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Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 Steve and the kids Dubisar helps youngsters at speedway, A12 PARTLY CLOUDY 61• 52 FORECA2ST, A10 | FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021 | theworldlink.com | $2 Council, again, supports housing development BY DAVID RUPKALVIS Lane. add 400 new stick-built homes culvert in the area. ter infrastructure to offset higher The World The vote last week did not in Coos Bay. The developer, Red Due to limited supplies of costs to the developer. offer any additional funding. Moon Development and Con- manufactured homes during the The vote last week got rid of For the third time, the Coos Rather it combined the funds struction, originally approached COVID-19 pandemic, the devel- the first two agreements, with the Bay City Council agreed to use previously offered in a new the city about building a manu- oper came back to the city with city accepting a third agreement city funds to assist a developer agreement. factured home community at the the idea of changing to stick-built of $1.475 million for the engi- planning to build 400 homes The development, known as location. The city then agreed homes. The city then agreed to off Ocean Boulevard and Lindy Timber Cove, could eventually to share the cost for replacing a spend $1.2 million for wastewa- Please see Housing, Page A2 Digging to piece together history Coos Bay Site near Bandon to get new could put dispatching Coquille Indians in area 13,000 equipment BY DAVID RUPKALVIS years ago The World BY DAVID RUPKALVIS The Coos Bay City Council The World voted unanimously to spend up to $159,000 to purchase Almost everyone agrees, new equipment for emergency ancestors of the Coquille Indian dispatchers. Tribe were the first settlers in Police Chief Chris Chap- what is now the Coos Bay-Ban- anar said the equipment for don region of Oregon. the 9-1-1 dispatchers is des- What we may be learning is perately needed. how long the Tribe has had a “The 9-1-1 dispatch center presence in the area. is currently using out-of-date For the last three weeks, ar- equipment that was purchased cheology students from Oregon over 15 years ago,” Chapanar State University have been exca- told the council. “The equip- vating a site near Devils Kitchen ment has not only become beach in Bandon. The excavation outdated, but obviously it’s is the fourth time OSU students technologically driven, and have worked to learn about the that has become outdated as history of the area, and what they well. It is no longer service- have found could be extraordi- able, and the components are nary. no longer being manufac- Loren Davis, a professor of tured.” anthropology at OSU, said arti- Chapanar said the police facts found at the digs have been department has spent several dated back 13,600 years. years researching the best “This is the ancestors of the equipment before deciding on Coquille people,” Davis said. AvTec. He asked the council “That pit in there goes down to to approve the purchase and 10-feet deep. Down there, we installation of three dispatch have radio carbon going back stations with new moni- 13,600 years. If that’s true, this tors, speakers, headsets and would be the oldest archeolog- hardware. A new server and ical site on the coast of North new connections to the radio America. We have more work system are also part of the to do.” project. On Monday, the students and The set up will include a Davis were back at the site, new recording system that slowly removing soil inch by will record all calls to 9-1-1 inch. The slow, detailed work and the police station, as is necessary to find, protect required by state law. and record any signs of human Chapanar said while AvTec activity. Davis said the archeolo- makes the best equipment gy students look for things most they could find, there was people would miss. For example, another advantage of choosing a rock that looks to most like a the company. rock, could have significance to “During our evaluation archeologists because it might process, we learned that both show signs of one time being in North Bend Police Depart- a fire. Photo by David Rupkalvis/The World Students from Oregon State University dig through the dirt at Devils Kitchen while looking for artifacts related to the Coquille Please see Dispatch, Page A3 Please see Digging, Page A2 Indian Tribe. Wright pleased with first legislative session BY DAVID RUPKALVIS ment and behavioral health. He The World said being involved gave him a far greater understanding of the Boomer Wright stepped into issues impacting Oregon. the Oregon capitol earlier this year Wright said being in the as a rookie, and he ended his first minority at the Legislature