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Racist grafitti reported in EmpireJILLIAN WARDThe World

EMPIRE — More racist graffiti turned up in Coos Bay over the weekend.

A report was made Friday, June 19 that a wooden fence on Marshall Street in the Empire District had the mes-sage: “No n***** zone.” It is considered to be the third racist tagging in the city over the past few weeks, in addition to a fourth inci-dent following the death of

George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

“… We went out, took a report, documented,” said Chief Gary McCullough with the Coos Bay Police Department. “It was on pri-vate property, so the person living there was notified and instructed to contact their property management com-pany to get it removed.”

McCullough said there was no suspect or informa-tion to follow up on.

Then on Tuesday, June

24, City Manager Rodger Craddock brought it to Mc-Cullough’s attention that the graffiti was still on full display and that it hadn’t been removed.

“As soon as we found out, we took the steps to notify property manage-ment who immediately went out there and re-moved it from the fence,” McCullough said.

Though Coos Bay has always had a problem with graffiti, the uptick in racist

tagging is new.“And none of it is simi-

lar except (being) race-re-lated,” McCullough said, listing the Nazi tagging on the CCAT bus shelter near Mingus Park and then an-other on a pump station on city property. McCullough said he never saw the tagging on the pump station since the city’s Public Works Department removed it and then made the police aware of it.

“We’ve been chasing

graffiti for years and if it’s the same person there … are things that tie it to one person or a group, but these (seem) separate and there are no similarities in how it’s applied,” he said, adding that usually graffiti is an art form people use and apply patterns in style. However, “There are no similarities in ink color, application tech-niques … it’s all random.”

All of the cases are open over the instances of racist tagging in the city. Mc-

Cullough urged anyone in the public to come forward if they have information on who is behind any of these incidents.

“If people have infor-mation on who may be applying these, we’ll take it and run with it,” he said. “… If we can identify who is responsible, we want to deal with them as quickly as possible.”

To report information on these incidents, call the CBPD at 541-269-8911.

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A group of ducks enjoy a sunny day on the water at Mingus Park on Wednesday afternoon. Expect more sunshine the next few days. See the forecast on the back page.

Oregon special session beginsLawmakers plan to address police, virus issues in Salem

SALEM (AP) — Oregon lawmakers, most wearing masks and trying to maintain social distance, began a special session Wednesday to crack down on police brutality and throw a life-line to those suffering financially from the coronavirus.

“This is a catastrophic disaster session,” Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, told a press conference on Zoom, saying racial discrimination, police brutality and “a monster disease that won’t let us out” must be dealt with.

Draft measures would mandate rent protections during the coro-navirus emergency and prohibit a lender from treating a borrower’s failure to make loan payment as a declaration of default.

They would also prohibit law enforcement officers from limiting the ability of a person to breathe, create a statewide online database of discipline records, prevent an arbitrator from reducing punish-ments for officers, ban the use of tear gas on protesters and allow the state attorney general to inves-tigate and prosecute when officers kill or seriously injure a person.

Lawmakers had passed four bills out of committee by Wednesday afternoon, the States-man Journal reported.

They would: extend small school district grants and school district funding for foreign ex-change students; create an East-ern Oregon economic develop-ment grant program; and halt the courts from suspending some-one’s driver’s license for failure to pay a traffic-related fine.

The fourth bill contained forestry-related provisions stem-ming from a memorandum of understanding between Oregon’s forest industry and environmen-tal interests from earlier this year.

Some pushback was expected from law enforcement groups on those measures.

“My hope is that decisions will be made based upon facts, evidence and data, not on emo-tions, politics or perception,” Jim Ferraris, president of the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police and police chief of Woodburn, told a joint panel Tuesday.

Sen. Lew Frederick, D-Port-land, who is Black, believes there will be changes after the death of George Floyd.

“I can’t say that they’re going to be all of the changes that I might want to see, but I think we’re going to see some chang-es,” Frederick said in a recent phone interview. But people also need to start talking about the role of police, he said.

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Summer library programs adapt to COVID-19ZACH SILVAThe World

COOS COUNTY — After months of planning and prepa-ration, the North Bend Public Library had its summer programs almost all ready to go. But these pre-COVID-19 plans were drasti-cally forced to change.

“Well, we had to adjust about 180 degrees,” said Teresa Lucas, assistant director at North Bend Public Library. “Our programs were just about completed. We were in the process of fine-tun-ing our plans when all of this happened. As you know this hap-pened in March, towards the end of March, and at that point li-braries usually have pretty much everything set for what they’re going to do for the summer.”

During the summer, the North Bend Public Library, much like the other eight libraries in the Coastline Libraries that serve Coos County, is full of activities.

“We usually have between 300

and 400 people coming in our doors every single day during the summer during non-COVID. We have programs every single day of the week,” said Lucas. “We have programs for babies, tod-

dlers, children, teens and adults. So that covers almost every single day of the week.”

As libraries across the county look to open back up in a limited capacity with shortened hours

of operation, the programs that make the summer go have shifted to online settings. In North Bend this has meant an online summer reading program and a YouTube channel that has books read out loud and puppet shows for kids, in addition to discussions for adults.

The summer reading program for teenagers includes arts and crafts and caps off the summer with a time capsule. Lucas will have a time capsule of her own to mark the pandemic.

“We’re going to put all the pos-itive things that happened during these three months because our patrons are amazing and they understand .... And they’re willing to go the extra mile because they know we’re going to go the extra mile,” she said.

At the Coos Bay Public Li-brary, it’s a similar story of work-ing to connect with patrons in an online setting.

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The North Bend Public Library, as well as others in the county, has had to adjust its summer reading program plans.

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Virus cases surging among younger populationST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

(AP) — Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened — a disturbing genera-tional shift that not only puts them in greater peril than many realize but poses an even bigger danger to older people who cross their paths.

In Oxford, Mississippi, sum-mer fraternity parties sparked outbreaks. In Oklahoma City, church activities, fitness classes, weddings and funerals seeded infections among people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. In Iowa college towns, surges followed the re-opening of bars. A cluster of hang-outs near Louisiana State Univer-

sity led to at least 100 customers and employees testing positive. In East Lansing, Michigan, an outbreak tied to a brew pub spread to 34 people ages 18 to 23.

There and in states like Flor-ida, Texas and Arizona, young people have started going out again, many without masks, in what health experts see as irre-sponsible behavior.

“The virus hasn’t changed. We have changed our behaviors,” said Ali Mokdad, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. “Younger people are more likely to be out and taking a risk.”

In Florida, young people ages

15 to 34 now make up 31% of all cases, up from 25% in early June. Last week, more than 8,000 new cases were reported in that age group, compared with about 2,000 among people 55 to 64 years old. And experts say the phenomenon cannot be explained away as simply the result of more testing.

