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The 12 members of the Pacific High School Class of 2020 pose for a photo with the Pirate mascot prior to Friday’s graduation parade and ceremony in Port Orford. From left: Esequiel “Zeke” Hernandez-McKenzie, Ryan Sibley Jr., Ezra Johnson, Benjamin Garratt, Kaiya Gourneau, Alley Guerin, Madison “Madi” Hall (salutatorian), Natalie Vincent, McKenzie Martin and Atticus Wahl; kneeling, from left: Layne Converse (valedictorian) and David Wyatt.

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PORT ORFORD — The Pacific High School Class of 2020 is a resilient group — all 12 of them. A tight knit class, they had to endure many challenges and changes, as all high schoolers did this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this group took it in stride. Growing up in a small town often means ties to almost everyone in the community. That was abundantly clear Friday afternoon, when many in the town turned out to watch the seniors graduate in an unconventional, social-distanced ceremony for COVID-19 times. The seniors decorated their cars and trucks with balloons and streamers and with posters of themselves attached to the side. They were wearing their caps and gowns, with several also wearing ropes indicating National Honor Society or other honors bestowed on these involved and connected individuals. Then they each slowly drove with their families in tow down U.S. Highway 101 toward Driftwood Elementary School. There, after Pacific High School Principal Krisa Nieraeth led the Pledge of Allegiance for those gathered

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Madi Hall is all smiles after receving her diploma during the Pacific High School graduation parade and outside ceremony Friday in Port Orford. for the outdoor ceremony, the students hopped out of their vehicles one by one to receive their diplomas from Port Orford-Langlois Schools Superintendent Steve Perkins. Photos were taken, cheers and congratulations were given and the students got back into their vehicles and drove around the block to the Driftwood field. The music of “Pomp and Circumstance” played loudly on speakers set up for the occasion, until the 12 students were finished, then contemporary music

more suited to the mood was played as the students lined up in the field, socially distancing, and at the order of Nieraeth, tossed their caps into the air. These students have plans. College awaits for many of them, buoyed by the generous scholarships awarded at an earlier ceremony (see story on A3). Even earlier, the seniors were each gifted with a basket of goodies from Project Graduation, personally delivered to their homes. Each student was also featured on the PHS Facebook page and

others were also featured on a local television broadcast. The community has supported these students since they were young and continues to do so. Valedictorian Layne Converse will head to Oregon State University to study mechanical engineering. He also volunteers as a firefighter for the Bandon Fire Department, founded Pacific’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter, and was a national competitor for Future Business Leaders of America. Salutatorian Madison “Madi” Hall has been active in basketball, track and 4-H. She will attend Southern Oregon University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Emerging Media and Digital Arts. After graduating she hopes to continue her education and receive a master’s degree in education. Both Converse and Hall are members of the National Honor Society. The class motto is “The best way to predict your future is to create it,” attributed to Abraham Lincoln. The Pacific High School graduating Class of 2020 includes: Layne Ash Converse (valedictorian), Benjamin Christopher Lee Garratt, Kaiya May Please see Graduation, Page A9

Manufactured home park approved CHERYL UPSHAW The World

COOS BAY — Coos Bay could be home to more than 400 new manufactured homes following an approval by the Planning Commission Tuesday night. Commissioner Jeff Marineau called the project, “the largest and most ambitious housing project we’ve seen in Coos Bay or North Bend in 50 years.” A new manufactured home park was approved by the commission at their regular meeting. The proposed project is called Timber Cove and was proposed by Red Moon Development, a company out of Arizona. There are few steps between the decision and construction, which could begin soon and take as little as a year. The park will be located off Ocean Boulevard and Lindy Lane. The road is west of Ocean Boulevard between Bay Cities

This promotional drawing shows examples of the homes that Red Moon Development proposed to build in the Timber Cove manufactured home park. The project was approved with conditions by the Coos Bay Planning Commission May 9, 2020. Ambulance and the Gib’s RV Superstore. There will be between 400 and 447 manufactured homes there. In addition to these homes, Red Moon plans to build a dog park, a clubhouse, walking trails and a play area. The homes are meant to create additional affordable housing for Coos Bay. The homes will cost around $100,000 each. Red

Moon will retain ownership of the land and rent on each lot will cost $495 per month. The lot rent will include the cost of water and access to the clubhouse. Commissioner Amy Aguirre said she was excited to see the project progress and address the housing shortage in the area. Each planned lot will be 48 feet wide by 75 feet deep. Each home will be around 1,400

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square feet. Many, but not all, of the homes will have carports. According to Community Development Administrator Carolyn Johnson, all lots will have parking for up to three vehicles. While the proposal approved by the commission listed 447 homes, Red Moon will have to prove the Empire wastewater plant can handle the additional flows needed to accommodate them. In earlier stages of planning the park, it was determined that the plant could handle 400 homes, and this number was approved by city officials. Red Moon plans to build an additional 47 units, plus the clubhouse. To gain approval for these units, they will have to obtain a second study from a city engineer proving that the plant can handle those flows as well. As long as Timber Cove meets the conditions set forth by the commission, the park can move forward. These include obtain-

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NORTH BEND — The City of North Bend unanimously adopted the proposed 2020-2021 budget Tuesday night. The $29,877,486 budget reflected changes from Measure 6-177, which lowered the public safety fee from $30 to $15. That reduced the overall budget by $785,000. “This budget year and process that we’ve gone through is certainly not one we ever anticipated or accept with any amount of happiness,” said City Manager Terence O’Connor during the city council’s regular meeting Tuesday night. “We understood the vote of the people. We understood the vote impact on the budget and we were loyal to the oaths that we took to abide by the citizens. Unfortunately in this time for the city, it’s not a very progressive or happy time for the employees or — I might add — the citizens.” The budget decreased after 58% of voters reduced the public safety fee during the May 19 election, approving Measure 6-177. The citizen initiative passed after years of conflict between the public and the city council as the fee increased on residents’ water bills. The fee began at $5 but soon became $30, even after a 2018 vote that said “No” to any additional increases. As a result of the new reduction to the public safety fee, the North Bend Police Department will lose seven police officer positions — two that were open and Please see Budget, Page A9

Portland lays out steps for police reform PORTLAND (AP) — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said Tuesday he will make policing changes that include ending the use of patrol officers on public transit and redirecting $7 million from the police budget and $5 million from other city funds to communities of color. Wheeler said in a news conference he also plans to dissolve the police gun violence reduction unit, will ban choke holds and other restraints and will work to reform the use of consent searches in traffic stops. He said bold action is necessary in the wake of nationwide protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody Minneapolis. Wheeler said he recognizes specific demands have been made from the black community to Portland city leaders for the past several years to reallocate dollars and invest in re-imagining public safety. “I should have acted with greater urgency on these demands,” he said. He also expressed support for the Oregon Legislative People of Color Caucus’ call for a special session to take up reform legislation and their pursuit of legislation that would require the state’s attorney general to investigate deaths or serious injuries to peo-

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Coos Bay sees rise in suspended drivers CHERYL UPSHAW The World

COOS BAY — Coos Bay has seen a rise in citations for drivers with suspended licenses in recent weeks. Coos Bay Police Department Deputy Chief Chris Chapanar explained that the recent uptick in citations was due to an

increase in traffic enforcement. He also clarified that these citations were for those whose licenses had been suspended, not those whose licenses were expired due to an inability to go to the DMV. This would be labeled “driving without privileges,” not “driving while suspended.”

Licenses can be suspended for a number of reasons, Chapanar said, including drug and alcohol offenses, unpaid fines and issues with insurance. “We’re seeing an uptick because we had to scale back, because of COVID, on discretionary stops,” Chapanar said. CBPD has been doing fewer traffic stops and

bringing fewer arrested persons to jail to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. “I think ... people that were suspended thought they could drive without any consequence,” he said, “And for a period of time, they were probably getting away with it.” As summer picks up

and as restrictions begin to lift across the county, CBPD has begun enforcing traffic violations again. Chapanar felt that though there was increase in these citations lately, the number of these citations would drop down to normal levels again soon. “I think, sometimes, if there’s not traffic enforcement happening on a reg-

ular basis, a lot of times these suspended drivers believe that they can get away with it. You know, they got away with it last time, they’ll get away with it again,” he said, “… I think it will balance back out because people will be like, ‘hey, they’re out there enforcing laws again, so let’s not drive suspended.’”

