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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.

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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.

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 7 Devils spent grains make proteinrich diet for Bandon free-range turkeys

County OKs SCCF chiefs

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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.

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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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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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COOS BAY POLICE DEPARTMENT‌

Nov. 21, 3:33 a.m., theft, Walmart.

Nov. 21, 10:54 a.m., shoplifting, Walmart.

Nov. 21, 12:20 p.m., criminal trespass, Safeway.

Nov. 21, 12:22 p.m., harassment, 100 block of North Schoneman Street.

Nov. 21, 1:20 p.m., shoplifting, 100 block of North Cammann Street.

Nov. 21, 2:09 p.m., fraud, 800 block of California Avenue.

Nov. 21, 2:20 p.m.

Dispute, 3400 block of Ocean Boulevard.

Nov. 21, 3:34 p.m., harassment, 1000 block of Anderson Avenue.

Nov. 21, 4:38 p.m., harassment, 1000 block of South 10th Street.

Nov. 23, 4:40 p.m., harassment, 1100 block of South Fifth Street.

Nov. 23, 4:46 p.m., criminal trespass, first block of Hall Avenue.

Nov. 23, 4:52 p.m., man arrested for outstanding warrants, 800 block of North Central Avenue.

Nov. 23, 6:30 p.m., criminal trespass, 1700 block of Thompson Road.

Nov. 23, 8:01 p.m., woman arrested for fourth-degree assault, 63700 block of Ellen Road.

Nov. 23, 8:05 p.m., shoplifting, Fred Meyer.

Nov. 23, 9:58 p.m., criminal trespass, 1000 block of South First Street.

Nov. 24, 12:19 a.m., man cited for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and driving while uninsured, John Topits Park.

Nov. 21, 6:45 p.m., dispute, 800 block of South Fourth Street.

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Nov. 22, 9:59 a.m., harassment, 300 block of North Cammann Street.

Nov. 23, 1:22 a.m., theft, 87700 block of Bill Creek Lane, Bandon.

Nov. 22, 10:02 a.m., criminal trespass, 600 block of South Wasson Street.

Nov. 22, 10:08 a.m., criminal trespass, 700 block of South Empire Boulevard.

Nov. 22, 12:10 p.m., shoplifting, Walmart.

Nov. 22, 1:02 p.m., man arrested for driving while suspended, 2100 block of 25th Street.

Nov. 23, 12:11 p.m., violation of restraining order, 200 block of South Eighth Street, Lakeside.

Nov. 23, 1:53 p.m., burglary, 51000 block of Dement Creek Road, Broadbent.

Nov. 23, 3:09 p.m., warrant service, 50900 block of Dement Creek Road, Broadbent.

Nov. 23, 7:52 p.m., dispute, 63700 block of Ellen Road, Coos Bay.

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Nov. 22, 2:37 p.m., woman arrested DEPARTMENT‌ for outstanding warrant, 58200 Nov. 21, 1:36 a.m., theft, First block block of Seven Devils Road. of North Central Avenue.

Nov. 22, 6:35 p.m., woman arrested Nov. 21, 2:38 a.m., dispute, 1100 for 24 counts of violating a block of North Folsom Street. restraining order and criminal trespass, 800 block of California Nov. 21, 10:46 a.m., man arrested for possession of a controlled Avenue. substance, 200 block of North Nov. 22, 8:03 p.m., disorderly Baxter Street. conduct, 400 block of North Broadway.

NORTH BEND POLICE Nov. 22, 9:18 p.m., shoplifting, Safeway.

Nov. 22, 10:33 p.m., man arrested for probation violation, 1700 block of Thompson Road.

Nov. 23, 7:01 a.m., criminal trespass, 800 block of Central Avenue.

Nov. 23, 9:39 a.m., man arrested for outstanding warrant, 200 block of South Wall Street.

Nov. 23, 12:02 p.m., man arrested for second-degree disorderly conduct, Fred Meyer.

Nov. 23, 12:22 p.m., theft, 400 block of North Marple Street.

Nov. 23, 12:53 p.m., woman cited for theft, Safeway.

Nov. 23, 1:09 p.m., threats, 1700 block of Newmark Avenue.

Nov. 23, 1:32 p.m., assault, 1100 block of Anderson Avenue.

Nov. 23, 1:34 p.m., man arrested for outstanding warrants, 1300 block of Airport Lane.

Nov. 23, 2:11 p.m., criminal trespass, 100 block of South Empire Boulevard.

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Nov. 22, 1:49 a.m., criminal trespass, 1200 block of Virginia Avenue.

Nov. 22, 6:58 a.m, criminal trespass, 1500 block of Virginia Avenue.

Nov. 22, 5:52 p.m., man arrested for disorderly conduct, 2000 block of Newmark Street.

Nov. 22, 6:30 p.m., woman arrested for violation of restraining order and second-degree criminal trespass, 100 block of Norman Avenue.

Nov. 22, 7:44 p.m., harassment, 2400 block of Sherman Avenue.

Nov. 22, 9:20 p.m., disorderly conduct, 3200 block of Tremont Street.

Nov. 22, 11:06 p.m., criminal trespass, 2800 block of Oak Street.

Nov. 23, 12:28 a.m., criminal trespass, Tremont Avenue and Exchange Street.

Nov. 23, 1:19 a.m., criminal trespass, 1900 block of Newmark Street.

Nov. 23, 1:33 a.m., theft, Hamilton Nov. 23, 3:33 p.m., woman arrested Avenue and Washington Avenue. for outstanding warrants, 200 Nov. 23, 3:17 a.m., disorderly conblock of North Baxter Street. duct, 3200 b, criminal mischief, Nov. 23, 4:11 p.m., dispute, 600 3600 block of Vista Drive. block of Newmark Avenue.

Nov. 23, 9:55 p.m., dispute, 2100 Nov. 23, 4:14 p.m., man arrested block of Harrison Avenue. for third-degree theft and proNov. 24, 4:23 a.m., harassment, bation violation, 1000 block of 1100 block of Virginia Avenue.

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Business booming for North Bend restaurant serving those in need KURTIS HAIR The World‌

‌NORTH BEND — A local nonprofit organization has a mission to serve those in need in the North Bend and Coos Bay communities, and business has been better than ever.

Crossroads Community C afe has helped people g et through hard times by serving cheap, homecooked meals to anyone in the community who needs them.

Ethel German and Susan Fox founded the restaurant about four years ago, a nd lately, business has boomed.

“We’re doing very well,” German said. “We’re serving over a thousand meals a week.”

German said all the meals at the cafe are home-cooked and only $1.50, and it offers people a relaxed environment to come in and enjoy a cheap meal, which is needed in North Bend and Coos Bay. “People are hungry, and they like home-cooked meals,” German said.

If people cannot afford to pay the price, they can work off the cost.

German and Fox got the

poverty,” Fox said. “I’ve never seen hunger and poverty like this in this area.”

Fox said starting the cafe had been her way of tackling this issue.

Fox said though the cafe has been able to keep its prices down, the demand for its services has made it hard to keep up. “ We figured when we started, if we did 75 meals, that would be great,” Fox Amanda Loman‌ s aid. “Now we’re up to Ethel German serves up a bowl of Manhattan clam chowder Nov. 14 200.”

For German and Fox, at Crossroads Community Cafe. German co-founded the cafe with the boom for the restauSusan Fox in 2011. rant reflects the economy, and people from all different walks of life are coming into the restaurant.

“In this area, we have a lot of people in need,” German said.

The cafe is primarily financed through donations from the community and some grants, and the money made from the customers goes into the restaurant’s food fund.

German said with the rise in business, the cafe is Amanda Loman‌ in need of volunteers and Carrie Ann Shields, right, and Allison Murphy, both of North Bend, donations, but the restaueat lunch at Crossroads Community Cafe on Nov. 14. rant will keep up with the demand. idea for starting the cafe dinner event four years “The Coos Bay area is after seeing many people ago. very generous,” German in need at a Thanksgiving “It was the hunger and said.

Foundations seek grant proposals ‌SOUTH COAST — Several organizations are currently soliciting grant proposals for local projects.

Plum Creek Foundation‌ The mission of the Plum Creek Foundation is to provide philanthropic contributions to support and improve the general welfare of life in the

communities that Plum Creek serves. Grants are available for projects that fit that description. Visit www.plumcreek.com to download an application.

Johnston Foundation‌ The directors of the Eugene and Marlaina Johnston Charitable Foundation seek applicants for grants.

‌COOS BAY — In September 1964, Southwestern Oregon Community College’s first music professor, Frank Leuck, and the first p resident of the College, Wendell Van Loan, realized the vision of creating a music department at the three-year-old college.

This endeavor culminated in the first annual Christmas concert Dec. 13, 1964. Fifty years later, SWOCC’s music department is continuing that tradition with its fall concert series at 7 p.m. Dec. 1-3 in the Hales Center for the Performing Arts. Celebrating 50 years of music at SWOCC, the symphonic choir, community orchestra, vocal jazz ensemble and jazz combo will perform a

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variety of works for large and small ensembles.

A dmission to all concerts is free, but donations to help support the music department will be gratefully accepted.

I n addition, the music club will collect nonperi shable food items for SWOCC’s annual Van Jam, which is part of the community Bus Jam. Boxes will be placed in Hales’ foyer.

The SWOCC symphonic choir, under the direction of David Aakre, will perform a number of works for large chorus including some holiday favorites and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah at 7 p.m. Dec. 1.

T he choir consists of about 45 members, mostly from the community, with a

‌COOS BAY—Black Friday is the first day Boy Scout Troop 761 will be offering n oble fir Christmas trees for sale. Last year the troop sold 100 trees, and this year they hope to sell 125. The trees range in size between 4-8 feet and will cost $2545. Trees will be located in the lot south of the Oregon Connection House of Myrtlewood, 1125 S. First St., in Coos Bay. H ours will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; and weekdays 3:30-7:30 p.m. until trees are gone.

Deliveries are available in city limits; call 541-2908794.

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For more info. please call: 541-888-5202

To be eligible to apply for a grant, organizations must be tax-exempt under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, provide care and treatment to animals in Coos County, or be a group operating in Coos, Curry, or western Douglas counties that provides education, nutrition and assistance related to the health

and well-being of humans.

Groups must not be a part of, formed by, or substantially funded by any specific religion, religious organization, or religious order. Requests for applications for 2015 grants should be submitted to the Foundation Charities Coordinator by March 15, 2015.

SWOCC ends term with concerts

Christmas tree sales raise funds for scouts

Date: November 27th Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Place: The Salvation Army Center for Worship and Service 1155 Flanagan Ave., Coos Bay, OR 97420

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‌COOS BAY — The South Coast Ballroom Dancers will celebrate the holiday Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Black Market Gourmet, 495 Central Ave., Coos Bay. The gathering and no-host wine and beer bar will begin at 5:30 p.m.

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few SWOCC students performing with them as well.

The SWOCC orchestra, under the direction of Mark Allen, will perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 at 7 p.m.

Dec. 2.

T he Pacifica String Quartet will also perform a variety of works for string quartet. The orchestra consists of approximately 20 members from the community and student body. The orchestra’s concertmaster is Rolly Toribio, a second-year music student.

D ec. 3 is jazz night at the college. The SWOCC vocal jazz ensemble, under the direction of Charlotte Pierce and accompanied on piano by Sarah Kimball will sing a variety of jazz works f or multiple voices and

percussion. Also performing will be the SWOCC jazz combo, under the direction of Professor Mike Turner, performing a variety of jazz standards including a brand new composition by Turner.

T he personnel of both groups is entirely SWOCC students, and the performance will begin at 7 p.m.

In addition to the above c oncerts, the Bay Area Community Concert Band, sponsored by the SWOCC m usic department, will perform its winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at the North Bend First Presbyterian Church next to Pony Village Mall.

For more information, contact Mike Turner at 541888-7241 or mturner@socc. edu.

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information, call Beverly (541) 266-0464 or email bsegner22@gmail.com.

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delicious buffet meal of grass-fed organic beef short ribs and fresh catch fish, seasonal vegetable, and cream cheese potatoes will be served at 6 p.m., followed by a small bites sampler dessert bar, coffee and tea. All selections except bread and certain desserts are gluten free. A vegetarian entrée is available by request.

Strange Brew, the house b and from Jitterbug N Java, will play from 6:309:30 p.m. The dance floor is linoleum over wood, not concrete.

Tickets for USA Dance members are $39.00; for nonmembers and guests, they are $52.00. Members (and their nonmember dance partners) have preference until Nov. 20.

Space is very limited, so attendance will be capped.

The deadline for all reservations, space permitting, is Nov. 27. Make checks payable to: South Coast Ballroom Dancers and mail to Beverly Segner, P.O. Box 191, Coos Bay Oregon 97420. For more

Dance in black and white ‌BANDON — The Bandon Oregon Ballroom Dance Association is throwing a dance starting at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 29. It’s an event for the whole comm unity and for ballroom dancers.

T he evening’s music is suitable for freestyle dancing and the ballroom smooth dances, such as waltz and foxtrot. Swing, salsa, tango, hustle, bachata, and other couples dances will be on the program.

Everyone is encouraged to wear black and white attire, or shades of gray. The dance will be at the Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of State H ighway 42S and Ohio Street.

A donation of $3 is suggested. Dances are family friendly and alcohol-free.

Dancers at all levels and ages are welcome and no partner is required.

For more information, e-mail DanceBandonWithBobda@gmail.com or visit the Facebook page.

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Thursday, Nov. 27 — Thanksgiving‌

29th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner noon-3 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 123 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay. Sponsored by the Ecumenical Food Cupboard, local churches and local businesses. Transportation or home delivery, call 541-2674410.

Benetti’s Thanksgiving Dinner noon-5 p.m., Benetti’s Italian Restaurant, 260 S. Broadway, Coos Bay. Holiday Lights Season Opening 4-9:30 p.m., Shore Acres State Park, 89309 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Refreshments and displays in the Garden House. Parking is $5. Visit www.shoreacres.net for the entertainment schedule.

Friday, Nov. 28‌

Boy Scout Troop 761 Fundraiser Christmas Tree Sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m., lot south of Oregon Connection House of Myrtlewood, 1125 S. First St., Coos Bay. Noble Fir 4-8 foot, $25-45.

Deliveries available, call 541-290-8794 Cape Blanco Lighthouse and Hughes House Tours 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Cape Blanco State Park, 91100 Cape Blanco Road, Port Orford.

Cape Blanco Lifeboat Station Museum Tours 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Ninth Street, Port Orford. Turn west and follow the road up the hill.

Old Town Marketplace 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 250 First St. SW, Bandon. Farmers and artisans on the waterfront.

Holiday Lights 4-9:30 p.m., Shore Acres State Park, 89309 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Refreshments and displays in the Garden House. Parking is $5. Visit www.shoreacres.net for the entertainment schedule.

Santa’s Coming to Downtown 5:30 p.m., Coos Bay Boardwalk, US Highway 101 and Anderson Avenue, Coos Bay. Santa and Mayor Crystal Shoji arrive by water courtesy of Pacific Tug Co., Bay Area Teen Idol contestants will lead Christmas Carols. After lighting the tree, Santa will lead kids to the Egyptian Theatre to watch “Elf.” Bring new socks to use as snowballs.

Saturday, Nov. 29‌ Shop Small 10 a.m. Downtown Coos Bay. Hosted by the Coos Bay Downtown Association. Participating merchants will be listed at www.coosbaydowntown.org

Wings & Things 4-H Holiday Craft Fair 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Coquille Community Building, 115 N. Birch, Coquille. All vendors are 18 and younger.

