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Stepping Up

Roger Robertson, aka Double R Season 3 Episode 125

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Episode Highlights: 

Siletz Tribe distributes over $299,000, declares food emergency, Rotarians are going green, and one man answers the call the day after Pearl Harbor, all this and more on the Double R Show this week.

  • Delores Pigsley, Chairman ~ Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
  • Guy Faust ~ Newport Rotary & Gentleman Farmer of Logsden
  • Frank King ~ WW II Veteran US Marine Corp

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Jana

Welcome to the Double R Show, the podcast that features everything about North Lincoln County. The Double R Show, directed and produced by Paul Robertson and hosted by the voice of Lincoln City, Roger Robertson.

RR

Welcome to the Double R Show. Let's step up this time around, Mr. Paul.

Son Paul

Okay, let's step it up.

RR

Let's step it up because we'll welcome to the Microphone Delores Pigsley from the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Chairman, because it's pow wow time.

Son Paul

Yeah, and they are stepping up their uh offerings during this time uh right now, and that's we'll talk a little bit about that.

RR

Guy Faust, a voice that uh we have not heard on uh the podcast, but uh somebody that is really well known in the county.

Son Paul

Yeah, yeah. So Guy is uh part of the uh Newport Rotary, right? And they're doing uh some cleanup, stepping up to help clean up some of our beaches.

RR

And stepping up many times over, Frank King.

Son Paul

Frank King, yeah, from uh Pearl Harbor on. He's been stepping up.

RR

So stepping up and step forward. That's what's gonna happen on today's double hour show with Paul. We'll be back in just a moment.

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RR

A free peace band concert for the Lincoln City Food Pantry will be held on Saturday, November 22nd, 2-4 at the Congregational Church in Lincoln City, located at 2435 Northwest Ore Place, directly west of Grocery Outlet. Donations of food or money are encouraged for admission. Thank you for helping support and feed the hungry in our community.

LCCC

Woven Legacies is a special sale of Killum's rugs, bags, shoes, jewelry, and home decor made by artesians in Turkey. Sale of these items at the Lincoln City Cultural Center will support the center and also the ongoing care of Julie Reynolds Oterman. All treasures of Woven Legacies were imported by Julie and her late husband, Senator Oterman. View the entire display today at the Lincoln City Cultural Center and own a treasure destined to become a family heirloom.

RR

$299,000 just given out to 51 different charities in what a seven county area. Delores Pigsley, Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. That's a phenomenal amount of money.

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

It is, and we're very proud to be able to do it. And it's all because of Chinook Winds Casino Resort and all the people like you who visit the resort and contribute. I'm a contributor also, but it's really rewarding to have all those people that are volunteers that do all the work, especially now.

RR

You are giving money to a lot of nonprofits, correct?

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Correct. They're not all nonprofits, like Chemewa Indian School is not a nonprofit, it's an Indian school, but we can give to Indian organizations that contribute to better living and habitat for tribal people.

RR

Are there special rules and regulations that you follow or your criteria you put down, Delorse, that uh it helps people fill up the application?

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Yes, we have a board, uh, the charitable board. I think there are seven people on the board. They get all of the applications and we received 101 applications. We were able to fill 51 of those applications. But there are some rules and they review every single application and they make a recommendation to the tribal council. And we can add or we can take away, but we generally follow their recommendations.

RR

Talk about adding, you did add a lot of money this go around for food.

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

We did. We added um doubled all the requests for food banks and cleaners. And we also declared November an emergency month for food distribution because we didn't know what the SNAP program what was going to happen with it. But I understand today that the governor, I got a notice on my phone that uh everybody that's on the SNAP program would get full SNAP benefits for this month. I don't know beyond this month what's gonna happen, but we're hoping that the government opens up and we get back to what uh used to be normal.

RR

On a government-to-government relationship, and that's what you really have with the tribe and with the the state, the federal to county. How does that work?

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Well, it it uh actually works very well. We meet with the city of Lincoln City regularly. We meet with the county commissioners, we have lots of interchange with the federal officials. And some of us travel back to D.C. We usually go about three or four times a year just to just to let them know who we are and what our needs are and kind of what we would like to see happen.

RR

Uh you have been doing that since the be the restoration of the tribe, correct?

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Yes.

RR

And speaking of the restoration of the tribe, you have a a significant event uh forthcoming next weekend, and that is the Pow Wow.

