Port Orford News
Page 4 • January 21, 2009
Centered seniors
By Beverly Dunlap
For the Port Orford News
“To acquire knowledge, one
must study; but to acquire wis-
dom, one must observe.”
— Marilyn Vos Savant
OK! I will observe! The first
thing I notice is we, as a nation
are going into unemployment! I
did my share, I retired. There is
trouble, however, in finding any-
one to do a job that needs doing?
So I have continued to observe
and think there are a few sugges-
tions that may help us in our cur-
rent crisis.
I made a telephone call yester-
day and a stogy ole computer
answered my call advising me
that I had ten options. I listened
carefully to all ten options and did
not understand a couple of them,
but not to worry, because one of
those numbers and the entire thing
would be read to me again. So I
found that number and clicked 7.
Oops that was the wrong number
- which number got me into
accounting. I played the list again,
and again did not memorize all
the options. So I hung up and I
was mad! Then I discovered that
my mad had removed me from
that blessed computer that was
giving me all my options.
I waited till I calmed down, and
dialed the 800 number again. The
voice at the other end advised that
my call would be answered in the
same order as it had arrived. OK I
can handle that! Wrong – 722
people had called before me and
when I hung up, I had lost my
place in that number! Grand, now
I am feeling dumber and dumber!
So I sat down at my computer to
pass the time while I wait for my
turn. Right before I fell asleep, a
voice came on the line (a comput-
er again) telling me my ten
options! We have been here
before!
Well I knew it wasn’t 7,
because I had tried that before.
They did make an error, they said
I could reply in voice! What a
present - I bet you do not know
what I said! I wouldn’t want any-
one to know. But I said it and
among other things I said is that I
wanted to talk to a human being! I
am not sure, but I think I heard the
computer laugh!
I was on the phone for an hour
and a half. The real people at the
other end finally advised me that
for the tidy sum of $49, they
would tell me how to solve the
problem with my computer! In the
meantime, they took control of
my computer and asked all the
questions in the world - I spelled
Beverly at least three times. The
human being they assigned to my
call was from a foreign country
and I could hardly understand
him. But fix he did by telling me
to hold down two buttons while
hitting another. If was done and
only cost me $49.
Here is my point. If so many
people are unemployed, why
don’t these large firms hire some
of them to answer the phone, so at
least the company would know
why you are using their 800 num-
ber! Have you ever had this kind
of a thing happen to you? I am
sorry to complain, but high unem-
ployment and computer answered
telephone just does not make
since to this ole warrior!
Have a great week, and stay
happy and don’t call any computers!
PORT, from page 2
both buildings to allow for bet-
ter circulation between the
buildings. This building can be
built in three pods or modules of
two stories each, one pod at a
time, if necessary. Each module
would have 5,200 square feet.
The individual retail spaces
would be left unfinished inside,
so that each retailer could finish
their space appropriately. The
price of the building would
depend on now many of the
three modules were built, with
the base price being approxi-
mately $838,000.
There would be three large
parking/flex lots on the water-
front where the present bone-
yard is and to the east of it. Area
A, closest to the live fisheries
and commercial retail buildings,
would comprise 50,000 square
feet of parking, accommodating
about 120 vehicles. Area C, far-
thest east, would be utilized for
a 20-space high-end market RV
park, while Area B, about
37,500 square feet, would com-
bine parking with pull-through
space for large RVs to access
the RV park. The entire area
would be stabilized with a rip
rap revetment, rather than a
bulkhead. Some shrubs and the
Fisherman’s Memorial would
probably be relocated. Short,
aluminum light poles would be
used to help minimize light pol-
lution. The paving would be
pervious, and swales would also
be used to help with drainage.
Cheramy proposes a 110 x
140 foot L-shaped building for
the Fifth and Washington prop-
erty. Another building with “lots
of windows,” its first floor
would consist of a large restau-
rant, commercial retail, and a
brewpub. It was suggested at
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PON photo courtesy Point Porford Historical Society/PON file photor
Shown above is one of the lifeboats from the Motor Lifeboat Station.
Life with Brice: ‘ ... you don’t have to come back’
By Brice Wagner
PON staff writer
Port Orford’s Motor Lifeboat
Station, .S. Coast guard, 1934 to
1970
“You have to go out but you
don’t have to come back” was the
surfmans motto.
Pictured is one of two lifeboats
stationed here at the Port Orford
Cove Boathouse.
The boat crews negotiated 532
steps to get to the boathouse when
they received a call.
