 7, just 90 days after Glenn downed Tang. (Apparently, nobody at Cape Canaveral considered serving them together as space’s answer to wine and cheese.)

Pillsbury trotted out its version around 1970, calling it a “nutritionally

day, the school held its own scaled-down version of the walk. “We try to do something fun every year at the end of school,” said secretary Sherrie Russell.

Carrie Cook, the co-chairwoman for the Coquille-Myrtle Point relay, said this type of event gives the children a chance to give something back to the community and gain a better understanding of cancer.

“It’s a neat thing because they are raising money to help people they don’t know,” she added. While she wasn’t sure how much money she raised, 10-year-old Ally Manley learned she was Lincoln’s top fund-raiser. “It feels good helping out,” said the 10-year-old blonde fourth-grader.

the case of the missing puffins

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PUFFINS GONE? IT’S NO

RHETORICAL QUESTION.

Birdwatchers have been making phone calls, sending e-mails and just plain talking nonstop about the tufted puffins that breed, or used to, off Bandon’s Coquille Point.

This year, not one pair showed up on Elephant Rock, the big island that sits in the swirling, frothy surf right at the base of the well-known point south of town. Apparently, a pair of red foxes is to blame for having gobbled future year’s progeny.

“Almost all the birds that

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balanced” snack, the granddaddy of today’s energy bars. Instead of bite-size cubes, it was packaged in stick form in a sealed container to appear more “astronauty.”

Many aging Baby Boomers distinctly remember eating them. They had a reputation for not being too bad. (Though if you put enough sugar in anything, you guarantee its appeal to a 9-year-old’s palate.)

Pillsbury’s food engineers also invented relish that could be served by the slice, cake that didn’t crumble, and meat that didn’t need refrigeration. Surprisingly, there was no demand for them.

Space Food Sticks faded from store shelves as the glory faded from the space program. You can still find them in space museum gift shops and online.

Futuristic foods from the Final Frontier are now oddities from a bygone era. Today’s trend is toward natural foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, and away from pre-packaged processed edibles. Ironic, isn’t it?

And we didn’t get those nifty space jumpsuits, either. Bummer.

ABOUT THE WRITER

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were breeding out there last year and the year before failed, because of the foxes,” said Roy Lowe who manages all of the wildlife refuges along the coast. The foxes’ menu included eggs, chicks and likely parents of western gulls, pigeon guillemots, black oystercatchers, pelagic cormorants, the occasional double-crested cormorants and of course puffins.

stiegeLer, Woods pLace at ncaa meet

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Marshfield graduate John Stiegeler finished his career for the University of Oregon by throwing his season best in the javelin to earn fourth place and All-American status. Stiegeler’s throw of 241 feet, 5 inches, was a 13foot best for this season. He won the NCAA title as a sophomore when the championships were held in Eugene, but had his season cut short by a serious knee injury last spring.

Brian Chaput of Pennsylvania won the title with a throw of 258-2.

Oregon junior Trevor Woods, meanwhile, finished in a tie for eighth in the pole vault.

Woods, who also graduated from Marshfield, cleared 16-10 ¾ on his opening attempt, but failed to get over 17-4 ½, finishing in a tie with three other vaulters.

Eric Eshbach of Nebraska cleared 17-10 ½ to win the event.

BY MARY SCHAMEHORN

An item on the front page of the June 21, 1928, Western World was headlined "Bank of Bandon (first photo) Has New Burglar Alarm."

"A tool dropped to the floor, any pounding or drilling on the vault, any heat applied to the door or any wires clipped will provide a warm, but rather noisy, reception for the first burglar who tries to gain entrance to the Bank of Bandon outside orthodox banking hours. Provision is also being made to take care of day-time robbers, but after a slightly different fashion.

"The Alert Alarm, as the device is known to the trade, is an ingenious mechanism which makes a successful bank robbery almost impossible. The alarm has microphone attachments which record any tapping on the vault and will start the bell outside the bank. If the yegg so much as kicks over a chair or drops a tool it is time for him to make a hurried departure.

"A time clock inside the vault switches off the microphone so that ordinary noises of the day will not disturb the system, and at the same time turns on all the daytime protective devices."

