Phil Brubaker believes Florence residents should take matters into their own hands and try to spur their own economic recovery. The Florence Mayor convinced the city council Monday night to allocate $50-thousand in room tax money in the coming year to help devise a plan to draw more visitors who might be likely to become permanent residents.
200 – “I’m hoping to go back to basics, with what, as far as I can see until was the transition that Florence made, uh, well now it was over 20 years ago, from a wood products and fishing town to a tourism and retirement town.”
With a good hospital, plenty of services, reasonable real estate prices and a mild climate, Florence became a magnet for retirees through the 1990s. Brubaker wants to take some of the 50-grand and use it to survey recent arrivals.
201 – “The idea is to find out first hand from people that have been here a while but never-the-less are new: why the decided on Florence in the first place?”
The mayor says an economic recovery is beginning to take hold in other parts of the country… he wants to capitalize on that and draw some of that business to the central Oregon Coast.
The prophet of doom is coming to the Oregon Coast. James Roddey has been recognized nationally for his expertise in earthquake and tsunami readiness. The Oregon Department of Geology spokesman will be in Florence July 6th, then again the next night in Reedsport, with what he calls an “eye-opening multi-media presentation” about getting ready for the “big one”. Roddy will recount native American folklore and talk about ‘ghost forests’; both of which provide very real evidence that the Oregon Coast has been subjected to a massive earthquake and tsunami more than once over the past several hundred years. He also says the Japanese quake and wave in March provides some “real lessons” that will apply to us in the northwest. The Florence presentation is set for seven PM, Wednesday July 6th at the Florence Events Center. The entire road show will move to the Pacific Auditorium in Reedsport the next night.
Retail gas prices continue to fall as summer officially begins and the driving season shifts into high gear. The national average for regular unleaded gasoline fell six cents this past week to $3.64; while the Oregon average price, according to Triple-A, slipped by about a penny and a half and is at $3.83. The average price in Florence continues to track considerably lower than the rest of the state. It dropped by about two cents this week and is at $3.68. That’s still sixty cents a gallon higher than it was at the first of this year… but it’s 16-cents below this year’s high recorded last month. Marie Dodds with Triple-A says recent high prices may have helped reduce overall demand.
TAKING A LOOK IN TO ASSOCIATED PRESS REGIONAL NEWS…
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A judge says a Eugene, Ore., man accused of killing his landlady and burying her body in her backyard is competent to stand trial after more than two months in Oregon State Hospital. Circuit Court Judge Debra Vogt has scheduled a July 6 hearing to set a trial date for 24-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who is charged with murder in the December death of 55-year-old Deborah Ann Stone.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon man has been sentenced to nearly a half century in prison after earlier pleading guilty to federal child pornography charges related to photographing his sexual abuse of his 6-year-old stepdaughter and 14-year-old disabled stepson. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ancer Haggerty sentenced the
43-year-old man from the Portland suburb of Aloha to a 49-year term. The Associated Press is not identifying the man to avoid identifying the sex abuse victims.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports auto thefts declined about 6 percent last year in Oregon to about 9,200 vehicles, nearly 75 percent of them in the Portland area. That auto theft rate - the number of thefts per 100,000 population - ranks Portland 65th in the nation, up from 77th the
year before. The auto theft rate also climbed in Bend but dropped in Eugene and Salem.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Zoo is singing the praises of a caracal named Peggy, who recently gave birth to three healthy kittens. Senior Africa zookeeper Asaba Mukobi says Peggy is protective, makes sure all three get fed and "sets boundaries for the kittens now that they're moving around."
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Salem police say they've arrested a woman who apparently drove through a parking lot with a person clinging to the hood of her car. Police say three people tried to leave a T-Shirt Outlet with stolen items after they were confronted by security. They got into a car but a store employee followed, and
Lt. Dave Okada tells the Statesman Journal it appears that the car was driving around the parking lot with the employee hanging onto the hood.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon House and Senate have both passed a series of education bills that will provide more money for schools and significantly remake the structure of education in Oregon. The bills are now on their way to Gov. John Kitzhaber, who has said he will sign them.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A national civil rights group has sued the state of Oregon, claiming it denied insurance coverage of a medical procedure for a transgender state worker. Lambda Legal filed the suit in Marion County for Alec Esquivel, a law school graduate who is an Oregon Court of Appeals clerk. The group said Esquivel is a
woman who is making the transition to a male gender identity. Doctors recommended that Esquivel undergo a hysterectomy to cut the risk of uterine and ovarian cancer but their request for insurance coverage was denied.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A Soldotna, Alaska, man has taken the lead with a 350.5-pound whopper in the Homer Halibut Derby, which runs through September and offers more than $190,000 in prizes. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Chad Aldridge caught the fish Sunday while with his father near Seldovia.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The University of Oregon has released documents related to its use of recruiting services that suggest the school paid for information that was outdated. The documents include a "2010 National High School Evaluation Booklet" that
actually includes prep athletes who were part of the 2009 recruiting class. It was part of a package that purportedly was for athletes entering school in 2011.
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Three Rivers split games last night with the Salem Highwaymen in Florence. The Blasters opened the afternoon double header with a 7 / 1 victory. Kyle Davis threw 9innings for the W with 6 strikeouts and added a three run Home Run to help his cause. The Highwaymen back in game two with a 9 /6 final. Mike Bennett went 3 for 4 at the plate for the Blasters, Ryan Smith scored a two run home run, while Joey Jacques and Jake Thompson two hits each. The Sandblasters return to the diamond Thursday for action against the Springfield Titans.
The Em’s might have taken the opening series of the young Northwest League season, but it was the Boise Hawks who took game five at PK Park last night 11 / 6. Eugene’s first year coach Pat Murphy worried at Eugene’s inability to get guys home, saying, “ A few guys left a small village on base.” It’s the first road series for the Emeralds tonight as they move up I-5 for the first of three games against the Salem Keizer Volcanos.
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