During World War II there were
over 100 coastguardsmen stationed
here. Some private buildings were
rented to put up the extra men that
the heads station couldn’t house.
The beaches were patrolled on
foot by armed radio carrying coast-
guardsmen, with trained dogs
accompanying them. There were
also horse mounted coast guards-
men here patrolling the local
beaches. On some coast areas the
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most northwesterly salt water
sea’s in Alaska.)
The ocean was breaking eight-
foot seas against icebergs. Kevin’s
launch was caught by a wave and
flipped pitch poled, and he found
himself in 32-degree water. He
managed to get hold of the
Boston Whaler and climb onto
the flipped over hull.
At the same time native vil-
lagers of Wainwright were help-
lessly watching him as another
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engineer, and first mate.
Kevin knew the Hillstrand
brothers from 1984 working on
boats together.
Kevin also previously worked
with Jonathan (Deadliest Catch
“Skipper” fame) on several differ-
ent boats.
When Kevin watches “
Deadliest Catch” he feels like he
is still there on the boat, “Like he
has never left.”
Looking back on his 30 years
on Alaskan waters he is indeed a
lucky man. The huge boat “City
of Seattle went down in 1988
after he left as a crew member.
The boat “Big Valley sank with
four crew members loosing their
lives and one surviving.
A interesting note about “Time
Bandit” is it was built locally in
Charleston by Giddings Boat
Works in 1991.
Kevin summarizes his commer-
cial fishing/maritime experience
of the past and now has no desire
to return to the life on the Bering
sea. If he was to go to Alaska it
would just be for fun.
He lost several of his friends in
the past in Alaskan waters so his
memories are some stressful ones.
Kevin hopes to write a book of
his commercial fishing/maritime
life in Alaska.
His parents taught him well, he
is a survivor, with great work
ethic, an independent soul, and
proud to live in Port Orford and
to be able to say “ Yes I was an
Alaskan fisherman for many
years.”
We wish him lots of luck with
a very interesting book that he
will someday do about life in
Alaska.
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wave took him off the upside
down hull.
Kevin felt his energy slipping
away helpless, and hypothermia
was setting in, then he started
feeling OK, as happens in
hypothermic conditions to the
body. Luckily he sensed his legs
bumping shore. He pushed him-
self free of the launch. He yelled
for help to the Eskimos.
They were hesitant to try to get
to him, as they knew once a per-
son is in the water sometimes you
don’t come out.
Finally a group of people
pulled him from the water. They
rushed him to a clinic and one
and a half hours later his body
temperature had reached only 94
degrees.
Two days later Kevin got the
parts for the main engine and
departed. The villagers dubbed
Kevin “Walrus man” — and
some of them called him other
things.
The villagers cleaned up the
Boston Whaler, tore down the
waterlogged outboard and got the
launch ready to use. Kevin then
took the “parts” out to the Big
Valley and finished his tour on the
fishing vessel.
When the“Big Valley sold, he
took a job aboard “City of
Seattle” Bering Sea crab fishing
for two seasons, then going to
work on “Last Frontier” for
Brown Crab in the Aleutions.
In 1992 he went to work on
“The Time Bandit” of present day
dangerous catch fame. He worked
from 1992 to 1999 for the
Hillstrand Family aboard the
“Time bandit.”
His positions were deckhand,
Lars Larue
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deemed the local station unneces-
sary. For many years the old tele-
phone poles with multiple wires
were visible between Port Orford
and Bandon close to the beach for
communications between local
coast guard stations including Cape
Blanco Light and Loran Station.
Back to be lifeboats - the early 36
footers were gas powered and
would only do eight knots full
throttle, then the coast guard
repowered to reliable 36 footer’s
with a more powerful diesel
engine.
When viewing the old boat-
house location one is marveled as
to how 36 footer could make it out
of its location in a south storm with
crashing swells/waves.
The concrete seawall that is built
looks spectacular and still looks as
sturdy as probably the days after
first curing.
If you haven’t seen this structure
you are missing “a sight to see.”
LENT, from page 1
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allowed to
don “logger
tin pants and
caulk (cork)
shoes for
comfort in
the winter
weather.
The Army
had 50 men
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stationed
with jeeps and personnel carriers to
be moved locally if needed.
The harbor entrances up and
down the coast had large coastal
gun emplacements, and concrete
machinegun nests. There were 30
caliber machine guns here at Port
Orford, and Cape Blanco. One pri-
vate home’s front yard features an
old concrete pillbox that was a
machinegun emplacement during
WWII at Nesika Beach.
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