C M C M Y K Y K 116TH CIVIL WAR: The battle for Oregon, B1 Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012 theworldlink.com I $1.50 Probation possible after rape conviction BY TYLER RICHARDSON The World COQUILLE — A jury ultimately didn’t believe Johnathan Peak’s claims he didn’t have sex with an underage girl in the fall of 2011. Peak was convicted Wednesday of one count of second-degree rape and one count of first-degree sexual abuse. He was acquitted on the last count of first-degree sexu- al abuse. The jury deliberated into the early afternoon before convicting Peak of two potential Ballot Mea- sure 11 offenses. In the second-degree rape con- viction, there is a safety valve pro- vision associated with the charge, meaning the judge can exempt the offender from prison time. Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said a judge could sen- tence someone to probation time and avoid the Measure 11 charge if they meet the qualifications. SEE PROBATION | A10 By Lou Sennick, The World Recount Snow flies off an ice carving Jillian Howell is working on Thursday night.Howell and two others were behind Empire Hall on the campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College creating ice sculptures with a Nutcracker Suite theme. Howell is a student from Fairfield, Calif., attending the Oregon Coast next week Culinary Institute. for Main, Messerle Melting masterpieces BY DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE off. For now, the ice carving students are hon- The World I Ice sculptures are big part of Get your tickets ing their skills. COQUILLE — A vote recount in holiday event to send students The New Year’s Eve ball will be held at the Oregon Foltz — a world-renowned ice sculptor and a tight race for Coos County com- to world championships Coast Culinary Institute banquet hall on the Southwestern chainsaw carver — started teaching students missioner is set to begin Tuesday Oregon Community College campus at 1988 Newmark to carve ice three years ago. The majority of ice and continue through the week. Ave. in Coos Bay. carving is done for banquet style meals, so Election officials will tally over To reserve tickets, call 541-888-7189. young chefs who can cook and create melting BY JESSIE HIGGINS 25,000 votes by hand in the race masterpieces are attractive hires, Foltz said. The World between Commissioners Bob Main Foltz plans to sell about 200 tickets to this Many of his former students are pursuing and Fred Messerle. COOS BAY —They started with an ice bar. year’s ball, which will be catered by OCCI stu- culinary careers and ice carving. At present, Main has a 12-vote Then they added a tower. dents, and feature music, dancing, a silent Foltz hand picks his two ice carving stu- edge over Messerle. This year, the ice carvers at the Oregon auction and bar. dents from each year’s group of OCCI culinary County Clerk Terri Turi says it’s Coast Culinary Institute will ring in the new The ice room — a VIP room made entirely externs, who are second-year culinary stu- difficult to say how much the year by building a VIP room — of ice. of ice, down to the champagne glasses guests dents. result will change – if at all. This “The idea is every year to top what we did will use to toast in 2013 — will be open for all “It’s mostly based on character and work recount is Coos County’s first in at the year before,”said Chris Foltz, OCCI exec- party guests to view, at least during 2012. ethic,” Foltz said. “The (students) who show least 12 years. utive chef for dining services and ice carving Foltz will host a bidding war throughout up early and stay late.” On election night, votes are tal- instructor. the evening for the chance to be in the room at Once the students learn to use the tools, lied by election machines. The The bar and tower will still be on display at the stroke of midnight. When the countdown Foltz puts them to work. They make sculp- machines occasionally misread the OCCI New Year’s Eve ball, which is a begins, about a dozen winning guests will ring tures every Thursday behind the Hales fundraiser to send local ice carving students to in the new year surrounded by ice. SEE RECOUNT | A10 the World Ice Art Championships in Alaska. Mystical — but New Year’s Eve is still a way SEE ICE | A10 Black Friday encroaches on holiday BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and went to the mall before daybreak month that they planned to shop at The Associated Press on Black Friday. stores