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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2024

Brookings, Oregon

Young ﬁlmmakers shoot full documentary BY NATE SCHWARTZ Curry Coastal Pilot

The Wild Rivers Film Festival held a Youth Film Workshop allowing local teens an opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade of filmmaking. This week long course taught 20 Curry County kids the formal and artistic tools needed to make movie magic. The first four days of the course were filmmaking instruction at Southwestern Oregon Community College. Day one was about screenwriting and storytelling, teaching all about film structure and the software that enables script writing and storyboarding. Day two covered production. The staff set up a mock film set and had the students act as the crew. Working as PAs, assistant directors, and more, they were able to produce a super-short film while learning Please see FILM, Page 8

Curry County Special Olympics Food Insecurity team brings home multiple medals Resources for the Special Olympics Regional Championship. Curry County was well represented, with our “Wild Cats” team coming home with many medals!

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17 Curry County Special Olympics athletes traveled to Ashland this June to compete in

For the ﬁrst time, we also had two bocce ball teams competing, who took 1st and 2nd place in their divisions. A night in a hotel and a pizza party rounded it all

off to a wonderful weekend. Six of those track and ﬁeld athletes and two of the bocce Please see ATHLETES, Page 3

Curry student success fund scholarships The Curry Student Success Fund (CSSF) completed yet another round of scholarships for local students this year in Curry County. For the 7th year, the local charity held a ceremony to award $15,000 worth of aid to 11 locals seeking higher education. Founded 8 years ago with the hope of providing educational

access to local hopefuls, the CSSF focuses speciﬁcally on those who may be denied other scholarships due to their unique educational journey. “The mission of the Curry Student Success Fund is to promote educational opportunities and serve all students, including those excluded by local

scholarship foundations because of alternative education choices,” states the CSSF. Many families in rural areas, with Curry County being no exception, choose alternate schooling methods such as homeschooling. With limited resources and long commutes often common, ﬁnding more

convenient means of schooling is becoming increasingly commonplace. Those students can often be locked out of more traditional scholarship programs. The ceremony was held at the Southwest Oregon Community College campus in Brookings. Please see CSSF, Page 8

Summer in Curry County

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Brookings-Harbor is experiencing a seasonal uptick in food insecurity. “Summer is often a hungry season for families,” explains Sister Cora Rose, who ministers at St. Timothy Episcopal Church in Brookings. “Students aren’t at school receiving meals and snacks; and some forms of supplemental food resources are tied to seasonal charitable giving, like special holiday food boxes and community holiday meals – these typically aren’t available apart from the winter holiday season.” The Community Kitchen, Brookings CORE Response, and Brookings-Harbor Community Helpers (Food Bank) are all feeling the crunch with increased demand for food from during the summer slump, paired with decreased purchasing power for grocery price inflation. In addition, temporary climate refugees add to the need for food resources on the coast. “We are seeing seasonal uptick of new faces, as folks flee areas with a lot of wildfires, high heat and summer smoke,” says Fr. Bernie Lindley, whose church hosts the Community Kitchen several days of the week. “We expect to see this pattern summer after summer.” Help to spread the word about opportunities to donate items to three great community organizations in Brookings-Harbor. We can all come together to help meet the needs of our neighbors this summer. In particular, these organizations are in need of the following: Community Kitchen Kitchen funds and pantry available for all participating churches administered by St. Timothy Episcopal Church as the distribution hub for the kitchens. Financial donations (tax deductible) and nonperishable food donations are appreciated. Drop Off: 401 Fir Street, Brookings (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday 9am - noon)

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