December 4, 2025 • 28 mins
Episode Highlights:
Representative David Gomberg joins Double R for a two-part briefing on the issues hitting our coast hard — prospective ICE operations, the Coast Guard helicopter’s move from Newport, ODOT’s funding squeeze, and the statewide 5% budget tightening. He cuts through the noise with what’s known, what’s in flux, and what might be getting the axe.
Aaron and his daughter Olivia from SCOUT also stop by to bring a lighter touch to the episode. They share their experience with axe throwing and the fun waiting at this locally owned and operated business — a little inspiration for holiday outings or gift ideas. And speaking of celebrations… today, December 4th, happens to be Double R’s birthday.
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Jana (00:06):
Welcome to the Double R Show, the podcast that features
everything about North LincolnCounty.
The Double R Show, directed andproduced by Paul Robertson and
hosted by the voice of LincolnCity, Roger Robertson.
RR (00:30):
Welcome to the Double R Show.
Double R along with Son Paul,and today we'll have an
opportunity to really hit somehard news because Representative
David Gomberg's going to be onboard.
Son Paul (00:40):
Yes, but first, a happy birthday.
A happy birthday, really.
Happy birthday to Double R.
If you're not familiar withDecember 4th, as we drop, we are
on dad's birthday.
RR (00:50):
December 4th, 1946.
Goodness.
A day that she'll live in theinfant.
And our thanks to RepresentativeDavid Gomberg for your coming by
and uh being interviewed.
And then we're also going to goscouting.
Son Paul (01:06):
Yeah, we're going to talk to uh Aaron from Scout
there and uh hear a little bitabout what they're all doing.
Plus his daughter's on as well,right?
RR (01:14):
Yes, that's the best part.
Yeah.
Yeah, great interview.
Aaron is great, but his daughteris really cute.
So that'll be upcoming righthere on the double hour show.
Yeah, 1946.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Night Ranger.
Live incompetent.
Let me call it.
(02:22):
No point.
RR (02:27):
And our guest is today, Representative David Gomberg.
And David, is there anythinggoing on in Lincoln County we
need to know about?
SPEAKER_08 (02:34):
Well, goodness, Roger, there's too much going
on, and a lot of it veryunexpected.
I mean, here in Lincoln County,we we've got a fight on our
hands.
And unexpectedly, we have afight with the federal
government.
Look, the helicopter's gone, andthe challenge now is in the
courts.
And then there's the possibilitythat ICE and uh and immigration
(02:56):
services and the Department ofHomeland Security is going to
show up here in force and builda major detention center near
the Newport Airport.
That's got this community reallyup in arms.
I mean, I will tell you that thecity of Newport scheduled a
special council meeting to talkabout these two challenges, the
helicopter and ice.
RR (03:17):
Both serious.
SPEAKER_08 (03:18):
And 800 people showed up at the uh at the
Newport City Hall.
A few days later, uh Senator RonWyden had a town hall in
Newport, 600 people there, allexpressing their concerns about
the loss of the rescue airoperation through the Coast
Guard and the mounting evidencethat ICE wants to come to
(03:39):
Lincoln County and base a majordetention center here.
RR (03:43):
Let's say good morning at a time.
First off, with the helicopter,was that not rescheduled to be
back?
We keep hearing it's coming,it's gone, it's coming, it's
gone.
SPEAKER_08 (03:52):
Well, let's let's back up all the way to uh 2014
when the Coast Guards signaledthat they might be reconsidering
basing their air rescueoperation in Newport and instead
take it to Cous Bay.
And the community rose up uhwith a single voice and said, No
way, no how, adding an hour ofresponse time in the cold waters
that we've got off the coast ofOregon is going to cost us
(04:13):
lives.
And they convinced the uh CoastGuard to keep that helicopter
here.
Now understand that uh last yearthat helicopter rescued 500
people off the coast of LincolnCounty, 30 of them in the
fishing fleet, but that leavesuh 470 other people that found
themselves in dangerous orhapless circumstances, including
loggers in the woods where thethe the Coast Guard goes to help
(04:37):
people.
So toward the end of October,people started looking around
saying, Where's the helicopter?
Well, it's not here, it's gone.
Where'd it go?
It it went back to Coose Bay.
They quietly took the helicopterout of town.
Now, that's right at thebeginning of the crabbing
season, the most dangerous timeof year to be in the water for
our local fishermen, and thehelicopter's gone.
(04:57):
So that was a topic uh in frontof the city council, and there
was great concern about safetyand about the commitment that
the government had made to keepthat resource here.
But at the exact same time, thecity of Newport got letters from
some agent of the federalgovernment asking about renting
or leasing space at the airportnext to where the Coast Guard
(05:20):
used to be.
And that started raising allkinds of questions.
So we started asking around andwe began to discover other
things.
Uh we discovered that there werelocal contractors who were being
asked about delivering drinkingwater to the airport.
They were being asked about uhtaking thousands of gallons of
human waste from the airportaway every single day.
RR (05:43):
We're not talking about the small numbers.
SPEAKER_08 (05:45):
No, we're talking about 10,000 gallons a day of
human waste.
We uh discovered online jobpostings for positions like
detention agents and bus driversand medical personnel with ICE
experience.
So we found all this evidencemounting.
Now hotels in the area aregetting letters saying, on
behalf of the federalgovernment, that we're looking
(06:07):
to house up to 200 people for anentire year in the Newport area.
And hotels from Lincoln City toYahat's uh and Walport are
getting these inquiries abouthousing federal employees in our
local hotels for up to a year.
And so we're asking the federalgovernment, what's going on?
(06:27):
And I've asked, and the city ofNewport has asked, our federal
delegation, like our U.S.
senators and our congresswoman,have asked, the governor has
asked, and nobody will answerthose questions.
But we continue to have thisincreasing collection of
evidence that says something'sgoing on, and everything points
to the possibility of a largeICE detention center in based in
(06:50):
the Newport area.
RR (06:52):
Not wanted.
SPEAKER_08 (06:53):
Well, certainly not wanted by uh by the people that
that have showed up for allthese public meetings.
Nobody has stood up and said,hey, we'd like to have it here.