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Yes, we have our we're celebrating 48 years of tribal restoration. We were terminated in 1954 by the federal government. They determined we were no longer Indian people. And in 1970, November 1977, the tribe was restored. And I was lucky to be on that restoration uh committee, and I actually testified before Congress back in March of 1976. And so um it's been a long haul. It's been very rewarding.

RR

The restoration, what does that mean to Dolores Pigsley?

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Well, I grew up at Chamao Indian School, and when the tribe was terminated, um that really didn't resonate with me. We lived on the campus, we were surrounded by Indians, we were always Indians. But what it meant when my husband and I moved to Lawrence, Kansas, he worked at the university in Lawrence, I applied for a job, and uh when I got ready to go to work, they said, Oh, you you can't work here because you're not uh and you're not recognized by the federal government. It was like, what? And so I made it my issue to work towards restoration when we moved back from Kansas in 1975. Matter of fact, we moved back in August and I got elected in in September in 1975. So it was personal and health care was a big issue, education was a big issue, we had received no tribal benefits whatsoever. And the restoration committee, the most money we ever had was $75 that we collected at our council meetings in Siletz. And so that's what got us started. And we had a lot of dedicated people that are no longer with us. And so moving forward, we worked very hard to get funds for the tribe to provide programs. We we're what they call a self-governance tribe. We take all the money the Bureau and Indian Health Service has designated for tribal benefits, and we uh contracted all the money and hired our own staff instead of the Bureau staff, and so we built ourselves up to where we are today.

RR

One of the things I think I enjoy uh uh the most attending to Pow Wow is all of the pictures of all of the veterans that go up on the under the screen.

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Yes, and uh we owe our veterans a lot. Um my dad was a World War I veteran, and my four brothers were World War II, and three brother-in-laws were World War II, and so I have over 200 nieces and nephews, and many of them, including the women, have served in the military, so it's very close to our heart.

RR

And the Pow Wow sets off the holidays for me.

Delores Pigsley, Chairman

Well, it's a beginning of yes, a very busy period of time. Matter of fact, I have to do all my Christmas shopping before now because I can't quite squeeze it in and it's so it's very rewarding to see all the tribal members come here to Lincoln City for our celebration at Chinook Winds. And we get to visit with friends and other tribal people, people from the community that have supported us for a very long time.

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RR

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RR

A voice that has been heard for a long time in Lincoln County, uh associated with the Oregon Coast Community College, no longer there, but now just a general helper throughout the communities. Guy Faust, welcome.

Guy Faust

I am a retired gentleman farmer from Logsdon.

RR

Retired gentleman farmer from Logston. You uh just received a contribution or a gift from the Confederated Tribes of Silats Indians tonight. Tell us about that.

Guy Faust

Well, uh I have the title of President of Logson Community Club, and we meet monthly for potlucks, and we do a lot of uh different fundraising kinds of things, but we're also when an emergency hits, we become a an official Red Cross receiving center. And so what we're trying to do, what we've been doing for the last, I don't know how many years, is building our facility. And so now it's ADA accessible and we've got um commercial kitchen. But what we were lacking is we've got a propane, we've got two small propane tanks, and if they were running full blast for a couple days, then we'd be out. And so we now have a 500,000 gallon propane tank, thanks to this let's drive. We also had the Toledo high school kids build us some storage sheds. We had no storage at all. And now we've got shelves and lots of uh Costco totes that are sitting empty. Well, part of this grant also was to get emergency food. And so about three-quarters of those of those totes will be filled now. Well, yes. You want to hear that one again? Well, like I said, a lot of people I they ask me where's Logston is, and and because they've never heard of it. I could say, well, it's eight miles east of Solett's if you know where Solette's is. But what I like to say is uh we've got a country store, we've got two gas pumps, we do have our own zip code, and that's pretty much Logston, but uh you can go into the country store, buy a t-shirt, and it says Logson is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

RR

That's funny. Now, you are also involved in uh Newport with the Rotary Club, and that's what we really wanted to get to and talk about because you've got an activity going on right now that culminates on December the 4th.

