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Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 Getting better every week New leadership in Reedsport Players improve through 7-on-7, B1 Lower Umpqua Health District changes, A2 SHOWERS, WINDY 63 • 47 FORECAST A8 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 | theworldlink.com | $2 Homelessness still an issue DAVID RUPKALVIS ly, one is considered homeless less each month. The center The World if they don’t have a permanent offers free breakfast and lunch home. That includes people along with services like showers, COOS BAY — As winter living in their cars, in hotels and laundry, access to computers begins to bring colder weather even couch surfing with friends. and assistance with things like to Coos Bay, hundreds of local Regardless, Craddock said there getting doctor’s appointments residents are wondering where are people in Coos Bay who and qualifying for government they might be laying their heads need help and currently are not assistance. at night. receiving it. Despite the work being done Coos Bay City Manager Rod- Tara Johnson, director of the at the Devereux Center and other ger Craddock said homelessness Nancy Devereux Center in Coos organizations in Coos Bay, the continues to be a major problem Bay, said she agrees with the challenges facing the homeless in the city. Craddock said several estimate of 1,200 homeless. population and the community years ago a survey estimated While the city and Devereux are not easing. around 1,200 homeless in Coos Center agree that around 1,200 “We know that something Bay. homeless are in the area, Johnson more has to be done,” Johnson “It’s a daunting number,” he said that includes up to 300 chil- David Rupkalvis, The World said. “We’re happy to step up said. dren. A recent McKinney-Vento Blake Wright works on a computer while visiting the Nancy Devereux Center in Coos and do what we can. It has to be While the 1,200 estimates the survey of local school districts Bay. the community stepping up and number of homeless, Craddock identified 200 to 300 homeless “There’s a fair number of she said. helping organizations like the said the definition of homeless children ranging in age from those that are on their own, She said the Devereux Center Devereux Center.” is fluid. He explained technical- birth to 18. they’re unaccompanied youth,” sees approximately 300 home- Please see Homeless, Page A8 Second vaccine successful in trials (AP) - Moderna said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine is proving highly effective in a major trial, a second ray of hope in the global race for a shot to tame a resur- gent virus that is now killing more than 8,000 people a day worldwide. The company said its vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective, according to preliminary data from Moderna’s ongoing study. A week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. announced its own vaccine appeared similarly effective — news that puts both companies on track to seek permission within weeks for emergency use in the U.S. The results are “truly strik- ing,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert. Earlier this year, Fauci said he would be happy with a COVID-19 vaccine that was 60% effective. John Gunther, The World A vaccine can’t come fast Lloyd Pedro tries out the grader simulator in the Winter Lakes High School simulator room during a recent open house for area businesses. enough, as virus cases topped 11 million in the U.S. over the weekend — 1 million of them recorded in just the past week — Winter Lakes aims to boost workforce and governors and mayors are JOHN GUNTHER school’s goal is to provide those In some ways, the most im- month, that might prove most ratcheting up restrictions ahead The World companies workers while giving pressive is the simulator room, popular of all — a truck driving of Thanksgiving. The pandemic the students a chance to be suc- which has simulators of four simulator that includes several has killed more than 1.3 million COQUILLE — One of the big cessful after high school. different construction vehicles different types of trucks and can people worldwide, over 245,000 focuses of Winter Lakes High “The thing that is really neat — a front loader, an excavator, a show driving in city or rural of them in the U.S. School is training students for fu- about this program — everyone bulldozer and a grader — com- areas, all kinds of weather and Stocks rallied on Wall Street tures in construction or technical knows how hard it is to find pletely with steering wheels, foot various terrain including steep and elsewhere around the world fields. people to work,” he told the in- pedals, hand levers, screens that uphills or downhills. on rising hopes that the global That was on display on a dustry leaders. “We get the kids show the views the driver would The truck simulator normally economy could start returning to recent evening when the school when they are younger. They can have and seats that vibrate like would cost $350,000, but Winter normal in the coming months. invited leaders in those indus- dabble at things.” real tractors would. Lakes got it for $67,000, said Moderna was up 7.5% in the tries on the South Coast to see Winter Lakes offers 20 differ- In addition to giving experi- Tim Sweeney the superintendent morning, while companies that what the school is teaching the ent construction trade skills the ence, the simulators grade the for the Coquille School District, have benefited from the stay- students through the Career and students can learn. operators on how they do, keep- which includes the Winter Lakes at-home economy were down, Technical Education program. The guests had a chance to ing track of what they do right schools. including Zoom, Peloton and Brian Bergstedt, the CTE tour the three rooms in the school and wrong. Tony Jones, who oversees the Netflix. Construction instructor for where the students get practical A fifth simulator is on the way, technical training for the school Dr. Stephen Hoge, Moderna’s Winter Lakes, told the guests the experience. scheduled to arrive later this Please see Workforce, Page A8 president, welcomed the “really important milestone” but said having similar results from two different companies is what’s Coos County seeing record new cases ahead of holidays most reassuring. ZACK DEMARS follow precautions and restric- The weekend was a busy one: report shows the stark figures it “That should give us all hope The World tions, like wearing face masks Coos County saw 14 new cases is facing: The county had more that actually a vaccine is going and cancelling large holiday of COVID-19 on Saturday alone, cases last week alone (148) than to be able to stop this pandemic COOS BAY — Coos Coun- plans, in order to slow the spread the county’s highest daily case it did in the first 152 days after and hopefully get us back to our ty’s COVID-19 case numbers of the virus which threatens to count since the pandemic began. its first reported case in March. lives,” Hoge told The Associated are “obscene,” Coos Health & close schools and take up hospi- Sunday saw five new cases, and It’s had 632 cases of the virus Press. He added: “It won’t be Wellness officials say. tal capacity. Monday’s four cases brings the since the pandemic began, and Moderna alone that solves this If current rates continue, the “I think that we don’t truly county’s total to 342 since begin- 10 people in the county have problem. It’s going to require county could see over 200 new understand the severity of the ning of the pandemic. died with the virus. many vaccines” to meet the glob- cases of COVID-19 just this situation,” said Eric Gleason, 70 of those cases came in Curry County reported two al demand. month — nearly double what the CHW’s assistant director. “It’s the past 14 days, a sign that new cases of the virus over the The National Institutes of county saw in October, and the obscene, the numbers that we’ve those cases are still considered weekend, bringing its total to 83 Health helped create the vaccine county’s highest month of cases had in the last few months, and infectious and active. That’s the since the pandemic began. Two Moderna is manufacturing, and since the pandemic began. it’s frustrating that something as most active cases the county has people in the county have died NIH’s director, Dr. Francis Col- The county’s increase means simple as putting a mask on has reported. with the virus. lins, said the exciting news from that it’s critical for residents to become a divisive topic.” Douglas County’s weekly data Please see Restrictions, Page A8 Please see Vaccine, Page A8 Photo gallery: Home for veterans nears completion OPINION A4 SPORTS B1 Photo gallery: Trick-or-treaters find new fun amid pandemic OBITUARIES A5 CLASSIFIEDS B5 WEATHER A8 COMICS B6 AT THEWORLDLINK.COM D • Serving Oregon’s South Coast since 1878 • A Country Media Newspaper • Copyright 2020 Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink A2 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 THE WORLD Lower Umpqua Health District has interim chief administration officer The World the quick staffing tran- Health District employs to meet the growing, and sition and found their 200 people, making it one sometimes overwhelm- REEDSPORT — Paul administration styles of the largest employers ing, diverse health needs Connolly has been named complemented each in the Reedsport area.

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