Everybody has come in and said,no, we don't want it here.
We don't want it here becauseit'll affect our economy.
We're getting letters frompeople saying, I'd like to visit
the coast, but if you've got icethere and the detention center
there, I'm not coming comingback again.
(07:13):
We've got people saying, how isthis going to affect our local
economy when we rely so much onthe immigrant community for
processing fish and making bedsand busting our dishes?
RR (07:23):
We're talking about the entire cutty.
We're not just talking aboutNewport.
SPEAKER_08 (07:26):
Well, absolutely.
So how's it going to affect theeconomy?
What are the implications forour land use rules if suddenly
we've got this large facility?
And remember, Lincoln County wasunder a drought conditions all
summer long, and now we'retalking about a facility that
could hold up to a thousandpeople, and what's the impact on
our on our water and sewer andother infrastructure in the
(07:46):
community?
And then there's just simply thethe core political and emotional
question that so many people areasking, and and that is is this
what we want our community to beknown for?
RR (07:57):
It's difficult at best.
SPEAKER_08 (08:00):
Well, uh, you know, I keep saying right now that the
helicopter is in the courts, andthe ice facility is in the
shadows.
There are lawsuits pending tobring the helicopter back.
The um Department of HomelandSecurity responded by saying,
you know, filing these lawsuitsis an insult to the patriotic
members of our Coast Guard anduh an attempt to micromanage our
(08:21):
Coast Guard operation.
But when it got to the courts,the judge, judge ruled, before
they even went into thecourtroom and heard the
pleadings, she offered aninitial temporary restraining
order saying, you're notfollowing the law.
The law says before you canrelocate an asset like this, you
need to inform Congress and youneed to inform the local
community.
You broke the law, bring thehelicopter back at least for the
(08:44):
next 14 days, and that'll giveus time to get into court and
sort out what's going on withthe helicopter.
We don't know what's going onwith ICE.
RR (08:52):
David Gomberg, representative for our district.
We're going to take a shortbreak.
We'll be back with more, andwe're going to talk a little bit
about some of the other issuesthat are going on in and around
the Lincoln City Newport area.
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RR (09:51):
Representative David Gomberg is with us.
But there are even more itemsthat are on the agenda, if you
will.
Budget cuts for ODOT becausepotentially of a ballot measure.
SPEAKER_08 (10:07):
Well, there's a couple of things going on.
Let's start with this.
Oregon balances our budget everyyear.
We don't spend more money thanwe bring in, unlike the federal
government, for example.
So we need to balance ourbudget.
That means that our stateeconomists tell us how much
money we've got, and that's howmuch money we spend.
And the state economist saysthat fewer people are working
and uh wages are not going upthe way they once were.
(10:30):
And because of some steps takenby the federal government,
particularly some tax reductionsthat they implemented, that the
state of Oregon is going to begetting less money.
So we in Oregon at thelegislature who write the state
budget have been instructed togo into each of our state
agencies and look at a 5%reduction across the board.
And that's what I've beenworking on in Salem these last
(10:53):
few weeks, because we're talkingabout cuts to veteran services,
uh shelter housing.
We're talking about reductionsin programs that help create
jobs.
It's certainly about health careand mental health and and uh a
wildfire response in schools.
We're cutting budgets, andthat's a very hard, difficult
process when you start lookingat how much money you got coming
(11:14):
in and you don't have as much asyou used to.
RR (11:16):
5% doesn't seem to be that much, is it?
SPEAKER_08 (11:19):
Well, but when you start looking at uh at a 5%
reduction for programs thatwe've come to rely on, a five
percent reduction in shelterhousing, uh a five percent
reduction in veteran services.
I mean, that doesn't sound likea lot, but it starts to add up.
Now, more to the point, at thesame time, we've been looking
particularly about ourDepartment of Transportation,
(11:40):
who have relied historically onthe gasoline tax.
People are driving less, they'retaking mass transit, they're
having more fuel-efficientvehicles, they're using electric
vehicles, and that's all great,but it means they're buying less
gasoline.
And so the legislature sat downand said, What are we going to
do about that?
And they put a plan together.
Now they they spent six monthsin the long legislative session
(12:01):
starting in January coming upwith a plan that was just asking
for too much.
It was way too much, and theyweren't able to come to an
agreement.
So the governor brought us backin for a special session about
two months later, and we cameback with a plan.
It was roughly a third of whatwe had originally been
considering, but it includes asix cent gasoline tax increase
(12:21):
as well as taxes on electricvehicles and some changes in
registration fees.
A six cent gasoline tax increasefor an average driver, that's
about$2 per month.
And all that money is going togo into on-the-street services
like fog lines and fillingpotholes and snow removal.
And it's important to understandthat half that money also goes
(12:43):
for local government.
Half the money is either goingto go to your city or to or to
your county.
Okay.
Uh the off half the money that'scollected.
But a lot of people said, hey,costs are going up.
We don't want more taxes, weparticularly don't want more
gasoline taxes, and theycirculated petitions and to
reconsider the decision that thelegislature had made.
(13:04):
Now they just wrapped up thatprocess, and the Secretary of
State is counting all thesignatures right now to see if
they've got enough to qualify toput this on the ballot.
It looks to me like it's goingto qualify for a public vote.
That'll happen next November.
Meanwhile, if this qualifies forthe ballot a year from now,
those changes are not going togo into effect until the
public's had a chance to vote onit, which means that OTOT's
(13:27):
scrambling to figure out howthey're going to c uh scrape the
snow off our roads, how they'regoing to maintain the fog lines,
how they're going to take careof landslides this winter
without that additional revenue.
It's uh it's an interestingquestion with good arguments on
both sides, and it's a decisionthat Oregonians, I believe, are
ultimately going to get to make.
RR (13:52):
Is this a case?
Is this an issue?
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_08 (13:55):
Well, I I think accountability is always an
issue with state government, andand certainly at ODOT, which is
why when we passed thesemeasures, we also implemented a
number of new accountabilityrequirements, including regular
audits by the legislature,audits by the Secretary of
State.
And I think significantly takinga step that said that the
(14:17):
director of ODOT would beappointed by the governor, not
by the State TransportationCommission.
