The same paper that has provided thousands of, undeclared on OreStar, dollars in free publicity thinly disguised as news or opinion for the chamber, CCAP and SCDC approved candidates dares to suggest The Sentinel has a conflict of interest because of overt support for candidates. With a subheading claiming “QUESTIONS ARISE FOR COQUILLE PAPER”, The World suggests the weekly Sentinel should not be allowing employees to run for office or use freelance authors who also, gasp, contribute to campaigns and even quotes that ethical beacon of shining morality, Mary Schamehorn, mayor of Bandon and editor of the Myrtle Point Herald as saying The Sentinel editor, Jean Ivey, has a “loose understanding of journalistic balance and ethics.” Ugh!
Clark Walworth, publisher and editor of The World is vice president of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and may now have or once held a non-voting seat at the table of SCDC but we are to believe his reporting does not conflict with his alliances. A paper like The Oregonian or SF Chronicle would have shredded the advisory committee reports for the amateurish snow job they really are instead of enabling them with false credibility and joining in on the hoax.
Speaking of SCDC, a 1999 article from The World discusses its inception through a committee that included John Sweet, Timm Slater, Arnie Roblan, and John Stephens of Roseburg Forest Products, all names and companies still influencing local politics thirteen years later. The South Coast Development Council, with government and private donations, would, according to the paper, “…maintain and improve the region’s livabiity by recruiting firms and improving expansion opportunities for existing local businesses”. Initial funding of $250,000 that included $50,000 each from the Port of Coos Bay and Coos County was budgeted to maintain the council for three years and SCDC has persisted to present day with continued contributions but has it been money well spent? Coos County unemployment rates in the fall of 1999 were 7.3% compared to the statewide average 4.9% and after thirteen years rates are 11% and 8.7% respectively. As you can see from the graph below dating from 1990, Coos County tracks pretty closely with the state wide average with or without taxpayer investment in SCDC. Maybe The World should look into this.
When you hear these same people who have been around for decades talking about change suggest they step aside and stop thwarting legitimate change because their own track record is not very impressive.
What a way to “out” Cribbins. Paragraph after paragraph of nothin. The LAST paragraph slams Main and Gurney – one more time !!
Mentions Cribbins in the very LAST SENTENCE of the piece. Talk about burying the news.
Clark hasn’t the professionalism of a gnat, he can’t help himself. Ever been to Rock Springs Wyoming folks?
Now, now, don’t insult the entire city of Rock Springs. Apparently, it had the good sense to get rid of Walworth.
Dear Ms. Cribbins via Ms. Brenda Wilcut Hall:
Nice to see that Mom is a MG reader. Please don’t subject your proud and caring elderly mother to this. Don’t fear the people. Come from under your hiding place and tell us about yourself. Tell us about the specific jobs that you have held and where so we may verify. Tell us of your plans for the county. Of your experience creating jobs. Of your experience managing 100 million dollar budgets. Of your experience managing large organizations. Of your experience with the timber industry (this is a timber based economy). Of what you really want to be when you grow up; a lab tech measuring water quality, no a scientist, no a lawyer, no a county commissioner, no a vodka maker; who knows. Tell us why we should hire you at full pay so you may hire an adminsitrator to do the job we are paying you to do. Tell us why we should bail out ORC. Tell us of your experience walking the halls of Salem and D.C. and your success getting state and federal monies. Assure us that you will be a 24/7 employee of the people. Tell us what your long term personal and professional goals are. Tell us why we should hire a person who has been funded by special interests Coquile Tribe. Please use this forum for your detailed response. Thank you.
Well excuse my sorry old cranky arse, but why the hell isn’t Cribbins speaking for herself? Sending Mama out to run cover for her? What the hell is she hiding?
Give me a break, this ain’t junior high. Why come here Mama? Take it to your daughters’ paid mouthpiece Clark Walworth for free advertising, people come here to read the truth, your daughter, in my humble opinion, is obviously more in tune with Walworth and The World.
Come on Cribbins, Man- up and speak for yourself, this SHOULD be embarrassing.
Sorry Mama, I have daughters too, but when they grew up, I stopped speaking for them, especially when they want to be a pubic figure, and pull in public funds.
you are a moron and it really wouldnt matter if god himself came down and said melissa is what is needed you would still run your very nasty mouth-luckily most peopel are not as unhappy or as rude as you are-i am sorry for your daughters. amazingly womens rights allow me to say what i want to say you probably didnt know that and i dont hide my name so you can find me anytime brenda wilcut hall
Just a minute brenda, why bring a god into this ?
