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COOS BAY — The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay could be the first of the four enterprise zone sponsors to fully invest in the South Coast Community Foundation. The foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, would manage half of the community service fees the Jordan Cove Energy Project would be required to pay if the four enterprise zone sponsors — the Port, Coos County and the cities of Coos Bay and North Bend — grant the project a long-term rural enterprise zone property tax exemption. According to state statutes, the foundation would not be subject to open meetings and open records law. All four enterprise zone sponsors will vote whether to become members in the South Coast Community Foundation. They also have to vote to induct Bill Lansing, Joanne Verger and John Whitty as the initial foundation SEE SCCF | A8
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The wet nose of a bloodhound named Freddy is one you want to meet up with if you’re lost. Freddy’s K-9 handler is retiring.
End of the trail Health problems force local tracker, Ed Makaruk, to retire BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World
After almost a decade of service, Coos County’s bloodhound handler is hanging up his leash, and his dog is moving on to a new challenge. Ed Makaruk, a K-9 handler with the Coos County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team, says Freddy, his 3year-old bloodhound, is going back to his breeder, 832 Deputy Dogs, to be retrained and rehomed for law enforcement works. “I have had some real bad See video of Ed Makaruk health issues,” and Freddy tracking at Makaruk said. theworldlink.com “I’ve had to make a decision about what was best for him.” Instead, Makaruk will now act as a foster parent for the organization’s next generation of bloodhounds. Freddy was donated to Makaruk about a year ago by 832 — a Floridabased nonprofit — after his first bloodhound was retired from duty because of an ACL injury. Duke Snodgrass, the executive director of 832, said the organization has placed well over 160 bloodhounds
Ed Makaruk puts the working harness on Freddy for an urban search training session Wednesday morning in Empire. Makaruk is hanging up his leash from search and rescue and Freddy is being sent for retraining as a police dog. with law enforcement agencies across the country. Snodgrass started the bloodhound program after his son Kody, a K-9 handler with Lake County Sheriff’s Office, died in a motorcycle crash.
“He was awfully, awfully excited about it and thinking we need to put a dog in every department,” Snodgrass said. Makaruk first got bit by the bloodhound bug in 2006, when he joined the Coos County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team. He was quickly drawn to K-9 work after seeing a demonstration of a scent dog in action. Franklyn, Ed’s first bloodhound, was the sibling of one owned by a Coos County sheriff’s deputy. In 2009, Makaruk and Franklyn helped rescue a 6-year-old boy with autism who had gotten lost in a wooded area in Allegany. It took less than three hours on the track before the boy was being hoisted to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter. Law enforcement “find and bite” K9s — typically German shepherds or Belgian Malinois — follow crushed vegetation and the general scent of humans. They're typically employed after police have already set up a perimeter. Basically, Makaruk said, they’re looking for the hottest scent in a specific area.
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Phil Bowman,shown in 2008 photo with his wife Cheryl,died Thursday. He had worked for the city of North Bend for more than 20 years.
City worker dies in work site accident BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World
NORTH BEND — The South Coast lost one of its most beloved civil servants Thursday morning in a tragic accident. North Bend City Administrator Terence O’Connor said Phil Bowman, a worker with the city’s streets department, was fatally injured when he was struck by the gate of a dump truck at a work site in Ferry Road Park. North Bend police and fire personnel responded to the park and took Bowman to Bay Area Hospital, where he died of his injuries. According to the North Bend Police Department log, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Division was contacted as part of the investigation. Bowman worked for the city for more than 20 years, and had been recognized for his service by Mayor Rick
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A Eugene-based environmentalist group has given notice to potential buyers of state forest lands in Coos County that it intends to sue them if their bids are successful. Cascadia Wildlands, which won
a 2012 injunction blocking logging on identified marbled murrelet nesting habitat in the Elliott State Forest, says that it will seek similar injunctions against any purchasers of three forest tracts currently up for auction. In a letter to bidders and prospective bidders Thursday, attorney Daniel R. Kruse said the
group intends “to commence litigation to obtain an injunction — the very same injunction already obtained against the current owner — to prevent you from logging in suitable or occupied marbled murrelet habitat.” Speaking by phone Thursday, Cascadia Wildlands spokesperson Josh Laughlin described the notice
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After the Federal District Court for the District of Oregon barred logging in marbled murrelet habitat in 2012, the state said it had no choice but to sell some forest land to make up for declining revenues which traditionally went towards the state’s Common School Fund. SEE LOGGING | A8
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as an effort to deter timber companies from encroaching on the land. “This is an effort to put industry on notice that we will prosecute them if they attempt to buy and log old growth forests that are home to the marbled murrelet,” he said. Marbled murrelets, small seabirds that nest in old-growth timber, are listed as an endangered species.
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