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C M C M Y K Y K Have a Merry Christmas HOLIDAY COMBO Double comics Cuisine KidScoop Grocery coupons Weekend sports We will not publish a separate edition on Christmas Day. Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, AND TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ A band of ‘troublemakers’ BY TYLER RICHARDSON 2007 to help seniors strengthen their formance, the band sings, tells stories The World brains. and jokes. Their hit song this Christ- The group, which ranges in age from mas was called, “All I Want for Christ- COOS BAY — Armed with an arsenal 67 to 100, performs year-round across mas is My New False Teeth.” of musical weapons, a group of senior the county. They Some members of the band have a citizens are redefining what it means to tailor their per- musical background, but most mem- be old. formances to bers joined having never played an Dressed in Santa hats and equipped See related video for match different instrument before. with enough Christmas spirit to grow this story online at holidays such as “They put a pair of maracas in my the Grinch’s heart, the Ocean Ridge jug theworldlink.com Christmas, hand and the rest is history,” member band uses music to spread holiday Valentine’s and Dottie Fowler said. “I wouldn’t trade cheer in the community. St. Patrick’s Day. this for anything.” All of the band members live at the “They needed something to keep us The band won an award from the By Alysha Beck, The World Ocean Ridge Assisted Living in Coos out of trouble,” member G.B. Riser Oregon Health Care Association in Carolyn Auger, right, and G.B. Riser, members of the Jug Band, sing Bay. Ocean Ridge’s Activities Coordi- said. Christmas tunes during the Christmas party at Ocean Ridge Assisted nator Mary Luther started the group in For the Christmas-themed per- SEE JUG BAND | A10 Living on Thursday afternoon. Holiday lights By Lou Sennick, The World The North Bend neighborhood on 12th Court is lit up for the Christmas holidays, with several of the homes decorated with lights. The red lines are from a moving car checking out the lights in the neighborhood behind Clyde Allen Field. Ann Payne helps her A place without birth mother, Dianne Taylor, decorate her Christmas tree at Christmas cheer Taylor’s Ocean Ridge Assisted Living facility “It’s the same day. I don’t even apartment.This is BY TYLER RICHARDSON The World know if it’s raining. You don’t even mother and daugh- realize it is Christmas.” ter’s first Christmas COQUILLE — The thought of a The gltiz and cheer that accom- together.Taylor gave Christmas tree made out of toilet panies the holiday season is up her daughter for paper brings a boyish grin to Chris drowned out by the gray cement adoption 43 years Edwards’ weathered face. walls and cold floors of the jail. ago.The pair recon- It’s the simple pleasures that Christmas music is replaced by the nected through matter when you’ve spent the last harmony of cell doors closing. Facebook this month. 15 months in jail. Lights don’t decorate corridors. Tuesday will mark the second Jail staff play the role of Santa, By Jessie Higgins, year Edwards has woken up to an delivering letters and cards to eager The World unforgiving jail cell ceiling staring inmates. back at him for the holidays. For “Obviously they don’t even give him and the other inmates at the us scissors to cut snowflakes out of Coos County jail, Christmas will coffee filters,”Edwards said. Christmas reunion delights come and go like any other day. Beside a special dinner of turkey “It doesn’t matter what day it is or ham, potatoes and desert, in here,”Edwards said, sitting in a Christmas Day at the jail for most mother and daughter holding cell with a sheriff’s deputy nearby. SEE JAIL | A10 BY JESSIE HIGGINS unmarried mothers in Eugene other children. When they were The World to wait out her pregnancy. old enough, she told each of “I held her twice before I them about their oldest sister, COOS BAY — This Christ- would sign the (adoption) somewhere in the world. mas, a local woman received a papers,”Taylor said. “I would- “I hoped she was happy,” present too perfect for words. n’t sign them otherwise.” Taylor said. “That’s all I wor- After 43 years, her daughter Taylor named her baby girl ried about.” came home. Christina, then gave her away. And all these