North Lincoln Fire District HQ
The worst recession in over 80 years is causing a lot of people to think about better and/or less costly ways of doing business. And that includes Lincoln County’s fire departments. The far-flung departments, with mile and miles of twisty country roads between them, usually start out on a fire call all by themselves, oftentimes wondering if they will have enough manpower or equipment to handle what they’re racing to. Most of the time they’ve got enough, but sometimes they don’t and so they quickly call for mutual assistance from other nearby departments to jump in and help. Continue reading »
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Provided by: Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
You are invited to join Siletz Tribal members and friends on Sept. 9-11 for the 16th Annual Run to the Rogue.
This event is a 234-mile relay run/walk in memory of the Siletz Tribal ancestors who were forcibly removed from their homeland in Rogue River Country in the mid-1800s and marched north to Siletz to the confinements of the Coast Reservation. This annual relay run is the closest Tribal members can come to their ancestors’ experience on the forced journey from their homeland.
The run begins in Siletz on Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. at the Siletz Tribal Community Center and ends Sept. 11 at Oak Flat on the Rogue River.
Please keep the following in mind:
• Volunteers are needed for this three-day event to run, walk or help out with camp setup, cleanup, cooking and other areas.
• Youth can participate but need a designated adult committed to traveling and camping with the youth.
• Camping sites, meals and runners’ support and refreshments are provided along the route.
• An orientation session will be held Sept. 9 at 8 a.m. at the Tribal Community Center in Siletz.
If you wish to participate or would like more information, please call 800-922-1399 or 541 444-2532, ext. 1373 or 1290.
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The Central Coast Fly Fishers will meet Thursday, 9/9, to hear Master Caster and FFF Certified Fly Casting instructor, Dwight Klemin discuss and illustrate “A Casting Stroke For All Occasions.” Prior to the meeting, Klem will meet with members in the parking area to demonstrate his casting excellence. On Saturday, 9/11 an all day casting clinic will be provided with group and individual instruction. Meetings are held at Bayshore Beach Club in Waldport. Information: Alan Canfield, 541-563-6976.
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Yaquina Bay Bridge
Last year they made it about a third of the way across the Yaquina Bridge. This year they’d like to make it at least half-way. And by that they mean a lot of recovering and recovered drug and alcohol dependent people will join hands in their annual “Hands Across the Bridge” celebration of their new lives. The event will also encourage others to make a commitment to themselves and to those who love them to begin rescuing their lives from the destruction of addiction to drugs and alcohol. Continue reading »
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Toledo City Council, Wednesday night
The Toledo City Council, taking the lead from the Lincoln County Land Trust, has decided to get into the low income home reclamation business. The city will be using just over $40,000 in federal housing (HUD) money as a revolving fund. The Lincoln County Land Trust, a non-profit group, will target old “fixer-uppers” in Toledo and begin the process to buy them. The trust will bring some money to the table and so will Toledo with it’s revolving fund. Together they will buy the houses, renovate them, and then sell them (not the land, it’s the trust’s growing asset collateral) to low income families. The sale price of the houses will exceed the investment made by Toledo and the Land Trust. Both the trust and the city will thereby get their money back with Toledo’s revolving fund ready again to be reinvested. Continue reading »
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The Toledo City Council swallowed hard Wednesday night as they wrote a check for nearly $100,000 to fix a broken sewer main that ruptured nearly two weeks ago inside the town’s sewer plant off Butler Bridge Road. The council also heaped praise on the city’s public works crew who has kept the damaged pipe from spilling anymore raw sewage that flows through the pipe. They also praised Public Works Director Adam Denlinger for being committed to a permanent fix rather than a cheap patch job.
The sewer line that ruptured, in green on the left, did so inside the boundaries of the plant near the white box in the picture. Denlinger says the contractor they’re hiring will drill a new pipe route, in yellow, from the road median, under the railroad tracks, up the hill and come out near where the old pipe ruptured. They will tie in a new line, brought along by the bore drill. They will then abandon and seal off the old pipe which Denlinger says has always been a problem since sewage always pools in it when pressures are down. He says that pooling ate through the pipe over the sixty years it has been used. Continue reading »
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We all know what 9-1-1 is. It’s the number you call in an emergency. Well, 2-1-1 is sort of the same thing, except its to connect the caller with all manner of assistance of a minor-to-medium emergency, like medical help, referrals to psychological services, counseling, and other “human services.” It’s in partnership with United Way which is the funding arm for so many of those kinds of services.
The Lincoln County Commission was told Wednesday that the Lincoln County version of 2-1-1 is in the formative stages and may be ready for a “live” launch sometime in December. Continue reading »
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Lincoln County Transit “On the Grow”
It’s a ways out, but Lincoln County Transit will be providing public transit between Newport, Lincoln City, Corvallis and with rider options to continue on to Salem too, every day of the week, starting in mid-2012. It means that Lincoln County Transit runs will more than double its reach to Corvallis. With those integrated routes, riders will be able make a big loop from Lincoln City to Newport, then to Corvallis, then to Salem, and then back to Lincoln City. Continue reading »
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Donald Crabb, Jr., 50
The Lincoln County Grand Jury has handed down indictments of rape and sexual abuse against Donald Crabb, Jr, 50 of Newport stemming from allegations made by two young women who claim Crabb raped and abused them ten years ago. Their stories prompted the grand jury to issue 87 charges for the time period in which the crimes allegedly occurred.
A minor traffic violation prompted a traffic stop on Crabb who came up “wanted” on the officer’s computer screen. He was taken into custody and lodged in the county jail on charges of Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Contributing to the Sexual Delinquency of a Minor.
Crabb is being held in the county jail in lieu of $1.5 million bail. Authorities ask that anyone who may have information related to this case to call Newport Police Detective Brent Gainer at 541-574-3348.l
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Demetrius Distefano, 38
At around midnight last night, Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a report of a naked male adult wandering around the Waldport Beach Resort Hotel trying to get inside several guest rooms.
Senior Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Cummings located the subject on the second floor of the hotel after the suspect had pulled at least two fire alarm boxes. With the fire alarm blaring, several guests evacuated their rooms. The fire department arrived minutes later.
While investigating the incident, deputies discovered that two fire alarm boxes were not only pulled, they were ripped off the wall in a hallway. Deputies also found telephone wires that were pulled out of an access panel. They also came across a flooded guest room caused by water being left running in the bathtub.
The subject, identified as 38 year old Demetrius Distefano from Frendale, CA, was taken into custody and lodged at the Lincoln County Jail for Criminal Mischief II and Disorderly Conduct I. His bail was set at $30,000.00.
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