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C M C M Y K Y K PREFONTAINE AWARD LOOKING UP Former Pirate Milburn honored, B1 Housing bolsters U.S. economy, A7 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY,JANUARY 29, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ CB educators: Modify four-day schedule BY THOMAS MORIARTY improvement,” a classification Though no one advocated return- The World reflecting weaknesses. ing to five full school days, several Schools get finance “If we make the same amount of speakers supported restoring some COOS BAY — Keep the profession- gains we made this year, next year class time Fridays. Superintendent al development time on Fridays, but we’ll be a model school for the state,” Dawn Granger has incorporated that boost for 2013 loosen up the teaching time through- he said. idea into some of the options she has out the week. Howard said the improvement presented to the board. That was the message delivered to would have been impossible without Madison Elementary School Prin- THE WORLD $365,000 in distributed funds. the Coos Bay School Board by district the professional development time cipal Arlene Roblan said she hoped a A county’s population of employees Monday. The board, allotted Fridays to assess data. schedule change would establish reg- SALEM — Oregon schools children between the ages of 4 which voted to go to a four-day One of the most controversial fea- ularity in professional development are seeing a 10 percent increase and 20 is used to determine its school week two years ago, is evaluat- tures of the current four-day sched- time. Though Fridays are designated in Common School Fund Pay- share of payments. ing proposed calendar changes pre- ule is the early start and late end to for activities such as teacher training ments in 2013. The fund is overseen by the sented by Superintendent Dawn the school day Monday through and collaboration, the district has no The state’s K-12 public State Land Board, which is in Granger two weeks ago. The board Thursday. With no classes Fridays, fixed schedule for those activities. school districts received the charge of the land management sought input from principals, teach- and with student advisory periods “What matters to me is not the first of two 2013 payments of programs that generate its rev- ers and support staff. scheduled throughout the week, calendar specifically, but consistency more than $26.5 million on enue. Millicoma Intermediate School teachers have said the schedule crams in the calendar,”Roblan said. The lack Thursday. The Department of The agency currently over- Principal Travis Howard defended too much work into too little time. of set meeting times on professional State Lands transmits funds sees 7,000 acres of industrial, the current four-day week as one of “What that’s done is created a rush development days impedes progress each December and June to the commercial and residential the reasons for his school’s recent in our schedule and not left any time on internal policy issues. Department of Education for land, 630,000 acres of range- performance increase. for our students in the morning or “If we don’t meet on that for a distribution. land, 130,000 acres of forest Two years ago, the state had classi- afternoon,” said Greg Mulkey, Coos County schools and 1.2 million acres of water- fied Millicoma as a school “under Marshfield High School’s principal. SEE SCHOOLS | A10 received a total of just over ways. EENA OR BR F ty MP muni A com with R mes a r-old A beco -yea plea help 4 alsy book ct to bral p Face proje cere Four-year-old Breena Simones has hypotonic cerebral palsy and lives with her mother and family in a North Bend rental house. BY GAIL ELBER of any programs willing to put The World a wheelchair ramp on a house as a community project? for a NORTH BEND — A great child?” day for 4-year-old Breena The post inspired Mike Simones starts with a nice “The Bear” Chavez, operations flower in her hair. Greeting manager and on-air personali- visitors who have interesting ty at KDCQ, to solicit his own earrings and a camera with a Facebook network for volun- lot of buttons is even better. teers Friday. People offered Breena has cerebral palsy, tools, materials, design assis- hip dysplasia and epilepsy. She tance and time. spends a lot of time in hospi- Monday morning, the tals. Lately, she’s been attend- design team showed up at ing preschool classes at South Breena’s house to measure Coast ESD, with the help of a and plan. medical stroller. Eric Van Maldeghem and But as Breena grows, getting Tim Favilla applied their con- her and her stroller up and struction experience to the down the front steps of her problem. After some measur- home is an increasing chal- ing, sketching and scribbling, lenge for Breena’s 24-year-old Van Maldeghem estimated that mom, Kelsey Lyon, and the the project would cost $2,500. rest of the family. He was awaiting the results The family explored social of a call to find out whether a services options but came up building permit and a drawing Photos By Alysha Beck, The World empty. So Breena’s grand- by a licensed contractor would Eric Van Maldeghem,right,and other community members are planning to build a wheelchair ramp at the North Bend rental house mother, Cecilia Lyon, posted a be needed. where mother Kelsey Lyon, middle, Breena Simones, middle, and Gunnar Simones, left, live.Van Maldeghem and other volunteers plea on her Facebook page got involved with the project after Mike Chavez, a K-DOCK DJ, responded to a message on Facebook from Breena’s grandmother Thursday: “Does anyone know SEE BREENA | A10 Cecilia Lyon, far left, calling for people in the community to help build a ramp for Breena. Tracing weapons takes time DeFazio to discuss BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL dredging in Brookings The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In the fic- THE WORLD of the meeting. “For the last two tional world of television police decades, every administration, dramas, a few quick clicks on a BROOKINGS — Anyone inter- Republican and Democratic, has computer lead investigators to ested in stepping up dredging at zeroed out funding for small port the owner of a gun recovered at a Oregon’s small ports is invited to a dredging in Oregon and through- bloody crime scene. Before the meeting with U.S. Rep. Peter out the country, failing to fund first commercial, the TV detec- DeFazio on Wednesday afternoon even the most critical dredging tives are on the trail of the sus- in Brookings. projects. These ports are critical pect. DeFazio has invited local, coun- lifelines that fuel local economies, Reality is a world away. There ty, state, and federal partners to keep hundreds of fishermen work- is no national database of guns. review and exhaust all options to ing, and keep communities alive. Not of who owns them, how ensure dredging continues at small “It’s clear that after twenty many are sold annually or even The Associated Press ports in Southern Oregon. DeFazio years of these budget battles, we how many exist. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives tracer Debbie Marshall reach- wrote to Col. John Eisenhauer, desperately need a new approach. Federal law bars the Bureau of es for a microfilm roll of firearm transaction documents from firearms dealers no head of the Portland District of the This meeting is an opportunity for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and longer in business, as she researches a firearm used in a crime, at the National U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to stakeholders and the public to Explosives from keeping track of Trace Center in Martinsburg,W.Va. request the meeting after the corps present ideas and forge a long- guns. The only time the govern- told the Port of Port Orford that term solution that ensures these ment can track the history of a should be available to the public When police want to trace a money for dredging the port was ports get the dredging they des- gun, including its first buyer and and urged stronger background gun, it’s a decidedly low-tech highly unlikely in the near future. perately need.” seller, is after it’s used in a crime. checks in gun sales, there is no process. “The dearth of dredging at Ore- In 2009 and 2010, DeFazio suc- And though President Barack effort afoot to change the way the “It’s not CSI and it’s not a gon’s small coastal ports isn’t a cessfully introduced legislation Obama and numerous Democrat- government keeps track — or sophisticated computer system,” result of intentional neglect by the appropriating more than $16 mil- ic lawmakers have called for new doesn’t — of where the country’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,” limits on what kinds of guns guns are. SEE TRACE | A10 DeFazio said in an announcement SEE DREDGING | A10 Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 T S S Shirleen Smith, Canyonville E Phyllis Woodson, Bandon A H D What’s Up. A3 Comics . C3 Mary Smith, Bandon I Gladys Barnes, Halsey C T E A S South Coast. A3 Puzzles. C3 Seena Sigsby, Coos Bay Rain likely E | Obituaries A5 R N Arthur Jester, Oregon City 52/39 I D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C4 O F Weather | A10 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Tuesday, January29,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext.