C M C M Y K Y K DEADLY STAMPEDE WAR OF THE ROSES Sixty-one perish after Ivory Coast fireworks show, A7 Pac-12’s Stanford beats Wisconsin, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 2, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Single-file crabbing in Port Orford BY JESSIE HIGGINS get a long stretch of stormy weath- along the channel as the tide reced- pass each other. It really slows the negating the need for dredging. But The World er that fills the port with sand.” ed and run their propellers. The operation down.” that would mean less protection The Port of Port Orford has not hope was, the action would push Anderson and the 40 to 60 fish- from storms. PORT ORFORD — Commercial been dredged since 2009, when enough sand out to sea with the ermen who use the port are looking “We’re looking at all our crabbers around Oregon headed Congress banned federal earmark- tide to deepen the channel for the for a more long-term solution to options,”Anderson said. out to collect their pots Monday, ing. Now, the U.S. Army Corps of crab season. the dredging problem. One possi- The Port of Port Orford is a nat- the first day of this year’s crab sea- Engineers ranks Oregon ports by But the weather was stormy in bility is for the port to seek out ural deep water port. Unlike most son. the amount of goods they export. the days leading up to the season, grant money to purchase its own Oregon ports, it is not connected to But in Port Orford, the fisher- Only the top exporting ports are and the fishermen didn’t want to dredging equipment. The problem a river, which means the docks are men are heading in and out one at a dredged, and since Port Orford risk harming their boats, Anderson is finding the money to maintain more vulnerable to winter storms. time, and only when the tide is exports nothing, it’s been left out. said. And now that the season has and operate the equipment, So in 1969, the Army Corps of right. The dozens of fishermen who begun, there’s no time. Anderson said. Engineers built a jetty to protect “They’ll be able to fish,” said operate out of Port Orford had “As long as traffic is going back Another proposed solution is to the port’s dock area. Port Manager Gary Anderson. “But planned to do a large-scale “prop and forth there’s enough of a chan- create a hole in the jetty that pro- They realized too late that the they’re going to have to work with wash” before the season opened. nel to get boats in and out,”Ander- tects the port, which may in theory jetty trapped sand, filling the har- the tides closely. It will be bad if we They would line up their boats son said. “The trouble is they can’t allow sand to escape naturally, thus bor. Despite A cool start to the new year deal, taxes are still going up BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER The Associated Press WASHINGTON — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year’s Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That’s because the legislation did nothing to prevent a temporary reduction in the Social Security pay- roll tax from expiring. In 2012, that 2- percentage-point cut in the payroll tax was worth about $1,000 to a worker making $50,000 a year. The Tax Policy Center, a nonparti- san Washington research group, esti- mates that 77 percent of American By Lou Sennick, The World households will face higher federal At 9 a.m. New Year’s Day, lots of revelers head into the cold waters at Sunset Bay State Park to ring in the new year with an annual Polar Bear Swim. It was low tide at taxes in 2013 under the agreement the moment, so the swimmers had to walk far out into the bay before they could get wet and run back to shore. Waiting in the parking lot was a truck spraying hot negotiated between President Barack water for a warming shower. See more photos on Page A8. Obama and Senate Republicans. High-income families will feel the biggest tax increases, but many mid- Polar plunge, ice ball highlight events dle- and low-income families will pay higher taxes too. Households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will face an average tax increase of $579 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Center’s analysis. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will face an average tax increase of $822. “For most people, it’s just the pay- roll tax,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. The tax increases could be a lot higher. A huge package of tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush was scheduled to expire Tuesday as part of the “fiscal cliff.”The Bush- era tax cuts lowered taxes for families at every income level, reduced invest- ment taxes and the estate tax, and enhanced a number of tax credits, including a $1,000-per-child credit. By Jessie Higgins, The World The package passed Tuesday by Friends Jami Young, left, Kendra Foltz and Courtney Whitehouse mingle in the ice the Senate and House extends most room at the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute’s New Year’s Eve Grecian Ball. The ball, the Bush-era tax cuts for individuals which also featured an ice tower and ice bar,was a fundraiser to send two ice-carving By Lou Sennick, The World culinary students and two instructors to the World Ice Art Championships in Alaska in A group heads back to the parking lot at Sunset Bay State Park to get out of February. SEE TAXES | A8 their wet costumes and into a warm shower Tuesday morning. “We’re trying to make the world a better place, and I feel like our best efforts aren’t sufficient .” Judy Alley, SnowCap Community Charities executive director Charities, schools struggle to feed hungry kids BY SARA HOTTMAN Since the 2008 financial crisis, Bank Network’s food box distribu- aggressively trying to reach chil- “We’re still transitioning,” she The Associated Press the number of Lynch Meadows tion has jumped 41 percent since dren and their needy families who said. students from low-income families 2008. Last year the network gave don’t otherwise receive help for And SnowCap and other organi- PORTLAND — SnowCap Com- has climbed from half to 83 percent out more than a million food boxes; lack of transportation, instability zations are struggling. More kids munity Charities used to receive of its 500 kids. At SnowCap, east on average 92,000 kids eat from at home or other problems. than ever are on free and reduced- much of its food pantry supply Multnomah County’s leading those boxes each month. More than But that creates a sharp learning price lunches. In the ‘90s, less than from school food drives. Now it charity, food pantry visitors dou- half the state’s students are now curve for both schools and chari- a third of the state’s students ate sends more food to schools than it bled, from 4,000 per month to poor enough to qualify for federal- ties as they try to figure out how to federally subsidized lunches, takes in. 8,000. ly-subsidized meals. distribute food to homes. according to the Oregon Depart- Lynch Meadows Elementary That’s just a snapshot of the In the face of more poverty and “We’ve always had people come ment of Education. That climbed School in east Portland used to hold persistently increasing need fewer resources, schools have to us,” said Judy Alley, executive to 41 percent by 2003, and hovered canned food drives. Administrators schools and charities everywhere become hubs for charitable pro- director of SnowCap for 22 years. there until 2007. In 2008 it jumped stopped when they realized kids have seen over the past four years grams, where churches, govern- But in the past two years, Alley to 47 percent, and has since were donating food from their par- — a need they have struggled, and ment agencies and charities deliver said, the charity has been trying to reached 53 percent. ents’ cupboards, and parents were sometimes failed, to meet. donations and services directly to take food to the people — a huge picking it up again at SnowCap. Statewide, the Oregon Food children. Organizations are more logistical change. SEE HUNGRY | A8 Kimberly Myers, Henderson, Nev. Frank Stain, Gold Beach Una “Kay” Younker, Coos Bay Police reports . A2 Comics . A6 Louise Karstens, Coquille T S S E Carol Wright, Coos Bay Tonya Perkins, North Bend A H D What’s Up. A3 I Peter Tiemeyer, Arago C Puzzles . A6 T Donald Kelly, North Bend E A S South Coast. 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