C M C M Y K Y K FERRY ACCIDENT TIGER TRAP Morning incident in NY injures 50, A7 Coquille sweeps Bandon, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 9, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ Community rallies in search for Holly BY TYLER RICHARDSON be scared,” volunteer Laura Schier searching multiple areas around The World routinely called out as she where Berry was last seen walking. searched. “We are just trying to get Amy Owen heard about Berry’s COOS BAY — People who have you home.” disappearance when her sister in never met Holly Berry combed the Schier and a handful of other Crescent City called her after see- woods near Empire Lakes Tuesday volunteers walked around John ing an article online. Owen took a By Alysha Beck, The World in hopes of finding any clues that Toppits Park, searching trails and cab to the park yesterday to help Laura Schier, left, Donna Stewart, middle, and Kira Henderson, right, from Southern could lead police to the missing informing others of Berry’s disap- search for Berry. Oregon Project Hope,search for Holly Berry around John Topits ParkTuesday afternoon. Coos Bay woman. pearance. The group of volunteers Berry was last seen Thursday and sometimes walked around the trails in the park. “Holly if you can hear me, don’t has been out for the past three days SEE HOLLY | A8 Divers down Hey! Stop eating I Las Vegas gadget show introduces a fork that tells you to slow down when you eat BY PETER SVENSSON The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — If you’ve always wanted a fork that spies on your eating habits, you’re in luck: A company has developed a utensil that records when you lift it to the mouth. The electronic fork is one of the gadgets getting attention this week at the International CES in Las Vegas, an annual showcase of the latest TVs, computers and other consumer-electronic devices. What it is The HAPIfork is a fork with a fat handle containing electronics and By Lou Sennick, The World a battery. It’s made by HapiIabs, Commercial diver Matt LeDoux prepares to head underwater to do some maintenance on a vessel in the Charleston Marina. LeDoux was one of the volunteer divers on which is based in the land of slow, the recently disbanded dive team on the North Bend Fire Department. languorous meals — France. How it works The fork contains a motion sen- North Bend scuttles dive team sor, so it can figure out when it’s being lifted to the mouth. If it senses that you’re eating too fast, it warns with you with a vibration BY THOMAS MORIARTY working order. and a blinking light. The company The World “We were taking care of the regular main- Dive team missions tenance as it went,”said Jim Brown, assistant believes that using the fork 60 to January 2012 — A dive team member recovered the 75 times during meals lasting from NORTH BEND — For the first time in more fire chief. body of a 43-year-old man who drowned in a boating than a decade, the Bay Area is without a des- The city’s second reason was infrequent 20 to 30 minutes is ideal. accident in the Charleston shipping channel . Between meals, you can con- ignated underwater emergency response need for the team’s services. August 2008 — When a pickup drove into the Coos nect the fork to a computer or agency. “If it was an organization that was contin- River, dive team members helped find it. phone and upload data on how fast But the dive team may return under new ually being used,” the outcome might have May 2007— Dive team members were among the first management. been different, O’Connor said. responders when a Myrtle Point woman jumped off the you’re eating, for long-term The city of North Bend disbanded its dive The fire department took over the team McCulllough Bridge. tracking. team effective Jan. 1. Organized through the after the Coos County Sheriff’s Office dis- December 2006 — Divers participated in the search for The electronics are waterproof, North Bend Fire Department, the all-volun- banded its own program in the 1990s. a homemade plane that crashed near the North Spit. so you can wash the fork in the teer team often cooperated with U.S. Coast Theresa Cook, director of Southwest Ore- sink. If you want to put it in the Guard flight crews from Air Station North gon Regional Airport, said her organization dishwasher, you have to remove Bend. hopes to be the next baton bearer for the dive gram, the airport will need cooperation from the electronics first. Terence O’Connor, North Bend’s city team. The more first responders the area has, the fire department and dive team volunteers. Why you’d want it