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Bunker Hill Elementary reopening next year CHELSEA DAVIS The World
COOS BAY — Bunker Hill Elementary will open its doors for the first time in four years next fall. On Monday, the Coos Bay school board voted to reopen Bunker Hill for the 2015-2016 school year to “allow the district to reduce crowding and address growing class sizes at Madison and Blossom Gulch Elementary Schools.” This fall, Madison and Blossom Gulch are both at capacity. This year’s first grade and kindergarten classes each have more
than 270 students, a spike from the 245 kids in other grades. It’s a problem the school board has been weighing for the past few months. Most districts, especially in rural Oregon, are facing the opposite problem. They’re being forced to close schools as enrollment plummets and families move to more urban areas. Coos Bay went through this dilemma years ago when it closed Bunker Hill and Milner Crest. “Having more students is always a good problem to have,” said superintendent Dawn Granger. “And no one likes to see an empty school on 101.”) She noted that Bunker Hill is
not an ideal location, but “it’s the best solution we have available since we can’t build newer, larger schools and portables are not a good solution.” Enrollment grew last year when the district started full-day kindergarten, but school officials figured it was an anomaly and would balance out as other school districts made the switch. That doesn’t seem to be the case. “This year, we had more kids than last year,” Granger said. The portable classrooms at Madison and Blossom Gulch See School, A8
By Lou Sennick
It is closed and dark now, but after four years, Bunker Hill Elementary will reopen at the start of the new school year in 2015.
Deviled Turkeys
7 Devils spent grains make proteinrich diet for Bandon free-range turkeys
County OKs SCCF chiefs
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CARLY MAYBERRY
BANDON — Many prefer the experience of going out and cutting down their own Christmas t ree. The same tradition has d eveloped in Bandon, except i t’s at Thanksgiving — and it involves turkeys. This is the fifth year Coastal Hills Pastured Poultry has sold its free-range turkeys, but the birds have beefed up over the past two years as they’ve developed a taste — as has the entire South Coast, it seems — for 7 Devils Brewing Co. C oastal Hills owner Diana Swenson noticed last year that h er hefty turkeys were lacking something. Their legs were starting to break down, meaning they needed more protein in their diet. “They only get so many bugs out in the field,” she said. She turned to a commercial grower for advice. He suggested feeding them a brewery’s spent grains — and that’s where 7 Devils comes in. Last year, Swenson sat down w ith Carmen Matthews and Annie Pollard, who were on the v erge of opening 7 Devils in downtown Coos Bay. “Since the very beginning, we were talking about doing exactly that, it was just finding the right
COQUILLE — Coos County commissioners have given their vote of approval to the recently named slate of three at-large candidates to the South Coast Community Foundation board. Keith Tymchuk, Al Pettit and Andy Combs will round out the seven-member SCCF board. The three had already been approved by the cities of Coos Bay and North Bend and the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. At Monday’s county commission meeting, the commissioners gave their blessing, with the exception of Commissioner Bob Main, who dissented. Main had concerns that there wasn’t enough representation for the schools from within the seven-member board. “I’d really like to see an extra school person on that board,” said Main, who cited the organization’s bylaws that allow its grant monies to go to other sources than just the schools. “I’m afraid that as time goes on it would diminish support for schools.” Commissioner John Sweet, who serves on the SC C F b o a rd , d i s a g re e d and said that it was a wellrounded board. “I’m pleased with the quality of these three candidates, which all rose to the top,” Sweet said. “At this point, we’ve not done a lot in regard to how this community foundation would operate but there would be an advisory committee of representatives from each community so there would be good representation from the schools.”
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Diana Swenson, left, retrieves a 15.5 pound turkey from a bin of medium-sized birds for Bonnie Cornell, right, of Langlois. The turkeys were fed spent grains from 7 Devils Brewing Co. in Coos Bay. person,” Matthews said. “And we’re trying to create a full circle, so we use her cattle (which also eat 7 Devils spent graininfused feed) in our beef dishes.” T he beer and turkey connoisseurs hashed out what they would need: a forklift, a trailer, t otes. Every week, Swenson drives up to 7 Devils and Matthews grabs his snow shovel to
fill her totes with spent grain — about 1,500 pounds every week. S pent grain is one of the byproducts of the brewing proc ess. After grinding the raw barley, the brewer puts it in the mash tun with water. The liquid is drained off and the proteinand fiber-rich mash is everything that’s left over after the sugar has been extracted. Farmers then
take that spent grain to feed turkeys, cattle and chickens. M ost breweries have this kind of partnership with farmers, Matthews said. A few larger operations, like Alaska Brewing Company, dry their spent grains to be reused as a fuel source for heating. See Turkeys, A8
Protesters return to riot-scarred Ferguson streets
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“ L i ve s a n d p ro p erty must be protected,” Nixon said. “This community deserves to have peace.” A bout 50 protesters c onverged on a barricade guarded by 30 Guard m embers. The group chanted “Whose streets, our streets,” ‘’This is what democracy looks like” and “Hands up don’t shoot,” a s logan that has become a rallying cry in protests
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over police killings. O utside police headquarters in Ferguson, one w oman was taken into custody after protesters threw what appeared to be smoke bombs, flares and frozen water bottles at a line of officers. Two other protesters wearing masks were arrested after defying police instructions to get out of the street.
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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Protesters returned to t he riot-scarred streets of Ferguson on Tuesday, a day after crowds looted b usinesses and set fire to buildings in a night of rage against a grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who killed Michael Brown.
done anything differently in the confrontation with Brown. I n the aftermath of Monday’s violence, Missouri governor Jay Nixon s ent a large contingent of extra National Guard troops, ordering the init ial force of 700 to be i ncreased to 2,200 in h opes that their presence would help local law enforcement keep order in the St. Louis suburb.
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H undreds of addit ional National Guard troops were sent to the St. Louis suburb to help local a uthorities keep order. Hours after nightfall, tensions escalated as a police car was set on fire outside City Hall, and authorities released tear gas. M eanwhile, officer Darren Wilson broke his long public silence, insisting on national television t hat he could not have
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