Elected officials such as Florida’s governor have argued against reimposing restrictions, saying many of the newly in-fected are young and otherwise healthy. But younger people, too, face the possibility of severe infection and death. In the past week, two 17-year-olds in Flori-da died of the virus.

And authorities worry that older, more vulnerable people are next.

“People between the ages 18 and 50 don’t live in some sort of a bubble,” Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt said. “They are the children and grandchildren of vulnerable people. They may be standing next to you at a wed-ding. They might be serving you a meal in a restaurant.”

The virus has taken a frightful toll on older people in the U.S., which leads the world in total deaths, at over 120,000, and con-firmed infections, at more than 2.3 million.

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“Is the role for police to be as intimidating as possi-ble? Then don’t tell me that you want to have commu-nity policing because that goes against the commu-nity policing concept by itself,” Frederick said.

The session convened for an undetermined num-ber of days less than four months after the regular 2020 session ended acri-moniously and early.

Back then, Republican lawmakers, who are the minority in both the House and Senate, staged a boycott to block a bill aimed at re-ducing Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions, leaving many other bills to wither and die.

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans voted against aspects of the special session, including that only the Senate president and House speaker can create bills or amendments.

“We have no rights to

write a bill. We have no rights to amend a bill,” Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod of Stayton told Courtney on the Senate floor. “I’m sorry but that is just plain wrong.”

Special provisions were aimed at preventing those from attending the session from contracting COVID-19. Masks were required for staff but only recommended for lawmak-ers, some of whom skipped wearing them.

Lawmakers feeling sick or with a temperature, or who live with someone who was recently ill, were told to stay home.

The scene was com-pletely different from past gatherings in the 82-year-old marble-covered capitol building. Instead of lobbyists, lawmakers and visitors wandering the halls or huddled in groups, the building was closed to the public, with access controlled by badges or special permission from legislative leadership.

“Prior to COVID we had not done any programs on-line. Everything has been adjusted to the current circumstances that we’re in. So we’re doing what we can to still reach out to the community and still inter-act with everybody,” said Christina Coffman of Coos Bay Public Library.

The calendar is now full of online story time for kids, a book club for adults and even a community cooking event in partner-ship with Coos Head Food Co-op. These programs, in addition to summer read-ing, have been an opportu-nity to continue to connect with the community.

“We’ve found a way to still communicate and still reach out to our commu-nity, just in a different format,” said Coffman.

At the Dora Public Library, one of the smaller

branches of the Coastline Li-braries, getting people online has been one of the hurdles.

“They’ve been having a difficult time not getting together,” said director Betty Vaughn of an adult book club. “I’ve offered some virtual meetings for them but can’t see them to get them all wanting to participate.”

In Dora the library has served as one of the few places to be in town while also boasting a high-speed broadband connection that is not available at residen-tial addresses. The library is now allowing up to five people in at one time and working to make sure fami-lies are aware of the summer reading program that in-cludes a backpack with four to six books in it for kids.

“We’re kind of far out here, we don’t have a lot of children in our area but we want to make them have a good summer,” said Vaughn. “At least some-thing to keep them going.”

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Blacklock Point will be the destination for a South Coast Striders hike this weekend. Preregistration is required.

South Coast Striders plan Sunday hikeThe World

SOUTH COAST — South Coast Striders will hike from Floras Lake to Blacklock Point on Sun-day, June 28.

Due to coronavirus concerns, hikes are now limited to 15 people and those planning to hike must register in advance. However, if demand is high and there are enough leaders, the start times can be staggered, according to organizers.

Join others on this rug-ged 8.2 mile journey from Floras Lake to Blacklock Point along the lake, through densely wooded trails and exposed rocky points with beautiful ocean

views. This is a beautiful hike that is mostly level and the trail is in excellent condition, organizers said. It begins (and ends) with soft sand but by staying near the lake hikers will have fairly solid footing.

The hike is rated diffi-cult, but that’s mainly due to the length. Because it’s an “out and back,” the dis-tance can be shortened by turning around at any point.

Dress in layers. A windbreaker with a hood is highly recommended. Bring water and some-thing to eat (lunch). Plan on four-five hours for this hike for those who don’t return early. There is a “restroom” at the trailhead that’s usually in pretty

rough shape. People have used the campground restroom in the past.

New guidelines for South Coast Striders hikes

1. Hike groups will be limited to 15 people.

2. Participants will be asked to complete a reg-istration form in order to control the number.

3. Hikers will be asked to maintain social distance (as much as 10-12 feet) on the trail

4. Hikers will be asked to have face covering (like a bandana) that can be pulled up at tight spots on the trail

5. Hikers should step off the trail to let others pass

Location and timeMeet at 9:30 a.m. at

Boice-Cope County Park. If the demand is high, and there is an additional lead-er, there will be a second group starting the hike about 20 minutes later.

NOTE: There is a $5 day use fee at Boice-Cope County Park, and in the past this has sometimes been enforced for cars parked out on the road.

Directions: From Ban-don or Coos Bay, travel south on U.S. Highway 101 to Langlois. Go 1/2 mile past Langlois and turn right (west) on Floras Lake Loop Road. Follow the signs 3 miles to Floras Lake and Boice-Cope County Park.

Remember to complete registration form.

Preppers will meet Sunday along Highway 101The World

COOS BAY — South-western Oregon Preppers will hold its monthly meeting at noon Sunday, June 28, at mile post 251, U.S. Highway 101, Coos Bay. Look for the clearing on the west side of the road. Come rain or shine. NOTE: day of

week change (Sunday instead of Saturday). Bring something to sit on. Social distancing is in effect.

The main topic is “What Happened and What To Expect.”

“Coronavirus, shut-down, economic collapse and riots — who would have thunk it? Let’s put our thinking caps on and

figure out what’s news and how to prepare for it,” said Avery Horton, SWOP organizer.

SWOP meetings always start with a question and an-swer period before the main topic so all in attendance get a chance to participate.

This is a free public meeting to get to know fellow local preppers in

southwestern Oregon counties and to exchange information and ideas. It is important for individuals to understand that they will be “on their own” in the event of a disaster and not depend on receiving outside help.

Join Southwestern Ore-gon Preppers on Facebook and/or meetup.com.

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DEAR ABBY: I have one child, a daughter, “Anna,” I adopted at 19 months. She’s 41 now and has two small children. She had a normal upbringing, although her father and I divorced when she was 9. She has chosen to not have a relationship with him as an adult. Anna has never married, nor has she been in a relationship for longer than four or five months. According to a few counselors I have seen, she has attachment disorder.

Anna is very difficult. She’s mean, says hateful things and is an angry young woman. She takes no responsibility for any of her actions, and therefore cannot keep a job, friends, etc. for more than a few months. She is also extremely negative. If I try to say anything, she gets angry, starts cussing, yelling and slinging hate, and stops contacting me for weeks at a time.

