CIVIL WAR SOCCER COMING TOMORROW North Bend picks up big win, B1 Football 2013 Preview Section Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Bandon Marsh will be sprayed I Spraying should happen between Sept. 12 and 17 with a price tag of around $50,000 BY EMILY THORNTON The World COQUILLE — Despite concerns Photos by Alysha Beck, The World about environmental risks, Coos Crime scene tape surrounds the downtown Coos Bay prayer chapel Tuesday night after a fire scorched the interior of the building shortly after 5 p.m. County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve aerial spraying of insecticides near Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding areas. If all goes as planned, two fixed FBI joins chapel fire probe winged aircraft will spray two chemicals sometime between Sept. 12 and 17.The plan could cost more than $50,000. The county needs at least one area. BY THOMAS MORIARTY more permit, from the Depart- Firefighters had the blaze con- The World ment of Environmental Quality, tained within an hour, and the which will cost $1,000. Other per- COOS BAY — An FBI agent and building incurred no readily appar- mits from Oregon Health Authori- Oregon State Police explosives ent exterior damage. ty, Fish and Wildlife and the Fed- experts assisted local law enforce- But by 7 p.m., the perimeter had eral Aviation Administration also ment with a late-night search of been extended south to Central may be required. the Coos Bay Prayer Chapel on Avenue and Second Street and east Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is Tuesday, just hours after to U.S. Highway 101. donating $10,000 toward the cost. emergency personnel Public works employ- The city of Bandon will give responded to a report of ees erected barricades on $5,000, if needed, and Coos a fire at the location. Commercial Avenue and See updates online at County is taking $5,000 out of its Coos Bay firefighters Market Avenue, manned theworldlink.com on economic development fund for arrived at the chapel by a North Bend police this breaking news story the abatement. U.S. Fish and shortly before 5 p.m. officer and a Coos Coun- Wildlife said it will foot the bill for after a passing beverage delivery ty reserve sheriff’s deputy. spraying the acreage over Bandon man noticed smoke coming from An FBI special agent and explo- Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. inside the building. sives specialists from state police The county is the lead agency in Multiple officers and a detective arrived on scene just after 9:30 p.m. the abatement, so will be reim- from the Coos Bay Police Depart- Law enforcement personnel bursed. Bandon Dunes represen- ment arrived shortly after fire per- An FBI agent along with Oregon State Police explosives specialists assist Coos Bay sonnel and quickly taped off the SEE PROBE | A10 police with an investigation after a fire in the Coos Bay Prayer Chapel on Tuesday. SEE SPRAYING | A10 State’s solar experts will converge on Coos Bay BY TIM NOVOTNY laboration with the city of Coos nice opportunity to showcase the successful grant applications. “We the community is able to highlight The World Bay, Southern Oregon Clean Ener- resources and the people and the need to demonstrate, at the agency an on-the-ball attitude toward gy Alliance, and Sol Coast Design organization that we have out level, that we’re aware of it, we’re solar, our own opportunities could COOS BAY- Solar Now! Univer- and Consulting, it will focus on the here,” Souza said. ready to roll, and we’ve got a good multiply. sity will be packing up its “cam- objectives of the Rooftop Solar In fact, while attendees can learn install. The conference kicks off Thurs- pus” and relocating in Coos Bay for Challenge II. It is designed to from the state’s solar leaders, the “Solar is unique in renewables in day evening with a meet-and-greet a couple of days. The fourth annual advance innovative, local-govern- biggest boost that the Solar Now! that it is the quickest to assess, the at Coos Bay’s new Seven Devils event, scheduled for Sept. 26-28, is ment-level solutions for eliminat- University could bring is just the simplest permit and to install, the Brewery. Presentations begin on setting up in a coastal town for the ing market barriers and lowering opportunity to change perceptions turnaround time is really simple. Friday, including a welcome address first time and, according to one the costs of grid-tied photovoltaics in the minds of the people who hold We can accurately predict what it is by Coos Bay