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SOUTH COAST — An explosive leaked email from Gold Beach Mayor Karl Popoff led to him stepping down from his position on the Oregon Coast Community Action board of directors last week. His email, sent to all ORCCA staff, included the statement that, “Black lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter people.” ORCCA is a charitable organization that includes services such as South Coast Food Share and South Coast Head Start. The organization helps the homeless, veterans and children. Popoff was replying to

an email sent by the private non-profit’s executive director, Kim Brick. Brick’s email stated black lives matter, discussed deep levels of institutional racism in the country, and explained that nationwide community action programs like ORCCA stemmed from the Civil Rights movement. “The National Community Action values state, ‘We believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect and recognize that structural race, gender and other inequities remain barriers that must be addressed.’ If we truly believe this, we must live it,” wrote Brick. Her email ended with #blacklivesmatter.

Popoff, who has served as the mayor for 16 years in Gold Beach, intentionally replied to everyone in response. “Kim, with all due respect, you can shove your racism bandwagon,” started Popoff in his email. “I am so sick of having people throwing up racism/white privilege at every turn,” he continued. “You want to know what is hurting blacks? The welfare system. NO dads at home. And, you know what? It is also hurting whites, and American Indians. Black lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter people....” Popoff continued to say that “sensitivity training” and laws will not slow prejudice that peo-

ple have against one another. “Sorry, dear Lady, but I already know how to treat other people. I found that out through Christ,” said Popoff before concluding his email. “Now, if anyone wants my resignation from the Board after this, you can have it. My term is up this month anyway.” Popoff told The World he wishes he had “stated differently” what was on his mind. He stepped down from this position last week. His email, leaked to The World through an anonymous source, was privately criticized by those who read it. “I can’t comment on his email but we have a statement as an ORCCA that we are looking at next

steps and what we can do as an organization to promote social justice in our area and we want to provide equity and opportunity for all,” said Brick in regards to the email. Others called out his comments. “So when we talk about the lack of diversity in Southwestern Oregon, why people don’t want to move here, why communities of color are so small and so silent and so quiescent, how can we say anything when this is who is running Southwestern Oregon?,” said an individual who read the email and wished to remain anonymous to avoid backlash as the situation develops. Please see ORCCA, Page A8

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tic today about the standard of living improving for the next generation than it has been in the past 25 years. Only 42% of Americans believe that when their children reach their age, their standard of living will be better. A solid 57% said that in 2018. Since the question was asked in 1994, the previous low was 45% in 1994. — Compared with surveys conducted after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Americans are less likely to report some types of emotional and psychological

SOUTH COAST — School districts along the South Coast are making plans to reopen in the fall under the state’s new guidelines. And under these new plans, the average classroom on the South Coast may be too small for students to go back to the “old normal,” according to Tenneal Wetherell, superintendent at South Coast Education Service District. This means local schools will likely adopt an alternative or new way to do classes for the next academic year. Last week, the Oregon Department of Education released guidance to schools on how to safely plan for class in the fall in the face of the new coronavirus pandemic. “…(I)t’s a lengthy document that essentially outlines what needs to happen for every district in Oregon to open their schools in the fall,” Wetherell said. “… Each district will produce what is called a ‘blueprint’ to ODE by Aug. 15 after the local health authority reviews and agree to the implementation of the plan. Every district has to determine what type of reopening they will select.” The models available include an all in-person, all online, or hybrid model between the first two. “…The district has to review the health and safety guidance in the documentation and local context to determine which way they can open,” she said. “Smaller districts could potentially open for the all in-person model, but larger districts might not be able to open in that methodology.”

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No surprise in study: People are more unhappy ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14% of American adults say they’re very happy, down from 31% who said the same in 2018. That year, 23% said they’d often or sometimes felt isolated in recent weeks. Now, 50% say that. The survey, conducted in late May, draws on nearly a

half-century of research from the General Social Survey, which has collected data on American attitudes and behaviors at least every other year since 1972. No less than 29% of Americans have ever called themselves very happy in that survey. Most of the new survey’s interviews were completed before the death of George Floyd touched off nationwide protests and a global conversation about race and police brutality, adding to the feelings of stress and loneliness Americans were already facing from the coronavirus outbreak — especially for black Americans. Lexi Walker, a 47-year-old

professional fiduciary who lives near Greenville, South Carolina, has felt anxious and depressed for long stretches of this year. She moved back to South Carolina late in 2019, then her cat died. Her father passed away in February. Just when she thought she’d get out and socialize in an attempt to heal from her grief, the pandemic hit. “It’s been one thing after another,” Walker said. “This is very hard. The worst thing about this for me, after so much, I don’t know what’s going to happen.” Among other finding from the new poll about life in the pandemic: — The public is less optimis-

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Nazi graffiti seen near Mingus Park ZACH SILVA The World

COOS BAY — Graffiti depicting Nazi symbols and sentiments were seen at a bus shelter in Coos Bay on Sunday. Images of swastikas and a message that appeared to read “Hitler did nothing wrong” covered the shelter. The bus shelter, which is currently not in use, is on 9th and Commercial Street near the Mingus Skate Park. “(Sunday) I received an email from a city employee about the graffiti being on the shelter,” said Coos County Area Transit general manager David Hope. “We sent (someone) out there to clean it, when he got there, he talked to some people that were hanging around there, regular riders of the system. They said it was not

there Saturday or earlier in the day on Sunday, it must have been put there sometime on Sunday afternoon or so.” The graffiti was removed on Sunday. The incident was not called in to the Coos Bay Police Department, but officers learned of the incident on Sunday via email. “We don’t have any suspect information at this point. We did pull a case number, we are looking into it,” said Deputy Chief of Police Chris Chapanar. “We would request anybody that has any additional information about it, they can certainly call in to the police department. And we did document it in case this is something that happens in the future.” Chapanar noted that this Nazi graffiti seemed to be an

outlier. “This is very random. There has not been a pattern. To my knowledge we have not had any types of graffiti of such in a long time. Actually, I can’t even remember the last time we had anything like this. So it’s random. Definitely not a pattern. Not right now anyway,” he said. For Hope of CCAT, this is not his first time he has seen such images on a bus stop. “I am new to Coos County, I have been here since October of last year. I have been in transit for about 35 years in Florida and this happens frequently to bus stops and shelters and everything,” he said. “It can be graffiti, broken windows, all sorts of things that can happen to bus stop signs and shelters. So not uncommon nationwide.”

Monday are in the following counties: Clackamas (6), Hood River (1), Jackson (1), Jefferson (1), Klamath (2), Lake (1), Malheur (2), Marion (4), Multnomah (37), Polk (3), Umatilla (9), Union (99), Wasco (2), Washington (15), Yamhill (1). OHA is coordinating with Union County public health authorities to respond to an outbreak of COVID-19. The outbreak explains the high number of cases in Union County. A number of those

cases have been associated with Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church in Island City, near La Grande, the county’s seat in Eastern Oregon. The church recently hosted a testing clinic, according to a press release from the Union County Center for Human Development. A week ago, Union County had just six confirmed cases of COVID-19, but added single cases Tuesday and Wednesday, then had five more cases Thursday,

according to the OHA. The county had 22 confirmed or presumptive cases after Saturday. All but five of the cases are considered active. The spike puts Union County near the top in the state for cases per capita with 123 cases, including 121 confirmed and two presumptive. There have been no COVID-19 deaths Union County. Oregon’s 177th COVID-19 death is a 78-year-old woman in

Clackamas County, who tested positive on June 6 and died on June 12 in her residence. She had underlying medical conditions. Oregon’s 178th COVID-19 death is an 85-year-old man in Clackamas County, who tested positive on June 5 and died on June 14 in his residence. He had underlying medical conditions. Oregon’s 179th COVID-19 death is a 65-year-old woman in

Clackamas County, who tested positive on June 5 and died on June 12 in her residence. She had underlying medical conditions. Oregon’s 180th COVID-19 death is a 75-year-old woman in Clackamas County, who tested positive on June 4 and died on June 11 in her residence. She had underlying medical conditions. For more information, visit https://govstatus.egov. com/OR-OHA-COVID-19.

According to a press release from the department, the DMV has made over 40,000 attempts to call requesters back to schedule appointments and made more than 26,000 appointments already. “The number of requests is high after nearly three months of pent-up demand,” DMV Administrator Tom McClellan said. “Yesterday we processed

as many requests as we received for the day, which is a great sign that we’ve ramped up appropriately. We will continue adding offices and appointment slots, and increase our capacity to set appointments in the days ahead,” McClellan said. The DMV received close to 12,000 appointment requests online in a single 24-hour period.

This resulted in a backlog of some 30,000 customers awaiting contact from the department. According to the release, the average wait time is 4-5 days for the initial contact by DMV, and the calls are made in the order that request forms are received. A law enforcement grace period on expired licenses and vehicle registration is in effect at least through October 1. The grace period is intended to allow Oregon residents to con-

tinue driving while they are waiting for an appointment, or allow some people to choose to not go to DMV while we’re working through the backlog due to COVID-19 restrictions. Law enforcement can verify the status of a driver or vehicle electronically during a traffic stop. The DMV opened 38 offices on June 3 for appointments for priority services, including: driver license, permit and ID card issuances, driver knowledge

tests, disabled parking permits, farm endorsements and VIN inspections. Many services, such as vehicle titles and registration, are only available via mail or at OregonDMV. com.

