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Help Santa meet kids’ needs at NB tree lighting BY KURTIS HAIR The World
NORTH BEND — Santa Claus will be coming to North Bend this Christmas, and this year he will be bearing gifts. For the second time, North Bend Police Chief Robert Kappelman will follow tradition and dress up as Santa at the annual North Bend Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony this December. But this year, Kappelman wants to make a
few changes. Kappelman wants the city to come together and make sure every child who comes to the event gets a gift bag full of toys and books. For Kappelman, who is in his second year as police chief, something happened in his first experience in serving as Santa at last year’s ceremony that made him wanted to change how the ceremony is done from here on out. “This one little kid came in,” Kappelman said. “He was a little
disheveled and clothes a little dirty. He crawled up in my lap, and I went through my dialogue with him. I asked him what he wanted for Christmas, and he looked up at me and says, ‘I would really like a toothbrush and some toothpaste.’” Kappelman said he was completely caught off guard. “I was absolutely stunned,” Kappelman said. “I was choking back tears, and I was trying to let him know that I’m not a choked up Santa Claus.”
After the boy left, Kappelman said it was time for a change for the lighting ceremony. In the past, the children would get a candy cane when they visited Santa. This year, Kappelman and the city of North Bend are asking the community to donate money so each child can get a gift bag full of toys, books and a toothbrush and toothpaste. Kappelman said he expects the city will need about $4,000 to make the effort happen.
“We need to try to get together and do something to help these kids without singling them out,” Kappelman said. “The only way we can do that is provide every kid with something.” Kappelman said checks should be made payable to the city of North Bend and designated to the Toothpaste Christmas Fund. For more information, go to the North Bend Police Department’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/NBPDOR.
Zoning change recommended for Pacific Cove City council will vote on change for animal shelter Nov. 4 ■
BY DEVAN PATEL The World
COOS BAY — After years of fundraising for a new shelter, the Pacific Cove Humane Society is a step closer to realizing its goal after the Coos Bay Planning Commission recommended a zoning change for their property Tuesday. The proposed zoning modification would change the property located at 3485 Vine Ave. in Coos Bay from a qualified residential-professional (QR4P) to a general commercial zone (C-2), which allows animal sales and service for a kennel with a conditional use permit. The structure, originally constructed as a church and residence, would not allow these services under residential zoning. The zoning modification will next go before a vote at the Nov. 4 city council meeting. In addition to recommending the zoning change, the planning commission amended an additional set of conditions recommended by staff for the humane society to meet. The commission unanimously voted to keep two of the requirements: securing structural and developmental permits as required by city, state and federal agencies and submitting a parking lot permit for review and approval before issuance.
By Amanda Loman, The World
Brian Graham and Rachel Dunn, owners of Flying Chicken Tattoo in North Bend, will be hosting the second year of their fundraiser, Ink Pink, to benefit Girls Fight Like Girls, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance for those battling breast cancer.
Ink Pink is back BY TIM NOVOTNY The World
NORTH BEND — In 2011, two women started a local organization called Girls Fight Like Girls to help area women fighting breast cancer be able to keep up with finances during treatment. De Dee Peterson and Shawna Griswold created the grass-roots
organization after seeing friends deal with those financial hardships that often accompany the battle against cancer. Their website, girlsfightlikegirls.org, says the goal is “to make sure that no one will miss a doctor’s appointment or treatment, lose housing or utilities, or go hungry because of cancer. We are a community based initiative with our main focus being smaller rural communities in and surrounding Coos County. However, as the charity grows we will begin to support counties and areas that request our services, as well as national charities that support cancer patients providing eligibili-
ty requirements are met.” Last year, the owners of Flying Chicken Tattoo decided to do what they could to help them out. The debut effort of the event, that they call Ink Pink, raised $2,400. Now, owners Rachel Dunn and Brian Graham are ready, with more than a little help from their friends once again, to try and top that number this year. Ink Pink 2014 will take place Thursday, Oct. 30, from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the business located at 2582 Broadway Ave., in North Bend. Like last year, they will offer specific tattoos, by appointment only, SEE INK | A8
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PORTLAND — A year ago, John Kitzhaber looked invincible. Having just cut public pensions to sew up perhaps the biggest victory of his three decade political career, the Democratic governor was setting his sights on what looked to be an easy glide to re-election. But Kitzhaber’s pedestal was already
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beginning to fracture last October under the weight of the failed Cover Oregon health insurance website. Rather than the triumphant victor, Kitzhaber now finds himself running for re-election as the battered incumbent, on the defensive about Cover Oregon, education and even his fiancee. He’s still the front-runner over Republican state Rep. Dennis Richardson,
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BY GAIL ELBER The World
COOS BAY — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is taking samples today at the site of a former shipyard on Isthmus Slough to see if toxins remain after a cleanup that started 16 years ago. Investigators from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are visiting the former Mid-Coast Marine
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Although commission members Rex Miller and Philip Marler opposed, the commission voted to set a conditional limit of 50 dogs for the shelter. With the Pacific Cove Humane Society unable to provide an answer to questions of an occupancy limit, the commission considered the effects of having too many animals. “The way I see it, the greater number of dogs equals a greater impact,” Chairman Chris Hood said. “If this does get out of control, this is something we could look at for enforcement.” The conditional limit was found by keeping each of the 24 regular kennels from exceeding two dogs, with one dog being allowed in each of the two isolation kennels. While staff had recommended a requirement of building a solid wood fence at a minimum of five feet along the east property line to act as buffer between the subject property and residential zoned property, the commission unanimously voted to extend the fence requirement to six feet, the maximum height allowed without having to secure additional building permits. As part of the hearing, the planning commission heard public comments both in support and opposition of the zoning change. Kate Sharples, president of Pacific Cove Humane Society, spoke at length on the positive impacts the shelter would provide.
facility at 530 Whitty St. in Eastside to sample water, sediment and shellfish. They’re looking for toxins that were released into the bay when Mid-Coast Marine, a shipyard facility, occupied the property. According to DEQ, the pollution was discovered in the late 1980s, when deformed native Pacific oysters were found SEE DEQ | A8
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