Guy Faust

Well, yes. Let me start with Rotary International. There's like 46,000 clubs around the world. It's a large organization. There's 16,000 just in the United States alone. We're in District 5110. There are 64 clubs in our district, but Rotary International had five major focus areas that they concentrated their efforts on. One of them is an example of the health is eradicate polio worldwide. Well, a couple years ago, they came up with a sixth, and that sixth one was protecting the environment. And so they've asked all the clubs to come up with an idea to do something green, you know, go out and plant a tree or insulate a house or something. Well, what our club's doing is we're working to get microplastic off the beaches, but more than that, what we're trying to do is create a model because there's another ten rotary clubs up and down the Oregon coast alone. And and so what we're trying to do is create a model to clean the microplastic off the beaches, and there's a guy up in Seaside that invented this screen. It's about the size of a table. Uh, one person gets on one end, other person gets on the other end, you scoop sand onto this screen, you lift it up, the sand sips through the screen, but the microplastic gets caught. And so you can put that into a bucket, and then we also have these little sieves, and so the only problem is these screens only work when the sand's dry. So we have a limited time to go out and do anything, and that's so this coming summer in 2026, we'll be out in Newport every day starting July 1, ending uh September 9th. And we go from 10 o'clock until noon, and we're at um Agate Beach, that's where we meet, and what we've discovered is that uh when you first start, it's really kind of fun, and there's sort of a friendly competition starts between the different groups because there would be like three people to a screen. And and so it's fun for a while, but after about an hour and a half, the fun's gone.

RR

You turn into work.

Guy Faust

It starts feeling like work because you're lifting and and but uh when they come back afterwards, we put it all all the microplastic together, we weigh it, we take a photo of the group, and it's instant gratification because you can just see what you picked up there. Unfortunately, you know, it's just a drop in the bucket.

RR

You got a number of people that are involved in a competition, though.

Guy Faust

Oh yeah, yeah. Well, let me finish up with this thought is that what I tell folks is I said, you know, you go out there and you w you work uh two hours of your life and uh you got a little bit to show from from it, but you know, it's not even a drop in the bucket, and the problem is worldwide. That's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is you just spent two hours of your life removing microplastic that's not going to be floating around in the oceans for the next hundred to a thousand years long after you're dead and gone. And so if you look at it that way, yeah, it was worth it a while. And the people do get instant gratification. But we have two target audiences. Target audience number one is we get a lot of visitors to the Oregon coast in the summer. And after they're through shopping and after they're through going to the tourist sites and stuff, if they want to do something green, we give them the opportunity, they can scan our little QR code and they can go to our site and sign up and be out cleaning up beaches the very next day. That's target audience number one. The other one is, especially on weekends, we're looking for local groups. And for instance, uh this summer we had Taft elementary school kids come a couple times. We had the Solettes Valley School, we had the Altrusa Club, we had different businesses. But um basically what we did is we paid them a hundred dollars if they could get anywhere from ten to thirty volunteers to show up. But that also made them eligible for a thousand dollar drawing. And the way that the drawing works is for every volunteer they get, they get one ticket. Well, the Taft Kids, they had 30 kids that day. They also get a ticket for uh every pound of microplastic they get off the beach. And so on Jan or on December 4th, we're gonna have a ticket drawing, and somebody's gonna win a thousand dollars. And but again, this is the first year that we started this, and what we really want to do is build it. I saw a lot of clubs here tonight that I think should be eligible or wanting to do it, like the Kids Zone in Depot Bay and other ones, but that's what we're gonna be doing in early December.

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RR

Now is the time to get the flu shot.

Dr. Ogden

It is coming. It is coming. We say, you know, about September, October time frame. We want everybody to start thinking about it. You know, there's always those people who posit, depending on when we start seeing the first cases of flu, when it's most advantageous to get that flu shot. We want about two weeks for our bodies to start building up those antibodies and really be able to perform at this the highest uh level against what whatever influenza virus is circulating this year. But the most important thing, honestly, is not to try to be a master of the timing, it's to get it at all, right? That's that's what most of us should strive to do. And so if you get it a little early, right when it becomes available, or if you get it a little late in November after the, just get it. Just get it in your arm. The flu vaccine has been around for years and years and years and years. It is a very good vaccine that most years is a good match to what influenza viruses are circulating. What we try to do is look and see what has happened in the southern hemisphere since they have the opposite seasons from us, see what's circulating because chances are that's what's going to come our way. And then each year the manufacturers make these individual formulations. And again, nothing's a hundred percent. I hear people argue all the time with me that, oh, I don't want to get that. It doesn't really help that much. Well, yeah, it does. It helps a lot in the fact that even if it doesn't prevent you from getting the flu, it might prevent you from getting a strong, deadly case of the flu. And by the way, a ton more people die from flu than people who are ever, ever aware of. And they're not always just people who are the very young and very old. Oftentimes they are people that we least suspect. So it can be deadly. It is not something to be thought of as minor. And if we can do something to prevent it and or to prevent it from being as virulent as it is, we should do that.