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Oregon’s COVID-19 death toll is up to 180

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Two die when SUV goes off cliff WILLAMINA (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed when their SUV went off a cliff in rural northwest Oregon. Local fire authorities on Sunday rescued one other person from the SUV, which was 100 or more feet down a steep embankment north of Willamina in Yamhill County. Three other people were found along the road about two miles from the crash site, authorities said. Mariah Prescott, administrative assistant for local fire officials, said Monday that she believes those three were in the vehicle when it crashed but were able to make it back to the road. Those three people were taken to Salem Hospital. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports authorities recovered the SUV and the two people found dead.

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NORTH BEND — Her spine may be curved, but she’s got her priorities straight. North Bend teen Brynne Hathorn’s scoliosis led her to connections across the world and a closer relationship with her mom. Hathorn has started a local chapter of Curvy Girls, a support group for girls with scoliosis, and she hopes more girls with the disease will join her. Hathorn was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of 12. That summer, she felt a bump growing on her back and had it looked at during a sports physical in August of 2017. The doctor had her bend over and found that Hathorn’s spine was curved. An x-ray confirmed the diagnosis. Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine. While human spines naturally curve to the front of the body, those with scoliosis also curve to the side. The degree of the curve determines the severity of the disease, which can cause pain and damage to the lungs and heart in its more severe forms. Hathorn was given her first back brace the month after her diagnosis. As her mother, Alyssa Hathorn, explained, because Brynne Hathorn was still growing, a back brace could hypothetically train her muscles

to support her spine. Over the course of the next couple years, Hathorn cycled through multiple braces, wearing them nearly constantly, in the hope that she could avoid surgery. The back braces were uncomfortable, and Hathorn had to wear them to bed, to school, and nearly everywhere else. The active teen was allowed to remove her brace to bathe and to play sports, but that was it. She got used to the first brace, and even named it Sally. She ended up having three more braces after Sally, including one night brace. Unfortunately, they didn’t work as planned, and Hathorn’s spine continued to curve. At one point, the curvature in the lumbar region of her spine was 56 degrees. It began to affect her lungs and heart. It was at this point the family decided it was time for surgery. Before she could have the surgery, Hathorn had to essentially go into isolation, to ensure that she would be healthy enough for the procedure. She was in a great deal of pain and her condition was effecting her lungs, so the family chose to keep her home for two weeks. In October of 2019, Hathorn was underwent a lumbar anterior interbody spinal fusion, essentially, a surgery that involved the insertion of a rod into her

spine. It straightened the curvature from 56 degrees to 15 degrees. Alyssa Hathorn is hopeful there will be no more surgeries, but says it is still a possibility and that Brynne Hathorn may have to go through more treatment as she gets older. Not only did the surgery keep her away from her favorite activities, but it also caused an unexpected side effect. One of the pain medications Hathorn was prescribed gave all her food a terrible taste. Even ice cream tasted bad, she said. “I was so scared I was going to lose my love for chocolate, but I got it all back,” Hathorn said, “Thank goodness.” Because everything had a bad taste, she didn’t want to eat at all. Her recovery slowed and she became listless and depressed. After visiting with her doctor, she was able to build a plan to eat more. She was motivated by the thought of seeing her friends again and so worked with both her doctor and her mother to make a calorie chart. It wasn’t easy, but eventually the bad taste went away and she was able to gain weight and regain her energy enough to return to school. Throughout her diagnosis and recovery, Brynne Hathorn leaned on her mother for support. During the weeks that Brynne

Hathorn spent at home prior to her surgery, she and Alyssa Hathorn spent hours watching Netflix together and talking. “She’s amazing. We’ve always been really close,” Brynne Hathorn said, “She’s always been there for me and someone I can talk to.” Curvy Girl is an international organization that brings girls with scoliosis together to support each other and “reduce the emotional impact of scoliosis,” according to their mission statement. Hathorn learned about the organization soon after her diagnosis, but did not become an active member until her surgery. There are chapters in Bend, Portland and Eugene. Hathorn was able to reach out to the Eugene chapter, which helped. Prior to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Curvy Girl groups met both online and in person. The group meets in online forums and over Zoom right now. “It’s kind of a pyramid of different leaders and members of groups that come to meetings and want to get advice and hang out,” Hathorn said. She liked that the conversation could vary from advice on how to wear a brace and deal with pain to what to wear with a brace and which swimsuits look

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North Bend teenager Brynne Hathorn wears a pink t-shirt advertising Curvy Girls, an international support group for teen girls with scoliosis. alright with a scar. Traveling to Eugene regularly was something of a hassle, so Brynne Hathorn, now 15, wanted to start a chapter closer to home. Already, the North Bend Curvy Girls chapter has one member. The other member of the group is the sister of one of Brynne

Hathorn’s friends. The volunteer leader for the group is Alyssa Hathorn. Leadership of the group, small as it is, comes naturally to Hathorn and she hopes to expand. To contact Brynne and Alyssa Hathorn, email NBend@curvygirlsscoliosis.com

Protesters urged to take virus precautions Bay Area Cancer Center AMANDA LINARES The World

COOS COUNTY — As protests against systematic racism and police brutality continue on across the state and country, local health officials are continuing to advice people who participate in any sort of large gathering to take COVID-19 precautions. In a press release from Coos Health and Wellness, which was issued on June 5, officials reminded people to practice a number of safety prevention measures during protests and other public outdoor events to slow and stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Wearing face coverings as well as people following social distancing guidelines of staying at least 6 feet away from others were among some of the safety measures suggested by the local health department. Since the local “Reopen Rally”, which called on local elected officials to reopen the state, was held in May, Eric Gleason, of Coos Health and Wellness, said the department has had concerns of protests in general and of the potential risks they carry. “We’re mindful of the possibilities of complications due to those events,” said Gleason, at a virtual COVID-19 press briefing Monday. “We’re happy that people are exercising their rights to do those things, but we just hope that

they’re all very careful.” A number of public health departments across the country have recommended people, who have participated in protests or other large gatherings, get tested for COVID-19 over concerns of potential exposure. As of now, there is no local or state recommendation to get tested for simply attending a protest or any other large gatherings in Oregon. Brian Leon, epidemiologist with Coos Health and Wellness, said he hasn’t seen any changes from the Oregon Health Authority on its testing criteria for COVID-19 in relation to

statewide protest. According to Leon, people being tested as of now include those who meet the state’s criteria which includes people with symptoms consistent with the new coronavirus or people who have been in close contact with a known case. If a positive COVID-19 case is uncovered and tied back to a person who attended a local protest, then the local health department, Leon said, would immediately send out a public service announcement informing the public of the potential exposure. In collaboration with contact tracers, the hope

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A most interesting social experiment Hardly a day goes by, recently, where you don’t hear the chants “defund the police,” “abolish the police.” I would like to state here and now I support these radical ideas, I believe this would be a most interesting social experiment. I would add one caveat that these cities, or states, must live under “defunded police departments” for the next ten years. This period would allow the gathering of substantial information, for example, a societies’ ability to control itself, or for that matter a individual or group of individuals to put aside their own human nature and conform to sociological norms. Without a police force would indeed crime rates drop, would murder, rape, assault instances become nonexistent? Would these large metropolitan areas become utopian bastions to be emulated nationwide? More importantly, would racism come to an end? Some of these leaders, who are being blown around by the political wind being ganged up on by media with their own political agendas would like you to believe. Or would these areas devolve to a 17th or 18th century mindset, where the streets are ruled by warlords, where citizens shoot first and ask questions later? Watching the nightly news one has to wonder, as I stated earlier, a most interesting social experiment! David Rose Myrtle Point In response to “Paying attention and checking the facts” Having grown up a Democrat, and having voted for JFK while a university student, I knew in my heart of hearts the conservative’s message was for me, and my party affiliation changed under President Reagan. It was during that time that the quote I mentioned relative to “We will bury you” came to my attention and I filed it back then along side the “45 Communist Goals as read into the Congressional Record, January, 1963, and recently came across both while cleaning out old files. Was my original “bury you” quote totally accurate. Got me? However, while addressing the Western Bloc on November 18, 1956, Khrushchev stated: “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!” The speech prompted the envoys from twelve NATO nations and Israel to leave the room. In another public speech Khrushchev declared: “We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can.” So, to state the “bury you” comment never existed is quite disingenuous. As to the 45 Communist Goals, read them with a fair mind, and if you can, tell us that many do not apply to what is occurring today, and are not aligned to the remainder of my comment, which were curiously ignored in the rebuttal by Mr. Dubs. Oliver Woods North Bend Dehumanizing rhetoric will destroy civil society This letter pertains to Curry County Sheriff John Ward’s Facebook post June 2 in which he warned of “3 (busloads) of antifa” headed our way “looking for a fight.” In his post he said he was “sure we have a lot of local boys too, with guns that will protect our citizens and their property”. Ward admitted he didn’t know whether the rumor was true or not but posted it anyway…. Ward’s judgment in posting the