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COOS BAY — Schools are bracing for a future with the new coronavirus. Three months ago, schools across the state shut down their buildings as the pandemic worsened. From there, school administrators created distance learning methods for students to finish the academic year from home and avoid spreading the virus. Now, with summer break starting for most school districts, administrative teams are getting ready to prepare for what classes will look like when they starts again in August. Bryan Trendell, superintendent for the Coos

Bay School District, said every district is waiting on guidance from the Oregon Department of Education. That guidance is expected to be released today. Trendell said his district’s reopening plan will depend on that guidance, as well as guidance from the Oregon Health Authority and the governor’s office. “…There’s three points on the continuum we could be at,” Trendell said of potential options for school in the fall. The first, he said, is to have school in session with students back in the building. “The other end of that is distance learning where no one is in the building,” he said of the second option. “We’ve done (that) this past spring

and we’ve learned a lot. … If we were forced to go down that road in the fall, we would make some changes to make it a better educational experience like the amount of work, accountability of that work, things that we rushed to get it going and found out we need to do a better job.” If continued distance learning is decided on for the fall, Trendell said there will be changes made. Some of those changes would also include more support for staff. “The third option is right in the middle,” Trendell listed. “…We (would) have a hybrid situation where half the students are at school at any given time and could be an AM/PM schedule or an

every-other-day schedule. In some states and countries, there is a model being used where students go to school for a week and work from home for a week. We haven’t decided on which model yet….” Until guidance is passed along, Trendell said it is hard to predict what may happen as countries open up and people get back to a somewhat “business-as-usual” routine. “Things can change between now and August,” he said. “The real message is we have to be ready and plan to do any one of the three (options). We have a lot of work to do this summer.” Looking back at the past few months, Trendell said it has been a learning experience.

“Honestly, it hasn’t been an ideal situation but we’ve learned a lot about distance learning, about what families can handle at home,” he said. “I think that going into next year there will be a lot of anxious parents and people about sending kids back to school. We get that and hear that ….” Trendell promised that the district will look at ways to take care of every family, adding that they don’t want people to panic and enroll their children in an online school. “We can take care of curriculum for them in an online fashion and work hard to develop that so we can take care of them and those who embrace the hybrid model, because I think there will be some

who want that and some who want kids back in school,” he said, adding that the district will follow the guidelines as they come out. He said the district’s administrative team will work on preparations in June before going on summer break for part of July. “Then when administration comes back in August and some staff for committees, we will plan and prepare,” he said. “We will work hard to meet the needs of everyone. What we’re hearing from the state is that it will be district by district and where you’re located, how things are going as far as cases in your area. And we have to be ready to change at any given moment should a rise in cases develop.”

5 new COVID-19 deaths, 70 new confirmed cases The World PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 169, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday. Oregon Health Authority reported 70 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, bringing the state total to 4,988. The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday are in the following counties: Benton (1), Clackamas

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Deceased Subject At 10:59 p.m. on 929 Seagate Ave, a deceased subject was reported. Disorderly Conduct At 7:24 a.m. on Ocean and Central, Nathan Wolters, 37, was arrested and cited for alleged Disorderly Conduct II. Driving While Suspended At 8:59 a.m. on N Bayshore Dr and City Limits, Mitchell Mergel, 58, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended.

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At 9:26 a.m. on Fir St and Kinney St, Rex Lawton, 42, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 12:28 p.m. on Sheridan and Clark, Douglas Huntley, 35, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 2:04 p.n. on 1165 Evans Blvd, at O’Reilly’s, Michael Clark, 33, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 3:34 p.m. on Washington and Cape Arago, Lana Rodriguez, 25, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 5:46 p.m., on the 100 block of Hull, Caleb Burns, 27, was issued a

ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 11:05 p.m. on 4th and Elrod, Gage Campbell, 23, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. Shoplifting At 1:45 p.m. on 2051 Newmark Ave, at Walmart, Sherri Baumgarner, 57, was arrested and charged with alleged Theft II. They were cited and released. Theft At 9:38 a.m. on 230 E Johnson Ave, at Safeway, Stephen Branton, 68, was arrested and charged with alleged Theft III and Criminal Trespass I. They were cited and released.

Warrant At 4:27 p.m. on 1020 S 1st St, at Fred Meyer, John Boyett, 27, was arrested in connection with a warrant out of Douglas County for alleged Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamines. They were given an additional charge of alleged Theft II. May 5 Criminal Trespassing At 12:46 p.m. on 550 Newmark Ave at Beez Smoke Shop, Shad Scott Ebinger, 48, was arrested and charged with alleged Criminal Trespass II. They were cited and released. Driving While Suspended At 5:38 a.m. on Noble and S Empire, Robert Peters, 42, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 2:05 p.m. on S Empire Blvd and Fulton Ave, Jason Svilar, 26, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 3:25 p.m. on 1252 Newmark Ave, Kandyce Cervantes, 29, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 8:33 p.m. on 670 W Central Ave, at Dairy Queen, Tracee Hanson, 44, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended. At 11:56 p.m. on Ocean and Radar, Justin Parise, 44, was issued a ticket for allegedly driving while their license was suspended.

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Pacific High School scholarships total almost $460K Pacific High School Class of 2020 Scholarships Layne Converse — Ford Family Foundation Scholarship - $125,000 over 4 years; Seeley Memorial - $80,000 over 4 years; Oregon Stewardship Believe You Can Achieve Scholarship - $800; Oregon State Elks Association 1st Place Scholarship - $5,800 for the first year, renewable for $1,000 for the next 3 years; Indian Creek Hatchery Scholarship - $1,000; OSU Finley Academic Success Scholarship - $6,000 renewable for 4 years; OSU Engineering Academic Success Scholarship - $1,800. Ben Garratt — Mitchell Family Memorial - $400; Dew Valley $1,000. Alley Guerin — Marsh Memorial - $300; Muncy Memorial - $500; Bill Magness Scholarship $588; Port Orford Ambulance Scholarship- $500; Port Orford Rotary Club Scholarship- $1,500; Langlois Lions Club Scholarship - $1,000; Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority Scholarship - $500; Varsity Scholarship - $250. Madison Hall — Boice Family - $250; William Young - $250; We Care Scholarship - $500; John

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A fence along the Driftwood Elementary School field is decorated with posters of each Pacific High School Class of 2020 graduate on Friday for the ceremony and parade in Port Orford. Wahl Memorial - $500; Swanson Scholarship $500; Jerry & Bonnie Cox Scholarship - $684; Oregon Stewardship Believe You Can Achieve Scholarship - $800; SOU Laurels Academic Excellence Scholarship - $2,500 renewable for 4 years; Sea Breeze Scholarship in memory of Frank Cali $500; Lois Miller Memorial Scholarship - $1,000; Port Orford Rotary Club Scholarship - $4,000; Port Orford-Langlois Teacher Association Scholarship - $500; Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority Scholarship- $500; Sixes River Fire Protection District Scholarship - $100; Indian

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Creek Scholarship Curry County 4-H - $250; Marna Williams Scholarship Curry County 4-H - $200.

McKenzie Martin — Zuppe Memorial Scholarship - $250; Degrignon Scholarship - $250; We Care Scholarship - $500; Bill Magness Scholarship - $588; Port Orford Rotary Club Scholarship - $1,500.

Credit Union - South Coast Scholarship - $1,500; Brookings Lodge - Elks Scholarship - $1,000; Coos Curry Electric Scholarship - $1,000; OSU Finley Academic Excellence Award - $3,000 renewable for 4 years; Bandon Chamber of Commerce-Cranberry Court Miss Congeniality - $250, Platform Service Award - $250; Port Orford Rotary Club Scholarship $2,500; Dick Wold Family and Friends Scholarship - $500; Town & Country Scholarship Curry Co 4-H - $500

Natalie Vincent — Seeley Memorial - $80,000 over 4 years; Rogue

Atticus Wahl — Boice Family Scholarship $250; Colson Scholar-

Zeke McKenzie-Hernandez — Baker Scholarship - $500; Rumsey Scholarship Curry County 4-H - $2,000.

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disoriented and walking into vehicles and possibly bleeding from hand. Officers responded and the subject was fine and there was no injury to his hand.

Criminal Trespass At 1:13 a.m. on Newmark Street, a report was made of a previous trespassed subject at location. Officers checked the area and located the subjects at a previously trespassed location. They were advised to leave the property.

Arrest At 4:05 p.m. on Broadway Avenue, McDonald’s reported previously trespassed subject yelling at customers and locked the doors to keep him out. Quick-E Mart then reported him there and that he was intoxicated and yelling at people. Officers contacted the subject and warned him for trespass and to leave. The subject refused. Jerrod Strong, 34, was arrested for alleged criminal trespass 3 and transported to the Coos County Jail.

