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theworldlink.com Chloe Danielson graduated from Marshfield High School in 2009. After earning a degree at Oregon State University, she returned to teach at Blossom Gulch Elementary School.
As South Coast high school seniors make the long walk across a gymnasium stage this month, many of their immediate futures are uncertain. Some have already committed to a stint in the U.S. military. Others are headed off to college, or straight to work in the same trade as a parent. Many are realizing they should have put more thought into the matter. Of the ones who leave, most won’t return. But some come back, for a variety of reasons. And they all want a little bit more from their hometown. Here are some of their stories.
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State will cut hatchery salmon BY JEFF BARNARD Associated Press Writer GRANTS PASS — A state board approved a new salmon and steelhead management plan Friday for the Oregon Coast that trims the introduction of hatchery salmon and steelhead on a few rivers to reduce the likelihood they will interbreed with wild fish. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission unanimously adopted the Coastal Multi-Species Management Plan at a meeting in Salem. State fisheries chief Ed Bowles says the plan made some compromises to accommodate objections raised by anglers and county officials in the Tillamook Bay area and the southern coast. The anglers and officials did not want to see a reduction in the number of hatchery fish put into local rivers each year because fish are important to the local economies. Bowles added that, overall, the number of hatchery fish going into coastal rivers is increasing. The department says wild salmon and steelhead runs are generally healthy on the coast, but there are warning signs on a few rivers that hatchery salmon are interbreeding with wild fish, which reduces the survival rate of future generations. The plan also opens up opportunities to harvest a few wild
Carmen Matthews graduated from Marshfield High School in 2001. Matthews stayed in the Bay Area after graduation and opened 7 Devils Brewing Co. in 2013.
WE CAME BACK
Swinging for the fences
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hen Carmen Matthews graduated from Marshfield High School in 2001, the job outlook for people in their early 20s wasn’t as tough as it is now. “I wouldn’t say it was bad,” he said After graduation, he spent stints working at Albertson’s and more than a decade working at and managing Dutch Bros. coffee stands. He also discovered he loved brewing beer. Shortly after getting married, Carmen and his wife, Annie Pollard, decided they’d take a swing at the big leagues. After heavy promotion through social media and word of mouth, they opened 7 Devils Brewing Co. to rave SEE CARMEN | A8
The numbers According to the Oregon Employment Department, U.S. teens suffered a 24.8 percent loss in jobs between fall 2007 and winter 2009. There's also a direct correlation between a family's income and its children's employment prospects. A 2011 study showed 41.7 percent of teens from households making between $100,000 and $150,000 a year were employed. Just under 33 percent of teens from homes taking in between $40,000 and $60,000 were employed in the same year.
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VA chief: 18 Sent out 67 applications vets left off waiting list have died
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etting a teaching job these days isn’t as easy as you might think, as 2009 MHS grad Chloe Danielson found in her senior year at Oregon State University. “I applied for probably 67 jobs to be exact,” she said. Even with two degrees, she faced stiff competition in a tough market. One of those applications was for a position teaching third grade at Coos Bay’s Blossum Gulch Elementary School. “I got the job right after Memorial Day,” she said, smiling in a classroom filled with chalkboards and
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Hit hard by the recession
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very weekend, 2006 MHS graduate Cejay Morgan buckles himself into his office, a bright yellow taxi cab parked behind Yellow Cab Taxi’s Coos Bay offices. Morgan, 26, originally started working at Yellow Cab several years ago as a dispatcher. Now, he’s one of the drivers. He lived in Eugene for a stint after Marshfield, working odd jobs, before coming back to the area. It wasn’t easy. “I quit ACS, and I couldn’t find a job for like six months,” he said, referring to the former Xerox call center in North Bend, now facing a class action lawsuit
Cejay Morgan graduated from Marshfield High School in 2006. He returned to the Bay Area after living in Eugene and now works as a driver for Yellow Cab Taxi Company.
for unpaid overtime. Seemed like everyone from that class worked there at one time or another. That was the last graduating class before the last recession hit Coos Bay — hard. He’s now an independent contractor, like all the drivers at Yellow Cab. “We pay Yellow Cab for the use of their dispatchers to pick up fares,” he said. “There’s another side of the arrangement that deals with the cars, insurance.” Cejay typically works 12-14 hours a night. “All of the time, I ask people from bigSEE CEJAY | A8
BY MATTHEW DALY AND TERRY TANG The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An additional 18 veterans in the Phoenix area whose names were kept off an official electronic Veterans Affairs appointment list have died, the agency’s acting secretary said Thursday — the latest revelation in a growing scandal over long patient waits for care and falsified records covering up the delays at VA hospitals and clinics nationwide. Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said he does not know whether the 18 new deaths were related to long waiting times for appointments but said they were in addition to the 17 reported last month by the VA’s inspector general. The announcement of the deaths came as senior senators reached agreement Thursday on the framework for a bipartisan bill making it easier for veterans to get health care outside VA hospitals and clinics. The 18 veterans who died were among 1,700 veterans identified in a report last week by the VA’s
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