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SCCF rounds out board of directors BY CHELSEA DAVIS The World
COOS BAY — The South Coast Community Foundation has picked the final three candidates to round out its seven-member board. SCCF’s four current board members — John Sweet, Terence O’Connor, Brianna Hanson and Tom Leahy — chose Keith Tymchuk, Al Pettit and Andy Combs for the three at-large seats at their Wednesday meeting. Now, SCCF’s four member enti-
ties — Coos County, Oregon International Port of Coos Bay and the cities of Coos Bay and North Bend — have to approve the three candidates. Tymchuk is ending his sixth term as mayor of Reedsport, and brings 30 years of experience teaching social studies in Reedsport. The foundation is proposed to receive community service fee payments from Jordan Cove, some of which will be dispersed to Coos County school districts, as well as Reedsport and
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Port Orford-Langlois school districts. Pettit also has a write-in campaign pending for a vacant Coos Bay City Council seat. He owns Harley-Davidson in Coos Bay and previously worked for Apple, Digital Island, SealedMedia and Citrix Systems. Combs is a south Coos County native, growing up in the small town of Dora. Today, he’s an attorney for Whitty, McDaniel, Bodkin & Combs in Coos Bay. The SCCF board has held off
making major financial decisions until it has a full board, including how much of its chunk of Jordan Cove’s community service fees will be allocated, how much will be endowed and a formula for distributing funds to area school districts. At the board’s Oct. 22 meeting, Coos Bay schools superintendent Dawn Granger asked the board to consider school districts’ limited resources when it comes to grant writing. “We’re often asked to write competitive grants and we don’t
have the people to do it,” Granger said. “The projects are more important than the grant.” Myrtle Point schools superintendent Bruce Shull echoed her concerns, saying when schools apply to the Oregon Department of Education for competitive grants, “it’s more about the language, grammar and font.” SCCF shouldn’t be in the grant business, SCCF members have said this fall. That would effectively SEE SCCF | A8
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COOS BAY — After 14 years of searching for a place to build a new facility, the Pacific Cove Humane Society will get its chance with the Coos Bay City Council narrowly approving a change in zoning for its property. Following the lead of the planning commission, the city council approved the change from a QR-4P residential property to a C-2 commercial property by a 3-2 vote. Councilors Tom Leahy, Stephanie Kramer and Mike Vaughan supported the change with Mayor Crystal Shoji and councilor Brian Bowers voting against. Jennifer Groth recused herself because she had signed a petition in favor of rezoning the
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PORTLAND — The entrepreneurs who see green in Oregon’s newest law aren’t dreaming of sticky marijuana buds. They’re seeing dollars. Voters legalized recreational pot on Tuesday, a year after the Legislature permitted medical marijuana dispensaries in the state. The new law will open an even bigger market of recreational users. At the Portland dispensary Shango, owner Shane McKee plans to apply for licenses to grow, test and sell marijuana — all separate roles in the new system.
The Coos Bay City Council approved rezoning a residential property at 3485 Vine Ave. in Coos Bay to a commercial property, which opens the door for the Pacific Cove Humane Society to locate there.
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property. The change in zoning designation was necessary for the organization to offer kennel services on its property. As part of the approval process, the animal shelter had to meet additional requirements in order to meet concerns voiced by local residents and members of the planning commission. In order to lower the amount of animal traffic and noise, the planning commission voted to limit the shelter’s number of dogs to 50 at one time. Kate Sharples, president of the Pacific Cove Humane Society, said the animal traffic level would be much less because the planning commission determined that number by setting a maximum of two dogs per kennel.
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While the facility will house 24 kennels and two isolation kennels, two dogs would be placed in the same kennel if they were small. “Unless we have 50 Chihuahuas, I don’t think we’ll ever have 50 dogs,” Sharples said. Sharples said the facility will also utilize Open Paw training, which will train dogs not to bark when someone stands in front of their kennel, in addition to making the animals more adoptable and ready to go to a new home in a shorter period of time. Along with limiting the number of dogs, the organization has also been looking at material to shield the neighborhood from sound. “A large amount of the funding will go toward sound-resistant
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BY DEVAN PATEL The World
COOS BAY — After much deliberation, Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 2 will go forward as planned, much to the dismay of local residents who will have to live next to the new plant. The Coos Bay City Council elected Tuesday not to make any additional changes to the design of the new facility. The council was given three new design options to choose from after hearing public testimony regarding the impact of the current designs on residents in the vicinity of the plant site. The new options added a more cultural motif, including options similar to the structures on the boardwalk, historical commercial buildings and a lighthouse design.
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COOS BAY — A Bureau of Land Management worker was killed Tuesday after a tree fell on the vehicle she was driving. Authorities identified the victim as 55-year-old Estella Morgan, of Coos Bay. At about noon on Tuesday, Coos County emergency responders received a call that a fallen tree had struck a vehicle with a woman inside it on a BLM road in the Blue Ridge area of Coos Bay. Coos County Sheriff’s Deputies, Sumner Fire First Responders and Bay Cities Ambulance responded. Morgan was unresponsive but breathing, but by the time medical service personnel arrived, she died. Authorities said Morgan was conducting field work in the Blue Ridge area. She had arrived at an active logging operation in the area when a tree that had just been cut fell on the Ford Explorer she was driving, crushing the driver’s area of the vehicle. Her husband is Coos County forester Lance Morgan. An investigation is being conducted.
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