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ship - $250; Wm Young Scholarship - $250; Alice Jensen Memorial Scholarship - $250; John Wahl Memorial Scholarship - $500; Mckenzie Memorial Scholarship - $500; PHS Alumni Scholarship - $1,850; Port Orford Ambulance Scholarship - $500; Charlie & Wilma Jensen Memorial Scholarship - $1,096; Coos Curry Electric Luck of the Draw - $1,000; Daughters of American Revolution Good Citizenship Scholarship - $150; University of Oregon Pathway Scholarship - $13,475 per year renewable for 4 years The Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation was established as a scholarship organization in 1962, the year after the college

started. Since then, thousands of students have attended the college with our scholarships. Any student graduating with a total high school GPA of 3.75 or higher is eligible for a free 2-year tuition waiver worth nearly $9,000 to attend Southwestern. At Pacific High School this year there are four graduates who earned a 3.75 GPA or higher over the past four years and potentially qualify for this waiver. These students are: 1. Layne Converse 2. Madison Hall 3. Natalie Vincent 4. Atticus Wahl Congratulations to our scholarship recipients. Total scholarship award money awarded: $457,456

POWERS POLICE LOG Wednesday, May 27 At 5:01 p.m. on Kings Street, criminal mischief was handled. At 6:14 p.m. on Johnson Mountain Road and South Powers Road, an accident was reported. Friday, May 29 At 10:39 a.m. on Salmon Creek Road, a disturbance was reported. At 3:33 p.m. on South Powers Road, a suspicious vehicle was reported. At 10:47 p.m. on First Avenue and Poplar Street, driver issued a warning following a traffic stop.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Black Lives Matter I read the on line article about weeken protests and saw the picture of Brandon Moore wielding a gun and “allegedly” pointing that gun at the peaceful protesters on Saturday afternoon. I was surprised that his picture was not on the front page of the Monday paper. This may be shocking to some but it does not surprise me at all, not in this gun toting “good ole boy” county. Brandon Moore made a conscious choice to use his “white privilege” to wield a gun at innocent people expressing their First Amendment Rights! No one was accosting him; he was in his vehicle, safe from any harm other than his own FEAR, hate and racism. My thanks go to the police officers who arrested him. I hope he is held accountable for his egregious actions by our courts. The behavior of this young man just mirror the Coquille individuals who made the choice to arm themselves against a MYTH that no one, not even the Coos County Sheriff, chose to fact check. Unfounded FEAR along with the hate and bias that are born of it will only perpetuate themselves. My GRATITUDE too to the local people who protested on Saturday and Sunday and to the protesters across in our country and across globe for standing up and expressing their, OUR outrage at the despicable MURDER of George Floyd and all the other men and women of color who have died at the hands of unscrupulous police officers. Let’s just HOPE that this will move us all to examine how we can contribute and hold our politicians, employers, police, courts, social services, health and welfare services to structural and fundamental change that truly benefits people of color and the disenfranchised. No Caucasian can ever know what it’s like to be a person of color most especially a black person in this country. BLACK LIVES MATTER! Judy Moody Coos Bay The difference between right and wrong I want to thank the law-abiding citizens of Coquille for exercising their right to protect their property from those who would seek to destroy it. I’m glad I live in a town where there are still people who know the difference between right and wrong. Toni Griffin Coquille Thankful to serve as chaplain The Rev. Alfreda Pinther Batdorff is thankful for her 37 years of service as a volunteer Chaplain

at the Bay Area Hospital. At the encouragement of her husband Jim and Pastor Tom Colby she traveled to Portland and graduated from the National Institute of Chaplaincy Studies in 1994. This qualified her for serving as a police, fire department and hospital chaplain. In a three year period she visited every state prison in the State of Oregon. Alfreda began her hospital chaplaincy work under the direction of Dr. Napp at Berkley Baptist Divinity School in California in 1959. She chose to be undenominational, and serves all who want to seek the help of a chaplain. As a born again Christian, she has had the joy of doing weddings, baptisms and burials for people of many denominations. Alfreda is thankful for her support of her family, friends, Pastor Don Ford of Harmony United Methodist Church and the hospital for those many years. Rev. Alfreda Pinther Batdorff Coos County Bird watching This is for all of you in our hometown of Reedsport. I step out on the front and back porch to smoke numerous times per day. Thirty days ago, I decided to write down every species of bird that I observed. We live on Fir Avenue downtown about 300 yards from Schofield Slough. Without a doubt, I missed a bunch of birds that were just passing through. Our next door neighbor has a huge amount of various tweety bird feeders. Therefore, the large amount of those witnessed. There are probably many more. All-in-all, the list is rather remarkable just for the fact that anyone can participate from their own yard. I was always a bird hunter when I could get around better. I think it made me a much better observer. Have fun! Make your own list. Binoculars help a lot. There is a minimum of 56 species here. This is my list: 5 various duck species – surely more, Canadian Honkers, Turkey Vultures, Bald Eagle, Double-Crested Cormorants, Belted Kingfishers, American Robins, Varied thrushes, Red-tailed hawk, red-winged blackbirds, brewer’s blackbirds, European starlings, waxwings, 3 varieties of hummingbirds, flicker, 2 types of red-headed woodpeckers, American crowds, raven, barn swallows, tree swallows, rock doves, band-tailed pigeons, at least 20 various tweety birds, ospreys, I heard a definite owl one night at midnight, western gulls, snowy egrets, great blue herons, steller’s jays, and American coots. Jason Campbell Winchester Bay

The marvels of home farming Farm-to-table refers to freshly grown produce — that is, fruits and vegetables not transported from some distant time zone or even hemisphere but recently harvested on boutique acreage just outside town. The foodie media trumpet the virtues of local food sources, and their cosmopolitan audience tries to honor them when they visit farmer’s markets or read menus. But first, apologies to country people who’ve been planting their own food forever without fanfare or trend attached. There’s no shorter distance to the table than one’s own property. The coronavirus-imposed home confinement has given city and suburban Americans time and reason to join the home growers. They’ve been doing it in pots, on windowsills and on any open patch of earth. The Burpee seed company says its sales have soared at a rate two or three times that of a year ago. Will this passion survive the reopening of other activities? Or have people who turned over strips of stressed grass to vegetables seen other reasons to keep going? Besides super-fresh food, home growing provides exercise, fresh air and meditation in nature. For we chained to computers, weed picking has become a nice break, affording an opportunity to pry our eyeballs off the screen — and notice there’s an outdoors. Ah, I’m back.

Edibles can be beautiful. Eggplant and tomatoes in pots provide dashes of color and add (hoo-ha) architectural interest. A planter full of red chard leaves makes for an exotic “accent” plant -- at least until harvest. I do share some of my picky friends’ misgivings toward industrial agriculture. Those duchysize empires tend to mass-produce tomatoes and carrots that don’t taste like much but have long shelf life. That backyard farming lets us try varieties not conducive to factory farming is not a well-kept secret. Just try to find a Brandywine tomato plant at your garden shop these days. Still, let’s be honest about modern agriculture. When my celery crop fails, it’s nice to know I can go to the store. And I do appreciate being able to buy lettuce and avocados in January. As summer progresses, however, I always marvel at how much food can be grown on a fraction of an acre. And in recent months, when lockdowns closed off some of the more expensive pursuits -- eating out, concerts, travel -- we stuck at home baking and gardening have uncovered a pleasant side benefit: marvelously low credit card balances. Follow Froma Harrop on Twitter @FromaHarrop. She can be reached at fharrop@gmail. com. To find out more about Froma Harrop, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.

ON THIS DAY

in Coos County history

100 YEARS June 10, 1920

Address Pleases Large Audience Henry G. Hawn Pleases A Large Gathering Representing the State Chamber of Commerce He Appears at the Millicoma Club A large number of persons attended the smoker and reception given last evening by the Marshfield executive committee of the State Chamber of Commerce at the Millicoma Club in honor of Henry Gaines Hawn of Portland who spoke on “Oregon and It’s Opportunities.” Mr. Hawn made an eloquent address, for forty-five minutes, on the possibilities for the development of the Coos Bay harbor lumber, coal and dairy industries. Everyone present was inspired with a desire to cooperate not only with the State Chamber of Commerce but with the local Chamber of Commerce and to help in any other way to build up the community.

