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Forecasting Kool Coastal Nights this weekend THE UMPQUA POST
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Thousands of people are expected in Winchester Bay this weekend for the 21st annual Kool Coastal Nights. The event will begin Friday and include a Show and Shine at 11 a.m. Saturday, a Parade of Champions, a harbor cruise and a street dance Saturday night.
Kitzhaber vetoes mascot bill
Kool Coastal Nights will take up Winchester Bay this weekend. Thousands of people are expected to take a look at the hundreds of cars that will parked along Beach Boulevard all weekend. The event begins with registration on Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. There also will be music Friday night. The entry fee for the car show, harbor cruse and poker walk is $30. Cars must be 1978, or older, street legal, licensed and insured. The show is limited to the first 300 entries. No four-wheel drive vehicles will be entered. Saturday’s events include a Show and Shine at 11 a.m., a poker walk from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m., the Parade of Champions from 3:30 to 4 p.m. and a harbor cruise from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday. There will be a street dance at 7:30 p.m. Trophies will be awarded during the Parade of Champions. Cruise plaques, given out by sponsoring businesses, will be awarded during the harbor cruise. According to information provided by organizers, the Grand Marshall of Kool Coastal Nights is Earl Plagmann, who has been Reedsport-based since 1946 when, upon finishing his military duty in the U.S. Army and completing barber school in Portland, he accepted a job in Reedsport.
Originally from the Lebanon area, his first “chair” was at the site of the current Rainbow Tavern in Old Town. Within a few years he was in charge of the shop and moved around a bit to different locations including the original bank building as the bank moved over from Gardiner. He survived flood after flood in Old Town, including 40 inches of water in the 1962 flood as well as the changing economic status of Reedsport. Upon his retirement his barber chair and pole were donated to the Discovery Center and are part of their historic “Tidewaters and Time.” Listen for the upcoming oral history exhibit of Earl and his wife Carol soon to be playing at the local museum.
Couple, cats rescued at sea
BY STEVE LINDSLEY The Umpqua Post
As expected, Gov. John Kitzhaber vetoed SB 215, a bill that would have allowed school districts with Native American mascot names, such Reedsport Braves and Roseburg Indians, to continue using those names if they got a written agreement from a local tribe. In his veto message the governor said he had made his preferences known. “In conversations, and in writing, during the 2013 legislative session,” the governor wrote, “I and my advisors told SB 215’s proponents that I am open to a process that would allow for narrow exceptions to the (state board of education’s) tribal mascot ban. Specifically, I have indicated that I would support a ‘namesake exception’ — modeled on NCAA policy and recommendations from the National Congress of American Indians — that would permit school districts and federally-designated tribes to agree to the use of mascots, names and symbols that are association with the particular tribe entering into the agreement. Kitzhaber said the provisions under SB 215 were too broad. The governor said he is still open to compromise. State senator Jeff Kruse, RRoseburg, was the chief sponsor of the bill, said the compromise was already offered. “Quite frankly,” he said, “what we have is the compromise. This is the only full bill John vetoed. I think this is symptomatic of the way he chooses to govern. Basically, even though all the folks at the local community had worked out everything, he’s basically saying, ‘No, you guys don’t know what you’re doing and I’m smarter than you are.’ I don’t see any other way to read it, other than that.” The ban on Native American mascots goes into effect in 2017. Schools must change by then or
FV Sea Princess photos contributed by Cynthia Schneider
The Sea Princess sinks 60 miles off of Coos Bay on Aug. 5. The vessel’s engine exploded, blowing open its hull. Port of Bandon commissioner and fisherman Rick Goche rescued Mark and Cynthia Schneider, the boat’s owners, and their two cats.
Winchester Bay pair rescued off sinking boat BY AMY MOSS STRONG The Umpqua Post
BANDON — Sixty miles out to sea in 6,000 feet of water could be a lonely place to have an on-board explosion that sends you flying through the air. But in a fishing community, help can be a radio call away, even 14 hours from the nearest port. Such was the case on Monday, Aug. 5, when Mark and Cynthia Schneider lost their livelihood in a few short minutes. The engine of their fishing vessel, the 60-foot Sea Princess, blew a hole in the hull of the boat while they were albacore fishing in the Pacific Ocean about 85 miles northwest of Coos Bay. Port of Bandon commissioner and fellow commercial fisherman Rick Goche, a Coquille resident, also was albacore fishing in the area aboard the Peso II, along with several other boats. Goche
SEE MASCOT, PAGE A6
Discovery Center’s 20th
Visitors look over items for sale in the gift shop at the Umpqua Discovery Center on Saturday. The center along the Reedsport waterfront celebrated its 20th anniversary Saturday. By Lou Sennick The Umpqua Post
received the call about 5 p.m. and arrived on the scene 15 minutes later to find the Schneiders floating in the water, watching the Sea Princess sink before their eyes. Goche and his brother Larry pulled the couple out of the water. Then they saved the cats.
A fixer-upper Fishing was good that day and the weather was calm. The Schneiders, who moor their boat in Winchester Bay during the winter months while they enjoy snow-related activities from their
LaPine home, live on their boat during the fishing season. It was a 1924 fixer-upper that the Schneiders poured thousands of dollars into and worked on endlessly last summer and for three months straight this year, repairing and remodeling the aft-house schooner from stern to bow. It was their first trip out of the season and the boat had been restored and outfitted with the latest safety devices. “We basically brought this boat back from the brink of death,” Mark said. “And we have pretty high standards regarding safety and mechanical issues so we did a lot of work. These old boats have a lot of character and we’d always dreamed of owning an aft-house schooner.” Jasper and Topaz, two shelterrescued cats, were gaining their sea legs living on the boat while
SEE RESCUE, PAGE A6
Reedsport man sentenced for homicide and escape A Reedsport man who contributed to a friend’s death and later helped another prisoner escape was sentenced to more than six years in prison. The News-Review of Roseburg reports that Sanford “Sandy” James Haines Jr., 36, was sentenced Friday after he pleaded no contest to criminally negligent homicide and pled guilty to escape and failure to appear. Prosecutors say Haines got into a fight with a longtime friend — 52-year-old Timothy Yaryan — in April 2012. Yaryan drove away from the fight, but later died. An
autopsy determined blows to the chest and abdomen caused the fatal injuries. Yaryan had alcohol and methamphetamine in his system. It's believed he started the fight. While in the Douglas County Jail, Haines helped Thomas Grimes escape in a trash bin. Grimes then eluded police twice during the month after escaping. Grimes was eventually captured near Springfield.
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