Relay for life 5 weeks away; trial date set in County Commission suit. More news!

Fundraiser for fight against cancer…

It's just around the corner… the 11th annual Florence Relay for Life. Organizers are wrapping up planning for this year's event at Miller Park August 13th and 14th. Nancy Bosket has served as overeall chair in the past, this year she's responsible for recruiting teams and this year, she says, there are two dozen with an overall goal of raising $70-thousand for the American Cancer Society.
205 -- "We also want them to have fun. We encourage team fundraisers and we also encourage individual fundraising, going out and soliciting their friends, family for donations. And we have teams doing some amazing fund raising out there."

That fun will include plenty of live music, games and a variety of activities. This year's relay begins at noon, Friday the 13th with the first lap reserved for cancer survivors. Bosket says it's not too late. She can help you organize a team and get involved in plenty of time.

Allegations against three Lane County Commissioners that they violated Oregon's open meetings law will likely go to trial in December. Coos County Circuit Court Judge Michael Gillespie set a December 8th trial date in the lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Ellie Dumdi and Eugene businessman Edward Anderson. They claim that Peter Sorenson, Rob Handy and Bill Fleenor held illegal meetings to discuss their votes leading up to adoption of last year's county budget. Dumdi and Anderson are also seeking to overturn an $80-thousand expenditure for five part-time assistants as well as reimbursement for their legal costs directly from Sorenson, Handy and Fleenor. Fleenor has called the suit a -- quote -- "witch hunt" and Sorenson calls it a politically motivated attempt to harrass elected officials.

The Dunes City Council will hear a report on water quality testing data from Siltcoos and Woahink Lakes this evening as part of their regular monthly meeting. Water Quality Committee member Mark Chandler will make the presentation. The council will also hold a public hearing on a vacation proceeding for the Samuel Haig Jameson Gateway Road and is expected to accept the final plat for the Woahink Ridge Estates Planned Unit Development. That meeting begins at seven pm.

Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - This week's streak of hot summer weather
in northwest Oregon broke a temperature record that stood for more
than a century. A National Weather Service meteorologist says
Wednesday's high of 93 degrees in Astoria beat the previous record
for the date of 90 degrees, set in 1908.

SEATTLE (AP) - Officials say three U.S. Coast Guard crew members
are dead and one is at a Seattle hospital following a helicopter
crash off the Washington coast. The four-member crew was based in
Sitka, Alaska, and was returning there from Astoria, Ore., when it
crashed Wednesday off James Island near La Push, Wash.

HARBOR, Ore. (AP) - Investigators are looking for the cause of a
fire that killed a man and destroyed five mobile homes in the
southern Oregon coast community of Harbor. An official said
Wednesday that relatives believe the victim is Carlos Jimenez.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A Mexican man convicted for growing more
than 33,000 marijuana plants on public land in Idaho and Oregon
will spend more than three years in federal prison. A federal judge
in Boise sentenced 23-year-old Froylan Rubio-Gomez to 46 months in
prison.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 37-year-old Oregon woman who suffered a
serious brain injury when she fell after being shocked by a
Sutherlin police officer has filed an $8 million federal civil
rights lawsuit. Erica Price accuses officer Jay Huskey of
wrongfully zapping her with his Taser. Price admits in the lawsuit
that she was so drunk last Oct. 27 that she didn't understand the
officer's commands. The Douglas County sheriff's office found that
the officer's actions were justifiable.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Clackamas County sheriff's deputies say a
Vancouver, Wash., man injured in a 200-foot fall on Oregon's Mount
Hood has been rescued and suffered a fractured leg and an elbow
injury. After a rescue team brought Bryan Daniel Call safely to the
base of the mountain late yesterday, he was taken to a Portland
hospital.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer says he's
going to reintroduce a bill on end-of-life consultations with
doctors even though opposition from Sarah Palin and others last
year made it an idea too hot to handle. The bill would allow
Medicare to pay doctors for voluntary counseling about end-of-life
issues. Palin falsely said in 2009 that the measure would create
"death panels" to ration health care.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Oregon State University researchers
appear to have landed themselves in a sticky business thanks to a
discovery made entirely by accident. The researchers recently
stumbled on a new form of adhesive that they say is just as good as
those currently used in various tapes, stick-on notes and stamps.
But, they say, the new goo costs about half as much to make and
uses none of the petroleum-based solvents and chemicals now used to
make adhesives.

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) - Ashland police are now equipped with
handheld computers that allow them to write tickets in a quarter of
the time. Police chief Terry Holderness says he expects officers to
write far more tickets for traffic violations, and drivers will be
held up for less time. Once a ticket is issued on the new
computers, the information automatically flows to the police and
court databases.


(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
American Legion Baseball:
The Doc Stewarts came to town last night and manhandled the Three Rivers Sandblasters in a ten run rule shortened non leauge game. Jared Priestly was the winning pitcher for Roseburg, the Doc Stewarts scored 25 runs on 23 hits with no errors. The Sandblasters had two hits three errors in the 25 - nothing loss. The Blasters are off the diamond until Tuesday, July 13th.


On The Schedule Tonight:
The Emeralds were off the diamond Wednesday for travel. At eight and eleven on the season, the early cellar dwellers of the West Division will take on the East Division leading Hawks this afternoon in Boise. The Hawks come into the five game series at 10 and 9 on the season. The series continues in Boise through Monday.