The following week's paper carries a story about an unsuccessful bank entrance, saying "someone who didn't read last week's Western World, or who ques-

As I See It: The first bank alarm

tioned the authenticity of the article, tried to enter the bank, apparently bent on robbery Saturday night.

"A hole was cut through the panel of the door leading into the bank. A small hand could easily have reached through the hole and turned the door knob, but instead the small hand turned the inside lock, and probably becoming confused decided to give it up as a bad job."

Later in the evening, a 75-year-old newsboy discovered the hole, and told others how accommodating the bank was because he was able to push the paper through the hole, rather than having to bend down and shove it under the door. And that's how bank officials discovered the attempted robbery.

The second picture tells of Prosper being a bustling mill town. The industry of the place is the Prosper Mill company, according to the January 1924 Western World. The mill operates two steamers, the Brooklyn and the Elizabeth, which run regularly to San Francisco, carrying lumber from the mill.

"Prosper is quite a little settlement all to itself. Besides the mill, there is a large general store, conducted by the company, boarding house, eating house and quite a number of residences, occupied by married men employed

at the mill. Several boats give mail, passenger and freight service up and down the river. There is a good grade school, which is attended by the young people of the community and in charge of several teachers.

"The mill was built twenty years ago and has operated practically continuously since it was established. The average cut is about 20,000,000 feet of lumber a year.

"The logging camp of the company is located on the upper Coquille river and the logs are towed down to the mill. About 60 men are employed at the camp and about 50 men at the mill."

The third picture is of the Favorite, which was one of the few vessels still plying the river in 1930.

"The friendly whistle of the passenger and freight boats upon the Coquille river will soon be a thing of the past. With the sale of the Hope (or Hone) to the Clausen Bros, to be used as a private freight boat and the sale of the Imperial to a company in Portland by the Hermann Bros., it leaves only the Favorite, which is rumored will discontinue as soon as the Riverton schools close this spring. The Imperial has been conditioned to make the trip to Portland, and is at present waiting till weather conditions will permit a venture. The local

tug will assist her to the Columbia river."

I learned this week that a 58-year-old Bandon woman, Kathleen McCusker (who also went by KayeLynn) jumped to her death from the second story window of her home at 218 13th Street late last Thursday afternoon. Since moving to Bandon seven or eight years ago, Ms. McCusker appeared to have serious mental issues, having had confrontations with a number of Bandon residents (including this writer) and at least one Bandon business, who had her arrested after she had been trespassed, but returned to the business.

Before moving to Bandon from Lewes, Delaware, she was reportedly a licensed physical therapist in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

Coast Community Health Center has a new Chief Executive Officer. Board chairman J.J. McLeod announced that Edward Larsen has been hired to replace Melissa Cribbins, who has been serving in the position since the shakeup which resulted in the longtime administrator Linda Maxon and the board parting ways.

Larsen has extensive experience in health care and was formerly the Chief Operations Officer and Chief Information Officer at Heritage Health in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He has a bachelor's degree in information systems from the University of Phoenix, and an MBA from California Coast University.

Coast posted recently that they are not taking new patients until Sept. 1 at the Bandon clinic, but are accepting new patients at their Port Orford clinic.

Bandon will soon have a sushi restaurant in Old Town. Archie Garrett, owner of Wilson's Market, and Damon Weatherill, owner of the building just west of Bandon Baking Company and across from The Minute Cafe and

the Continuum Center, will be opening Bandon Sushi, plans for which are currently underway in Weatherill's building.

Most people have probably noticed the new crosswalk just east of Freedom Graphics, which will link the city's proposed parking lot below City Hall to Old Town. City Manager Dan Chandler told the council last week that the state will be installing a blinking light at the crosswalk, much like the light at the Ninth Street crossing.

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Colleen Welch, a resident of Tish A Tang lane, recently attended the May 25 Bandon Planning Commission meeting, and said she had concerns with the discussion on ADU's (Accessory Dwelling Units).

"There was a fair amount of discussion about the changes allowing ADUs would bring to Bandon. Many comments focused on neighborhood quality and expressed that ADUs would negatively

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARY SCHAMEHORN

Photos contributed by the Mary Schamehorn collection In 1928, the Bank of Bandon became the first local bank to install a burglar alarm. The alarm was made to go off with any effort to enter the vault.