That's accountability as well.
And since that had occurred, thedirector of ODOT has announced
his retirement, then there's anew director of ODOT coming
online.
So there's a number of changesgoing on there, and I think
accountability is going to becentral to how we go forward.
(14:40):
Now, let me tell you somethingreally interesting, Roger.
The new director of ODOT isgoing to be the former director
of state parks, somebody who'svery well familiar with the
circumstances that we see here.
D River.
At the D River and up and downthe uh the Lincoln County coast.
She's somebody I've been workingwith for the last couple of
years to transfer management ofthe D River wayside to the city
(15:02):
of Lincoln City, and inparticular, get rid of that
dark, smelly, scary bathroomthat's there at the wayside that
any any family would be afraidto take their kids into and
replace it with a shiny, modern,attractive, attractive bathroom.
RR (15:17):
Yeah, an attractive bathroom.
Absolutely.
One final question, David.
So you brought the statetreasurer to town to uh Lincoln
City.
There are a number of reasonsfor that.
Normally we don't even see thatlevel of individual here in
Lincoln City.
SPEAKER_08 (15:33):
Well, you know, I brought the state uh attorney
general here uh a few monthsago, and I'm really pleased to
be able to bring the statetreasurer here.
People don't think much aboutthe state treasurer, but the
fact of the matter is that's theperson who manages all of our
state money, all of our stateinvestments.
That's pretty important.
They also sit on the state landboard together with the governor
and the secretary of statemanaging all of our state
(15:55):
properties, particularly ourstate forests.
You know, we cut trees down andsell them from our state
forests.
That money supports schools, andso they help manage the common
school fund.
And then finally, something Ithink that's really cool in the
treasurer's office is theunclaimed property department.
Now, this is where if you've gota forgotten bank account or a
deposit that you didn't receiveor a tax refund and they
(16:18):
couldn't find you to give youthat money, the state's holding
it and looking for you to returnyour money, your property to
you.
And so you go to the statetreasurer's webpage and click on
the unclaimed property link.
Gosh, all you need to do is typeyour name in and it'll tell you
whether the state's holdingmoney for you.
And you can type in yourrelatives, you can type in your
friends, your neighbors, andthen go knock on the door and
(16:40):
say happy holidays.
Uh there's there's a hundredbucks waiting for you.
All you have to do is make themake the call.
RR (16:46):
Make it a happy holiday season, great.
SPEAKER_08 (16:48):
Because the state's got money and they're here to
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SPEAKER_10 (17:36):
Scout Northwest is what Aaron Linfoot?
We are a local organization thatworks with goods uh sourced,
almost everything is sourcedhere locally.
I think we have a unique anglein that if we don't make it
ourselves, because we have, andwe'll get into later, we have a
design uh proponent toeverything we do.
We have a graphics company.
So if we don't design it, thenuh we have these amazing
(17:58):
relationships with local vendorsand artists to then bring their
project into a commercialsetting.
RR (18:06):
You are in in the Lincoln City outlets, but the one thing
that comes to mind to me firstand foremost is throwing axes.
SPEAKER_10 (18:14):
Yeah, we we're kind of a fun eclectic, feel like a
strong PNW vibe store.
So you've got the axes, we'vegot knives, we've got tomahawks,
uh, we even got meat cleavers, Ifound.
Do you see much playoffs at?
So probably like manybusinesses, feast and famine,
summer, off season.
So we're kind of the opposite ofschool system.
So when school's out, we'rehaving fun.
(18:36):
Weekends, good.
Uh when school's in session,it's an awesome time to visit
local stores, less traffic.
But axes are one of those thingswe're actually nationally
accredited with axe throwing.
We kind of do our own play.
Nationally accredited?
Yeah.
I mean, we're a member of it, sowe can post tournaments.
There's a whole different world.
It's it's heavy on the EastCoast.
Like you're talking big money,like a little different than out
(18:59):
here, you know.
But like we have fun with it.
So we actually have even onWednesdays, we do like our own
little call in-house league.
We call it chop and chug uhbecause we serve alcohol too.
You don't have to drink.
Uh, we actually have soda.
Uh soda.
RR (19:12):
That's a little shaky.
Mixing alcohol with an axe.
SPEAKER_10 (19:15):
And it the order's important, Roger.
So order's important, order ofoperations.
But uh, we have some fun withthis.
We do a lot of families, they'llrent it for 30 minutes for an
hour.
Big groups.
We've had Noah, uh, one of theships, uh, brought their whole
crew down.
It was really cool to see.
Um, I think they rented it foran hour and it turned into two
hours because we let them takeover the music and that changed
everything.
So that was like a live DJ.
(19:36):
They were having some fun.
But um, yeah, we we have somefun with it.
So Wednesdays we have from fiveto seven, uh, our own like
in-house league.
We it's a five-dollar buy-in,and then top score of the night
uh walks away with a shirt.
This team have come up with somereally funny shirt designs, kiss
my axe, and then they put lipson the back.
It's so funny.
Uh, so we've been giving thoseout on Wednesdays.
(19:58):
But yeah, it's it's a wholedifferent, you know, really the
concept I think of Scout, Idon't get credit for at all.
Jerome and Gittle started thisthing back in 2018.
I took over this year.
So a lot of the kind of funcomponents and elements of the
company, I think we've justwe've added to.
But axe throwing is one of thosethings that they brought in.
My kids like it.
You have to be eight with a uh aparent to sign off, but
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otherwise eighteen.
And uh you can have some fun.
We've we've changed up thetargets like for uh Halloween.
We put zombies and other thingsup.
Uh the staff was laughing theother day.
We should have an axe your exday, so we gotta be careful with
that.
You could send in pictures, youknow.
Yeah, you better be reallycareful.
One of the local guys was like,What if my ex comes?
I was like, Oh, yeah, we're notdoing that one.
(20:40):
So I probably should.
Some ideas get tossed to theside, you can tell.
RR (20:44):
You brought somebody into the studio with you.
I did.
My business manager over here.
What's your name?
Business manager is who?
SPEAKER_13 (20:51):
I'm Olivia.
RR (20:52):
You're Olivia.
And what do you do as businessmanager, Olivia?
