Public health officials from the State of Oregon and the Lincoln County Health Department confirmed a bat tested positive for rabies by the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory.
This is the first bat to test positive for rabies in Tillamook County this year.
From 2000-2016, 2243 bats were tested and 189 (8.4%) tested positive in Oregon.
On Friday, July 20, 2018 Lincoln County Environmental Health received a report that a bat bit a person in Neskowin. After investigating the incident it was determined that no persons were bitten.
While the bat was being transported to a wildlife center, the person delivering the bat was bitten. This individual had a booster vaccination and was wearing latex gloves and did not test positive for rabies.
The bat died at the wildlife center and on July 23, 2018, it was sent to the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory where it tested positive for rabies.
“Bats are the primary reservoir of rabies in Oregon,” said Kaline Chavarria of Lincoln County Environmental Health. “In the event of bat contact such as a bite or scratch, an attempt should be made to safely capture the bat, without destroying the head, for testing for the rabies virus.”
If you must handle a bat, it should be done with leather work gloves or an implement such as a shovel. Direct hand contact with bats should always be avoided.
“All pet owners should make certain that their dogs and cats are vaccinated against rabies,” said Emilio DeBess, State Veterinarian for the Oregon Health Authority.
“Protecting pets from rabies can provide a buffer zone of immune animals between humans and rabid wild animals such as bats.”
Rabies symptoms in animals can include lethargy, walking in circles, and loss of muscular
coordination, convulsions, irritability, aggressiveness, disorientation and excessive drooling and showing no fear of humans. Wildlife, livestock, or pets displaying these behaviors should not be approached or handled. Animal control or wildlife authorities should be contacted immediately.
Consult with your local county Health Department whenever there has been human or pet contact with bats or any animal that appears to be sick, injured or has bitten a human or pet.
If you or someone you know has been bitten or come into contact with a bat,
Call (541) 265-4127 and report it to Lincoln County Environmental Health.
The temporary closure of visitor access to the interior of Heceta Head Lighthouse has been extended to Sept. 30. Several unexpected issues have hindered the repair work, pushing the closure beyond its original July 31 end date.
Crews will continue to repair several cracked interior metal columns on the upper floor of the lighthouse. The lighthouse lens will be covered and out of service during the repair work.
The grounds surrounding the lighthouse will remain open to visitors. Interpretive programs will continue as regularly scheduled, but no visitors will be allowed to enter the lighthouse.
The historic assistant lighthouse keeper’s house, which the U.S. Forest Service operates through a concessionaire as a bed-and-breakfast, will remain open.
Heceta Head Light is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast 13 miles north of Florence, and 13 miles south of Yachats. Built in 1894, the 56-foot-tall lighthouse shines a beam visible for 21 nautical miles, making it the strongest light on the Oregon Coast.
Heceta has the only active British-made Chance Brothers lens of its kind in the U.S., and it is the brightest beacon on the Oregon coast. Its modern 1,000-watt quartz bulb produces 2.5 million candlepower; the visibility of the beam is limited only by the curvature of the earth. It emits one flash every 10 seconds.
Lincoln City Homepage’s “Best Mexican Restaurant” winner will be awarded a hand-crafted glass taco created by the Lincoln City Glass Center (formerly known as Jennifer Sears Glass Art Studio).
Studio co-owner and primary artist Kelly Howard said she planned to use a Dremel tool to inscribe the winners name into an actual-size glass taco. Howard has created many different awards, including some rather large ones, so making a glass taco should be easy by comparison.
Kelly Howard
Homepage is conducting a readers’ survey/poll for publication to help tourists and residents alike identify places to go, people to meet and things to do in Lincoln City. Voting for the best Mexican restaurant will last until Monday, Aug. 13, at which time the winner will be declared.
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) has lifted the ban on campfires and open flames in parks along the coast effective July 25.
The campfire and open flame ban remains in effect for the ocean beaches and all other state park properties managed by OPRD. It applies to wood, charcoal and other sources that cannot be “turned off” with a valve. The ban includes campgrounds and day-use areas.
Camping at parks on the coast, you can have a fire in a fire pit but no open flames anywhere else. This includes beaches in Lincoln City as well as the rest of the coast.
Flame sources that are operated by a valve are exempt from the ban. However, valve-operated propane fire pits are allowed in coastal parks and on beaches only. Propane fire pit use is banned in all other state park properties.
The extended campfire ban is expected to last at least one week, but will be evaluated based on weather, resource conditions and input from Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and other state and local fire officials.
The ban was extended because of the continued hot, dry conditions and the high number of wildfires still burning throughout the state.