50 YEARS

June 10, 1970 Board Members Honor William Walsh SWOCC Approves Ralph Nader Talk on Campus By Gordon Davlin, Staff Writer An October lecture engagement at Southwestern Oregon Community College by Ralph Nader, consumer

protection advocate, was approved Tuesday night by the college board of directors. Approval of the Nader lecture, tentatively set to cover environmental issues, came during a regular meeting of the board on a recommendation by SWOCC president Jack Brookins. Brookins told board member the Nader lecture would start the school’s efforts to bring to the campus each term a speaker of “national caliber.” The board also approved the 1970-71 SWOCC operating budget, which called for total expenditures of $2,343,985. General fund outlays for personal services, including instructor salaries, were set at $1,223,365. The total general fund was set at $1,929,050, with a capital outlay expense of $215,000.

15 YEARS

June 10, 2005 Coos Bay City Council shoots down Empire waterfront re-design request By Penny Gillson, Editorial Assistant They’ve been through it all before. At its Tuesday evening meeting, the Coos Bay City Council opted not to consider a request to decrease the size of the Empire Waterfront Settlement Design area and dissolve the Historic Design Review Committee. The request was filed by Bay Area Athletic Club owner Mark

McPeek. McPeek is planning to add a gym to the eastern side of the club. The facility likely would house an NBA-size basketball court, gymnastics area and a children’s activity area. However, McPeek also has plans for it to be constructed out of metal, which may or may not fit into the requirements for the design area. Land rights activists berate proposed plan By Carl Mickelson, Staff Writer The allies of several thousand endangered seabirds and shorebirds that died after an oil spill in 1999 didn’t make a peep Wednesday night during a public comment session on a restoration plan that seeks to bolster the bird populations. Instead, several employees of the Bureau of Land Management, on hand at the North Bend Public Library to listen to feedback on the plan, heard from numerous outspoken foes of the plan. Some threatened lawsuits if the draft plan wasn’t changed, while others voiced serious reservations over the great expense specified to compensate for the birds’ deaths. ------------------------------------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.

GUEST OPINION Understanding ‘Right to Work Refusals’ as Oregon Begins Reopening While things are far from business as usual, we are seeing a modest start to reopening across the state of Oregon. Though Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties have not entered phase one, and there is no date set, as of May 21, almost all other counties have begun the process. At Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific, we advocate for the small business owner. That is who we serve and have supported for more than a hundred years. We understand that it’s these small businesses hurting the most amid COVID-19 and, therefore, are among the organizations most eager to open their doors and start transacting. But we also know safety is the top priority, both for employees and customers. With hundreds of thousands of employees laid off or furloughed across the state, times are truly tough. Recent statistics show that Oregon’s unemployment rate soared to 14.2% in April. And though being out of work is never ideal, changes under the CARES Act have resulted in many workers making more money on unemployment than they were at their jobs. Going back to work might not seem attractive – at least not until things are more “normal.” With ours ears to the ground, BBB has been listening to the concerns of these small business owners. One question we keep hearing is, “What do I do if my employee does not want to come back to work because they are making more money on unemployment?”

This is an issue many are bracing for, and as an employer, there is action you can take. Federal law requires those on a temporary layoff related to the COVID-19 pandemic return to work when called back. Failure to do so when work is available could be considered a “refusal of work” and potentially disqualifies the claimant from continuing to receive unemployment insurance benefits. In short, if there is work available and the employee declines, they forfeit their right to collect unemployment. Employers should report these refusals to their state unemployment division right away. However, details will matter. Notice words like “could” and “potentially” in the previous paragraph. This is because the context of the situation will be assessed. Assuming your business has been allowed to reopen under Oregon’s phased approach, is it indeed safe for your employee to return to your specific work environment? This is a relevant question. Be ready to provide details regarding the dates the employee refused to work, what type of work was offered, how the work was offered and by whom, as well as the reason given by the claimant for not accepting the work. BBB cannot advise on what employers can and cannot do in this situation, nor can we advise what protocols employers can legally put in place as they reopen – such as taking temperatures, signing waivers, mandating masks at all times, etc. What we can do is provide best practices – what we have seen and heard being done across the Northwest and what we believe

to be general tips everyone should consider to create a safe work environment. Consider the following: The availability of space for social distancing and if your location can accommodate the necessary parameters Daily sanitizing of the establishment and high-touch areas Indoor face-covering requirements and what protective equipment, if any, you will be providing Work-from-home policies – determine if those who can work from home may continue to do so The availability of sanitizing wipes, sprays, gels, etc. for your employees and customers Adapted sick policies that clearly state when a person should stay home and plainly communicate there is no pressure to come in when someone doesn’t feel well Create a whistleblower system where employees can report health violations without fear of repercussions Implementing these types of safeguards will serve business owners well as they invite their employees to come back. More information on when an employee is within their rights to refuse to come back to work due to “danger” can be found on the Occupation Health and Safety Administration website. Please note, BBB does not handle employer-employee issues and we encourage all concerns be reported to the State of Oregon Employment Department. Danielle Kane Oregon State Director for the Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2020  |  A5

The World

Newport seafood plant hit hard by outbreak SALEM (AP) — Newport, a small coastal city, has been a blip on the radar when it comes to confirmed coronavirus cases in Oregon. Until Sunday. “Up until this point the pandemic has been distant. We have watched it unfold in other communities around the world, but not in our own,” Kaety Jacobson, chair of the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners, said during a news conference Monday. “In the last 48 hours that has changed. We now have a large outbreak in our community.” More than 120 workers at Pacific Seafood, a Newport seafood plant, have tested positive for the virus, the company said Sunday. “This county has done really well over the last three months,” said David Long, the health officer for Lincoln County Public Health. “I think many of us felt that it was never really going to hit us here and so, waking up yesterday and hearing the news about 124 cases at Pacific Seafood was a shock to many of us.” The first signs of a possible outbreak came June 2, when Pacific Seafood had its first positive case. The next day, there were additional confirmed cases.

By Sunday, 376 workers had been tested. Out of those tested, 53 employees and 71 locally-based contractors tested positive, according to Pacific Seafood. About 95% were asymptomatic, state officials said. The outbreak contributed to Oregon’s highest case total in a single day as the state reported 146 cases Sunday. Health officials have reported about 5,000 positive cases, with at least 169 deaths. Pacific Seafood, which manages all parts of the supply chain from harvesting and fishing to processing, and distribution of seafood, beef, pork and poultry, has since suspended all operations. Lincoln County Public Health officials are working on contact tracing and urging people who know they have come in contact with someone who has COVID-19, to self-isolate. The county isn’t the only area that has seen an uptick in cases coming from the agriculture and food packing industry. In the state’s most recent weekly report published June 3, there were 19 worksites with outbreaks. The majority were agriculture or food packing businesses.

Among those worksites are two Townsend Farms locations in Multnomah County with 86 cases and National Frozen Foods in Linn County with 41 cases. Officials said the next weekly report, with updated outbreak at worksites tallies, will be published Wednesday. Six coronavirus deaths have been associated with workplace outbreaks. “A lot of people are working and living in conditions that are higher risk. For example, agricultural workers, many of whom are kind of in labor camps or labor housing, are in close quarters,” said Tom Jeanne a deputy health officer at the Oregon Health Authority. Instead of implementing fines or penalties, Paul Cieslack, the medical director for communicable diseases and immunizations, said the health authority, Department of Agriculture and county officials are working with agriculture and food packing businesses to create guidelines to reduce the spread of the disease as well as provide more testing. “We want to work with them and get them to adopt practices that will reduce the risk to everyone,” Cieslack said.