SPEAKER_13 (20:56):
I I fold shirts, I welcome customers.
I'm at the front desk and Icheck people off with like their
stuff.
I don't know what to say forthat.
SPEAKER_10 (21:04):
She's our product tester.
RR (21:06):
Welcoming people in is probably the most important
thing that you can possibly doto for the benefit of the
business, isn't it?
You gotta make them feel welcomethe minute they hit that door.
SPEAKER_13 (21:18):
Oh yeah.
RR (21:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's critically important.
If you've learned that lesson,you've learned you've got a
college education already.
SPEAKER_10 (21:26):
It's actually helped a ton.
You think about dealing withpeople and adults, like having a
kid be able to just communicateand say, hello, sir, you know,
welcome in.
I think that's a a beautifulthing that maybe isn't as common
nowadays.
And we've her brother worksthere too sometimes.
She likes it, I think, a littlemore.
Dad, a tough boss.
Oh she's like, Did he pay meyet?
(21:48):
Actually, the other day she'slike, Wait, I have money you owe
me.
I was like, Yeah, sorry.
RR (21:52):
Yeah, well, we'll we'll talk about that down the road, right?
That a girl will love you.
Stay after him.
Scout Northwest again going backto the shirts and into like what
what else uh product mixed youdo you have in there?
SPEAKER_10 (22:04):
Yeah, so we kind of have two angles to what Scout
is, and we kind of brought backone angle of it.
So uh Scout has been aroundsince 2018.
There was a graphics company aswell.
It originally was called LincolnCity Graphics, transitioned to
overnight art.
I brought it back to LincolnCity Graphics, and that angle
allows us now to not only do thedesign work and like custom
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apparel, etc., but now we can dofull signage.
I can do from business cards tobookmarks to vehicle signage.
We've we've got, you know, fromfrom FedEx to anyone you name,
we can do the vehicle side.
We can do a sign installation ifyou gotta have new windows, you
know, graphics on your windows,etc.
So that piece has allowed us tokind of have some fun to then
also apply it into the store,which is all the custom apparel
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locally sourced from leather tosoaps to candles.
Like a lot of these vendorsactually, they're people you
know, and they get to sell at alocal store, which is cool.
Everything from like a we've gota cook at Taft High School that
sells some custom made jewelry.
Very good.
Um it's so cool to see them herand her kid come in and be like,
How are things selling?
And you're like, Well, thisone's selling good, this one not
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so much, but I'm not thecustomer.
Yeah, I don't wear earrings, soI don't kind of fun.
RR (23:15):
It works.
Yeah.
You are on the west end ofLincoln City Outlets, correct?
SPEAKER_10 (23:20):
Yeah, we're we're uh kind of just off the quieter
corner, but they're off like thepaint store.
Paint store is the far uh southsouthwest side, and we're just a
few stores off of that.
Next to Coach, we always jokeabout you know, Scout for a lot
of people is known for the uh10-foot-tall Bigfoot that we
have right at the entrance.
And he gets so many picturestaken.
It's one of those things weactually have some fun things.
(23:42):
I totally found a custom Bigfootcostume from someone in Eugene.
Who knows?
Who knows from that?
But I got it, so we're gonna bewearing it kind of having some.
RR (23:52):
I love it.
You have fun with your business.
SPEAKER_10 (23:54):
Oh, yeah.
I think that's part of what'sbeen cool with the kids is like
to be able to say, like, this issomething they enjoy.
It it's fun.
It's fun to talk to people, too,you know.
RR (24:03):
Aaron, thanks for coming in.
Olivia, good to have you here.
And again, stay after your dad.
Get a raise today.
Oh Lord.
We'll be back in just a moment.
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Welcome back to the Double RShow.
We'll have an opportunity to uhnext week get involved with
having a wonderful life.
Son Paul (25:02):
Yeah, we've got a lot of art and uh culture coming on
the next uh week as well.
RR (25:07):
And music, music, music from the Congregational Church.
Uh there is a special concert uhthat uh is going to be taking
place, and uh we'll find outmore about that coming up next
week, right here on the doubleeye show.
It's the Pacific O Singers and aholiday sounds of the season.
Two shows or yeah, two shows onDecember the 13th, Saturday,
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December 13th at 3:30 and at 7o'clock.
So don't miss that one.
Also, uh, if you have notpurchased your tree, your
Christmas tree as of yet, uh theBoy Scouts are still selling
trees up at the uh Lincoln CityCultural Center.
Angels Anonymous Festival of theTrees this weekend.
It's a big weekend, yeah.
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It's huge, it's huge.
If you have not seen the trees,I'm sorry.
You need to go see the trees.
You have until around about twoo'clock Saturday to see the
trees.
And it is worth the time uh togo up to Shinockwins Casino
Resort and uh see what beautyyou is gonna be.
Son Paul (26:08):
Yeah, you can purchase one outright.
Absolutely, and you can put uhmoney down on uh some raffle
items, I believe.
Lots of raffle items.
RR (26:15):
Yeah, so and the wreaths this year.
Oh, goodness gracious, there'sone wreath that uh comes in from
someplace up in South TillimaCounty.
Wait till you see it.
Okay, it'll turn your socks off.
Be there Saturday.
Be there Saturday, Saturdaynight.
We all get together and auctionthings off.
And our uh thanks to uh PatrickAlexander for joining me and
(26:38):
helping with that auction aswell.
That's good stuff.
St.
James uh Santiago School Play isgoing to be on Wednesday,
December the 17th at 6 o'clockup at St.
James Santiago School, uhlocated at 2490 Northeast
Highway 101, right here inLickin City.
Anything your side of the table?
Son Paul (26:58):
You know, uh nothing new again.
Just a reminder that if you havea chance uh and you see double R
around today, wish him a happybirthday.
RR (27:07):
And remember, it is a wonderful life.
It's gonna be next week on theDouble R Show, but also on stage
at the Cultural Center.
And uh we're also gonna betalking about music, music,
music at the CongregationalChurch.
Uh, it is a marvelous concert.
For Paul, Jonathan, I'm DoubleR.
Have yourself a happy day.