Visitors planning a trip to a state park should check for up-to-date information about fire restrictions at http://bit.ly/2uLzdwY or by calling the state parks info line at 800-551-6949.
Lincoln City Homepage wants to know what you know about our fine community.
We are conducting a readers’ survey/poll for publication to help tourists and residents alike identify places to go, people to meet and things to do in Lincoln City. Periodically, Homepage is going to be running polls of the various restaurants, events, parks, beaches and so on.
This poll will be up for three weeks and at the end of voting we will be presenting an award for “Best Mexican Restaurant” as voted by Homepage readers, created by the Lincoln City Glass Center. The Glass Taco will be handcrafted by Kelly Howard and have the winner’s name inscribed in the glass and they can mount it on the wall of their restaurant. Runners up will receive a glass float.
Below, please find the Mexican restaurants that can be found along the seven miles of smiles.
503 Baseball will break out the balls and bats Aug. 18-19 for a fast-paced summer camp for ages 6-14 that will provide skill development through innovative drills that emphasize four core areas of the game.
Throwing, hitting and running will be emphasized in several sessions:
9 a.m.-noon, ages 6-8
12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., ages 9-11
4 p.m.-7 p.m., ages 12-14
The camp will be conducted at Taft High School, 3780 S.E. Spyglass Ridge Dr., in Lincoln City (89367).
Lincoln City Homepage is excited to announce Taft High graduate and former multi-sports star Seth Steere as its new chief columnist touching on local and national youth, college and professional sports.
“Not only has Seth been a great athlete himself, but he’s shown an ability to express and share his insight on sports through his knowledge of athletics on all levels,” Homepage Publisher/Editor Justin Werner said. “He’s an accomplished writer and opinionated sports enthusiast who will greatly enhance our sports coverage.”
A 2014 Taft grad, the 22-year-old Steere resides in Gresham and is the son of local day care provider Kristina Good. An all-state and all-league baseball and football player and wrestler, Steere is the brother of current Taft athlete Francisco “Foo” Ramos.
“I enjoy sports because it’s been something that has been a part of my life ever since I can remember,” Steere said. “I just love the competitiveness and how they push you to be better. And from a fan’s standpoint, they are just extremely entertaining.”
Steere, who grew up going to Portland Trail Blazers’ games, will begin entertaining you this week with his debut column, “Steere’d Straight,” on the NBA and what to look for this season with LeBron James’ recent blockbuster signing with the L.A. Lakers.
An open source initiative by major tech companies will allow users to transfer data in and out of participating providers with the Data Transfer Project (DTP).
Thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation, a legal regulation by the European Union that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of users’ personal information by companies—many online services have started providing tools that allow their users to download their data in just one click.
Now the process of moving data is being further simplified by creating a platform where users can transfer photos, playlists and other data with one click.
Here are some simple use-case examples DTP developers shared to describe the use of this new platform:
Trying out a new service — A user discovers a new photo printing service offering beautiful and innovative photo book formats, but their photos are stored in their social media account. With DTP, they’d visit a site or app offered by photo printing service and initiate a transfer directly from their social media account to the photo book service.
Leaving a service — A user does not agree with the privacy policy of their music service, and want to stop using it immediately but do not want to lose the playlists he/she has created. Using this open-source software, one could use the export functionality of the original provider to save a copy of one’s playlist to the cloud. This enables the user to import the playlists to a new provider, or multiple providers, once he/she decide on a new service.
Backing up your data — A user in a low-bandwidth area has been working with an architect on graphics and drawings for a new house. At the end of the project, they want to transfer all their files from a shared storage system to the user’s cloud storage service. They can simply go to the cloud storage Data Transfer Project User Interface (UI) and move hundreds of large files directly, without straining their bandwidth.
In the hypothetical example below, a Google Photos user wants to move their photos from Google to Microsoft OneDrive. They go to Google’s file transfer interface, choose the destination, and hit ‘send.’ They then must authorize the transfer using both services’ chosen methods, in this case OAuth. The selected files are automatically copied and routed to the destination, without using either bandwidth or hardware of the user.
Creators of the DTP believe that users should be able to seamlessly and securely transfer their data directly from one provider to another:
Our vision for this project is that it will enable a connection between any two public-facing product interfaces for importing and exporting data directly. This is especially important for users in emerging markets, or on slow or metered connections, as our project does not require a user to upload and download the data over what may be low bandwidth connections and at potentially significant personal expense.
