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New $42 Million Hospital Set to Open A1 Driftwood Library hosts writers ......PAGE A2 Taft Wrestling .............................PAGE A11 January 29, 2020 Serving Lincoln City Since 1927 $1.00 Taft grad scores New prestigious $42 million writing grant, three-book hospital series deal MAX KIRKENDALL set to open [email protected] The good STAFF REPORT news just keeps coming for After years of planning and construc- former Taft tion, Lincoln City’s new $42 million graduate Kelly hospital is about to officially open. The Garrett, who original hospital, which is thought to be just inked a the last remaining wooden hospital in new book deal the United States, was built on the shores and was named of Devils Lake in 1967-68. The new build- a recipient of ing was constructed, quite literally, right the Oregon next to and somewhat on top of the old Literary Fellow- building, on NE 28th St. in Lincoln City. ships. The new hospital is expected to open As a student soon. An exact opening date has yet to at Taft, Garrett COURTESY PHOTO be announced. The News Guard joined attended the Kelly Garrett grew up in Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital CEO Oregon Writ- Lincoln City and graduat- Dr. Lesley Ogden for a walk through the ing Festival, NEWS GUARD PHOTO/FRANK PEREA ed from Taft High School new hospital. The following is her insight which is filled into the new medical facility. Interior view just inside the new Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City. with writing in 1996. workshops News Guard: What has been the most ing aspects of this project has been the and talks led by local professional writers. challenging aspect of building this new logistics of building a brand new hospital Her interest in writing grew from there and hospital for you and staff? literally just a few steps away from the after graduating from Pacific University, she existing building, on what had been the Dr. Ogden: One of the most challeng- See HOSPITAL, Page A10 See BOOK, Page A3 NLFR performs successful water rescue in complicated conditions MAX KIRKENDALL [email protected] Disaster was swiftly avoided last week during a tricky water rescue on COURTESY PHOTO/SARAH CHILCOTE Salmon River. On Jan. 22, at approximately 2:02 A reported waterspout appeared in Depoe Bay on Jan. 21 along with several other p.m., a 26-year-old woman from weather phenomena up and down the Oregon Coast. Independence, Ore. was driving east- bound near milepost 8 on Highway 18. For unknown reasons, the vehicle drove off the right shoulder, down Waterspouts, tornado and an embankment and came to rest in COURTESY PHOTO/OREGON STATE POLICE Salmon River. also challenging because we don’t have a “After entering the water, the vehicle lot of swift rescues like this one.” traveled approximately 200 feet down large hailstones hit the Strange and his crew set up a rope stream in the fast moving water,” Oregon system to get out to the vehicle and placed State Police (OSP) Officer Bryan Fitch two safety rescuers down river in case reported. “The driver was able to extricate Oregon Coast something went wrong. The water rescue herself from the passenger compartment firefighter was able to get out to the driver and crawled onto the roof of the vehicle to THE NEWS GUARD Witnesses at the scene said another and the two were pulled back to the river- await rescue.” waterspout was seen on the ocean shortly bank. Several witnesses reported spotting the The National Weather Service of Port- before a possible tornado touched down in “It took a little longer than it typi- woman sitting atop her vehicle in the river land said a possible waterspout was spot- the area of Neah-Kah-Nie Meadow. Port- cally would take us because of the water and notified OSP. North Lincoln Fire and ted near Depoe Bay shortly after 11 a.m. on land TV station FOX 12’s meteorologists conditions, but overall it was a successful Rescue (NLFR) also responded to assist in Jan. 21. reported the storm as a possible tornado. rescue,” Strange said. rescue efforts. A routine rescue proved to The report came just before an EF-0 Emergency management and fire per- The woman was then transported to Sa- be a bit difficult as the river was full and tornado touched down in Manzanita that sonnel responded to the scene. There were maritan North Lincoln Hospital for evalua- moving quickly. same day. The National Weather Service no immediate reports of injuries, but some tion and her current condition is unknown “We had a horrible time getting to the confirmed the small tornado. Large hail- properties were reportedly damaged, and at this time. Her vehicle was left in the river car because of the river conditions,” NLFR stones were also reported as a rainstorm there were reports of tree damage. for