Jana (27:32):
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The Double R Show, directed andproduced by Paul Robertson and
hosted by the voice of LincolnCity, Roger Robertson.
RR (00:30):
Welcome to the Double R Show.
Double R along with Son Paul,and today we'll have an
opportunity to really hit somehard news because Representative
David Gomberg's going to be onboard.
Son Paul (00:40):
Yes, but first, a happy birthday.
A happy birthday, really.
Happy birthday to Double R.
If you're not familiar withDecember 4th, as we drop, we are
on dad's birthday.
RR (00:50):
December 4th, 1946.
Goodness.
A day that she'll live in theinfant.
And our thanks to RepresentativeDavid Gomberg for your coming by
and uh being interviewed.
And then we're also going to goscouting.
Son Paul (01:06):
Yeah, we're going to talk to uh Aaron from Scout
there and uh hear a little bitabout what they're all doing.
Plus his daughter's on as well,right?
RR (01:14):
Yes, that's the best part.
Yeah.
Yeah, great interview.
Aaron is great, but his daughteris really cute.
So that'll be upcoming righthere on the double hour show.
Yeah, 1946.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Night Ranger.
Live incompetent.
Let me call it.
(02:22):
No point.
RR (02:27):
And our guest is today, Representative David Gomberg.
And David, is there anythinggoing on in Lincoln County we
need to know about?
SPEAKER_08 (02:34):
Well, goodness, Roger, there's too much going
on, and a lot of it veryunexpected.
I mean, here in Lincoln County,we we've got a fight on our
hands.
And unexpectedly, we have afight with the federal
government.
Look, the helicopter's gone, andthe challenge now is in the
courts.
And then there's the possibilitythat ICE and uh and immigration
(02:56):
services and the Department ofHomeland Security is going to
show up here in force and builda major detention center near
the Newport Airport.
That's got this community reallyup in arms.
I mean, I will tell you that thecity of Newport scheduled a
special council meeting to talkabout these two challenges, the
helicopter and ice.
RR (03:17):
Both serious.
SPEAKER_08 (03:18):
And 800 people showed up at the uh at the
Newport City Hall.
A few days later, uh Senator RonWyden had a town hall in
Newport, 600 people there, allexpressing their concerns about
the loss of the rescue airoperation through the Coast
Guard and the mounting evidencethat ICE wants to come to
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Lincoln County and base a majordetention center here.
RR (03:43):
Let's say good morning at a time.
First off, with the helicopter,was that not rescheduled to be
back?
We keep hearing it's coming,it's gone, it's coming, it's
gone.
SPEAKER_08 (03:52):
Well, let's let's back up all the way to uh 2014
when the Coast Guards signaledthat they might be reconsidering
basing their air rescueoperation in Newport and instead
take it to Cous Bay.
And the community rose up uhwith a single voice and said, No
way, no how, adding an hour ofresponse time in the cold waters
that we've got off the coast ofOregon is going to cost us
(04:13):
lives.
And they convinced the uh CoastGuard to keep that helicopter
here.
Now understand that uh last yearthat helicopter rescued 500
people off the coast of LincolnCounty, 30 of them in the
fishing fleet, but that leavesuh 470 other people that found
themselves in dangerous orhapless circumstances, including
loggers in the woods where thethe the Coast Guard goes to help
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people.
So toward the end of October,people started looking around
saying, Where's the helicopter?
Well, it's not here, it's gone.
Where'd it go?
It it went back to Coose Bay.
They quietly took the helicopterout of town.
Now, that's right at thebeginning of the crabbing
season, the most dangerous timeof year to be in the water for
our local fishermen, and thehelicopter's gone.
(04:57):
So that was a topic uh in frontof the city council, and there
was great concern about safetyand about the commitment that
the government had made to keepthat resource here.
But at the exact same time, thecity of Newport got letters from
some agent of the federalgovernment asking about renting
or leasing space at the airportnext to where the Coast Guard
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used to be.
And that started raising allkinds of questions.
So we started asking around andwe began to discover other
things.
Uh we discovered that there werelocal contractors who were being
asked about delivering drinkingwater to the airport.
They were being asked about uhtaking thousands of gallons of
human waste from the airportaway every single day.
RR (05:43):
We're not talking about the small numbers.
SPEAKER_08 (05:45):
No, we're talking about 10,000 gallons a day of
human waste.
We uh discovered online jobpostings for positions like
detention agents and bus driversand medical personnel with ICE
experience.
So we found all this evidencemounting.
Now hotels in the area aregetting letters saying, on
behalf of the federalgovernment, that we're looking
(06:07):
to house up to 200 people for anentire year in the Newport area.
And hotels from Lincoln City toYahat's uh and Walport are
getting these inquiries abouthousing federal employees in our
local hotels for up to a year.
And so we're asking the federalgovernment, what's going on?
(06:27):
And I've asked, and the city ofNewport has asked, our federal
delegation, like our U.S.
senators and our congresswoman,have asked, the governor has
asked, and nobody will answerthose questions.
But we continue to have thisincreasing collection of
evidence that says something'sgoing on, and everything points
to the possibility of a largeICE detention center in based in
(06:50):
the Newport area.
RR (06:52):
Not wanted.
SPEAKER_08 (06:53):
Well, certainly not wanted by uh by the people that
that have showed up for allthese public meetings.
Nobody has stood up and said,hey, we'd like to have it here.
Everybody has come in and said,no, we don't want it here.
We don't want it here becauseit'll affect our economy.
We're getting letters frompeople saying, I'd like to visit
the coast, but if you've got icethere and the detention center
there, I'm not coming comingback again.
(07:13):
We've got people saying, how isthis going to affect our local
economy when we rely so much onthe immigrant community for
processing fish and making bedsand busting our dishes?
RR (07:23):
We're talking about the entire cutty.
We're not just talking aboutNewport.
SPEAKER_08 (07:26):
Well, absolutely.
So how's it going to affect theeconomy?
What are the implications forour land use rules if suddenly
we've got this large facility?
And remember, Lincoln County wasunder a drought conditions all
summer long, and now we'retalking about a facility that
could hold up to a thousandpeople, and what's the impact on
our on our water and sewer andother infrastructure in the
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community?