that opened on Thanksgiving, “I ate my turkey dinner and came according to an International Council This season could mark the end of right here,”said Rasheed Ali, a college of Shopping Centers-Goldman Sachs Black Friday as we know it. student in New York City who bought survey of 1,000 consumers. For decades, stores have opened a 50-inch TV for $349 and a sewing Meanwhile, 33 percent intended to their doors in the wee hours on the machine for $50 when Target opened shop Black Friday, down 1 percentage day after Thanksgiving. But this year, at 9 p.m. Thursday. “Then I’m going point from last year. Overall, it is esti- major chains such as Target and Sears home and eating more.” mated that sales during Black Friday ushered in customers on Thanksgiv- This new approach could become a will be up 3.8 percent to $11.4 billion ing itself, even before the turkey left- holiday shopping season tradition. this year, according to technology overs had gotten cold, turning the “It’s Black Thursday and Friday company ShopperTrak, which did not traditional busiest shopping day of combined,” said Jackie Fernandez, a forecast sales from Thanksgiving Day. the year into a two-day affair. retail expert at the consulting firm The Black Friday creep began in Despite an outcry from some Deloitte. “This is going to be a new earnest a few years ago when stores By Lou Sennick, The World employees, both stores and shoppers normal of how we shop.” realized that sales alone weren’t Douglas and Phyllis Olson were shopping in JC Penney in the Pony Village seemed to like it. Some people went It won’t be clear for a few days how enough to lure shoppers, especially Mall on Friday morning looking for many deals.The couple and other family shopping with a full belly, going many shoppers took advantage of the with Americans becoming more members from Klamath Falls were spending the Thanksgiving holiday on the straight from the dinner table to the Thanksgiving hours. But about 17 Oregon Coast in a rented house. stores. Others slept off their big meal percent of people said earlier this SEE SHOPPING | A10 Police reports . A2 Sports . B1 T S S Robert Sanford, Coos Bay E A H Vera Devoss, Bandon D What’s Up . Go Comics . C5 Deirdre Meyer, Coos Bay I C T E A S South Coast. A3 Puzzles. C5 John Norlin Sr., Houston, Texas Obituaries | A5 Rain E R N Virginia Grant, Coos Bay 54/44 I D Opinion. A4 Classifieds . C6 O F Weather | A10 C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Saturday, November 24,2012 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local SCINT leader returns to roots with a new mission Narcotics team boss plans to raise funds and increase efficiency at Sheriff’s Office COQUILLE — You proba- Watching from afar is cases that were very chal- bly couldn’t pick either man something that usually lenging and rewarding at the out of a lineup and that’s the makes the 42-year-old same time.” way they like it, making retired platoon sergeant a It was a tough post for their task easier in a law little uncomfortable. Floyd, trying to monitor success. enforcement agency where who retired from the U.S. Unlike the timber or con- an ability to blend is benefi- National Guard in 2008, also struction industries, you cial. did three years of active duty don’t always see the The South Coast Intera- in the U. S. Army early in his progress at the end of each gency Narcotics Team career, serving in Iraq in day, and that can be wear- changed leaders quietly Nov. 1991. ing. Without that immedi- 1. Coos Bay Police Captain “I’m one of those guys ate gratification, Floyd said, Cal Mitts took over for Toby who likes to lead from the you have to work hard to Floyd, the front,”said Floyd. “I’m not a stay focused on the big pic- PEOPLE OF man who sedentary-type person.” ture. THE held the Born and raised in Coos There was no bigger pic- By Alysha Beck, The World WORLD post for County, Floyd started his ture early in his leadership Toby Floyd recently returned to work as a sergeant for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office after heading the the previ- law enforcement career with with SCINT than a massive South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team. ous eight the Coos County Sheriff’s investigation known as years, and Office Reserve Program in Operation Black Ice. “That Floyd 1992 before being hired full- was a very impressive case, the DEA. DEA agents something back that is tan- Office moves through a headed time four years later.