CrossFit founder retires amid social media backlash from tweet Associated Press The founder and CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and a wave of affiliated gyms cut ties with the company. Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week. Greg Glassman said on CrossFit Inc.’s website late Tuesday that he would retire. Glassman had apologized earlier for tweets that sparked online outrage by connecting Floyd, an African American man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, and the coronavirus pandemic in a tweet. He said he had made a mistake and should have been more sensitive, but denied being racist. “On Saturday I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members,” Glassman said. “I cannot let my behavior stand in the way of HQ’s or affiliates’ missions.” Glassman’s exit may have been sealed after

Buzzfeed posted a Zoom call he held with some CrossFit affiliates in which Glassman reportedly said: “We’re not mourning for George Floyd — I don’t think me or any of my staff are.” Buzzfeed said it received the recording through its anonymous tip line. The Zoom call took place hours before Glassman made a glib response on Twitter to a post by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research group, which said, “Racism is a public health issue.” “ It’s FLOYD-19,” he replied Saturday, and in a second tweet criticized the group’s “failed” quarantine model and accused it of attempting to “model a solution to racism.” Some 1,250 gyms have now severed links with CrossFit, according to industry blog Morning Chalk Up. An anonymously-curated Google spreadsheet lists hundreds of CrossFit affiliates with links to their social media accounts, with most saying they have

Grand jury clears deputies in Clackamas County shooting MILWAUKIE (AP) — A grand jury has concluded that three Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputies were justified in their use of deadly force on a man in response to an April 11 call in the Milwaukie area. The shooting happened at the home of Lori and Tim Barker after she called 911 to report that her husband had been drinking and was acting irrationally, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Barker said her husband was armed and that she was unable to safely leave the house, according to the sheriff’s office. She said she was upstairs with her son, Brody Stronks, 27. In a call from Stronks, a deputy noted he heard Stronks tell Barker that he would shoot him if he tried to enter the room. Authorities said they also heard a gunshot that they later determined came from Barker. Deputies Nate Ariel, Tanner Davis and Janson Bento entered the house

and found Timothy Barker with a shotgun, before the deputies fired a total of 10 rounds at Barker, according to the sheriff’s office. He died at the home. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office released the records Monday of its investigation into the fatal shooting by its deputies in response to a public records request. Lori Barker told police after the shooting that her husband was as a nonviolent man who apparently became upset over her son’s plans to drive several hours to see his brother during the coronavirus pandemic. The grand jury convened May 27 and determined the use of force was justified, the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office said. Barker has retained a lawyer, Christopher Larsen, who said Monday he would review the shooting investigation and that Barker is considering filing a civil lawsuit against the sheriff’s office.

cut ties, or are considering doing so. “In light of recent comments made by CrossFit CEO, we are deaffiliating from CrossFit,” read a post on the Instagram account for CrossFit Central of Austin, Texas. “We are resolute in our anti racist beliefs and stance against police police brutality. We stand in solidarity with the black community.” The post by CrossFit Central echoed the sentiments of hundreds of other gyms around the world in what has been an astonishingly swift backlash against CrossFit. According to the CrossFit website, the annual fee for affiliation is $3,000, which allows gyms to use the CrossFit name, logo, and promotional materials, among other perks. CrossFit is based in Santa Cruz, California. Floyd died while handcuffed after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes. His death set off protests around the U.S. and the globe.

DEATH NOTICES Gene Clark - 79, of Coquille, died June 8, 2020 in Roseburg, Arrangements are pending with Amling/ Schroeder Funeral Service-Coquille Chapel 541396-3846. Venita Von Faulk - 86, of North Bend, passed away on June 8, 2020 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440. Margaret Ann Sitterson - 66, of Charleston, passed away June 9, 2020 in Charleston. Arrangements are under the care of Ocean View Memory Gardens Cremation & Burial Service, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com A Funeral Mass will be held for Karen Ann Hassett - 70, of North Bend, on Friday, June 12th at 12:00 p.m. at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 2250 16th Street in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440, www.coosbayareafunerals.com.

Charles “Elwood” Mitchell October 7, 1928 – June 5, 2020

A public visitation for Charles “Elwood” Mitchell, 91, of Coos Bay will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2020 at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Avenue in Coos Bay. A graveside service will follow at 2:00 pm at Sunset Memorial Park, 63060 Millington Frontage Road in Coos Bay. C. Elwood Mitchell was born October 7, 1928 in Eugene, Oregon to Charles

E. Mitchell and Nina O. Lewis. He passed away Friday, June 5, 2020. Elwood attended North Bend High School and went to work for Coos Bay Lumber in 1946. He continued working there with Georgia Pacific until its closure in the early 1980s. He served the community as a volunteer fireman, rising to Assistant Chief of Millington Rural Fire Protection District #5 when a heart condition ended his participation. He went on to work for Wallace Security at the Coquille mill until its closure. Elwood was an avid fisherman, and loved traveling by auto. Recently he has enjoyed writing historical short stories of his life, and an Oregon Trail docudrama.

Elwood is survived by his sister, Donna Pilcher; sons, David and Kevin Mitchell; foster daughter, Jill Myers; grandchildren, Bill Trichos, Dimitri Trichos, Voula Trichos, Chrysti Trichos, Joy Trichos, Dina Mitchell, Wendy Mitchell, Sheena Diaz, Josh Mitchell, Davy Mitchell, Dennis Mitchell; and many great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Lucy and Opal; the love his life, Letha; daughters, Mary and Joyce, and son, Robert. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131. Friends and family are encouraged to sign the online guestbook at www. coosbayareafunerals.com

FCC seeks big fine in robocall case Associated Press The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers. The Federal Communications Commission said John Spiller and Jakob Mears made the calls through two businesses. State attorneys general of Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas also sued the two men and their companies, Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, in federal court in Texas, where both men live, for violating the federal law governing telemarketing, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

The FCC said the robocalls offered plans from major insurers like Aetna and UnitedHealth with an automated message. If consumers pressed a button for more information, however, they were transferred to a call center that sold plans not connected to those companies. The FCC said the Missouri attorney general sued Rising Eagle’s largest client, Health Advisors of America, for telemarketing violations last year. Over more than four months in early 2019, the FCC said, these telemarketers faked the number their calls displayed in caller ID with intent to deceive consumers; purposefully called people who are on the Do Not Call list; and called people’s mobile phones without getting permission first.

Consumers weren’t the only ones bothered. The telemarketers faked their calls to make them appear they came from other companies, which then received angry calls and were named in lawsuits from consumers. The FCC didn’t name these companies, but said one got so many calls that its phone network “became unusable.” As robocalls became a pressing issue for consumers, both as an annoyance and as a vehicle for fraud, the FCC has pushed carriers to do more to stop them. A new law beefs up enforcement and mandates that the phone industry not charge for call-blocking tools and put in place a system designed to weed out “spoofed” calls made using fake numbers.

DEAR ABBY By Abigail Van Buren Man keeps granddaughter a secret from his ex-wife DEAR ABBY: I divorced my wife 20 years ago, leaving behind two daughters. My older girl was 5 when I left, and due to my ex’s lies, I wasn’t able to see them. When my older daughter turned 18, she contacted me. She confessed that she had been forced to lie in court, and we reconnected. At 19, she came to me pregnant. She asked if I would take her baby and asked that I tell no one, especially her mother. I agreed. Last year, my daughter died in a car wreck. My granddaughter will turn 4. Should I go against my daughter’s wishes, tell my ex and risk her taking her? Or should I let things remain as they are? My current wife and I are the only people who know. -- SECRET IN VIRGINIA DEAR SECRET: I urge you to discuss this matter with a lawyer because there may be legal ramifications. Your former wife has demonstrated she is the kind of person who would force a child to lie in a custody matter. Having done it once, she’s capable of doing something equally underhanded. I am trying hard to come up with a reason why you should go against your daughter’s wishes and disclose this to your ex, and I cannot think of a single one. DEAR ABBY: I’m concerned about my daughter. She’s 12 and wants to hang out with a 21-year-old male volunteer from her school. His mother works there, and I’ve known their family for a few years, although we’ve never socialized. Recently, my daughter said she wants to meet him at a park to learn some skateboard moves. She tries to tell me it’s harmless, that he just likes the skateboarding sport, but I am uncomfortable about the age difference and the fact that he works at her school. I don’t know what to do. What’s your advice in this situation? -- STUMPED IN CALIFORNIA DEAR STUMPED: Although the young man’s motives may be pure, I do not think your daughter should be meeting him at the park without supervision.

Accompany her so you can gauge the situation. Because he is volunteering at her school, you should first check to see if that kind of fraternization is allowed because it may not be, and it could cost him his position. DEAR ABBY: Am I awful because I don’t sympathize when people put their business on the internet? For example, I read some comments on YouTube, and this woman was talking about how “all men cheat.” I told her maybe it’s just all the men she opens her legs to. My account was suspended for a week because of it. Another time, a man was talking about how none of his many kids talk to him. I asked what he had done to them that none of them speak to him, and he got mad. Abby, I’m not looking for trouble. I feel that if you can’t take someone not kissing up to you, stop putting your business out there. Am I wrong? -STRAIGHTFORWARD IN THE WEST DEAR STRAIGHTFORWARD: I think so. When traits were handed out, it appears someone forgot to give you a filter. I agree that some people overshare online and doing it comes with a risk. However, your comments weren’t helpful; in fact, they were cruel. When a bee stings, its prey tries to swat it away, and that’s what’s happening to you. To avoid trouble, curb your impulse to comment, or be prepared to deal with the consequences that are sure to follow. ----------------------------------------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. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.