We have nothing in common. We live in separate states, but I see her about a half-dozen times a year. When I do, I tiptoe around on eggshells because of her short fuse. Her attitude is starting to rub off on her boys.

This is not what I had envisioned all those years ago when I adopted her. I miss who I thought she would become. Is there anything I can do without completely alienating myself from my grandsons, which would break my heart? -- TIPTOEING ON EGGSHELLS

DEAR TIPTOEING: I am sorry your adoption did not turn out as you envi-sioned. Your daughter is clearly troubled, and it is not surprising that her attitude has begun to affect her boys. It is time you accept that, as much as you wish to, you cannot change another person, and there’s nothing you can do to “fix” her.

You mentioned that you visit her every two months. Perhaps you should con-sider visiting fewer times than that. Ask if she would let the grandkids come and visit Grandma occasionally. However, if she isn’t receptive, refusing to engage with her is the price you will have to pay

for seeing them and trying to cement a relationship with them.

DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a girl since high school. We were high school sweethearts, but now we are both 28. My girlfriend wants to get married and have kids, but I do not. I want to keep dating her. I am scared to break up with her because if I did, I wouldn’t know what to do with my life. Should I change, or should she change? -- STA-TUS QUO IN COLORADO

DEAR STATUS QUO: I hereby ap-point you to be the designated changer. You have been so absorbed with this romance you never took the time to develop interests of your own.

At the age of 28, many women start thinking about marriage and children. Doing that is normal and rational. How-ever, because you don’t feel ready to make a lifetime commitment, you would be making a huge mistake to allow your-self to be pushed into it.

It is important that you learn who you are before you marry anyone. Accom-plishing this is a process that takes time and a variety of experiences, and you should embark on that now. It would be unfair to continue dating her at this point because your paths are going to diverge as each of you learns to manage without leaning on the other.

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DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren

Hair-trigger temper keeps mom walking on eggshells

Eight out of 10 deaths in the U.S. have been in people 65 and older. In contrast, confirmed corona-virus deaths among 18- to 34-year-olds number in the hundreds, though disease trackers are clamoring for more accurate data.

For months, older adults were more likely to be diagnosed with the virus, too. But figures from the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention show that almost as soon as states began reopening, the picture flipped, with people 18 to 49 years old quickly becoming the age bracket most likely to be diagnosed with new cases.

And although every age group saw an increase in cases during the first week in June, the numbers shot up fastest among 18- to 49-year-olds. For the week ending June 7, there were 43 new cases per 100,000 people in that age bracket, compared with 28 cases per 100,000 people over 65.

With the shift toward younger people, some hos-pitals are seeing a smaller share of their COVID-19 patients needing intensive care treatment such as breathing machines.

“They are sick enough to be hospitalized, but they’re not quite as sick,”

said Dr. Rob Phillips, chief physician executive of Houston Methodist Hospital. He said he still finds the trend disturbing because young people “definitely interact with their parents and grandpar-ents,” who could be next.

In one Florida hospital system, nearly half the COVID-19 patients were on ventilators during April compared with less than 3 percent now, said Dr. Sunil Desai, president of the Orlando Health hospital system.

Some of the young people who have fallen ill describe stretches of extreme pain and fatigue.

“My chest and my body hurt. Almost like I’d gotten in a car accident,” said Emily Ellington, 25, of suburban Austin, Texas, who tested positive about six weeks after the state began reopening.

In Florida, where many restaurants and bars reopened in early May, 32-year-old Kristen Kow-all of Clearwater dined out with her fiancé in early June. Like others in the restaurant, she didn’t wear a mask. She tested positive over the weekend.

“I just feel really groggy and tired. It hurts to walk. Especially my ankles and knees, it feels like my bones are going to fall apart,” she said. “I defi-nitely would advise people

from going out. It’s not worth it.”

The increase among young adults may not all be due to reopenings and could also reflect wider testing that has reached younger, less sick people. Yet since May, younger adults have had a higher share of tests come back positive than their older counterparts.

In late March and April, that wasn’t the case — the highest positive rates were in people over 65. For the past month, roughly 7 per-cent of tests done on 18- to 49-year-olds nationwide have come back positive. That is about 2 percentage points above older groups of adults.

Amid the surge, some Florida cities and counties are requiring people to wear masks before entering businesses. An Orlando bar popular with University of Central Florida stu-dents had its liquor license suspended after more than 40 people who went there upon its reopening tested positive.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned other bars they could lose their licenses if they don’t follow social distancing guidelines.

“If you go in, and it’s Dance Party USA, dancing up to the rafters ... there’s no tolerance for that,” he said.

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Jobless claims, economy show damage from virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off workers seeking U.S. un-employment benefits dipped only slightly last week, and the economy shrank in the first three months of the year — evidence of the ongoing economic damage being inflicted by the viral pandemic.

The economy, which contracted 5% in the Janu-ary-March quarter, is wide-ly expected to shrink at a roughly 30% annual rate in the current April-June quarter. That would be the worst quarterly contraction, by far, since record-keep-ing began in 1948.

The government reported Thursday that the number of laid-off workers who applied for unemployment benefits declined slightly to 1.48 million last week. It was the 12th straight drop. Still, applications for jobless aid have declined just 5% in the past two weeks, a much slower rate of improvement than in April and May.

What’s more, an addition-al 700,000 people applied for jobless benefits last week under a new program for self-employed and gig work-ers that made them eligible for aid for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t include them in the official count.

The steady if slow decline in applications does suggest that the job market is gradually healing from the pandemic, which shuttered businesses and sent the unemployment rate up to 14.7% in April, its highest level since the Great Depression. The to-tal number of people who are receiving jobless aid also fell last week, to 19.5 million from 20.3 million, evidence that employers are rehiring some of the workers who had been laid off since mid-March.

In addition, the govern-ment said Thursday that orders for durable goods surged nearly 16% in May, reflecting a rebound in some business activity. Still, the pace of orders and shipments remains far below pre-pandemic levels. And excluding the volatile transportation cate-gory, so-called core orders for durable goods rose only modestly last month, reflecting still-sluggish business investment.

The latest economic figures coincide with a

sudden resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States, especially in the South and West, that’s threatening to derail a nascent economic rebound. On Wednesday, the nation set a record high of new coronavirus cases. Many states are establishing their own records for daily infections, including Ari-zona, California, Missis-sippi, Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. Cases of coro-navirus have also jumped in Florida and Georgia.

Should those trends con-tinue, states may reimpose some limits on businesses that would likely trigger job cuts. Whether by choice or by government order, fewer consumers would shop, travel, eat out and visit bars or gyms. All those scenarios would re-sult in renewed layoffs and hinder the economy.

Nervous investors sent stock prices plummeting Wednesday over escalating fears that the economy will suffer further damage from the disease.

“The health crisis continues to cast a dark shadow over the econom-ic landscape,” said Bob Schwartz, a senior econo-mist at Oxford Economics, a forecasting firm.

