Citizen Advocates assessing public safety
He’s more than just the former President of the University of Oregon. Dave Frohnmayer also spent ten years as Oregon’s top enforcer. He served as Attorney General from 1981 through 1991. He’s also spent a great deal of time serving on committees and commissions that evaluate the criminal justice system. Almost immediately after his retirement from the University last year he got involved in public safety once again.
200 – “Together with Jean Tate of Eugene I’m co-chairing a group called Citizen Advocates for Public Safety.”
Since last fall the group has been canvassing the county to find out what residents think.
201 – “We’ve been examining all possible aspects of public safety issues in Lane County including what many people perceive as a shortage of jail space as well as other prevention and rehabilitation and treatment and punishment options.”
The citizen task force is working on a report that will be presented to elected leaders later this spring. Members of the Lane Citizen Advocates for Public Safety will hold a ‘listening post’ Tuesday afternoon, March 30th at Siuslaw Public Library in Florence.
A daytime closure of First Avenue in the Heceta Beach area will extend through the middle of next week as Lane County Public Works crews complete installation of a storm water drainage system. They’ve been in the area for the past two weeks and area residents have been facing detours since that time. Lane County Spokesperson Amber Fossen said the detour will remain in place through next Thursday.
April 14th has been set aside as the day that volunteers in Florence will be honored. The Florence Area Coordinating Council, made up of several different groups that rely heavily on volunteers, will host the annual volunteer recognition party that afternoon at the Florence Events Center. Leading up to that, organizers are asking for nominations for the ‘volunteer of the year’. The event is open to any non-profit, club, community agency or other organization. To register your group for the event, or nominate a volunteer, contact Bettie Egerton (EDJ-ur-tun) at Siuslaw Outreach Services.
Two new members of the Oregon Coast Aquarium family arrived just in time for spring break. Two young female California Sea Lions were brought to the facility earlier this month. They’re both about nine-months old and each is blind in one eye. Because of that, wildlife experts say they’ll never be able to be released into the wild. Since their arrival they’ve been identified by number only… The aquarium wants to give them names and they’re holding a contest. Entries can be submitted to the aquarium’s website. The results will be announced April Fourth.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland police say a man refused orders
to drop a knife before an officer shot him to death. Jack Dale
Collins died Monday after Officer Jason Walters responded to a
report of a transient threatening people. Police say that Collins
approached Walters with a knife with a one-inch blade, and Walters
retreated while yelling at the man to drop it. Collins then
allegedly kept advancing even when Walters could no longer retreat.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski
(koo-luhn-GAH'-skee) joined about 300 relatives, friends and
community members on Thursday at a Eugene memorial service for a
26-year-old soldier killed in Iraq. Pfc. Erin McLyman died March 13
in Balad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked
her base with mortar fire. She was a 2001 graduate of Eugene's
Sheldon High School. She was based in Tacoma, Wash.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Authorities say loggers have discovered
the wreckage of a World War II-era plane in the woods near the
Oregon coast. A joint news release from the U.S. Navy, Tillamook
County Sheriff's Office and Oregon State Police says there is the
possibility of human remains at the site near Rockaway Beach. The
plane has been identified as a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. Naval Air
Station Tillamook was based about 20 miles from the site.
WEST LINN, Ore. (AP) - Police say three robbers dressed as
Ninjas tied up a woman and ransacked her West Linn home, and later
forced her husband to take them to his jewelry store in Clackamas
and robbed it. After taking an unknown number of jewels, the
suspects brought Rick Rogoway back to his house and tied him up as
well then fled in his 1999 BMW.
OTTER ROCK, Ore. (AP) - A Coast Guard helicopter crew has
rescued four surfers near Otter Rock after they got caught by a rip
current and swept into a wave-lashed cove. Fire officials say the
surfers -- all from the Salem area -- were rescued yesterday
afternoon from heavy surf. Authorities say the group is the latest
in a series of surfers caught by the current and swept hundreds of
yards out to sea.
MOLALLA, Ore. (AP) - Police in the Portland suburb of Molalla
say a burglar broke into the city's water-treatment plant and stole
the system's computer. No arrests have been made, but the computer
was found destroyed. City officials tell The Oregonian newspaper
that the computer contained the programming that kept the
water-treatment plant working on autopilot.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – The name of the southern Oregon man who drowned during a Rogue River fishing trip has been released. Josephine County deputies identified the victim as 75-year-old Ronald Dumas Sr. of Williams. His body was recovered late Wednesday afternoon, about
three-quarters of a mile downriver from where his boat flipped
earlier in the day. His wife and another person in the boat made it
to shore. They say he wasn’t wearing a life jacket.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - More than 200 Oregon State Prison inmates
chipped in to donate more than $1,000 to Mercy Corps of Portland
for earthquake relief in Haiti. The Statesman Journal reports
leaders of five inmate clubs that led the fundraising handed over a
check Thursday to a Mercy Corps volunteer.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - State Rep. Greg Smith of Heppner is
drafting legislation to ban all sexual material from Oregon
prisons. The Oregonian reports the state already bans hard-core
porn, but Smith's proposal would ban milder materials such as
Playboy magazines. Smith says prisoners should focus on
rehabilitation rather than personal gratification.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Women’s Basketball:
The Cal Golden Bears shot down the Ducks’ post-season run last night, defeating the Oregon women 71-57 in the third round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament at Mac Court. The Ducks ended their season 18-and-16 over all… more than doubling the number of wins this season from 2009.
On the Schedule…
There’s college baseball… Oregon State opens up their final non-conference series of the season at home this weekend with three games against Long Beach State. Game one is this evening at Goss Stadium. Oregon is on the road for a Pac-10 series against Arizona. The first of three games in Tucson is set for tonight.
On the prep diamond… Siuslaw Baseball will be in Philomath for two games against the Warriors tomorrow at Noon. Lady Viking Softball will be there as well for a pair of games.
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