And then there's just simply thethe core political and emotional
question that so many people areasking, and and that is is this
what we want our community to beknown for?
RR (07:57):
It's difficult at best.
SPEAKER_08 (08:00):
Well, uh, you know, I keep saying right now that the
helicopter is in the courts, andthe ice facility is in the
shadows.
There are lawsuits pending tobring the helicopter back.
The um Department of HomelandSecurity responded by saying,
you know, filing these lawsuitsis an insult to the patriotic
members of our Coast Guard anduh an attempt to micromanage our
(08:21):
Coast Guard operation.
But when it got to the courts,the judge, judge ruled, before
they even went into thecourtroom and heard the
pleadings, she offered aninitial temporary restraining
order saying, you're notfollowing the law.
The law says before you canrelocate an asset like this, you
need to inform Congress and youneed to inform the local
community.
You broke the law, bring thehelicopter back at least for the
(08:44):
next 14 days, and that'll giveus time to get into court and
sort out what's going on withthe helicopter.
We don't know what's going onwith ICE.
RR (08:52):
David Gomberg, representative for our district.
We're going to take a shortbreak.
We'll be back with more, andwe're going to talk a little bit
about some of the other issuesthat are going on in and around
the Lincoln City Newport area.
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Woven Legacies is a special sale of killings, rugs,
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Sale of these items at theLincoln City Cultural Center
will support the center and alsothe ongoing care of Julie
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RR (09:51):
Representative David Gomberg is with us.
But there are even more itemsthat are on the agenda, if you
will.
Budget cuts for ODOT becausepotentially of a ballot measure.
SPEAKER_08 (10:07):
Well, there's a couple of things going on.
Let's start with this.
Oregon balances our budget everyyear.
We don't spend more money thanwe bring in, unlike the federal
government, for example.
So we need to balance ourbudget.
That means that our stateeconomists tell us how much
money we've got, and that's howmuch money we spend.
And the state economist saysthat fewer people are working
and uh wages are not going upthe way they once were.
(10:30):
And because of some steps takenby the federal government,
particularly some tax reductionsthat they implemented, that the
state of Oregon is going to begetting less money.
So we in Oregon at thelegislature who write the state
budget have been instructed togo into each of our state
agencies and look at a 5%reduction across the board.
And that's what I've beenworking on in Salem these last
(10:53):
few weeks, because we're talkingabout cuts to veteran services,
uh shelter housing.
We're talking about reductionsin programs that help create
jobs.
It's certainly about health careand mental health and and uh a
wildfire response in schools.
We're cutting budgets, andthat's a very hard, difficult
process when you start lookingat how much money you got coming
(11:14):
in and you don't have as much asyou used to.
RR (11:16):
5% doesn't seem to be that much, is it?
SPEAKER_08 (11:19):
Well, but when you start looking at uh at a 5%
reduction for programs thatwe've come to rely on, a five
percent reduction in shelterhousing, uh a five percent
reduction in veteran services.
I mean, that doesn't sound likea lot, but it starts to add up.
Now, more to the point, at thesame time, we've been looking
particularly about ourDepartment of Transportation,
(11:40):
who have relied historically onthe gasoline tax.
People are driving less, they'retaking mass transit, they're
having more fuel-efficientvehicles, they're using electric
vehicles, and that's all great,but it means they're buying less
gasoline.
And so the legislature sat downand said, What are we going to
do about that?
And they put a plan together.
Now they they spent six monthsin the long legislative session
(12:01):
starting in January coming upwith a plan that was just asking
for too much.
It was way too much, and theyweren't able to come to an
agreement.
So the governor brought us backin for a special session about
two months later, and we cameback with a plan.
It was roughly a third of whatwe had originally been
considering, but it includes asix cent gasoline tax increase
(12:21):
as well as taxes on electricvehicles and some changes in
registration fees.
A six cent gasoline tax increasefor an average driver, that's
about$2 per month.
And all that money is going togo into on-the-street services
like fog lines and fillingpotholes and snow removal.
And it's important to understandthat half that money also goes
(12:43):
for local government.
Half the money is either goingto go to your city or to or to
your county.
Okay.
Uh the off half the money that'scollected.
But a lot of people said, hey,costs are going up.
We don't want more taxes, weparticularly don't want more
gasoline taxes, and theycirculated petitions and to
reconsider the decision that thelegislature had made.
(13:04):
Now they just wrapped up thatprocess, and the Secretary of
State is counting all thesignatures right now to see if
they've got enough to qualify toput this on the ballot.
It looks to me like it's goingto qualify for a public vote.
That'll happen next November.
Meanwhile, if this qualifies forthe ballot a year from now,
those changes are not going togo into effect until the
public's had a chance to vote onit, which means that OTOT's
(13:27):
scrambling to figure out howthey're going to c uh scrape the
snow off our roads, how they'regoing to maintain the fog lines,
how they're going to take careof landslides this winter
without that additional revenue.
It's uh it's an interestingquestion with good arguments on
both sides, and it's a decisionthat Oregonians, I believe, are
ultimately going to get to make.
RR (13:52):
Is this a case?
Is this an issue?
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_08 (13:55):
Well, I I think accountability is always an
issue with state government, andand certainly at ODOT, which is
why when we passed thesemeasures, we also implemented a
number of new accountabilityrequirements, including regular
audits by the legislature,audits by the Secretary of
State.
And I think significantly takinga step that said that the
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director of ODOT would beappointed by the governor, not
by the State TransportationCommission.
That's accountability as well.
And since that had occurred, thedirector of ODOT has announced
his retirement, then there's anew director of ODOT coming
online.
So there's a number of changesgoing on there, and I think
accountability is going to becentral to how we go forward.
(14:40):
Now, let me tell you somethingreally interesting, Roger.
The new director of ODOT isgoing to be the former director
of state parks, somebody who'svery well familiar with the
circumstances that we see here.
D River.
At the D River and up and downthe uh the Lincoln County coast.
She's somebody I've been workingwith for the last couple of
years to transfer management ofthe D River wayside to the city
(15:02):
of Lincoln City, and inparticular, get rid of that
dark, smelly, scary bathroomthat's there at the wayside that
any any family would be afraidto take their kids into and
replace it with a shiny, modern,attractive, attractive bathroom.
