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Proposed wastewater treatment plant updates BY DEVAN PATEL The World
COOS BAY — The Coos Bay City Council held a special session at Sunset Middle School to address community concerns over the proposed construction of Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 2. With members of the project’s design team present for Tuesday’s meeting, community members were given a status update on the proposed project and assured it
would have a limited impact on their lives. Tom Paul, construction manager for Mortenson Construction, assuaged parents’ concerns over how the project would affect both Sunset and Madison schools with construction estimated to run between the spring of 2015 and the fall of 2017. “We’re going to have a very detailed plan regarding how traffic will flow in that area,” Paul said. “We will assure you that children
will get to school and that concrete trucks won’t be interfering with school buses.” While Paul admitted there would be occasional issues, he said planning will allow the city to mitigate the impact. “We’re not going to tell you that it won’t be without some pain periodically,” Paul said. “We will schedule those things well in advance and let the community know so we can find ways around things.”
Community members also voiced concerns over the potential of odors emanating from the plant. Craig Massie, CH2M Hill project manager, said the plant will have an odor control system, which has proven highly effective at other treatment plants. “The two areas where odors are generated will have negative pressure so that air is drawn out of the space and passed through the carbon scrubber odor control system,” Massie said.
While the project team was able to alleviate most of the community’s concerns, residents living closest to the plant site remain disappointed. Coos Bay resident Yashveer Singh voiced his displeasure with the aesthetics of the plant in addition to the potential loss of property value as a result of the project. “It’s absolutely hideous,” Singh SEE WASTEWATER | A8
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The Wednesday morning sun burns off the morning fog on the back side of Coos Bay, showing small islands with shorebirds resting and the silhouettes of the trees.
Using alternative methods to promote fire safety BY DEVAN PATEL The World
COOS BAY — In anticipation of Fire Prevention Week, the Coos Bay Fire Department is utilizing more alternative methods to promote fire safety awareness in the community. Through the use of Facebook, the department is offering prizes for participants who correctly answer 10 fire safety questions posted throughout the week. Once the final questions are posted Friday, the first five participants to correctly post the answers to the questions receive a gift bag consisting of a fire alarm, fire safety items and a T-shirt. The social media initiative is the
d e p a r t m e n t ’s test them and make Prizes offered attempt to engage sure they work,” the community and Anderson said. For more information on Fire make the subject of Fire Protection Prevention Week or to participate fire safety more Week, which comin the fire safety quiz, visit the appealing. the memorates department’s Facebook page at “Trying to keep anniversary of the www.facebook.com/CoosBayFireDe partment. it new, fresh and Great Chicago Fire, interesting is kind is highlighted by of a challenge, so we have to come the Fire Protection Open House, up with new ways to check their which will be held Wednesday, Oct. smoke alarms,” CBFD Chief Mark 8, from 5-7:30 p.m. at Fire Station Anderson said. No. 1, located at 450 Elrod Ave. This year’s theme, “Working The open house will have free Smoke Alarms Save Lives: Test food and a variety of games and Yours Every Month,” is often over- activities designed to engage kids in looked, Anderson said. fire safety, including a mini fire hose “Even though smoke alarms where people can put out a fake fire, with lithium-ion batteries have a firefighter Steve Takis said. 10-year life, it’s still important to “We’ll also have a fire engine and
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director over the past three years,” wrote Bogedain, 62, who came to Roseburg from Salem, Virginia, in 2011. “Although I will miss many of the staff and veterans I have come to know, I am looking forward to this new chapter in my life.” The Douglas County Veterans Forum has been critical of a decision to close the hospital’s intensive care unit five years ago, before Bogedain took over. She had defended the decision, saying the unit saw too few patients for staff to keep their skills sharp. Relations soured even more after she walked
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ROSEBURG (AP) — The director of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Roseburg, who had come under criticism by a local veterans group unhappy with care at the facility, is leaving earlier than she had originally planned. Carol Bogedain notified employees in an email that she is leaving at the end of this week, rather than at the end of the year, because her house had sold more quickly than she anticipated, The News-Review reported Wednesday. “I want to thank all of you who have assisted me in this role as
out of a meeting with the group. Forum spokesman Jim Little said Bogedain had a distinguished 39year career with the VA, but did not do much to help the Roseburg VA during her three years at the facility. In contrast, the regional director of the VA network issued a statement praising Bogedain’s performance during a challenging time. Veterans Integrated Service Network-20 Director Larry Carroll cited strategic planning, the expansion of the VA clinic in Eugene clinic and the development of $52 million in capital investment projects.
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our rescue parked in the apparatus bay with the compartments open so they can go through and see all the tools, and there will be firefighters in their protective gear so people can see what they look like in their turnouts,” Takis said. The open house also provides opportunities to learn and ask questions about fire safety. “It’s an opportunity to ask about anything — preparedness, ask about fire protection and pick up a fire alarm if you need it,” Anderson said. In addition to promoting awareness via social media and the open house, Takis said the department will also be offering in-school preSEE FIRE | A8
Director of Secret Service resigns BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL AND JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One lesson from Julia Pierson’s short tenure as director of the agency that protects the first family: The Secret Service can’t keep secrets from the president. Pierson’s undoing was not telling the president about a Sept.
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COOS BAY — The State Land Board will come to Coos Bay next week to talk about alternatives for managing the Elliott State Forest. The board will meet in special session 3-6 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Hales Performing Arts Center on Oregon the Southwestern Community College Coos Bay campus. The public will be able to comment on ownership and management of the forest. The board directed the Department of State Lands to develop a range of ownership and management scenarios for the forest. DSL has worked on this report since June. The land board won't make any decision at the Oct. 8 meeting; a final report will be presented to the board at its regular meeting Dec. 9 in Salem. In recent years, revenues from the Elliott State Forest, a land asset of the Common School Fund, have curtailed been significantly because of Endangered Species Act litigation. As a result, the forest in fiscal year 2013 cost the Common School Fund about $3 million instead of generating revenue for the fund. Comments may be presented to the board at the Coos Bay meeting orally or in writing. All speakers will need to sign in when they arrive. Written comments must have author information included. A maximum of three minutes will be given to each speaker. It is
16 incident in Atlanta in which President Barack Obama rode an elevator with an armed security contractor during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two White House officials said. The armed contractor’s proximity to Obama violated the agency’s security protocols. SEE PIERSON | A8
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