Commissioners Honor Ron Thomas as Senior Volunteer of the Month

Douglas County Commissioners Tom Kress, Chris Boice, and Tim Freeman, along with our Douglas County Senior

Services Department are pleased to announce that Ron Thomas was awarded the Douglas County Senior Services

Volunteer of the Month award for June 2023.

Ron was presented with the award on Thursday, June 20, 2023, from Commissioner Tim Freeman.

“The guitar music that Ron brings to our Senior Dining Sites is fantastic,” remarked Commissioner Tim Freeman. “We really appreciate his generosity in sharing his musical talent with our senior patrons."

Douglas County Senior Services Director Jeanne Wright nominated Ron for the Douglas County Senior Services Volunteer of the Month award. She said, “Ron brings so much joy, fun and happiness to our senior dining sites. When he performs, people are

always smiling, dancing, and clapping. It is a special treat for our seniors when he comes to entertain at one of our senior dining sites. He makes everyone feel welcome and has quite a following too!”

Ron moved to Douglas County about a year ago from the Portland area and began volunteering to play music at several Bistro Sixty Senior Dining Sites right after he arrived. He is retired from the telecommunications industry and also brings music to residents and staff at memory care and nursing home facilities in Roseburg and Cottage Grove. Ron says the best part of volunteering at the senior dining sites

Locals celebrate Knitting in Public Day

A group of local women recently took part in their sixth-annual worldwide Knitting in Public Day and celebrated it with a yarn bomb.

The yarn bomb was led by Julie Crane, along with Kelly Oney, owner of The Wool Company in Bandon, and a group of ladies who volunteered to knit and crochet sweaters for the trees.

Worldwide knitting in public began in 2005 by a woman named Danielle Landis in an effort to get knitters and fiber artists together to enjoy

each other’s company.

Knitting enthusiasts have celebrated the occasion – always held the second Saturday in June – with door prizes, food demos and other fun events.

The Wool Company has been a yarn store on the Oregon coast since 1983.

“Our area has a great history of raising local sheep and goats for fiber. We continue to support local women farmers who supply us in wool, Angora rabbit fur and mohair fibers,” Oney said. “I’d like to thank everyone who helped with the events.”

is seeing all the smiles and watching friends enjoy his music. He volunteers, “Because I wanted to see people gathering and having a good time after the long isolation of the pandemic. Also, I want to bring uplifting music to help the communities rebuild. When I’m singing and people are singing along with me, especially to songs like Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “16 Tons” and Hank William’s “Hey, Good Lookin”, it’s all about the smiles, having fun and enjoying one another’s company.”

Our Bistro Sixty Senior Dining Sites prepare meals on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at our seven rural dining site locations in

Glide, Glendale, Reedsport, Riddle, Sutherlin, Winston, and Yoncalla.

Senior Services staff know there are others in our communities who could benefit from their Meals on Wheels delivery program and/or meals at their Bistro Sixty Senior Dining Sites. If residents know of friends or family who are unable to drive, need assistance with daily living activities, would benefit from hot meal delivery, or need other assistance, they are encouraged to call the Aging & Disabilities Resource Connection in the Douglas County Senior Services Department at (541) 440-3677 or by sending an email to adrc@co.douglas. or.us.

The Wool Company is located at 990 2nd St SE in Bandon. Additional information about the

Summer Fun with the South Slough Reserve

Purple Martin Program

—July 15, 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Come join expert birder Joe Metzler to learn about the fascinating purple martin, its migration patterns and ecological importance. We will meet at the South Slough Visitor Center for an introductory presentation and then carpool to the North Spit to observe birds and hopefully band chicks. Bring your binoculars or borrow a pair of ours. This event is free; however, registration is required and limited to 25 participants.

programming includes:

Kayaking the Estuary

—July 22, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Experience the rich cultural and natural history of the South Slough on a trail that flows with the tide. During the five-mile paddle, experienced guides will show you areas of the Reserve rarely seen by visitors. Bring your own kayak or canoe, paddles, PFDs, water, and lunch. Feet and legs may get wet and muddy at launch points.

