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C M C M Y K Y K DISTRICT MEET SHOVELING OUT Swimmers post strong marks Friday, B1 East Coast preps for 1 to 3 feet of snow, A8 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2013 theworldlink.com I $1.50 Daring rescue saves man I Former firefighter Former Charleston volunteer After hearing someone inside, the firefighter Travis Erickson and his men broke through a glass sliding passing by stops to help mother, Sue Frazier, were driving door and entered the engulfed along Newmark Avenue after 11:30 home. Inside, Erickson found the pull man out of blaze a.m. to pick up chairs for Frazier's homeowner, 83-year-old Charles daughter’s wedding when they saw Landis, in a recliner and unable to BY RYAN HAAS black smoke pouring from the 1600 move. The World block of Milligan Avenue. Erickson carried Landis out of the Frazier said her son immediately home before it was completely gut- COOS BAY — An upcoming wed- drove to the fire and joined off-duty ted by the fire. By Lou Sennick, The World ding brought one man to the scene Charleston Rural District firefighter Coos Bay Fire Chief Stan Gibson Firefighters from the North Bend Fire Department assist the Coos Bay depart- of a duplex fire Friday morning, Christian Nelligan and neighbor said his department received the call ment at a duplex fire in Coos Bay on Friday. Firefighters were called to the duplex where he helped pull the home’s Thomas Browning in searching for at the end of Milligan Avenue, off of LaClair Street, around 11:40 a.m. owner to safety. people still inside the home. SEE FIRE | A10 Counties Students challenge branch payment out cutbacks I Coos stands to lose $200,000 if government holds back timber money BY GAIL ELBER The World COQUILLE — Coos County will take a $200,000 hit if an action known as sequestration cuts federal pending by 10 percent March 1. But in the meantime, Coos and 17 other counties are questioning the Bureau of Land Management’s right to hold back 10 percent of a federal pay- ment that was delivered this week. They say the funds may not be subject to sequestration. The money came out of the Bureau of Land Management’s final payments SEE TIMBER | A10 Collision kills one, injures Photos by Lou Sennick, The World One group of students from Marshfield High School was assigned to catalog a willow tree along Pony Slough on Friday morning. A group of students from the school was working with the Coos Watershed Association along the slough behind North Bend High School. On this morning, they were iden- NB couple tifying and mapping out the plants along the waterway. Top: Emily Wright, an instructor, leads Kaine Horner and Chase Atkins back up to the sidewalk from their studies along Pony Slough on Friday morning. The program takes utilizes extra time Marshfield students have on Fridays thanks to a four- day school week. THE WORLD GOLD BEACH — A North Bend Darby Dittmer couple was involved in a fatal collision Youth program takes holds up a branch that killed a Brookings man in Gold from an Oregon Beach on Thursday night. ash tree she The collision occurred around 6 advantage of 4-day week p.m. on U.S. Highway 101 on the found along Pony Hunter Creek Bridge, which is at the Slough on Friday south end of Gold Beach. BY THOMAS MORIARTY restoration projects. morning. The World The fall semester focused on Gold Beach police say Antonio and the Matson Creek Wetland Pre- Laurie Moore’s Jeep Liberty collided NORTH BEND — As North serve off of Catching Slough. with a Mazda Miata driven by Rodney Bend High School students set- Outreach coordinator Bessie Dean Henderson, 62, after Henderson tled behind textbooks Friday Joyce said Pony Slough, which apparently struck a curb and drifted morning, a nearby group of has been heavily developed over sideways into oncoming traffic. Anto- mostly Marshfield High School the past 70 years, was chosen as nio Moore was driving north and students was pulling on boots an example of an urban wetlands Henderson was headed south. and wading into Pony Slough. environment. Both the Moores and Henderson The Coos Watershed Associa- “The genesis of the project was were taken to Curry General Hospital tion’s Master Watershed Stew- as a mitigation project for the where Henderson died shortly after ards class has begun its second North Bend School District,” arriving. Police said the highway was term of the 2012-2013 school Executive Director Jon Souder wet and all three people involved were year. The class, which takes explained. The Cape Arago wearing seat belts. Police said they do advantage of the Coos Bay School Audobon Society had stepped in not believe alcohol was a factor in the District’s four-day week, enlists collision. students in hands-on wetlands Curry General could not confirm SEE WATERSHED | A10 the Moores’ condition, but Gold Beach police said they suffered seri- ous injuries in the collision. Robert Emerson, Coos Bay What’s Up . Go! Sports . B1 T S S Harry Dillon, Florence E Kelly Kennedy, Myrtle Point A H D Police reports . A2 Comics . C5 Marilyn Murphy, Langlois I Harley Nissen, North Bend C T E A S South Coast. A3 Classifieds . C6 Karen Kupfer Mostly cloudy E | Obituaries A5 R N Robert Ratlief, Reedsport 49/42 I D Opinion. A4 Puzzles . C7 O Huntley Alvey, Coos Bay F Weather | A10 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Saturday, February9,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Thefts & Mischief Police All wrapped up COOS COUNTY Feb. 7, 1:26 p.m., suspicious sub- ject across from the Mill Casino- arrest man The Cape Arago Feb. 7, 8:21 a.m., theft of wood, 93600 block of Carlisle Lane. Hotel arrested for meth and Lighthouse, south of heroin possession, 3200 block of on child Charleston, is partially Feb. 7, 12:31 p.m., theft of mail, Tremont Avenue. covered with scaffolding 90900 block of Evans Place and a plastic cocoon. It Feb. 7, 3:14 p.m., unauthorized Drive. sex charges has not been used in entry into a motor vehicle, 500 Feb. 7, 4:51 p.m., possible burgla- several years and the block of Tenth Avenue. ry to a trailer, 92100 block of THE WORLD U.S. Coast Guard has Cape Arago Highway. Feb. 7, 5:11 p.m., unlawful entry removed the bridge to Feb. 7, 6:42 p.m., burglary to resi- into a motor vehicle, 200 block COQUILLE — A 50- the site and is now in the dence, 91200 block of Tarheel of Johnson Street. year-old Coos Bay man process of taking out Lane. went back to the Coos anything of value to van- County jail on $100,000 Feb. 7, 8:21 p.m., man arrested for COQUILLE dals, such as wiring. assault of another man at resi- bail Friday, after appear- Feb. 7, 3:08 p.m., man arrested ing in court on child sex dence, 62700 block of Karl for felony domestic assault, Road. charges. 700 block of North Birch William Paul Cisneros Street. was arrested Jan. 23 on COOS BAY four Feb. 7, 5:54 a.m., unlawful entry NORTH BEND counts of into a motor vehicle, 100 block using a of Second Avenue. Feb. 7, 4:15 p.m., retrieved child in a syringe found in front of resi- Feb. 7, 6:18 a.m., unlawful entry display into two motor vehicles, 1200 dence, 3100 block of Oak of sexu- block of North Seventh Street. Street. ally explicit Feb. 7, 10:14 p.m., fire deptart- Feb. 7, 11:30 a.m., unlawful entry conduct, into a motor vehicle, 1100 block ment responds to alarm at the f our of North Eighth Street. school, North Bend High School. William Cisneros counts of encour- aging child sex abuse, four counts of possession of child sex material, and VValentine’salentine’s DinnerDinner three counts of third- degree sexual abuse. Join us for a romantic evening at TThehe PPortsideortside Authorities allege in an AUSTRALIAN indictment that Cisneros made video recordings of his victims. Rock Lobster Dinner Cisneros’ next court Served with House Salad with appearance will be a Feb. Oregon Shrimp or Clam Chowder, 25 hearing. 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