C M C M Y K Y K OFF AND RUNNING MCGOVERN DIES Bandon Dunes hosts speedgolf championships, B1 Former presidential candidate was 90, A4 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Turmoil Flu shots Flu shots are available by New flu strains spread appointment at Coos County Public Health, locat- year after ed inside the North Bend BY TIM NOVOTNY care of sooner rather than later. and was relatively mild, but Hawtin Annex building, 1975 The World “October and November are says part of that could be attributed McPherson Street. really good months to get your shot to the fact that the vaccine was tar- Hawtin says, if you bring NORTH BEND — After main- because flu is already circulating, geting the same three types of flu as Gadhafi’s your card, they can bill taining the status quo for the past people are already getting sick,” the season before. Medicare, Oregon Health two flu seasons, two new strains of Plan (OHP), Blue Cross-Blue Hawtin said. “The CDC looks to see which Shield of Oregon and Pacific influenza are on the horizon this According to the Centers for Dis- three strains of flu are circulating as demise year. ease Control, flu season can begin far back as the previous December, Source. For those paying by cash County health officials say that as early as October and commonly to determine which three they will or check, the discounted means a flu shot should be an even peaks in January or February. The be seeing when the next season rolls I Topic sure to be on price for a flu shot is $20. To higher priority. severity of each flu season, they say, around,”Hawtin said. schedule an appointment, Lena Hawtin, clinic supervisor varies and is unpredictable due to a Because of two new types of flu the agenda of tonight’s call 541-751-2400. with Coos County Public Health, number of variables. final debate says a flu shot is something to take Last year, the season began late SEE FLU | A6 BY PAUL SCHEMM The Associated Press A bloody good time TRIPOLI, Libya — On the anniversary of the capture and killing of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is still grappling with the legacy of his four decades of rule as the interim government and the dicta- tor’s former spokesman engaged in a war of words amid the ongoing chaos. The Libyan government said Saturday that its forces had detained Gadhafi’s high profile spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, but an online recording from a man purporting to be Ibrahim denied that claim and said he wasn’t even in the country. The conflicting reports, neither of which could be independently verified, reflect the turmoil that has persisted over the past year, leaving the oil-rich North African nation deeply divided. Tensions have spiked as rival forces battle over the city of Bani Walid. Bani Walid, 90 miles southeast of Tripoli, was the last major city in Libya to fall to the uprising, thanks in part to its protected location in a valley near the moun- tains. Over the past year, it has seen periodic violence and emerged as the most significant town in Libya still resisting the country’s new authorities since Gadhafi was slain near his home- town of Sirte last year. By Lou Sennick, The World “We’ve lost too many people in Rachel Sheldon checks her final makeup application of fake blood dripping down her face Saturday evening before the opening of the Little Theatre on the Bay Haunted Theatre. Bani Walid and we are still losing Sheldon joined many other teens and adults at the theater in a maze of Halloween horror. them so I don’t think it’s time for a celebration,” said Abdessalem Mahfoud, a local neighborhood council member in Tripoli, when asked about the anniversary of Gadhafi’s death. Ghouls take over LTOB The turmoil in Libya, which overthrew Gadhafi last year with BY JESSIE HIGGINS They’ve been planning all year. intimidating clown, Erskine said. But SEE LIBYA | A6 The World “I look for whatever scares me,” there are many children in the the- Haunted house she said. “I think about it year round; ater’s other rooms, often crouched low The Little Theatre on the Bay NORTH BEND — What scares you? it’s scary.” and waiting to jump out. Haunted Theatre will be open Candidates The crazy eyes of a blood covered This year’s haunted theater begins Nine-year-old Aiden Slaska, an Thursday, Friday, Saturday and patient got me. But then, so did the with a narrow, pitch-dark walkway evil scarecrow, sometimes hides on a Sunday, and again on Halloween pitch black hallways, false walls, hid- and