Oregon Gov. Kate Brown hassigned an executive order directing agencies to mitigate, provide state resources and seek federal resources to assist Lincoln County water users during drought conditions.
Homepage offers title sponsorship, donates proceeds to benefit Taft athletics
Lincoln City Homepage is proud to announce that bidding is open on the sale of title sponsorship of advertising space for publication of the Taft High 7-12 fall sports schedule, with all proceeds benefiting the Taft Booster Club.
The highest bidder to sponsor the ad for the three-month 2018 fall sports season will be announced prior to Taft High’s opening football game, Friday, Aug. 31, at Harrisburg. The ad will appear daily beginning every Sunday and list all Taft High sports events for the coming week.
The winning business will have its company’s logo and link to its website as the featured part of the daily advertisement on the website’s homepage through the conclusion of fall sports in November. At that time, Homepage will accept bids to become title sponsor of the school’s winter sports schedule, with all proceeds again benefiting the school’s athletic programs.
Homepage will join the winning title sponsor in formally making the donation to Taft High at the school’s annual Booster Club Auction, Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Lincoln City Beach Club & Event Center, 2020 NE 22nd St.
Winning bid = $150
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St. Johns smushes Lincoln City for mushball beach title
St Johns rallied from the losers’ bracket Sunday to defeat a team of longtime former Lincoln City-area baseball and softball stars to win the 2018 Beach Mushball Tournament title at Kirtsis Park.
The upstart Lincoln City Beach team, which gathers just once a year for the annual summer mushball tourney, went undefeated until the final two games, when St. Johns claimed must-win back-to-back victories to claim the championship.
Four other teams — 503, Parkball, West Coast and Rip City — also played Sunday, but were eliminated from the two-day tournament earlier in the day.
The play gets so intense that players such as 503’s Anthony “Moon” Young suffered a compound fracture of his right thumb during Sunday’s play.
Utilizing a mushy 16-inch softball and often with fielders playing without gloves, the version of mushball played this weekend in the long-running Lincoln City tournament closely resembles the original game as developed in the 19th century by George Hancock.
The game remains popular almost exclusively in Chicago, New Orleans and Portland, where mushball has had leagues since the 1960s. The first set of rules were published in 1937 by the Amateur Softball Association in the same manual as the rules for fast-pitch softball.
The Lincoln City event has drawn many teams from Portland for years, bolstering the local economy by drawing hundreds of players and thousands of fans through the past several years.
The 16-inch softball was eventually adopted in Chicago because it didn’t travel as far as the 12- or 14-inch balls. It allowed for play on smaller playgrounds or even indoors, accommodating the Chicago landscape and climate. Another advantage of the 16-inch ball was it allowed everyone to play barehanded. Gloves were a luxury after the Great Depression hit Chicago.
The sport grew in popularity after the first national championship was held at the Century of Progress World’s Fair in 1933. A professional league was formed that lasted through the 1950s.
Tournament organizers said they can’t wait for next year’s Lincoln City tournament to dethrone St. Johns and take away their bragging rights for the upcoming year.
No one hurt but pets perish in Lincoln City house fire
No one was hurt but several pets were killed just after midnight Saturday in a house fire on SE Port Ave., just off SE 3rd St. in Lincoln City. Cause of the fire is under investigation.
North Lincoln Fire and Rescue (NLFR) responded to the blaze at approximately 1 a.m. Saturday at the two-story house fire, where they found the upper level completely engulfed in flames.
The lower floor sustained water and smoke damage, NLFR reported.
“The owner was at home when the fire started and was alerted by working smoke detectors,” the report said. “He sustained no injuries evacuating the fire, however, several pets were deceased at the scene.”
Four engines, one ladder truck and two command vehicles carried 14 rescue personnel to the scene, including a mutual aid crew from the Depoe Bay Fire District.
The Nestucca Rural Fire Protection District stood by and reacted to a medical call. A Pacific West Ambulance crew was also called to the scene.
The fire was the second in the last several days during the early morning hours in Lincoln City, where NLFR crews responded to a blaze at 12:20 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13, at the south 2200 block of Highway 101.
That fire, also under investigation, occurred in an unoccupied house and involved 17 firefighters, and was brought under control in two hours with the help of Depoe Bay and Nestucca rescue crews.
Rescue crews attend to heart attack victim in Lincoln City
Seven rescue vehicles and emergency medical personnel responded late Saturday night to a heart attack at The Ridge Apartments in the Taft District of Lincoln City.
Several members of the Lincoln City Police Department, North Lincoln Fire and Rescue and EMTs from Pacific West Ambulance helped wheel the victim into an ambulance destined for North Lincoln Samaritan Hospital at approximately 11 p.m.
Emergency room staff declined to comment on the patient’s status late Saturday per hospital policy.
