C M C M Y K Y K FIGHTING YOUTH BAY AREA TENNIS NKorea trains kids against U.S., A9 MHS ties, Bulldogs fall to Sheldon, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY,APRIL 20, 2013 theworldlink.com I $1.50 Boston Marathon Housing supply meets demand Bombings ‘Terror is over’ I Police capture bomb suspect, kill brother BY JAY LINDSAY AND EILEEN SULLIVAN The Associated Press WATERTOWN, Mass. — A 19-year- old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bomb- ing was captured hiding in a boat parked in a backyard Friday night and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area. The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180. By Lou Sennick, The World Alexandra Schiller sits on the porch of her Coquille home she has been trying to sell for a year.She has tried many different ways to generate interest in her two-bed- SEE BOSTON | A7 room home with no buyers yet. Wind group Local market emerges from doldrums hopes for I That’s down from 19.1 months in January Bay Area still lags 2011. In contrast, Portland has a 3.2-month Finding your own behind statewide market inventory, down from 11.3 in January 2011. CB project Based on their own experience, real estate buyer? It’s tough BY GAIL ELBER agents have ideas about who’s buying what. “The homes under $200,000 are selling BY THOMAS MORIARTY The World After seven years in Coquille, Alexan- very well, because the local buyers can afford The World dra Schiller longs for the sun. A year ago, COOS BAY — Home buyers are back in the them,”said Raya Ziegler, a Coos Bay agent. she picked out a sunny California com- COOS BAY — For the first time in Coos Bay-North Bend area, but not as back as “The high-end places are selling to out- munity where she’d like to live. recent history, South Coast fisherman they are elsewhere in Oregon. of-area people. They’re leaving the cities, Since then, she’s been looking for are on board with an offshore industrial “The last three years have steadily relocating and retiring.” some home buyers longing for the cool project. increased,” said Sam Roth, principal broker But houses between $200,000 and mists of Coquille. But she’s deter- Nick Edwards, a representative of the and owner of Century 21 Best Realty in Coos $300,000 are languishing, Ziegler said. mined do it without a real estate Southern Oregon Ocean Resource Coali- Bay. “It’s along the level of 2003 or 2004.” “Everybody wants 5 acres,” she said. agent. That’s not so easy. tion, said the organization supports In Portland and Bend-Redmond, the “There are no 5 acres. Out of town, but not A year ago, she put her two-bed- Principle Power’s plans for a 30- housing market has heated up, fueled by a too far out. And being in the right school dis- room house at 377 Dean St. on the megawatt wind energy flotilla off the shortage of homes for sale. trict — they don’t want to change school dis- market for $129,000. She launched an South Coast. That hasn’t happened here, Roth said. tricts for their kids. out-of-town ad blitz targeting the sort “It’s better to work with these people The Regional Multiple Listing Service, “The locals are looking for the typical of people she thinks would appreciate and be part of the process,” Edwards which tracks realty statistics, reported that in three-bedroom, two-bath property,” she her house. said. The commissioner said fisherman March, Coos County had a 10.9-month said. “The people from out of town are look- inventory of listings for sale. In other words, ing for second residences” — homes with an needed six months to reach agreement SEE SELLER | A10 among themselves. at current sales rates, it would take almost 11 “It’s still not going to make a bunch of months for all the houses to sell. SEE MARKET | A10 people happy,”he said. SEE WIND | A7 Who’s moving here? Coos Bay real estate agent Raya Ziegler said she has Gun control recently sold some houses to out-of-state buyers. “I’m seeing a lot of people from California again,” she said.