lurking zombies. There’s a crazy staircase and reaches out to brush beginning at 6 p.m. It is open seek edge in den zombies and menacing clowns. dentist and an even crazier patient, passing legs. until 9 p.m. on weekdays, 11 p.m. Little Theatre on the Bay opened eerie lighting and lots of fog. “They freak out,”the little scare- on weekends. foreign policy its haunted theater this weekend. It’ll “We discovered after we started crow said, smiling. “Sometimes they Admission is $4 for the first be open every weekend through Hal- doing this that there seems to be a jump, sometimes they scream, walk through, $2 for a second loween. huge fear of clowns,”said Theresa time, then free for up to five BY NANCY BENAC sometimes they jump backward. It’s “I love making grown men climb Erskine, the theater’s board president pretty fun.” more times through. The Associated Press The haunted theater is still over their wives to try to get out,” who founded the haunted theater five Erskine, a drama teacher at Light- accepting volunteers to be in the said Suzie Thompson, with a ghoul- years ago. “They’re in the top five WASHINGTON — Still neck- house Charter School, said part of show. To get involved contact and-neck after all these months, ish laugh. Thompson designed the fears of everything.” the reason she began the haunted Theresa Erskine at 541-756-4336. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney haunted theater this year with her As such, the theater’s clown room is theater was to give more children a The theater is at 2100 head into their third and final husband, Alan Burnim. It’s the cou- filled with adult actors only, in case an Sherman Ave. in North Bend. debate with each man eager to ple’s first time designing the set. overly terrified patron strikes out at an SEE GHOULS | A6 project an aura of personal strength and leadership while rais- ing doubts about the steadiness Father allegedly and foreign policy credentials of the other guy. Ready to go Each is aiming for a command- assaults son with ing performance today to settle the seesaw dynamics of the first two debates: Romney gave Obama a baseball bat an old-fashioned shellacking in the first round, and the chastened BY TYLER RICHARDSON president rebounded in their sec- The World ond encounter. The 90-minute faceoff at Lynn NORTH BEND — A father is charged with sec- University in Boca Raton, Fla., ond-degree assault after police allege he hit his son offers the candidates their last with a baseball bat. opportunity to stand one-on-one The Coos County Sheriff’s Office said John Wayne before tens of millions of Ameri- cans and command their undivided Kirk, 52, of North Bend, assaulted his 29-year-old son, attention before next month’s elec- Kevin Kirk, on Wednesday during a dispute. tion. Both candidates largely Kevin Kirk went to Bay Area Hospital with injuries dropped out of sight and devoted to his head and arms from the assault. their weekends to debate prepara- Both Kirk men lived at the same residence on tions, a sure sign of the high impor- Willsey Lane in North Bend. John Kirk, who is also on tance they attach to the event. parole, was arrested for second-degree assault, men- While the principals warm up By Lou Sennick, The World acing, a parole violation and fourth-degree assault. for their evening debate in the bat- Boxes with ballot envelopes sit in the Coos County Election Office on Wednesday morning. The Kirk is being held at the Coos County jail and he is tleground state of Florida, their office finished up the last of the envelopes with the ballots, secrecy envelopes and other items, expected to appear in court Monday. Second-degree and mailed them to more than 35,000 voters in Coos County on Friday. assault is a ballot Measure 11 offense and carries the SEE DEBATE | A6 strictest penalty under Oregon law. Music dean remembered T S E Service held over the weekend for slain University of Oregon E A D Police reports . A2 Comics . B4 T I School of Music and Dance Dean Anne Dhu McLucas. C A E S What’s Up. A2 Sports . B1 Rain T Page A4. R N S 52/44 I Opinion. A3 Puzzles. B4 O F Weather | A6 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Monday, October 22,2012 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Meetings Duck truck TODAY North Bend City Council — 4:30 TODAY County. 541-347-3473 p.m., council chambers, City Hall, Plein Air Painting Rained In Thirty Years of Oregon Blue 835 California St.; regular work 12-3 p.m., Art By The Sea Book 7 p.m., Coos Bay Public session.