A GLIMPSE of GRAY on Marine Reserves at Redfish Rocks South of Port Orford and Otter Rock Between Depoe Bay and Newport
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SPECIAL STAMPS LES SCHWAB TOURNEY Postal Service reissues the ‘inverted Jenny’ A7 Devils, Pirates fall in title games, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Two new reserves off coast for fishing SALEM (AP) — Beginning Wednesday,two more areas off the Volunteer Dick Schmidt scans Oregon Coast will be closed to the ocean for migrating gray fishing and other recreational whales at Shore Acres seafood and seaweed harvesting. State Park on Saturday New restrictions are beginning during Winter Whale at marine reserves at Cascade Head Watching Week. just north of Lincoln City and at Cape Perpetua south of Yachats, By Alysha Beck The Statesman-Journal reports. The World All fishing is prohibited inside the boundaries of the reserves. That includes the taking of invertebrates as well as seaweed and wildlife in those areas. There will also be slightly less- restrictive rules at “marine protected areas” north and south of both reserves and on the western edge of the reserve at Cascade Head. Similar recreational and com- mercial prohibitions are in place A GLIMPSE OF GRAY on marine reserves at Redfish Rocks south of Port Orford and Otter Rock between Depoe Bay and Newport. In the marine protected area, Volunteers, visitors some sports activities will be allowed, such as trolling for flock to coast to watch salmon, crabbing and fishing from the shore. gray whale migration In the marine protected area and in a seabird protection area BY CHELSEA DAVIS south of the Cape Perpetua Marine The World Reserve, the taking of baitfish — Pacific herring, Pacific sardine, anchovies, smelt and Pacific sand Hundreds of eyes are peering toward the lance — is banned to protect the ocean this week, hoping to catch a glimpse of a food base for the birds, but all gray whale. other fishing is allowed. Visitors were perched along Shore Acres A fifth reserve/protected area State Park on Saturday morning, marking the complex at Cape Falcon just north biannual Whale Watch Week. It puts volun- of Manzanita on the north coast teers at 24 sites along the Oregon Coast to will have restrictions starting on teach visitors about the whales’ migration, Jan. 1, 2016. feeding habits and tips on how to spot them. Husband and wife Dave and Bea Bone, of Medford, took a seminar in Newport to become volunteers 18 years ago. It gave them By Alysha Beck, The World an excuse to come to the coast, Bea said. Elaine, left, and Pete Nelson from Aloha search for migrating gray whales that grow as big as a school bus at Teachers “It’s not hit or miss, but it takes work,”she Shore Acres State Park Saturday during Winter Whale Watching Week. said of spotting the whales. “This year the ocean is calm so they’re swimming at the sur- find home face. Usually you look for the spout.” “If you’re really lucky, you can see them and seen a little blast of spray,” Cathy said. The whales leave en masse from the feeding breach out of the water,”she said. “It’s pretty “Sometimes you can see them come up and grounds in the Bering Sea. Anywhere from spectacular.” you can see their back.” visits help 18,000 to 20,000 gray whales will make the So far this week, the whales haven’t been The Crandells think the best place to whale 6,000-mile journey down the West Coast to shy. On Thursday, volunteers spotted 19; on watch is at Cape Lookout in Tillamook. Baja California, where the pregnant whales Friday, they spotted 12. On Christmas Day, the The whales are typically seen 2 to 5 miles off in class will have their calves. On average, 29 gray Bones saw mating groups of three to five shore near the crabbers. whales pass by every hour — “not that you see whales, called triads. A gray whale’s pregnancy lasts 12 to 13 them all,”Dave pointed out. “Sometimes they’ll mate as they go up and months. When the baby is born, it can be 15 BY ALAN SCHERZAGIER Visitors need to keep a close eye on the sur- down the coast,” Bea said. “The individual feet long and weigh up to 1 ton. The Associated Press face of the water, Bea said. whales are usually pregnant females, but