Empty Bowls temporarily fill shelves…
Proceeds from the annual “Empty Bowls” fundraiser will be used to help fill the shelves at Florence Food Share… at least for a while. Bonnie MacDuffee, one of the organizers of the annual event, marked it as a success.
205 – “Preliminary numbers it looks like, we were able to bring in just over ten-thousand dollars in bowl sales over the weekend.”
Most of the bowls sold during the two-day event but there were some left over. They’ll be offered up for sale later this week at Grocery Outlet.
206 – “We have about 200 bowls left over so we wanted to make them available to whoever might have missed our sale on Friday and Saturday.”
Florence Food Share director Karen Lyn said while the event was successful in raising cash… that only translates into a few weeks worth of food on the shelves. Lyn said other efforts are very important at this time of year. Food drives like the postal food drive that wraps up this Saturday. Volunteers will be shadowing mail carriers to pick up non-perishable food items left by mail boxes.
Three proposed marine reserves off the Oregon Coast have cleared another hurdle. The Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council on Tuesday in Newport endorsed recommendations to create reserves off Cape Falcon, Cascade Head and Cape Perpetua. Under the terms of legislation enacted in 2009, they each include a core no-fishing zone surrounded by a wider area where bottom trawling and industrial development are limited. The idea is to preserve and scientifically study habitat refuges for marine life. The last hurdle comes in the legislative session next year, when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks funding to regulate the reserves and conduct research. If approved, it will bring to five the number of reserves in
state waters within three miles of the coast.
The Siuslaw School Board will hold a brief supplemental budget hearing tonight to accommodate a $900-thousand loan that was recently approved for roof repairs. The loan, made available through a state and federal program, was not anticipated when the school’s budget committee was meeting earlier this year. That means the board has to hold a special hearing to make changes to the current year’s budget. The note comes with an attractive interest rate of one-quarter of one-percent. The board meets at district offices at 6:30.
More delays are expected over the Siuslaw River Bridge on highway 101 this week. Crews will be holding traffic for ten to 15 minutes at a time tomorrow as they inspect the new epoxy surface that was applied late this summer and this fall. The Fiber Reinforced Polymer is a relatively new and lightweight material. Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Rick Little says engineers want to evaluate the material’s effectiveness for future bridge deck replacement projects. Traffic will be restricted to one lane over the course of a few hours tomorrow.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon case of a father and son accused
of planting a bomb that killed two police officers is now in the
hands of a jury. Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua, are charged
with aggravated murder and other counts stemming from the explosion
at a Woodburn bank two years ago. The Turnidges face the death
penalty if convicted.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A man who lived in the same grassy Ashland,
Ore., field as a homeless man accused of causing a massive wildfire
testified yesterday that he saw John David Thiry stamping at the
ground, "trying to put the fire out." The Mail Tribune reports
that the 40-year-old Thiry has pleaded not guilty to all the
charges in the Aug. 24 fire.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Passions were heated -- and that wasn't
all -- in the wake of last Saturday's 37-20 Oregon win over Oregon
State in the schools' annual football "Civil War" game -- played
this year in Corvallis. Now Oregon State Police want to talk with
the fan whose victory celebration in the center of the Reser
Stadium field may have charred the Oregon State Beavers' logo,
causing an estimated $1,500 damage to the turf -- and perhaps as
much as $5,000 or more.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon man has been charged with murder
after the body of the woman who shared a house with him was found
in the back yard.
The Register-Guard reports that 24-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez
was arrested after the body of 55-year-old Deborah Ann Stone was
found in a shallow grave in the back yard of her Eugene home.
Eugene police say the relationship between Chavez and Stone was
unclear.
No details about the death were released.
Police were called to Stone's home on Monday, after a family
member reported her missing. Investigators discovered her body
several hours later.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A 19-year-old gang member who shot up a
Springfield house has been sentenced to four years in federal
prison.
The U.S. attorney's office in Eugene says the Springfield man,
Uriel Gonzalez-Hernandez, was sentenced Tuesday for being an alien
in possession of a firearm. He may be deported after his release.
Police and federal investigators say he fired five shots last
April into a house where a couple and their baby were sleeping.
When he was arrested, Gonzalez-Hernandez admitted he committed the
shooting to send a message.
As he was booked into the Lane County Jail, he was seen to have
a tattoo on his chest identifying him as a member of a Southern
California gang with ties to Mexico, the Surenos.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar meets
today with veterans of Oregon's timber wars to look for ways out of
decades of conflict over logging on federal lands. Representatives
of the timber industry, conservation groups and timber counties
hope to move forward on two pilot logging projects in southwestern
Oregon.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A little girl who survived when her mother
threw her and her younger brother off a Portland bridge has helped
dedicate a new Portland Fire Bureau rescue boat named in the
childrens' honor. Trinity Smith is now 8 years old. Her 4-year-old
brother Eldon Smith drowned when they were tossed into the
Willamette River in May 2009. The new fireboat is named the Eldon
Trinity.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Wesley Matthews scored 24 points as the
Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat Phoenix 106-99 last night,
snapping the Suns' three-game winning streak. The Suns led by as
many as nine early in the fourth quarter but the Blazers battled
back for the win.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Prep basketball scores from last night… the Mapleton Sailor Girls with a victory at home over Powers 41-31. For the Siuslaw Vikings, Leigh Aurich led scoring with 15 points, but Siuslaw fell on the road to Bandon 51- 43.
For the boys… Micah Espinosa scored 39 points including 21 from outside the arc, as the Mapleton Sailors downed the Powers Cruisers 67 – 57. The Siuslaw Viking Boys opened up on the road with a loss to the Bandon Tigers… 58 – 54.
On the schedule… Reedsport will host Brookings-Harbor for boys non-league basketball at seven this evening.
Individual awards were announced this week for Pac-10 football. Oregon State’s Stephen Paea was named the top defensive player while Oregon coach Chip Kelly won coach of the year. Heisman finalist LaMichael James was one of seven Ducks picked first team all-conference. Stanford also placed seven players on the first team.
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