NWAACC TOURNAMENT TAXING FARMERS Lakers win opening game in home tournament, B1 Clashes erupt with Greek police, A7 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013 theworldlink.com ■ $1.50 Hospital will transition 10 jobs in Jan. BY EMILY THORNTON tal, McDaniel said. She said three The World employees will move to other jobs in the hospital, two chose to retire COOS BAY — Up to 10 tran- and five had job offers from scriptionists at Bay Area Hospital SoftScript. She also said the hospi- could lose their jobs Jan. 17 if they tal would provide each transferring don’t join an outsourcing company employee the computer and tran- or take other positions in the hos- scription equipment necessary for pital, officials said. the transition. The hospital will save money Mike Marshall, director of col- with this move, said Suzie lective bargaining for the local McDaniel, chief human resources UFCW 555, said the union would officer. She also said Bay Area was inform them of their options. one of the few that hadn’t switched “Unfortunately, the hospital has By Lou Sennick, The World to an outside company for tran- the authority (to hire an outside Girl Scout Emily Adams was in charge of putting celery into the food baskets being distributed by the Knights of Columbus scriptioning. source),”he said. Sunday afternoon.Adams and a few other scouts from Troop 30407 in North Bend helped out with the food boxes distrib- “We’re really trying to make the He also said they’d likely receive uted from the Oregon Army National Guard Armory in Coos Bay. moves as painless as possible,”she “substantially less pay and bene- said. fits” under the new company. The hospital decided last week Transcriptionists are paid to use SoftScript: Medical hourly by the hospital, McDaniel Transcription Service instead of its said. The transcription company in-house transcriptionists, pays by line of transcription pro- McDaniel said. The hospital was duced, she said. A region of caring going to inform workers of the The exact numbers were changes after the holidays, but unknown, but Marshall said they’d leaders of the United Food and get about 6.5 cents per line and Giving spirit shows in Commercial Workers International possibly could earn more, depend- Union, which represents the tran- ing on the number of lines they the Bay Area, especially scriptionists, asked for the earlier transcribed and how long they’d announcement. been with the company. in tough economic times They will have the option to McDaniel said the hospital is either join the company or take another position within the hospi- SEE HOSPITAL | A8 BY TIM NOVOTNY The World COOS BAY — The South Coast economy, which has been hampered since the mills started closing decades ago, has been particularly challenging over District details cost the past five years. Charitable organizations have been among those feeling the vice-like pinch. But, while the numbers have drooped as the unemployment rates have risen, they have not fall- of Hollensteiner’s en as far as some may have expected. It is a fact that reflects well on where we live, and one organization OCF’s Giving in Oregon project has documented has the numbers to prove it. charitable giving in Oregon for more than a decade. departure from NB “Yes, this part of the state is extraordinarily gen- It analyzes the donations to over 10,000 Oregon erous,” Annie Donnelly said during a recent nonprofit organizations. February and March and she will conversation at the local office of the Oregon BY CHELSEA DAVIS Highlights of this year’s report, looking at 2011’s Community Foundation, the largest foundation in The World continue to receive medical, dental numbers, include proof that individual giving by the state. “This state, as a whole, is extraordinarily and vision insurance through the Oregonians is showing signs of recovery from the generous compared to the rest of the country.” NORTH BEND — The North same three months. recession, that Oregon continues to rank in the top Donnelly knows this because the agency she Bend school district has finalized The district also agreed to pay 20 states for charitable giving and that the state’s works for has spent the past four decades studying all financial changes with the Hollensteiner for any remaining nonprofits received more than $1.6 billion in chari- the business of giving, while also helping distribute upcoming departure of its super- unused vacation days, though she table donations in 2011-up from just under $1.5 charitable contributions throughout the state. intendent. will not receive any unpaid FMLA billion in 2010. “The purpose of the Community Foundation is At the time Dr. BJ Hollensteiner The numbers at one local nonprofit reflect the leave or sick leave benefits. to promote philanthropy and to thereby make life announced her retirement on Dec. general statewide