years, Ann “It’s amazing,”said Marie All she knew was that the Marie “Christina” Payne said Ann Payne, smiling at her Catholic Church placed the she has been, save for one nag- mother, Dianne Taylor. “I just baby with a Catholic family. ging question: want to soak it all in.” “Afterward, I found an ad in “I wanted to know if I was Taylor was 22 when she Good Housekeeping with (a wanted,”Payne said. became pregnant with Ann baby’s picture) that was the Oh yes she was, Taylor said. Marie. It was 1969, and both spitting image of her,”Taylor The two smiled at each other, she and the baby’s father were said. “I cut it out and kept it for sitting side by side in the read- Catholic. Taylor did not want a long time. You can’t imagine ing room at Ocean Ridge Assist- to marry the boy, so she went how hard it was.” World File Photo away to a Catholic home for Taylor went on to have four SEE REUNION | A10 Inside one of the pods at the Coos County jail. For most inmates, Christmas will pass just like any other day. The cliff South Coast. A2 Sports . B1 Marian Dick, Coos Bay T S S E Leonard Popinski, Lakeside N You may not see it in your A H O D Police reports . A3 Classifieds . B6 I I Lamoine Reiland, Bandon January paychecks, but C T T E A S What’s Up. A3 Puzzles . C4-5 higher taxes are coming. Partly sunny A E R N 48/43 I N D Opinion. A4 Comics . C4-5 Obituaries | A5 Page A6 O F Weather | A10 CLEAN UP WITH THIS PAIR BAY APPLIAN CE & TV 541.269.5158 Affinity® Front Load Washer & Dryer 253 S. Broadway, Coos Bay $ $ 0 00000 (Next to the Egyptian Theatre) CCB# 184579 FAFW3801LW FAQE7001LW 1 13991339999 Pair QUALIFIES FOR REBATES 3.76 cu. ft. 7 cu. ft. Pedestals sold separately. C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World •Monday, December 24,2012 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Basil Booman, 25, and Heather Aday,22,huddle together at the sec- ond annual vigil for deceased home- Photos by Jessie Higgins, The World py less people. They’ve been homeless Leroy and Kelly Davidson, a homeless couple, honor deceased homeless people at Friday night’s vigil on Hap for a little more than a year. the Coos Bay Boardwalk. olildays Remembering those in need FromH o Yours! amily t y! r F ery Da sat huddled next to his girl- Slate told the crowd that the Ou Special Ev BY JESSIE HIGGINS 5 Lunch The World friend, 22-year-old Heather community needs to work $ 9 Aday. They held lit candles, to remove the stigma of 4 COOS BAY — A few cupped in both hands. “I homelessness. After all, dozen shivering people feel passionate about it.” even she is only a few weeks gathered on the Coos Bay In the background, Coos from homelessness, if she Boardwalk on Friday night Bay Mayor Crystal Shoji were to lose her income. to light candles in honor of spoke about society’s role in And so are many others, she d. not include helping the homeless. Beverages pm. deceased homeless people. said. d 11 am - 3 Lunch serve The event, organized by “Tonight, I’m lucky,”she After the vigil, the Neighbors in Need, drew a said. “I have a warm place to homeless people in the handful of homeless people go tonight, where I can crowd were invited to the laugh with people. But I from various local shelters. Green Space for a dinner of know I would not last long if “We’ve been homeless stone soup. Neighbors in I were on the streets, out in for a year or so,” said 25- Need had laid out donated the elements.” year-old Basil Booman. He She asked the crowd coats, clothes and other what homeless people supplies. needed most. A homeless Slate intends to make the Several dozen people gathered to man chimed it that the area vigil and dinner a yearly tra- remember deceased homeless dition. It was held for the Coos Bay Division needed a daytime shelter. people at a candlelight vigil at the Call us for your holiday catering! After Shoji spoke, several first time last year after a Coos Bay Boardwalk on Friday ALDER WANTED homeless people volun- local homeless man froze to night. Coos Bay Mayor Crystal Also MAPLE and ASH teered to read stories, then death. Shoji gave a short speech, then ••• Saw Logs the event’s organizer, Anna Reporter Jessie Higgins volunteers read stories written by ••• Timber Marie Slate, read an obitu- can be reached at 541-269- homeless people. Several local ary of a homeless man. 1222, ext. 240, or homeless people attended.