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Megan Crawford, 11, stands at the helm with Monica “Buttercup” Shumacher, steward and education coordinator, during public tours of the tall ship Hawaiian Chieftain on Friday in Coos Bay.
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NORTH BEND — Lighthouse School has struck a tentative deal to move into the former ACS/Xerox call center. The Coos County Airport District will let the K-8 charter school lease the former call center next school year on one condition: The North Bend school board has to commit to Board meeting paying rent on the buildThe North Bend school board ing for 10 years. will meet at 5:15 p.m. Monday at “That’s going to be a the school district office to considhard sell,” school board er the airport district’s offer. chair Megan Jacquot said of getting approval from her fellow board members. Lighthouse has to renew its charter with the district every five years. It’s in the process of solidifying that agreement now, but it’s impossible to guess what will happen five years from now, Jacquot and airport district board member Mike Lehman said at Thursday’s meeting. According to the offer, Lighthouse would pay $11,000 a month in rent for 10 years.
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COOS BAY — It's a scene straight out of Hollywood pirate movies: rough-looking men with braided hair and knives in their belts, climbing the rigging of a giant ship to gaze over the horizon. This year, for the first time in their annual visit to the South Coast, the tall ships of the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority are allowing visitors to go aloft in their rigging. And there’s plenty of rigging to climb. The Hawaiian Chieftain’s mizzen mast stands approximately 60 feet To watch World photog- tall at its highest point. rapher Alysha Beck How high can visiclimbing the tall ship tors climb? As high rigging, go to they want — under the theworldlink.com/video supervision of a trained crew member, clipped onto a safety line in a rock climbing harness. “If you do fall, you’ll fall a maximum of 5 feet, before your entire harness catches you,” said crewmember Jas Maildore, helping a climber into her harness. John Morrison, captain of the Hawaiian Chieftain, said that at sea, going aloft is mostly done out of necessity, and isn’t as common as you might think. “Every time you’re loosing sail or furling sail,” he said. “Every time it really starts blowing, you’re going to reduce down to your storm sails.” The Hawaiian Chieftain and its sister ship, the Lady Washington, will be docked on the Coos Bay Boardwalk through May 11. For information about tour schedules, visit www.theworldlink.com/tallships.
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When the heat went up, so did the mosquitoes BY AMY MOSS STRONG The World
Crew members prepare for public tours on the deck of the Hawaiian Chieftain on Friday in Coos Bay.
BANDON — Get out your repellent, the infamous saltwater marsh mosquito, Aedes dorsalis, has arrived for the season. But residents near the Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge Ni’les-tun Unit should not expect a repeat of last year’s unprecedented infestation. This year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, coordinating with Coos County officials, mosquito management experts and others, have assured the public they have a plan that will not only control the mosquito population this year, but prevent such overpopulations from happening in the future. However, officials believe that the unseasonably warm weather has hastened the first fly-off of the season because they were unable to prevent the first saltwater marsh mosquitoes from reaching maturity. Mosquitoes go through four larval stages before maturity. A fly-off, differentiated from a hatching, is when the saltwater marsh mosquito is finally able to fly from its marshy home and seek blood meals. The fly-off is expected to hit Bandon this weekend and residents have already reported seeing increased numbers. SEE MOSQUITO | A10
GOP making bold play for US Senate seat in Oregon The Associated Press
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LAKE OSWEGO — The GOP is making a bold play for a U.S. Senate seat in reliably Democratic Oregon, where a Republican hasn’t been elected to a statewide office in more than a decade.
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Republicans back in Washington think they’ve found the right candidate in Monica Wehby, a children’s brain surgeon who’s raised more than $1 million and put her early opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care law at the center of her campaign. The race is shaping up to be a
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strong test of the GOP strategy of relentlessly using the health law against Democrats in hopes of regaining control of the Senate. The rollout of the law in Oregon has been worse than in most other states, and Republicans are hoping a doctor has the credibility to capitalize on resulting voter discontent.
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“Doctors are trained differently,” Wehby said in a recent candidate forum at a Republican women’s club in Lake Oswego, a well-to-do Portland suburb. “We know how to look at things logically, not ideologically, and we also know how to work with other people.” Ballots go out April 30 in the
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