rumor on Facebook fell embarrassingly short of the kind of leadership we should be able to expect from a top elected law enforcement official. Inciting local violence and the creation of an incendiary atmosphere could have caused unnecessary harm and anxiety for local citizens. According to Ward’s interview on a local tv news show, the rumor came second hand from Curry County Attorney Huttyl. Ward said he had talked to Coos County Sheriff Zanni and he was in Coquille with all his deputies, Coquille and Myrtle Point Police Departments…”waiting just in case”. We are alarmed that our officials are so easily duped. According to Channel 10 reporter Christiana Guardinelli, Facebook and Twitter said that the instigators of the rumor were members of the white-supremacist group, Identity Evropa. Spreading threatening misinformation was part of an organized effort to force people into opposing camps and cause more chaos at a time when people are already fearful and confused. Similar tactics are being used all over rural America to induce fear of an enemy which does not exist. Antifa is not an organization. It is an opinion. If you are against fascism, you are antifa. Facebook is a dangerous, unreliable place to get your news. Encouraging citizens to take up arms against peaceful demonstrators is fascism. We must stop thinking of one another as the enemy. The use of dehumanizing rhetoric left unchecked will eventually destroy civil society. Casey Folden on behalf of Port Orford members of Indivisible North Curry County Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” Dr. Martin Luther King saw intangible liberties as preeminent to personal sovereignty by saying, “When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all menyes black men as well as white menwould be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” “This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. ‘My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” Americans are individuals finding primary identity in pre-existing, natural, intangible liberties, and only secondarily in ethnicity, gender, class, or race. The philosophical doctrines adopted placed all on the same metaphysical plain from inception of the Republic. Standing for those principles produces a symphony of brotherhood and grants all an equal opportunity to prosper materially and spiritually. But now Dr. King resides within monuments, while prominent, malleable constituencies condone and execute riots, anarchy, and treachery. Nolan Nelson Eugene

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100 YEARS June 16, 1920

More Funds Are Needed County Association Makes An Appeal For Help Good Work Has Justified the Asking for Help by Subscription, It Is Stated The Coos County Public Health association through the president, Sara A. Smith, and the secretary, Alice Vestal, has sent out the following appeal in a circular letter: “The Coos County Public Health association is finding itself in need of funds with which to supplement the expense of its work for the remainder of this year, and wishes at this time to make an appeal to some of the friends of the work for contributions. “The budget provided by the county court covers the regular expenses of the county nurse’s work but does not provide for the extra expenses which are unavoidable during the course of a busy year of normal growth and expansion.

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June 16, 1945 Third-Place Tie Teams to Fight It Out Tomorrow The Charleston Coast Guardsmen and Cape Arago will be fighting tomorrow to boost themselves up from third place in the Coos County Softball league standings. They currently are tied for third with three wins and three losses each. Charleston will be heavily favored to beat Coos Bay when they meet on the city park field tomorrow. After a bad start, the Charleston boys have been coming up fast. Their defensive play has been good throughout the season but until recently their hitting was weak.

Sugar Cut Hits Beverage Supply The supply of Coca-Cola in the bay area will be affected by the further curtailment in the supply of sugar after July 1st, Fred A. Henry, manager of the bottling plant in North Bend has announced. However, an equitable system of rationing will be maintained during the shortage, according to Mr. Henry. The OPA announced today that the allotment of sugar to industrial users would be cut to 50 percent of the sugar used in the third quarter of 1941, effective July 1st.

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June 16, 1970 CB Port Passes Permit Rule, Urges McCall To Improve Highways By J. Stonebraker, Staff Writer Port of Coos Bay commissioners Monday enacted an ordinance requiring permits for planning studies within the port district and adopted a resolution urging Gov. Tom McCall to “use all the powers of his office” to gain highway improvements in Southwestern Oregon. The ordinance effective immediately, charges the port with regulation and coordination of all studies, inventories, planning and surveys. In passing the ordinance commissioners agreed with Port President Bill Schroeder they must know who is doing planning for the port district and for what purpose in order to regulate port business effectively. They said they know very little about a Coos Bay estuary study now under way through the Department of the Interior, coordinated by the U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife

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June 16, 2005 Shoreline group picks new director The Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, a citizen group dedicated to stewardship of the Oregon coastal environment, recently announced the appointment of board member Sylvia Shaw as interim executive director. Shaw will coordinate Oregon Shores’ various activities, including land use, ocean and legislative programs, along with the beach monitoring group CoastWatch. “I’m pleased Sylvia accepted,” said Doug Terra, Oregon Shores’ president, in a press release. “As an established board member, she will bring continuity and thus can provide strong leadership in the interim.” Bandon women noted as artists of the month Bay Area Artists Association has announced that Delia Lyons and Ava Richey are June Artists of the Month. Lyons designs and creates jewelry by combining colorful gemstones and beads with twists and turns of silvery wire. She became aware of the relationship of love and jewelry as a child listening to heartfelt stories told be relatives about the significance of cherished pieces. Lyons studied in both San Diego and France with mentor and friend Lynne Merchant, and used this knowledge as a starting point for her silver wearable art. She learned traditional jewelry fabrication at The Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco, studying under Alan Revere. ----------------------------------These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository store in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www. theworldlink.com.

Pandemic helps more world economies toward green energy

Some say the pandemic has become a permanent ally in the fight against climate catastrophe. It has jump-started a drop in the burning of fossil fuels, and that will continue. Others say this is short-term thinking: The public may abandon its concerns over global warming as it tries to climb out of the economic hole left by the COVID-19 lockdowns. Let’s accentuate the positive. First off, the government-mandated social distancing and its freezing of much industrial activity has already cut greenhouse gas emissions, certainly for the time being. The International Energy Agency predicts that global carbon emissions will have fallen about 8 percent this year from 2019’s level. That would be the biggest annual decline ever. One big reason has been people not driving and people not flying. We can’t know right now the extent to which a reopening will restore the old normal, but the ease of video conferencing

and remote working -- plus a continued need to socially distance -- strongly suggest not quite. Many workers seem to like spending more time at home, while their employers can see advantages in spending less on office space. Many governments are trying to revive their economies by investing in projects to “decarbonize” their economies. These are initiatives to slow the greenhouse gas emissions threatening life on the planet as we’ve known it. Helping the cause are very low interest rates, which make borrowing money for such projects a good deal easier. There are now lots of jobs in green energy -- 11 million globally. Meanwhile, collapsing demand has shredded employment in oil and gas. The only members of the fossil fuel industry doing really well these days are the bankruptcy lawyers. That the virus may be fueling a lasting move away from carbon is not wishful thinking. The oil

FROMA HARROP giant BP thinks the pandemic will cut long-term demand for fossil fuels. That’s why, looking past the glowing embers of economic recovery, BP has reduced the estimated value of its oil and gas assets by almost $18 billion. It expects some of them may never leave the ground. BP’s reasoning goes beyond the coronavirus-caused recession. It points to the world’s ongoing retreat from carbon-based energy before the virus darkened the

outlook even further. And it notes that several government stimulus packages are designed to speed the move away from fossil fuels. France, for example, has threatened Air France with a loss of taxpayer subsidies if it doesn’t cut some domestic routes now served by high-speed train. (Airplanes emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases.) France’s $9 billion recovery plan for the auto industry includes lowering the prices of electric cars and making it easier to recharge them. Canada now requires companies taking government bailout money to disclose the risk climate change poses to their bottom lines. If such reporting becomes mandatory, it could intensify the move of investment dollars toward greener enterprises. The dramatic pre-COVID drops in the cost of solar and wind power had already made them a replacement for fossil fuel energy. Of course, prices for oil and natural gas have also fall-

en, making them more competitive with clean renewables. But wouldn’t the lower prices for oil and gas make this a good time to do away with their government subsidies? The environmentally backward Trump administration would do no such thing. On the contrary, it’s been engineering various taxpayer bailouts for fossil fuel companies. Thing is, President Donald Trump doesn’t matter so much anymore. In this country, states, cities and Wall Street know the future is green tech and putting their money there. The economic fallout from the pandemic has, if anything, lit the way. Follow Froma Harrop on Twitter @FromaHarrop. She can be reached at fharrop@gmail. com. To find out more about Froma Harrop and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Web page at www.creators.com.

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OBITUARIES Maxine Lucille Wood April 7, 1930 – May 25, 2020

A Celebration of Life for Maxine Wood will be held at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Coos Bay, Oregon on Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 1 pm for her entire family and invited guests. Due to the restrictions of the current pandemic, seating is restricted. The service will be broadcast for those who cannot attend. Maxine Lucille Wood, born April 7, 1930 in Flint, Michigan, entered into eternal life on May 25, 2020 in Coos Bay, Oregon. Born to Leonard D. and Sherife Alison (Irvine) Vincent, she grew up in Flint, and graduated, together with her future husband, from Beecher HS in 1948. She met Robert LeRoy Wood in primary school, became high school sweethearts, and married him on July 23, 1949 in Flint. In 1956, Maxine and Bob packed up their three children (Roseanne, Doug, and Larry) and left Michigan eventually settling in Camas, Washington where Bob took a job with Crown Zellerbach, a job that, with transfers and travel, led to many adventures for them and their ever-growing family. Two more children (Greg and Linda) joined the family in Camas. In 1960, she and Bob moved to St. Francisville, Louisiana, where Bryan completed their family. Shortly after his birth in 1961, the family moved to West Linn, Oregon. In 1977, Maxine and Bob, together with Bryan, moved back to Camas, Washington. In 1985 upon Bob’s retirement and

with no further children at home, they left Camas and traveled around the country before settling in Sisters, Oregon in 1986 where they remained until 2012 when they moved to North Bend, Oregon. Maxine was a loving wife and mother devoted to her family. She was the person who held the home together and was very good at it, providing the love, structure, discipline, and habits that her family needed. She was an excellent cook and had the ability to feed her large family deliciously well on a very tight budget. As her children grew, she was a staunch supporter and ally for their many and varied activities throughout the day, including volunteering at her children’s school as a library aide, yet she made sure that dinner was on the table at 6 pm and her entire family was in their places. Maxine, along with Bob, believed in being actively involved with their children. They often played card games and board games, did puzzles, participated in baseball and football games in the side yard or basketball games on the back patio, and even joined in games of tag and snipe hunts. They enjoyed family outings like hiking, camping and fishing. All those activities were part of growing up in their family. The neighbor children and her own children’s friends always found themselves welcome in her home. She, her husband, and her family shared many adventures together over the years, adventures filled with laughter, joy, and good memories to last a lifetime. Maxine loved to travel throughout the U.S., including driving to Alaska. She loved taking cruises and visiting faraway places (Hawaii, China, New Zealand, Tahiti, Europe, Central and South America among others) with her husband. Her children and grandchildren loved sharing in their travel adventures whenever possible. Maxine and her beloved Bob were partners in life and in a marriage that spanned over 70 years. It’s hard to separate them into distinct roles because they