not “Corresponding to a human, that would be “The water will shoot straight up and the always. Sometimes they’re juveniles.” a 2-foot-long, 50-pound baby,”Dave said. ST. LOUIS — In days gone by, a spout can be 6 to 12 feet,” she said. “You’re Calvin and Cathy Crandell of Beaverton Females are generally 45 or 50 feet long and knock on the door by a teacher or looking for a spew of water like it’s squirting were traveling the coast looking for spots to weigh 40 tons, while males are only around 35 school official used to mean a child from a city fountain.” bird-watch Saturday morning. This weekend, to 40 feet long. was in trouble. Not anymore, at That’s when you might see the body of the they set their eyes on the Simpson Reef. least for parents and students at whale: the back and its knuckles or the fluke (tail). “Not on this trip, but I’ve looked out there SEE WHALES | A8 Clay Elementary School. The urban public school is one of more than 30 in the St. Louis area that sends teachers on home visits several times a year. Unlike Some with Alzheimer’s find care internationally home visit programs that focus on truants and troublemakers, or efforts aimed exclusively at early BY DENIS D. GRAY Watching is her husband, you pills and tells you to go to clock care. The monthly $3,800 childhood, the newer wave seeks The Associated Press Ulrich, who has a heart-rending bed,”he says. cost is a third of what basic insti- to narrow the teacher-parent decision: to leave his wife of 41 Kuratli and his family have tutional care would cost in divide while providing glimpses at CHIANG MAI, Thailand — years in this facility 5,600 miles given themselves six months to Switzerland. the factors that shape student Residents of this facility for peo- from home, or to bring her back to decide while the retired software Kuratli is not yet sure how he’ll learning before and after the ple with Alzheimer’s disease toss Switzerland. developer lives alongside his 65- care for Susanna, who used to school bells ring. around a yellow ball and laugh Their homeland treats the eld- year-old wife in Baan produce a popular annual calen- “I wish they had this when I had under a cascade with their care- erly as well as any nation on Kamlangchay — “Home for Care dar of her paintings. But he’s children in school,” said Elmira givers, in a swimming pool ringed Earth, but Ulrich Kuratli says the from the Heart.” Patients live in leaning toward keeping her in Warren, a teacher’s aide at Clay by palm trees and wind chimes. care here in northern Thailand is individual houses within a Thai Thailand. who has made home visits to her students and their parents. “I was Susanna Kuratli, once a painter of not only less expensive but more community, are taken to local “Sometimes I am jealous. My delicate oils, swims a lap and personal. In Switzerland, “You markets, temples and restaurants, smiles. have a cold, old lady who gives and receive personal around-the- SEE ALZHEIMER’S | A8 SEE TEACHERS | A8 Trying teaching Police reports . A2 Comics . A6 T S S E Steve Rosier, Coos Bay After years in other jobs, some professionals H A D 2013 Photos . A3 Puzzles . A6 Patty Huntley, Coos Bay I T are giving teaching a shot. C A E S South Coast. A3 Sports . 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MONDAY, JAN. 6 The World unlawful use of a weapon, hit-and-run, disorderly the bay by police using a Oregon Coast Technology first-degree escape, menac- conduct, third-degree theft North Bend Fire Department THURSDAY School Board — 7 p.m., North A North Bend man will do ing and resisting arrest. and interfering with and rescue boat. Western Oregon Advanced Bend Middle School Library, jail time for attacking a Partmann was sentenced resisting arrest. Partmann faces another Health Community Advisory 1500 16th St., North Bend; police officer less than a to 180 days in jail, with cred- His problems grew worse trial Jan. 9 in the original Council — noon, Oregon Coast regular meeting. week after he was arrested in it for time served. He’ll also June 27, when police say he hit-and-run case. a hit-and-run case in June. be subject to 36 months pro- tried to stab an officer con- Reporter Thomas In a Dec. 20 trial, a Coos bation.