Eventual adoption of Parks Plan the aim…
The Florence City Council will hold an educational work session later this week to help them become more familiar with a proposed new Parks Master Plan. Mayor Phil Brubaker said officials felt they needed more time to become familiar with it.
201 – “Councilor Xavier used a good term, the term ‘imbedded obligations’, wanted to make sure there was nothing that was in the plan that would cause the city to do something that wasn’t a priority, and secondly that wasn’t fundable.”
After a hearing on the plan last month, the council held back on formally adopting the plan, choosing instead to use it as a reference work until they could become more familiar with it.
200 – “Primary reason we acknowledged rather than adopted was to use it as the framework for further decision making for costing the various projects.”
Brubaker says once elected officials have had a chance to study the plan, he anticipates that it will eventually replace the old Parks Master Plan, created in 1987.
202 – “So I’ll feel more comfortable by the time we know the costs and get some idea about funding.”
Thursday’s meeting is at City Hall, it begins at six.
The effort began in the fall of 2004, that’s when fund raising efforts began to replace the ice machine that supplied commercial fishers. Bud Saulsgiver says there still facing one last delay, but this time it has nothing to do with money.
205 – “No it’s not, no. It’s the time. As soon as the catwalk is up, then the crew can come down and start the thing up. Every thing is there, the augurs and everything to deliver ice, so it’s just a matter of putting the finishing touches on it.”
Saulsgiver says the goal is to have the machine up and running by the Spring Salmon troll season. They have another incentive to get it up and running quickly. A similar machine in Coos County has been demolished to make way for a new one… and it won’t be online for several months.
After serving two terms as Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber thought his public life was winding down in 2002. He was thinking of fly fishing and retirement. But, he became involved in one of his passions, reforming health care. Eventually, he felt he could once again govern the state that he had described as being “ungovernable”. He defeated Republican Chris Dudley in November and was sworn in for an unprecedented third term last month. Kitzhaber will talk about how the state, the office and the man have changed in the past eight years tomorrow afternoon on KCST’s Our Town, the monthly audio news magazine for Florence.
It is coming up on election season once again, by the way. The spring elections for some districts will be in May. Four of the seven positions on the Lane Community College Board of Directors will be on the May 17th ballot. Two of the spots are for specific zones in the Eugene area, but two others are ‘at-large’ posts representing the entire district. The filing window opens February Fifth… the deadline is March 17th.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest of a Portland man suspected of
shooting an Oregon police officer and fleeing into the woods near a
coastal neighborhood last week. Police say 43-year-old David
Anthony Durham was last seen running from his 1984 Dodge truck on
Highway 101 in Waldport after shooting Lincoln City Officer Steven
Dodds on Jan. 23 and driving south. The FBI has also obtained a
federal fugitive warrant for Durham.
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) - Police say a boy was accidentally shot
in the head by his friend while playing with a 12-gauge shotgun at
a home in Oregon City. The boy, identified as 12-year-old Austin
Stokes, was critically wounded Sunday and airlifted to Oregon
Health and Sciences University Hospital in Portland. The boy's
13-year-old friend was interviewed by police and released to his
parents.
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) - Hood River County sheriff's
deputies say an Oregon City man died after colliding with a tree
while skiing a run at Mt. Hood Meadows. Deputies tell KGW-TV that
41-year-old William James Cannard fell on steep terrain Sunday.
Meadows spokesman Dave Tragethon says Ski Patrol members reached
the scene within five minutes but couldn't revive Cannard.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Marion County sheriff's detectives say
they've recovered a damaged black 1990 Honda Accord that they
believe was involved in the Jan. 26 hit-and-run crash that killed a
father of three. The Statesman Journal reports they also identified
a suspect - 19-year-old Jake Montano - and are trying to locate
him. Morales Singer was killed in the crash as he walked along a
Salem street.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Salem police are looking for a man who robbed
a bank and then fired a shot at a customer who followed him and
yelled at him. Police say the robber fled on foot with an
undisclosed amount of cash after a Chase Bank holdup about 5:30
p.m. yesterday. The customer says the robber fired a shot at him,
but missed.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A Chinese diplomat says Oregon is becoming
increasingly important to his country. Gao (GOW) Zhansheng
(jahn-SHUNG) -- the Chinese consul general in San Francisco -- met
yesterday with Gov. John Kitzhaber. He says Oregon is one of
China's biggest American trading partners and provides a welcoming
vacation spot for Chinese tourists.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Gov. John Kitzhaber is holding a news
conference today to reveal his recommendations for closing a big
budget gap. The governor has already hinted that he'll propose
steep cuts to health care, education and public safety.
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - The Coast Guard has requested $3.5
million to clean up oil leaking from a derelict barge on the
Columbia River. The Columbian reports the money comes from the Oil
Spill Liability Trust Fund, created by a federal tax on petroleum
products. The Coast Guard took control of the vessel last week,
after a sheen of oil was spotted in the river.
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - Increased sightings of the endangered
Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf in northeastern Oregon suggest to
wildlife biologists that the animals have begun a migration from
Idaho that could spread to Washington by the summer. But the East
Oregonian reports that a state biologist isn't ready to call the
wolves a pack yet because it's unclear what kind of "social
formation" the wolves are in.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Mapleton Basketball standout Steve Erickson, is Coast Radio Sports’ Athlete of the Week: The senior forward had a career high game against Lowell last week, recording his first ‘double-double’, scoring 16 points and pulling down 13 rebounds….Honorable Mention goes to Siuslaw’s Jacob Egan, who continues to excel on the offensive and defensive boards for the Vikings.
On the prep basketball schedule tonight… the Reedsport Braves are on the road to Glide for Sunset League action. The Mapleton Sailors are also travelling this evening, they’ll be in Alsea for Mountain West League ball. The Siuslaw Vikings have the night off.
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