Before this week’s heightened worries about the pandemic, many econ-omists had been relatively optimistic. In May, the un-employment rate unexpect-edly declined, though to a still-high 13.3%. Consum-ers began spending again, sending retail sales jumping by a record amount. And sales of new homes rose as record-low mortgage rates fueled buyer interest.

In May, employers added 2.5 million jobs, a surprise gain. Still, that hiring represented just one-ninth of all the jobs that have been lost since the pandemic struck. And about 30 million Ameri-cans remain unemployed.

The economy shrank at a 5% annual rate in the first three months of the year, the government estimated Thursday. Yet economists envision a much sharper plunge in the April-June quarter -- a rate of up to 30%, which would be the worst since record-keeping began in 1948. Analysts expect the economy to re-bound in the second half of this year before potentially regaining its pre-pandemic

level in late 2021 at the earliest.

Yet all that assumes that the pandemic doesn’t intensify, force widespread business closures again and set the job market and the economy even further back. If it does, the damage could be dire.

For now, real time data on small businesses sug-gests that the economy’s improvement slowed in June compared with May and then stalled in the past week in some states that had reopened their econo-mies the earliest.

Homebase, a company that provides scheduling and time-tracking software to small companies, says the proportion of small busi-nesses that have reopened has leveled off. As of Mon-day, 78% of U.S. small busi-nesses that it tracks were open, little changed from a week earlier. In Florida and Texas, the proportion of small businesses that have closed has actually risen as a result of the resurgent viral outbreaks.

Apple said late Wednes-day that it would re-close seven of its stores in the Houston area, which is suffering a spike in cases. Last week, it had said would re-close 11 other stores in four states.

Economists at Goldman Sachs have upgraded their economic forecasts for the rest of this year and next year in light of the retail sales gains and other posi-tive data. But they warned that a “significant” second wave of cases this fall that would force business closures could slash growth next year by more than half.

For the unemployed, the federal government has been providing $600 in weekly benefits, on top of whatever state jobless aid recipients are receiving. This federal money has pumped nearly $20 billion a week into the economy and enabled many of the unemployed to stay afloat.

A majority of recipients are even earning more than they did at their old jobs, raising concerns that this could discourage some of them from returning to work. But the $600 a week in aid will expire after July, and Trump administration officials have said they op-pose an extension. Repub-licans and Democrats in Congress have introduced compromise measures.

Oregon’s COVID-19 death toll nearing 200The World

PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed three more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 195, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.

Oregon Health Authority reported 171 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday bringing the state total to 7,444.

The new cases report-ed Wednesday are in the following counties: Benton (2), Clackamas (8), Clatsop (1), Deschutes (4), Jackson (2), Jefferson (3), Klamath (3), Lincoln (9), Linn (1), Malheur (5), Marion (13), Multnomah (45), Polk (1), Umatilla (35), Union (5), Wasco (2), Washington (31), Yamhill (1).

Oregon’s 193rd COVID-19 death is a 63-year-old man in Lin-coln County who tested positive on June 11 and died on June 23, at Sa-maritan Pacific Commu-nity Hospital. He did not have underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 194th

COVID-19 death is 78-year-old man in Clack-amas County who tested positive on June 16 and died on June 22, his place of death is being con-firmed. He had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 195th COVID-19 death is an 87-year-old woman in Marion County who tested positive on June 17 and died on June 23, at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center. She had underlying conditions.

OHA releases weekly report

On Wednesday, OHA released its Weekly Re-port, which showed that during the week of June 15-21, 30,773 people were tested for COVID-19 in Oregon and 3.7 percent of those people had a positive result, up from 3.1 percent during the preceding week.

For the fourth week in a row, newly reported COVID-19 cases in-creased over the previous week, according to OHA. During the week of June 15-21, OHA record-ed 1,263 new cases of

COVID-19 infection, a 40% increase from the previous week’s total of 898 new cases.

In addition, 12 Ore-gonians were reported to have died, compared with 16 deaths in the preceding week.

However, available evidence suggests average severity of illness among reported cases is lower than it was early in the outbreak: hospitalizations and deaths remain well below their peaks, even after reported cases have been increasing for four weeks, and the percentage of emergency depart-ment visits attributable to COVID-19-like symp-toms remains below 1%

Stay informed about COVID-19:

Oregon response: The Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Office of Emergency Management lead the state response.

United States response: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leads the U.S. response.

Global response: The World Health Organization guides the global response.

University of Oregon plans to rename Deady Hall on campus

SALEM (AP) — A building at the University of Oregon will no longer be named for an early white settler who sup-ported slavery and who helped draft the state’s constitution which barred Black people from living in the territory.

After years of pressure from student activists, the university’s board of trust-ees decided Tuesday to rename Deady Hall. The university’s first building, it was named for Matthew Deady, who was president of Oregon’s constitutional convention in 1857, a federal judge and leader of

the university. University President

Michael Schill had commissioned a report on Deady in response to de-mands by students during a 2015 Black Lives Matter protest. The report, pub-lished in 2016, determined Deady was a racist.

Deady helped shape Oregon’s constitution that contained a clause prohib-iting Black people from residing in Oregon. It was not repealed until 1927.

But Schill decided in 2017 not to rename the building. As a judge, Deady had spoken up for Chinese immigrants who

faced persecution. Deady had also been president of what was then the Univer-sity of Oregon’s board of regents.

During current nation-wide protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Deady Hall was again a focus. On June 7, about 1,500 Black Lives Matter protesters marched to the building on the campus in Eugene.

The university said Wednesday on Twitter that the building will temporarily be called Uni-versity Hall until a formal naming process the next school year.

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100 YEARS — June 25, 1920

Salvation Army Ready To Open

Local Corps Secures Quar-ters on Front Street

Capt. and Mrs. Stack Will Be In Charge — First Meeting to Be Held Saturday Night

The opening of the local corps of the Salvation Army which was to have taken place several weeks ago but was postponed, will now take place this week-end, the opening meeting being set for 8 o’clock Saturday night.

The Army had quite a diffi-culty locating a hall suitable for their work but eventually took over the Hutcheson building at 315 North Front street with quarters for the officers upstairs. Captain and Mrs. Stack, officers in charge, have come here from Centralia, Wash., and have been in Marshfield over a month get-ting things ready for the opening this week.

Faces Tragedy At Festivities

W.A. Reid Has Startling Experience In Portland

Man Drops Dead at His Feet While People Around Him Cheer Passing Parade

To feel the shock of having a man drop dead at his feet while witnessing a parade was the gruesome experience of W.A. Reid, secretary of the Marshfield

Chamber of Commerce, while he was in Portland a few days ago. Mr. Reid stopped for a day on his way home from a trip to Victoria. He was watching the night parade pass and at the time was awaiting an opportunity to get across the street so he could proceed to the depot to catch the train home. It was impossible to get through the ropes and across the street while the parade was passing.

