Christmas Baskets get a boost…
The volunteers with the Community Christmas Basket project had extra large smiles and an extra spring in their step yesterday afternoon as they prepared for tomorrow’s distribution.
217 -- "We're doing much better than we were about a week ago. We're about $25,000 which means we're going, at this point, to be able to do nice baskets for about 550 families."
That also means they raised about $10-thousand in just over the past week alone. Something that made Carol Bennett beam as she talked about preparations. For the second year in a row the baskets will be handed out at the former Dunham Motors site on Highway 101. Bennett said there are no requirements… all someone has to do is say they have a need. They’ll begin handing out the boxes at ten A.M. tomorrow morning. Bennett said people need to enter from Spruce Street and use the 25th street entrance.
A $1.25-million project to install a new 12-inch water line in the historic Old Town Florence area got the nod recently by the Florence Urban Renewal Agency Board of Directors.
216 -- "as the top infrastructure priority for the first bond issue and the board approved that recommendation. So that's the initial step in the structuring of a bond issue and getting into the program next year."
Mayor Phil Brubaker said there’s still a lot of planning and engineering needed and it may be up to two years before they begin to dig. When it’s completed however, it’s expected to provide more reliable service and dramatically increase the ‘fire-flow’… the amount of water that can be used in event of an emergency.
Backers of the Oregon Coast Military Heritage Museum now have some real estate to go under the building that they purchased earlier this year. They signed a lease with the City of Florence earlier this week to place the new museum on a parcel of ground in the Business Park on Kingwood near the airport.
215 -- "The next move is to continue our museum design so that we can finalize a construction budget, start pulling permits, prepping the ground, and actually get the building started. We think that we are still on schedule to meet our building shell to be completed by November 11 of 2010."
Cal Applebee said the group is grateful for the assistance and cooperation of the city through the entire process so far.
Federal regulators approved the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal on the north edge of Coos Bay along with a pipeline through South-West Oregon to the California state line. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission… FERC… voted 3-1 yesterday in Washington, DC to approved the Jordan Cove project. The super-cooled gas would be delivered to the terminal by ship, then distributed through the 230-mile long pipeline set to run through Douglas, Jackson and Klamath Counties. Economic development proponents say the terminal will bring much needed jobs to the region, but opponents say they plan to appeal. Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and Attorney General John Kroger say they intend to request a re-hearing of the decision.
From the Associated Press...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A suspended Portland high school teacher
has been indicted on charges of delivery and possession of
methamphetamine. A Multnomah County grand jury indicted 35-year-old
Zuleyma Noemi Figueroa, who taught Spanish at Benson Polytechnic
High School. The Oregonian reports she is due to be arraigned today
in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Environmental activist Jeffrey "Free"
Luers has been released from prison after spending more than eight
years behind bars for setting three SUVs on fire at a Eugene
dealership. Luers was initially sentenced to almost 23 years in
prison, but the Oregon Court of Appeals ordered resentencing in
2007. A Lane County Circuit Court judge cut it to 10 years.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon's attorney general says the popular
Cash for Clunkers program required that car dealers pass along the
scrap value of old cars to the customers who traded them in.
Attorney General John Kroger says that two Portland-area
dealerships have agreed to settle disputes by paying 236 customers
a combined $43,571 for the scrap value of trade-ins.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An analysis by The Oregonian newspaper shows
that more people in Oregon are committing fraud to get government
benefits. Since the economy dived into a deep recession last year,
instances of cheating to get unemployment and Medicaid benefits
have jumped. Investigators confirmed nearly 1,500 cases of
unemployment fraud in October 2009 - a 122 percent increase over
October 2008.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Zoo has taken in two orphaned
cougar cubs over the past week and a half. The brother-and-sister
duo were captured by wildlife officials after a homeowner near the
Springfield Country Club shot and killed their mother as she
approached his dogs. Orphaned cubs nurse until three months and
can't survive on their own in the wild.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland television station is reporting
that a 43-year-old man convicted of a 1998 triple homicide in West
Salem could soon be out of jail. K-A-T-U reports that the Polk
County district attorney's office has decided to dismiss the case
against Phillip Cannon, who has maintained that he did NOT murder
Jason Kinzer, Suzan Osborne and Celesta Graves.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Water flowing from southern Oregon's
Applegate Dam could start generating electricity by 2014 under a
new federal hydropower license issued yesterday. The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission issued the license to Symbiotics, a
Utah-based utility that plans to attach a 10-megawatt generating
facility to the dam on the Applegate River.
EAGLE POINT, Ore. (AP) - Authorities are deciding whether to
file felony charges against three Eagle Point teenagers accused of
sending sexually explicit photos of minors by text message. Eagle
Point Police Chief David Strand says the teens - two boys and one
girl - sent the photos to numerous students at the local high
school.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Lots of prep basketball on the court today and tomorrow… the Mapleton Sailors are at home this afternoon for a double-header against Triangle lake… the girls tip off at three, the boys at 4:30. Siuslaw enters the holiday tournament season in Myrtle Point this evening… the Viking Girls take on Myrtle Point at six… the boys also face the Bobcats in their game at 7:30. The tourney continues tomorrow.
On the college court… the Oregon State women are at home this evening against Seattle University. The Oregon women are in Laramie Sunday afternoon where they’ll face the University of Wyoming. Tomorrow for the men, it’s Oregon State against Mississippi Valley State at seven… .a 6:30 airtime is set for KCFM. The Oregon Men are also at home tomorrow… they’re hosting Oakland of Michigan at 7:30… the pregame here on Coast Radio will be at seven.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Three Oregon football players are scheduled
to appear in Eugene Municipal Court next month on charges of
discharging a firearm. Police say one of the players shattered an
apartment window Monday with a shot from a pellet gun. The
department says 18-year-old Brian Harris, 18-year-old Benjamin
Butterfield and 19-year-old Brian Jackson were playfully shooting
at each other and did not aim for the window. They're due in court
Jan. 4 -- three days after the Rose Bowl.
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