Councilor Stephanie local business, may end up leading — a method of generating electrical the granting purse strings. and isn’t going to produce, permit Kramer. Saturday’s program fea- to future financial benefits for the power. Souza says everything else is it, get it installed and move on,” tures a tour of the Coos Bay Fire Sta- Bay Area. Shannon Souza, Owner of Sol already in place for solar projects Souza said. “The target audience is tion and its solar electric and solar The small conference offers Coast, says it was a coup to get on the South Coast, all that is miss- actually people who have not, in water heating systems. community leaders from around them to bring the movers and ing is the money. the past, been exposed to solar but Attendees are expected to the state the opportunity to shakers of the Oregon solar effort “That is where we need to make are in public or non-profit posi- include those representing govern- become better versed in launching to the South Coast. those connections and let people tions who could stand to get up to ment, industry and nonprofit sec- and completing solar initiatives in “There’s a perception that we’re see that there are resources there, speed on what works and what tors. Sessions will cover topics their own cities and towns. downtrodden and at a loss out the investment is being made,”she doesn’t work, what their opportu- ranging from financing options to Led this year by the nonprofit here, and that we don’t really know said, noting that networking can nities may or may not be.” solar policy issues to community- organization Solar Oregon, in col- who we are, and I think it is a really end up paying dividends through In the process of doing that, if scale solar energy systems. Convicted kidnapper, Ariel Castro, hangs himself in prison BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Castro was taken to a hospital, for in his plea bargain. The Associated Press where he was pronounced dead. “It does give a little bit of clo- Castro had been in protective sure to the families and people COLUMBUS, Ohio — The custody because of the notori- that got affected by what he did, Cleveland man serving a life ety of his case, meaning he was but at the same time he sentence for kidnapping three checked every 30 minutes, but deserved to be in there for his women and raping them in his was not on suicide watch, which life because of what he did to home for a decade hanged him- entails constant supervision, those girls,”she said. self in his prison cell, officials Smith said. Elsie Cintron, a neighbor said Wednesday in another An autopsy showed the death who lived up the street from startling twist in the case that was suicide by hanging, said Dr. Castro, said the suicide left her horrified and transfixed the city. Jan Gorniak, Franklin County with mixed feelings. Ariel Castro, 53, was found coroner. Gorniak would not “He took the coward’s way hanging around 9:20 p.m. comment on the circumstances out,” Cintron said.“We’re sad to Tuesday at the state prison in in which Castro was found. hear that he’s dead, but at the The Associated Press Orient, said JoEllen Smith, a In Castro’s old Cleveland same time, we’re happy he’s Ariel Castro,53,serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and rape of three women in his Cleveland spokeswoman for the correc- neighborhood, Jessica Burchett, gone, and now we know he can’t home,was found hanging in his cell at the around 6:20 p.m.Tuesday at the Correctional Reception tions system. Prison medical 19, said his death had short-cir- Center in Orient, Ohio. staff performed CPR before cuited the life sentence called SEE CASTRO | A10 Five-car crash Police reports . A2 Comics . A8 Linda Donaldson, Jamestown, RI T S S E T Two people were hospitalized follow- Derald Timmons, North Bend H A H S D What’s Up. A3 T I ing an accident on Ocean Boulevard, Harold Johnson, North Bend C T Puzzles . A8 A U E A S which blocked traffic. Partly sunny South Coast. A3 Jim Smith, Coos Bay O O E R N C 72/56 S I D Opinion. A4 Sports . B1 Obituaries | A5 O Page A2 F Weather | A10 A2 •The World • Wednesday, September 4,2013 South Coast Executive Editor Larry Campbell • 541-269-1222, ext. 251 theworldlink.com/news/local Thefts & Mischief COOS BAY POLICE block of North Marple Street. DEPARTMENT Aug. 3, 6:26 a.m., custodial inter- Aug. 2, 9:06 a.m., burglary, 1400 ference, 200 block of North block of Juniper Street. Broadway. Aug. 2, 11:24 a.m., dispute, South- western Oregon Community Col- COQUILLE POLICE lege. DEPARTMENT Aug.