Driver and shuttle will be provided. Meet at the Distant Water Fleet Parking Lot in Charleston, OR next to Qualman Oysters.

($10 / boat or $35 with kayak rental) Registration is required and limited to 16 boats.

Birding at Bandon Marsh Wildlife Refuge

—July 29, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Join manager Alex Cook for a fun morning of exciting birding around the Refuge. Binoculars and spotting scope provided. Meet at the Refuge Main Office @ 83673 North Bank Lane, Bandon, OR. This event is free; however, registration is required. Those interested in learning about future activities can sign up for South Slough Reserve’s newsletter or visit www.southsloughestuary.org.

The Chamber Minute: Where are we going?

Every year, about this time, I conduct a one on one conversation with each of the 21 elected members of the Chamber Board which we call Director Chats. The purpose is to get their sense of where the organization is at and where it’s headed.

Let me share some of those insights with you through their own comments.

Board Relationships and Expectations

Like being part of an organization that makes a difference in the community. It provides networking opportunities and activities.

Involvement, or rather lack of involvement, by some directors needs to change

I like the Chamber overall, as we have an active board who don’t work a personal agenda.

One of the real values of the Chamber is building relationships with folks I wouldn’t normally interact with.

The Chamber Executive committee is a great place to grow in responsibility and effective work.

Likes the mix of generations on the Board.

The Board is like a community within itself. They are a group of amazing individuals which I’m glad to be part of.

Chamber Committees & Events

Really enjoy serving on the Leadership Coos Board.

After hours is a real benefit for new members

The Chamber stands

for small business and addressing legislative issues and need. It’s nice to have a solid voice in government .

WBC is real opportunity for the Chamber and Community.

I enjoy the people of the Board. Going to social events like Business after Hours, grand openings, etc. Especially like the LAT helping pass the Charleston area TLT measure

WBC is a real value, especially to new businesses. I like the present format

Chamber Operations & Communication

Continue to develop the use of the Community App. Through it we have more to offer them.

Like the open friendly discussions

with the Board and Committees. We are working with the website structure to enable even more of that with our members.

It’s important to look at our major directions for each year.

Looking forward to the Chamber 101 program and videos

Still like the way the Chamber unites the community and keeps people informed on what’s going on.

Appreciates the Chamber doing something for others, and highlighting those type of opportunities to us.

The new Community app is excellent I don’t see any changes to do in our organization. As things or opportunities come up, we make

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adjustments as needed.

Main improvement I can see is the quality of our website

LAT is the Legislative Action Team of your Chamber. WBC is the Wednesday Business Connection Oops, it looks like I’m out of space, so we will continue this report next week.

The Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, remember “Our Business is Helping Your Business”. And like us on Facebook.

business can be found on The Wool Company’s Facebook Page.

As I See It continued from page 13 impact neighborhoods. I can understand that concern but would ask it to be balanced with the negative impacts NOT addressing the housing issue in our community would have. If we do not build adequate workforce housing, Bandon will not have workers. Part of the charm of living here is our unique businesses and restaurants. We currently have several buildings that are vacant, and businesses reducing their hours due to lack of staff. We've all probably experienced the frustration of going to a business during their regular operating hours only to find a sign on the door saying 'Sorry, closed due to staff shortage.' This is not going to improve without significant investments in workforce housing. Imagine not having our hospital available for emergencies or minor procedures because of a lack of qualified nurses. Our schools vacant or diminished when families and teaches can't afford to live here. Having to drive to Coos Bay for groceries, haircuts, veterinary care and other everyday goods and services. Programs at the Barn or Sprague theater ceasing because there is no one to put them on.

"There seems to be a notion that we can prevent Bandon from changing. this is completely unrealistic. Communities change, either through action or inaction. It is up to us to decide which path is in the best interests for the long-term viability of Bandon. Personally, I chose to relocate here for retirement not only for the natural beauty of the area, but also for the services the town offered. If we lost the people who are responsible for providing the services it really doesn't matter what our neighborhood density is, the resulting change will not be positive."

This July, adults and kids can participate in a variety of nature-themed activities with South Slough Reserve. Available

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Douglas County Commissioner Tim Freeman presents the Senior Volunteer of the Month award to Ron Thomas.