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Grammys make changes to several awards categories NEW YORK (AP) — The Recording Academy is making changes to several Grammy Awards categories, including the often-debated best new artist title, and having nomination review committee members sign disclosure forms to prevent conflicts of interest. The new rules announced Wednesday will affect the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, which will air live on Jan. 31, 2021. The best new artist award

has been criticized for decades, and the academy has tried to evolve with the ever-changing music industry by continually updating the category’s rules. In recent years, the award has been scrutinized because the academy placed a song and album limit, disqualifying certain performers. But the new rules say, “there is no longer a specified maximum number of releases prohibiting artists from entering” the category.

The change will benefit younger artists, specifically rappers, who tend to release many singles and therefore did not qualify in recent years because they surpassed the 30-song limit. Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga missed out on being best new artist nominees because of the category’s rules in the years they marked their breakthroughs. The academy also said musicians invited to participate in a nomination review committee —

in place to safeguard a specific genre’s integrity and to serve as additional checks and balances — will have to agree to the terms of a conflict of interest disclosure form. Committee participants will have to reveal if they would benefit from an artist’s nomination for that category, whether the ties are financial, familial or creative. If a conflict is discovered, that person would not be allowed to sit on that committee that year.

Some of the new changes could be a response to former Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan, who was fired only months into her job and days before the 2020 Grammys, held in January. Dugan had said the awards show was rigged and muddled with conflicts of interest. Questions have loomed for years around the nominations process for the Grammys, but the doubts reached a new level following Dugan’s comments.

The academy has said that nominees are selected from contenders voted into the top 20 in each category. But critics have called the voting less than transparent, because the choice of finalists happens behind closed doors. That has stirred claims that members of key nominating committees promote projects they worked on or projects they favor based on personal relationships.

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As Season 4 resumes, not only is Sutton Brady “The Bold Type,” she’s also the newlywed type. Played by Meghann Fahy, she’s been promoted to stylist at the fashion magazine Scarlet ... a major consideration along with her new, bicoastal marriage to attorney Richard Hunter (Sam Page) as the Freeform drama series returns with new episodes Thursday, June 11. Also of concern is the health of

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her close friend and co-worker Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), who was about to undergo surgery when the show left off – and as usual, their comrade Kat Edison (Aisha Dee) is dealing with both personal and professional challenges. “Sutton and Richard have been such a staple couple from the beginning, I think it’s really exciting for the viewers to see them finally commit to each other in this way,” the pleasant Fahy reasons. “It’s what they’ve been wanting, and what everybody else has been wanting for them, so it feels like a really nice payoff.” If it’s “The Bold Type,” that couldn’t come without a catch, it being the long-hoped-for New York career opportunity that has kept Sutton from moving to San Francisco with Richard. “This is sort of a theme of their relationship,” notes Fahy, “but I think the thing that really anchors Sutton and Richard is their ability and willingness to listen to and support each other’s passions. “They are faced with all kinds of tough decisions, but at the end of the day, they’re able to see their relationship through the lens of what is going to make their partner the happiest, most

authentic version of themselves. And that is a beautiful thing to show.” Fahy also is enjoying Sutton’s more equal footing with her mentor Oliver (Stephen Conrad Moore), deeming “the evolution of that is really pleasing to watch play out. She’s had to pay her dues.” With co-star Melora Hardin (alias Scarlet editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle) having directed one of the newest episodes, “The Bold Type” ended filming on Season 4 earlier than expected ... since as with so many other series, the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to production. Still, without knowing yet whether the show will get another round, Fahy (whose fellowactor boyfriend, Billy Magnussen, is in the forthcoming James Bond movie “No Time to Die”) says she’s satisfied with the way this season concludes. “The thing that’s so cool about our show,” she reflects, “is that the writers really put a lot of work into each episode’s arc. Everyone’s storyline is really strong, so it left us in a really great position to finish the season. I hope we get to do more, but everything is really up in the air right now. It’s hard to know.”

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George Floyd fondly remembered at funeral HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice. More than 500 mourners wearing masks against the coronavirus packed a Houston church a little more than two weeks after Floyd was pinned to the pavement by a white Minneapolis police officer who put a knee on his neck for what prosecutors said was 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Cellphone video of the encounter, including Floyd’s pleas of “I can’t breathe,” ignited protests and scattered violence across the U.S. and around the world, turning the 46-year-old Floyd — a man who in life was little known beyond the public housing project where he was raised in Houston’s Third Ward — into a worldwide

symbol of injustice. “Third Ward, Cuney Homes, that’s where he was born at,” Floyd’s brother, Rodney, told mourners at the Fountain of Praise church. “But everybody is going to remember him around the world. He is going to change the world.” The funeral capped six days of mourning for Floyd in three cities: Raeford, North Carolina, near where he was born; Houston, where he grew up; and Minneapolis, where he died. The memorials have drawn the families of other black victims whose names have become familiar in the debate over race and justice — among them, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin. After the service, Floyd’s golden casket was taken by hearse to the cemetery in the Houston suburb of Pearland to be entombed next to his mother, for whom he cried out as he lay dying. A mile from the graveyard, the casket was transferred

to a glass-sided carriage drawn by a pair of white horses. A brass band played as his casket was taken inside the mausoleum. Hundreds of people, some chanting, “Say his name, George Floyd,” gathered along the procession route and outside the cemetery entrance in the mid-90s heat. “I don’t want to see any black man, any man, but most definitely not a black man sitting on the ground in the hands of bad police,” said Marcus Brooks, 47, who set up a tent with other graduates of Jack Yates High School, Floyd’s alma mater. In the past two weeks, amid the furor over Floyd’s death, sweeping and previously unthinkable things have taken place: Confederate statues have been toppled, and many cities are debating overhauling, dismantling or cutting funding for police departments. Authorities in some places have barred police from using choke-

holds or are otherwise rethinking policies on the use of force. Dozens of Floyd’s family members, most dressed in white, took part in the four-hour service. Grammy-winning singer Ne-Yo was among those who sang. The mourners included actors Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum, J.J. Watt of the NFL’s Houston Texans, rapper Trae tha Truth, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who brought the crowd to its feet when he announced he will sign an executive order banning chokeholds in the city. “I know you have a lot of questions that no child should have to ask, questions that too many black children have had to ask for generations: Why? Why is Daddy gone?” former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, said, addressing Floyd’s 6-yearold daughter in a video eulogy

played at the service. “Now is the time for racial justice. That’s the answer we must give to our children when they ask why.” Biden made no mention of his opponent in November. But other speakers took swipes at President Donald Trump, who has ignored demands to address racial bias and has called on authorities to crack down hard on lawlessness. “The president talks about bringing in the military, but he did not say one word about 8 minutes and 46 seconds of police murder of George Floyd,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist. “He challenged China on human rights. But what about the human right of George Floyd?” Most of the pews were full, with relatively little space between people. “So much for social distancing today,” the Rev. Remus Wright told mourners, gently but firmly instructing those attending to wear face masks.

Small cities have been left behind in virus relief ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Unfilled potholes, uncollected trash, unmowed grass and, most significantly, fewer police on the street are some of what Allentown says it’s contemplating unless Washington helps it plug a multimillion-dollar budget hole left by the coronavirus pandemic. Pennsylvania’s third-largest city, with a population of over 120,000, Allentown has largely fended for itself amid sharply falling tax revenue. It’s one of thousands of smaller cities and counties across the U.S. that were cut off from direct aid in the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package passed by Congress in late March. Local officials in those left-out places are now pleading for a massive cash infusion from the federal government to help them stave off financial calamity. “We represent the average city. If cities like Allentown begin to crumble, that’s how America crumbles,” said City Coun-

cil member Ce-Ce Gerlach. “So something needs to be done. We need help.” The federal CARES Act sent $150 billion to states and the nation’s most populous cities and counties to help them pay for expenses related to the virus outbreak. But only 36 cities met the population threshold of 500,000 or more to qualify for the money. With the next round of aid stalled in Congress — and no guarantee of a federal bailout anytime soon — Allentown and other local governments are facing tough choices about what to cut and what to keep. Already, cities are dipping into reserves, canceling road projects, postponing routine maintenance, cutting parks and recreation programs, and furloughing staff. State and local governments have shed more than 1.5 million jobs since the beginning of March, the U.S. Labor Department reported last week. The National League of Cities says municipalities could be

looking at $360 billion in red ink through 2022. “I am hearing from our members all across the country that every day that goes by, the situation is increasingly dire,” said Irma Esparza Diggs, the group’s chief lobbyist. That’s especially true in Pennsylvania, where cities and towns could see a 40% revenue shortfall — the most of any state, according to a League of Cities analysis. Allentown predicts a budget deficit of over $10 million, a number officials say could go higher if the economy doesn’t rebound quickly. Like other local governments, Allentown has already been paring back. The city furloughed as many as 87 people out of a work force of 783, and all city department chiefs were ordered to slice another 7% from their budgets, including for police, fire and emergency medical services. Tax hikes, for now, appear to be off the table. City leaders raised proper-

ty taxes by 27% two years ago and say residents can’t bear another increase, especially in the middle of a pandemic and historic unemployment. “It wasn’t fair,” Mayor Ray O’Connell said of the lack of federal support. “The cities are the backbone, the heart of the state and the nation, and to get nothing ... we’re scrambling.” A $3 trillion relief bill passed in May by the U.S. House, where Democrats have the majority, included nearly $1 trillion for state and local governments. It has no chance of passing in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, where prospects for future aid to states and cities remain uncertain. Allentown, a former industrial center about an hour north of Philadelphia, had been revitalizing its moribund downtown before the pandemic struck. State tax incentives contributed to development that included a new hockey arena, gleaming office buildings and upscale apartments. Yet

