e PARTLYEdition CLOUDY, CHILLY 67 • 54 | MONDAY, JULY 6, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink ‘We’re here fighting for everyone’ Safer As One protest She said the project would also include community-building sought to educate, bring activities like picnics, events to “bring the community together as together community one group.” Another activist present for the JILLIAN WARD afternoon demonstration, Jessica The World Lacey, pointed to the systemic racism being spotlighted across COOS BAY — A peaceful the country and said the same demonstration gathered on the can be found in Coos Bay. Coos Bay Boardwalk on Sunday, “… It’s not overt racism standing for a safer community. that’s the most damaging, but Local activist Jay Brown said the covert racism that’s woven the group was there to advocate into the fabric of our society and for equality and a “Safer As intertwined with every institution One” city. of the county,” Lacey said. “(Safer As One) is a proposal Tables were set up on the we’re sending to city officials boardwalk with educational and the police department to materials for two local projects, work alongside their commu- as well as a table for voter regis- nity,” she said. “Safer As One tration. One of the tables was for would be multiple people from the Alonzo Tucker Project, which sub-communities and minitories is to work with the City of Coos working alongside officials, so Bay to put in a statue remember- when there is a police call we’d ing the one documented lynching send someone from a sub-com- Jillian Ward, The World of a Black man in Oregon — A peaceful gathering was seen Sunday afternoon, promoting equality and a safer community. munity to deescalate the situation ….” Please see Protest, Page A2 Fourth of July fireworks in Bandon Fewer students seek aid (AP) - The number of high school seniors applying for U.S. federal college aid plunged in the weeks following the sudden closure of school buildings this spring — a time when students were cut off from school coun- selors, and families hit with financial setbacks were reconsid- ering plans for higher education. In the first weeks of the pandemic, the number of new applications fell by nearly half compared to last year’s levels, fueled by a precipitous decline among students at low-income schools, according to an Asso- ciated Press analysis of federal data. The numbers have risen as states and schools have launched campaigns urging students to ap- ply for aid, but they remain down overall from last year. It’s raising alarms among education officials who say thou- sands of students may be opting to delay or forgo college, with potentially dire consequences for their job prospects and future Amy Moss Strong, The World earnings. Fireworks were seen in abundance along the South Coast on the Fourth of July, most of them considered illegal in Oregon unless sold to a certified handler. This one shines “The consequences are that over Bandon’s Old Town and harbor prior to the fireworks show put on for the community by local business owner Anthony Zunino, who is a certified handler and who used his kids are going directly into the personal funds. workforce. They’re closing the door on post-high school learning,” said David Nieslanik, principal of Southridge High School in Beaverton, Oregon, Trump spokes divisions with US where he saw only more affluent students file for aid once instruc- WASHINGTON (AP) — On a 130,000 are known to have died Support has been growing among “We chose to wear a mask to tion moved online. day meant for unity and celebra- from COVID-19 in the U.S. Republicans to remove Confed- protect ourselves and others,” The FAFSA, short for Free tion, President Donald Trump Even as officials across the erate memorials. Watt said. She said her family Application for Federal Student vowed to “safeguard our values” country pleaded with Ameri- “Our past is not a burden to be was divided on Trump but she Aid, is required for students from enemies within — leftists, cans to curb their enthusiasm cast away,” Trump said. is “more of a Trump supporter. to be eligible for federal Pell looters, agitators, he said — in for large Fourth of July crowds, Outside the event but as close Being from southern California I grants and student loans. It’s also a Fourth of July speech packed Trump enticed the masses with to it as they could get, Pat Lee see socialist tendencies. I’m tired often a requirement for state aid. with all the grievances and com- a “special evening” of tribute of Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, of paying taxes so others can stay Students who complete the form bativeness of his political rallies. and fireworks staged with new gathered with two friends, one home.” are far more likely to enroll in Trump watched