Robert D. “Bob” Hurt October 31, 1933 – June 12, 2020

Private Burial will be at Norway Cemetery for Robert D. Hurt, 86, of Fairview. A celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Robert was born on

October 31, 1933 in South Bend, Washington to Ezekiel and Nora (Williams) Hurt. He died June 12, 2020 in Bandon. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Janet Van Dorn on May 10, 1952 in Myrtle Point. He drove log truck most of his life and he enjoyed working on his ranch. Robert is survived by his daughter, Lori Morgan and daughter in law, Cindy Hurt both of Fairview; grandchildren, Kimberly Kruse and Stephanie Evernden; great grandchildren, Lane

Kruse, Kristal Kruse and Brooklyn Baker and great, great grandson, Weston James Kruse. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Janet in 2015; son, Dave Hurt and grandson, Denver Hurt. Online remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.westrumfuneralservice.com Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/ Schroeder Funeral Service – Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846.

Margaret Ann Wick Sitterson March 7, 1954 – June 9, 2020

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did so much together. One would do and the other would support, or they would just simply use their strengths together to complement each other. She was the Cub Scout den leader while he was the scoutmaster for their four sons, and she, eventually becoming active in training den leaders for Boy Scouts of America, and volunteering for Boy Scout camps. She was bestowed the Silver Fawn Award by the Boy Scouts for her many years of volunteer contributions. In addition to her own children, she and Bob were foster parents to over a dozen teen-aged foster children. They worked with Habitat for Humanity together, each helping in the building of homes, supporting Habitat families, and working in the Habitat Thrift/ReStore. She was the Lioness when Bob was the Lions Club member and involved their children in Lions activities. And she, along with Bob, was an active supporter of Special Olympics for and with their son. Maxine walked faithfully with God with a faith that was absolute. If it was Sunday, she was in church with her husband and any family who could be with them. She was actively involved in Lutheran church activities wherever they lived as long as she was physically able – bible studies, altar guild, hosting church gatherings, youth advisor, Sunday School and Bible Study teacher, WELCA. She was always helping in the kitchen, preparing for coffee hour or potlucks, making her famous pies, preparing meals for Senior Luncheon, and much more. Church was not only a Sunday activity to her, but rather a daily activity spent serving God and others. Maxine was always ready to join the Heavenly Choir but was eager to serve her God faithfully in the meantime. Maxine, in her later years, developed

dementia, yet she continued to be content, pleasant, and a friend to many. She had a beautiful smile that lit up her face. Despite any pain or discomfort she felt, she always answered, “Fine!” when asked how she was doing. And she loved seeing and visiting with her family, especially the little ones. She had a way with babies and children that endeared them to her. Maxine is survived by her six children Roseanne (Steven) Doane of Sylva, N.C.; Douglas (Kathleen) Wood of Oregon City, Ore.; Lawrence Wood of North Bend, Ore.; Gregory (Elizabeth) Wood of Silverlake, Wash.; Linda (Dean) Talboy of North Bend, Ore.; and Bryan (Peggy Cahill) Wood of Birkenfeld, Ore.; numerous grandchildren, Nathaniel (Eileen) Doane, Charity Brenneman, Michael (Deborah) Wood, Heather (Mike Hastings) Wood, Kristine (Brian) Johnson, Audrey (James) Farmer, Garry (Michelle) Buell, Curtis (Honora) Buell, Jennifer (Creighton) Holt, David Talboy, Daniel (Amber) Wood, Brittanni Wood, James (Catie) Graham, and Carly (Rustin) McCollum; 15 great-grandchildren; numerous nephews and nieces; in-laws, Margaret (Jack) Johnson of Linden, Mich.; Dennis (Noreen) Wood of Linden, Mich.; and Cathryn Hibbard of Las Vegas, Nev. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; father, Leonard; mother, Sherife; and all her siblings, Mildred, Leonard Jr., Joyce, Gerald, and Barbara. In lieu of flowers, consider donating to Boy Scouts of America, Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, Alzheimer’s research, and/or your church. This is what Maxine loved and how she served others. Arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131. https:// www.coosbayareafunerals.com/

Marilyn Lorraine Young June 8, 1944 – June 7, 2020

There will be a remembrance of life planned for later this year. For more info please contact Richard Thornhill. Marilyn Lorraine Young was born June 8, 1944 to William Smyers and Darlene Beem in Eureka, California. She passed away at 12:50 a.m. on June 7, 2020 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, just

24 hours before her 76th birthday. Marilyn married Lawrence “Buck” Young on February 13, 1981. They were together for 39 wonderful years. Marilyn obtained an AA degree from SWOCC. She loved nature and camping and just being outside. She loved animals of all kinds especially dogs and horses. She worked retail until she

retired. Marilyn is survived by her husband, Lawrence (Buck); four children, Jackie Fender, Virgil Hayes, Richard Thornhill, Steve Dalton; and 11 grandchildren. Arrangements are under the direction of Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service, 541-485-6659.

DEATH NOTICE Maxine Lucille Wood - 90, of North Bend, passed away May 25, 2020 in North Bend. A celebration of life will be held at 1:00 pm, Saturday, June 20, 2020 at Glo-

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DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren Brother’s campaign for office finds no support from sibling DEAR ABBY: My oldest brother is running for a state office. Unlike me, he does not like animals. He has “hauled” litters of puppies off and shot at cats. In addition, he refuses to help our elderly parents. Family or not, I don’t want someone to be a leader in our state capital who exhibits such poor moral and unethical behavior. He has been married several times, and I know for a fact he cheated on one of his wives. I avoid attending his fundraisers and asking for votes, but other family members keep telling me that “blood is thicker than water,” and that I “must” vote for him regardless of his behavior. Of course, behind the curtain I can vote for whoever I want, but should I cave to the pressure to show up in support of him at public events? Even my husband said I should donate money to his campaign because he is family. What is your opinion? -- NON-SUPPORTER IN THE SOUTH DEAR NON-SUPPORTER: If you do not support a candidate, keep your checkbook closed. And as to showing up to endorse your brother’s run for office, continue to refrain and cross your fingers that your absence won’t be noticed amidst all the excitement. If your husband wants to donate to your morally degenerate brother’s campaign, it is his choice, and he has a right to it just as you have a right to yours. P.S. Anyone who would shoot at a defenseless animal and neglect his aged parents (“Honor thy father and thy mother”) really doesn’t belong in ANY office. DEAR ABBY: My wife of 39 years decided two weeks ago to cease all communication with me. We had a sometimes-rocky marriage, but since becoming empty-nesters six months ago, we have enjoyed a rebirth of our relationship -- long walks, games, fun meals, concerts, etc. Two weeks ago, we had what I thought was a minor disagreement about the use of a credit card. Since then she has treated me like I don’t

exist. She answers my questions with one word only or no response. I have begged her to talk to me about what’s wrong; she just turns away. She has altered her daily schedule to avoid having contact with me. I am shattered. What can I do? -- CLUELESS IN TENNESSEE DEAR CLUELESS: It’s time to review why your marriage to this woman was “rocky.” Stop begging, step back and count yourself fortunate that you have had this reminder. Counseling might help you and your wife to communicate in a healthier way if she is willing to try. However, if she isn’t, you will have to decide how much more “punishment” you are willing to tolerate when you disagree, and what is realistic to do about it if you aren’t. DEAR ABBY: We have a neighbor whose adult son has gotten into trouble with the law. His mom and dad are devastated and have withdrawn from all of us. How do we handle it when we see them around the neighborhood? Do we ignore “the elephant” and just say hi? Do we ask them how their son is doing? It’s so sad to see them suffer, and we don’t know what to do. -- WHAT TO DO IN THE EAST DEAR WHAT TO DO: When you see your neighbors, be cordial. Make polite conversation, and if they mention their son, listen to what they have to say and be supportive, but not judgmental. ------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For an excellent guide to becoming a better conversationalist and a more sociable person, order “How to Be Popular.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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GARDINER — A North Bend man was killed Saturday in a head-on crash two miles north of Gardiner. According to an Oregon State Police report, on June 13 at approximately 7:24 p.m. OSP troopers and emergency personnel responded a two-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 208. Preliminary investigation indicated that a Volkswagen Rabbit, operated by Stevie Shuey, 29, of Pleasanton, Calif., was northbound and crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a Hyundai Genesis operated by Michael Lindsay, 69, of North Bend. Shuey was transported by Life Flight to the hospital. Lindsay sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased. The passenger in the Hyundai, Erica Billingslea, 33, of Coos Bay, was transported to a hospital with injuries. Troopers are investigating DUII by Shuey and are asking anyone who might have witnessed any poor driving to call Oregon State Police Southern Command Center at 1-800-442-2068 and leave information for Trooper Dunlap. OSP was assisted by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Reedsport Police Department, Gardiner Fire Department, Reedsport Fire Department, Winchester Bay Fire Department, Lower Umpqua Ambulance, Oregon Department of Transportation and Southern Oregon Public Safety Chaplains.