The DTP is powered by an ecosystem of adapters that convert a range of proprietary formats into a small number of canonical formats (Data Models) useful for transferring data. This allows data transfer between any two providers using the provider’s existing authorization mechanism, and allows each provider to maintain control over the security of their service. This also adds to the sustainability of the ecosystem, since companies can attract new customers, or build a user base for new products, by supporting and maintaining the ability to easily import and export a user’s data.
Transferring data using canonical formats will not necessarily mitigate problems such as
formatting limitations or inconsistent feature support. However, the approach illustrates that a substantial degree of industry-wide data portability can be achieved without dramatic changes to existing products or authorization mechanisms, while still providing a flexible enough platform to adapt and expand to support new formats and use cases brought by future innovation. Additionally, the Data Transfer Project has been developed to increase participation by motivating providers to build both export and import functionality into their services.
Security & Privacy
The security and privacy of user data is a foundational principle of the Data Transfer Project. Because there are multiple parties involved in the data transfer (the user, Hosting Entity, providers, and Contributors) no one person or entity can fully ensure the security and privacy of the entire system. Instead, responsibility is shared among all the participants. Here are some of the responsibilities and leading practices that contribute to the security and privacy of the DTP.
Data minimization
When transferring data between providers, data minimization should be practiced. Practically this means that the receiving provider should only process and retain the minimum set of data for the individual that is needed to provide their service. The sending provider should provide all needed information, but no more.
User notification
The Hosting Entity should configure their Host Platform to notify the user that a data transfer has been initiated by the user. Ideally, the user of the source and destination account are the same. However, user notification is designed to help protect against situations where that is not the case, and so notifications alerting the user of the transfer request should be sent to both the source account and the destination account. Depending on the sensitivity of the data being transferred, the Hosting Entity should consider delaying the start of the transfer so that the user has the opportunity to cancel the transfer after receiving the notification.
In a blog post, Microsoft called for more companies to sign onto the new effort, adding that “portability and interoperability are central to cloud innovation and competition.”
“For people on slow or low bandwidth connections, service-to-service portability will be especially important where infrastructure constraints and expense make importing and exporting data to or from the user’s system impractical if not nearly impossible,” Microsoft said.
It should be noted that the Data Transfer Project could have some serious implications for smaller service providers participating in the project, making it easier for their customers to leave and join services from popular brands with lucrative offers or free services.
A bench-clearing physical altercation that erupted following a play at the plate Sunday forced the forfeiture of the championship game by the 503 Baseball Club to the tournament host Mid-Coast Dungies in Newport.
Previously undefeated 503 of Portland was trailing in the second inning at Frank Wade Field before Dungies’ outfielder Joe Hixenbaugh of Blue Mountain Community College crashed into 503 catcher Brock McMullen on a throw from short to home. The home plate umpire then threw 503 third baseman Damian Avalos (No. 5) to the ground before calling the game in favor of the Dungies.
A coach said the brief fight was the result of one team’s “scrappiest player” colliding at the plate with the other team’s “player with the shortest fuse.”
The Newport-based Dungies, founded in 2016 and sponsored by American Legion Post 116, feature several former and current Taft High baseball players such as catcher Eli DeMello, shortstop Josh Salsbery, pitcher/first baseman Jack Stempel, outfielder Tyee Fisher and third baseman Kam Kessler. Several former and current Newport, Nestucca and Neah-Kah-Nie high school players also compete for the Dungies.
Former Taft star pitcher/outfielder Caleb King and Tigers infielder Cody Knott play for 503.
All nine Lincoln City Breakers batters collected at least one hit Sunday, including a two-run, fourth-inning double down the third-base line by outfielder JJ MCCormick that tied the game before the Eugene Timberjacks rallied for a 10-8 victory in the LC Beach Blast youth league baseball tournament at Kirtsis Park.
Armando Fajardo
Starting pitcher Armando Fajardo doubled, singled, walked, drove home a run and scored three times for the Breakers, who split a doubleheader Friday in the 11-and-under Northwest Nations tournament.
Zack Hankins, center fielder Miranda Hankins, shortstop Kai Bayer, Ezra James and outfielder Bobby Moore had two singles each for Lincoln City, while catcher Justice Kelso and outfielder Devon Sheridan also singled in the elimination contest.
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Bayer scored and drove home a run; Miranda Hankins scored two runs, Kelso scored a run; and Moore and Sheridan had RBIs behind the pitching of Fajardo and Zack Hankins.
The Breakers defeated the Athletes in Action (AIA) Athletics of Redmond 6-4 and lost 8-7 to Bridgetown of Portland in Friday’s opening day of play.
