Don’t tell me there’s nothing to do….
It’s the eve of the Fourth of July weekend on the Central Oregon Coast and as always, there are plenty of things to do to stay busy. Tomorrow morning will be the third annual “Wings and Wheels” at the Florence Municipal Airport. Lion’s Club organizers say if the weather holds, dozens of aircraft from outside the area are expected to converge on Florence. They’ll join up with as many as 300 classic and collectible cars from inside the area. The show opens to the public at ten AM, there’s a $2 per car charge for parking. On Monday, there are several activities planned for Old Town Florence… at one will be the 14th annual Kiwanis Duck Race on the river. This year around two-thousand rubber ducks will be competing on behalf of ticket-holders. At the same time down the street at the gazebo, the 4th of July watermelon eating contest will be going on. The entire weekend will be capped with a public fireworks display organized by the Chamber of Commerce… that traditionally begins at ten.
If one fireworks display on the Siuslaw River isn’t enough for you, or you can’t be in Florence Monday night, there are plenty of other options. Sunday evening, the 3rd, there are at least three fireworks displays to choose from. They’ll be lighting up the sky over Boiler Bay just south of Depoe Bay; a little closer, in Waldport there’ll be a display; and in North Bend, the Mill Casino will offer fireworks. On the Fourth, in addition to the Florence display there’ll be fireworks in Newport, Yachats, Winchester Bay, Coos Bay and Bandon. There’ll also be Fireworks at PK Park in Eugene following the Emeralds game.
Last year’s prohibition of personal fireworks on public property in Old Town Florence literally changed the atmosphere for the Independence Day Holiday. Port of Siuslaw Manager Mark Freeman says the Boardwalk was not only a more ‘family friendly’ and safer area; but the public display was actually easier to see without all the smoke rising from the shore. Freeman wanted to remind visitors to Old Town Florence that personal fireworks are prohibited in the Port parking lots and along the boardwalk.
The Oregon Legislature has finished its work for the year. The House and Senate simultaneously adjourned the 2011 legislative session just before 3 p.m. Thursday. They capped a five-month marathon marked by tough budget choices and substantial overhauls of education and health care. The adjournment came moments after lawmakers approved the final bills, including remaining pieces of the budget and a congressional redistricting plan. The 150-day session is the shortest since 1969. Lawmakers voted to crack down on child prostitution. They updated the bottle deposit system. But not everyone's goals made it through. Environmentalists lost out on their efforts to ban bisphenol-A from baby bottles and to prohibit plastic grocery bags. Immigrant-rights activists couldn't get a House vote on allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Democrats in the Oregon House have ousted
Dave Hunt of Gladstone as their leader. House Democrats chose Tina
Kotek of Portland as their new leader yesterday, hours after the
Legislature adjourned its 2011 session. Hunt was the House Speaker
in the 2009 legislative session and helped push major initiatives
through the Legislature. The outgoing leader declined to comment.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland police say an officer who thought
he was firing beanbag shotgun rounds mistakenly hit a man with real
ammunition. Lt. Robert King says the man was hit in the hip
yesterday by five shotgun pellets. He was taken to a hospital for
treatment of non-life-threatening wounds. King says such a mistake
has never happened before. The officer has been put on paid leave.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A 19-year-old hit-and-run driver who killed a
Salem pedestrian in January has been sentenced to five years in
prison. Jake Montano was texting as he drove and struck 37-year-old
Morales Singer. A defense attorney says Montano got scared and
fled. Singer died at the scene. Montano turned himself in about a
week later. He asked for forgiveness at his sentencing yesterday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Federal biologists have released the first
of more than 1,000 bull trout into Oregon's upper Clackamas River.
It's the start of a 20-year effort to reintroduce the threatened
fish nearly 50 years after they disappeared due to overfishing,
habitat degradation and fish passage barriers.
