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Affordable Care Act
Keep yourself from being a victim of fraud BY EMILY THORNTON
OREGON
The World
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE
COOS BAY — With the new guidelines in place for health insurance, there is increased potential for fraud. Several websites are already up, claiming to help calculate possible tax credits or locate agents. But Cover Oregon officials have advice for consumers to avoid being
scammed. For one, only use www.coveroregon.com or call 855COVEROR to get insurance or locate agents. “We encourage Oregonians to follow these tips and this simple rule: Stop, call and confirm,” said Michael Cox, spokesman for Cover Oregon. Cox said he couldn’t comment on websites such as coveroregonexchange .com or valuepenguin.com/ppaca/exc,
which claim to help consumers. “If there is a site that is breaking the law we would warn consumers about that site, but that does not appear to be the case,” Cox said. “In the meantime we will continue to provide tips to consumers about how to best protect themselves.” There are some things to keep in mind when shopping for health insurance, Cox said. One, you shouldn’t pay
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for help. “If consumers receive an offer to sign up on Cover Oregon for a fee, they should hang up the phone or walk away,” Cox said. “Consumers should not give their credit card or banking information to anyone they do not know or did not contact.” If anyone asks for payment or comSEE FRAUD | A8
CB nears Hollering Place decision BY CHELSEA DAVIS The World
Photos by Alysha Beck, The World
Parker Corbus, 4, poses with the pumpkins he helped pick out at Mahaffy Ranch off Coos River Highway on Friday. The ranch also has hay rides, a corn cannon and a corn maze.
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Mahaffy, opened the Mahaffy Ranch in 2010. It offers a u-pick pumpkin patch, hay COOS BAY — One family’s rides, corn cannon, corn maze, hay dream of havstack and baring a farm Mahaffy Ranch becue food. Its came true in ■ Located at 10362 U.S. season runs 2004, when the Highway 241, Coos Bay from Sept. 27 Mahaffys ■ Open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., through Oct. 31 bought 95 acres Monday through Thursday and this year. off state HighFriday through Sunday from Mahaffy said way 241. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. their oldest “We wanted ■ For more information, call son’s kinderto provide fam541-269-3900 or visit garten teacher ily entertainmahaffyranch.com asked to have a ment and focus class field trip Left to right: The Pederson boys Spencer, 7, Mason, 9, and Woody, 3, spray their pumpkins on the harvest,” clean after picking them out of the pumpkin patch at Mahaffy Ranch off Coos River said Shawna Mahaffy. She and husband, Ryan SEE PUMPKINS | A8 Highway on Friday. The World
COOS BAY — The Hollering Place’s future is in limbo. Two groups, Oregon Seafoods and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Tribes, are gunning to redevelop the property. Both will present their proposals to the Coos Bay City Council and the Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency on Tuesday night. The city’s Hollering Place Master Plan, solidified in 2008, looks at the potential uses for the 3.68-acre area in the Empire business district. The plan proposes “commercial, residential, overnight lodging and educational” uses. Oregon Seafoods owner Mike Babcock said his Charleston facility is too small for the expanding business. “Our proposal is to build a new seafood processing plant that would encompass a tourist element, where people could come tour the operation, similar to Tillamook Cheese but a scaled-down version,” he said. “I feel it would be well-received by the Coos County community. We were pretty excited about building down there until the tribe turned in their proposal. It looks like the city is going to recommend their proposal to the council.” City Manager Rodger Craddock said the Urban Renewal Agency is not leaning one way or the other and a decision won’t necessarily be made Tuesday night. “The Urban Renewal Agency could make a decision that night to enter negotiations with one of the two proposals,” Craddock said. “The Urban Renewal Agency purchased that land in 2009 and then over a series of years cleaned it up environmentally and got SEE DECISION | A8
Accelerated efforts, but no agreement on shutdown
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WASHINGTON — With time running short, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans accelerated efforts Friday to prevent the U.S. Treasury from default and end a partial government shutdown that stretched into an 11th day. The latest impacts: New aircraft grounded, military
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chaplains silenced and a crab harvest jeopardized in the Bering Sea. “Let’s put this hysterical talk of default behind us and instead start talking about finding solutions,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Republicans in the House and Senate separately made proposals to the White House for ending an impasse that polls say has inflicted damage on their party politically.
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Each offered to reopen the government and raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit — but only as part of broader approaches that envision deficit savings, changes to the health care law known as Obamacare and an easing of across-the-board spending cuts that the White House and Congress both dislike. The details and timing differed. “We’re waiting to hear” from administration officials, said House
Carole Matson, Allegany Diran Barber Bert Hiley, Salem Wilbur Smith, Reedsport Gary Evans, Coos Bay Linda Weise, Coquille
Majority Leader Eric Cantor. But as the day wore on, the White House politely turned the proposal aside in favor of talks around a more streamlined approach under discussion in the Senate. Hopes remained high on Wall Street, where investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average 111 points higher following Thursday’s 323point surge. Obama met at the White House with small business
Billy Maddox, Lakeside Mary Lorence, Reedsport Dorothy Mason, Myrtle Point Cecilia Pena, North Bend Kathleen Rosencrantz, Coos Bay
owners about the impacts they were feeling from the budget battles, and said he hoped to be able to bring them toward a conclusion, said Det Ansinn, who attended the session. “He was a little slightly melancholy that maybe it could be done over the weekend and maybe not. He’s been down this road before,” said Ansinn, owner of Doylestown,
Thomas Elledge, Charleston William Fredericks, North Bend Jack Henderson, Bandon Henry Westbrook III, Smith River, Calif.
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