WORLD SERIES 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Boston takes 3-2 series lead, B1 Events mark Superstorm Sandy date, A7 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ CB loses ‘one of its great citizens’ BY CHELSEA DAVIS The World COOS BAY — Cindi Miller may be gone, but her dedication to the Coos Bay community will never be forgotten. At 66, everyone was shocked to hear of Miller’s death on Saturday. “It was a surprise, because you always saw her as that person that would always be there. Cindi was such a hard work- er in everything that she did that you forget that we aren’t immortal,” Photos by Lou Sennick, The World said K-DOCK Esther Sanchez, left, puts ribs into place on the skeleton of a juvenile gray whale Friday in Charleston. Sanchez, from Spain, is helping Lee Post, from Homer,Alaska, along general manager Stephanie Kilmer, with staff and students at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology construct two sets of whale bones for the Charleston Marine Life Center under construction.The skeleton who worked with in the foreground is from an orca that died and washed up on a Bandon beach several years ago.In the back,James Johnson,on staff at OIMB,helps the crew with the work. Cindi Miller Miller during her decade at the sta- tion. “No matter if she was in pain or she was sick, she had a lot of The rib bone’s connected to the ... things going on and she just trudged right through everything. She loved her work because she loved the people she got to work with. It’s been really hard on just about everybody.” Miller’s resume was packed with experience and community service, from launching the Bay Area Fun Festival in 1974 to serving on the Coos Bay city council to revamping K-DOCK’s sales team. “I think the other side’s a little better off today,” Kilmer said. “Cindi really paved the way into the market for not just radio female salespeople but salespeo- ple in general. She’d been doing it for years and so a lot of us women in broadcasting give a lot of credit to Cindi for paving the way.” Miller was a city councilor when attorney Roger Gould SEE MILLER | A8 Lee Post (above) positions and fastens a gray whale rib into place Friday. Lee, along with Esther Sanchez have been working all month on the project and should be done in a couple days. Post said he has assem- Lee Post and Esther Sanchez traveled to the Charleston bled about 20 whale skeletons. Marine Life Center, associated with the Oregon Teacher’s Institute of Marine Biology, to put together the bones the school had of the whales.They had lots of help from Video for this story can be found staff and students at the school in the project.They will online at: theworldlink.com trial set for be part of the displays in the center when it is finished. January BY THOMAS MORIARTY Pizzeria The World This winter, a jury will decide if a former Bandon teacher and rises from coach should do hard time on charges he sexually abused a stu- dent. In a hearing Monday morning, the ashes Coos County Circuit Judge Michael Gillespie scheduled Charles Eugene McLauchlin, Jr. for a 12-person jury trial on Jan. 28 BY CHELSEA DAVIS and 29. The World McLauchlin is charged with 25 counts of second-degree sex abuse COOS BAY — A prized pizzeria is back in and 10 counts of online sexual cor- business three years after a fire brought the ruption of a minor. restaurant to its knees. A former science teacher, he Dave and Theresa Sherwood had run Dave’s had also worked as a cross country Pizza at 1933 Newmark St. in North Bend for 13 and track coach in the Bandon years before a teenager set the restaurant on fire School District. Nov. 18, 2010. The charges stem from an On Wednesday,Dave’s Pizza will celebrate its alleged incident involving one of grand opening — or grand re-opening — at its his runners. new location, 740 Koos Bay Blvd. The Bandon Police Department “It was quite an undertaking transforming a began investigating McLauchlin in 40-year-old bar into a restaurant,” Theresa By Lou Sennick, The World August 2012. Sherwood said of the building that used to be Maressa Rosles and Conor Swan prepare the salad bar Monday morning before Dave’s Pizza opens for the day.Nearly He was placed on paid adminis- Wanda’s Food and Beverage House. “It’s been a three years after an arson-caused fire destroyed their business in North Bend, the restaurant has reopened on Koos trative leave last fall, and was long odyssey.” Bay Boulevard in Coos Bay. arrested in July following a search Opening the restaurant was much