“I was watching the beautiful spectacle,” said Mr. Reid, “when I heard the thud of a man falling right at my feet. I leaned over to the give the man assistance sup-posing he had fainted, and two of three others nearby helped me carry the prostrated man into an auto salesroom in front of which I was standing. I was startled when we go inside to find that the man was stone dead. I do not know where he died of heart disease or whether he fainted and the striking of his head on the hard sidewalk killed him. Any-way his death came at once.”

75 YEARS — June 25, 1945

Dock Fire Loss Is Set At $100,000

Business District Of City Threatened By Waterfront Flames

Fanned by a strong wind that threatened to engulf the entire business district of Coos Bay, flames swept the waterfront early Sunday morning, leaving

damage amounting to an esti-mated $100,000 in their wake. Five warehouses and two blocks of dock, belonging to the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company, were in charred ruins today and other properties were damaged.

Only through the efficient work of the local fire department, augmented by men and equip-ment from surrounding towns, were the flames confined to the two-block area and kept from the heart of the city. Blazing shingles, carried on the wind, fell on other business houses, apartments and homes, necessi-tating the placing of guards on roofs several blocks from the conflagration.

50 YEARS — June 25, 1970

‘Things Not So Bad’ Says SWO Employment Manager

Economic Report At Meet-ing in Coquille

By Phyllis Countryman, Staff Writer

COQUILLE — Edward Konka, manager of the Coos Bay State Department of Employ-ment office, Wednesday night told the Coos County Economic Development and Coordinating Committee “things are not as bad as they seem.”

Konka said unemployment in Coos County in running up to 8.4 and rates high for Economic Development Administration programs with federal funding since unemployment is both high

and persistent.Curry County’s employment

picture is not as severe, but the unemployment rate is over 6 per-cent and is still considered high, said Konka. He said District 7 which includes both counties has an unemployment rate of 8.1.

Dement To Crown Fair Queen

The Coos County Fair Queen for 1970 will be crowned by State Sen. Sam Dement at a coronation dance to be held at the pavilion on the fairgrounds in Myrtle Point at 9 p.m. Saturday.

The dance is a new feature of the Sheriff’s Posse Shodeo Fri-day through Sunday. Other new events are polo games on each of the three days and a business-men’s cow bucking contest.

Horsemanship of the 21 fair queen contestants will be judged by Doyle Stanfield of Rose-burg in events to begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Polo will follow. The Coos Posse has challenged possess of Curry, Josephine and Lane counties to games.

15 YEARS — June 25, 2005

Missing teenager back at CB home after seven months

By Dan Schreiber, Staff Writer

A Coos Bay teenager who went missing since last Novem-ber returned home last week.

Katherin M. “Katie” Goude, 17, said she dropped out of

Marshfield High School after being home-schooled. After frequent runaways, Katie left more permanently at the end of 2004 and didn’t return for seven months.

Cheryl Goude, the girl’s moth-er, said she began a search effort shortly after Katie left.

“We had posters out within two weeks and the thing that was frustrating was we had to record her as a runaway, but it was not illegal for her to be a runaway,” Cheryl said.

District, NB agree on prop-erty resolution

By Penny Gillson, Editorial Assistant

The Coos County Airport District Board is on the verge of holding an important piece of paper in its hand: the deed to the North Bend Municipal Airport.

At its June 16 morning meeting, the board approved a resolution accepting the assets and liabilities of the airport from the city of North Bend. The ap-proval completed the transfer of the deed for the airport property from the city to the board and the sale of the Wastewater Treatment Plant to North Bend.

The Federal Aviation Admin-istration is expected to OK the swap as soon as the deeds are recorded.

These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository stored in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www.theworldlink.com.

Democrats plan for all-virtual convention(AP) - Democrats will

hold an almost entirely virtual presidential nom-inating convention Aug. 17-20 in Milwaukee using live broadcasts and online streaming, party officials said Wednesday.

Joe Biden plans to accept the presidential nomination in person, but it remains to be seen whether there will be a significant in-person audience there to see it. The Democratic National Committee said in a state-ment that official business, including the votes to

nominate Biden and his yet-to-be-named running mate, will take place virtually, with delegates being asked not to travel to Milwaukee.

It’s the latest sign of how much the COVID-19 pandemic has upended American life and the 2020 presidential election, lead-ing Biden and the party to abandon the usual trappings of an event that draws tens of thousands of people to the host city to mark the start of the general election campaign. Not even during the Civil War or World War

II did the two major parties abandon in-person conven-tions with crowded arenas.

Biden’s campaign man-ager Jen O’Malley Dillon said the drastically altered convention won’t be an im-pediment. “Vice President Biden intends to proudly accept his party’s nomi-nation in Milwaukee and take the next step forward towards making Donald Trump a one-term presi-dent,” she said, adding that Biden’s campaign will con-tinue to highlight Wisconsin as a key battleground state.

Democrats had offered strong signals before Wednesday that they’d curtail convention activi-ties, including when Perez pushed back the original convention dates in mid-Ju-ly.

The new details were released the same day that Biden’s team announced its leadership team in Wiscon-sin, one of three key states that helped propel Trump to an Electoral College victory four years ago. He won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes — less than 1

percentage point.Rep. Bennie Thompson

of Mississippi will serve as convention chair, party officials said.

Party Chairman Tom Perez said scaling back Democrats’ festivities is a matter of public health. He sought to draw a contrast with Trump’s push for a traditional convention in North Carolina, clashing with the state’s Democrat-ic governor, Roy Cooper, and public health officials over the details amid the pandemic.

The Republican National Committee has confirmed its official business will be conducted in Charlotte. But Trump has said he plans to accept his nomination in Jacksonville, Florida, because Cooper wouldn’t guarantee Republicans the ability to host a large-scale event in Charlotte’s NBA arena.

“Unlike this president, Joe Biden and Democrats are committed to protecting the health and safety of the American people,” Perez said.

Man convicted of train killing sentencedPORTLAND (AP) — A

judge has sentenced Jere-my Christian to spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally stabbing two people during his racist rant on a light-rail train in Portland, Oregon.

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Cheryl Al-brecht sentenced Christian to two life sentences after listening to statements from Christian’s victims or victims’ relatives Tues-

day and Wednesday, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Taliesin Nam-kai-Meche, 23, and Ricky Best, 53, died from knife wounds to the neck, and Micah Fletcher survived after Christian also stabbed him in the neck on May 26, 2017.

Christian boarded the train during the evening commute and began shouting racist, anti-Mus-lim and xenophobic slurs

at the two young Black women, prosecutors said. One was an immigrant from Somalia and wore a Muslim headscarf. Some witnesses said Christian in his outburst made a slicing motion across his neck and mentioned decapitating people.

