One month later… one Florence 2nd grader working to make a difference
It’s been exactly a month since that devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Eight-year old Allison Huff is on a mission to help out. The Second Grader came home from her Karate class not too long after disaster, and she had a plan.
210 – “I’m raising money for Japan for the people who got hurt. In Karate, on our gi, we have a patch… one hand for defending and one hand for helping.”
Allison has already raised nearly $250 dollars, just by collecting spare change from the other members of her karate classes and by asking friends and neighbors. Her mom, Sarah Huff says she’s quite proud of her daughter.
211 – “You can’t say no to something like that. I mean, it’s just amazing when some eight-year old comes up with her big brown eyes and says ‘can we help someone else mom?’ and not think about herself. She’s not worrying about what she can get out of this, she’s worrying about what she can do for someone else.”
Huff says the money will be given to a relief agency that promises to use 100% of the proceeds towards earthquake relief. Allison will be collecting money through the end of next week and hopes to raise $400. Donations can be sent to her at Post Office Box 2674 in Florence.
Authorities say autopsies may not be possible… that’s an indication of just how long two bodies may have been in the woods just off a hiking trail in the Cape Perpetua Scenic Area. The human remains were found Saturday afternoon by a hiker and troopers who responded to the scene say they appear to be an adult male and female. Nothing else at the scene immediately pointed to their identities, nor how they died. Oregon State Police Lieutenant Greg Hastings says the State Medical Examiner’s office has already begun to work on that. Sheriff’s Deputies and Search and Rescue crews from Lincoln County assisted with recovering the bodies and processing the scene.
A key legislative budget committee has advanced a school funding bill that educators fear may force severe cutbacks. The Ways and Means committee approved $5.7-billion Friday to be spent over the next two years for schools. It should go to a vote in the Oregon Senate this week. The spending bill draws on $123-million from reserve funds and lawmakers hope that tax collections will recover enough in the next 15-months so that they can boost that amount. Education interests, unions and some Democrats have said the appropriation is a billion dollars less than what schools need to continue business as usual… they also say there are additional reserves that could be used.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Police are investigating after bullets
sprayed from a vehicle left a young man dead on a Northeast
Portland sidewalk. Emergency operators received several calls after
1 a.m. yesterday reporting gunshots and cars speeding from the
area. Officers and medical personnel arrived to find the victim
dead. Some homes were also hit. Several area blocks were closed as
a crime scene.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Oregon State Police say a trooper's traffic
stop led to the discovery of 14 pounds of marijuana and the arrest
of two Washington residents. The 45-year-old driver, Suzanne
McDonald-Halverson, and the passenger, 52-year-old Rickey
Halverson, both of Tacoma, were charged with unlawful possession
and distribution of a controlled substance. They're at the Jackson
County Jail.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The state is scrapping a program for
commuting the sentences of undocumented-immigrant inmates, saying
it didn't save as much money as anticipated. The Statesman Journal
reports that Gov. John Kitzhaber (KITS'-hah-ber) won't renew the
program when it expires in July. Corrections officials say the
program saved $172,000, not the $2 million it was projected to
save.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A state program to help poor senior citizens
stay in their homes by paying their property taxes is covering
taxes on some ritzy digs. The Oregonian reports that under the
program, the Department of Revenue is paying property taxes for
nearly 200 residents whose homes are valued at more than $500,000.
Eight of the homes are valued at more than $1 million. It's legal,
as long as homeowners are at least 62 and have taxable income of no
more than $39,500.
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) - Gov. John Kitzhaber is visiting Ashland
today to kick off his Cool Schools jobs and energy initiative.
Spokeswoman Christine Miles says the governor will watch a
demonstration at Helman Elementary School of how the state
Department of Energy will conduct audits at 500 schools around the
state. The audits will look for savings in lighting, insulation and
the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
The team that was picked to finish eighth in the Pac-10 Baseball race this season is now in the lead after two weekends of play… the only team with one loss. Oregon State improved to 5-1 in conference play, sweeping the Arizona State Sun Devils for the first time since 1999. The Beavers came from behind all three games. Meanwhile, Oregon avoided a sweep at home against the Washington Huskies, snapping a 17-inning scoreless streak with one run in the second inning, eventually downing the ‘Dawgs’ 9-nothing yesterday at PK Park.
On the Track… The Siuslaw Vikings faced some of the toughest competition in the state Saturday afternoon at the Pepsi-Jim Robinson Invitational in Roseburg. Mitchell Butler finished third in the 3,000 meter twilight with a personal best time of 9:09.31. Matthew Campbell was ninth. Linda Paredes was ninth in the twilight 800 for the girls. Katy Potter win the afternoon finals in the 3,000 meters.
Siuslaw Softball came away from a non-league double header Friday afternoon with a split against the Taft Tigers… losing game one 3-nothing, then coming back for a 5-3 win in the nightcap. The Lady Vikings put up six hits, but committed seven errors in the win.
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