RR (15:17):
Yeah, an attractive bathroom.
Absolutely.
One final question, David.
So you brought the statetreasurer to town to uh Lincoln
City.
There are a number of reasonsfor that.
Normally we don't even see thatlevel of individual here in
Lincoln City.
SPEAKER_08 (15:33):
Well, you know, I brought the state uh attorney
general here uh a few monthsago, and I'm really pleased to
be able to bring the statetreasurer here.
People don't think much aboutthe state treasurer, but the
fact of the matter is that's theperson who manages all of our
state money, all of our stateinvestments.
That's pretty important.
They also sit on the state landboard together with the governor
and the secretary of statemanaging all of our state
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properties, particularly ourstate forests.
You know, we cut trees down andsell them from our state
forests.
That money supports schools, andso they help manage the common
school fund.
And then finally, something Ithink that's really cool in the
treasurer's office is theunclaimed property department.
Now, this is where if you've gota forgotten bank account or a
deposit that you didn't receiveor a tax refund and they
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couldn't find you to give youthat money, the state's holding
it and looking for you to returnyour money, your property to
you.
And so you go to the statetreasurer's webpage and click on
the unclaimed property link.
Gosh, all you need to do is typeyour name in and it'll tell you
whether the state's holdingmoney for you.
And you can type in yourrelatives, you can type in your
friends, your neighbors, andthen go knock on the door and
(16:40):
say happy holidays.
Uh there's there's a hundredbucks waiting for you.
All you have to do is make themake the call.
RR (16:46):
Make it a happy holiday season, great.
SPEAKER_08 (16:48):
Because the state's got money and they're here to
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SPEAKER_10 (17:36):
Scout Northwest is what Aaron Linfoot?
We are a local organization thatworks with goods uh sourced,
almost everything is sourcedhere locally.
I think we have a unique anglein that if we don't make it
ourselves, because we have, andwe'll get into later, we have a
design uh proponent toeverything we do.
We have a graphics company.
So if we don't design it, thenuh we have these amazing
(17:58):
relationships with local vendorsand artists to then bring their
project into a commercialsetting.
RR (18:06):
You are in in the Lincoln City outlets, but the one thing
that comes to mind to me firstand foremost is throwing axes.
SPEAKER_10 (18:14):
Yeah, we we're kind of a fun eclectic, feel like a
strong PNW vibe store.
So you've got the axes, we'vegot knives, we've got tomahawks,
uh, we even got meat cleavers, Ifound.
Do you see much playoffs at?
So probably like manybusinesses, feast and famine,
summer, off season.
So we're kind of the opposite ofschool system.
So when school's out, we'rehaving fun.
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Weekends, good.
Uh when school's in session,it's an awesome time to visit
local stores, less traffic.
But axes are one of those thingswe're actually nationally
accredited with axe throwing.
We kind of do our own play.
Nationally accredited?
Yeah.
I mean, we're a member of it, sowe can post tournaments.
There's a whole different world.
It's it's heavy on the EastCoast.
Like you're talking big money,like a little different than out
(18:59):
here, you know.
But like we have fun with it.
So we actually have even onWednesdays, we do like our own
little call in-house league.
We call it chop and chug uhbecause we serve alcohol too.
You don't have to drink.
Uh, we actually have soda.
Uh soda.
RR (19:12):
That's a little shaky.
Mixing alcohol with an axe.
SPEAKER_10 (19:15):
And it the order's important, Roger.
So order's important, order ofoperations.
But uh, we have some fun withthis.
We do a lot of families, they'llrent it for 30 minutes for an
hour.
Big groups.
We've had Noah, uh, one of theships, uh, brought their whole
crew down.
It was really cool to see.
Um, I think they rented it foran hour and it turned into two
hours because we let them takeover the music and that changed
everything.
So that was like a live DJ.
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They were having some fun.
But um, yeah, we we have somefun with it.
So Wednesdays we have from fiveto seven, uh, our own like
in-house league.
We it's a five-dollar buy-in,and then top score of the night
uh walks away with a shirt.
This team have come up with somereally funny shirt designs, kiss
my axe, and then they put lipson the back.
It's so funny.
Uh, so we've been giving thoseout on Wednesdays.
(19:58):
But yeah, it's it's a wholedifferent, you know, really the
concept I think of Scout, Idon't get credit for at all.
Jerome and Gittle started thisthing back in 2018.
I took over this year.
So a lot of the kind of funcomponents and elements of the
company, I think we've justwe've added to.
But axe throwing is one of thosethings that they brought in.
My kids like it.
You have to be eight with a uh aparent to sign off, but
(20:18):
otherwise eighteen.
And uh you can have some fun.
We've we've changed up thetargets like for uh Halloween.
We put zombies and other thingsup.
Uh the staff was laughing theother day.
We should have an axe your exday, so we gotta be careful with
that.
You could send in pictures, youknow.
Yeah, you better be reallycareful.
One of the local guys was like,What if my ex comes?
I was like, Oh, yeah, we're notdoing that one.
(20:40):
So I probably should.
Some ideas get tossed to theside, you can tell.
RR (20:44):
You brought somebody into the studio with you.
I did.
My business manager over here.
What's your name?
Business manager is who?
SPEAKER_13 (20:51):
I'm Olivia.
RR (20:52):
You're Olivia.
And what do you do as businessmanager, Olivia?
SPEAKER_13 (20:56):
I I fold shirts, I welcome customers.
I'm at the front desk and Icheck people off with like their
stuff.
I don't know what to say forthat.
SPEAKER_10 (21:04):
She's our product tester.
RR (21:06):
Welcoming people in is probably the most important
thing that you can possibly doto for the benefit of the
business, isn't it?
You gotta make them feel welcomethe minute they hit that door.
SPEAKER_13 (21:18):
Oh yeah.
RR (21:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's critically important.
If you've learned that lesson,you've learned you've got a
college education already.
SPEAKER_10 (21:26):
It's actually helped a ton.
You think about dealing withpeople and adults, like having a
kid be able to just communicateand say, hello, sir, you know,
welcome in.