As his tirade continued, Christian grabbed Nam-kai-Meche’s cellphone as he tried to film and threw it to the ground. Authorities

say Fletcher stood up to intervene and got into a shoving match with Chris-tian, who was taunting the men to “do something” to stop him.

Christian then took out a 4-inch (10-centimeter) folding knife and stabbed Fletcher and Nam-kai-Meche, prosecutors said. Authorities say he also stabbed Best, who was standing nearby.

Jurors in February found

Christian, 38, guilty of the deaths of Namkai-Meche and Best. He was convict-ed of attempted murder for stabbing Fletcher and assault and menacing for shouting slurs and hitting a Black woman with a bottle on another light rail train the day before the stab-bings.

The judge sentenced him to more than 25 years for those crimes.

Many of the victims and

their relatives urged the judge to never let Chris-tian into society again and stressed the need for systemic change in a world that doesn’t want to own up to the circumstances that allowed Christian to act on his beliefs unfettered.

Christian, via a video feed from a remote room in the courthouse, said, “I do regret that two people died, but I do not regret my actions.”

Portland protests have been costly for policePORTLAND (AP) — A

month of nightly protests in Portland, Oregon has cost the city at least $6.2 million, Police Chief Chuck Lovell said.

That sum does not include straight time pay due to officers who were reassigned to the demon-strations from other areas, Lovell said in a statement about the protests released

Tuesday. Lovell, who took

over the Portland Police Bureau after former Chief Jamie Resch resigned earlier this month amid nightly protests and calls for reform, said the amount a “staggering sum” that was sure to increase.

Peaceful demon-strations against racial

injustice and police bru-tality continue to attract hundreds to Portland each night amid national outrage over the death of George Floyd in Minneap-olis. Floyd, a handcuffed Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck for nearly eight minutes as Floyd cried out that he couldn’t breathe.

Lovell said several thousand peaceful dem-onstrators had brought the city “an awesome state-ment of unity for trans-formational change.” But Lovell criticized a group of several hundred people who “have not engaged in lawful or constitutionally protected activities.” He said dozens of officers have been injured during

these incidents and attempts to diffuse the group by pulling back have been unsuccessful.

“How many millions has our community lost financially as they have been trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the pandemic? We cannot afford to not respond with public safety personnel during this

critical time,” he said. “To move forward, we

must shift our focus and resources into productive collaboration and actions alongside the commu-nity. We cannot do this effectively if the nightly criminal acts and violence continue to pose insta-bility and threat to our community and critical infrastructure.”

SOLVE invites Oregonians to summer seriesThe World

PORTLAND — SOLVE announces the addition of two new events this sum-mer: the Summer Beach Cleanup Series, presented by AAA, and SOLVE IT for Oregon, presented by Portland General Electric. These new events were created in response to the urgent need for volunteer-ism to support Oregon’s environment as counties reopen.

While most of the state was on hold during the pandemic, environmental issues such as growing in-vasive plant species, micro-plastics washing onto local beaches and litter entering the waterways only con-tinued. Typically, SOLVE hosts two large events each spring, the Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup and SOLVE IT for Earth Day, bringing in thousands of volunteers to projects along the coast-line and across the state,

according to a news release from SOLVE.

The Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup, traditional-ly held in March, responds to the need for volunteer-ism to help clean up marine debris and microplastics washed ashore from winter storms.

SOLVE IT for Earth Day, traditionally held in April, is Oregon’s largest Earth Day volunteer event and brings together Oregonians at over 140 environmental

service projects across the state. Projects focus on cleaning up litter, planting native species in anticipa-tion of the high pollina-tion season and removing invasive species that are a detriment to the vitality of local natural areas.

“As Oregon took safety measures to protect against the peak of COVID-19, SOLVE made the difficult decision to postpone both events,” stated the re-lease. “Months later, with

the state reopening, it is apparent that volunteerism is needed now more than ever before and SOLVE is ready, thus introducing SOLVE’s two new summer events.”

The Summer Beach Cleanup Series will be held from July through August and SOLVE IT for Oregon will be held from Aug. 1-15. Each event series will support outdoor volun-teerism that combats some of Oregon’s most pressing

environmental issues.Both event series will

have new safety measures in place, designed to keep volunteers and community members healthy. Those in-terested in hosting a beach cleanup, inland cleanup, or restoration event, are asked to contact SOLVE at info@solveoregon.org to express their project idea and learn ways SOLVE can support their efforts.

Visit solveoregon.org for more information.

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Three NBA players test positive for virusINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The

NBA expected positive coronavi-rus results to happen once play-ers began undergoing mandatory tests, and three players revealed Wednesday they are dealing with COVID-19.

Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon and Sacramento Kings players Jabari Parker and Alex Len all said they have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Brogdon and Parker made an-nouncements in the form of state-ments released by their teams. Len announced his status in an Instagram post. All three said they expect to be with their teams when the NBA season resumes at

the Disney complex near Orlan-do, Florida, next month.

“I recently tested positive for the COVID virus and am current-ly in quarantine,” Brogdon said in his statement. “I’m doing well, feeling well and progressing well. I plan to join my teammates in Orlando for the resumption of the NBA season and playoffs.”

All 22 NBA teams that will be part of the resumed season began mandated testing Tuesday. League officials have expected that positive tests would be inev-itable, and believed that starting a testing regimen now — roughly five weeks before games begin at Disney — will give players with

positive results time to recover and get back with their teams be-fore those contests start July 30.

“Several days ago I tested pos-itive for COVID-19 and imme-diately self-isolated in Chicago which is where I remain,” Parker said in his statement. “I am progressing in my recovery and feeling well. I look forward to joining my teammates in Orlando as we return to the court for the resumption of the NBA season.”

Len said his positive result came after a test taken in Sac-ramento on Tuesday. He said he “immediately entered isola-tion” and thanked the NBA “for putting the protocols in place to

allow me to catch this early.”All teams will arrive at Disney

between July 7 and July 9 to start a brief quarantine and training camp. The NBA is in the process of finalizing the game schedule for the resumed season.

Brogdon’s case is not the first that the Pacers organization has dealt with during the pandemic. Myles Turner’s father was hospi-talized in Texas with COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, but has recovered.

Brogdon wasn’t healthy before the season was suspended on March 11, sitting out with a leg and hip muscle injury. But the stoppage gave him time to recov-

er. He was averaging 16.3 points, 7.1 assists and 4.7 rebounds in 48 games in his first season with Indiana.

“Malcolm says he’s 100 percent, ready to go,” president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard said in mid-April. “He is hungry.”

Parker has appeared in one game with the Kings. He was traded to Sacramento in Febru-ary by Atlanta, after averaging 15 points in 32 games with the Hawks this season. Len was also part of that trade involving the Hawks and Kings, and has av-eraged 6.6 points in nine games with Sacramento.

