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McKeown, Runyan fight for voice in Oregon House BY CHELSEA DAVIS The World
COOS BAY — The South Coast’s candidates for the Oregon House differ in their political goals as much as in their backgrounds. Incumbent state Rep. Caddy McKeown and her challenger, Casey Runyan, spoke at the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce’s luncheon Wednesday at the Mill Casino-Hotel. McKeown has been House District 9’s Democrat in the Oregon House for one term. She’s best known in Coos Bay as a former Oregon International Port of Coos Bay commissioner and Coos Bay school board member, which, alongside several other public service positions, she cited as reasons she’s a perfect fit to represent the district. “A lot of my skill comes from years of experience developing coalitions,” she said. “Reaching across the aisle is easier for me than my colleagues in the upper (Willamette) valley.” McKeown said she’s a voice “metro-centric” Oregon legislators don’t hear very often:
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As the Brod Ceilteach is launched Wednesday afternoon, a rainbow makes a brief appearance over Coos Bay. The boat, a traditional Irish craft called a currach, was built by members of the Coastal Celtic Society at the Coos Bay Boat Building Center. Society members christened it at the California Street boat ramp with the help of The Black Grouse Scotch whisky.
While Paul MacDonald holds the line steady, Bob More and Linda Sweatt offer Scotch whisky to the four compass points during the Brod Ceilteach’s christening ceremony. The name means “Celtic Pride” in Irish Gaelic.
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Blossom Gulch to get makeover BY DEVAN PATEL The World
US steps up response as Ebola worries grow BY JIM KUHNHENN The Associated Press WASHINGTON— The revelation that a second Dallas nurse who is ill with Ebola was cleared to fly the day before her diagnosis raised new alarms as leaders of the nation’s public health system prepared to defend their efforts to contain the deadly virus before a congressional hearing Thursday. President Barack Obama directed his administration to
respond in a “much down the disease more aggressive within the U.S. were Inside way” to oversee the being called to testify Are existing protocols Dallas cases and in what was looming enough. Page A8 ensure the lessons as a combative hearlearned there are ing by a House transmitted to hospitals and oversight panel on Capitol Hill. clinics across the country. For In prepared testimony, Dr. the second day in a row he can- Anthony Fauci, director of the celed out-of-town trips Institute of Allergy and Thursday to stay in Washington Infectious Diseases of NIH, said and monitor the Ebola that Duncan’s death and the response. infections of the two Dallas Federal health officials who nurses and a nurse in Spain say they know how to shut “intensify our concerns about
COOS BAY — Members of the business community are taking a more hands-on approach to improving the educational environment of children with the return of the Extreme School Makeover. The Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the semi-annual event, will gather this Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Blossom Gulch Elementary School to paint the gazebo and repair the raised walkway and railings. This week’s festivities mark the third Extreme School Makeover event, with North Bend Middle School the recipient of a touchup earlier this year in May and the event being jointly held last year at the Madison and Sunset schools. Jayson Wartnik, who serves as head of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, said the business community has actively been looking for ways to make a positive impact on schools, which ultimately lead to creation of the event. “We had a task force formed to look into seeing if the chamber could support the educational system,” Wartnik said. “We found there was a lot of support from the business community interested in helping.” While the school repair project is open to everyone, Wartnik noted the project has garnered most of its participants from the business community, but hopes this year’s event will attract a more diverse crowd. “At this point, it’s been mostly chamber
this global health threat.” He said two Ebola vaccine candidates were undergoing a first phase of human clinical testing this fall. But he cautioned that scientists were still in the early stages of understanding how Ebola infection can be treated and prevented. Spain’s government is wrestling with similar questions. The condition of a nursing assistant infected with SEE EBOLA | A10
Voting begins as ballots hit mailboxes decided, including marijuana legalization, a labeling requirement for genetically engineered foods and a new system for conducting elections. Ballots can be returned by mail — don’t forget the postage — or dropped off for free at official drop boxes in all 36 counties. They are due in election offices by Nov. 4.
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Democrats, are defending their seats against Republicans Dennis Richardson and Monica Wehby, respectively. All 60 state House seats and 16 of the 30 state Senate seats also are up for grabs. Control of the House is likely to stay with Democrats’, but the Senate majority will be decided in a handful of races. Seven ballot measures will be
the next three weeks, phones will be ringing and the volume of political television commercials will be multiplying as campaigns try to motivate their supporters and sway undecided voters. The ballot is packed with high-profile races. Gov. John Kitzhaber and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, both
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PORTLAND (AP)— Election time has arrived in Oregon. State election officials began dropping more than 2 million ballots in the mail on Wednesday, and they could arrive as soon as Thursday. Tens of thousands of Oregonians will vote each day through Nov. 4. That means mailboxes will be stuffed with election mail for
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