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Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 Bandon food banks Virtual NASCAR Community provides support, A3 Hamlin wins in iRacing Series, A10 CLOUDY, SHOWERS 60 • 51 FORECAST, A9 | MONDAY, MAY 11, 2020 | theworldlink.com | $2 Mother’s Day drive-by parade AMANDA LINARES amazing. There is so much love The World here and we’re so touched that so many people participated.” COOS BAY — Colorful, Staff decorated the facili- handmade signs with message ty’s windows with handmade of love filled the driveway at paper heart decorations as a Ocean Ridge Assisted Liv- way for their residents to thank ing as community members their families who drove by. A gathered Friday to celebrate Coos Bay Fire Department fire Mother’s Day. engine truck participated in the With its annual “Mother’s parade along with dozens of Day Petal and Pearls Tea other vehicles happy to cele- Party” being canceled this year brate and honor their moms. in order to follow the state Helen Stamate, 90, a resident mandated restrictions to keep at Ocean Ridge, said she was people safe against the novel pleased and proud that the team coronavirus, staff members at found an alternative way to Ocean Ridge were thinking of keep its annual Mother’s Day ways it could still honor and celebration going. celebrate their residents. “It makes you feel good that Marketing Director Bon- they really care,” she said. “ nie Hribar, of Ocean Ridge, The celebration was just said the team quickly began one of many ways its team has brainstorming and over the past worked to keep their residents several days organized a drive- spirits lifted during the ongo- by parade for family members ing COVID-19 pandemic, said Amanda Linares, The World Ocean Ridge team members Sharon, Bonnie Hribar and Mary Luther, pose in front of the assisted living facility after a successful to express their love for their Hribar. The assisted living fa- Mother’s Day celebration. mothers and grandmothers all cility has restricted visitations while at a safe distance. to its facility as the elderly “We didn’t expect so many population has been identi- COVID-19. keep everyone happy and smiling and you can tell that cars to show up,” said Hribar. fied at a higher risk for severe “It’s a really hard time right, healthy,” said Hribar. “It makes they have a big smile on their “It’s so overwhelming and illness or death if exposed to but we’re doing our best to me feel good to see everyone face even through their masks.” Umpqua River Bridge Negative tests at Shutter Creek ZACH SILVA The World HAUSER — Last week, 20 adults in custody at Shutter Creek Correctional Institution were tested. The Department of Correc- tions reported that 19 of those came back negative, with one test inconclusive. “There are a few different things that can potentially hap- pen to get that kind of result,” said Brian Leon, an epidemiolo- gist at Coos Health and Wellness. “Sometimes there is an error in packaging, sometimes there is Amy Moss Strong, The World an error in transit or how much A geometric pattern is created by the support arches under the Umpqua River Bridge in Reedsport. medium is included and basically Please see Tests, Page A9 Health director Economies reopen to risk of chaos quietly replaced PARIS (AP) — Plastic spacing Fears about infection spikes only about half the stores on the come here to relax. Clients will barriers and millions of masks have been born out in Germany, Champs-Elysees Avenue were come because they need to,” said The World appeared Monday on the streets where new clusters were linked open. Aurelie Bollini, a beautician at of Europe’s newly reopened to three slaughterhouses; in Hairdressers in the city prac- the salon. “They will come and COOS COUNTY — As the cities, as France and Belgium Wuhan, the Chinese city where ticed their new workflow over aim at getting the maximum COVID-19 pandemic spreads emerged from lockdowns, the the virus started; and in South the weekend ahead of Monday’s done in the shortest time possi- throughout the area, Coos Health Netherlands sent children back to Korea, where a single nightclub reopening, and planned to charge ble.” and Wellness had a quiet change school and Spain let people eat customer was linked to 85 new a fee for the disposable protec- Roughly half of Spain’s 47 in leadership from its now outdoors. All faced the delicate infections. tive gear they’ll now need for million people shifted into a former public health director, balance of trying to restart bat- With Monday’s partial reopen- customers. Walk-ins will be a softer version of the country’s