harder this of his home by police. time around, she said. The Sherwoods had McLauchlin’s second-degree taken over the lease at the former restaurant Dave’s Pizza sex abuse charges are an upgrade with two silent partners. The blaze caused “It was worse than a about $250,000 in damages. Location: 740 Koos Bay Blvd. from the third-degree misde- Hours: Open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday death. It was just meanor crime, triggered by his “This time it was just me and Dave. It required a lot of sacrifice. We had to sell his 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday status as the victim’s coach. Menu: Dave’s Pizza offers appetizers, salads, soups, sandwiches, cal- devastating.” If convicted on the sex abuse grandfather’s ring and my wedding ring,” she said, wiggling her left ring finger as her eyes zones, spaghetti, “lunch express” menu, kids meals and pizzas, which Theresa Sherwood charges, he would face a maximum range in price from $12 for a small, one topping pizza to $23.70 for a on fire that destroyed their business sentence of 5 years in prison on large, two topping pizza. each count. SEE DAVE’S | A8 Wayne Schiro, Coos Bay Plane hits house Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 Penny Selfors, North Bend T S S E Pilot dies when plane crashes into a E A H Genevieve Williams, Bandon D What’s Up. A3 Comics . C4 T I McMinnville house. The occupant of the C T Joseph Griffs, Coquille A E A S Sunny South Coast. A3 Puzzles. C4 T house was unharmed. E R N Regina Catlett, Coos Bay S 56/39 I Page A5 D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C5 O Obituaries | A5 F Weather | A8 A2 •The World • Tuesday,October 29,2013 South Coast Executive Editor Larry Campbell • 541-269-1222, ext. 251 theworldlink.com/news/local Chopper crashes near Days Creek THE WORLD Rural Fire/Rescue, Junction TODAY Community Fall Festival 5-8 p.m., Snoddy Memorial SOUTH COAST City Police and Oregon Gymnasium, 1850 Clark St., North Bend. Spon- DAYS CREEK — Law Department of Transporta- Mahaffy Pumpkin Patch noon-5 p.m., Mahaffy’s, sored by several community churches. Free hot- enforcement and federal reg- REPORTS tion responded to the crash. 10362 Highway 241-Coos River, Coos Bay. dogs, beverages, candy, carnival games, Jump-4- ulators are investigating the NBPOA Haunted House 6-10 p.m. Pony Village Fun and more. Children must be accompanied by Hospital adds two an adult. crash of a small helicopter Coos Bay man died in a Mall, 1611 Virginia Ave., North Bend. Sponsored near Days Creek on Monday. hyperbaric chambers by the North Bend Police Officers Association. Safe Halloween 5-8 p.m., Pony Village Mall, 1611 two-vehicle collision last Admission: Adults, $5 and under 12, $4. According to the Douglas week. COOS BAY — The Bay Virginia Ave., North Bend. There will be treats County Sheriff’s Office, the James Richmond, 55, was Area Hospital keeps expand- Haunted Theatre 7-10 p.m., Little Theater on the from merchants in the mall, a cake walk and dispatchers received a report pronounced dead at Sacred ing, adding two hyperbaric Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. Adults, $5 cotton candy. Costume parade, 6 p.m. of the crash just before noon. Heart Medical Center at chambers that will be in and 13 and younger, $3. Second trip is half Haunted Halls 6-8 p.m., Bandon High School, 550 Emergency personnel place in early 2014. price. Not suitable for young viewers. RiverBend, in Springfield. Ninth St. SW, Bandon. 541-347-4413 discovered a Bell Jet Ranger The chambers will be in His wife, Barbara M. Rich- had crashed into the South one room as part of the Halloween Alternative — Swimming 6-9 p.m., mond, a passenger in their WEDNESDAY Umpqua River near the Wound Care Clinic. The North Bend Swimming Pool, 2455 Pacific Ave., car, was treated for serious Care Wear Uniforms Scrub Sale 7 a.m.-4 p.m., 13000 block of Tiller Trail clinic also will have five North Bend. Canned food donations or regular injuries at the hospital. Coquille Valley Hospital cafeteria, 940 E. Fifth admission. 541-756-4915 Highway, severing nearby other wound care rooms. St., Coquille. power lines and leaking fuel Richmond and his wife Hyperbaric chambers are Haunted Theatre 6 p.m.-midnight, Little Theater into the river. were traveling east on state small rooms that provide 10 Final 2013 Coos Bay Farmers Market 9-3 p.m., on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. The helicopter’s male Highway 36 (Mapleton- to 20 times the oxygen level Downtown Coos Bay on Central Avenue.