administrator, gave two main reasons for dis- the better,Cook said. She stressed the impor- Dive team members were not immediately banding the program. One was cost. Though tance of a dive team in emergency planning in available for comment. Nutritional experts recommend the volunteer divers provided their own a coastal community. Reporter Thomas Moriarty can be reached equipment, the city paid for keeping it in In order to take over responsibility for pro- at 541-269-1222, ext. 240. SEE FORK | A8 New commissioners get to work BY THOMAS MORIARTY week’s Portland State University “We don’t need an administra- The World report suggesting ways to stream- tor — we elected three commis- line the county government. sioners to do our business,” Coos COQUILLE — The mood in the Immediately following the con- Bay resident Phil Thompson said Owen Building was somewhat cau- clusion of a brief election process during the public comment period. tious Tuesday morning as the Coos — during which Sweet was voted The commissioners unani- County Board of Commissioners chair and Cribbins vice chair — the mously decided to hold a work ses- held its first meeting of 2013. subject of the report reared its sion to examine the report in depth Amid a flurry of budget item head. before publicly discussing any approvals and department The report, which was commis- course of action. rearrangements, Bob Main and his sioned by the county from PSU’s Former commissioner Cam newly-sworn-in colleagues, John National Policy Consensus Center, Parry’s water mitigation bank pro- Sweet and Melissa Cribbins, tried recommends hiring a chief admin- posal was also a hot topic. to postpone what may be trying istrative officer and ending the The plan would turn Johnson public battles. process of appointing individual Mill Pond into a temporary pre- By Thomas Moriarty, The World Among them: The board’s commissioners as departmental Coos County Commissioners Bob Main,John Sweet and Melissa Cribbins confer dur- immediate course of action on last liaisons. SEE MEETING | A8 ing the first board meeting of the year Tuesday in Coquille. Police reports . A2 Comics . A6 Debra Culp, Coos Bay T S S Gerald Napier, Coos Bay E A H Shirley Priggee, Lakeside D What’s Up. A3 John Hansen, Coos Bay I C Puzzles . A6 T Sandra Gosline, Bandon E A S South Coast. A3 Mary Fox, Creswell Rain E R N Viola Hammerstrom, Coos Bay | 48/36 I Obituaries A5 D Opinion. A4 Sports . B1 O F Weather | A8 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Wednesday, January9,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Thefts & As the Mischief world COOS COUNTY Jan. 7, 11 a.m., burglary to a resi- dence, 90800 block of Sawali still turns Lane. Jan. 7, 11:19 a.m., $12 in change stolen from vehicle, 56400 In this Jan. 6 photo, Kentucky resi- block of Riverton Road. dent Erik Bendl and his dog,“Nice,” Jan. 7, 1:26 p.m., ongoing prob- usher along a large inflatable Earth lem with stolen garbage cans, as they walk down State Road 85 61400 block of East Catching Slough Road. near Niceville, Fla. Bendl and his dog have walked thousands of Jan. 7, 2:13 p.m., unlawful entry into a motor vehicle, 56500 miles across 39 states to raise block of Riverton Road. money for diabetes organizations and to promote exercise as a way Jan. 7, 3:34 p.m., criminal mis- chief to a motorcycle, Transpa- to avoid the disease. In July 2012, cific Parkway. Bendl was in the Bay Area spreading his message. COOS BAY Jan. 7, 9:54 a.m., man arrested The Associated Press for violation of restraining order and criminal trespass, 200 block of South Schoneman Street. Jan. 7, 12:14 p.m., unauthorized ‘Taste’ what the use of a motor vehicle, 500 Top state court hears key foreclosure case block of South Broadway Street. Coquille Valley I Ruling may alter sures, which used to comprise The mortgage industry judges around the state have NORTH BEND nearly all foreclosures in Ore- created MERS in the 1990s to come to different conclusions has to offer Jan. 7, 4:19 p.m., business getting state laws on the gon, have all but stopped as make it easier to bundle and on similar cases, and MERS threatening phone messages foreclosure process lenders have turned to the sell home loans on the sec- has pointed to dozens of COQUILLE — The from man who may have made court system or waited out a ondary market. MERS is list- lower court decisions Coquille Chamber of Com- similar threats in the past, definitive ruling on the status ed in the deed as the benefici- upholding its role in the lend- merce will honor the best of 3400 block of Broadway BY JONATHAN J.