was legislative session as a veteran. frustrating at times, especially OK, maybe not a veteran, but when Republicans had little input certainly more prepared to fight on the biggest bills. for his district that includes much “I had one day I got pretty of Coos and Douglas counties. frustrated and I called one of “This has definitely been a my colleagues and asked, ‘how learning year,” Wright said last do you do this,’” Wright said. week. “It was like drinking from “COVID made it harder because a fire hose. It’s not a learning half the people weren’t there.” curve, it’s a learning incline.” Wright said his style is to meet Despite that steep incline, people face to face so they can Wright said he was pleased with discuss differences, but with half how the session turned out. As a the members working from home Republican in a state dominated that style didn’t work too well. politically by Democrats, Wright “The Democrats had the said he was pleased to get half of votes,” Wright said. “They could the bills he submitted passed. do anything they wanted, any “I submitted four bills and I got time and they did not need us.” two,” he said. “I’m pleased with But despite the frustrations, that, and I’m learning the process.” Wright said the work done in the Photo by David Rupkalvis/The World Wright was assigned to Legislature is not what the media committees overseeing issues State Rep. Boomer Wright greets North Bend Mayor Jessica Engelke during the grand reopening of the North Bend Municipal Pool. for veterans, wildfire manage- Please see Wright, Page A3 Wright said helping get North Bend money to fund the pool was one of his biggest successes in 2021. Photo gallery: There are starfish everywhere OPINION A4 WESTERN WORLD A6 Photo gallery: Laughter, joy return to NB pool OBITUARIES A3& A5 CLASSIFIEDS B5 WEATHER A10 SPORTS A8 AT THEWORLDLINK.COM • Serving Oregon’s South Coast since 1878 • A Country Media Newspaper • Copyright 2015 Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink • Manageable workloads, safe staffing • A supportive nursing culture • Work and home life in a beautiful coastal location • Market competitive wages and shi differential RN Day and Night Positions Open Market Competitive Sign On Bonus Available Visit southerncoos.org/employment for additional information or call us at (541) 347-2426. HEALTHCARE A2 | FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021 THE WORLD site is newer. Digging “The most intensive use From A1 of the site in the last 3,000 years,” he said. “It would be ancestors of the modern Students pulled out sev- Native American people.” eral fire rocks, along with While the students from charcoal, whileHE� excavat- Oregon State have� permisES- ing the site Tuesday. The sion to find, remove and whole time a representa- map artifacts they find, tive of the Coquille Tribe Davis urged anyone else was watching closely. The who finds artifacts to leave Tribe wanted a represen- them where they are. tative nearby to learn and “Artifacts on public to ensure artifacts were lands are protected by state treated properly. If human law,” he said. “What they remains had been found, can do is they can take and none have in the four a picture of it to enjoy it years of digging, work later. They can also contact would have stopped imme- the agency that owns the diately. land. If you pick some- Davis said students from thing up and take it, you’re OSU have dug at Devils erasing history.” Kitchen in 2000, 2011 and And every piece of that 2013. The 2021 dig is the history is important to first time many students understand the people who Photos by David Rupkalvis/The World have been outdoors doing came before us. As arche- Oregon State students sift dirt at the site of an archeological dig in a search for even the smallest artifacts. Below, Loren Davis, right, a professor of a real excavation in ologists, the challenge is anthropology at Oregon State University, removes dirt while conducting an archeological study at Devils Kitchen in Bandon. more than a year due to getting enough pieces to COVID-19 restrictions. tell the story, Davis said. Davis said getting the “It’s one piece of a larg- students back out into the er puzzle of what people field is a big step toward were doing,” he said. “It making them archeologists. isn’t like one piece tells the “We get to be outside, entire story. We’re trying you’re working with other to piece it back together people and you live in again. We want to map a field camp,” he said. where everything is in the “There’s a lot to learn other ground.” than archeology.” At Devils Kitchen, the At the site, students archeology students were slowly dig into the soil, excavating a piece of land placing all the dirt into up above the beach.