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RR

Frank King, World War II veteran, welcome aboard.

Frank King, WW II Marine

Glad to be here, Roger. How's it going?

RR

Now you you just uh finished uh talking to the high school students up here at Taft High School and and uh the community about your time in service. You're proud of that, right?

Frank King, WW II Marine

Yeah. So what'd you want from me?

RR

Why? Why are you proud of your service time?

Frank King, WW II Marine

Well, I don't know. I this is uh just an opportunity to talk to kids, and uh I love doing that, and uh have a big family, my god. I've got uh great great grandchildren now. I can't count all of them, you know, but a lot of them. And uh this is a good audience today. They uh very receptive and uh and uh I was surprised at the attention and everything and the questions. It was it was a good session.

RR

I enjoy the fact that the respect that I heard coming from these students.

Frank King, WW II Marine

What's that?

RR

The respect I heard from these students.

Frank King, WW II Marine

Yeah, and uh, you know, you hear so much about uh the disrespect and the antagonism and everything like that, but this is uh a good audience, and uh and the questions were good too, and they were pretty in-depth and giving everybody everybody an opportunity to share. And uh uh I'm impressed by the audience more than I were about the principal people on the stage.

RR

Yeah, I would have to agree. I would even though the both of us were on stage.

Frank King, WW II Marine

Yeah. Well, uh what was uh boy's name that uh talked to the one who was in Afghanistan? I can't.

RR

Yeah.

Frank King, WW II Marine

I was impressed with the story and uh and uh a recounting of the things. You don't hear very many uh personal accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan and that sort of thing. And uh uh it's I don't think it was the easiest thing in the world for him to share those things because there's a lot of stuff that uh uh you don't like to talk about when you go into combat and the results of it and everything. But he did an excellent job, yeah.

RR

At 103, I believe. What is uh Frank King's special moment that he will always remember?

Frank King, WW II Marine

Oh, sobered up, my life changed, and life is good. And uh that's about it.

RR

You are very active at 103.

Frank King, WW II Marine

Well, that comes about from uh I think I work out uh quite a bit more than most seniors. I put in five days a week down at the fitness center, and uh I work in the exercise room in there three days a week and uh uh in the swimming pool twice uh a week. So uh and I've been doing that for going on 20 years now, and uh it keeps me going. And uh as long as I can stay flexible, both my body and all my muscles and my head, I'm uh I'm I'll be in pretty good shape.

RR

And your head, you have been a writer for years. Uh you you were a writer for years for The Statesman and for other periodicals.

Frank King, WW II Marine

Yeah, yeah, I I still do it. I was doing a call for the senior center newsletter there, but they might belly up. But uh I still compulsively sit down and do a uh page with one once in a while because when things start getting under my skin, well I get to it and I start writing. Uh I don't get too antagonistic because uh or too controversial because uh you don't want to let your anger take over uh when you're talking or when you're writing.

RR

All of a sudden your bias begins to show.

Frank King, WW II Marine

That's it. And as long as I have a good big waste paper basket by my computer, I'm in I'm in good shape.

RR

Of your time in the military, World War II, the most memorable moment, Frank King would say is what?

Frank King, WW II Marine

Oh, it's hard to say. Uh I think oh final parade at boot camp after after we got through boot camp. And uh that was a high point because my god, I didn't know some marine, you know. Never thought I'd do it. Straight 140 pounder, you know, and uh and got through it. I disappointed because I didn't qualify on the rifle, but I shot expert with a 45 caliber handgun with a cold automatic and got the highest score in the platoon with that. But uh uh when you're a marine, you're a rifleman, primarily a rifleman, and every marine has a rifle. And I didn't qualify a lot, and it was a source of source of shame. And uh kept fire and I only got fire for record once. But uh uh I finally made it through the Marine Corps when the drill instructor shook my hand and and uh I left uh and I was a proud man.

RR

Well, tonight is a special night in Lincoln City, especially for the members of the Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce, including always traveling. Including always traveling. And why? Because the Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce has their awards banquet tonight, six to eight at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Uh they have a number of categories, and in those categories, business of the year, always traveling is was nominated. Grocery Outlet, Lincoln City Gifts, Lincoln City Sporting Goods, Moe's Restaurants, Oregon Coast Bank, Pfeiffer Roughing Company, RB Contracting, and Zantilla Law Group. That's a lot of powerhouse.