Holiday Open House 10 a.m4 p.m., Prestige Property Management, 1810 Monroe St., North Bend. Featured: Thirty-One and Scentsy products. 541-290-7673 Old Town Marketplace 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 250 First St. SW, Bandon. Farmers and artisans on the waterfront.

Small Business Saturday Sale 10 a.m-4 p.m., South Slough Interpretive Center, 61907 Seven Devils Road, Charleston. Proceeds go to FOSS Bookstore and the reserve. 541-888-5558 Boy Scout Troop 761 Fundraiser Christmas Tree Sale 10 a.m.-6 p.m., lot south of Oregon Connection House of Myrtlewood, 1125 S. First St., Coos Bay. Noble Fir 4-8 foot, $25-45. Deliveries available, call 541-290-8794 Nature Film: Bears 1-3 p.m., South Slough Interpretive Center, 61907 Seven Devils Road, Charleston. Film shown on a big screen, popcorn provided. Call to register 541-888-5558.

Holiday Lights 4-9:30 p.m., Shore Acres State Park, 89309 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Refreshments and displays in the Garden House. Parking is $5. Visit www.shoreacres.net for the entertainment schedule.

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A big holiday helping The Festival of Trees spreads cheer, knowledge, and funds throughout the community TIM NOVOTNY The World‌

‌N ORTH BEND — The annual Festival of Trees, a holiday-themed fundraiser sponsored by The Mill Casino-Hotel and the Bay Area Rotary Club, is a community event with, as it turns out, many layers.

It starts with local businesses, groups, and citizens sponsoring a tree or wreath. They then gather to have some fun decorating together, often adding a number of donated items to the display.

Those final decorated offerings are now on display at The Mill’s hotel lobby until they are auctioned-off at fundraiser dinner on Dec. 4. Heidi Proett, the Rotary Club Chair for the event, and fellow Rotarian Judy Moody were overseeing the decorating party this week.

Proett says it is not too late to get involved.

“You can still come out and purchase a ticket on the night of the auction,” Proett said. “Doors open at 6:45 and the auction starts at 7 p.m. You can purchase an already decorated tree to take home for the holidays, or a wreath. Or you can purchase a tree that has some gifts underneath it and donate it to a needy family.”

“We’re all about supporting our community,” added Moody, “and people in our community, and that is what this does.”

It helps, as both are quick to point out, in more ways than one. The festival raised more than $19,000 last year, This year, the goal is to raise $25,000 to help charitable causes in this area.

The Women’s Safety and Resource Center is one cause that is ear-marked each year. Program Director Helen Thompson says it helps nonprofits that are always in need of more funding.

“These funds, portions, will be used to address our transportation needs,” she said. “We are transporting them — to court, or to appointments, or the doctors, or taking their kids

WINNERS The honored trees and wreaths this year included: BEST OF SHOW: Engles Furniture- Fisher’s Paradise MOST ELEGANT: Kitty’s Kitchen – Christmas is Forever BEST THEME: Kid’s Hope Center – Disney Frozen MOST ORIGINAL: The Mill Casino Food and Beverage – Nightmare Before Christmas JUDGES CHOICE: The Mill Casino Marketing – A Traditional Community Christmas BEST WREATH: Morgan Veterinary

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Organizations and businesses gathered for the decorating party for the Festival of Trees at The Mill Casino-Hotel Monday afternoon. The Bay Area Rotary Club will auction off the trees and wreathes on December 4th, with the proceeds going to benefit local charities somewhere. So, this all helps.” A new agency, or at least a new version of one, is also getting some help this year. The Kids’ HOPE Center, a child abuse intervention center, also relies on grants and donations in order to operate. So, anything they can get from the

Festival of Trees fundraiser is welcome.

JoAnne Shorb, program director, says the event also serves to help spread the word about her organization, which last year helped 197 area children and families get through a traumatic experience.

Benetti’s will host free Thanksgiving dinner ‌COOS BAY — Benetti’s Italian Restaurant will host a free Thanksgiving dinner for the community from noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 27 at Benetti’s, 260 S. Broadway in Coos Bay. The traditional Thanksgiving meal will feature turkey and all the trimmings. No reservations will be available for this special meal. Diners will be served as they arrive.

Benetti’s staff, family

and friends will volunteer their time to help serve the dinner. Oregon Coast Culinary Institute students will help prepare the dinner.

Other sponsors include Sysco, Food Services of America, Oregon Pacific

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South Coast ‌ OOS BAY — Kohl’s Cat C House now has tie-dyed T-shirts for a donation of $20 to help support the cat house. They are available in sizes M-3XL. To order, call the cat house at 541-2943876 or 541-260-5303.

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Supreme Court ruling could impact Obamacare in Oregon ‌Last week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law carries with it the potential to bounce back in unexpected ways to Oregonians.

The lawsuit the court agreed to hear is King v. Burwell, a Virginia case challenging the tax subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford health insurance.

The challengers in the case argue that those subsidies are being provided unlawfully in three dozen states that have decided not to run the public marketplaces known as exchanges for the sale of health insurance. They say that under a literal reading of the law, subsides are available only in states that established their own exchanges.

Here’s where Cover Oregon fits into this: The state is in the process of switching over to a federal site after the online portion of Oregon’s exchange never properly functioned. If the Supreme Court rules for the challengers, would Oregon be considered one of the states which has not run its own exchange and therefore is ineligible for the tax subsidies?

It’s not clear. But if the court does rule in favor of the challengers, expect this latest Cover Oregon wrinkle to be a mere footnote to what could be the obituary for the Affordable Care Act. The Albany Democrat-Herald

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What our next legislature’s priorities should be‌ During this season’s legislative campaign, talk focused on the economy, jobs, education and health reform. But n ow that Democrats have increased t heir majorities, the conversation is shifting to more controversial topics, such as fuel standards and gun background checks.

Oregon Democrats have gained two seats in the state Senate, giving them an 18-12 supermajority, which means they can pass any bill without a single Republican vote, even ones having to do with taxes.

In the House, they picked up one seat for a 35-25 majority. The party also held onto the governorship.

That gives the leadership hope of passing bills that failed earlier. Think paid sick

leave, minimum-wage increases, statesponsored retirement plans, automatic voter registration, among others, and the aforementioned fuel standards, legal aid and gun issues.

If these and other liberal wish-list i tems dominate legislative action in 2015, work on jobs and the economy — our most critical problems — will suffer.

D emocrats should beware of overreaching. A three-seat gain is not a mandate.

Gov. John Kitzhaber will need legislative support to follow through on his initiatives in health care and education, and to fix the mess of Cover Oregon.

Legislative leadership needs to focus o n those core issues, not a litany of feel-good but damaging distractions.

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Wyden tries 11th-hour push with an O&C forest bill‌ U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is trying for a bit of late-session congressional magic to finally get some movement on proposals to increase federal timber harvests in western Oregon. The Oregon Democrat has pulled off some last-minute feats of legislative legerdemain in the past, so it’s not at all out of the question that he can do it again with his bill involving the state’s Oregon & California Railroad lands.

But even as Wyden last week pushed his bill through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and onto the floor of the Senate, it was unclear how much support his proposal truly enjoys. And the clock is ticking to the end of the year, when this session of Congress closes up shop.

Presumably, if Wyden’s bill passes, a conference committee would be summ oned to pound out the differences b etween the House and Senate bills.

But that’s work that would have to move quickly to beat the end-of-session clock.

In any event, this newfound urgency likely offers little in the way of comfort to people in those 18 counties who are desperate to get back to work in the nation’s forests. Wyden’s actions this week offer a sliver of hope, but time is of the essence.

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Loving Uber less and less ‌Some Uber customers are reportedly deleting the car-hailing service’s app from their cellphones. Here is the reason, which may come on top of other reasons: An Uber exec talked about hiring an investigative team to find dirt on journalists writing unflattering things about the company. Emil Michael, a senior VP, told BuzzFeed News that he might spend $1 million to dig deep into their “personal lives” and “families.”

Some Uber deleters said they feared l eaving their personal information with a company so casual about privacy. But many saw this as the final d eal-killing blemish on a corpor ate image growing less attractive by the month.

M ichael has distanced himself from the raw remarks, sayi ng that they were attributed to him “at a private dinner party.”

(He didn’t deny maki ng them.) But the Froma b igger problem for HARROP Uber is the perception that its boy wonders Columnist can mouth off outrageously without demotion or other consequence.

U ber founder Travis Kalanick recently told GQ magazine that the success of his company has made it much easier to score with women. He called the company Boob-er — perhaps not a firing offense but a profoundly shtoopid remark.

Some tech fortunes rest on disrupting a traditional business. In Uber’s case, it’s the regulated taxi industry.

So let’s not be deceived. Under their owners’ messy hair and T-shirts lies the capitalistic aggression of a J.P. Morgan.

Wall Street has valued Uber at an optimistic $18 billion, but investors’ sense of humor goes just so far. Badb oy talk can hurt the bottom line.

After all, other companies (Lyft, Sidecar) do what Uber does.

Though unimaginably rich, Uber’s top guys are not at all into sharing the wealth. Uber has bragged that its U berX drivers in New York rake in a median salary of about $90,000.

But drivers told Business Insider that when expenses are subtracted, the pay is closer to the minimum wage. For UberX, the non-luxury option, drivers own their cars and must pay for gas, insurance and maintenance. Uber cut its rates in New York City by 20 percent, which meant the drivers made 20 percent less money.

Boosting demand for the service, Uber told the drivers, would result in more business and more money. In other words, they’d get back to making what they did before by working longer hours.

The California App-Based Drive rs Association says it calculated that a five-minute 2-mile trip in Los Angeles results in a $4 fare — out of which the driver makes only $1.25.

That’s what left after Uber takes out a $1 “safe rides fee” and its 25 percent of the remainder. From that, drivers must subtract their cost of running a vehicle, about 50 cents a mile.

Uber’s Republican fan base may be L ess worshipful coverage of the young tech stars has been most welcome. It’s not good for the boys when hipsters still using their service coin the term “Uber shame.”

Disrupters, meet the deleters.

Letters to the Editor Voter turnout not so bad

‌I was amazed to read the editorial in Thursday’s World lamenting the low voter turnout in Oregon; unfortunately your figures were incorrect.

I found the website, which indicated (as you wrote) that Oregon’s turnout was 52 percent. In capitalized, underlined letters, it pointed out that this was just an estimate.

According to the Oregon Secretary of S tate’s official website, Oregon’s voter turnout was actually 70.22 percent, and Coos County’s turnout was even better: 73.49 percent.

Turnout in Oregon’s 36 counties ranged from a low of 61.78 in Umatilla County to a high of 81.93 in the tiny Eastern Oregon county of Wheeler. Curry County’s turnout was slightly better than Coos County’s at 75.92.

The reason for the impressive turnout in Oregon, which far exceeded the national t urnout of 36.3 percent, was probably attributed to two ballot measures: recreational marijuana and the GMO issue.

The editorial also pointed out that 60 percent of The World’s employees voted ... which, based on the county and state turnout, was not necessarily a positive.

No need to add to the bottom of my letter whether or not I voted . . . since nearly three-fourths of the registered voters in Coos County really did vote .... even for uncontested candidates like me.

Time to get back to the game ...

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Mary Schamehorn, Mayor Bandon Editor’s note: Figures used in the Nov. 20 editorial were estimates from the United States Election Project calculated before all outstanding ballots were counted. The main point of the editorial – to encourage more voter participation – remains valid.

Elected officials: Do your job

‌ o my elected officials, T Would you rather be right or solve the problem? When we elect someone to public office, we expect them to put aside their political and ideological differences and work to solve problems and to provide the

best government possible. My way or the highway is not an acceptable approach to governing, but that is the approach the federal government has taken.

Political parties view the world differently, and their candidates promote those ideological differences when they run for office. However, once elected, the focus should shift from; we should do it this way, to what is the best solution for the nation.

This basic concept has been lost in Washington.

The election is over. You either won or lost. If you won, you are now an elected official. You are no longer a candidate.

Understand and embrace the difference.

Do your job! It makes no sense to continue tearing down the opposing party when you should now be working to solve the nation’s problems. You are no longer political enemies but government officials working together to provide the best government possible.

In Oregon, both voters and candidates recognize this difference and have acted accordingly. The state voter turnout (confidence in the system) was about 70 percent, while the rest of the nation fell below 40 percent. Our elected officials are going about solving the problems of this state.

We can be adults and get past our differences for the good of all. It is not whether you win or lose, but what you do afterwards that counts.

Matt Christensen Coos Bay

Data won’t analyze man’s best friend ‌As I write, the love of my life is off to the state penitentiary. I expect her back at the farm in late afternoon. She’s a volunteer with Paws in Prison, an organization that matches homeless dogs with inmate trainers.

After 12 weeks of living and working with prisoners, dogs “graduate” and are put up for adoption. Diane’s task is to match needy a nimals with families. An experienced canine diplomat, she’s perfect for the job.

Graduation day can be emotional. Men who have done terrible things in their lives come to feel a strong connection with their dogs. Only the promise of a new student for another three months makes it all right letting them go.

The thing about dogs is they don’t know about your rap sheet and they don’t care.

Some inmates have told Diane how much t he animals have helped alleviate their feelings of isolation. A couple have volunteered that having them around has altered the prison environment for the better. Hard shells soften while petting a dog.

I ndeed, I wonder if it’s possible to f ully trust anybody who dislikes dogs, a lthough there are many people who

p robably shouldn’t own one. I’m thinking now of t he authors of a recent S late.com piece called a “Big data dog graph” ranking breeds by “costs and benefits” of owning one.

In one chart, they’ve produced a handsome graphic Gene purporting to distinguish LYONS “inexplicably overrated” breeds from “overlooked Columnist treasures.”

The criteria were “intelligence,” “longevity,” “appetite,” “grooming costs,” and a couple of others. The idea being that if you’re a clear-thinking, trendy pet owner, your dog of choice will be a border collie, while if you like them short-lived and stupid, you’ll show up at the dog park with some unfortunate brute like a mastiff or a boxer.

Except what if you don’t have a herd of sheep to keep your border collie busy and the children in your neighborhood resent being herded? What if kids’ parents object to their being nipped on the rump to speed t hem along? In my experience, border

collies simply shouldn’t live in town. Slate’s graph excludes everything about this wonderful breed that makes them unique.

Out here in the boondocks, our needs are so varied we currently keep six dogs of four breeds: three for security, two for comic relief, and one to keep the couch on the floor.

T he two Great Pyrenees sometimes intimidate visitors who don’t notice that the German shepherd’s doing all the growling. People, they’re OK with, although nobody comes on the place without a close escort. Strange dogs, however, need to stay away. Indeed, no animal with sharp teeth or talons is permitted, apart from their personal cats, whom they protect.

According to the Big Data Dog Graph, my basset hounds are stupid and eat too much, hence not desirable. It’s true they’re not great problem solvers. Mainly, they enjoy napping with cats. They’re also total sniffaholics. Walking them on a leash would be slow-motion torture.

But they love everybody, they’re happy all the time, and they make me laugh six times a day. That’s got to be worth something.

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Family affair needs confession ‌ E A R A B B Y: I D recently found out my daughter has been having an affair with her sister’s husband. This will tear our family apart. It will also have a huge impact on my grandchildren.

I have not yet told my wife, who will be devastated, but I’m having trouble carrying Dear this burbby den alone.