paratroopers U.S. coronavirus infections on of them a nurse from Freder- Pat Lee made the trip from college, studies have found, and float to the ground in a tribute to the rise. icksburg, Virginia, and none in a north of Philadelphia after seeing those who receive aid are more America, greeted his audience But the crowds wandering the mask. last year’s Mall celebration on likely to stay in college. of front-line medical workers National Mall for the night’s air “POTUS said it would go TV. In the four weeks starting and others central in responding show and fireworks were strik- away,” Lee said of the pandemic, She said the protests over March 13, the number of com- to the coronavirus pandemic, ingly thinner than the gathering using an acronym for president racial injustice that unfolded pleted applications was down and opened up on those who for last year’s jammed celebra- of the United States. “Masks, near her were so threatening that 45% compared to the same peri- “slander” him and disrespect the tion on the Mall. I think, are like a hoax.” But people in her suburban neigh- od the year before, according to country’s past. Many who showed up wore she said she wore one inside borhood took turns staying up all the AP analysis. It was sharpest “We are now in the process masks, unlike those seated close the Trump International Hotel, night and those who didn’t own at Title I schools, a federal des- of defeating the radical left, the together for Trump’s South Lawn where she stayed. guns stationed bats and shovels ignation for public schools that anarchists, the agitators, the event, and distancing was easy to By the World War II Memo- in their garages. Her friend from have larger shares of low-income looters, and the people who, in do for those scattered across the rial, the National Park Service Pennsylvania, who didn’t want students, which saw a 52% de- many instances, have absolutely sprawling space. handed out packets of five white to be identified, said she spent crease, compared to a 39% slide no clue what they are doing,” he Trump did not hesitate to use cloth masks to all who wanted more than three hours in line to at other public schools. said. “We will never allow an an- the country’s birthday as an oc- them. People were not required buy a gun. Overall, applications were gry mob to tear down our statues, casion to assail segments of the to wear them. “I want people to stop calling down by 70,000 as of June 19, erase our history, indoctrinate country that do not support him. Another nurse, Zippy Watt us racists,” Lee said. “We’re not representing a 3.7% drop for the our children. Carrying on a theme he from Riverside, California, came racists. Just because you love entire application cycle. “And we will defend, protect pounded on a day earlier against to see the air show and fireworks your country, love the people in Even before the pandemic, and preserve (the) American the backdrop of the Mount with her husband and their two your country, doesn’t make you some states had been expecting way of life, which began in 1492 Rushmore monuments, he went daughters, one of whom lives in a racist.” to see decreases as demograph- when Columbus discovered after those who have torn down Washington. They wore match- Trump’s guests on the South ic shifts result in fewer high America.” statues or think some of them, ing American flag face masks Lawn were doctors, nurses, law school seniors, and plenty of He did not mention the dead particularly those of Confeder- even when seated together on a enforcement officers and mili- individual schools saw filings from the pandemic. Nearly ate figures, should be removed. park bench. Please see Trump, Page A3 Please see Aid, Page A3 eEdition Seven arrested during disturbance in Lincoln City The World release. highly intoxicated group Several other officers -ar and began placing them LINCOLN CITY — rived on scene and learned under arrest for a variety of Five people from Clark that this same group of criminal charges, accord- County, Wash., were white men had allegedly ing to the release. arrested following a distur- been taunting and chal- Gennadiy Kachankov, bance where they allegedly lenging a Black family by 30, Antoliy Kachankov, 28, shouted racial slurs and yelling racial slurs at them, Andrey Zaytsev, 28, Oleg harassed a Black family on insulting them and using Saranchuk, 45, Ruslan the beach on July 4. Nazi salutes towards them. Tkachenko, 22, all of At about 9:33 p.m., Lin- The Black family advised Clark County, Wash., were coln City Police were dis- police they felt intimidated charged with the following patched to the ocean beach by the actions this group crimes, riot, interfering area in front of the Inn at had displayed toward with police, disorderly Spanish Head on a report them.