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SPACE WALK GRANTS PASS EDGES PIRATES NASA calls for emergency repairs, A7 Marshfield boys lose home opener, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ NB schools, teachers reach new agreement BY CHELSEA DAVIS The World NORTH BEND — With a shake-up in administration and a new outlook, the North Bend school board and teachers union were able to sit down and solve their problems. The bargaining teams for the school board and North Bend Education Association left their lawyers and UniServ consultants at the door Monday night. Instead, both parties met informally in a closed session to reach an agreement on teacher contracts. Negotiations have been locked and strained since April. A mediation “It was the session was By Lou Sennick, The World recently scheduled The fishing vessel Terry F crosses the Coos Bay bar Tuesday afternoon heading back into port in Charleston. nicest for January, but bargaining school board chair- person Megan session I’ve Jacquot said now that’s in the Expect great crab, OK season ever been in.” process of being canceled. Megan Jacquot “We think it’s Opening price for Dungeness is 15 percent better than 2012 School board chairperson all resolved at this point in time,” she said. “It was a real- BY TIM NOVOTNY Adams has seen great years and bad ly nice atmosphere and conversation with The World “The crab are out there, years for the commercial crab fishery on them. I’m glad everyone came without having the Oregon Coast; he says this one is old resentments and stuff come up. It was the CHARLESTON — A commercial crab but you have to work this shaping up as one that will land some- nicest bargaining session I’ve ever been in.” fishing season that was delayed for two where in the middle. A dark cloud has hung over teacher con- weeks is drawing mixed reviews in the year. This year, experience “The crab are out there, but you have tract negotiations for years. NBEA bargaining opening days. The quality of crab is great, is going to pay.” to work this year. This year, experience is chair Laurie Nordahl previously said negotia- experts say, but for fishermen and proces- going to pay,” Adams said by phone on tions turned sour when attorneys were added sors the season may be just average. Scott Adams Tuesday. “I just think this is going to be to the mix in 2007. The season was delayed two weeks, Hallmark Fisheries more of a normal average year. All of us “The tone of the bargaining changed from after preseason testing showed the crab are going to have to work together to a problem solving scenario to more combat- needed a little more time to fill with meat. make it successful.” ive,”she said. It started at 12:01 a.m. Monday, after a Early indications, he says, are showing But during a three-hour meeting on pricing agreement was reached last reflects a 15 percent increase over last that it might be a little slower from Monday the school board and NBEA reached Wednesday through annual state-super- year’s negotiated agreement. California up to Brookings. Things start an agreement on a financial package and sev- vised negotiations. “I congratulate everyone involved for looking better from Port Orford to eral language issues. Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission working hard to find common ground and Newport, although it is still pretty spotty. In terms of teacher salaries, both sides Executive Director Hugh Link said the get the job done in time to get this impor- However, the crab that are being found, agreed on a 1.5 percent cost of living increase price opened at $2.65 a pound, but with- tant fishery underway,”Gardner said. he says, will make a great holiday meal. in the first year of the contract and a 2.5 per- out a locked-in time so that it can change Terms, negotiated between the state’s Link agrees. “Based on the preseason cent increase in the second year. as market conditions warrant. five port crab marketing associations and testing that has been done, there is no They also agreed on adding a monthly $50 Oregon Department of Agriculture five seafood processors, have been doubt that Oregon Dungeness crab are to teachers’ health savings accounts, an addi- Business Development Manager Jerry reviewed and formally ratified by ODA ready for market. Consumers can be tional personal day (bringing North Bend to Gardner, who along with staff supervised Director Katy Coba, as required by assured that top quality Dungeness crab three personal days, which is in line with the negotiations, noted that this was the statute. will be delivered to all Oregon ports.” other South Coast schools) and adding more eighth time in the past 11 years the bar- As of Tuesday afternoon Hallmark “You can’t top a record season every gaining process has achieved a mutually Fisheries production manager Scott year,”Adams said, “I just hope (this one’s) SEE AGREEMENT | A8 agreeable opening price. This year’s price Adams said that price was still holding. successful for everybody involved.” Blind man, guide Budget agreement dog are safe after nears final passage subway track fall BY ANDREW TAYLOR trillion. An additional $18 billion The Associated Press for 2015 would provide enough BY COLLEEN LONG AND KILEY ARMSTRONG relief to essentially freeze spend- The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A modest, ing at those levels for the year. bipartisan budget pact designed to The bill advanced with the help NEW YORK — Gallant guide dog Orlando was just keep Washington from lurching of 12 Republicans, several of whom doing his duty. promised to oppose the measure The Associated Press from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis The black Lab bravely leapt onto the tracks at a Cecil Williams pets his guide dog, Orlando, in his hospital bed and to ease the harshest effects of in Wednesday’s final vote because Manhattan subway platform Tuesday after his blind following a fall onto subway tracks from the platform in New automatic budget cuts is on the it fails to take on the nation’s most owner lost consciousness and tumbled in front of an brink of passing the Senate on pressing fiscal challenges. It would oncoming train. York. The blind 61-year-old Williams says he fainted while hold- barely dent deficits that are pre- ing onto his black Labrador who tried to save him from falling. Wednesday. Cecil Williams, 61, and Orlando both escaped seri- The Senate is on track to clear dicted to lessen in the short term ous injury when the train passed over top of them — a the bill for President Barack but grow larger by the end of the miraculous end to a harrowing ordeal that began when even as a train approached. Obama’s signature after a 67-33 decade and into the next. Williams began to feel faint on his way to the dentist. “He was kissing him, trying to get him to move,” vote Tuesday in which it easily One provision, cutting the “He tried to hold me up,” an emotional Williams Martin said. hurdled a filibuster threshold. inflation increases of pensions for Witnesses called for help and the train’s motorman told The Associated Press from his hospital bed, his The measure would restore $45 military retirees under the age of slowed his approach as Williams and Orlando lay in voice breaking at times. billion, half the amount scheduled 62, was proving to be especially the trench between the rails. Witnesses said Orlando began barking frantically to be automatically cut from the unpopular. Members of the mili- “The dog saved my life,” Williams said. and tried to stop Williams from falling from the plat- 2014 operating budgets of the tary are eligible to retire after 20 form. 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