Florence Future First Citizen nominees announced…
Nine Siuslaw High School Seniors have been honored as the nominees for Florence’s Future First Citizen award. The winner will be announced Friday Night during the Siuslaw Awards dinner at the Florence Events Center. Verrill Beaudro (ver-RILL BOO-dro), Mallory Brown, Carrie Gibson, Jenna Hanslits, Hannah Hodulik, McKenna Holmes, Samantha Pummer, Morgan Siegel (SEE-gul) and Alyson Vilhena (veeh-EN-nuh) were each selected based on their leadership and community involvement. Those involvements are varied and include athletics, music, volunteerism, dance, fund-raising and health care among others. In addition to the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce business awards, Florence’s First Citizen will also be named … nominees for that award will be announced later this week.
Police in Reedsport have identified the man shot and killed during an incident at 2050 ½ Elm Street early Saturday morning. Police responded to a 9-1-1 call a few minutes after Two A.M. and found 37-year old Apollo Deilan Rohkohl of Reedsport dead with what appeared to be a single gunshot wound. The resident of that home, 64-year old Garry Thomas Dawson, along with another witness were questioned. Police Chief John Smart says the shooting is being investigated as an accidental or self-defense shooting.
One coastal legislator was singled out over the weekend for his efforts in support of local government. The Special Districts Association of Oregon named Ninth District Representative Arnie Roblan as their Legislator of the Year. Legislative specialist Hasina Squires spelled out what makes the Coos Bay Democrat so important.
218 – “Representative Roblan always thinks about his local governments before he thinks about the big statewide picture. Any time we have approached him with something that deals with the smallest fire district to the smallest water district or to a large local government he always understands what the impacts are locally and he always looks out for us.”
The Special Districts Association is made up of water, port, library, fire and other special service districts. The presentation was made at their annual conference over the weekend.
Oregon Lawmakers will begin the second week of a four-week session this morning by receiving the news that the recession has continued to drive down revenue collections. An estimated $100-million shortfall in income tax and lottery proceeds is expected to be announced. State government is in the eight month of a 24-month cycle, meaning any spending reductions will be amplified. Work in Salem is not limited only to money matters. Legislative committees face a deadline for acting on some of the high-profile topics of the session, including a proposed ban on plastic bags at the checkout counter. That effort may be dead however, as key industry support was reportedly withdrawn late last week.
AP-OR--1st NewsMinute,0263 monday
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Police are investigating the death of 44-year-old
Springfield man found dead from gunshots near railroad tracks in
Eugene over the weekend. Eugene Police Department spokeswoman
Melinda Kletzok says Ronald Leo Langlois was a Portland & Western Railroad
employee. A co-worker found him early Saturday. The case is being
investigated as a homicide.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland police have arrested a man after
a stabbing left another man injured. Sgt. Greg Stewart says a fight
broke out Saturday night between two men who knew each other. The
fight escalated to one man being stabbed in the neck and the
suspect running off. The Oregonian reports the injured man was
treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon's Department of Human Services has
decided to study whether age plays a factor when welfare workers
choose which cases of alleged child abuse to investigate. The
Oregonian reports the study was prompted by the death of
15-year-old Jeannette Maples, who died in her Eugene home Dec. 9.
Her parents have been charged with murder. Human Services officials
suspect her age may have played a role in welfare workers failing
to act on calls reporting her abuse.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - With Oregon's jobless rate at 11 percent,
job hunters are finding little relief. Lawmakers say a priority of
the special February legislative session is extending unemployment
insurance coverage for 18,000 Oregonians whose benefits have run
out or soon will. But the help will be brief -- no further
emergency extentions are in sight.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - After a slow start, there's progress in a
deal with federal officials to deport Oregon prison inmates who are
in the U.S. illegally and have less than six months left on their
sentences. The state hopes to save more than $2 million over the
current two-year budget cycle by sending the inmates back to their
home countries, in Oregon's case, mostly to Mexico.
MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP) - Authorities say a 73-year-old man and his
grandson have been arrested in Milwaukie in a counterfeiting
investigation. Lonnie Lee Thompson and 25-year-old Eric Steven
Thompson were arrested at their family home Thursday. The Oregonian
reports that a task force sergeant says officers seized boxes and
bags containing counterfeit bills.
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) - One man has been killed an another
wounded in a shooting at Lincoln City. Police pulled over an SUV
that had been reported leaving an apartment complex where shots had
been fired. When officers looked inside the SUV yesterday on
Highway 101 they found the dead and wounded men and a third man.
The Oregonian reports he's cooperating with police trying to figure
out what happened.
(The Oregonian)
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - Police are investigating the death of a
17-year-old girl in Coos Bay. Police says the girl, Jenna Bowling,
was taken by a private car Saturday morning to Bay Area Hospital.
The Register-Guard reports she was unresponsive and was pronounced
dead at the hospital.
(Register Guard)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Oregon law enforcement agencies are starting
a two-week crackdown on three major killers on the state's roads:
driving impaired, speeding and not using seat belts. The agencies
are receiving federal money for overtime to help with the safety
campaign that starts Monday.
FRENCHGLEN, Ore. (AP) - Harney County in southeast Oregon has
cleared a Vancouver, Wash., company to build a wind farm on Steens
Mountain. By the year's end, Columbia Energy Partners could have
415-foot-high turbines rising from the mountain's south slopes.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
College Basketball:
The Oregon State men ran away with a 62 – 42 victory in the second basketball Civil War of the season Saturday afternoon in Corvallis. Omari Johnson had 16 of his season high 18 points in the first half for the Beavers who swept the season-series with the Ducks for the first time in 17 years.
For the women, the Oregon Ducks completed their sweep of Oregon State with an 82 – 62 win Saturday night in Eugene. Taylor Lilley scored 23 points for Oregon. Haiden Palmer led Oregon State with 25 points and 11 rebounds. The Beavers have lost ten straight since winning against Washington State on New Year’s Day.
Prep Basketball:
The North Bend Bulldogs dominated the Siuslaw Viking Boys at home Friday night with a 46 -20 victory… in other Far West League games it was Brookings-Harbor over Douglas and Sutherlin defeated South Umpqua. In the Sunset League Coquille downed Reedsport 61 - 51
For the girls, North Bend downed Siuslaw 57-27. In other Far West matchups it was Douglas over Brookings-Harbor and Sutherlin defeated South Umpqua. In the Sunset League, Coquille defeated Reedsport 56 – 26.
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