Son Paul

Yeah, yeah, that's great.

RR

Yeah, excellence in customer service. Uh A clean getaway, Beach Crest Brewing, Charlotte Letho Insurance Company, uh Lincoln City Donuts and Coffee, one of my favorite donuts that is, Oregon State Uh Credit Union, Scout Northwest Trading Company, and Shoreline Smoothies. I've been to all those businesses, I can say, yeah. And and would be go going back because of the customer service. Absolutely, yeah. Yep. Beautification Award. Uh we have uh first choice fresh market, Chinook Winds Casino Resort, Evergreen Home Loans, Lincoln City Parks and Rec, North Lincoln Sanitary Service, and Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital. A lot of work goes into making your outside look good.

Son Paul

Yeah, and there's been a lot of investment. Uh, you know, you can see it on 101 for sure, uh, and and along, too. So, yeah, it's great.

RR

We've had a number of new businesses open up in Lincoln City, and the nominees for best new business include Amazon Hub, Fancy Fish and Aquascapes, Fish and Clips, Lincoln City Ceramics, Momo on the Wheels, Roseanne's Closet, C Horsey Bottle Shop, and Suit Busters Chimney Sweep.

Son Paul

Well, you know, there's those are some great new businesses too. And if you haven't been to them, uh, you know, I've been to at least half of those myself. Haven't needed the chimney sweep, uh, you know, or don't have a smoke chimney. So, but yeah, lots of great businesses there. Uh, and uh, I just love the fact that it's like how many fish-related things in there. Absolutely.

RR

Seahorsey and the fish eclipses and uh for somebody that used to have or and still does has a lot of aquariums.

Son Paul

Well, in fact, I get my fish from uh the uh fancy fish place there, right near Barnacle Bill's.

RR

And out in the pond of uh the uh double R studios, you will find a pond full of fish from them again as well. Uh Community Uh Impact Award nominees, Family Promise of Lincoln County, Habitat for Humanity, Lincoln City Elk lodge, number 1886, North Lincoln Fire and Rescue, Rotary Club of Lincoln City, TLC, a division of fiber federal credit union. So uh a lot of organizations that are deserving to be named the Community Impact Award winner. Now, also like to draw your attention to the fact that Lincoln County Public Health is hosting flu vaccines, flu vaccine shots, I guess I should say. Uh no appointment is necessary, but please bring in your insurance card at the time that uh you go to get that shot. From City Hall on Wednesday, November 20 or 19th at 230, we got Lincoln City Parks and Reich board meeting on Monday, November 24th, 6 o'clock City Council in regular uh session. And then on Thursday, November 27th at 3 o'clock, Community Sustainability Committee.

Son Paul

Yeah, I mean, this time of year, those meetings uh, you know, you only get like one city council meeting a month typically. Uh it's gonna be the new year pretty quick here, too.

RR

So and I'd like to remind everybody that uh tomorrow, Friday, November 14th, is the final day for you to uh help with the food drive at TLC. This is money, and food for the backpack food program. They're looking for macaroni and cheese, rice aroni, pasta and pasta sauce, canned pasta, uh, canned uh corn, green beans or peas, box cereal, and large bottles of apple juice along with chili, pork and beans, ramen noodles, tuna, instant oatmeal, fruit cups, and granola bars. And I'm certain they'd be happy to get jars of jelly and they got a lot of peanut butter.

Son Paul

Yeah, yeah. Just head down to Kenny's there and uh pick up all that stuff and uh take it down to the uh food drive there at TLC.

RR

That's good stuff. And last but not least, Angels Anonymous uh will be hosting the annual Festival of the Trees, and uh this is coming up in December. We encourage you to buy your tickets as soon as possible, like now, uh up with the Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce Office, so we know how many people to plan for, and uh we've got it all put together. But tickets are on sale and they are going fast, and it's almost time to close that out. The kids, hard to believe. It's almost time to close out the festival of trees.

Son Paul

Well, that's just it. Uh you know, once Halloween hits, it is almost New Year's Day. You know, that's how I always think about it.

RR

So uh I think we're already at Valentine's Day or something, the way it just goes too quick. Yeah. Anything else your side of the table? We are clear from here, thank you. So that will do to the dunes on a double R show. Please remember to like, subscribe, and share so you, your family, and friends around the world and across the street can join us on the Double R Show with Son Paul and Jenna. I'm Double R. Have a happy day.

Jana

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