I feel they should be held accountable.

Should I look the other way, o r m a ke Jeanne them Phillips responsible for their actions, knowing the hell it will create? — STRESSING IN THE USA DEAR STRESSING: What an unfortunate mess. Please do not assume that you are responsible for any damage that may result from this affair. Because you know about it, it’s logical to assume that it’s only a matter of time until others find out what has been going on.

That’s why you should talk to your daughter. Tell her you know about the affair and will now have to inform her sister, who deserves to know that her marriage is in serious trouble and why. If you do, it may save the marriage.

DEAR ABBY: In the past few months I have gone to different parties for friends from my church group. I always go to the celebrations eager to meet and chat with people I haven’t seen in years.

However, one thing bothers me about these get-togethers. Toward the middle of the event, I often get approached by the host who will ask me to assist with a certain task such as setting up the table, clearing or even doing the dishes. No one else is ever asked to help.

I was raised in a family that emphasized good manners and to always be willing to help a friend.

But in these situations I feel uncomfortable because I don’t want to refuse my host and I was invited as a “guest.”

Isn’t it rude for a host to ask a guest to help clean?

If so, what would be the appropriate response? — INFRINGED UPON IN CONNECTICUT DEAR INFRINGED UPON: Whether it’s presumptuous to ask depends upon how close the host is to the guest being asked to lend a hand. Some people would consider it a compliment; however, if you’re not close, it IS presumptuous.

And if you prefer not to be recruited, all you have to say is, “I’d rather not.”

D EA R R EA D E RS : Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and no Thanksgiving would be complete without my sharing the traditional prayer penned by my dear mother: Oh, Heavenly Father, We thank Thee for food and remember the hungry.

We thank Thee for health and remember the sick.

We thank Thee for friends and remember the friendless.

We thank Thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.

May these remembrances stir us to service, That Thy gifts to us may be used for others.

Amen.

Have a safe and happy celebration, everyone! — Love, ABBY Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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memory of the incident,” he said of the Sept. 7 attack at his Springfield home.

Prosecutor Rebecca Ivanoff said that while the customer was browsing the yard sale, Bregg punched his wife and kicked her and two other female relatives down a staircase, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.

The customer noticed a woman with a bloody mouth crying outside the house and tried to intervene, Ivanoff said. Bregg slammed a door in the customer’s face, re-emerged to argue with the man and then went back inside and threw items from a secondstory window, police said.

Bregg then fetched a .22-caliber rifle and began firing from the window, police said. The victim was hit in the shoulder and a leg.

Under state law, Bregg won’t be eligible for early release. He also was ordered to pay more than $19,000 in restitution to the victim, who did not attend the sentencing hearing.

D I G E S T Fishermen’s wives sue to keep CG station open

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Demonstrators march Tuesday in Portland. People protesting the grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., of Michael Brown took to the streets in cities across the U.S. for a second day.

Pepper spray, 7 arrests in Oregon Ferguson protest ‌P ORTLAND (AP) — Police in Portland used pepper spray and arrested seven people after hundreds of demonstrators roamed the city and blocked traffic Tuesday night while protesting a grand jury decision not to indict a Missouri police officer in the killing of an 18-year-old.

The arrests involved a splinter group that broke away after a peaceful downtown demonstration that involved about 1,000 people, police said.

The smaller group of about 300 marched across a major Willamette River bridge into east Portland, disrupting traffic.

Sgt. Pete Simpson said one driver was punched in the face by a protester who disappeared into the crowd. The driver was not seriously injured.

Protesters also marched onto Interstate 5, where some tossed rocks and bottles at police, Simpson said. That’s when officers used pepper spray and made several arrests. The freeway was clear within

about 10 minutes, the spokesman said.

Those arrested were a cc u se d o f o f fe n se s including disorderly conduct and interfering with an officer. Bus and light rail traffic was disrupted.

“No justice, no peace,” protesters chanted, “no racist police.”

Several confrontations briefly elevated into skirmishes. At one point on the Hawthorne Bridge, which police were blocking, a police officer on a motorcycle repeatedly ran his bike into the legs of a protester, who continued to stand in his way. The incident drew a crowd of protesters who accused the officer of assault. The officer quickly left the area.

The protest had many elements of the Occupy Po r t l a n d m ove m e n t , which galvanized protesters in the city and formed a network of people who still communicate via mass text message.

As with Occupy, the vast majority of protesters preached peace, but a fringe group of people

— some covering their faces with black bandannas — advocated violence and confrontations with police. And like Occupy, the original protest drew a disparate group of people together, not all of whom agreed with one another.

Military veterans called for peace, a communist group called for the overthrow of capitalism, and a group calling for a Palestinian state all held court during a series of speeches on the steps of the state Justice Center in Portland.

Portland is perhaps as primed as any city in the country to protest police actions. The Portland Police Bureau has endured scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has criticized the bureau’s treatment of the mentally ill.

The department has had violent, sometimes fatal, confrontations with the mentally ill and the black community, highlighted in the documentary “Alien Boy,” about the death of a homeless man in police custody.

‌GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The wives of fishermen from Oregon’s largest commercial fleet are suing to stop the U.S. Coast Guard from closing its rescue helicopter station in Newport.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Eugene argues that closing the Newport Air Station would violate the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which prohibits the Coast Guard from cutting back its mission.

The Coast Guard has said budget cuts led to the closing, and it will cover the central Oregon Coast from Astoria and North Bend stations.

The lawsuit says that will add an hour to the time it takes a helicopter to reach a stricken vessel, which could be the differ- Train kills Eugene ence between life and death woman chasing dog in cold Pacific waters. The Coast Guard didn’t imme‌EUGENE (AP) — Eugene diately respond to requests police say they’re trying to identify a woman who was for comment on the suit. fatally struck by a train as Man gets 7 years for she chased a dog across the shooting at yard sale tracks. The Eugene Register-Guard reports the ‌E UG E N E ( A P) — A n woman died at the hospital.

Oregon man has been senPolice said the crossing arms tenced to more than seven were down, and audio and years in prison for shooting visual warning signs had been and wounding a customer activated when the woman was at a yard sale who tried to hit about 10 p.m. Monday. intervene in a domestic disThe crossing is west of pute. downtown Eugene.

Phillip Bregg, 34, pleaded Police said the woman guilty Monday to charges d i d n ’ t h a ve I D . T h e y of attempted murder and described her as 5-foot-6, assault in an agreement 140 pounds, in her late 20s, with prosecutors, but told with brown hair. a judge he didn’t clearly The dog was unhurt. It recall the family fight last was described as an AustraSeptember that led to the lian Shepherd mix with a red shooting. collar and a gray harness. It “I don’t have a coherent was taken to a local shelter.

Obituaries Kirby L. Boyd

May 27, 1961—Nov. 19, 2014‌

Cremation rites have been held for Kirby L. Boyd, 53, of North Bend, under the direction of Nelson’s Bay Area Mortuary.

Kirby was Kirby Boyd born May 27 1961, in Coos Bay. He passed away Nov. 19 2014, in Coos Bay. He graduated from North Bend High School Due to a tragic accident in 1981 Kirby was confined to a wheelchair for the last 33 years. He did not let that slow him down. He went to Southwestern Oregon Community College and received a degree.

Kirby joined the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and was chairman of the Reedsport chapter for several years up until his passing. The RMEF became his life.

Kirby loved anything to do with the outdoors. He did not let his being confined to a wheelchair affect his zest for life. K irby had many friends and the RMEF was his family. His smile and wonderful personality will be missed.

Kirby is survived by his parents, Beverly and Jimmy Boyd of North Bend; his brothers, Jimmy Boyd of Emmett, Idaho and Jeremy Boyd of Coos Bay; sister, Brenda Hughes of Coquille; sister, Polly Latta of North Bend; as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, attn: Kirby Boyd Memorial, 5705 Grant Creek Road, Missoula, MT 59808 Arrangements are under the direction of Nelson’s Bay Area Mortuary, 541267-4216.

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Death Notices J‌e a n O l s o n — 9 0, o f Coquille, died Nov. 25, 2014, in Coquille. Arrangements are pending with Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service-Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846.

Rosalind Jeanne Yussim

Sept. 24, 1920 – Nov. 23, 2014‌

After several years of old age, Rosalind Jeanne Yussim, 94, returned to the Lord of Life and the Divine Mother.

The second of five children, she was born Sept.

24, 1 92 0, to M ichael Ludgin and Dora (Wernig) Ludgin in Brookl y n , N .Y. She married Benjamin Rosalind A . Yu ss i m Yussim in 1943 and they had two sons. She was honorably discharged from the United States Citizens Defense Corps June 30, 1945 after serving in the Air Warden Protection Service for the city of New York during World War II. During the war she sang

Margaret Isla “Ila” Strong Jan. 5, 1916 – Nov. 19, 2014‌

At her request, no public services will be held for Margaret Isla “Ila” Strong, 98, of Coos Bay, formerly of Reedsport.

Private creMargaret mation rites Strong were held at Ocean View Memory Gardens in Coos Bay. Ila was born Jan. 5, 1916, in San Francisco, Calif., to John and Isabela Simmons. She passed away

in the Collegiate Chorale with her sisters Dr. Shirley Lemeshnik and Eleanor Bernstein and were joined after the war by brother Chester Ludgin who went on to become the internationally acclaimed American Verdi Baritone.

“Rozzo,” as she was later known in her role as a clown, moved from New York City to San Francisco in 1968, and ultimately to Coos Bay, to be closer to family in the summer of 2011. During her tenure in San Francisco, Rosalind distinguished herself by devoting her time to selfless service for the hungry, sick and dying; children, the blind and the elderly; her generosity was exceeded only by her keen mind. She was honored on numerous occasions for her service and most notably was presented with the city of San Francisco Award of Merit by then Nov. 19, 2014, in North Bend with family by her side.

A longtime resident of Reedsport, Isla spent her last years in the Coos Bay area. Active in her community while her health allowed, Ila was a member of the Church of Jesus C h r i s t o f L a t te r- d ay Saints, Smith River Garden Club and Smith River CASAD Club. She was a volunteer for the SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) in Reedsport. Ila was loved by many and will be missed.

She is survived by her son, John and wife, Mala Passemore-Strong of Dana

Mayor Diane Feinstein on two occasions. In addition, she served Broadcast Services for the Blind for nearly 30 years reading scientific journals which had not been translated into Braille both “on air” as well as for private clients. She was a member of The International Brotherhood of Magicians, and the San Francisco Theatrical Club, Inc. She was also presented with the Beatrice Schiffman Volunteer Award in 1993 by Self-Help for the Elderly.

In her waning years she continued to coordinate dances and sing-alongs at both the Downtown Senior Center and the outer Richmond Senior Center in San Francisco.

In addition to her many h u m a n i ta r i a n se rv i ce pursuits, she was a lifelong learner, poet, and continued to enroll both as a matriculated and Point, Calif.; daughter, Susan Peck of Woodburn; grandson, Greg Peck of Reedsport; granddaughters, Julie Smart of Woodburn and Jamie LeDoux of North Bend; and six greatgrandchildren.

Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131.

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She served as executive assistant to Top Management in prominent organizations both in New York and San Francisco until her retirement. Her loving and positive demeanor will be missed by friends, family and strangers alike.

She is survived by her younger son, Herbert Yussim and his wife, Brooke Yussim of Coos Bay; her daughter-in-law, Judy Gruber; and grandson, Sam Yussim of San Francisco.

Sadly, her older son, Daniel Yussim predeceased her.

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Clutter’s last stand ‌W hat would you do if you actually had to use e ve r y t h i n g yo u o w n , including all that stuff in the drawers, cupboards, closets, shelves and boxes in your kitchen, bedrooms, living room, basement, attic, garage, rafters, driveway, patio, side yard and cars?

Most of us will never accomplish such an overwhelming task. Instead, we pack it, Everyday stack it and Cheapskate pile it away — even pay rent to store it — and keep accumulating even more.

More stuff only dilutes the quality of our lives.

Mary Every Hunt possession carries two price tags: the original purchase price and the continuing toll. That second amount is paid in upkeep, time, maintenance and storage. It can charge its toll in anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, financial distress and even impaired function.

Moving and storing clutter I’ve done it. Perhaps you have, too; I’ve packed it all up and paid someone to move it to a new place. “I’ll sort it there,” I THE FAMILY CIRCUS told myself. Years later, I’m still hounded by unpacked boxes which I’ve moved from one house, one floor, one room or just one side of the closet to another.

Who could calculate the number of hours we’ve tossed down the drain because of clutter. Simple tasks turn into searcha n d - re s c u e m i s s i o n s.

There are some people in my neighborhood who empty the entire contents of the garage onto the front lawn to retrieve holiday decorations. Then, they take the rest of the day cramming it all back before dark.

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Judging junk A s k yo u rse l f t h e se questions to decide if it’s clutter or not: Does it work? So much of the clutter in our homes i s m a d e u p o f b ro ke n things we plan to fix and clothes that might someday fit.

Do I really need it?

Determine the impact of this item disappearing from your life.

Do I enjoy it? If this item brings beauty and joy to your life, it is not clutter.

Sentimental belongings and things that bring true beauty to our lives should be treated with great care and respect — not packed away in the attic to be forgotten.

Am I using it now? If it doesn’t fall into the 20 percent of things you use on a regular basis, it is suspect.

Will I use it in the next year? If you are not certain you will use it soon, it’s clutter!

LUANN

GRIZZWELLS

Move it out Sell it, give it away or throw it out. One of the best solutions for “good stuff” is to give it to someone who wants or needs it.

The more seriously you take this matter of dejunking, the greater the positive impact it will have MODERATELY CONFUSED on your life. Important stuff will be easier to find when you don’t have to rifle through piles of worthless clutter.

Would you like to send a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. Include your first and last name and state.

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 24 books, including her 2013 release “The Smart Woman’s Guide to Planning for Retirement.” To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

KIT ’N’ CARLYLE

HERMAN

Nation & World

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 • The World • A7

As OPEC faces tough test, lower oil prices loom JONATHAN FAHEY Associated Press‌

‌NEW YORK — These are the moments OPEC exists for: A sharp drop in global oil prices has reduced the amount of money OPEC countries take in by nearly $1 billion a day.

The 12-member group’s purpose is to coordinate how much oil is produced in order to keep prices high and stable and maximize member countries’ revenue while making sure global demand for oil stays strong.

A steep, coordinated cut in output could stop and possibly reverse what has been a 30 percent decline in prices over five months.

But there is widespread doubt that OPEC will be able to do much of anything when it meets Thursday in Vienna. Either the members won’t agree to a cut, analysts say, or the cut will be too small to influence oil prices. They could also, as in the past, agree to lower production but then fail to stick to the target.

That could mean further

declines in the price of oil, along with fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

“The idea that this is a cartel that places meaningful restrictions on its members’ behavior is fiction,” says Jeff Colgan, a political science professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute who studies OPEC. “OPEC countries do exactly what we would expect them to do if there were no such thing as OPEC.” OPEC is at a crossroads.

The group, which produces 30 million barrels of oil per

day, one-third of global liquid fuel demand, is facing the most pronounced decline in oil prices since the financial crisis hit in 2008. And the world now is drastically different. Oil production outside of OPEC is surging for the first time in a generation, boosting global oil supplies. U.S. production has surged 70 percent since 2008, adding 3.5 million barrels of oil per day. The increase itself is more than any OPEC member produces other than Saudi Arabia.

