Doggone good job

Yip-Yip hooray to North Bend firefighters Jason Dunagan and John Lucero. The hot duo braved flames in a massive apartment fire last weekend to rescue Baby. They found the mixed-breed Chihuahua hiding under a couch. That tough little puppy hung on for almost an hour until they were able to grab her. Good job guys.

Just sell it

Boo Hiss, and jeers again, to the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad that continues to file notices — it did it again Monday — trumpeting its intention to abandon the Coos Bay rail line. The sooner the railroad chugs up and over the hill to other places the better. We think it should. We think it should.

Here’s to progress

Cheers for positive steps toward a safer local bar scene. Coos Bay’s police chief took aim at two local bars for being prone to mayhem. He changed his tune about at least one of them — Gussie’s Bar and Grill — after the bar’s new owners said they were changing the bar’s name, entertainment and atmosphere. Here’s (clink!) to progress.

Buzzing bay to bay

Cheers for the South Coast’s first airline flight to San Francisco in more than two decades. You can watch the plane leave North Bend at 5 p.m. on July 7. This new service is a convenience for travelers and a potential aid in building the local economy. Some Californians may fly in just to see our $1,000 airport trash cans!

Skating uphill

A little money will buy a lot of concrete. Cheers to Rick Skinner and the LTM-Knife River company for donating $10,000 toward the Coos Bay skate park project. It’s a good start toward getting the project to its phase 2 goal.

Looking spiffy

Cheers to the owner of the Hall Building and painters in downtown Coos Bay for caring enough to have the building look its very best. And double cheers to the city of Coos Bay for its facade improvement program that helps businesses pay for upgrades. Now, if it just doesn’t rain. ...

Good-bye spring

Jeers to Mother Nature, who ought to climb back under her rock. The Midwest has had enough of the storms and so have we for that matter. Enough global raining.

Mostly sunny

Finally, cheers for cheering. When we went looking for news items for this week’s episode of Cheers and Jeers, we found lots to cheer about. But we came up short on jeerworthy entries. That’s a great problem to have, don’t you think? Every week should be so, um, cheerful.

“Cheers and Jeers” is a new feature of The World, presenting our editors’ viewpoints on various issues. We’d love to publish your opinion, too. Send your letter to: news@theworldlink.com.