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Treasure hunting in Gold Beach

1,000 glass ﬂoats being hidden in April BY BREE LAUGHLIN Country Media Inc.

The folks at the Gold Beach Visitor Center are spreading the joy of treasure hunting one glass float at a time. They are hiding 1,000 glass floats on the beach throughout the month of April. About 250 floats are being hidden every week along a one-mile stretch of beach near the visitor center. The floats come in varying colors, and are 3” in size. They are being hidden at different times of the day, 7 days a week, so there is always a chance of finding one. Ruth Dixon, the lead at Gold Beach Visitor Center, remembers finding glass floats – “the real thing” – on the beach when she was a child. Glass floats of varying sizes and shapes were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat. Please see FLOATS, Page 3

“Elmo Williams Day” – Annual celebration returns to Brookings Brookings’ annual nominated again for his ‘’Elmo Williams Day’ work on ’20,000 Leagues is returning this year to Under the Sea’, for which celebrate one of the City’s he took home a Mousecar, most famous residents, Disney’s in-house Oscar Academy Award winning equivalent. He is also editor, producer, and known for his work on director Elmo Williams. famous war movies like After retiring to Brookings ‘The Longest Day’ and in 1983, Williams and his ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’, which family left a substantial he produced. legacy behind, living in Williams was also an the City for over 40 years elected member of the until his passing in 2015, American Cinema Editors at the age of 103. (ACE). The honors The highly decorated society granted him the ﬁlmmaker worked on a “Golden Eddie” award number of famous movies. for Filmmaker of the Williams won two Oscars Year in 1971. He later for his work. One on received the ACE Career ‘Design for Death’, which Achievement Award for won Best Documentary his life-long contribution Feature in 1947. The other to American ﬁlmmaking was for Best Film Editing, in 1990. which Williams won for Starting at “high-noon” his work on the 1952 on Sunday, April 28, 2024, western ‘High Noon’. Williams was Please see WILLIAMS, Page 10

A conversation with Congresswoman Val Hoyle BY NATE SCHWARTZ Country Media Inc.

We were able to catch up with Congresswoman Val Hoyle of Oregon’s 4th District. In town to announce a workforce housing project, we spoke with Hoyle at length about the Coast’s housing crisis, her message to voters, and her track record on Capitol Hill Q – It’s shaping up to be a contentious election cycle. How has the campaign trail treated you so far? Hoyle – “I’m really focused on delivering for the district and developing relationships with people throughout the district. The fact of the matter is, this district goes from Curry County up to Lincoln County, and it’s a microcosm of the country. There’s very red areas, and there’s very blue areas, but this district was redrawn in redistricting to be predominantly a coastal district.

Coast Comedy Festival brings laughs to Gold Beach

So, I focus on coastal issues: housing, ports, commercial ﬁshing. Making sure that people have broadband. These are really critical issues, and I think if you focus on delivering for people, bringing their taxpayer dollars back without thinking about what party they’re in, makes a big difference. So come election time they’re like, ‘We know her. She’s worked really hard for us.’”

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Q – On that note, what would your message be to voters who may be defaulting to the other side of the ticket?

BY DEAN BRICKEY

COQUILLE — The second annual Coast Comedy Festival begins April 25 in three coastal cities and will include 10 shows on four nights in ﬁve venues, culminating with one headliner on the Sawdust Theatre stage Sunday, April 28. Soul of Wit Productions, founded by Ty Boice of Salem, is organizing the comedy series with shows in Newport, North Bend, Bandon, Gold Beach and Coquille. Boice grew up in Curry County. He said the Comedy Festival is “drawing national headliners, seen and heard on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” “Bob and Tom Radio,” “Comedy Central,”

comics are truly a match “Stand UP Records,” made in heaven because “Don’t Tell Comedy” and the recent winner of of their love and the Seattle International appreciation for small town life and coastal comedy competition. communities.” “It is a privilege to Comedian Sam return home to a place I love and return with Miller of Olympia Wash laughter,” he added. will headline a show in “We could not be more Bandon on Thursday, April 25, and will be in excited to pair these North Bend on Friday hand-picked venues night, Bandon again on with some of the funniest comics in Please see COMEDY, Page 4 the country. These

Hoyle – “I think you’ve got to look at who shows up and delivers. The fact of the matter is, I focus on jobs, the economy, certainly the port of Coos Bay. There is not a person in DC who has talked to me that hasn’t heard about the opportunity for 8000 jobs in this private public partnership in the deep-water container port of Coos Bay. And, also on wildﬁre prevention and resiliency. Those are not partisan issues. There were only 27 bills signed into law in the last [congressional] session and that’s less than any time since the Civil War. I got three bills signed into law. I work in a bipartisan way, I’m affective, and I actually am getting things done. Each one [of those bills] made a signiﬁcant difference for the people in this district. So what I would say is, you know me.

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Please see VAL HOYLE, Page 8

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