C M C M Y K Y K OFF TO A GOOD START TEACHERS STRIKE NFL finishes first full week, B1 Chicago educators walk out, A7 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Iconic meals mark Coquille tribal tradition BY TYLER RICHARDSON er Vickie Standridge. The World “But it is really for guests to come and share the tribal culture and have a fun experience.” Nearly 2,000 pounds of fresh salmon helped Canoe races were one of the main attractions as feed around 1,800 guests at this year’s ninth annu- people from various tribes across Oregon and al Mill-Luck Salmon Celebration Friday through Washington, as well as non-tribal members, raced Sunday at The Mill Casino-Hotel. a mile-long course in West Coast-style canoes. The coals in the bake pit sizzled for hours as a Shirod Younkev, from the Miluk and Coquille huckleberry reduction sauce dripped from large tribes, shared his passion for canoes with Chinook salmon and hungry customers waited in bystanders as he emceed the races. long, but quick-moving lines. Younkev said canoes play a vital role in the histo- The celebration, which was free to attend and ry of tribes. Not only were they the main form of spanned more than two days, gave people hands- transportation, but they also taught people how to on experience with various aspects of Native work together and set aside differences. American culture. “It reminds us of our responsibility to the water Stations were set up where visitors learned how and the animals in it,”Younkev said of canoes. to basket-weave, make traditional hunting weapons and play different instruments like the Ancestral passage Native American flute. “These are the passages of our ancestors. It is Contributed Photo another way to affirm ancestral kinship ties.” People pile into ocean-style canoes as they get ready to race at the ninth annual Mill-Luck The wow in powwow Salmon Celebration.The canoes were docked on the sandy area just on the south side of The “This has a powwow flavor,”said event organiz- SEE SALMON | A8 Mill Casino-Hotel. Weekend of cranberries Congress has a lot left to do BY ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington today for a truncated pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt problems to the future. They face a slew of deadlines and the prospect of a debilitating “fiscal cliff” in January, yet are expected to take a pass on the big issues of taxes and spending cuts. Their focus seems to be on the bare minimum, preventing a govern- ment shutdown when the budget year ends Sept. 30. Democrats controlling the Senate and their House GOP rivals also will also try to set up votes intended to score political points or paint the other side with an unflattering brush two months before the election. Their efforts are sure to be overshadowed by the By Lou Sennick, The World presidential campaign. Cheerleaders from Bandon Middle School go airborne Saturday morning as they march through Bandon for the annual Cranberry Festival parade. The event started a Topping the agenda of sub- weekend of festivities around the community, all to honor the red berries grown in nearby bogs. stantive business is a six-month temporary spending bill to finance the government’s day-to-day operations. The annual appropria- tions process on Capitol Hill col- lapsed about midway through the Border Patrol program cost taxpayers $100M campaign season. The stopgap measure would give the next Congress time to fashion a full- TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. way to discourage people from try- assistant chief of the Border Patrol’s “Right off the bat, I can tell you year plan. There would be no more government has halted flights ing their luck again, and it appears Tucson sector. “We’re running into that Mexico was not going to allow, sure way of driving Congress’ home for Mexicans caught entering to have kept many away — at least a more budget-conscious society, nor will it ever allow, that kind of approval ratings even lower than the country illegally in the deadly for a short time. especially with the government.” repatriation, which puts families’ for lawmakers to stumble into a summer heat of Arizona’s deserts, But with Border Patrol arrests at He added: “Does it fit within our safety at risk,” said Juan Manuel government shutdown right a money-saving move that ends a 40-year lows and fresh evidence budget and is there an alternative Calderon, the Mexican consul in before the Nov. 6 vote. seven-year experiment that cost suggesting more people may be that is not as effective but still effec- Tucson. House Speaker John Boehner, taxpayers nearly $100 million. heading south of the border than tive?” U.S. and Mexican negotiators R-Ohio, and Senate Majority More than 125,000 passengers north, officials struggled to fill the In an effort to keep the flights also discussed changing the route Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hope were flown deep into Mexico for planes and found the costs increas- going, American authorities pro- from El Paso, Texas, where many to present the measure this week, free since 2004 in an effort that ingly difficult to justify. Flights car- posed mixing in Mexicans who Mexicans with criminal records are with a House vote as early as initially met with skepticism from rying up to 146 people were cut to commit crimes while living in the held, to the central Mexican state of Thursday. The measure also will Mexican government officials and once from twice daily last year. U.S. The Mexican government Guanajuato. In the past, the route ensure a steady flow of money into migrants, but was gradually And this summer, there haven’t balked at seating hardened crimi- has been from Tucson to Mexico disaster aid accounts. embraced as a way to help people been any. nals next to families, elderly and the City. More challenging is what to do back on their feet and save lives. “Everything comes down to dol- frail who recently crossed the border The Border Patrol hailed it as a lars and cents,” said George Allen, in search of work. SEE FLIGHTS | A8 SEE CONGRESS | A8 Sept. 11 Anniversary WTC memorials have a steep price NEW YORK (AP) — With its complete, the memorial and muse- Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Running huge reflecting pools, ringed by um will together cost $60 million a Arlington National Cemetery, waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a year to operate. which has more than 14,000 graves cavernous underground museum The anticipated cost has both- and receives 4 million visitors a still under construction, the ered some critics and raised con- year, costs $45 million annually. National Sept. 11 Memorial and cerns even among the memorial’s Officials at the 9/11 memorial Museum at the World Trade Center allies that the budget may be say they face unique challenges is an awesome spectacle that unsustainable without a hefty gov- that make comparisons to other moved and inspired some 4.5 mil- ernment subsidy. national memorials difficult. lion visitors in its first year. By comparison, the National The foundation plans to spend But all that eye-welling magnif- Park Service budgeted $8.4 million at least a fifth of its operating The Associated Press icence comes with a jaw-dropping this year to operate and maintain budget, or around $12 million per Visitors to the National September 11 Memorial in New York walk around its twin price tag. The foundation that runs Gettysburg National Military Park year, on private security because of pools. The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 the memorial estimates that once and $3.6 million for the monument million project is complete, it will cost $60 million a year to operate. the roughly $700 million project is that includes the USS Arizona SEE MEMORIALS | A8 Jail crowding Police reports . A2 Comics . A6 Darren Hanson, North Bend T S S E E Suspect in shooting had A H Vada Ueland, Coos Bay D D What’s Up. A2 Sports . B1 I I been let out of Marion C T Larry Dawson, North Bend S E A S South Coast. A3 Classifieds . B5 County jail last month. Mostly cloudy N E R N | I 66/46 I Obituaries A5 D Opinion. A4 Puzzles. B6 State | A5 O F Weather | A8 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Monday, September 10,2012 Y K South Coast Managing Editor James Casey • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Thefts & Mischief Golfers needed for the 12th annual COOS BAY Sept. 8, 11:16 p.m., dispute, 1000 block of South Fourth Street. Sept. 7, 8:51 a.m., fraud, Coos Bay. Tom Huebner golf scramble Sept. 9, 8:20 a.m., harassment, Sept. 7, 10:59 a.m., man arrested on charges of theft, 100 block of 1700 block of Thompson Road. South Seventh Street. REEDSPORT — The benefit the Coos County recruit class was sworn in and NORTH BEND Reedsport Education Women’s Safety and Resource Sept. 7, 11:59 a.m., burglary, 1000 BAY AREA a statewide hiring freeze was block of Michigan Avenue. Sept. 7, 8:29 a.m., criminal mis- Enrichment Foundation will Center, a co-sponsor of the implemented in January 2012. chief, 1000 block of Airport Way.