“A lot of people still want to leave California, passes early A place for gardens and but they can’t.” She has sold houses for people leaving here for the fruit trees are a couple stage in Ore. Arizona sun — and she’s seen buyers fleeing the Ari- of the reasons Don Berg zona sun for the Oregon Coast. and Jennifer Sordyl Apparently, a lot of people are moving to Arizona, picked a home in the SALEM (AP) — Senators representing “and that makes it so other people can leave.” Libby area to move to two South Coast districts split on gun Two who have left Arizona are Don Berg and Jen- from Tuscon,Arizona. control legislation Thursday, when a nifer Sordyl, who moved into their new house in the They were able to sell Senate committee approved a package of Libby area last week. their house in Arizona bills crafted in the wake of shootings in They said their former home will soon face a catas- Newtown, Conn., and an Oregon mall. and buy the property trophe as increased mining sucks up the region’s here. The Oregon Senate Judiciary Com- scarce water. mittee passed, on a 3-2 party-line vote, “I got tired of Arizona politics and Arizona state four bills that would expand background policies,”Berg said. “We felt like the water issue was checks and add new restrictions on car- unsustainable, and the leadership of the state was rying firearms. The bills’ next move is to moving in the direction of not conserving.” the full Senate where the road ahead is Then there were other quality-of-life issues for uncertain. the couple, who are in their 50s and 60s and have Sen. Arnie Roblan of Coos Bay joined lived in the Northwest before. fellow Democrats Floyd Prozanski of Eugene and Jackie Dingfelder of Portland SEE BUYERS | A10 SEE GUNS | A7 By Lou Sennick, The World Carol Vernon, Coos Bay What’s Up . Go! Sports . B1 T S S Esther Sanderson, North Bend E Dorothy Hunsaker, Coos Bay A H D Police reports . A2 Comics . C5 Kenneth Coke, Coos Bay I Robert Reeves, Coos Bay C T E A S South Coast. A3 Classifieds . C6 Kristle Volin, Coos Bay Cloudy E | Obituaries A5 R N Kenneth Noel, Coos Bay 55/44 I D Opinion. A4 Puzzles . C7 O Jeanne Brannon, Bandon F Weather | A10 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Saturday, April 20,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Hunters find meth gear in woods THE WORLD ment, including a breathing apparatus used Open house in the illicit manufacture of crystal metham- Hunters alerted the South Coast phetamine. Interagency Narcotics Team last week to the According to a statement from the location of chemicals and equipment used to agency, the items likely had been there less manufacture meth on Bureau of Land than 48 hours, and no environmental dam- Management property in a remote area of age had been inflicted. northeastern Coos County. SCINT is requesting information from SCINT officers, assisted by sheriff’s the public regarding any suspicious activities deputies from Douglas and Coos counties, or unusual vehicles observed in the area went Sunday to the site, near the intersection between Oct. 12 and Oct. 14. of Weaver Ridge Road and Camas Creek Tie SCINT encourages the public to report Road in northeastern Coos County. narcotics activity at www.scint.us using the They recovered chemicals and equip- “Report a Drug Dealer” link. Crash hurts 2 Meetings SUNDAY Oregon Historic Trails Advisory Council — 8 a.m., Coos Bay Public Library, 525 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay; regular meet- ing. MONDAY North Bend City Council — 4:30 p.m., city hall, council cham- bers, 835 California St., North Bend; work session. Coquille Valley Hospital Board of Directors — 7 p.m., Coquille Valley Hospital, 940 E. Fifth St., Coquille; special meeting. By Thomas Moriarty, The World Myrtle Point Budget Commit- Coos Bay police and bystanders watch as a black sedan is towed from tee — 7:30 p.m., Flora M. the scene of a crash on Ocean Boulevard Friday afternoon.The incident Laird Memorial Library, 435 occurred when the sedan and a Jeep Cherokee collided near the Vine Fifth St., Myrtle Point; regu- Avenue intersection around 1 p.m. The Coos Bay Fire Department said lar meeting. two people were taken to Bay Area Hospital. Police briefly closed the By Lou Sennick, The World westbound lane of Ocean Boulevard. Traffic resumed normally at Jon Booth, left, and CaseyWirt set up two garage door openers that will be on display this weekend at the annual Home and Garden Show being held at the Boys and Girls Club of approximately 1:40 p.m. Southwestern Oregon. Both work for O’Neill’s Overhead Door and share the booth with Davidson Builders near the main entrance to the show.The show opened Friday afternoon and will continue today and Sunday from 10 a.m.