SWOCC projects continue

Above: The new track surface at Southwestern Oregon Community College got a fresh coat of paint for its lanes and exchange zones this week. This is the first time the track has gotten a new surface since it was installed years ago in a project that also included arti-ficial turf for the soccer pitch inside the track. The turf on the pitch was replaced last year.

Right: Work has started on SWOCC’s softball field in preparation for that facility also to get an artificial surface. The older dugouts have been removed and this week crews were leveling the field surface in advance of the turf installation.

John Gunther Photos, The World

Thorns ready for NWSL tourney

PORTLAND (AP) — Raquel Rodriguez was on her way to join her new National Women’s Soccer League team when sports were suddenly shut down by the coronavirus.

It certainly wasn’t an ideal start for the Costa Rican strik-er with the Portland Thorns. Rodriguez nonetheless bonded — albeit remotely — with her teammates, and three months later the Thorns are set to open the NWSL Challenge Cup with a game against the North Carolina Courage on Saturday.

The NWSL is the first pro-fessional team sports league in the United States to return to the field amid the pandemic. Teams arrived Wednesday in Utah, where they’ll be sequestered for the duration of the World Cup-style tournament. The final is set for July 26.

Known as Rocky, Rodriguez is one of the players to watch in the tournament.

“The NWSL is already very competitive, let alone in a tourna-ment where every game counts and every point counts,” she said. “It’s going to be a lot. So excited for sure and also aware of the mental challenge that it’s going to be.”

Rodriguez’s dad played professionally and for the Costa Rican national team, and she was hooked on the sport at an early age. Turns out she was also tal-ented: in elementary school she played for a high school team. A clear prodigy, she was just 11 when she was brought in to train with the national team.

“I knew that I wanted to play professional soccer, I knew that I wanted to play on the national team, but I wasn’t too aware of where because women’s soccer, when I was little, wasn’t too pop-ular. I mean, my role model was Ronaldinho,” she said. “I only knew that I want to play soccer, but I wasn’t sure where. My dad would tell me, ‘Rocky, you know, in America you can get a scholarship and you can get your degree and you should go.’”

Rodriguez ended up at Penn State. She won the MAC Hermann Trophy during her senior year as the nation’s best player after scoring the winning goal for the Nittany Lions in the College Cup championship game against Duke.

The summer before that, she had scored Costa Rica’s first-ever World Cup goal when Las Ticas played in Canada.

She was the second overall pick in the 2016 NWSL draft, going to Sky Blue, and went on to be named the league’s Rookie of the Year.

She was traded to the Thorns earlier this year. Portland, which won league championships in 2013 and 2017, finished third last season after falling to the Chica-go Red Stars in the semifinals.

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Five golfers pull out of Travelers ChampionshipDOUG FERGUSONAssociated Press

Brooks Koepka and Webb Simpson were among five players who withdrew from the Travelers Championship, four of them out of a chain-reaction abundance of caution over the coronavirus that put the PGA Tour on notice.

“The snowball is getting a little bit bigger,” Graeme McDowell told The Associated Press after withdrawing Wednesday because his longtime caddie, Ken Com-boy, tested positive for the virus.

The tour released results that showed three positive tests at the TPC River Highlands in Connecticut — Cameron Champ

and the caddies for Koepka and McDowell. There were no posi-tive tests on the Korn Ferry Tour event in Utah.

As it enters the third week in its return from the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down golf for three months, the tour has admin-istered 2,757 tests at PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour events in five states, with seven positive results.

On the PGA Tour alone, there have been 1,382 tests and four positive results.

“It’s a low number on a percent-age basis, but every number hurts,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said. “I think we all need to remind ourselves that we’re all learning to live with this virus.

“It’s pretty clear that this virus

isn’t going anywhere.”Nick Watney was the first

player to test positive last week at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which was teeming with people on summer vacation.

Champ tested positive on Tuesday at the Travelers and immediately withdrew.

Four more players withdrew even with negative test results.

Koepka said his caddie, Ricky Elliott, tested positive and then took another test that came back negative. No matter. He chose to withdraw, and was especially gutted that his younger brother, Chase Koepka, withdrew after earning a rare chance to play through a Monday qualifier.

When his brother made it, Koepka arranged a house for him to stay in starting Tuesday, so he had his brother stay with him in the meantime. Then, the brothers played a practice round with McDowell and British Open champion Shane Lowry.

Both Koepkas said they felt they should withdraw because they were in close contact with someone who tested positive.

“I feel terrible for Chase,” Koepka said. “This course is made for him, he’s playing as good as I’ve ever seen him. And I put him in that situation. It’s one thing if I withdraw. He doesn’t get this opportunity very often.”

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Mickelson gets spot in U.S. Open under revised exemptionsAssociated Press

The USGA is leaning a little more on the world ranking and a lot more on tournament results over the next two months to fill the 144-man field for a U.S. Open that will be without open qualifying for the first time in nearly a century.

The exemption categories an-nounced Thursday include a spot for Phil Mickelson.

A runner-up six times in the only major Lefty hasn’t won, the most devastating was in 2006 at

Winged Foot, just north of New York City, where the U.S. Open is set to return Sept. 17-20.

The COVID-19 pandemic that forced the U.S. Open to move from June also cost the champion-ship its identity of being open to all. Open qualifying wasn’t pos-sible for two stages at nearly 120 courses across the country and into Canada, England and Japan.

The idea was to create a field that reflected a typical U.S. Open — the elite and the aspiring, from every continent in golf, pros and

amateurs. And while it won’t be 36 holes of qualifying, it still comes down to playing well.

“We are excited that players will still have an opportunity to earn a place in the field,” said John Bodenhamer, senior managing director of USGA championships.

The top 70 from the world ranking on March 15 are exempt. Along with increasing that cate-gory by 10 spots, the USGA chose to use the last ranking before it was frozen during the shutdown in golf worldwide. That helps Euro-

pean Tour players, such as Eddie Pepperell and Robert MacIntyre, who are not able to play until July 9 — a month after the PGA Tour resumed with strong fields and big ranking points.

That also momentarily leaves out Daniel Berger, who went from outside the top 100 to No. 31 with his victory against a stacked field at Colonial. But the USGA will use the Aug. 23 ranking — after the first FedEx Cup playoff event — as its reserve list, and about seven spots are expected to come from there.

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Simpson, who won the RBC Heritage last week with a record score that moved him to No. 5 in the world, withdrew when he learned a family member had tested positive.

Monahan said the tour would continue, and that there was no set number of positive tests that would lead to golf shutting down again.

“We feel like we’re on a path that’s going to allow us to continue to sustain our return to golf,” Mona-han said. “But rest assured, there won’t be many sleepless nights. When you’re working in a world of uncertainty, these are the things you worry about.”

Monahan sent a memo to players that outlined increased measures in its health and safety protocols. Those include testing play-ers before and after they take charter flights. Swing coaches now face manda-tory testing each week and will be considered part of the bubble, and the fitness trailer will be at tourna-ments to keep players from going to gyms.