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Western state governors dealt with
difficulties in building transmission lines to get the West's
abundant power generation resources to the rest of the nation at a
meeting yesterday in Coeur d'Alene (kohr duh-LAYN'), Idaho. Montana
Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer said "We've got to do something
to get transmission lines built in this country." He said major
barriers include getting permits to build on government lands and
public opposition to power lines in residential areas.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Commissioner Larry Scott will finally see
his vision realized. Or at least the first part of it. A year after
rocking the college sports world with expansion plans, Scott will
today officially welcome new members Colorado and Utah to the new
Pac-12 Conference. The two schools join Oregon, Oregon State,
Washington and Washington State and six others in making up the
Pac-12.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A man convicted of choking a Eugene woman
unconscious has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
Dustin Fletcher pleaded guilty to attempted murder and four other charges in a deal with prosecutors. The woman said she broke up with Fletcher in 2008 when he went to prison for attempted robbery. She tried to help him after he was released in February and sometimes allowed him to stay at her
apartment. She was attacked on April 17 after she rejected
a sexual advance.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Department of Agriculture is
dropping its energy and climate change program just as more and
more farmers are turning to alternative energy projects to reduce costs, or even earn money. The Oregonian reports that budget cuts led to the decision. The program helped farmers develop projects ranging from more efficient
irrigation systems to bio-digesters that convert cow manure gas into electricity.
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) - The Washington County sheriff's office
says DNA evidence led to the arrest of a contractor on arson
charges for a fire at a home under construction. Deputies say the homeowner claimed that work performed by contractor William Bunch was not done correctly, and the dispute went to arbitration. The homeowner's son was sleeping at the home at the time someone tried to burn it down. A DNA sample from Bunch matched DNA evidence at the scene.
BANDON, Ore. (AP) - Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods,
has advanced to the quarterfinals in the Women's U.S. Amateur
Public Links, winning two matches yesterday at Bandon Dunes' Bandon
Trails course in Bandon, Ore. Woods beat 14-year-old Bethany Wu of
Diamond Bar, Calif., 2-up in Round 2, and routed 19-year-old Alex
Stewart of Peoria, Ariz., 8 and 7 in the third.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 25-year-old Portland woman faces up to
30 years in prison when she is sentenced for her role in the armed,
takeover-style robberies of two banks. Pamela McGowan pleaded
guilty yesterday to conspiracy and robbery charges. Federal
prosecutors say she purchased getaway cars, bought body armor and
drove two men who carried out robberies in September and October
that netted more than $22,000.
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Former quarterback Joey Harrington of Oregon
has been inducted into the Holiday Bowl Hall of Fame. Harrington
and the Ducks defeated Texas 35-30 in the 2000 Holiday Bowl.
Harrington threw for 273 yards and two TDs, ran for a score and
caught a touchdown pass. Harrington played seven years in the NFL.
He now works as a radio analyst for Fox Sports in Portland, Ore.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Taking a look at Coast Radio Sports…
The skid continues for the Three Rivers Sandblasters. They fell on the road last night in Salem to the Post 9 Highwaymen 11-3. It was their fifth straight loss. The ‘Blasters managed six hits; three of those for Centerfielder Tristan Metcalf who was three-for-four at the plate. They’ll be back on the diamond Sunday in Grants Pass for a double-header against the Nuggets… The first game will air on Coast Radio Sports beginning at 2:45.
The Eugene Emeralds extended their win streak to nine last night with a 6-3 victory at home over the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. The win also clinched the Ems third straight three-game series sweep. They begin a six-game split series tonight in Vancouver, BC against the Canadians. After wrapping up the international portion of the series Sunday, the two teams will be in Eugene beginning Monday for the final three games.
For Florence and the Central Oregon Coast
Some patchy fog in areas this morning, otherwise mostly sunny with a high near 63 today… along with a north northwest wind six to nine miles an hour increasing to 14 to 17… winds could gust to 30 miles an hour by this afternoon.
Partly cloudy overnight, some patchy fog after 11, and a low around 48. North northwest wind nine to 17 miles an hour gusting to 30.
For the weekend… mostly sunny and gusty north northwest wind tomorrow… a chance of early morning showers Sunday… then mostly cloudy skies. Back to mostly sunny on the Fourth of July. Weekend highs in the lower to mid 60s… lows in the upper 40s.
Mostly sunny Tuesday and through the middle part of the week…
Small craft advisories are posted from two this afternoon through late tonight for northeast marine wind ten to 15 knots becoming north at 15 to 20 knots and gusting to 25. Low tide… 8:02. High tide at 2:33 this afternoon.
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