At the same time, OPEC

members around the world — those in the Middle East and North Africa, along with countries such as Venezuela and Nigeria — are undergoing wrenching political upheaval that is putting extraordinary pressure on government budgets. OPEC countries need oil money more than ever, making the steep cuts in production that would be necessary to push up prices all but impossible.

“They have quite a task in front of them,” says Bhushan Bahree, senior director for

OPEC and Middle East research at the analysis firm IHS. “They have to decide how much room to make, if any, for North American supply growth.”

Without a cut in output, global supply is on track to exceed demand by 1.2 million barrels per day next year. If that comes to pass, oil prices would almost certainly decline further. Even a modest announced cut of 500,000 barrels per day, or adherence to current OPEC quotas, might not be enough to stop the slide in prices.

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Then, now and the future

The Associated Press‌

A nor’easter was expected to develop along the East Coast just as millions of travelers head to their Thanksgiving destinations, bringing mostly rain close to the coast, but heavier snow further inland.

Rain, snow to challenge eastern holiday travelers ‌MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Some Thanksgiving travelers along the East Coast headed out early because of a forecast calling for a nor’easter that will bring rain and snow. “ I wa s rea l ly ge t ting nervous about getting stuck and not making it home for the holidays,” said Jenna Bouffard, a Manhattan public relations executive who said she switched her bus

ticket from Wednesday to Tuesday to avoid potential weather delays.

“I don’t want to risk it,” she said. “I’d rather be safe than sorry and if it doesn’t snow then I just have an extra day at home with my family” in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

The National Weather Service’s lead forecaster said major Northeast cities will likely see moderate to heavy rain most of

Hundreds of migrants on crippled ship off Crete

World

‌ THENS, Greece (AP) — A Ships from Greece rushed to help after a crippled freighter crammed with hundreds of migrants f l o u n d e re d fo r h o u rs Tuesday in gale-force winds and high waves in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said.

The 250-foot Baris cargo ship carrying some 700 people trying to enter Europe suffered engine failure around dawn 30 nautical miles southeast of the Greek island of Crete, the Greek Coast Guard said in a statement.

Four merchant ships, the Greek navy frigate Hydra and an air force rescue helicopter were sent to the area to evacuate the vessel if necessary, although authorities said they would probably try to tow it to Crete.

The coast guard said initial indications suggested the passengers included Syrians and Afghans heading for Italy.

The freighter was flying the flag of Kiribati, a small Pacific Ocean island, but it was not known which port it left from.

Tens of thousands of refugees, including many from war-torn Syria and Libya, seek to enter Europe illegally every year, paying smuggling gangs to ferry

D I G E S T them across the Mediterranean in overcrowded boats. Hundreds die every year in the attempt.

More than 150,000 migrants have arrived this year in Italy.

Nigeria: 2 teen female suicide bombers kill 30 ‌BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Two teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, according to witnesses and a security official.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, are suspected of the bombings, as they have carried out many similar attacks. The bombings highlight Nigeria’s ongoing insecurity in which 1,500 people have been killed by the militant’s insurgency this year, according to Amnesty International.

The two girls dressed in full hijabs entered the busy marketplace and detonated their explosives, said Abba Aji Kalli, the Borno state coordinator of the Civilian Joint Task Force.

Wednesday. Meteorologist Andrew Orrison says higher elevation areas west of the Interstate 95 corridor could see as much as 6 to 12 inches of snow.

Although the coast would see mostly rain, the Weather Service says the storm could leave a few inches of snow before exiting the region early Thursday.

“We’re not looking at major cities seeing significant snowfall,” Orrison

said. “It will mostly be rain for big cities and then maybe a couple of slushy inches of accumulation in cities like Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City.”

Although the storm will be a nor’easter, Orrison said heavy winds were not in the forecast. Conditions were expected to improve

by Thursday morning.

A l l t h e m a jo r U. S. a i rl i n e s we re c l ose ly

monitoring the situation but have not yet canceled flights. American Airlines was allowing passengers flying to some Northeast cities on Wednesday to move their flight, for free, to Tuesday or Thursday.

In Vermont, public safety officials warned the public that travel could be treacherous. Up to 16 inches of snow was forecast in some areas of the state.

Premiums for many popular health care plans are going up RICARDO ALONSOZALDIVAR Associated Press‌

‌WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers across most of America will see their health insurance premiums go up next year for popular plans under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

But it will take time for families to figure out the best bang for their budgets — even as a bigger political battle brews over the program’s future.

For many people, government subsidies will cushion the hit. And there’s a new factor: Returning customers who are savvy about health insurance and prepared to shop for a better deal.

Scott Joens of St. George, Utah, said he and his wife are facing premium increases of about 18 percent for 2015. But instead of agonizing, he’s looking for a plan with a higher deductible, which is the amount of medical expenses that consumers are responsible for each year before insurance kicks in. By switching, he could lower his monthly premiums.

Joens, in his 50s and semi-retired from the

pharmacy business, said he’ll worry if the trend keeps going.

“It’s not a major hardship,” he said. “But I still have some years until I am on Medicare. My worry is by the time I’m 65, who knows where this will be?” Overall, he said he’s been very satisfied with his “gold” plan this year.

Experts say numbers alone don’t tell the story.

“How all this shakes out will depend on one big wild card,” said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

“Will current enrollees become savvy shoppers or just sit back and stay in their current plans? This is a new program with no precedent, so there’s no way to predict exactly what will happen.”

In a departure from the process that officials followed last year, the administration has not released its own analysis of 2015 premiums. Instead, it published raw data, leaving it to independent experts to parse the numbers.

What they are finding points to an overall trend of rising premiums, although not everywhere.

T h e a n a l ys t s h a ve focused on “silver” plans,

the coverage level picked by about two-thirds of the customers on HealthCare. gov and state-run health insurance markets. There are four levels — platinum, gold, silver and bronze.

Silver is a notch below what most people with employer coverage have.

A study from the market analysis firm Avalere Health found that premiums for the lowest-cost silver plan will go up by 10 percent on average in communities across the country.

A Kaiser Foundation study took a different approach, focusing on premiums for the secondlowest-cost silver plan in every county. That type of plan is a benchmark that the government uses as a basis for setting consumer premium subsidies for the entire program.

Kaiser found that premiums for the secondlowest-cost silver plan are going up in 59 percent of counties nationwide, down in 34 percent, and remaining flat in 7 percent.

Eighteen percent of counties will see an increase of more than 10 percent. At the other end of the spectrum, 13 percent of counties will see a decrease of more than 10 percent.

‌ST. LOUIS (AP) — The weeks of anxious waiting and hours of deliberating ended Monday, but the grand jury’s decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Michael Brown will likely reverberate throughout the community and nation for days to come.

THE LATEST: Attorneys for Michael Brown’s family and the Rev. Al Sharpton criticized St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s decision to take the case in front of a grand jury and not to appoint a special prosecutor. They also took protesters who committed violence to task during Tuesday’s news conference.

THE BEGINNING: Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown, who was unarmed, shortly after noon Aug. 9 in the middle of the street after a scuffle.

Several days of tense protests in the predominantly black community followed, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to call in the National Guard. McCulloch decided to present the case to a grand jury.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT: Made up of nine white people and three black people, the grand jury met 25 days over three months, and heard more than 70 hours of testimony from 60 witnesses.

McCulloch held a primetime news conference Monday to reveal the decision, and described inconsistent witness accounts.

THE PUBLIC RESPONSE: Thousands waited in the streets of Ferguson and in other major U.S. cities on Monday, and responded with shouts of anger. In Ferguson, some began throwing objects at police, and soon began to smash windows and set fire to businesses and cars. Authorities lobbed tear gas to disperse the crowd.

When daylight broke, about a dozen businesses had been severely damaged or destroyed along a stretch of West Florissant Avenue in the north St. Louis suburb. Sixty-one people were arrested in Ferguson and 21 were arrested in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, while 14 people had protest-related injuries.

THE DOCUMENTS: More than 1,000 pages of grand jury documents were released Monday, including Wilson’s full testimony in which he described the scuffle in his patrol car and recognizing the cigars in Brown’s hand as possibly being connected to a report of a convenience store robbery. Wilson also said that Brown approached him: “And when he gets about ... 8 to 10 feet away ... all I see is his head and that’s what I shot.”

THE FINAL SAY? The U.S. Justice Department has its own investigation into possible civil rights violations that could result in federal charges for Wilson, but investigators would need to satisfy a rigorous standard of proof. The department also has launched a broad probe into the Ferguson Police Department.

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will stay since the district o wns them. And they’ll a llow for extra space if and when the elementary schools continue to grow.

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Carmen Matthews, co-owner of 7 Devils Brewing Co., shovels out spent grain from the mash tun after brewing on Tuesday morning. The grains are picked up by Coastal Hills Pastured Poultry and used to feed their livestock.

20 pounds.

S wenson offers white and bronze turkeys, but she said it’s hard to tell the difference in taste unless you taste test them side by side. “ Commercial turkeys get really big and fat, but mine are a little more muscly,” she said. “They’re also broad-breasted but they’re

a little bit stronger.”

T hose muscles come f rom roaming wherever t hey want on the fields.

They eat grass, bugs and the spent grain-infused feed, so they have the strength to fly to higher areas to roost.

S w e n s o n ’s b r o a d b reasted turkeys cost $4.25 per pound, which is

expensive compared to the average store-bought bird, “but mine are richer in flavor.”

t he overcrowding is happening. (Attendance) lines are coming closer and closer to Madison, but we don’t want them too close. Right now Madison cannot sustain another portable. The electrical system can’t handle it.”

New attendance zones will be posted on the district’s website in the coming weeks.

“My big concern is this buys us a couple of years, maybe, but we’re not going t o be able to open a 4-7 ( school), and there’s not another school to open to take the slack off of Millicoma and Sunset,” Granger said. “This is just a stopgap measure for three to four years at least.”

Bunker Hill has sat vacant for three years, but facilities manager Rick Roberts estimates it will only take about $20,000 to bring it up to code and ready for hundreds of little kids.

Bunker Hill was shuttered in 2011 due to budget cuts

and declining enrollment.

Granger said teaching staff will be chosen for Bunker Hill early next year. Those teachers will then be able to participate in the hiring process for their principal.

T his announcement c omes in advance of the s chool board’s meeting Monday to discuss a longterm plan to upgrade the district’s facilities.

“These two things happened separately, but they’re so connected,” Granger said.

“I’m just glad we had Bunker Hill or we would be in a terrible spot right now.”

All of Coos Bay’s school buildings are decades-old: Blossom Gulch, Madison, M illicoma and the main Marshfield building were all built in the 1950s and early 1960s. Others were built in the 1920s and 1930s.

B ecause of their age, t he heating, electrical a nd technology components aren’t up to par with today’s standards.

T he facilities outreach committee has worked over the last two years to survey the community and figure out what needs improved.

Three options rose to the top: • Option A: Expand and renovate Sunset and Millicoma into two preK-6 camp uses, modify and make c ritical improvements to Marshfield to create a 7-12 campus. (Estimated cost: $44 million) • O p t i o n B : T h re e preK-6 campuses, one of which would be centrally located. The other campuses would be at Sunset and Millicoma. This option would only be used if the community felt it was important to maintain a school within c entral city limits. (Estimated cost: $52 million) • Option C: Expand and renovate Sunset and Mill icoma into two preK-8 campuses and make critical improvements to Marshfield’s infrastructure. (Estimated cost: $55 million)

​ eporter Chelsea Davis can R be reached at 541-269-1222, ext. 239, or by email at chelsea.davis@theworldlink. com. Follow her on Twitter: @ChelseaLeeDavis.

Other demonstrations were held across the country for a second day. Hundreds of Seattle high school s tudents walked out of classes, and several hundred people marched down a Cleveland freeway ramp to block rush-hour traffic.

D uring an interview with ABC News, Wilson said he has a clean conscience because “I know I did my job right.”

W ilson, 28, had been with the Ferguson police force for less than three years before the Aug. 9 s hooting. He told ABC Brown’s shooting marked the first time he had fired his gun on the job.

A t to r n e ys fo r t h e B rown family vowed to push for federal charges against Wilson and said t he grand jury process was rigged from the start to clear Wilson.

“We said from the very beginning that the decis ion of this grand jury was going to be the direct reflection of the presentation of the evidence by the prosecutor’s office,” a ttorney Anthony Gray s aid. He suggested the office of the county’s top prosecutor, Bob McCulloch, presented some test imony to discredit the process, including from witnesses who did not see the shooting.

During Monday’s prot ests, 12 commercial b uildings in Ferguson burned down, and firef ighters responded to blazes at eight others, fire officials said. Other businesses were looted, and 12 vehicles were torched.

Natalie DuBose, owner o f Natalie’s Cakes and More, planned to spend T uesday night at her b usiness, which is only a bout a block from the Ferguson Police Department. “ I have to be here b ecause I have orders

t hat I have to complete f or tomorrow and for Thursday because of the h oliday. I just couldn’t do it today because of the cleanup.”

A window at her busin ess was busted out in Monday night’s turmoil.

“This is my livelihood,” she said. “This is the only source of income I have to raise my children.”

Brown’s parents made public calls for peace in the run-up to Monday’s a nnouncement, and on Tuesday, their represent atives again stressed t hat the people setting fires were not on Michael Brown’s side.

V i d e os t h a t we re w idely circulated on Tuesday showed Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, standing atop a car a nd breaking down as the announcement of the grand jury decision blares over the stereo.

Her husband, Brown’s s te p fa t h e r, co m fo r ts her, then begins angrily yelling “Burn the bitch down!” to a crowd gathered around him. Asked about the comment at a n ews conference, fami ly attorney Benjamin Crump said the reaction was, “raw emotion. Not appropriate at all. Completely inappropriate.”

P rotests continued during the day on Tuesd ay. In Clayton, where t h e g ra n d j u ry m e t , clergy members and othe rs blocked morning traffic for several hours.

In downtown St. Louis, w here demonstrators swarmed the steps of a f ederal courthouse and s topped traffic, at least four people were arrested.

Attorneys for Brown’s f amily said they hope a n ongoing federal civil rights investigation leads t o charges. But federal i nvestigations of police misconduct face a steep legal standard, requiring proof that an officer willfully violated a victim’s civil rights.

Testimony from Wilson t hat he felt threatened, a nd physical evidence almost certainly complicates any efforts to seek federal charges.

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Bulldogs prep for Gladstone GEORGE ARTSITAS The World‌

‌NORTH BEND — At the end of all the hoopla, after 11 weeks of 40 Class 4A football programs battling under lights every Friday (and occasional Saturday), the two best teams will face off in the state final.

No. 1 ranked Gladstone will take on No. 2 North Bend for the Class 4A football championship at Hillsboro Stadium on Saturday, with kickoff set for 5 p.m.

The teams share identical 11-0 records, but North Bend holds the experience edge — and beat the Gladiators 10-7 in the quarterfinals in 2012.

After blowing out La Grande and South Umpqua by a total of 112-35, North Bend narrowly escaped Mazama 41-40 in the semifinals by stuffing a twopoint conversion in the final minutes.

It’ll be North Bend’s second trip to the state finals in the past three years, sandwiching a trip to the semifinals last year.

“They’ve got experience, they know what to expect and for our kids, each week is a new experience,” Gladstone first-year head coach J.J. Jedrykowski said. “We know we have to play our best to beat them. There’s no margin for error.”

