City Council set to finalize funding on completed senior center
The final public hearing on receipt of an $800-thousand grant for the newly completed Senior Center on Kingwood Street will be held this evening before the Florence City Council. City manager Bob Willoughby estimates that the new center has already benefitted at least 2,000 people, all of them considered to be low or moderate income. The final hearing will come during the council’s regular meeting this evening and is one of the final steps in closing out the grant. In other business tonight, the council will also consider revising the lease agreement with the Oregon Coast Military Heritage Museum allowing them to utilize the two lots just north of the parcel they originally had planned to use. Set back requirements for a waterway on that parcel made the lot unusable for their needs. The council will also hear a report on the Water System Master Plan Update on providing service to portions of the north Florence area. The City Council meets at city hall at seven.
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The City of Reedsport has selected a lawman from another coastal community to head their police department. Mark W. Fandrey has been the Chief of Police in Toledo since 2006 and will now assume the top job in the Western Douglas County community. He’s a 13-year law enforcement veteran and will start on the job in Reedsport next month.
The voter turnout in tomorrow’s Primary Election is expected to be less than 40-percent statewide. As of late last week only 17-percent of Oregon’s two-plus-million registered voters have returned their ballots. That’s less than the Lane County results where 23-percent… just over 47-thousand… of the 206-thousand voters have returned their votes. Ballots must be received at the County Elections office, or any one of the 23 ballot drop sites in Lane County, by eight pm tomorrow.
More Oregonians than ever before received food stamps during April. According to the Oregonian, more than 700-thousand people in the state; that’s nearly one in five; are relying on the government for assistance to help buy food, compared to about one in eight nationally. The state’s high unemployment rate is driving the record enrollment and state social service managers say they don’t see signs of any lessening. State officials say they’re seeing more people who have never applied for food stamps seeking government help.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland police have identified
25-year-old Keaton Dupree Otis as the man killed in a police
shoot-out that also wounded an officer. Police say Otis refused to
obey officers who had pulled his car over Wednesday evening near a
Portland shopping mall. Officers opened fired on Otis after police
say he drew a gun and fired.
LOWELL, Ore. (AP) - The man fatally shot inside a Lowell church
late Wednesday once filed for a restraining order against his
alleged killer. Investigators, however, say they don't know the
motive in the attack at the Jehovah's Witness church. Robert
"Riley" Gonzales is accused of fatally shooting his wife's
ex-husband, 47-year-old Kenneth Mort.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon police have arrested a 42-year-old
woman charged in an Oregon bank robbery after a high speed chase.
Authorities say Tammy Lynn Hall and an unidentified man were
arrested yesterday on I-5 in Salem after a trooper spotted a car
linked to a Chase Bank robbery in Eugene. Hall has been charged in
the April 30 robbery of a Bank of America branch in Clackamas.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon man who has refused to reveal
his true name after being accused of assuming the identity of a
murdered Ohio boy will remain in jail pending another hearing on
whether he can be released to home detention. Prosecutors had
objected his release, arguing he's a flight risk because nobody
knows who he really is.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl reported missing three
weeks ago has returned home, and detectives are searching for the
man who dropped her off. The Oregonian reports the girl told
Washington County sheriff's detectives she had been with
30-year-old Ismal Recinos-Velasquez since she ran away from home.
He is wanted for a variety of sex crimes. The man dropped her off
at her home Friday night.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court will convene
tomorrow in Medford to hear an appeal of a Walmart Supercenter
planned for south Medford. It will be the first hearing for the
court in Medford in 20 years. A citizens group in the 6-year-old
case claims the city erred in giving Bentonville, Ark.-based
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. permission to build without a comprehensive
traffic impact study. The case has delayed construction of the
store.