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A group of women in Bandon celebrated Knitting in Public Day by knitting a yarn bomb.

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I have a sister-in-law, "Helen," who has appointed herself as the final word on all family events. No other relative has any input into when, where, what, etc., regarding any family celebration. If it's not her way, it's the highway.

The biggest problem with Helen is she schedules everything on the date that fits her calendar without regard for anyone else's. An example: We once celebrated Christmas in February because that worked best for her. Another time, my wife and I scheduled a complicated vacation around my brother's birthday so we could be there to celebrate with him. Helen moved his birthday party right into the middle of our prepaid vacation.

More examples: Thanksgiving is celebrated in early December, and other significant dates fall whenever she decides and are subject to change at the last moment at her whim. Complying with Helen's one-sided demands makes planning for everyone else a nightmare.

The control doesn't end there. It also includes the venue, menu and guest list. She even puts place cards on the table designating the seating arrangements. As with everything else, these are NOT negotiable. If not complied with, the "offender" is subjected to a minimum of six months of silent treatment and ghosting. How does one deal with this?

Dear Abby: — CONTROLLED IN FLORIDA

DEAR CONTROLLED:

One deals with this by discussing it with other family members to see if they feel the same as you do and are willing to face the consequences of Helen's extended silences, which, from my perspective, might be a relief. (Then pray she doesn't plan your funeral.)

Dear Abby: — POSITIVE PERSON IN THE SOUTH

I'm a nurse who still works full time. Most of my peers are retired. Several of them I've started to avoid at all costs. Each time I talk to them, all they want to talk about are their aches and pains, how sick they are and how mad they are at their kids, siblings or spouse. They aren't just annoyed. They're

DEAR

Coos Art Museum features the Oregon Marine Reserves

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Daring robbery at the Marshfield museum! Priceless diamond stolen! A villain, wanted in five states, and unwanted in all the others, is hiding out in Coquelle City on his way back to his lair in Powers. An innocent and beautiful orphan, taken in by her wise aunt, are on their way from Broadbent to the big city of Marshfield and are staying the night in Coquelle City. A confounded confusion of two travel trunks sets events in motion and hilarity ensues. Will the villain make o with the diamond and the girl or will our brave young hero save the day? Friday June 2nd

nections is key not only within the reserve, but also in our human relationship to the natural world.

The exhibition features five artists of varying media and style:

• Julie Fiedler is a ceramics artist and painter and directs St. James Santiago School in Lincoln City.

• Cynthia Longhat-Adams is a selftaught multimedia artist who uses pyrographic methods, or FirePainting, in an ever-evolving process that powers her growth as an artist.

• Victoria McOmie lives on the central Oregon Coast and is a painter and mixed media artist taking creative cues from nature for over four decades.

• Nora Sherwood holds a certificate in natural science illustration from the University of Washington and works for clients in Oregon and beyond.

• Jill Perry Townsend paints plein air in oils; she loves the ocean and landscape of the coast and the adventure of going out into amazing places to paint.

W e e d o f t h e M o n t h

The plant produces 10,000s of viable seeds, scattering a dense mat of seedlings and eventually a dense thicket of old growth plants Thankfully it is easy to uproot, and if caught early, manual control is a good option It likes acidic soil and has been invading boglands of our region

Catch this NEW INVADER before it takes over!

While the plant has taken over whole hillsides in Coastal California, it was not seen in a wild setting in the Coos Basin until this spring.

PUZZLE

Astrophysics collaboration led by Oregon State finds ‘chorus’ of gravitational waves

By Steve LundeBerg Guest Aticle

Gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of time-space predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, are permeating the universe at low frequencies, according to a multiyear National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University scientists.

The findings appear in a collection of four papers authored by researchers from the NANOGrav Physics Frontier Center co-directed by Xavier Siemens, professor of physics in the OSU College of Science.

Evidence of the gravitational waves, whose oscillations are measured in years and decades, was published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

“In the constant quest to advance human knowledge and understanding, this is a really important step along the journey,” Siemens said.