Gladstone has had to survive overtime the past two rounds to get here. In the quarterfinals, the Gladiators escaped Junction City 28-21 after defensive end Deion Fields scooped up a fumble in the extra period. In the semifinals, Scappoose had back-up quarterback Robert Lohman take over after Joey Krupsky was injured, with the second-stringer helping the Indians storm back from a 20-0 halftime deficit to force the Gladiators’ second overtime in as many weeks. Lohman was sacked in the extra period on a two-point conversion to clinch a 27-26 victory for the Gladiators.

“Apparently our kids are tough enough and want it bad enough,” Jedrykowski said.

This is Gladstone’s first state final appearance since 1978, when it won its third state title.

“We can grind it out if we have to,” Jedrykowski said.

“We’re prepared if we have to do that.”

After eight years under former Gladiator coach Jon Wolf a s d e fe n s ive co o rd i n a to r, Jedrykowksi has been phenomenal in his first year at the helm and was named Tri-Valley Conference coach of the year, but his biggest challenge will be stopping the state’s highest scoring offense at 49.7 points per game.

Gladstone offense is — in a word — comparable. The Gladiators had the highest scoring offense in 4A during the regular season, a title that has been since reclaimed by the Bulldogs during the postseason.

The main attraction of Gladstone’s attack is Tri-Valley Conference offensive player of the year Handsome Smith. “(How do you stop Smith?) is

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McGowne thrives in college environment JOHN GUNTHER The World‌

ASHLAND — Lauren ‌ McGowne is living a dream.

The former Marshfield standout is in her second year as a two-sport athlete at Southern Oregon University.

Even if she hadn’t helped the Raiders reach the NAIA volleyball tournament with a win over College of the Ozarks on Saturday — the Raiders swept the Bobcats in three games — she wouldn’t trade anything for her experience in Ashland.

“I’m having so much fun here,” she said.

McGowne left the comfort of a tight-knit Marshfield community not sure entirely what to expect. What she found has thrilled her.

“I think I was a little scared to come into a new volleyball team after leaving Marshfield,” she said. “But this team engulfed me. And the track team did, too.

“It’s like a dream come true to have it in high school and again in college.”

McGowne is juggling a curriculum geared toward a degree in education — she maintains her long-held dream of becoming a kindergarten teacher — with the challenges of participating in both volleyball and track and field.

School is going well, she said.

She has been able to take a number of her classes on-line during the volleyball and track and field seasons, and she is making progress toward graduating.

“I’m finally getting into education classes,” she said, adding that she will finish all her prerequisite classes this term.

As for athletics, McGowne couldn’t be happier.

“Volleyball is amazing,” she said. “I don’t think I could think of a word to describe the season as a whole.”

The Raiders have surpassed what they accomplished during McGowne’s freshman season. Last fall, they reached the Cascade Collegiate Conference tournament, but weren’t able to advance to the NAIA playoffs.

This year, their ranking was high enough to make it into the 36-team field even though they didn’t win the conference tournament, and their win over College of the Ozarks clinched their trip to the NAIA tournament in Sioux City, Iowa.

McGowne is the Raiders’ starting setter, though this year she has been sharing duties with Tyana Andrews after the team switched to a two-setter rotation to increase its offensive options.

“It’s what’s best for the team,” McGowne said. “You want the team to succeed.

“To be out there as much as I am is a blessing.”

That’s why she doesn’t mind

John Gunther, The World‌

Marshfield graduate Lauren McGowne poses for a photo in Riehm Arena, where she plays setter for Southern Oregon University.

“I think I was a little scared to come into a new volleyball team after leaving Marshfield,” she said. “But this team engulfed me. And the track team did, too.”

Lauren McGowne

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Lauren McGowne sets the ball for a teammate during a recent Southern Oregon University match. that this year didn’t bring the postseason honors she enjoyed last year, when she was on the CCC’s all freshman team and a first-team all-conference selection.

“It’s nice to be recognized,” she said. “A lot of (deserving) girls aren’t.”

That includes on her own team.

The biggest reward for playing

college volleyball is getting to be surrounded by teammates who have the same commitment to the game.

“It’s the girls who play yearround,” she said.

That commitment is necessary.

“You come here and it’s your job,” McGowne said. “That’s what they pay you for.”

The fringe benefit is the

extraordinary skill level of the teammates.

“You have girls who can put the ball away,” she said. “As a setter, you get a high off that.”

Meanwhile, the group is a family.

“They are like my sisters,” McGowne said. “If anything happens to one person, they are right there supporting them.”

The track team is the same way, she said.

Practice for that sport starts two weeks after the NAIA tournament ends.

McGowne was thrilled with her freshman track season as she juggled both track and spring volleyball.

“I was really happy,” she said.

“I didn’t know what to expect.

“To even better my marks last year ... to end the season with three new PRs, was amazing.”

That’s a word McGowne uses a lot describing sports at Southern Oregon, just like another concept she used again describing the volleyball team.

“To be with girls who love the game as much as you do is a dream come true,” she said.

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Unlikely bond sticks between two local walkers GEORGE ARTSITAS The World‌

‌Deb Lal probably has no idea what she started.

About 18 months ago, Lal — the owner of Downtown Health and Fitness in Coos George Bay — noticed an 85-year old man, Don Hynes, walking out of her gym a couple of times a week.

A few h o u rs later, after walking about six miles up and down Ocean Boulevard, Hynes would come back Sports drenched in sweat and out of breath. Reporter But Hynes’ exasperation wasn’t solely from exercising. No, his breathing issue was constant, persistent both pre- and post- walks. What

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Lal noticed was a lung disease — Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (or COPD) — that afflicts Hynes to this day.

Given his elevated age, compounded with his health issues, Lal showed compassion. She sought for Hynes to have company when tackling Ocean Boulevard’s steep inclines, just in case.

That’s how Patricia Harrington, an observer of Hynes from afar, came into the fray.

Harrington was a 56-year old Bay Area transplant who had no one to walk with, but did have the slightest familiarity with Hynes.

She had seen him trudge up Ocean Boulevard before.

“I never thought I’d be walking with him,” Harrington said. “I had no idea it would be like this.”

If you commute down Coos Bay’s busiest street during the morning rush hour, you’ve probably seen Hynes too.

It’s almost impossible not

shortened bill like an umpire’s, shadow casting down to his mostly-salt mustache. His neonyellow Asics running soles complete the uniform.

Gripped in his left hand is the most distinguishing accessory; a girthy, three-foot-long wooden staff.

But Hynes didn’t mangle a branch off a tree in his backyard and smooth it down to complete some type of hiker aesthetic.

No, Hynes uses the stick for self-defense.

Against dogs.

“People say, ‘Oh, he doesn’t bite,’” Hynes said. “Famous last Amanda Loman, The World‌ words.

“I said, ‘No more of this. The Don Hynes, 86, of Coos Bay, and walking partner Patricia Harrington, walk along next dog that takes a run at me, Ocean Boulevard on a recent morning.

I’m going to shove the stick down to. For six years from about jacket that looks two sizes too big his throat and teach him some 8-10 a.m., Hynes has been like for him, like he bought it before manners.’”

His reluctance toward canines a glow-stick bounding up Ocean he started getting in shape.

Boulevard’s sidewalk. He always T h e re ’s h i s b l u e m o n o See Artsitas, B4 wears a neon-yellow Red Ledge chromatic baseball cap with a

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Curry scores 40 in Warriors’ win The Associated Press ‌MIAMI — Stephen Curry scored 40 points, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Miami Heat 114-97 on Tuesday night for their sixth consecutive victory.

Golden State scored 14 straight points to open a 107-95 lead with 2:50 to go. Curry and Thompson capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.

Thompson had 24 points for the Warriors, who shot 57 percent. Curry was 12 for 19 from the field, including an 8-for-11 performance from 3-point range.

Chris Bosh scored 26 points for Miami, and Luol Deng had 16. James Ennis’ dunk with 9:11 left was the Heat’s last field goal.

NUGGETS 114, BULLS 109: Ty Lawson scored 20 points, including a key jumper in the waning seconds, and Denver earned its fifth straight win.

Arron Afflalo added 19 points and Danilo Gallinari

had 15 for the Nuggets, who defeated the Bulls for the eighth straight time in Denver.

Bulls point guard Derrick Rose was limited to 10 minutes in his second game back from a left hamstring strain. Rose, who scored 18 points in his return Monday night against Utah after a four-game absence, felt tightness in the hamstring during the first quarter and didn’t play the rest of the way.

Jimmy Butler had 32 points for Chicago, and Pau Gasol finished with 22 points and 11 rebounds.

HAWKS 106, WIZARDS 102: Reserves Mike Scott and Shelvin Mack led a fourthq u a r te r s u rge fo r t h e Hawks.

Scott and Mack scored Atlanta’s first 16 points of the final period, sparking a 22-5 run that built a 14-point lead before the Wizards hit a spate of 3-pointers to make the final score close. Scott

finished with 17 points in 23 minutes, and Mack had 13 in 19 for the Hawks, who have won six of eight.

Jeff Teague scored 28 points, and Paul Millsap had 17 points and 11 rebounds for Atlanta.

John Wall had 21 points and 13 assists, and Marcin Gortat had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Wizards, who committed a seasonhigh 25 turnovers.

KINGS 99, PELICANS 89: DeMarcus Cousins had 22 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and three steals, leading the Kings to their third straight win.

Omri Casspi also scored 22 for Sacramento. Casspi, who made his first start of the season in place of the injured Rudy Gay, was with New Orleans for a brief stretch this offseason before being released in a salary-cap move.

New Orleans forward Anthony Davis was held to 14 points after he scored 28 in a victory over the Kings

last Tuesday. He also had nine rebounds and blocked two shots.

Tyreke Evans had 22 points, seven rebounds and five assist for the Pelicans, who were 3 for 17 from 3-point range.

BUCKS 98, PISTONS 86: Brandon Knight had 20 points and eight assists to spark the Bucks to the victory.

O.J. Mayo, making his first start of the season, added 17 points as Milwaukee (8-7) avoided its first three-game slide of the season. Rookie Jabari Parker contributed 14 points and nine rebounds.

Detroit (3-11) has lost five in a row and eight of nine.

Andre Drummond had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Pistons, and Greg Monroe added 15 points and eight boards. Drummond was averaging 8.7 points The Associated Press‌ coming into the night, Golden State guard Stephen Curry shoots over Miami Heat forward but shot 11 of 15 from the Udonis Haslem in the second half Tuesday. floor.

Red Sox add two big bats The Associated Press

total to 253 goals in 289 matches, two goals more ‌BOSTON — Pablo San- than Athletic Bilbao’s Telmo doval and Hanley Ramirez Zarra scored in 271 La Liga spent the last two seasons games from 1940-55. as NL West rivals. Now they’re teammates, sign- MLS gives Fernandez ing with the Red Sox as free four-game suspension‌ agents for a combined $183 million to try to boost BosNEW YORK — Vancouton out of the AL East cel- ver FC midfielder Sebastian lar.

Fernandez was suspended Sandoval finalized a five- for four games and fined year, $95 million contract an undisclosed amount by that will add him to a lineup MLS on Tuesday for his with Ramirez and David behavior after the WhiteOrtiz. He called them “The caps’ playoff loss to FC DalThree Amigos.” las.

About five hours later, Fernandez was issued a the Red Sox confirmed a red card for violent confour-year, $88 million deal duct, which carries an with Ramirez. He’s a former automatic two-game susBoston prospect who spent pension, at the end of the the last nine years with the 2-1 loss on Oct. 29 in Dallas.

Marlins and Los Angeles T h e m i d f i e l d e r wa s issued an additional twoDodgers. game suspension for contact with the referee while White Sox sign protesting a late penalty slugger LaRoche‌ that led to the winning goal.

CHICAGO — The ChiFernandez will sit out the cago White Sox and first opening four games next baseman Adam LaRoche season. agreed to a two-year, $25 NFL‌ million contract.

LaRoche is likely to see most of his time at des- Jets switch Smith ignated hitter because AL back in lineup at Rookie of the Year Jose Abreu is entrenched at first quarterback base. LaRoche hit .259 with NEW YORK — The New 26 homers and 92 RBIs in York Jets have announced 140 games this year for NL that Geno Smith will get the East champion Washing- start at quarterback over Michael Vick for the game ton. against the Miami Dolphins Darvish is cleared to on Monday night.

The team says Wednesstart throwing‌ day that coach Rex Ryan ARLINGTON, Texas — met with both quarterRangers ace Yu Darvish was backs in the morning and cleared to start his offsea- informed them of the decison throwing program. sion. Vick had started the Darvish, who missed the Jets’ last three games, but last seven weeks of the sea- struggled against Buffalo son because of inflamma- before being replaced by tion in his right elbow, had Smith in the 38-3 loss in an MRI and was examined Detroit. Smith, in his secby team physician Dr. Keith ond season, last started on Meister. Texas said Darvish Oct. 26 in a 43-23 loss to is already going through the Bills in which he threw his normal offseason train- interceptions on three coning program and expects secutive possessions and to start throwing in early was benched.

December.

Smith has thrown for 1,459 yards with seven SOCCER‌ touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Vick threw for 404 yards and three TDs Messi sets another and an interception in his scoring record‌ three starts.

Lionel Messi added the Champions League career Broncos bring in scoring record to the La Barth as kicker‌ Liga mark he set last weekend, getting his 28th BarceENGLEWOOD, Colo. lona hat trick in a 4-0 win — The Denver Broncos switched kickers again, at APOEL Nicosia.

The 27-year-old Messi waiving first-year pro scored in the 38th, 58th and Brandon McManus and 87th minutes—all with his signing Connor Barth, who weaker right foot—to give hasn’t kicked in an NFL him 74 goals in 91 matches game since 2012. in Europe’s top club comBarth, 28, won a compepetition and 17 goals in 17 tition with 38-year-old Jay games overall this season.

Feely at the Broncos comRaul Gonzalez scored plex in suburban Denver.

71 goals in 142 ChampiThe Broncos were in the ons League matches for market for a new kicker Real Madrid and Schalke, after McManus clanked a and current Real star Cris- 33-yard field goal off the tiano has 70 goals enter- right upright in Denver’s ing Wednesday’s game at 39-36 win over Miami on Basel. The hat trick was Sunday.

Messi’s fifth in the Champions League.

Judge rules in favor of He scored three goals Redskins in lawsuit Saturday against Sevilla to raise his Spanish League ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A

judge allowed the Washington Redskins to move ahead with a lawsuit seeking to overturn a cancellation of the team’s trademark.

The team sued in August a f te r a fe d e ra l pa n e l , the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, ruled that the Redskins trademark should be cancelled because it may be disparaging to Native Americans.

The legal challenge over the team name has been winding through the legal system since 1992.

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Douglas, Raisman return to national team‌ INDIANAPOLIS — Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman are back on the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team, a major step as the two Olympic champions point toward a return to the 2016 Rio Games.

The move means Douglas, the reigning Olympic all-around champion, and Raisman, a gold medalist on floor exercise, will be available to participate in international events starting in 2015.

They were vital parts of the “Fierce Five” that lifted the U.S. to its second Olympic team title in London two years ago.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL‌

Minnesota suspends player after arrest‌ MINNEAPOLIS—Minnesota sophomore guard Daquein McNeil was jailed without bail after his arrest on a felony domestic assault charge involving his girlfriend.

McNeil, who was suspended from all team activities pending the investigation, was booked Monday, according to jail records.

The Hennepin County attorney’s office had until Wednesday to charge him, spokesman Chuck Laszewski said.