vibe. Contributions to the United Hollensteiner signed the sever- better in Oregon for Oregonians,” she said. “By 3 she was making $113,111 per year. Way of Southwestern Oregon, while not back up to ance agreement on Dec. 10. Acting keeping track of giving trends and understanding According to Hollensteiner’s prerecession levels, are starting to bounce back. superintendent Bill Yester had what people are able and willing to give, and want “People, by and large, give real well here,” severance agreement, the district signed his employment agreement to support, it’s helpful for the organization to authorized her 22-day medical five days prior. Yester was previ- understand what services donors are looking for.” leave until her retirement on Dec. ously the assistant principal at SEE CARING | A8 31. She will also receive three pay- ments of nearly $9,500 in January, SEE DEPARTURE | A8 Feds: State needs better Cover Oregon technology coastal pollution controls official resigns her post BY JEFF BARNARD Federal Register. BY JONATHAN J. COOPER Department of Human personal choice” and said The Associated Press Oregon stands to lose more than $1 The Associated Press Services for “personal rea- she hoped it would not nega- million in federal funding in the short sons,” the agencies’ leaders tively impact the agencies. GRANTS PASS — Federal regulators term, and $4 million in coming years, if PORTLAND — A senior wrote in a terse memo to Attempts to reach Lawson say Oregon is not doing enough to protect the problems are not resolved. state manager who oversaw Lawson’s staff and other through her state-issued water and fish from pollution generated The action stems from a lawsuit filed by most of the development of senior officials. cellphone and email account by logging on private lands, stormwater Northwest Environmental Advocates Oregon’s struggling health “I have recently experi- were unsuccessful. In previ- runoff from construction sites, and leaky challenging federal approval of Oregon’s insurance exchange resigned enced a family loss which ous interviews, Lawson has septic tanks. program for controlling coastal pollution. Thursday as developers con- has caused me to reevaluate staunchly defended her The U.S. Environmental Protection EPA and NOAA have to make a final deci- tinue trying to find some way many things in my life agency’s work. Agency and National Oceanic and sion by May 15. get the online enrollment including continuing to Oregon leaders bragged Atmospheric Administration said “Oregon has been prancing around for system to work. commute to Oregon while for two years that it would Thursday that they plan to reject portions 15 years dressed up in its Oregon Plan for Carolyn Lawson stepped my family is in California,” have one of the nation’s of Oregon’s program for limiting coastal Salmon and Watersheds as if it were sav- down as chief information Lawson wrote in her resig- most advanced insurance pollution from non-point sources. A officer of the Oregon Health nation email. She described notice was to be published Friday in the SEE POLLUTION | A8 Authority and the the decision as “a highly SEE RESIGNS | A8 Ken Carvall Wayne Ruybal, Reedsport Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 Danny Sossman, Coos Bay Richard Mevis, Reedsport David Crumbley, North Bend Donald Horning, Reedsport What’s Up . Go! Business . C1 Roderick Lang, Bandon John Jensen, Lakeside South Coast. .....A3 Comics ..........C5 Marnella Lyons, Las Vegas, Nev. John Hickey, Reedsport Chance of rain INSIDE 53/41 Opinion. .......A4 Classifieds . .....C6 DEATHS Betty Ramey, Mount Angel Serenity Anderson, Lakeside Mark Smith, Coos Bay Obituaries | A5 FORECAST Weather | A8 A2 •The World • Saturday, December 21,2013 South Coast Executive Editor Larry Campbell • 541-269-1222, ext. 251 theworldlink.com/news/local Anniversary Adult basic education Attorney program back at Coquille to oversee COQUILLE — An Adult point average of at least 3.70 Basic Education program is and complete 12 or more county’s returning to the Coquille SOUTH COAST graded-hours. REPORTS Valley. Zonta Foundation gets Winter Lakes High School pipeline school supplies grant will host the program in 180 N. Baxter St. in Coquille, January. Classes will be held during school hours or at the COOS BAY — Plum Creek from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesdays ABE session. Foundation has awarded interests and Thursdays beginning on For more information call $2,500 to the Coos Bay Area Jan. 7.They will be taught by Zonta Foundation to pur- BY EMILY THORNTON Winter Lakes at 541-824- The World Coquille High teacher Edwin 0115, Tony Jones at chase school supplies for EDSEL AND LEA COLVIN Eschler. low-income children in all 541-290-4082 or Edwin Married Dec. 23, 1948 The Adult Basic six Coos County school dis- COQUILLE — An Eschler at 541-290-2228.