Allentown remains a poor city, with over a quarter of its residents living in poverty, more than twice the rate of surrounding Lehigh County and Pennsylvania as a whole. The pandemic hit the city hard. About 2,300 people in Allentown have tested positive for the virus — an infection rate higher than Philadelphia’s — and 67 have died. The economy has suffered, too, with businesses deemed nonessential forced to close their doors for 2 1/2 months. Allentown’s main street was virtually devoid of pedestrians and auto traffic on a recent Friday afternoon, though some pandemic restrictions have since been lifted and retailers were allowed to reopen last Friday. “One of the things that’s most disheartening right now is we had a lot of really good momentum going,” said Santo Napoli, owner of assembly88, a men’s clothing store downtown. “You have all this great momentum and then, March, the sky falls with

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Kaiya Gourneau poses for a photo with Port Orford-Langlois Schools Superintendent Steve Perkins after receiving her Pacific High School diploma Friday in Port Orford. Class of 2020 that we will enjoy the journey of our lives, overcome any challenge, accomplish our goals and always remember the people who have impacted our lives, propelling us forward in our journey. Thank you again to our families, school and communities for your support

for the Class of 2020. It has been an honor to live and learn alongside you all. And finally, to my fellow graduates, thank you for an amazing high school experience. For all your future endeavors, good luck and god speed.” Layne Ash Converse valedictorian speech:

https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=x4FvZsLroEI Madison Lucille Hall salutatorian speech: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=fRd9KQjJsDs Class of 2020 senior video: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=jYIdzlKcqXc

referencing the city’s limit for housing expansion and resulting property taxes. “I’ve heard from the public about (a unified) 911 call center and I think we can look at that in the future. I heard from County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins that the group is ready to come to the table again and start talking. That’s a good sign ….” Mayor Rick Wetherell said that in his 24

years, “this is the most heart-wrenching and difficult decision.” “… We’ve been asked to apologize by a citizen and I apologize for my part in the process, but in order to have a safe city and a city we want to live in, I would follow the course again,” he said. “If you think our hearts aren’t bleeding for employees, you don’t know us very well.” After the meeting, North

Bend Police Chief Robert Kappelman handed a written statement to The World about the budget decision, stating that he is sad and disappointed that citizens “have no idea the caliber of the officers they gave up” but that he does because he recruited them. “I hired them and I worked with them,” he wrote. “These officers are some of the best I’ve seen and they will honorably

serve their community, unfortunately that will no longer be North Bend.” He listed the names of the five officers: Jeremy Bowman, Nycolma White, Shawn Fleming, Scottie Lathrom and Steven Carlson. To them, he wrote, “I salute your service and your families’ sacrifices and I was humbled to be your chief.”

for,” he said. “We remain committed to building trust in the community and particularly in communities of color.” He also asked people to support the officers during this time of change and said that officers and detectives will still respond and investigate shootings while the approach to lowering gun violence is reshaped. Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner said on Facebook Tuesday that disbanding and defunding the gun violence

reduction team “will send shock waves to the community, reversing years of hard work.” He said the union will continue to come to the table on issues of changing

police policy, state laws and police accountability. “But we must also look at the broader impact and the upstream ideologies that affect what we see played out in our communities,”

Turner said. Wheeler said he expects to have some difficult conversations with the union and some debates but said, “We all want this community to be safe.”

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According to representative William Bradley Woodruff, the company would like to begin the building process “as soon as possible.” He also said that the process should take less than a year, but would be dependent on the weather.

While the commission approved the plans for Timber Cove, there is a 15-day window for the public to submit an appeal for the project. This is rare, according to Johnson. The deadline to submit an appeal is June 24.

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Baseball players counter with 89-game plan NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players moved toward teams but remained far apart economically in their latest proposal for starting the pandemic-delayed season, adamant they receive full prorated salaries while offering to cut the regular season to 89 games. The proposal by the players’ association, given to Major League Baseball electronically Tuesday evening without a negotiating session, was detailed to The Associated Press by a pair of people familiar with the negotiations. They spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcements were authorized. MLB did not appear to view the proposal as productive but made no comment. MLB has said that absent an agreement it

NASCAR will allow some fans DAN GELSTON Associated Press

NASCAR is ready to reopen to fans. One of the few sports to run in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, NASCAR is now the largest to allow fans to return as more states relax their business shutdowns. NASCAR decided a limited number of fans can attend races this month at Homestead-Miami Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR says all fans will be screened before entering, required to wear face coverings, mandated to social distance at six feet, and will not have access to the infield, among other revised operational protocols. NASCAR will allow up to 1,000 Florida service members, representing the Homestead Air Reserve Base and U.S. Southern Command in Doral, to attend the Cup Series race Sunday as honorary guests and view the race from the grandstands. Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama will allow up to 5,000 guests in the frontstretch grandstands/towers for the June 21 Cup race. There will be limited motorhome/camping spots available outside the track. “It’s a cautious, conservative approach,” said Daryl Wolfe, NASCAR executive vice president and chief sales and operations officer. “We feel confident in our plan. Also it doesn’t mean that we won’t also have additional learnings and adapt our plan going forward. That’s the whole purpose of being very slow, methodical in phasing this in.” NASCAR has returned to racing, but had not allowed fans inside the tracks in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. “We’re going to have a lot of hand sanitizing, hand washing,” said John Bobo, NASCAR vice president of racing operations. “One of the things that I’m kind of proud of to see is we’re going to have a clean team, a clean team that’s at track constantly cleaning everything very visibly for every guest that’s there to know we’re doing everything we can to keep them safe. We feel confident in the plan.” Bobo declined to reveal if NASCAR has had anyone test positive for COVID-19 since racing resumed May 17 at Darlington Raceway. Supercross said earlier this month no one tested positive for the virus when it resumed with 705 riders, team members and race officials on site. The Cup Series race Wednesday night at Martinsville Speedway and a doubleheader weekend June 27 and 28 at Pocono Raceway will be held without fans. NASCAR said it was prepared to handle the increased crowds. Wolfe said there could be limited hospitality at Talladega. “We’re going to have PPE there for fans if they didn’t bring their own,” Bobo said. “We’re going to instruct fans to do it. Then staff is also going to make sure that we do have compliance in that area when needed politely.”

could go ahead with a shorter schedule of perhaps 50 games. Players made their move one day after management cut its proposed schedule from 82 games to 76. The union proposed the regular season start July 10 and end Oct. 11 — the day before a possible Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The union accepted MLB’s plan to expand the postseason from 10 teams to as many as 16. However, if management announces a schedule without an agreement, it would not be able to alter the established postseason format. The players’ plan would have the World Series end in mid-tolate November, and players said they would accept MLB’s proposal to have the ability to shift

postseason games to neutral sites. Teams say they fear a second wave of the coronavirus and do not want to extend the World Series past October. Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem told the union a 76-game schedule could not be staged unless players agreed to a deal by Wednesday. Players continue to insist on full prorated salaries as specified in the March 26 agreement between the perpetually feuding sides. The deal gave players service time in the event no games are played this year along with a $170 million salary advance. MLB says that because the season likely would be played in empty ballparks without fans, the absence of gate-related revenue would lead to a loss of $640,000 for each additional game played,

a figure the union questions. MLB’s proposal would guarantee players 50% of prorated salaries and another 20% if the postseason is completed, and teams would fund a $50 million pool for players’ postseason shares even if no or few tickets or sold. MLB also would forgive 20% of the salary advance. Players had been set to earn about $4 billion in salaries this year before opening day was pushed back from March 26 due to the new coronavirus, and the union’s initial economic proposal on May 31 called for a 114-game schedule running through October and salaries totaling $2.8 billion. The shorter schedule in the new plan lowered the amount to about $2.2 billion. MLB’s offer Monday was

MLS will resume with tourney in Florida ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press

Major League Soccer announced Wednesday that its season will resume starting July 8 with a tournament in Florida. The league’s 26 teams will be divided into six groups for the opening round of the tournament played without fans at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World. Teams had played just two games to start the season when the league suspended play on March 12 because of the coronavirus outbreak. While in Florida, players will be sequestered in a resort with a rigorous testing protocol. Each team will have three group matches, played over 16 consecutive days with multiple games a day. The group matches will count toward the regular season. Sixteen teams will advance to the knockout round, with the winner earning a spot in the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League.