CYCLING‌

Teams bond to form new venture‌ Eleven of the world’s leading cycling teams united to form Velon, a business venture they hope will rejuvenate the sport in the wake of doping scandals, haphazard management and questions about its integrity.

While the organization does not include all the World Tour teams, it encompasses the majority of them.

Among them are U.S.based BMC Racing and Garmin Sharp, British heavyweight Team Sky and powerhouses Omega Pharma-Quickstep, OricaGreenEDGE and Team Giant-Shimano.

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Oregon’s Elgin Cook protects the ball from Virginia Commonwealth’s JeQuan Lewis (1) and Justin Tillman during the second half Tuesday.

VCU’s pressure is too much for Oregon The Associated Press ‌N EW YORK (AP) — Virginia Commonwealth remembered how to play the in-your-face pressure defense that made the program an NCAA tournament staple.

One night after the Rams lost their way, they rebounded with a vintage defensive effort in that familiar “havoc” style.

Melvin Johnson scored 19 points and Treveon Graham had 13 to lead No. 14 Virginia Commonwealth past Oregon 77-63 on Tuesday night.

The Rams (4-1) led by as many as 14 and never trailed in the Legends Classic consolation game at the Barclays Center.

They bounced back from the first loss of the season against No. 12 Villanova with a 12-0 run that opened the game against the Ducks (3-2).

“I’m sort of glad we got slapped in the mouth yesterday because you should have saw the attention in the locker room,” Johnson said. “Everyone was humbled by it and was ready to get better as a unit and I think today we showed a good example of that.”

VCU h a d i ts h avo c defense humming against the Ducks. Oregon, which lost to No. 19 Michigan on Monday, had 20 turnovers and shot only 35 percent in the second half.

“I think from now on, coach is going to put even more emphasis on us getting stops,” Johnson said.

“You think of us, you think of a defensive team, but we haven’t been living up to it. Today, we put an emphasis on every single stop.”

Johnson hit three of VCU’s six 3-pointers and the Rams held a 40-31 edge on the boards.

Jordan Burgess scored

12 points, Briante Weber had 11 and Mo Alie-Cox 10 to put all five starters in double figures.

Dillon Brooks scored 15 points for Oregon. Joseph Young, who had averaged 24.5 points, missed 11 of 13 shots and had only nine points.

T h e sc ra p py D u c ks fought back from the early hole — even as VCU fans chanted “Just Give Up!” on several possessions — and nearly pulled off the comeback.

Jalil Abdul-Bassit helped Oregon pull to 39-36 with a 3-pointer, and Elgin Cook, who scored 11 points, hit two free throws to make it a one-point game.

Weber halted the run with a three-point play on a crashing layup down the lane, complete with a baseline flex. JeQuan Lewis had a fantastic strip under one basket that led to Johnson’s bucket on the other to build the lead to six.

The Ducks refused to go away, with Ahmaad Rorie sinking a jumper off a turnover and Brooks’ 3 that made it 61-55 with 5:33 left.

B u rge s s s c o re d o n a baseline layup, and pumped his fist in celebration for the bucket and Cook’s fifth foul. Burgess sank the free throw and restored the double-digit lead, 67-57.

VCU tried early to turn this one into a rout.

Johnson made consecutive 3s to cap a 12-0 run that opened the game and gave VCU a lead it would never relinquish. Graham scored 10 points in the half and helped the Rams take a 35-27 halftime lead.

Brooks was Oregon’s lone offensive threat, hitting a pair of 3s for 12 points.

“We’re going to have to

change our pregame routine,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “We haven’t had very good starts. Then after that, I thought the guys fought pretty hard.

We just made a lot of fundamental mistakes.”

TIP-INS: VCU: The Rams made only 15 of 24 free throws. ... Under head coach Shaka Smart, the Rams are 38-9 following a loss. ... Johnson, from the Bronx, had about 35 friends and family at the game.

OREGON: The Ducks were whistled three times for traveling in the first half. ... Young made all four free throws and is 30 for 30 on the season. He led the Pac12 last year in free throw percentage at 88 percent.

But his poor shooting from the floor doomed the Ducks in New York. “Joe didn’t shoot well the last couple of days. He was pressing a little bit, but he’ll shoot better,” Altman said. ... The Ducks played without leading rebounder Dwayne Benjamin after he hurt his left ankle against Michigan.

UP NEXT VCU plays Saturday at Old Dominion.

Oregon hosts Portland State on Sunday.

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‌ labama, Oregon, FlorA ida State and Mississippi State remained the top four teams in the College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday heading into a weekend when just about all the contenders are facing challenging rivals.

TCU was fifth, Ohio State was sixth and Baylor seventh. The only team in the top eight to change was UCLA, which slipped into the eighth spot.

For the first time, teams from the so-called Group of Five conferences made the top 25. Boise State moved in the rankings at No. 23 and unbeaten Marshall is 24th. The highest ranked team from outside the Big Five conferences is guaranteed one spot in the four New Year’s Bowls affiliated with the playoff but not hosting semifinals.

Alabama hosts Auburn on Saturday. Florida State plays Florida; Oregon is at Oregon State and Mississippi State visits Mississippi. TCU plays at Texas on Thanksgiving night and Ohio State hosts Michigan on Saturday. Baylor plays Texas Tech at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington, Texas, the site of the national championship game.

Committee chairman Jeff Long said the difference between Nos. 4-7 is still very close.

The 12-member committee was down to 11 this week because former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese was sick and not up for the trip to Dallas. Long said Tranghese is

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban tracks Alabama defensive backs Jarrick Williams (20) and Maurice Smith (21) as they work through drills during practice Tuesday. expected back next week.

Long also caused a bit of a stir when on ESPN’s rankings show he mentioned how the rankings of teams at the time they played are factored into the committee’s decision.

Long has said each week the 12-member committee starts with a clean slate and that one week’s rankings should have no bearing on the next.

Long later clarified that remark, saying first that no rankings other than the committee’s — which started Oct. 28 — are taken into account. He added that a team’s previous ranking was something the committee was aware of and not a determining factor.

“Although I will say a team that is 6-5 and has been previously ranked is going to hold more weight

than a 3-8 or sub .500 team, which is an obvious thing,” he said.

Long said there has been debate among the committee members about Florida State and whether the Seminoles’ many close calls are a sign of weakness or strength.

Unbeaten Florida State has rallied from a halftime deficit five times and had five one-score games.

‌B ERKELEY, Calif. — California coach Sonny Dykes praised the Pac-12 on Tuesday for acknowledging that replay officials erred in overturning two touchdowns for the Golden Bears on one drive in the Big Game against Stanford.

In the third quarter of Stanford’s 38-17 victory Saturday, officials overturned three straight apparent touchdowns by Cal. The conference said Monday night that there was not enough evidence to overturn the final two touchdown calls made by officials on the field.

“To me they did the best they could,” Dykes said. “What can they do?

They can’t reverse the calls. They can certainly at least give me the feeling and our fans the feeling and our alumni the feeling and our administration the feeling that they want to get it right. I applaud them for the action and I know they want to get it right.”

On the first two plays, Luke Rubenzer appeared to run for scores only to be ruled down just shy of the goal line. After a personal foul on the second run backed Cal up 15 yards, Jared Goff appeared to complete a touchdown pass to Kenny Lawler but that also was overturned when the replay crew ruled Lawler did not complete the catch.

Cal, which trailed 31-7 at the time, had to settle for a field goal.

“I’m glad to see that they did some action toward that,” Goff said.

“At the same time, I don’t think that’s the reason we lost that game. It was one series. We didn’t lose the game because of the officials. They definitely didn’t help us in any way on that drive but we shot ourselves in the foot too many times. That didn’t have any effect on the game.”

The Pac-12 says the “replay crew will be held accountable for the errors through the Conference’s disciplinary process.”

Dykes said he remains in favor of the use of instant replay to correct egregious calls but believes there might be too many plays getting reviewed.

“I think the standard in replay has to be indisputable video evidence,” he said. “I think if it starts and ends there, I think the game all of a sudden becomes a lot easier to officiate from a replay perspective.”

The Bears (5-6) have bigger concerns than replay heading into Saturday’s regular-season finale at home against BYU (7-4). Cal needs a win to be eligible for a bowl for the first time since 2011.

“Being able to win that and play another game, especially for the seniors, that will be the most important thing,” running back Daniel Lasco said.

Scoreboard ‌On the Air

‌Today Men’s College Basketball — Battle 4 Atlantis, Butler vs. North Carolina, 9 a.m., ESPN2; Oklahoma vs. UCLA, 11 a.m., ESPN2; Maui Invitational, fifth-place game, 2 p.m., ESPN2; third place, 4:30 p.m., ESPN2; championship, 7 p.m., ESPN; Lehigh at DePaul, 5 p.m., Fox Sports 1; NIT tip-off, Georgia vs. Gonzaga, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2; MGM Grand Main Event championship, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2.

NBA Basketball — Portland at Charlotte, 4 p.m., KHSN (1230 AM); New York at Dallas, 4:30 p.m., ESPN. Golf — Australian Open, 5 p.m., Golf Channel.

Thursday, Nov. 27 NFL Football — Chicago at Detroit, 9:30 a.m., CBS; Philadelphia at Dallas, 1:30 p.m., Fox; Seattle at San Francisco, 5:30 p.m., NBC. College Football — LSU at Texas A&M, 4:30 p.m., ESPN; TCU at Texas, 4:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Stanford at Cal, 7:30 p.m., Root Sports.

Men’s College Basketball — Orlando Classic, Santa Clara vs. Tennessee, 9 a.m., Kansas vs. Rhode Island, 11 a.m., Michigan State vs. Rider, 3:30 p.m., and Georgia Tech vs. Marquette, 5:30 p.m., all on ESPN2; Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals, 10 a.m. And noon, ESPN; Las Vegas Invitational, Illinois vs. Indiana State, 2 p.m., and Baylor vs. Memphis, 9 p.m., both on Fox Sports 1; Wooden Legacy, San Jose State vs. Washington, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Golf — Australian Open, 5 p.m., Golf Channel.

Friday, Nov. 28 College Football — Nebraska at Iowa, 9 a.m., ABC; Central Florida at South Florida, 9 a.m., ESPN2; Western Kentucky at Marshall, 9 a.m., Fox Sports 1; Houston at SMU, 9 a.m., CBS Sports Network; Arkansas at Missouri, 11:30 a.m., CBS; Stanford at UCLA, 12:30 p.m, ABC; Arizona State at Arizona, 12:30 p.m., Fox Colorado State at Air Force, 12:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network; Virginia at Virginia Tech, 5 p.m., ESPN. Men’s College Basketball — Orlando Classic semifinals, 9 a.m., ESPN, and 6 p.m., ESPN2; Battle 4 Atlantis, third-place game, 11 a.m., and championship game, 1 p.m., ESPN; Wooden Legacy semifinals, 12:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., ESPN2; Yale at Providence, 1 p.m., Fox Sports 1; NIT championship, 4 p.m., ESPN2; Barclays Center Classic, 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network; Las Vegas Invitational, consolation game at 5 p.m. and championship at 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Golf — Australian Open, 5 p.m., Golf Channel.

Orlando Charlotte

6 10 .375 4½ Thursday’s Game‌ 4 11 .267 6 Oakland 24, Kansas City 20 ‌Central Division ‌Sunday’s Games Green Bay 24, Minnesota 21

W L Pct GB‌ Chicago 9 6 .600 — Cincinnati 22, Houston 13 Milwaukee 8 7 .533 1 Chicago 21, Tampa Bay 13 Cleveland 6 7 .462 2 Cleveland 26, Atlanta 24 Indiana 6 8 .429 2½ Philadelphia 43, Tennessee 24 Detroit 3 11 .214 5½ New England 34, Detroit 9 Indianapolis 23, Jacksonville 3 ‌WESTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, ppd., snow ‌Southwest Division Seattle 19, Arizona 3

W L Pct GB‌ Memphis 12 2 .857 — San Diego 27, St. Louis 24 Houston 11 3 .786 1 San Francisco 17, Washington 13 San Antonio 9 4 .692 2½ Denver 39, Miami 36 Dallas 10 5 .667 2½ Dallas 31, N.Y. Giants 28 7 6 .538 4½ Open: Carolina, Pittsburgh New Orleans ‌Monday’s Games ‌Northwest Division‌ Buffalo 38, N.Y. Jets 3

W L Pct GB‌ Portland 11 3 .786 — Baltimore 34, New Orleans 27 Thursday, Nov. 27‌ Denver 7 7 .500 4 Utah 5 10 .333 6½ Chicago at Detroit, 9:30 a.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 1:30 p.m.

Minnesota 3 9 .250 7 Oklahoma City 3 12 .200 8½ Seattle at San Francisco, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 30‌ ‌Pacific Division‌ Tennessee at Houston, 10 a.m.

W L Pct GB‌ Oakland at St. Louis, 10 a.m.

Golden State 11 2 .846 — Sacramento 9 5 .643 2½ Carolina at Minnesota, 10 a.m.

L.A. Clippers 8 5 .615 3 Washington at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Phoenix 9 6 .600 3 Cleveland at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

3 11 .214 8½ San Diego at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

L.A. Lakers N.Y. Giants at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. ‌Monday’s Games Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Portland 114, Philadelphia 104 New Orleans at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

L.A. Clippers 113, Charlotte 92 Arizona at Atlanta, 1:05 p.m.

Cleveland 106, Orlando 74 New England at Green Bay, 1:25 p.m.

Toronto 104, Phoenix 100 Denver at Kansas City, 5:30 p.m.

Houston 91, New York 86 Monday, Dec. 1‌ Indiana 111, Dallas 100 Miami at N.Y. Jets, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago 97, Utah 95 ‌Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 106, Washington 102 Golden State 114, Miami 97 Sacramento 99, New Orleans 89 Milwaukee 98, Detroit 86 Denver 114, Chicago 109 ‌Wednesday’s Games Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Portland at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

New York at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Indiana at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

‌College Football Playoff Rankings

Record 1. Alabama 10-1 2. Oregon 10-1 3. Florida St. 11-0 4. Mississippi St. 10-1 5. TCU 9-1 6. Ohio St. 10-1 ‌Today 7. Baylor 9-1 Men’s College Basketball — Willamette JV at SWOCC, 8. UCLA 9-2 7 p.m.

9. Georgia 9-2 Thursday, Nov. 27 10. Michigan St. 9-2 No local events scheduled.

11. Arizona 9-2 Friday, Nov. 28 12. Kansas St. 8-2 Men’s College Basketball — SWOCC vs. Spokane at Red 13. Arizona St. 9-2 Devil Classic, Longview, Wash., 6 p.m.

14. Wisconsin 9-2 Women’s College Basketball — SWOCC vs. Olympic at 15. Auburn 8-3 Clackamas Thanksgiving Invite, 7 p.m.

16. Georgia Tech 9-2 17. Missouri 9-2 18. Minnesota 8-3 19. Mississippi 8-3 NFL ‌OSAA/U.S. Bank/Les Schwab Tires 20. Oklahoma 8-3 AMERICAN CONFERENCE‌ 21. Clemson 8-3 ‌FOOTBALL East‌ 22. Louisville 8-3 ‌Class 4A

W L T Pct PF PA‌23. Boise St. 9-2 Championship New England 9 2 0 .818 357 227 24. Marshall 11-0 Saturday Miami 6 5 0 .545 285 219 25. Utah 7-4 At Hillsboro Stadium Buffalo 6 5 0 .545 238 207 The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will North Bend vs. Gladstone, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets 2 9 0 .182 177 303 issue weekly rankings each Tuesday, with the final ‌Class 3A South‌ rankings being announced Sunday, Dec. 7. The playoff Championship

W L T Pct PF PA‌semifinals will match the No. 1 seed vs. the No. 4 seed, Saturday Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 333 256 and No. 2 will face No. 3. The semifinals will be hosted At Hermiston High School Houston 5 6 0 .455 242 226 at the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015. The Vale vs. Harrsiburg, 2:30 p.m.