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) - The husband of Baker County Justice
Court Judge Lise Yervasi has been appointed to serve as a temporary
substitute for her. The Baker City Herald says the county Board of
Commissioners had so few candidates to fill in for the judge they
chose her attorney husband, Damien, for the one-year post. Lise
Yervasi says she's battling a serious illness that sometimes
affects her balance and speech, but doesn't affect her thinking.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Polls suggests former Gov. John Kitzhaber
is on track to achieve an unprecedented third term in running the
state. Kitzhaber enjoys a healthy lead over his competition in
Tuesday's gubernatorial Democratic primary. And, if the pollsters
are correct, he will likely face Republican Chris Dudley in the
general election.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The parents of a Portland man killed
Wednesday by police after he shot and wounded an officer say their
son struggled with a mood disorder. Felesia and Joseph Otis said
they wanted to get help for their 25-year-old son, Keaton Dupree
Otis, but had limited legal options.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A Montana man has been convicted of abusing
three California girls at a summer festival last year in Oregon.
Authorities say 49-year-old Audra Thomas Duncan of Judith Gap,
Mont. was nude when he helped the girls, between 8 and 10 years
old, onto a rope swing at the festival last August. Duncan
testified he regularly visited a nude beach and previously engaged
in other nude recreational activities.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The reward for information leading to an
arrest or conviction in the shooting of a bald eagle last month
near Rainier has been boosted to $2,500. Oregon State Police say
two horseback riders found the injured female eagle with nearly
three dozen shotgun pellets in its body. The bird is recovering at
the Wildlife Center of the North Coast.
LA CONNER, Wash. (AP) - Some farmers in the Klamath Basin of
southern Oregon are being paid to let their fields be temporarily
flooded to help migratory shorebirds and improve the productivity
of the land. Organizers say early studies show hndreds of birds
have fattened up in the soggy fields, and tests show increased
nutrients that should pay off for farmers when the land is drained
in a few years.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court convenes in
Medford tomorrow to hear an appeal of a Walmart Supercenter planned
for the city. A citizens group in the 6-year-old case claims the
city erred in giving Wal-Mart permission to build without a
comprehensive traffic impact study. The case has delayed
construction of the store.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Prep Golf:
Siuslaw’s Verrill Beaudro begins competition today at the 3A State Golf Tournament at Emerald Valley in Creswell
Prep Track and Field:
A half dozen Mapleton Sailors qualified for the upcoming State 1A State meet during this weekend’s Mountain West Finals in Blue River. Jesse Nelson was first in the boys’ 110 Hurdles and second in the Javelin. Andrea Leclaire also qualified in two events, placing second in the girls’ 100 meters and as part of the second place four-by-100 meter relay team. Joining her will be Marina Lang, Taysie Savage, Liz Harry and Jennie Haynes.
Siuslaw’s Alexis Reavis threw the discus 145-feet, 5-inches in prelims, the longest throw in the 4A ranks this year by 10 ½ feet, winning the event at Friday evening’s Wally Ciocheti Invitational in Cottage Grove. Reavis also posted a personal record and a win in the shot put with a toss of 43-feet, 10 ½ inches… just a quarter inch short of the longest throw this year in the event. Raelyn Robinson won the girls’ 800 meters.
On the diamond:
Prep Baseball Friday afternoon, the win streak ended in the back half of a double-header against the South Umpqua Lancers. The Siuslaw Vikings shut out the Lancers in game one, 7-nothing, then fell 5-2 in the nightcap. They’ll wrap up the regular season this afternoon in Sutherlin against the Bulldogs. They clinched the Far West League Championship a week ago. // On the softball diamond, the Lady Vikings remain in contention for a playoff spot, they split with South Umpqua at home, winning 9-5 and losing 5-8. The Vikings are tied with Brookings-Harbor for third place and must win their final game against Sutherlin… plus get some help from South Umpqua, to clinch. The face the Bulldogs at home this evening.
In Pac-10 baseball Oregon State took two of three over the Washington Huskies this weekend, winning the first two games 8-6 and 7-3, losing yesterday 3-2 to the Huskies. Oregon wrapped up a non-league three game sweep of East Tennessee State 5-nothing, 7-6 and 17-7.
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