I think that's a a beautifulthing that maybe isn't as common
nowadays.
And we've her brother worksthere too sometimes.
She likes it, I think, a littlemore.
Dad, a tough boss.
Oh she's like, Did he pay meyet?
(21:48):
Actually, the other day she'slike, Wait, I have money you owe
me.
I was like, Yeah, sorry.
RR (21:52):
Yeah, well, we'll we'll talk about that down the road, right?
That a girl will love you.
Stay after him.
Scout Northwest again going backto the shirts and into like what
what else uh product mixed youdo you have in there?
SPEAKER_10 (22:04):
Yeah, so we kind of have two angles to what Scout
is, and we kind of brought backone angle of it.
So uh Scout has been aroundsince 2018.
There was a graphics company aswell.
It originally was called LincolnCity Graphics, transitioned to
overnight art.
I brought it back to LincolnCity Graphics, and that angle
allows us now to not only do thedesign work and like custom
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apparel, etc., but now we can dofull signage.
I can do from business cards tobookmarks to vehicle signage.
We've we've got, you know, fromfrom FedEx to anyone you name,
we can do the vehicle side.
We can do a sign installation ifyou gotta have new windows, you
know, graphics on your windows,etc.
So that piece has allowed us tokind of have some fun to then
also apply it into the store,which is all the custom apparel
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locally sourced from leather tosoaps to candles.
Like a lot of these vendorsactually, they're people you
know, and they get to sell at alocal store, which is cool.
Everything from like a we've gota cook at Taft High School that
sells some custom made jewelry.
Very good.
Um it's so cool to see them herand her kid come in and be like,
How are things selling?
And you're like, Well, thisone's selling good, this one not
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so much, but I'm not thecustomer.
Yeah, I don't wear earrings, soI don't kind of fun.
RR (23:15):
It works.
Yeah.
You are on the west end ofLincoln City Outlets, correct?
SPEAKER_10 (23:20):
Yeah, we're we're uh kind of just off the quieter
corner, but they're off like thepaint store.
Paint store is the far uh southsouthwest side, and we're just a
few stores off of that.
Next to Coach, we always jokeabout you know, Scout for a lot
of people is known for the uh10-foot-tall Bigfoot that we
have right at the entrance.
And he gets so many picturestaken.
It's one of those things weactually have some fun things.
(23:42):
I totally found a custom Bigfootcostume from someone in Eugene.
Who knows?
Who knows from that?
But I got it, so we're gonna bewearing it kind of having some.
RR (23:52):
I love it.
You have fun with your business.
SPEAKER_10 (23:54):
Oh, yeah.
I think that's part of what'sbeen cool with the kids is like
to be able to say, like, this issomething they enjoy.
It it's fun.
It's fun to talk to people, too,you know.
RR (24:03):
Aaron, thanks for coming in.
Olivia, good to have you here.
And again, stay after your dad.
Get a raise today.
Oh Lord.
We'll be back in just a moment.
Bobs Beach Books (24:13):
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RR (24:24):
If you're looking for great early garden fresh produce, it's
Kenny's IGA in the Bay Area ofLincoln City.
Four generations of Morganscaring for your every grocery
need.
All your favorite beverages arefull deli, meat produce, and of
course, groceries.
Zantello (24:39):
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fortunate to have a number ofattorneys in our office that
specialize in a variety of lawfields.
Call our office and set up afree consultation.
RR (24:51):
With our field of experts, you're never alone.
Welcome back to the Double RShow.
We'll have an opportunity to uhnext week get involved with
having a wonderful life.
Son Paul (25:02):
Yeah, we've got a lot of art and uh culture coming on
the next uh week as well.
RR (25:07):
And music, music, music from the Congregational Church.
Uh there is a special concert uhthat uh is going to be taking
place, and uh we'll find outmore about that coming up next
week, right here on the doubleeye show.
It's the Pacific O Singers and aholiday sounds of the season.
Two shows or yeah, two shows onDecember the 13th, Saturday,
(25:28):
December 13th at 3:30 and at 7o'clock.
So don't miss that one.
Also, uh, if you have notpurchased your tree, your
Christmas tree as of yet, uh theBoy Scouts are still selling
trees up at the uh Lincoln CityCultural Center.
Angels Anonymous Festival of theTrees this weekend.
It's a big weekend, yeah.
(25:48):
It's huge, it's huge.
If you have not seen the trees,I'm sorry.
You need to go see the trees.
You have until around about twoo'clock Saturday to see the
trees.
And it is worth the time uh togo up to Shinockwins Casino
Resort and uh see what beautyyou is gonna be.
Son Paul (26:08):
Yeah, you can purchase one outright.
Absolutely, and you can put uhmoney down on uh some raffle
items, I believe.
Lots of raffle items.
RR (26:15):
Yeah, so and the wreaths this year.
Oh, goodness gracious, there'sone wreath that uh comes in from
someplace up in South TillimaCounty.
Wait till you see it.
Okay, it'll turn your socks off.
Be there Saturday.
Be there Saturday, Saturdaynight.
We all get together and auctionthings off.
And our uh thanks to uh PatrickAlexander for joining me and
(26:38):
helping with that auction aswell.
That's good stuff.
St.
James uh Santiago School Play isgoing to be on Wednesday,
December the 17th at 6 o'clockup at St.
James Santiago School, uhlocated at 2490 Northeast
Highway 101, right here inLickin City.
Anything your side of the table?
Son Paul (26:58):
You know, uh nothing new again.
Just a reminder that if you havea chance uh and you see double R
around today, wish him a happybirthday.
RR (27:07):
And remember, it is a wonderful life.
It's gonna be next week on theDouble R Show, but also on stage
at the Cultural Center.
And uh we're also gonna betalking about music, music,
music at the CongregationalChurch.
Uh, it is a marvelous concert.
For Paul, Jonathan, I'm DoubleR.
Have yourself a happy day.
Jana (27:32):
You've been listening to the Double R Show.
Join Roger and Paul Robertson asthey explore everything about
North Lincoln County.
The Double R Show produced byAlways Productions and hosted by
Roger Robertson.
Have a story?
Email contact atalwaysproductions.com or call
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