Tennessee 2 9 0 .182 192 293 championship game will be on Jan. 12, 2015 at Arlington, ‌Class 2A Jacksonville 1 10 0 .091 161 305 Texas.

Championship North‌ Saturday

W L T Pct PF PA‌ ‌NCAA Football Championship At Hermiston High School Cincinnati 7 3 1 .682 246 234 Subdivision Playoff Glance Burns vs. Heppner, 11 a.m.

Baltimore 7 4 0 .636 295 208 First Round‌ ‌Class 1A Pittsburgh 7 4 0 .636 288 263 Saturday, Nov. 29‌ Championship Cleveland 7 4 0 .636 242 219 Sacred Heart (9-2) at Fordham (10-2), 9 a.m.

Saturday West‌ At Hermiston High School

W L T Pct PF PA‌Indiana St. (7-5) at Eastern Kentucky (9-3), 10 a.m.

Adrian vs. Sherman, 6 p.m.

Denver 8 3 0 .727 332 260 Morgan St. (7-5) at Richmond (8-4), 10 a.m. ‌Class 6A Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 261 195 Southeastern Louisiana (9-3) at Sam Houston St. (8-4), Semifinals San Diego 7 4 0 .636 245 216 11 a.m.

Friday Oakland 1 10 0 .091 176 285 South Dakota St. (8-4) at Montana St. (8-4), 1 p.m.

San Diego (9-2) at Montana (8-4), 1 p.m.

At Hillsboro Stadium NATIONAL CONFERENCE‌ Liberty (8-4) at James Madison (9-3), 1 p.m.

Central Catholic vs. Sheldon, 5 p.m.

East‌ West Salem vs. Tigard, noon

W L T Pct PF PA‌Stephen F. Austin (8-4) at Northern Iowa (8-4), 5 p.m.

Second Round‌ Philadelphia 8 3 0 .727 342 275 ‌Class 5A Saturday, Dec. 6‌ Dallas 8 3 0 .727 292 240 Championship N.Y. Giants 3 8 0 .273 233 294 Sacred Heart-Fordham winner at New Hampshire Saturday Washington 3 8 0 .273 217 273 (10-1), 10 a.m.

At Hillsboro Stadium Indiana St.-Eastern Kentucky winner at Chattanooga South‌ Silverton vs. Hermiston, 1 p.m.

W L T Pct PF PA‌(9-3), 10 a.m.

Atlanta 4 7 0 .364 262 281 Morgan St.-Richmond winner at Coastal Carolina (11-1), New Orleans 4 7 0 .364 288 286 10 a.m.

Carolina 3 7 1 .318 215 300 Stephen F. Austin-N. Iowa winner at Illinois St. (10-1), Tampa Bay 2 9 0 .182 207 300 11 a.m.

N ‌ BA Southeastern Louisiana-Sam Houston St. winner at North‌ ‌EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pct PF PA‌Jacksonville St. (10-1), 11 a.m. ‌Atlantic Division Green Bay 8 3 0 .727 354 246 South Dakota St.-Montana St. winner at North Dakota

W L Pct GB‌ St. (11-1), 12:30 p.m.

Toronto 12 2 .857 — Detroit 7 4 0 .636 197 190 San Diego-Montana winner at Eastern Washington Chicago 5 6 0 .455 236 303 Brooklyn 5 8 .385 6½ (10-2), 1:30 p.m.

Boston 4 8 .333 7 Minnesota 4 7 0 .364 202 244 Liberty-James Madison winner at Villanova (10-2), West‌ New York 4 11 .267 8½ W L T Pct PF PA‌1:30 p.m.

Philadelphia 0 14 .000 12 Quarterfinals‌ Arizona 9 2 0 .818 240 195 ‌Southeast Division Friday, Dec. 12‌ Seattle 7 4 0 .636 279 218

W L Pct GB‌ San Francisco 7 4 0 .636 228 225 TBD Washington 9 4 .692 — Saturday, Dec. 13‌ St. Louis 4 7 0 .364 209 285 Atlanta 7 5 .583 1½ TBD Miami 8 7 .533 2

‌Local schedule

‌High school playoffs

Pro Basketball

Pro Football

TBD TBD

Semifinals‌ Friday, Dec. 19‌ Saturday, Dec. 20‌

Championship‌ Saturday, Jan. 10‌ At FC Dallas Stadium‌ Frisco, Texas‌ Semifinal winners, 10 a.m.

‌NCAA Division II Football Playoff Glance

First Round‌ Saturday, Nov. 22‌ West Chester 46, Slippery Rock 20 Virginia State 28, LIU Post 17 Angelo State 42, Michigan Tech 41 West Georgia 20, Tuskegee 17 Valdosta State 33, North Alabama 31 Minnesota-Duluth 25, Northwest Missouri State 21 Pittsburg State 59, Harding 42 Ohio Dominican 34, Colorado Mines 23 Second Round‌ Saturday, Nov. 29‌ West Chester (11-1) at Concord (W.Va.) (11-0), 9 a.m.

Virginia State (10-2) at Bloomsburg (10-1), 9 a.m.

Valdosta State (9-2) at Lenoir-Rhyne (11-0), 9 a.m.

Ohio Dominican (10-1) at Ferris State (11-0), 9 a.m.

West Georgia (10-2) at Delta State (9-1), 10 a.m.

Minnesota-Duluth (12-0) at Ouachita Baptist (10-0), 10 a.m.

Angelo State (9-2) at Colorado State-Pueblo (10-1), 11 a.m.

Pittsburg State (11-1) at Minnesota State-(Mankato) (11-0), 11 a.m.

Quarterfinals‌ Saturday, Dec. 6‌ West Chester-Concord (W.Va.) winner vs. Virginia State-Bloomsburg winner, TBA Valdosta State—Lenoir-Rhyne winner vs. West GeorgiaDelta State winner, TBA Angelo State—Colorado State-Pueblo winner vs. Ohio Dominican-Ferris State winner, TBA Pittsburg State—Minnesota State-(Mankato) winner vs.

Minnesota-Duluth—Ouachita Baptist winner, TBA Semifinals‌ Saturday, Dec. 13‌ Quarterfinal winners, TBD Championship‌ Saturday, Dec. 20‌ At Sporting Park‌ Kansas City, Kan.‌ Semifinal winners, 1 p.m.

‌NCAA Division III Football Playoff Glance

First Round‌ Saturday, Nov. 22‌ Wabash 33, Franklin 14 Widener 36, Muhlenberg 35 Christopher Newport 29, Delaware Valley 26 Wesley 52, Hampden-Sydney 7 MIT 27, Husson 20 Johns Hopkins 24, Rowan 16 Hobart 22, Ithaca 15 John Carroll 63, Centre (Ky.) 28 Washington & Jefferson 41, Wittenberg 25 Mount Union 63, Adrian 3 Wisconsin-Whitewater 55, Macalester 2 St. John’s (Minn.) 35, St. Scholastica 7 Wartburg 37, St. Thomas (Minn.) 31 Wheaton (Ill.) 43, Benedictine (Ill.) 14 Linfield 55, Chapman 24 Texas Lutheran at Mary Hardin-Baylor, susp., lightning Sunday, Nov. 23‌ Mary Hardin-Baylor 27, Texas Lutheran 20, comp. of susp. game Second Round‌ Saturday, Nov. 29‌ Widener (11-0) vs. Christopher Newport (8-3), 9 a.m.

MIT (10-0) at Wesley (10-1), 9 a.m.

Johns Hopkins (11-0) at Hobart (11-0), 9 a.m.

Washington & Jefferson (10-1) at Mount Union (11-0), 9 a.m.

Wabash (10-1) at Wisconsin-Whitewater (11-0), 10 a.m.

St. John’s (Minn.) (10-1) at Wartburg (11-0), 10 a.m.

Linfield (9-1) at Mary Hardin-Baylor (11-0), 10 a.m.

John Carroll (10-1) at Wheaton (Ill.) (11-0), 10 a.m.

Quarterfinals‌ Saturday, Dec. 6‌ Wisconsin-Whitewater—Wabash winner vs. St. John’s (Minn.)-Wartburg winner, TBA Widener-Christopher Newport winner vs. Mary HardinBaylor—Linfield winner, TBA MIT-Wesley winner vs. Hobart-Johns Hopkins winner, TBA Wheaton (Ill.)-John Carroll winner vs. Washington & Jefferson-Mount Union winner, TBA Semifinals‌ Saturday, Dec. 13‌ Quarterfinal winners Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl‌ Friday, Dec. 19‌ At Salem Stadium‌ Salem, Va.‌ Semifinal winners, 4 p.m.

‌NAIA Football Playoff Glance

First Round‌ Saturday, Nov. 22‌ Carroll (Mont.) 49, Valley City State 0 Grand View 38, Langston 3 Saint Xavier 38, Campbellsville 35 Morningside 42, Ottawa (Kan.) 21 Missouri Valley 20, Northwestern (Iowa) 17, 2OT

Lindsey Wilson 20, Faulkner 17 Marian (Ind.) 34, Georgetown (Ky.) 3 Southern Oregon 44, MidAmerica Nazarene 26 Quarterfinals‌ Saturday, Nov. 29‌ Missouri Valley (9-2) at Morningside (Iowa) (10-1), 10 a.m.

Marian (Ind.) (9-2) at Grand View (Iowa) (10-1), 10 a.m.

Southern Oregon (10-2) at Carroll (Mont.) (10-1), 11 a.m.

Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) (10-2) at Saint Xavier (Ill.) (9-2), 11 a.m.

Semifinals‌ Saturday, Dec. 6‌ Quarterfinal winners, TBA Championship‌ Friday, Dec. 19‌ At Municipal Stadium‌ Daytona Beach, Fla.‌ Semifinal winners, Noon

Hockey NHL

‌EASTERN CONFERENCE ‌Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 23 16 6 1 33 61 57 Tampa Bay 22 14 6 2 30 77 60 Detroit 21 11 5 5 27 59 52 Boston 23 13 9 1 27 59 57 Toronto 21 11 8 2 24 67 63 Ottawa 21 10 7 4 24 58 56 Florida 19 7 6 6 20 41 51 Buffalo 21 6 13 2 14 36 70 Metropolitan Division‌

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 20 14 4 2 30 72 46 N.Y. Islanders 21 15 6 0 30 69 57 N.Y. Rangers 20 9 7 4 22 57 58 Washington 20 9 8 3 21 56 54 New Jersey 22 9 10 3 21 53 63 Philadelphia 20 8 9 3 19 57 61 Carolina 20 6 11 3 15 48 62 Columbus 21 6 13 2 14 51 76 ‌WESTERN CONFERENCE ‌Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 21 14 5 2 30 61 45 St. Louis 22 14 6 2 30 59 46 Chicago 21 12 8 1 25 63 44 Winnipeg 23 11 9 3 25 49 53 Minnesota 20 12 8 0 24 58 44 Dallas 22 9 9 4 22 64 74 Colorado 22 8 9 5 21 57 70 ‌Pacific Division‌

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 23 14 4 5 33 63 56 Vancouver 22 15 6 1 31 67 61 Calgary 23 13 8 2 28 73 64 Los Angeles 22 11 6 5 27 60 53 San Jose 23 10 9 4 24 62 64 Arizona 23 9 11 3 21 57 71 Edmonton 22 6 14 2 14 51 77 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. ‌Tuesday’s Games Ottawa 3, St. Louis 2, SO Nashville 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Winnipeg 4, Columbus 2 Dallas 3, Edmonton 2 Colorado 4, Arizona 3, OT Vancouver 2, New Jersey 0 Anaheim 3, Calgary 2 ‌Wednesday’s Games Winnipeg at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

Carolina at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. ‌Thursday’s Games Edmonton at Nashville, 5 p.m. ‌Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 2 p.m.

Winnipeg at Boston, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Detroit at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Edmonton at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Pro Soccer ‌MLS Playoff Glance

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP‌ Eastern Conference‌ New England 2, New York 1‌ Leg 1 — Sunday, Nov. 23: New England 2, New York 1 Leg 2 — Saturday, Nov. 29: New York at New England, Noon Western Conference‌ LA Galaxy 1, Seattle 0‌ Leg 1 — Sunday, Nov. 23: LA Galaxy 1, Seattle 0 Leg 2 — Sunday, Nov. 30: LA Galaxy at Seattle, 6 p.m.

MLS CUP‌ Sunday, Dec. 7: New England-New York winner at LA Galaxy-Seattle winner, Noon

Transactions ‌Tuesday’s Sports

B‌ ASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with 3B Pablo Sandoval on a five-year contract and OF Hanley Ramirez on a four-year contract. Designated 1B-C Ryan Lavarnway and INF Juan Francisco for assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with 1B Adam LaRoche on a two-year contract. Designated RHP Scott Carroll for assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Announced OF Ezequiel Carrera declined outright assignment and elected free agency.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced 2B Jayson Nix declined outright assignment and elected free agency.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned RHP Anthony Swarzak outright to Rochester (IL). Named Neil Allen pitching coach, Eddie Guardado bullpen coach and Joe Vavra bench coach.

TEXAS RANGERS — Sold the contract OF-1B Jim Adduci to Lotte (Korea). Sold the contract of RHP Miles Mikolas and LHP Aaron Poreda to Yomiuri (Nippon Central League).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Named Dick Williams vice president, assistant general manager; Nick Krall senior director of baseball operations; Sam Grossman senior director of baseball analytics; Eric Lee manager of baseball operations; Bo Thompson baseball operations analyst; Tony Arias director, international scouting; Miguel Machado assistant director, international scouting; Jim Stoeckel director, global scouting; Richard Jimenez director, Latin American scouting; Emmanuel Cartagena scouting coordinator, Dominican Republic; Kevin Towers special assistant/player personnel and Jeff Schugel special assistant/pro scout.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Paul Clemens, C Rene Garcia, C Koyie Hill, INF Chris Nelson and Cord Phelps on minor league contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Released C Ramon Cabrera.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Announced the retirement of third base coach Tim Flannery.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Reassigned G Jordan Adams to Iowa (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB Michael Bush.

Released RB Kerwynn Williams.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DB Lou Young to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed OT Andre Smith on injured reserve. Signed OT Jamon Meredith.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed LB Keith Pough to the practice squad. Released WR L’Damian Washington from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Waived K Brandon McManus.

Signed K Connor Barth.

DETROIT LIONS — Released TE Kellen Davis. Signed G Rodney Austin from the practice squad. Signed LB Jerrell Harris to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released G Rishaw Johnson from the practice squad. Signed NT Justin Renfrow to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released DT Kelcy Quarles.

Signed LB Victor Butler.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed LB Darin Drakeford on the practice squad-injured list. Signed LB Ja’Gared Davis to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LB Terrell Manning off Cincinnati’s practice squad. Waived LB Justin Anderson.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DE Joe Kruger to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed C Rich Ohrnberger on injured reserve. Signed LB Cordarro Law from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with G-C Eric Olsen. Signed LB Dontay Moch from the practice squad.