Sorry, but, there are plenty of morons who don’t believe in science.
This is politics Ma’am, and your daughter put herself out there for the public to see and hear.. Not my fault now is it? And bringing god up, in politics won’t get you very far with critical thinking adults. And why on earth would I want to “find you” at any time?
Womens’ rights don’t allow you to speak, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution do. Politics indeed.
Ms. Hall, will you please tell us about your daughters business experience as a molecular scientist and as a water purification system designer for NASA. Thank you. This is also something that she never claimed to have done but has been reported in the World paper. Will you commit for her, I do not believe that she has done so, that she will be our full time county commissioner for $1,000 / month? What is her priority, starting a vodka business or being a commissioner 24/7? What is her experience with the timber industry? Will she promise to recuse herself in every discussion reaeted to the Coquille Tribe? Why does she support the county manager concept? How much will that manager cost us?
melissa cribbins has never said she grew up in myrtle point-in fact she has often said she grew up in coquille we lived in myrtle point when she was little and her father worked for dr haug at myrtle veterinary clinic then we moved to coquille and opened our own veterinary clinic and she graduated from coquille high school. melissa knows what it is like to try to make a living in coquille grade b dairies went down and fishermen and logggers lost there livelyhoods while we were in business, so for those of you that remember melissa growing up in the veterinary clinic this is melissa wilcut cribbins and i am her very proud mother brenda wilcut hall-
Agreed, but I am not defending The Sentinel. Sentinel readers are just as uninformed about Bob Main’s flaws as The World readers are about Fred Messerle’s. I just think The World should stand in front of a mirror and turn that laser beam on itself. The World ought to record thousands of in-kind contributions at OreStar for all the free publicity it has given to Fred
The World is out of line but I find the Sentinel to be very biased
I suggest you check out the MP Herald. If you recall Mary Schamerhorn has already endorsed Messerle. She’s also endorsed having an Administrator. In the past I had respect for her but this time she’s gone too far. Jean Ivey has the right to rent out space to anyone. She also has the right to endorse and contribute to any partisan or non-partisan race. Where is it written there is a FREE press? In your dreams folks. I’m surprised that Mary S gets away with her endorsement of Messerle in Myrtle Point since I know lots of people who thinnk Fred Messerle and Melinda Cribbins (she grew up in MP but was not a Cribbens) are just there to further provide for themselves and the “important folks” of this county. Are the owners of the MP Herald endorsing her preferance? I don’t think we’ve heard from them.
Distribution of news is critical to any attempt to move a community forward, history proves this. Those of us who follow such things, know full well this paper is a worthless piece of advertising/high school sport/industry rag. Not one thing more. They refuse to investigate the lies from the Port, the lies from Messerlie, the lies of SCDC and his Chamber co-horts to the voters of this county. They refuse to show the most minimal of journalistic standards, and their new Cub Reporter, only visiting the US it seems, is being taught how to be a scum bag propagandist. His Mama must be so proud, I believe she’s from here, so maybe it’s not such a stretch to think he learned his “skills” indeed at his Mama”s knee. I’d box the ears of my son if he behaved in such an un-professional manner at ANY job. News is crucial to a community, look at us, trying one poster at a time through a private blog to do the job a professional should be doing. There is NO reason to subscribe to that slop, if you want news, subscribe to the online Oregonian, which you can still access by the way. Clark W is eating the slop he put out for years. What a wanker, taking on his competetor, but then, Knutson and Sause just showed him how, for a paltry five thousand dollars, you can put ANY competetor out if business in Coos County. How proud we all are to live in a land run by Land Sharks.
Remember, Mary Schamehorn was also released (fired?) by the World. She and Ms. Ivey at the Sentinel are competitors; The Sentinel has twice her circulation and sells in her home town. Of course Mary will bad mouth the competition. Mary believes that since her grandpa once owned the Bandon paper, she should be editor af all media south of Florence. Mayor Schamehorn’s competition for the mayor job has not had many kind things to say about the mayor lately. Also, remember that the worldly World paper reporter who is the local expert in US politics has been in the US for about a year, is barely past facial acne, and the new paper editor who is barely past training wheels on his tricycle has been a reporter of how to fix skateboards until recently when he became one of them there editor peoples.
Even I have no words to say.