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The Bandon High School class of 2020 poses for a photo in the Harbor Lights Middle School gym following drive-through graduation exercises and parade. To read full coverage of Bandon High School’s graduation, visit www.theworldlink.com or subscribe for The World’s eEdition.

Above: Bandon School Board co-chairman and professional photographer Angela Cardas, right, takes a photo of valedictorian Jessica Tittle as she receives her diploma from Superintendent Doug Ardiana. Cardas took photos of all the seniors throughout the afternoon that she posted to social media. Left: Amelia Russell and her father Troy are all smiles after Troy gave Amelia her diploma on Saturday afternoon as a member of the Bandon School Board. Russell resigned from the School Board this month after serving since 2007.

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To join the webinar, contact Jesse Jones, volunteer coordinator for the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition’s CoastWatch program, at jesse@oregonshores.org. Participants will be sent a link to the session shortly before it occurs. During this historic pandemic quarantine, CoastWatch has been providing free webinars connecting the public with scientists, local conservation leaders

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COOS COUNTY — With many counties involved in the state’s phase reopening plan and traveling likely to increase as a result, local officials are reminding residents and visitors to practice beach safety guidelines when planning a trip to the Oregon Coast. Being prepared, knowing the tides and watching out for sneaker waves are a few safety tips Megan Harper, with the BLM Coos Bay District, suggested can be very helpful when traveling to the beach. According to Harper, knowing the tide schedule is very important as the local office she said will often see situations involving people being stuck in certain areas made only

accessible during low tide. The North Spit of Coos Bay is an example of one of those areas, she said. “We’ve had some cases where people get their vehicle stuck or themselves stuck as the tide comes in and they are not prepared and they can’t leave quickly enough,” said Harper. For visitors thinking on planning a trip to the coast, Harper recommended checking out the safety tips outlined on the Oregon Parks and Recreation’s website. The site, she said, talks about staying away from logs on the beach and not walking on unmarked trails and down steep spaces as rocks and cliffs can be slippery. U.S. Coast Guard Station Coos Bay Chief Warrant Officer Beth Slade echoed Harper’s suggestions as she too recommended a number of safety

precautions people can follow when visiting the coast. With summer around the corner and the weather getting nicer, Slade said increased foot traffic to local beaches is pretty normal for this time of year. Having a buddy system in place and knowing the tides and local weather conditions as well as local hazard warnings beforehand are among some safety factors people should consider when coming to the coast, Slade explained. According to the Oregon Parks and Recreation’s website, tens of thousands of people visit Oregon’s coastline, which covers about 362 miles, each year. A number of safety precautions related to the new coronavirus such as social distancing from others and wearing personal protective gear have also been suggested this year.

COOS BAY — The Egyptian Theatre is remaining closed for now. The Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association Board announced over the weekend that the requirements under Gov. Kate Brown’s new coronavirus guidelines for reopening under Phase 2 are too challenging for the board to overcome. Following the executive order in March to close public venues, Phase 2, which went into effect for Coos County on Friday, June 5, was intended to help those businesses and certain public buildings and recreational activities affected by the closure to reopen, such as movie theaters like the Egyptian. “The ETPA Board has given this serious consideration and it is with a sad heart that we tell you we have decided not to reopen at this time,” read the press release. “The requirements such as 6-foot physical distancing both in the lobby and behind the concession counter and obtaining contact information from every attendee are just too challenging to overcome. Also, the distancing requirements within the theater itself (35 square feet between individuals or family groups) would make it extremely difficult to generate enough admissions to cover costs, for both the ETPA and the nonprofit agencies that rent the theater for their fundraisers.” The ETPA Board said it will continue to reevaluate its position in the coming

months with hopes that they can reopen the theater in October. That will depend on whether conditions continue to improve regarding coronavirus transmission that result in the state relaxing current distancing requirements. “We have also decided to forego the weekly lunchtime organ music and tours during the Wednesday Farmers Market,” the release continued. “The required sanitation after such an opening would not be cost effective for us. We hope to resume both tours and organ music during the Farmers Market in 2021.” “We want to express our sincere thank you to those of you who have recently contributed to the ETPA to help us both with operating expenses and with matching funds for our upcoming roofing project,” the release stated. “We have received enough in donations that our overhead costs from March through June are covered. We can never thank you enough for your generosity and support of

the Egyptian during this difficult time.” Those who haven’t made a contribution to help with the theater’s $1,500 monthly overhead costs who would like to do so can find the donation form online at egyptiantheatreoregon. com. Or mail a check to the ETPA at 229 S. Broadway, Coos Bay, OR 97420 and write “operations” in the note area. The ETPA is also accepting donations to use as grant matching money for its re-roofing project. Those who would like to donate to that project are asked to write “roof” on their payment. “In the meantime, the marquee continues to shine down on Broadway to remind you — we will be back,” the release concluded. The Egyptian Theatre was originally constructed in 1922 as the Motor Inn Garage and Service Station and later transformed into the movie palace. Editor’s note: The complete version of this story, with photographs, was included in Monday’s e-edition of The World.

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Wetherell explained that districts need to analyze classroom space to ensure “every person in a room (of) 35 square feet (has) six feet to social distance between themselves and another person, minus items in the room.”

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new context for looking at his history as a public servant. “If these are the views that he holds, then it taints everything that he has ever touched. Hiring practices, if ever he were on a hiring committee and it came down to a 5-4 decision for something and he was the deciding vote, what does that mean and what does that do?”

the anonymous individual said before noting that this goes beyond just one person. “It can’t be about Karl, it’s not about Karl, it’s bigger than Karl. It’s about the people who were complicit in knowing who he was and what he believes and how he behaved in making decisions involving vulnerable people.” Gold Beach City Coun-

cilor Summer Matteson also condemned Popoff’s comments. “I hope (Popoff’s comments) in no way casts a negative light on the council, the city of Gold Beach. The council does not mirror the sentiment of the mayor, especially when he is representing the city of Gold Beach and the tax payers,” said Matteson.

Gold Beach has added a city council meeting for Tuesday, June 16, to discuss this issue. Regarding his comments, Popoff expressed remorse for the tone he took in his email. “I responded and I got a little angry about it and I responded in a way that I wish I would have toned it down a little bit. But nevertheless, it was just

something that if I had to do it over again — being a human being I make mistakes like everyone else. But I would have, I would have stated a little differently,” he said. “I was kind of angry at the moment and I should have waited because I don’t know anybody that does anything when they are a little angry and it turns out all that well.”

“If you analyze the classroom size in any one of our schools and did the math, the average classroom on the South Coast would not allow for a full classroom to be present,” Wetherell said. “Under those guidelines, (schools) would have to open in a hybrid methodology or in an alternative structure and use gyms or cafeterias to also provide extra work spaces to separate stu-

dents. Everyone will look at what they can develop in their own district and region and analyze health protocols to determine what method works best for them.” Right now, she said the state has asked schools to plan for the entire school year. “I think the difficulty is balancing risk of exposure with the health mitigation procedures and health

practices … we want to employ,” she said. Back when the pandemic first began almost four months ago, South Coast ESD led regional superintendent meetings on how to navigate as schools shut down and then had to implement distance learning curriculums. Now, Wetherell said districts are keeping in touch but are also focusing on the needs of their

communities. “… All superintendents and principals we’ve spoken to are in the process of reviewing guidance and impact,” she said. “Everyone says there is a ‘new normal.’ Whether we like or not, the changes from COVID-19 are impacting pretty much every aspect of our daily life.” Wetherell expects that, over time, districts will

draft plans and work with communities to decide what the best plan is moving forward. “We’re in the beginning stages,” she said. “It’s a tough process, tough to hear, tough to do, but at the end of the day as a region of educators our job is to tackle this and help students learn and give them access to the most amount of support and resources that we can.”

lonely today as in 2018, and not surprisingly given the lockdowns that tried to contain the spread of the coronavirus, there’s also been a drop in satisfaction with social activities and relationships. Compared with 2018, Americans also are about twice as likely to say they sometimes or often have felt a lack of companionship (45% vs. 27%) and felt left out (37% vs. 18%) in the past four weeks. What is surprising, said

Louise Hawkley, a senior research scientist with NORC at the University of Chicago, was that loneliness was not even more prevalent. “It isn’t as high as it could be,” she said. “People have figured out a way to connect with others. It’s not satisfactory, but people are managing to some extent.” The new poll found that there haven’t been significant changes in Ameri-

cans’ assessment of their families’ finances since 2018 and that Americans’ satisfaction with their families’ ability to get along financially was as high as it’s been over nearly five decades. Jonathan Berney, of Austin, Texas, said that the pandemic — and his resulting layoff as a digital marketing manager for a law firm — caused him to reevaluate everything in his life. While he admits

that he’s not exactly happy now, that’s led to another uncomfortable question: Was he truly happy before the pandemic? “2020 just fast forwarded a spiritual decay. When things are good, you don’t tend to look inwards,” he said, adding that he was living and working in the Miami area before the pandemic hit. As Florida dealt with the virus, his girlfriend left him and he decided to leave for Austin.