Waived LB Shaun Phillips. Placed C Brian Schwenke on injured reserve.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Acquired a 2016 third-round draft pick and F Alexandre Mallet from Vancouver for D Andrey Pedan. Reassigned Mallet to Stockton (ECHL).

Reassigned G Kent Simpson from Stockton (ECHL) to Bridgeport (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Vancouver MF Sebastian Fernandez four games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his post-match actions following an Oct. 29 game against FC Dallas.

COLORADO RAPIDS — Declined the 2015 contract options for F Edson Buddle, D Marvell Wynne, MF Nick LaBrocca, D Gale Agbossoumonde, D Thomas Piermayr, D Grant Van De Casteele, MF Carlos Alvarez, MF Davy Armstrong, F Kamani Hill, F Danny Mwanga and G Joe Nasco.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Terminated the contract of MF Lawrence Olum. Declined the 2015 contract options for MF Antonio Dovale, G Andy Gruenebaum, MF Michael Kafari, G Eric Kronberg, MF Victor Munoz and MF Sal Zizzo.

COLLEGE MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE — Suspended 11 players from Norfolk State and 10 from South Carolina State for a sidelines-clearing brawl during a Nov. 22 game. The unidentified players will miss the seasonopening contests in 2015.

MINNESOTA — Suspended men’s sophomore basketball G Daquein McNeil from all team activities after being arrested on a charge of domestic assault.

WAGNER — Announced the resignation of football coach Walt Hameline, who will remain as athletic director.

Named Jason Houghtaling football coach.

B4 • The World • Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Sports

Seahawks Sherman, Baldwin take shot at NFL ‌ RENTON, Wash. (AP)— W ith the help of a cardb oard cutout, the Seattle Seahawks’ Richard Sherm an and Doug Baldwin took digs at the NFL during a news conference on Tuesday after the league issued a $100,000 fine to teammate M arshawn Lynch for not speaking to the media.

S herman and Baldwin made mention of everything from the league’s sponsorship deals with major beer c ompanies to their own personal endorsements that are not affiliated with the NFL, to the talk of player safety with the Seahawks about to play their second game in five days.

The point of their performance seemed to be that whatever they said — real or satirical — it would not be a violation of the league’s media policy on speaking with reporters. “ The other day Mars hawn Lynch got fined $ 100,000. Did you know that, $100,000?” Sherman

s aid. “And it’s like they w ouldn’t have paid him $100,000 if he had talked.

If he had spoken, Doug do you think they would have paid him $100,000?”

Baldwin responded, “No, they sure wouldn’t have.”

The duo spoke for about 2 ½ minutes ahead of T hursday’s NFC champ ionships game rematch a gainst San Francisco.

Baldwin hid behind a cutout of himself, with Sherman standing to the side of the podium and taking the lead as the pair bantered.

Sherman took only one question, and after the pair referenced a number of personal sponsors — many of which are not NFL spons ors — walked off witho ut speaking about the m atchup with the 49ers.

T he pair prepped briefly and notified the companies they were going to mention ahead of time.

Seattle coach Pete Carroll told San Francisco reporte rs he had not seen the

performance.

“It’s fun to use your time in the NFL to speak about something you care about, right? Right?” Sherman said in his back-and-forth with Baldwin. “Because then you don’t get fined $100,000.

You don’t get fined at all for this. This is how they want us to talk, right? This is what they want us to do.

They want us to advertise, right Doug?”

Their targets were wide ranging, including headp hones, soup, clothing, sandwiches and juice. The cardboard cutout of Baldwin was actually an advertisement that’s also on display at Subway restaurants in the Seattle area.

S herman immediately mentioned his endorsement deal with Beats by Dre. The l eague has an agreement with Bose.

T he league has told players they cannot wear unauthorized equipment until 90 minutes after the completion of games. San

F rancisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick was fined earlier this year for wearing Beats headphones during a postgame news conference.

“The league doesn’t let m e say anything about them. Why is that?” Sherman asked.

B aldwin’s response: “I don’t know. Sounds kind of hypocritical to me.”

S herman made note of Campbell’s Soup — another p ersonal endorsement — and how it could be helpful with cold and flu season approaching. “ Speaking of health, how do you feel about the NFL making you play two games in five days?” Baldwin asked. “ I almost didn’t reali ze that because they’ve been talking about player safety so much,” Sherman responded. “It’s like two games in five days doesn’t s eem like you care about player safety. It’s a little bit much for me.”

Seahawks face new batch of 49ers ‌SANTA CLARA, Calif.

(AP) — Seattle Seahawks, m eet Chris Borland and Carlos Hyde. Aaron Lynch and Marcus Martin.

T hose are just a few o f the new faces on the San Francisco 49ers since S eattle last saw them i n the NFC championship game in January, an impressive list of talented rookies called into action r ight away. Many have b een by necessity, given the loss of star linebacker Patrick Willis and the long recovery of NaVorro Bowman since his devastating left knee injury in that sixpoint loss at Seattle.

There’s Bruce Ellington and Dontae Johnson, too. “ I wouldn’t consider any of our rookies rookies anymore at this point,” coach Jim Harbaugh said.

Running back Hyde has been quite a complement to Frank Gore. Seahawks c oach Pete Carroll considers them a dynamic 1-2 punch that his team must c ontend with Thursday night in a key matchup of 7-4 NFC powers. “ It’s definitely been exciting to see your fellow rookies also coming in and c ontributing right away and helping this team out in a huge way,” Hyde said. “ I don’t think too often you see that many rookies coming into a team and contributing right away.

Especially a team like the

BULLDOGS Gladstone has dynamic group Continued from B1

a question we’ve been trying to answer ourselves,” North B end head coach Gary Prince said. “He is a very good athlete and there have not been many teams who have been able to stop him.”

L ast week, Smith carried 22 times for 119 yards a gainst the Indians and

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didn’t mean Hynes didn’t welcome a walking partner.

He did. The question was who?

“Nobody wants to walk w ith me,” Hynes said.

“Nobody wants to walk that far and at my speed.”

When Hynes starts, it’s like watching a locomotive start from stationary. Everything gradually starts pumping. Knees kick high. Arms chug clockwise.

Eventually he toes his way to a trot as long as his 86-year old body allows, stick switching hands to balance him out. His episodes of running — or “trotting” as he calls it — are arrhythmic.

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San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde runs for a 4-yard touchdown during the fourth quarter Sunday.

S an Francisco 49ers, a team that’s already established in the league.”

Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio figures these guys feed off each other.

They’re all proud of one a nother’s accomplishments and contributions.

“I think any time a guy s ees a guy that he can r elate to go in and have s uccess, why not me?”

Fangio said.

Behind the scenes, they a re a support network, too. The rookies meet as a group each Tuesday to discuss anything that comes to mind and receive guida nce and support from football to life off the field, including the importance of making good decisions.

I t’s part of “rookie success” that comes under the NFL Engagement program

committed to “Prep. Life.

Next” and getting the total NFL experience with wellness in all aspects.

This draft class considers itself a close-knit unit, with those Tuesday sessions only adding to that bond.

“Their performance is definitely on them. They’re just doing a phenomenal j ob for us,” said former 4 9ers linebacker Keena T urner, the team’s vice president of football affairs who oversees the engagement program. “We have a very good locker room, and that’s important.”

Borland understands the stakes the rest of the way, beginning with Thursday’s Thanksgiving showdown at Levi’s Stadium. “ It’s very important f or a chance to make

the playoffs,” he said. “I haven’t been a part of it, I haven’t done anything or made any plays on the field against these guys but I do understand the magnitude of the rivalry and how good of a team Seattle is.”

B orland, who has started the last five games p laying in place of the i njured Willis, had 48 tackles in a recent threegame stretch and another e ight in Sunday’s 17-13 home win against the Reds kins. The third-round draft pick out of Wisconsin intercepted two passes

by Giants quarterback Eli M anning in a victory at New York on Nov. 16 and received NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors along with his second straight Defensive Rookie of the Week.

Hyde, a second-rounder from Ohio State, ran for a go-ahead 4-yard touchdown with 2:59 remaining Sunday in San Francisco’s third straight win. “ We have a number o f guys who had to step in right away, get tossed in the fire,” veteran wide r eceiver Anquan Boldin s aid. “You look at a guy like Borland, ‘You gotta go,’ there’s no, ‘We’ll wait and get him ready.’ It’s, ‘You have to go now.’ All those g uys who have been in that position have stepped up to the challenge, played extremely well.”

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, right, stands beside a cardboard cutout of wide receiver Doug Baldwin while speaking at the Seahawks headquarters Tuesday. Baldwin himself was hiding behind the cardboard cutout.

NFL, union discuss conduct policy ‌NEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and players’ union c hief DeMaurice Smith m et Tuesday to discuss the league’s personal conduct policy.

N either side released details of the meeting.

The NFL Players Association has been unhappy with what it calls “lack of transparency” in the NFL’s policy. Smith has said the only way to have a fair policy is if the NFL and owners “commit to collective bargaining.”

The NFL counters that t he union agreed to the policy during labor negot iations to end the 2011 l ockout. That collective bargaining agreement runs through 2021.

T he union also is disp leased with the way G oodell increased the minimum penalty for violation of the policy to six games following the Ray Rice case. The league contends the personal conduct policy gives him that right.

S mith and the players are seeking neutral arbit ration for all personal conduct disciplinary decis ions. They also believe Goodell should be removed from that process. But the NFL says any issues deali ng with the integrity o f the league should be

handled by the commissioner.

T he dispute has been ongoing since the end of A ugust, when Goodell i ncreased the minimum punishment for personal m isconduct from two games to six. That decision came following Rice’s suspension for two games f or punching his thenfiancee (now wife) Janay in a casino elevator.

S oon after, a video of the running back’s punch went public, and Rice was suspended indefinitely and Baltimore cut him.

Last week, the league s uspended Vikings running back Adrian Peterson for the rest of the season for using a wooden switch to discipline his 4-yearold son. Peterson pleaded no contest and received a misdemeanor charge and probation requirements.

In an email last week to The Associated Press, Smith said: “There is one fact that does make those things similar though, and that is the NFL is clearly making things up as they g o along. Our goal is to p ursue a new personal conduct policy that is fair, t ransparent and consist ent. The only way that happens is if the NFL and the owners commit to collective bargaining.”

added four receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown.

Along with Eric Prom (who ran in two touchdowns against Scappoose), he’ll be running behind fullback Zach Smith and all-league lineman including center Austin Krieger, Colton Anderson and Fields, the latter two Jedrykowksi says “improve every week.”

Zach Smith also led the defense and was named defensive player of the year in the Tri-Valley Conference at linebacker.

Gladstone’s secondary includes Collin Betnar at

safety along with Prom, E.J. Penn and Mac McCaslin.

With North Bend’s potent air attack, Jedrykowski says, “they’re badly needed this week.”

Even with their remarkable talent on both sides of the ball, the Gladiators still respect a North Bend squad that has been in three state semifinals and two of the past three championship games. “ Coach Prince must k now what he’s doing,” Jedrykowski said. “It’s kind of fun to watch them.

“Their quarterback is

a special kid, he doesn’t miss.”

North Bend quarterback Cam Lucero has been dynamite in the playoffs.

Despite throwing his first — and only — interception in 47 postseason attempts against Mazama, Lucero also has completed 70 percent of his passes for 924 yards and 14 touchdowns.

Lucero, along with Aaron Wagner, Levi Rider and Drew M atthews started on the 2012 team. Linemen Rhett Strode and Tanner Henderson also made the trip.

A senior who wasn’t

around for the first bus ride t o Hillsboro is Marshall Rice. The wideout got frustrated before playoffs his sophomore year and quit to focus on baseball. He’s back now and has been a viable receiver option for Lucero deep in the quarterback’s read, but Rice deflects all praise. “ I haven’t helped that m uch,” Rice said. “It’s mostly Drew and Levi.”

Along with fellow senior wideouts Matthews, Rider, a nd Rice, receiver Willie Mahr will be in his final game as a Bulldog.

For him and the Bulldogs, it’s not about beating Gladstone, it’s about what the win would represent.

“If we win, we end up being the No. 1 team,” Mahr said. “That’s more important. Instead of beating the No. 1 team, we’ll be the No. 1 team.

“It makes us want it more.”

He’s still athletic, just in shorter spurts.

Hynes is a Jack LaLannet ype who, in his ninth decade, is in the best shape of his life. Five of the past six years, Hynes has finished second in his age group at the Prefontaine Memorial R un, crossing well below his goal of 1 hour, 45 minutes each time.

Nothing to shake a stick at.

And his incurable COPD — the byproduct of the daily 2- to 3-pack Camel habit he had for decades — will keep him going until he physically can’t anymore. “ Unless God sends me s ome miraculous cure,” Hynes says of how long he p lans to run. “Or until I drop dead on the side of the road.”

That type of unrelenting motivation is inspiring to some, but creates pause

to others. Say, for example, the owner of a gym, like Lal. So Lal asked some of her patrons if they could keep him company.

When the question made i ts way around to Harrington, she volunteered.

A year and a half later, the stick stuck.

“We became very, very good friends,” Harrington said.

Over the next 18 months, H ynes and Harrington spent two hours with each other three times a week, every week.

T heir friendship never extended past their walks.

Hynes bought Harrington breakfast once at City Subs in Coos Bay, but that was it.

Six hours a week on Ocean Boulevard was enough.

They talked about what Harrington calls “normal stuff” like fitness, health, family, cooking and how

Hynes wanted to finish first in his division at the next Pre. Occasionally Hynes’ wife Muriel would drive up and surprise them with water.

If Hynes expected rain, he would bring extra layers so h e could give Harrington his jacket. They were, in the truest sense of the word, walking buddies.

“He’s a very gentle soul,” said Harrington, who behind Hynes’ inspiration, ran the past two Pres.

“He’s like a dad.”

Walking with someone younger was Hynes’ ideal s ituation. With how fast Harrington was, Hynes was forced into “always chasing a rabbit,” which never diminished his ego.

H e’d encourage her to race up ahead when she felt s pry, run back to Hynes, then loop behind him before getting back to his side.

“I want you to be able to say that when I’m rich and famous, ‘I used to walk with that dude and I used to literally walk circles around him,’” Hynes told her.

Hynes became a memory to Harrington much sooner than either hoped.

A month ago, personal i ssues forced Harrington to move to Las Vegas. Her father became ill with heart problems and shingles, so she had to move closer to his bed in Southern California.

B ut before she left, Hynes had a gift. The stick Hynes had been carrying the past five years, the one he walked with for half a d ecade, Hynes handed it to her as a keepsake. (He already has a replacement stick, you know, for security).

“I just want when Patty looks at it 30 or 40 years

down the line, she can say, ‘ Oh, yeah, I walked with t hat son of a (expletive) and all he left me was this stick,’” Hynes said.

I t might not take that long.

In the back of her 1998 Honda Accord, Harrington s till carries the saweddown branch around with her. The stick, along with the memory of Hynes, isn’t going anywhere.

“I’m pretty much gone n ow,” Harrington said from her father’s beside in Southern California. ”But I’m going to walk in my new location.

“And I’m going to walk with that stick.”

​ eporter George Artsitas R can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 236, or by email at george.artsitas@theworldlink.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DucksTheWorld.

​ eporter George Artsitas R can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 236, or by email at george.artsitas@theworldlink.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DucksTheWorld.