“From the very beginning we said anything we do has to ensure that we’re going to protect the health and safety of our players, all of the staff that will be accompanying them and those that are going to be working the tournament,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a statement. “There will be testing for those who are traveling down to Orlando before they leave and when they arrive. There will be testing regularly during the competition in the training that will precede it. And staff will be tested as well.” The prize pool for the MLS Is Back Tournament is $1.1 million, the league said. The title match will be played on Aug. 11. Following the tournament, teams will resume the season in their home markets. It was unclear whether those games would be played with fans in the stadiums. The announcement comes a week after the league and its players reached an agreement on a contract that runs

through 2025. Teams can begin arriving in Florida for training on June 24. Those that have already been training in market must arrive no later than seven days before their first match. The draw for the group stage was set for Thursday. As hosts, Orlando City will be the top seed in Group A. “When we first put together the tournament concept at Disney, we just were very uncertain about when we’d be able to return to our stadiums in our own markets,” Garber said. “We thought why don’t we get them all together, get 26 teams together in one neutral site, play games every day and get our players back on the field for our fans. But very importantly doing it with games of consequence – a total prize pool of a million dollars and the winner getting a spot in the CONCACAF Champions League. All of this is our best foot forward to do what we can in an exciting, compelling and meaningful way to return to play for 2020.”

LPGA’s Evian Championship canceled DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

The LPGA Tour lost its first major because of the COVID-19 pandemic when it announced Tuesday the Evian Championship in France has been canceled this year. The LPGA Tour cited ongoing travel and border restrictions, along with government quarantine requirements for not holding the tournament on Aug. 6-9. It will return to the schedule next year in Evian-les-Bains. The LPGA Tour is set to resume in Ohio with the Marathon Classic on July 23-26. For now, it has majors scheduled in August, September, October and December. “I have been incredibly impressed by the entire team at the Evian Championship. They

worked so hard to host this global event despite the obvious challenges,” LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said. “They know that high-pursed, career-changing events like the Evian are more important than ever, especially in an LPGA year that has been drastically reduced due to COVID-19. I know this was a tough decision for everyone involved, but it’s one that we had to take given the restrictions we faced.” The Evian dates to 1994 when it began as a Ladies European Tour event, and it became part of the LPGA schedule in 2000 when it was the Evian Masters. With one of the higher purses in women’s golf, the LPGA designated it as a fifth major in 2013. It was moved from September to July in 2019 for better weather conditions.

In the revised schedule brought on by the pandemic, it was to be the first of three European events, preceding the Ladies Scottish Open and the Women’s British Open. Those two events remain on the schedule. The ANA Inspiration in California, originally scheduled for the first week in April, has been moved to Sept. 10-13. The Women’s PGA Championship outside Philadelphia is scheduled for Oct. 8-11. The U.S. Women’s Open is Dec. 10-13 in Houston, with the season concluding the following week at the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida. The PGA Tour will have only one major in its season, with the British Open having been canceled, the U.S. Open moving from June to September and the Masters going from April to November.

for just under $1.3 billion in salaries, but only about $1 billion would be guaranteed. The rest is contingent on the postseason’s completion. Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole, the highest-paid players with $36 million salaries, would get $19,777,778 each under the union’s plan. MLB’s offer would guarantee each $8,723,967 with the chance to increase to $12,190,633 apiece if the postseason is completed. A player at the $563,500 minimum would earn $309,577 under the union plan and up to $244,492 from MLB’s offer. Those at $1 million — about half those on current active rosters — would get $549,383 under the union proposal and up to $389,496 in the MLB formula.

Injury ends season for Federer LONDON (AP) — Roger Federer will miss whatever remains of the coronavirus-impacted 2020 tennis season because of a setback in his recovery from surgery on his right knee. The 20-time Grand Slam champion had arthroscopic surgery on his knee in February and said Wednesday in a statement on Twitter that he had a second procedure that will delay his return until 2021. The 38-year-old Federer had initially planned to be sidelined for at least four months, but because the tour was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic he has barely missed any elite tennis. “A few weeks ago, having experienced a setback during my initial rehabilitation, I had to have an additional quick arthroscopic procedure on my right knee,” Federer posted. “Now, much like I did leading up to the 2017 season, I plan to take the necessary time to be 100% ready to play at my highest level. “I will look forward to seeing everyone back on tour at the start of the 2021 season.” Like other sports, tennis has been thrown into disarray because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 400,000 lives worldwide. Wimbledon, the oldest Grand Slam tournament, was canceled for the first time since 1945. The next edition of the grass court tournament will be June 28 to July 11, 2021. Organizers of the French Open and the U.S. Open are still hoping to stage their major tournaments this year. The start of the French Open was postponed from late May to late September. The U.S. Open recently said that it still hopes to hold the tournament as planned in New York. Main-draw play is scheduled to begin Aug. 31. Federer had also planned to represent Switzerland at the Tokyo Olympics, trying to complete a career Golden Slam by winning a gold medal in men’s singles. The games will now be staged in 2021.

NCAA finalizing plans for extended football preseason RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press

After the pandemic wiped out spring practice for most major college football teams, an NCAA plan to extend the preseason by two weeks could help coaches and players make up for the lost time. The NCAA’s football oversight committee expects to finalize a plan on Thursday to allow teams to conduct up to 12 unpadded, slow-speed practices, also know as walk-throughs, during the 14 days before the typical preseason begins in August. Teams will be permitted up to 20 hours per week of what the NCAA calls countable athletically related activities during those extra two weeks, leading into a normal 29-day preseason practice schedule. The walk-throughs will be part of those 20 hours per week, along with weight training, conditioning, film study and meetings. Players will not be permitted to wear pads or helmets during walk-throughs,

which cannot exceed one hour per day. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said the extra time on the field with a ball will be valuable for teaching schemes, but not necessarily for assessing player development. “That going to be all the install that you didn’t get in in the spring is really going to take place during that period of time,” Kelly said Tuesday. “They won’t be an opportunity to see skills on display.” The football oversight committee has been circulating its proposed schedule to NCAA members as a way to encourage feedback. West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons said he doesn’t expect much to change before it is taken to the Division I Council for approval next week. The council meets June 17. “I think there’s been a lot of collaboration among the conferences,” Lyons said. Schools have started this week bringing their football players

back to campus for voluntary workouts — mostly weight training and conditioning — in team facilities. Players are being tested and screened for COVID-19 and will continue to be monitored for the coronavirus. Under the oversight committee’s plan, this period of voluntary activities would run until about July 12, depending on the exact date of a team’s opening game. That will be followed by two weeks of summer access, which usually happens earlier in the year. During that time, coaches can require up to eight hours per week of weight training, conditioning and film study. Lyons said if any tweaks are made to the plan before it goes to the council they would likely be made to this two-week period. Around July 24, the meetings and walk-throughs can begin. Then 29 days before a team’s first game — Aug. 7 if the opener is Sept. 5 — the usual preseason practice period starts.

Lyons said teams will be required to complete at least the four weeks of standard preseason before playing a game. There has been concern among NCAA officials and athletic administrators that some schools will not be able to start their preseason work soon enough to begin their seasons on time because of restrictions put in place by state and local authorities to fight the coronavirus. Those fears seem to be easing now. “It all gives us a little bit of relief knowing the campuses are starting to reopen and these student-athletes are back working out on campus,” Lyons said. What will practice look like during a pandemic? The oversight committee won’t be in charge of those details. Those decisions will be made at the school level, guided by local health officials, but medical experts at the conference and NCAA level are also expected to provide guidance.