“I probably just wasn’t a nice guy to be around from all the stress and anxiety. But this forced an existential crisis.” Berney, who is looking for work, said things have improved from those early, dark days of the pandemic. He’s still job hunting but has a little savings to live on. He said he’s trying to kayak more and center himself so he’s better prepared to deal with any future downturn in events.

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Manfred: Baseball season is in jeopardy NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players’ union on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The league also revealed several players on big league rosters have tested positive for COVID-19. Two days after union head Tony Clark declared additional negotiations futile, Manfred reversed his position of last week when he said he was “100%” cer-

U.S. Open could be held with no fans

tain the 2020 season would start. Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem sent a seven-page letter to players’ association chief negotiator Bruce Meyer asking the union whether it will waive the threat of legal action and tell MLB to announce a spring training report date and a regular-season schedule. These were just the latest escalating volleys in a sport viewing disagreements over starting the season as a preliminary battle ahead of bargaining to replace the labor contract that expires on Dec. 1, 2021.

“It’s just a disaster for our game, absolutely no question about it,” Manfred said during an appearance on ESPN. “It shouldn’t be happening, and it’s important that we find a way to get past it and get the game back on the field for the benefit of our fans.” Spring training was stopped because of the pandemic on March 12, two weeks before opening day, and the sides reached an agreement March 26 on how to revise their labor deal to account for the virus. Since then, the hostility has escalated to 1990s levels as the

sides exchanged offers. MLB claims teams can’t afford to play without fans and pay the prorated salaries called for in the March deal, which included a provision for “good-faith” negotiations over the possibility of games in empty ballparks or neutral sites. “The proliferation of COVID-19 outbreaks around the country over the last week, and the fact that we already know of several 40-man roster players and staff who have tested positive, has increased the risks associated with commencing spring training in the next few

weeks,” Halem wrote in his letter to Meyer, which was obtained by the AP. Halem sent Meyer a letter with a sarcastic tone Friday accompanying MLB’s latest offer, and Meyer responded with a hostile timbre Saturday as the sides memorialized positions ahead of a possible grievance before the panel chaired by independent arbitrator Mark Irvings. Halem’s letter Monday asked the union for many clarifications of its positions. Please see Baseball, Page B2

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Moving closer to holding the first Grand Slam tournament of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Tennis Association is awaiting the go-ahead from the New York state government to play the U.S. Open in New York starting in August — without fans and with strict health protocols. “We’re ready to move forward,” USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said in a telephone interview Monday, “as long as we get all the approvals we need.” A formal announcement could come this week. “We’ve received a proposal and we’re reviewing it,” Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wrote in an email. Like many sports, the professional tennis tours have been suspended since March because of the pandemic. The French Open was postponed from May and currently is slated to start a week after the Sept. 13 end of the U.S. Open; Wimbledon was canceled altogether for the first time since World War II in 1945. Even if the state OKs the U.S. Open, one significant question would remain: Which players actually would participate? Such top names as both No. 1-ranked players, Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty, and defending men’s champion Rafael Nadal, have expressed reservations about heading to Flushing Meadows, where an indoor tennis facility was used as a temporary home for hundreds of hospital beds at the height of the city’s coronavirus crisis. Already ruled out, regardless: Roger Federer, who has won five of his men’s-record 20 Grand Slam singles titles at the U.S. Open but announced recently that he is out for the rest of the year after needing a second arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. With international TV contracts — including an annual average of $70 million from ESPN alone — helping offset the loss of money from ticket sales and other onsite revenue, and facing a recession that already led to the recent elimination of more than 100 jobs at the USTA, the association’s board decided to go forward with its marquee event despite concerns about COVID-19 and international travel. “At the end of the day, there are three factors involved in the decision-making. No. 1 is creating a plan that has health and safety at the forefront. No. 2 is whether conducting the U.S. Open is the right thing for the sport of tennis. And No. 3 is whether it can be done in a financially viable manner. We believe we can hit all three of the objectives,” Widmaier said. “But we do need to approach this in a step-by-step manner, and when all of the steps are completed, that is when we can make an official announcement.” The plan shared with the state government includes: zero spectators; limited player entourages; assigned hotels; increased cleaning at the tournament grounds; extra locker room space; daily temperature checks and occasional testing for COVID-19.

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Coquille’s Tucker Godfrey gets a hold of Lost River’s Jayce Fenner for a tackle during their Class 2A playoff game last November in Coquille. The Red Devils finished in the top 10 in the OSAA Cup for Class 2A.

NB, Coquille finish in OSAA Cup top 10 The World North Bend and Coquille both placed in the top 10 for their classifications in the final OSAA Cup standings for the 2019-20 school year. North Bend placed sixth in Class 5A, on the strength of a strong showing by many teams in the classroom and a fourthplace effort in boys swimming. Coquille was ninth in Class 2A, with the football and boys basketball teams making the final eight and the girls basketball team placing fourth at state. They were the only two South Coast schools that finished in the top 10 for the recently completed school year. North Bend was particularly strong in academics. Over the course of the year, the Bulldogs had numerous squads finish in the top 10 for Class 5A. Leading the way were the boys swimming team and the girls soccer team, which both were tops for Class 5A. In the fall, in addition to the girls soccer team, North Bend’s boys cross country team was sixth, the football team was seventh, the volleyball team was eight and the boys soccer team tied for 10th. Also in the winter, North Bend seventh in girls basketball and eighth in girls swimming. And in the spring, both the boys and girls track teams tied for second and the baseball

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North Bend’s girls soccer team celebrates a goal during a match last fall. The Bulldogs ranked first for Class 5A teams in GPA, helping the school to a top-10 finish in the year-long OSAA Cup. team was third, while the girls tennis team and choir were sixth, the softball team was seventh and both golf teams were 10th. Throughout the year, other North Bend teams and activities also had grade points over 3.0, adding to North Bend’s total for the OSAA cup. In addition to placing fourth in the Class 2A state tournament, Coquille’s girls basketball team ranked eighth in the classroom.

Like North Bend, Coquille also had several other teams finish with grade points over 3.0. Wilsonville won for Class 5A, accumulating 2,968.75 points over all activities. Crescent Valley (2,550), Hood River Valley (1972.5), Silverton (1,958.75) and La Salle Prep (1,890) also finished ahead of North Bend (1,867.5). Kennedy was champion for Class 2A with 1,607.5 points. Other classification cham-

pions were Jesuit for Class 6A (2,597.75), La Grande for Class 4A (2,385.75), Santiam Christian for Class 3A (2,050) and St. Paul for Class 1A (1,313). Among other South Coast Schools, Marshfield was 13th and Siuslaw 26th in Class 4A; Brookings-Harbor was 24th in Class 3A; Bandon was 18th, Myrtle Point 36th and Reedsport 37th in Class 2A; and Pacific was 67th and Powers 69th in Class 1A.

it’s gonna take a team to make that decision. I welcome that, support a club making that decision and encourage them to do that,” Goodell said during his interview with ESPN’s Mike Greenberg. Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said last week that he received a call from another team about Kaepernick. Carroll and the Seahawks brought in Kaepernick for a workout in 2017 and had another planned in 2018 before it was canceled. Goodell set up a tryout for Kaepernick in Atlanta last year for scouts of all 32 teams to attend,

but it unraveled at the last moment due to lack of media access and what Kaepernick’s representatives saw as an unusual liability waiver. Instead of the workout taking place at the Falcons’ training complex, Kaepernick conducted an impromptu session at a high school in front of media and scouts from eight teams. The NFL released a video on June 5 in which Goodell apologized for the league for not doing a good job of listening to concerns by players on racial inequality. Goodell though was roundly criticized for the apolo-

gy not mentioning Kaepernick. The video came out a day after many players released a video criticizing the league for not condemning racism following the May 25 death of George Floyd. “We had spent time prior to that understanding all the frustration, fear and sadness. When the video came out on Thursday it was very powerful. It was appropriate for me to respond,” Goodell said. “We should have listened to our players earlier including Colin Kaepernick, Eric

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Roger Goodell would like to see Colin Kaepernick back in the NFL this season. The NFL commissioner said during ESPN’s “The Return of Sports” special on Monday that he is encouraging teams to sign the 32-year old quarterback, who hasn’t played the past three seasons. Kaepernick was with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 when he kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial injustice. “If he wants to resume his career in the NFL, then obviously

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The track at Southwestern Oregon Community College has received a new surface for the first time, part of ongoing work on the athletic facilities at the college. The long jump pits also were moved a little away from the soccer pits. The college also recently upgraded the seating and gave the floor a new paint job in Prosper Hall and clearance work has started on a renovation of the softball complex as well.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR is set to allow up to 30,000 fans at the track in Bristol next month when it moves the All-Star race out of Charlotte Motor Speedway for just the second time in the history of the race. If the expected attendance count holds, NASCAR would open to the largest gathering of sports fans in the United States in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic __ all while numbers in some states continue to spike. NASCAR is set to brush off those concerns and open the gates in Tennessee. Bristol holds about