Florence Pourtal-Stevens. tered economies without fueling ing, the French did not have thing of the past, said Brigitte strict confinement, beginning to “… She is no longer employed a second wave of coronavirus to carry forms allowing them L’Hoste, manager of the “Hair de socialize, shop in small stores at Coos Health and Wellness,” infections. to leave their homes. Crowds Beauté” salon, who expects the and enjoy outdoor seating in said Eric Gleason, public infor- Social distancing was the developed at some metro stations number of appointments to be restaurants and bars. Its biggest mation officer for CHW. order of the day but just how to in Paris, one of France’s viral cut in half. cities of Madrid and Barcelona According to Gleason, as do that on public transit and in hot spots, but the city’s notori- “The face of beauty will remained under lockdown as the well as a text message from schools was the big question. ous traffic jams were absent and change, meaning clients won’t Please see Economy, Page A9 Please see Replaced, Page A9 Photo gallery: Marshfield Junior High School construction SOUTH COAST A2 COMICS A6 Photo gallery: Camp Creek Restoration in Reedport OPINION A4 WEATHER A9 AT THEWORLDLINK.COM OBITUARIES A5 SPORTS A10 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 Bay Clinic, LLP Physicians and Surgeons 541-269-0333 • 1750 Thompson Road, Coos Bay • www.bayclinic.net A2 | MONDAY, MAY 11, 2020 THE WORLD Southern Coos Hospital hires interim CEO AMY MOSS STRONG identifying qualified can- cost control, product even thought about doing his position at a critical ac- field for the time being The World didates. development, and quality anything else,” Suksi said. cess hospital like Southern with their Australian Shep- “The district board felt improvement. Suksi said he is im- Coos. herd, Cable. BANDON — The that out of all the candi- Suksi’s most recent pressed with the depth of “You can bring behav- One thing Suksi hopes Southern Coos Health dates, Mr. Suksi had the position was as CEO of talent among hospital em- ioral health into an acute to work on as interim CEO District Board of Directors best experience and skills Bakersfield Behavior- ployees and feels they have care center,” he said. is being more transparent has hired Eugene Suksi as to guide the district and the al Healthcare, a 90-bed worked hard to prepare for He enjoys being in a with the public. Southern Coos Hospital hospital into the future,” psychiatric hospital, and any potential COVID-19 small community like Ban- “The community fills & Health Center’s interim said Esther Williams, also has over a decade of cases. don for both professional in the blanks, when they CEO. Southern Coos Health Dis- experience in of small, “I think folks here did a and personal reasons. He’s don’t have all the infor- Suksi has been hired on trict board president. acute care facilities in very good job of prepared- worked in smaller and mation, with things more a one-year contract. Suksi has over 30 years Washington and Califor- ness,” Suksi said. “We hav- larger facilities, including sinister than the truth is, The Board fired former of experience in senior nia, including extensive en’t seen any cases — yet, a stint as CEO at Sutter if you don’t share that,” CEO Amy Fine on March healthcare management in experience with critical and hopefully those will be Coast Hospital in Curry he said. “So I hope to put 26 on a vote of 3-1 in a a wide variety of settings, access hospitals and public in small numbers. I think County. When he learned energy into communicat- decision that proved some- encompassing both acute healthcare districts. there’s been a great effort of the opportunity in Ban- ing both internally and what controversial for the care and behavioral health. He grew up in Illinois and awareness in Bandon don, he knew he wanted externally.” district. Suksi began his career as a and went to school in the to prepare. It’s of great to apply. He and his wife “Bandon is a unique Soon after, the board in- behavioral health coun- Midwest and graduate concern to all hospitals and Nancy both like the coastal and beautiful community,” terviewed four candidates selor before moving into school in Idaho, then also clinics and every form environment and the size Suksi added. “I am im- and used a search firm healthcare administration earned his MBA and MHA of healthcare service.” of Bandon’s community. pressed with the extent of specializing in healthcare and has an established at the University of Wash- Suksi said his back- “A small community expertise in the Southern professionals to assist in record of revenue growth, ington.