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‘Pristine’ forests sold off BY THOMAS MORIARTY
the Elliott, Emil said most of the forest is timber replanted after a fire in the 1800s. This particular parcel was once part of the Siuslaw National Forest, ceded to the state in a 1913 land exchange. “Compared to the rest of the coast, it’s pretty pristine,” he said, standing beneath Douglas firs and spruce he estimates to be more than 100 years old. Emil and other activists are worried it might not be so pristine after its new owner gets hold of it. On Monday, the Department of State Lands announced that Seneca Jones Timber was the only bidder for East Hakki Ridge, one of three parcels up for grabs in an auction authorized by the state land board. The price — $1,895,00, only $75,000 over the
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Max Emil with Coast Range Forest Watch, a South Coast environmental organization, looks at old-growth Douglas firs around 350 years old in a section of the Elliott State Forest that was recently sold to Seneca Jones Timber Company.
REEDSPORT — The forest floor, covered with broken tree branches, crackles beneath Max Emil’s feet as he weaves through the underbrush. Traversing a denselywooded region of the Elliott State Forest dubbed East Hakki Ridge, Emil said less To see the video for this than half of the area has ever story, go to theworldlink.com/video been logged. Just south of the Dean Creek Viewing Area near Reedsport, the 788-acre forest tract feels like a time capsule, packed with chest-high ferns and colossal Douglas firs. A volunteer with Coast Range Forest Watch, a group that conducts marbled murrelet surveys in
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Local radio man finds, and follows, his voice
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NORTH BEND — Dave DeAndrea was still a teen when he first discovered he could be compensated for his vocal talent, working for a local radio station. Now, at age 43, that voice can be heard from coast to coast, in a variety of ways, and that compensation has grown significantly over time. Now, officially, a voice actor and producer, he was recently surprised by a rather unusual honor. DeAndrea says it was his wife who discovered his name on the recently released Top-20 Male Video Game Voice Actors of All Time, a list compiled by the entertainment industry website IMDb. The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games that started in 1990. It was a pleasant surprise for a man who just about seven years ago was still getting up at 4:30 in the morning to get ready to start his shift at a local radio station. “Part of radio was doing commercials and production and that
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type of thing, which I really enjoyed,” DeAndrea said. However, a chance meeting with his friend Leah Houghton would change the course of his career. “(She) came into the radio station and asked if I had seen these online casting sites for voice-overs. Which are kind of like regular actor sites, but for voices. You can audition for a job. You had to pay some fee at the time to do that.” It wasn’t an easy decision but, taking a leap of faith, he decided to bite the bullet and give it a shot.
“I loved radio, but I thought this is the direction I’m supposed to go now. It’s been a couple of years and, praise the Lord, I’m still going.”
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“I could use the radio station stuff sometimes (early on), and I had a small set-up here at home, in our bedroom; which then moved to a slightly bigger set-up in our closet, and then, finally, I built a studio (in the garage) when the time was right.” He went from wondering if he would ever get a voice-over gig, to having too many project offers pouring in. After praying about it with his wife, he says it was decided that the time was right to make the change official. “I loved radio, but I thought this is the direction I’m supposed to go now,” he said. “It’s been a couple of years and, praise the Lord, I’m still going.” Since then, the work has remained steady,and DeAndrea even has agents in larger cities helping him book new jobs and auditions. His new career has him doing a little bit of everything as a voice actor. “ I do commercials, I do corporate narration type stuff, or ‘e-learning,’ all these kinds of things,” he said. “and animation and video games.” SEE DEANDREA | A8
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SALEM — Medical marijuana cardholders in some parts of Oregon will have to look harder than they expected for dispensaries as cities and counties throughout the state enact ordinances to keep the pot shops from opening within their borders. A total of 13 Oregon counties and more than 100 towns and cities have passed moratoriums banning the pot shops since a law allowing the dispensaries took effect March 1. More than 30 other local governments are considering similar measures. The state’s dispensary law was intended to move dispensaries out of a legal gray area. But after a number of communities voiced a
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Dispensaries in limbo as moratoriums sweep state
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Dave DeAndrea records his voice for commercials, radio and video games in his North Bend home studio. DeAndrea was recently named one of the top 20 male video game voice actors of all time by the website Internet Movie Database.
NORTH BEND — The Coos County Airport District has high hopes for a new airplane hangar going up at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport. The board was updated on the progress of the hangar construction during their April 17 meeting. “Two weeks and you should see this structure start to form-up,” executive director Theresa Cook said after the meeting. The airport makeover includes a 30,000-square-foot hangar and an office building. The project, which originally included the demolition of the old World War II era hangar that sat on the same site, is being funded by a more than $2 million grant from Connect Oregon. The demolition never took place, however, after an accidental
fire destroyed the building just days before it was to be demolished back in December 2012. The new hangar, which will feature a slanted, half-roof look, will be built on a portion of that original site, but toward the back. Cook says it is designed to suit a Boeing business jet, similar in size to a 737, plus four other smaller jets; or any similarly sized variation of airplanes. The concept, she says, is that the larger hangar may also be able to attract the larger commercial aircraft for overnight stays. The commercial companies don’t like to leave their jets out overnight in the salty, ocean air, she says. The building could also end up housing a group that manages the hangar for owners of corporate jets, an air ambulance company or some
desire to keep dispensaries out locally, the Legislature in early March passed a law that would give them until May to adopt moratoriums of up to a year. The bill took effect days after Oregon had already begun accepting applications from dispensaries seeking state approval of their operations. More than half of the 340 applications the state has received so far have come from places like Portland and Eugene, where local authorities are not looking to impose moratoriums. But many dispensary owners are still waiting to see if their communities will let them open or stay. At least six cities have enacted permanent bans or modified other ordinances, such as land use codes, to block the shops from opening. Medical marijuana cardholders are able to get the drug by growing the allowed amount for themselves, or having an authorized SEE LIMBO | A8
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