146,000 fans. The recent spike of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina sparked the move to Bristol Motor Speedway. The race will remain on the July 15 date with a 7 p.m. start time. “The NASCAR All-Star Race is an event known for making history, and we will enhance that legacy by hosting the event at Bristol Motor Speedway,” said Speedway Motorsports President and CEO Marcus Smith. “While Charlotte will always be recognized as the birthplace and traditional home for the AllStar Race, the current data surrounding the pandemic

in North Carolina makes Bristol a better option for fan access this summer.” The race was originally scheduled for May 16 at Charlotte. It has been held at the track nearly every year since its inception in 1985. The 1986 race was run at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “We look forward to bringing this thrilling race to a short track for the first time, and we hope our fans enjoy this special event, under the lights,” said NASCAR Executive Vice President of Racing Development Steve O’Donnell. NASCAR allowed 1,000 fans of mostly military per-

sonal this past weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway is expected to have no more than 4,000 fans for the Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway. Bristol’s health protocols will be finalized with continued guidance from public health officials, medical experts, local, state and federal officials, and in coordination with NASCAR. Fans will be allowed to bring in one soft-sided clear bag with food and beverage. Coolers will be prohibited and souvenirs will be sold only from concourse areas. Campground shower facilities will be closed.

PGA Championship won’t have galleries FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The silence that greeted the return of the PGA Tour at Colonial will be a familiar sound for the first major of the year. The PGA of America has submitted plans to hold the PGA Championship at Harding Park without spectators, and the San Francisco Chronicle reports public health officials have approved it. An announcement was pending approval by San Francisco officials and was expected as early as

Tuesday. It at least sets the PGA Championship for Aug. 6-9 at Harding Park, the public course along a golf landscape near the Pacific Ocean that includes Olympic Club, Lake Merced, San Francisco Golf Club and Cal Club. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down golf for three months — the PGA Championship originally was scheduled for May 1417 — the PGA of America had been contemplating

options that included limited spectators, no spectators or even moving the championship depending on the health situation. Harding Park will host its first major championship, having previously been host of two World Golf Championships — one won by Tiger Woods (American Express Championship), the other by Rory McIlroy (Match Play Championship). It also hosted the Presidents Cup in 2009, and now is part of the TPC network.

San Francisco last hosted a major in 2012, when the U.S. Open was held across the street at Olympic. The PGA Tour returned at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial with no spectators and hardly any noise except for makeshift tents at two homes and bleachers built at another home near the 16th tee. A dozen or so fans also watched from behind a chain-link fence on the front nine along the perimeter of Colonial.

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unequivocally told players and fans that there would ‘100%’ be a 2020 season, he has decided to go back on his word and is now threatening to cancel the entire season,” Clark said in a statement Monday. “This latest threat is just one more indication that Major League Baseball has been negotiating in bad faith since the beginning,” Clark added. “This has always been about extracting additional pay cuts from players and this is just another day and another bad faith tactic in their ongoing campaign.” Manfred said ahead of last week’s amateur draft that the chance of a season was “100%.” He reversed his position Monday. “I’m not confident. I think there’s real risk; and as long as there’s no dialogue, that real risk is going to continue,” Manfred said on ESPN. “The owners are 100% committed to getting baseball back on the field. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that I’m

100% certain that’s going to happen.” Players think Manfred is delaying to shorten the schedule — and their pay. “So, Rob, explain to us how you can be 100% sure that there’s going to be baseball but not confident there will be baseball at the same time?” Cincinnati pitcher Trevor Bauer tweeted. “The tactic is to bluff with `no season’ again and delay another 2-3 weeks.” Halem asked the union for written permission to go ahead with the season. “Rob Manfred and the owners are walking back on their word...AGAIN,” tweeted Washington pitcher Max Scherzer, a member of the union’s eight-man executive subcommittee. “The fans do not deserve this. So I’ll say it one more time, tell us when and where.” MLB has made three economic offers, the last offering to guarantee players 70% of their salaries as part a 72-game schedule beginning July 14 and increasing the total

to 80% if the postseason is completed. Players previously offered two proposals, holding their position that no additional pay cuts were acceptable beyond the prorated salaries for 2020 that they had agreed to in March. That deal called for $170 million in salary advances and a guarantee of service time credit if no games are played this year. Manfred had threatened a shorter schedule, perhaps of about 50 games. The union could respond by filing a grievance, arguing players should be paid for the season of 119 games they initially proposed. The union’s first plan would result in salaries of nearly $3 billion. Players are angry following five years of flat salaries, a lost grievance claiming the Chicago Cubs manipulated the service time of star third baseman Kris Bryant in violation of the labor contract and allegations several teams did not properly use revenue sharing proceeds, which the union called “tanking.”

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“I note that both the NBA and NHL, two leagues which you repeatedly reference in your letter, do not intend to resume play until about Aug. 1, and both intend to resume play at a limited number of sites with a quarantine approach,” Halem wrote. “Please let us know the association’s views on quarantining players in league-approved hotels (like the NBA’s Disney World model) when they are not at the ballpark if conditions worsen over the next few weeks.” Clark had issued a statement Saturday that told MLB: “It’s time to get back to work. Tell us when and where.” The union then said it might file a grievance seeking additional economic documents and money damages that could total $1 billion or more. “Players are disgusted that after Rob Manfred

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NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA on Monday announced plans to play a reduced season, with a 22-game schedule that would begin in late July without fans in attendance because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league is still finalizing a partnership with IMG Academy in Florida to play all the games at the facility in Bradenton or other nearby locations. Players and team officials for the league’s 12 teams would be housed at IMG and hold training camps there. “There’s a lot to do between now and the tip of the season, now that we’ve selected IMG Academy” as the location to play, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a phone interview. “My hope is the July 24 date will stick. We have scenarios and plans to lift and shift the tip of the season. It could slip to a couple of days later. We want to have the appropriate number of days for training camp.” Engelbert, who said she had a site visit at IMG, hopes to have teams in Florida by the first week of July to start training camps. The season had been postponed indefinitely in April because of the coronavirus pandemic. The WNBA would use its regular playoff format, with the top eight teams making the postseason and the first two rounds being single-elimination. The top two seeds would have byes until the semifinals. The playoffs would begin in the middle of September and end in early October. Teams would play each other twice in the abbreviated 22-game schedule, which the league said would be released later. The IMG facility has four courts, but the WNBA is still exploring options to play games at other sites in the area just south of Tampa/St. Petersburg that might be better for broadcasts. Players would receive their entire salaries for the year despite playing a schedule that’s only about

two-thirds the length of the 36-game one that was supposed to start May 15. “It was an important message the owners said to pay the players 100%,” Engelbert said. “There are people taking pay cuts in the country and people being furloughed. It was a really important signal from the owners and the league.” The union said 77% of players voted in favor of the league’s proposal. They have until June 25 to let their teams know whether they plan to play this season. The commissioner said players who are considered high-risk for the new coronavirus could opt out of playing this season and still earn their full salaries. Players with children will be able to bring a caregiver with them. The WNBA had a lot of momentum coming from a historic collective bargaining agreement that was ratified shortly before the pandemic hit. “We know this is not going to be perfect; it’s not going to be ideal,” WNBPA Executive Director Terri Jackson said. “Let’s see what we can do at this moment. That’s really appropriate for what our country needs right now.” The league is still working with medical specialists, public health experts and government officials on a comprehensive set of guidelines to ensure that health and safety protocols are in place. “We will have protocols on coming and going and who comes and goes,” Engelbert said. “Protocols of a quarantine isolation when you get on campus. Once you’re there 14 days, 21 days. Those early days will be important.” Jackson said players are confident that the league will have the proper safety guidelines in place. She said the union’s executive committee had a Zoom call with league doctors and the next step will be an all-player call with the physicians later this week.

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Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to his agent. Rocky Arceneaux told the NFL Network on Monday that Elliott was feeling OK and recovering. Arceneaux did not immediately return messages seeking comment, but a person with direct knowledge of the diagnosis told The Associated Press that Elliott

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Reid, Kenny Stills, Malcolm Jenkins and so many people really brought these issues to light.” Atanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan said Goodell’s video was a great step in the right direction. “We all need to be on the same page and address some of the uncomfortable things that need addressed,” he said. Goodell did not answer how the league would respond if President Donald Trump continued to criticize them if players kneeled for the National Anthem. Goodell also said that he wants to include Kaepernick’s voice on how the league should approach social issues. “I hope we’re at a point now where everybody’s committed to making longterm, sustainable change,” Goodell said. “If his efforts are not on the field but continuing to work in this

had the positive test about a week ago and could be described as symptomatic. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to discuss Elliott’s diagnosis publicly. The Cowboys declined to comment, citing privacy laws. Only players who have been rehabilitating injuries have been allowed inside team facilities during the pandemic shutdown. That hasn’t included Elliott. space, we welcome him to that table and to help us, guide us, help us make better decisions about the kinds of things that need to be done in the communities.” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said when the league gathers at the Disney campus it would provide an opportunity for the league to do more to promote social and societal change -- especially since players, who will be confined to the campus, will have plenty of free time on their hands and with what’s expected to be a sizable media contingent present. “How can we use our larger platform, the NBA together with our players, really to affect change?” Silver asked. “There’s an appropriate role, of course, for protests. There’s an appropriate role for those who choose not to engage in the game of basketball down in Florida. But ... for those who decide to come, together with the league, what are those things we can be doing?”