2018 Beach Mushball tournament in Lincoln City
Kirtsis Park was the stage Saturday for the 2018 Beach Mushball Tournament that pitted Portland Mushball League teams and a Lincoln City Beach team in an epic battle of skill on the diamond.
2018 Beach Mushball Tournament in Lincoln City
The 2018 Beach Mushball Tournament in Lincoln City had a highly competitive first day. Mushball returns tomorrow for the championship and we will be there.
Posted by Lincoln City Homepage on Saturday, August 18, 2018
“We look forward to this tournament all year long,” Portland Mushball League Executive Director Andre Lawrence said. “This end-of-the-season event crowns a champion that will brag about it until next year.”
Twelve teams competed on the first day of the two-day tournament.
Teams in the 2018 Beach Mushball Tournament:
- West Coast
- 503
- St. John’s
- MSP
- Gamers
- Dox
- Beach
- Rip City
- Parkball
- Bad News Beers
- North Portland
- Bona
The championship game will be played Sunday at Kirtsis Park.
Taft High 7-12 softball coach Sandy Stuart and team members manned the concession stand with proceeds going to the Tigers softball program.
OSAA to cover prep sports with launch of OSAAtoday
The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) will provide original Oregon high school activity news content on its website beginning with the 2018-19 school year.
The content – to appear under the banner OSAAtoday – will include news, event coverage, features, polls and more. Historical pieces commemorating the OSAA’s 100-year Centennial will be among the recurring features. OSAAtoday’s aim will be the production of high-quality and insightful content covering the entire state, every classification and every activity.
Lincoln City Homepage’s comprehensive coverage of Taft High 7-12 athletics is also linked to the OSAA website.
The content will be produced through a partnership with Jerry Ulmer, longtime prep writer at The Oregonian, and John Tawa, founder of PrepVolleyball.com and former managing editor at Student Sports Magazine. In addition to the content produced by OSAAtoday, they will also work with the Association’s member schools to develop a network of student contributors whose work could be highlighted on the OSAA website.
OSAAtoday will be an additional platform in Oregon to promote the tremendous benefits of interscholastic activities. The OSAA hopes that OSAAtoday will quickly become an invaluable resource for all involved in the state’s passionate high school activities community.
“The OSAA is extremely excited to partner with these two exceptional writers that have such extensive experience in the Oregon prep space,” said Peter Weber, OSAA Executive Director. “We are also thrilled to be able to provide an educational component to this initiative with our student contributors. We feel this will be a great resource to get journalism and yearbook classes involved in their local communities.”
OSAAtoday CONTACT INFORMATION
Jerry Ulmer: [email protected] / 503.816.7323 / @jerryulmer
John Tawa: [email protected] / @jtawa
The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) is a private non-profit, board-governed association comprised of 292-member high schools. A member of the National Federation of State High School Associations, the OSAA annually sponsors 118 state championships in 19 sports and activities. For more information, visit www.osaa.org or follow @OSAASports on social media.
Lights of Hope to stage addiction, mental health event
Lights of Hope will host an event to raise awareness about mental health and addiction at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Port of Toledo’s Waterfront Park.
The free, family-friendly event aims to educate citizens about addiction by bridging the gap between social services, peer support groups, law enforcement and the community.
“I went through hell when my daughter struggled with her addiction,” Lights of Hope Vice President Tracy Johnston said. “I felt like there was nowhere to turn for help. Now that my daughter is clean, sober and healthy, I want to help bridge that gap so nobody else has to feel so helpless.”
Various addiction and mental health resources and information will be available from representatives. There will be a dunk-tank, kids games, face painting, South Beach Church band, the Bad Soul Singers from the Confederated Tribe of Siletz Indians, BBQ food and a candlelight vigil.
Lincoln City Police Department Sgt. Oscar Escalante will be a guest speaker, along with Toledo Police Department Detective Aaron Pitcher, Newport Chief of Police Jason Malloy, Lincoln County Judge Thomas Branford, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Adam Shanks, South Beach Church Pastor Luke Frechette and others.
The Lights of Hope team will have another event, “Overcoming the Darkness,” to raise awareness for suicide prevention in December.
Lights of Hope is a nonprofit organization based in Toledo.
Deceased man found at Agate Beach south of Lincoln City
Newport Police are investigating circumstances surrounding the discovery Saturday of a deceased man at Agate Beach Wayside, 30 miles south of Lincoln City.
Responding officers arrived on scene at 7:42 a.m. and located the body of Nikolaus Christopher Hinton, 29, from Lincoln County.
According to his Facebook page, Hinton, from Phoenix, was employed as a seafood processor at Pacific Fish Co., in Newport.
Anyone with information or knowledge of Hinton’s activities during the last 36 hours, are asked to contact the Newport Police Department Tip Line at 541-574-5455 or text-a-tip to 541-270-1856.
Bridge construction open house at Lincoln City Cultural Center
