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Friday, November 15, 2024

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An Invitation to… Murder! Catch Clue @ NBHS

It is a dark and stormy night, and you are cordially invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well… dead. So who did it? Can you find the clues and sleuth your way through the mayhem and intrigue before it is too late? The usual suspects are sure to captivate audiences in the witty whodunnit, CLUE, the High School Edition by Sandy Rustin and adapted to the stage by Jonathan Lynn. North Bend High School Drama Dogs, under the direction of Marcia Marchant, are delighted to announce the rousing performance of Clue (the High School Edition). This is a madcap comedy full of fast-paced, wild, and reckless humor. Slapstick, goofy, and farcical Murder! @NBHS continues on page 4

Volunteers Needed for 2nd Saturday Cleanup Project for Coos Bay Boardwalk Come spend a couple of hours with the Oregon Bay Area Beautification (OBAB) group and the Coos Bay Parks Department as we work to beautify the Coos Bay Boardwalk area. The 2nd Saturday cleanup will be on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Volunteers will meet at entrance to the Boardwalk at 200 N Bayshore, Coos Bay. The clean up effort is from 12pm3pm, with sign-ins starting at 12:45pm. Clean up focus will be litter pick up, painting projects (weather permitting) and some pressure washing. Please wear appropriate footwear, painting clothes if you want to participate in that project and bring trash grabbers. You can park across Hwy 101 at one of the city parking lots or along 101. This is a kids and family friendly event. Youth under 18 need to have a release form signed by parent/guardian. Kids 14 and under will need adult supervision. Contact

OBAB for details. OBAB will take a break from cleanups in December. Join OBAB for Community Cleanups every 2nd Saturday starting

again next year in January 2025. Visit 4obab.org for more information. Look for OBAB on Facebook, Instagram, and Nextdoor! Email volun-

teer@4obab.org for more info. Oregon Bay Area Beautification (OBAB) is a registered and approved 501 (c) (3) organization.

OBAB will be helping to beautify the Coos Bay Boardwalk with cleanup projects on Saturday, November 9 from 12pm-3pm.

Sharp divide in Oregon over bill to prevent wildﬁres ALEX BAUMHARDT

Oregon Capital Chronicle

For the last 30 years, shrub and grass fires have burned far more acres and destroyed more property in the West than forest fires, and the same was true this season. Still, Republicans in the U.S. House – including Oregon’s two Republican representatives – are hoping Congress will pass a bill before year’s end that would tackle increasingly large wildfires in the West by scaling back environmental regulations to make it easier to log and cut vegetation in federal forests, which account for more than 60% of the forests in Oregon. Proposed by Arkansas Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman and California

Democrat Rep. Scott Fast Fact Peters, the “Fix Our Forests Act” passed Republicans are backing a proposal to the U.S. House on scale back environmental regulations Sept. 24 with 268 repto “thin” forests while Democrats resentatives in favor and environmentalists want to fund community preparedness. and 151 opposed, including Oregon’s four Democratic representaopen millions of acres of tives. It is expected to get federal land to logging a vote in the U.S. Senate without scientific review after the November genor community input, eral election, according to potentially increasing the Hank Stern, a spokesperrisk of wildfires while son for Oregon’s U.S. Sen. rolling back regulations to Ron Wyden, a Democrat. protect endangered and Proponents say the threatened species. bill would restore forest To counteract the health, increase resiliency bill, Oregon’s Demoto catastrophic wildfires cratic House and Senate and protect communities members are introducing by expediting environmen- legislation that would dital analyses while reducing rect federal investments in frivolous lawsuits and step community preparedness up restoration projects. and home hardening. But opponents, including The Biden administration is also opposed to environmentalists and the bill and published a Democrats, say it would

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A helicopter carries water to fire behind a ranch near Ukiah as part of the effort against the Battle Mountain Complex of blazes in Umatilla County. About 75% of the acres scorched in this year’s wildfire season were in grass and shrub lands, mostly in southern and eastern Oregon. statement a day before the House vote, saying it contains “a number of provisions that would undermine basic protections for communities, lands, waters

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and wildlife.” More than 85 environmental groups also submitted a letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources opposing the bill. Calendar

The bill comes on top of calls in Oregon from Wildfires continues on page 10

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