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Retail sales jump record 17.7 percent in May BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. retail sales jumped by a record 17.7% from April to May, with spending partially rebounding after the coronavirus had shut down businesses, flattened the economy and paralyzed consumers during the previous two months. The government’s report Tuesday showed that retail sales have retraced some of the record-setting month-to-month plunges of March (8.3%) and April (14.7%) as businesses have increasingly reopened. Still, the pandemic’s damage to retail sales remains severe, with purchases still down 6.1% from a year ago. Last month’s bounce-back comes against the backdrop of an economy that may have begun what could be a slow and prolonged recovery. In May, employers added 2.5 million jobs, an unexpected increase that suggested that the job market has bottomed out. Still, a big unknown overhanging the economy is whether early gains in job growth, retail sales and other areas can be sustained over the coming months or whether they may plateau at a low level. “This may very well be the

shortest, but still deepest, recession ever,” said Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. But she added that it’s “not likely that we’ll see a repeat in June as this is pent-up demand unleashed in one month.” The virus-induced recession not only diminished spending in most sectors of the economy. It has also accelerated shifts in where people shop and what they buy. The changes forced by the coronavirus have aided online retailers and building materials stores and other outlets that stayed open during the outbreak. Other businesses are facing persistent financial strains. Sales at non-store retailers, which include internet companies like Amazon and eBay, rose 9% in May after posting growth of 9.5% in April. They are up a sizable 30.8% from a year ago. Building materials stores enjoyed a monthly gain of 10.9% last month and annualized growth of 16.4%. Grocers have posed a 14.4% annual sales increase, reflecting fewer people eating out at restaurants because of the pandemic. Other sectors in retail posted

spectacular growth in May yet still face an uncertain future given the blows they absorbed in March and April. Clothiers achieved a stunning 188% monthly gain but still remain down 63% over the past 12 months. Furniture store sales surged 90% last month, but they’re still down more than 21% on the year. This same pattern holds for restaurants, electronics stores, department stores and auto dealers. Retail sales account for roughly half of all consumer spending, which fuels about 70% of total economic activity. The rest of consumer spending includes services, from cellphone and internet contracts to gym memberships and child care. Nearly 80% of small retailers and restaurants tracked by the scheduling tool Homebase that were closed in mid-April have since reopened. Yet these smaller businesses remain under pressure. Their stresses in part reflect changes emerging as social distancing has become essential and shopping habits evolve. One such retailer, CPW, a women’s clothing store, has been in business for 30 years on Manhattan’s Upper West

Side. A three-month shutdown resulting from the virus sent the store’s sales sinking 20% to 30% even as the owner, Linda Wolff, packed and delivered orders to customer homes. Though CPW reopened for curbside pickup a week ago, Wolff said she hasn’t rung up a single such sale. “This is my heart and soul,” she said. “I am exhausted from all the worrying.” Some national chains, by contrast, say they have so far avoided their worst fears, a sign of how the damage from the shutdowns has varied widely across the retail landscape. Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette has said that his company’s reopened stores are regaining 50% of their typical business. Teen retailer American Eagle Outfitters is faring even better, averaging roughly 95% of its normal sales levels. But analysts caution that some of the gains thus far probably reflect the impact of temporary government aid and expanded unemployment benefits in the face of a deep recession. The jobless rate is a historically high 13.3% by the government’s standard measure and an even worse 21.2% by the

broadest gauge of unemployment. For now, Americans are spending disproportionately more on essentials and less on luxuries. “Our wants and our needs have changed permanently until we find a health fix,” said Stacy Widlitz, president of SW Retail Advisors, a retail consultancy. “Shoppers are focusing on comfort, home and well-being.” The lockdowns sent many mall-based chains further into peril. These retailers furloughed workers, slashed costs to preserve dwindling cash reserves and, in the cases of Nieman Marcus, J.Crew and JC Penney, filed for bankruptcy protection. These troubles have contrasted with renewed strength for Walmart, Target and Home Depot, which were deemed essential businesses from the start and were allowed to remain open. For a group of 35 non-essential retailers, including department stores and jewelry chains, combined losses reached $2.5 billion for the three-month period that ended in May, according to GlobalData Retail. That compares with their combined profit of $8.9 billion in the year-ago period.

Academy delays 2021 Oscars ceremony by eight weeks For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic’s effects on the movie industry. The Academy’s Board of Governors also decided to extend the eligibility window beyond the calendar year to Feb. 28, 2021, for feature films, and delay the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion

Pictures from December until April 30, 2021. “Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control,” said Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson in a joint statement. Karey Burke, the president of ABC Entertainment, added: “We find ourselves in uncharted territory this year and will continue to work with our partners at the Academy to ensure next year’s show

is a safe and celebratory event.” The 12th annual Governors Awards has also been canceled. The event, in which honorary Oscars are bestowed to previously announced recipients, is generally held in Los Angeles during the second week of November. The untelevised event is a major gathering for many of the year’s awards hopefuls. The film academy has been grappling with how to handle the pandemic’s near shutdown of the theatrical exhibition and film production and festival business since mid-March. With theaters shuttered,

release dates pushed and major festivals like Cannes canceled, the academy in April made the unprecedented decision to allow films that did not have a theatrical run to be eligible for the awards — but only for one year. The Oscars ceremony date was the big lingering unknown, however. The organization’s leadership has acknowledged all along that the situation was fluid and that everything was on the table. Now, Oscars nominations will be announced on March 15 and the nominees luncheon will be on April 15. Still, many decisions need to be made. Acade-

my leadership has not yet addressed the format of the show and whether it will be virtual or in-person. Further, the future eligibility of films for the 94th Oscars and that show date will be announced later. The Oscars have been postponed before, but never this far in advance. The ceremony was pushed back a week because of disastrous flooding in Los Angeles in 1938. In 1968, it was delayed two days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1981, it was put off for 24 hours after President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington D.C. The 1981 decision was

made four hours before the broadcast was scheduled to begin. The eligibility window was extended beyond 12 months once before — in advance of the 6th Academy Awards in 1934. Other entertainment industry awards shows are also in flux. The 74th Tony Awards, originally set for June 7, has been postponed indefinitely. But the 72nd Emmy Awards is still holding onto Sept. 20. The BAFTAs announced Monday that its annual film awards were being pushed from Feb. 14, 2021 to April 11. And the 78th Golden Globes does not yet have a date.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embracing a new priority, President Donald Trump is set to announce executive actions on police procedures and Senate Republicans are preparing a package of policing changes as the GOP rushes to respond to mass demonstrations over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans. It’s a sudden shift for the Republican Party, one Democrats are watching warily, and a crush of activity that shows how quickly the mass protests over police violence and racial prejudice are transforming national politics. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared that Republicans are developing “a serious proposal to reform law enforcement.” The Senate Judiciary

Committee will gavel in Tuesday afternoon for an extensive hearing on “Police Use of Force and Community Relations,” drawing testimony from the nation’s leading civil rights and law enforcement leaders. “Now is the time to reimagine a more fair and just society in which all people are safe,” Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, will tell senators, according to advance testimony obtained by The Associated Press. The nationwide outcry “is anything but a reaction to one isolated incident or the misconduct of a few ‘bad apples,’” Gupta says. “The outcry is a response to the other horrific killings of Black people by police.” While the emerging

GOP package isn’t as extensive as sweeping Democratic proposals, which are headed for a House vote next week, it includes perhaps the most far-reaching proposed changes to policing procedures from the party long aligned with a “law and order” approach. Trump’s executive order would include establishing a database that tracks police officers who garner complaints about excessive use of force in their records, according to two senior administration officials who briefed reporters ahead of Tuesday’s announcement. It would also establish a national credentialing system that would give police departments a financial incentive to adopt best practices. The two officials briefed reporters

on the executive order on the condition that they not be identified. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the GOP legislative package, which will include new restrictions on police chokeholds and greater use of police body cameras, among other provisions. Scott, who said he spoke with Trump about the legislation over the weekend, warned Monday that pushing voting into later this summer would be a “bad decision.” The weekend shooting death of Rayshard Brooks by a white officer in Atlanta led to a renewed public outcry, more street protests and the police chief’s resignation. Senate Democratic

leader Chuck Schumer of New York is among those urging Republicans not to settle for minor changes. “Now is the time to seek bold and broad-scale change,” Schumer said Monday. With the political debate fluid, it is unclear whether the parties will be able to find common ground. The proposals emerging from Democrats and Republicans share many similar provisions but take different approaches to address some of the issues. Neither bill goes as far as some activists want in their push to “defund the police” by fully revamping departments. Central to the Republican package would be the creation of the national database to improve transparency so officers cannot transfer from one depart-

ment to another without public oversight of their records. The Democrats have a similar provision. Yet the Republican bill does not go as far as the Democrats do on the issue of eliminating “qualified immunity,” which would enable those injured by law enforcement personnel to sue for damages. The White House has said that is a line too far. As an alternative, Scott has suggested a “decertification” process for officers involved in misconduct. One large police union, the influential Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement it is working with Congress and the White House on the proposals, having provided “feedback” on the Democratic bill and “substantial input” on the emerging GOP package.

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