August 5th (Tuesday) is the 25th annual National Night Out. The Coquille Police Department and several community members are excited at putting on this unique crime and drug prevention event in our area. This event can offer a bridge between law enforcement and the community. It also provides for a wonderful community spirit which I would be excited to see grow for Coquille. During the pro police rally, I had many people ask about doing another police support event during the summer (hopefully without pouring rain!). I would invite those and others who are interested to contact Officer Bryant and myself as we are just in the planning stages for this awesome event.

Weekly police logs

If you haven't gotten your weeding done, do it now before any more weeds seed your garden. Try not to use sprays whenever possible, as they can injure bee and pollination populations. You might follow up with a nice thick mulch, which will help keep weeds down, and retain moisture. By now our soil should be warming up, and your garden seeds can go out, whether vegetable or flower. In my garden, I'm just getting started.

Some of my life's most fondest of memories was when I lived in Eugene as a child, and trout fishing in the McKenzie River. I can close my eyes and and still recall the sights, and especially the smells of some of those days.
Let me set the stage for this journey back into time.  The years were in the late 1930's and into the 1940's. The river in July and August were teeming with salmon.

All week I have been flooded with reports that the official cause of the 2003 electrical blackout was not, as reported, untrimmed trees and overheated transmission lines.  The largest blackout in US history, more than 9,300 square miles, may have been caused by Chinese hackers gaining access to networks controlling the electrical grid.  US intelligence officials have advised the Cyber Security Industry Alliance that forensic evidence suggests the PLA (Peoples’ Liberation Army) was behind the blackout.

While searching the internet for information on Bigfoot, I came upon an interesting article. Now I’m sorry I didn’t bookmark it. The writer of the article enjoyed the topic of Bigfoot and was at a zoo, where he stood observing a group of gorillas in an outside enclosure. It puzzled him that a clear photo has not yet been taken of a Bigfoot in the wild, and so he decided to experiment with his own photo taking abilities.