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It’s all about the safety

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Playgrounds are exciting and fun places for children. They help build dexterity and they are a great place to make friends. Kids are wonderfully inventive and use playground equipment in many different ways, sometimes not intended by the manufacturers.

Each year in the United States, more than 150,000 children under the age of 14 are treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries occurring on public playgrounds, according to the Centers for Diseases and Prevention (CDC). There are many ways to prevent these injuries and to lessen the injuries that do occur.

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Source: It’s all about the safety, The Umpqua Post

Marshfield Second to Central Linn at Bay City Duals

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No South Coast wrestling team won Monday’s Bay City Duals, but with younger wrestlers littered throughout the tournament, the event was much more about getting mat time than getting a result.

Marshfield used mostly junior varsity wrestlers and finished second to Central Linn, losing 42-39 in the championship match.

Reedsport finished fourth after falling to Douglas 52-24 in the third-place match. Philomath beat South Umpqua to earn fifth. In the final dual, North Bend lost to Siuslaw 40-30 for the Bulldogs to finish eight.

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Source: Marshfield second to Central Linn at Bay City Duals, The World

Bulldogs Get First Win at Salem Tourney

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North Bend’s boys basketball team got its first win of the season on Monday, beating Gervias 59-41 on the opening day of the Capitol City Classic, a tournament at Willamette University in Salem that also includes Bandon.

The Bulldogs jumped out to an 18-9 lead after the first quarter and stretched it the rest of the game.

Brody Lucero had 19 points for the Bulldogs, who also got a big lift from the return of Ryan Wirth.

The senior post had nine points, as did Tyler Brown and Luke Lucero.

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Source: Bulldogs get first win at Salem tourney, The World Link

Reedsport Year in Review 2015

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Throughout the month of December, The World will take you back to our most read stories of 2015, month by month. Today: October.

A threat against schools in Coos County on Friday prompted law enforcement agencies and school administrators to take precautions, but the threat doesn’t seem credible, says Sheriff Craig Zanni.

According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, “At about 7:38 a.m. (Friday), Coos County 911 Center received a report from a subject who advised that they had seen information circulating on one of the same websites that the subject in yesterday’s shooting incident at Umpqua Community College had been posting on that there would be a similar incident in Coos County today…

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Source: Year in Review 2015: The World’s top stories in October

Weekly News Recap on Reedsport

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The most popular news stories this week:

Flooding causes 42S closure, police rescue stranded driver

Oregon Department of Transportation vehicles work on clearing the highway of debris near a flooded area of Highway 42 South on Monday afternoon.
Oregon Department of Transportation vehicles work on clearing the highway of debris near a flooded area of Highway 42 South on Monday afternoon.

COQUILLE — An Oregon Department of Transportation official said Highway 42 South likely would remain closed through much of Monday after a weekend of heavy rain and flooding that left at least one driver stranded.

Jared Castle, ODOT spokesman, said plow and sweeper trucks still need to remove debris from the road, while engineers need to rule out the presence of sinkholes before the road can be reopened.

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Source: The World’s Weekly News