NANOGrav, which stands for North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, is an international collaboration of nearly 200 astrophysics researchers whose mission is using radio pulsar timing to search for low-frequency gravita-

tional waves. Detecting a “chorus” of low-frequency gravitational waves, as NANOGrav has done, is a key to unlocking the mysteries of how structures are formed in the cosmos, said OSU astrophysicist Jeff Hazboun.

“We’ve opened up this new area of the spectrum for gravitational waves,” Hazboun said. “We’ve seen low-frequency waves, from a completely different part of the spectrum, which tells us that they’re a ubiquitous physical phenomenon and that we can look for them anywhere.”

Gravitational waves were first observed in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO.

The discovery of those waves, with frequencies of around 100 cycles per second, was a milestone event in physics and astronomy. It confirmed one of the main predictions of Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity and earned a Nobel Prize in Physics for LIGO’s founders.

Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of massive stars that exploded as supernovas.

They send out pulses of radio waves with extreme regularity, and a

group of them is known as a pulsar timing array, or PTA.

Sixty-eight pulsars were used in gathering evidence that the Milky Way galaxy is awash in a sea of low-frequency gravitational waves, Siemens said.

Einstein predicted how gravitational waves should affect pulsar signals: By stretching and squeezing the fabric of time-space, gravitational waves should alter the timing of each pulse in a predictable way, delaying some pulses while speeding up others.

“The large number of pulsars used in the NANOGrav analysis has enabled us to see what we think are the first signs of the correlation pattern predicted by general relativity,” Siemens said. “We can use those pulsars as clocks spread out through the sky, and we can see how the ticking of the clocks changes from gravitational waves passing through our galaxy.”

NANOGrav began in 2007 and eight years later launched as a Physics Frontier Center with a $14.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation when Siemens was at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Siemens joined OSU in 2019 and two years later the NSF awarded

NANOGrav an additional $17 million over five years to search for gravitational wave signals with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Siemens said OSU receives about $600,000 annually in NANOGrav funding, with data analysis being Oregon State’s primary role in addition to project leadership and administration.

Co-directed by Maura McLaughlin, an astronomer at West Virginia University, NANOGrav combines the efforts of researchers at 18 universities, including approximately 20 graduate and undergraduate students at Oregon State.

“Searching for gravitational waves is like putting together a puzzle: Everyone has their own piece but they all fit together,” said Phia Morton of Bend, a senior majoring in applied physics and nuclear engineering. “It is a common misconception that scientific breakthroughs come from a lone genius. On the contrary, large-scale science projects require enormous amounts of collaboration and for everyone involved to believe in the goals of the group.” Morton and other

OSU undergraduates contribute by searching for new pulsars to add to NANOGrav’s array; the more pulsars at its disposal, the more sensitive the gravitational wave detection can be, she explains.

“Pulsars are actually very faint radio sources, so we require thousands of hours a year on the world’s largest telescopes to carry out this experiment,” McLaughlin said. “These results are made possible through the National Science Foundation’s continued commitment to these exceptionally sensitive radio observatories.”

Researchers with LIGO, also an NSF-funded international collaboration, in 2015 detected gravitational waves produced by the collision of two black holes using the twin LIGO interferometers in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington.

The gravitational waves that can be observed by LIGO, created by those types of “black hole binaries,” have frequencies of about 100 hertz, Hazboun said.

“NANOgrav searches for gravitational waves with frequencies 11 orders of magnitude below those LIGO is detecting,” he said.

Siemens explains that using a PTA to detect

a chorus of gravitational wave signals from multiple super-massive black hole mergers – described as a stochastic background of gravitational waves – holds more promise for understanding the universe than detecting a single wave from a single black hole binary collision.

“Each signal is like a note, and we’re not just after one of these notes – we want to hear the whole choir,” he said. “We want to hear the collective chorus of all of the super-massive black hole binaries that are merging in the universe.”

Super-massive black holes are the biggest type of black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of the sun, and they reside in the centers of galaxies.

NANOGrav researchers say future studies of the signals super-massive black holes send out will enable scientists to view the gravitational wave universe through a new window, offering insight into titanic black holes merging in the centers of distant galaxies and potentially into other exotic sources of low-frequency gravitational waves.

“This is just the beginning of our work,” Siemens said.

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