later removal due to the unsafe water Deputy Chief Doug Strange said. “It was struck along the North Coast. conditions. See WATERSPOUT, Page A3 KAMILE MELTON NMLS #1700255 SR. HOME LOAN SPECIALIST · 541.991.4263 2840 NE Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 97367 ­ ­ ­­­­ INDEX WEATHER thenewsguard.com Opinion ....................... A5 Police Blotter ............. A9 WED. THU. FRI. SAT. SUN. MON. TUE. Obituaries .................. A5 Calendar ...................A10 Classifieds ...........A6–A8 Sports ........................A11 VOL. 93 NO. 5 51/46 54/50 54/49 54/40 46/37 48/33 49/37 Lincoln City’s largest and most trusted news source. A2 A2 TheNewsGuard.com January 29, 2020 Driftwood Library hosts full slate of writers for Oregon Legacy 2020 THE NEWS GUARD The Friends of Driftwood Pub- lic Library will present a literary series Oregon Legacy to the Lin- coln County community on four Sunday afternoons in February. Each author talk will take place in the reading room at Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City at 3 p.m., beginning Sunday, Febru- ary 2. The series opens this Sunday with a visit from Willy Vlautin. He last visited Driftwood in 2012 as part of Oregon Legacy, and has since become one of our most asked-about visitors. Willy Vlautin Sophia Shalmiyev Kate Hope Day Claire Rudy Foster Born and raised in Reno, Ne- vada, Vlautin started playing guitar will visit the library. Shalmiyev lel reality. Ginny has a baffling editorials, blog content and letters. Portland. The stories explore what and writing songs as a teenager tells us on the first page of her vision of her beautiful coworker They also work as a ghostwrit- binds a community of queer and and quickly became immersed in striking, lyrical memoir, Mother in her bed, and begins to doubt er. Their writing has appeared in trans people as they negotiate music. It was a Paul Kelly song, Winter (2019): to understand the the solidity of her marriage. Her The New York Times, The Washing- love, screwing up, and learning to based on Raymond Carver’s Too end of her story we must go back husband Mark sees a vision that ton Post, The Rumpus, McSwee- forgive themselves for being young Much Water So Close to Home, to her beginning. Born to a Rus- suggests impending devastation, ney’s, and many other journals. and sometimes foolish. Foster cur- which inspired him to start writing sian mother and an Azerbaijani and grows increasingly paranoid, Their work has been nominated rently lives in Portland. stories. He founded the band Rich- father, Shalmiyev was raised in threatening the safety of his wife for the prestigious Pushcart Prize Twenty-six years ago, Drift- mond Fontaine in 1994. The band the stark oppressiveness of 1980s and son. four times, as well as several wood Public Library completed a produced eleven studio albums, Leningrad. Samara witnesses an appari- small press awards for excellence, move into a their current loca- plus a handful of live recordings An imbalance of power and tion of her deceased mother, including a Speculative Literature tion in the City Hall building. To and EPs. Driven by Vlautin’s dark, the prevalence of anti-Semitism healthy and vibrant again, and Foundation’s Working Class Writer celebrate the library’s new home story-like songwriting, the band, in her homeland led her father to wonders about the secrets her Grant, an NLA-International and to thank the community for now retired, achieved critical ac- steal Shalmiyev away, emigrat- parents may have kept from her. Nonfiction Writing Award, and an all of its support during the transi- claim at home and across the UK ing to America, abandoning her Cass catches a glimpse of herself SFWA Writing Award. tion, The Friends of Driftwood and Europe. estranged mother, Elena. At age pregnant again, just as she’s on the Foster has been in recovery Public Library created a gift for the In 2014, Vlautin formed The eleven, Shalmiyev found herself brink of returning to the project from alcoholism and addiction community. With little resources Delines with singer Amy Boone on a plane headed west, mother- that could define her career. since 2007. In 2018, they co- beyond the income from their (The Damnations) and released less and terrified of the new world At first the visions are relatively authored American Fix: Inside occasional book sales, the Friends their first album, Colfax. He has unfolding before her. benign, but they grow increas- the Opioid Addiction Crisis and underwrote the first literary series published several novels, includ- Now a mother herself, in Moth- ingly troubling, and in some How to End It with activist Ryan ever presented in Lincoln County: ing The Motel Life (2007), North- er Winter, Shalmiyev recounts her cases, frightening. 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