He also said the tour will no longer pay for players or caddies to be in self-iso-lation for positive tests if they have not followed the health and safety plan.

“All of us have an ex-traordinary responsibility to follow these protocols,” Monahan said, adding he has been guilty at times as he adjusts to a new way of living.

Among her new team-mates are U.S. national team players Becky Sauerbrunn and Lindsey Horan, as well as Canadian Christine Sinclair, soccer’s all-time leading interna-tional scorer.

“She brings all-around tenacity, all-around quality and intelligence,” Thorns coach Mark Parsons said about Rodriguez. “She’s a player that loves to be on the ball, loves to be in spaces where she can create, score goals and also defend, disrupt, and break up play.”

The Challenge Cup has already faced, well, chal-lenges. The Orlando Pride had to withdraw from the tournament earlier this week after six players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19.

That whittled the field down to eight teams. Portland plays the defend-ing champion Courage on national television in the opener, while the Chicago Red Stars play the Washing-ton Spirit in the late match.

Nine players from the U.S. national team that won the World Cup

in France last year are playing in the tournament. Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath (a Thorns teammate) and Christen Press opted out, while Carli Lloyd and Mallory Pugh are injured, and Orlando’s Alex Mor-gan gave birth to a daugh-ter last month. Ali Krieger, Ashlyn Harris and Emily Sonnett from the Pride will miss out after the team’s withdrawal.

Players were allowed to opt out because of safety concerns without losing salaries or insurance.

Rodriguez acknowl-edged the risks, but at the same time she hopes the tournament brings new fans to the women’s game.

“The NWSL has been doing a great job of just communicating how things are gonna be in this bubble, once we get there. We’re just navigating through the challenges, everything has a chal-lenge,” Rodriguez said. “Of course, the league is doing the best they can to make this a successful one. So hopefully it brings a lit-tle bit of enjoyment in this crazy year, not only for the players, but for the fans. And hopefully we can pick up more fans throughout the country.”

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Redskins remove references to ex-owner Marshall from websiteSTEPHEN WHYNOAssociated Press

The Washington Redskins are removing for-mer owner George Preston Marshall from their Ring of Fame and striking all references to him on their website.

A spokesman confirmed the decisions Wednesday, saying Marshall’s name has already been removed from the history wall at the team’s training facility in Ashburn, Virginia. The spokesman said the Ring of Fame is removing Marshall’s name from its stadium in Landover, Maryland, on Wednesday and the process to alter the website is underway.

“I don’t have any feel-ings against it,” Marshall’s granddaughter, Jordan Wright, told The Asso-ciated Press in a phone interview. “My sense has always been if anybody’s offended by these things, then that’s OK with me.

They should take it down.”It’s the latest move to

cut ties with the legacy of the team’s racist founder, a segregationist who refused to integrate by signing Black players until forced to in 1962, more than a decade after much of the rest of the NFL.

Last week, the team renamed the lower bowl FedEx Field that bore Marshall’s name after late Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell, the franchise’s first Black player. A day earlier, Events DC re-moved a statue of Marshall from the team’s former home at RFK Stadium in Washington.

Wright said she has tried for years to have the statue removed from the RFK Stadium grounds but wasn’t notified when it happened last week.

“Although it was a big surprise, it wasn’t anything that I hadn’t already tried to put in motion,” she said.

Marshall owned the

franchise from its incep-tion in 1932 and moved the team from Boston to Washington several years later. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and died in 1969.

“His contributions are well noted in many books and statistics, and his half-time shows and the rules of the game and things that he instituted, and he’s still in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton,” Wright said. “That’s fine. That’s where it belongs — in his-tory —and if they change it, OK. I don’t really care. I’m not offended.”

The Hall of Fame last week said nothing in its bylaws allows for a mem-ber’s removal once elected, adding that enshrinement “is based on accomplish-ments on the field for players and coaches and, in the case of contributors, for growing and promoting the game.”

The recent national

debate over racism has renewed calls for current owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s name. A spokesman last week said the team had no com-ment, and the NFL did not respond to questions about the future of the name.

Wright said changing the name is something that “has to be done.” She’s fine with Marshall’s name being removed from the Ring of Fame in large part because she expects the team to move out of FedEx Field and into a new stadi-um in the near future.

With that could come a return to the District of Columbia and potentially a new moniker for the team Marshall named.

“It’s a new age,” Wright said. “It has been. But there have been a lot of people living in a bubble that, let’s just say, their consciousness hasn’t been raised, even though there’s every kind of evidence that it should be by now.”

BOSTON (AP) — Eddie Kasko, an All-Star infielder who managed the Boston Red Sox and spent nearly three decades with the team in a variety of roles, died Wednesday. He was 88.

The Red Sox announced Kasko’s death Wednesday night, three days shy of his 89th birthday. No cause was given.

Kasko played 10 sea-sons in the major leagues from 1957-66 and was an All-Star shortstop for the National League cham-pion Cincinnati Reds in 1961. He batted .318 in the World Series that year, leading the Reds with seven hits during their five-game loss to a mighty New York Yankees team that featured Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra

and Whitey Ford.After spending his final

season on the field with the Red Sox, the New Jersey na-tive stayed in the organiza-tion to manage its Triple-A club from 1967-69. He was hired as Boston’s big league skipper at only 38 years old in October 1969.

Kasko guided the Red Sox to a winning record in each of his four seasons as manager from 1970-73, never finishing worse than eight games above .500. He went 345-295 in all, tied with Joe Cronin for the fifth-best winning per-centage (.539) among Red Sox managers who lasted at least 500 games.

Kasko then spent 21 years in Boston’s front office as a scout (1974-77), Director of Scouting

(1978-92) and Vice Presi-dent of Baseball Develop-ment (1992-94). The team said he “played a pivotal role” in signing such stars as Roger Clemens and Mo Vaughn.

After 29 years with the Red Sox organization, Kasko was inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame in 2010.

Kasko broke into the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals before spending five seasons with Cincinnati. He also played for Houston, serving as the franchise’s first captain in 1965.

A right-handed batter, Kasko hit .264 with 22 home runs and 261 RBIs in 1,077 major league games, making 483 starts at short-stop, 361 at third base and

47 at second base. His best offensive season came with the Reds in 1960 when he batted .292 with six hom-ers and 51 RBIs.

Kasko was born in Eliz-abeth, New Jersey, on June 27, 1931. He graduated from Linden High School in 1949 and signed a minor league contract with the New York Giants at 17 years old.

Before reaching the majors, he served two years during the Korean War from 1952-54 with the United States Army Combat Engineers, the Red Sox said.

Kasko and his wife, Catherine, were married for 57 years before she died in December 2015. They had two sons, Mi-chael and James.

Former Red Sox manager Eddie Kasko dies at 88