As a testament to the impact this murder had on the friends and family of Jayme Austin and the community the Lone Pine Fire Hall in Fairview was packed to the gills and the doors opened to allow participation from outside.

It was a moving and emotional service and afterward, as befitting the rural farm area and Jayme’s upbringing riding horses and carousing in the neighborhood, the stories were earthy and funny. My sons traveled up from California and I rushed over from an event I was participating in in Cottage Grove and I learned a lot about Jayme’s feisty spirit and how much her family will miss her.

To her family I hope they will hold themselves for better times. To Jayme, peace be upon you.

Jayme Austin, a young Coquille woman and friend of my sons’ disappeared yesterday.

She asked to go to her mother’s place to take a shower before going to work in Coos Bay. At noon, Gisholt got a call from Austin’s employer, who said Austin never showed up for work. Gisholt went home and found her daughter’s car parked outside her residence, 59376 Fairview Road, but Austin was not there, nor at her home down the road.

Unconfirmed reports indicate there were signs of a struggle and that Jayme may have had a stalker. She was also reportedly ending an abusive relationship with an individual who is believed to be at sea on a commercial fishing boat and not likely responsible for her disappearance. Other reports state that divers are searching a pond in the vicinity of her mother’s home.

Please keep up the good thoughts for her safe return.

Here are a couple of pics from today’s tournament in Coquille. Here are David Broussard and Dane Saxton with some cool kicks.

Shanley Geddry demonstrates her winning form and her new hair color.

Been suffering from a bit of information overload, lately. Must admit, everything I am learning is of utmost interest to me and I love reading more and more on my favorite subjects, energy, economics (which I used to hate) and ecology. There is no limit to the information available and I am tasked by virtue of business demands to disseminate all of it into a comprehensive plan and series of articles.

Doing all this cuts into my personal life, however, and compounded with all the travel I find myself getting further and further behind on everything including my salvation, exercise and family and friends. Schedules are looking to get worse before they get better so I am not too sure how well I will keep up with this blog although I will be publishing the articles mentioned above here as well as elsewhere.

One thing to note, my experiment with barefoot running seems to be working though I have only logged 12 barefoot miles so far. For other runners, I suggest you give it a try as it completely takes the pressure off your hips and lets your foot perform like a foot is supposed to perform. Pretty cool!

For many years I was a runner, forty to fifty miles a week, until an old ski injury caught up with me. After a couple of years on crutches I took up biking to replace that endorphin fix and I absolutely love biking. Running, however, is such a joy and I have really missed it so I was delighted when I read Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall.

Evidently, we are literally designed, genetically engineered you might say, to run and to run barefoot. Running shoes alter your stride to land on your heel instead of the balls of your feet jarring the hips and causing many other injuries. However, if you run as nature intended landing on the balls of your feet the impact is absorbed much differently, efficiently so that the Tarahumara tribes people, ultramarathoners, keep running into their nineties.

So, with the help of some Vibram Five Finger shoes that allow the toes to splay and grab, the arch to bend and the calves to absorb impact and a skinny little sole to protect from stickers, I am hoping to add some running back into my endorphin fix. So far, so good.

Jim Bryant and his wife Tammie apparently pleaded not guilty today to charges of providing alcohol to a minor and attempting intercourse with a minor. Trial date is set for September.

After trying very hard to complete the V-LIM turbine with local talent I am giving up on Coos Bay for the time being and taking the components to Portland for final assembly. Once complete we will bring it back to Coos County for testing.

Recent bad experiences with some local ‘business persons’ and local workers, the character of whom seem to be more prevalent than not, have left a very bad taste in my mouth for ever establishing a manufacturing facility in Coos County. Rogue River Wind, Ltd, will see the Western Oregon Wind project through for the school kids and then leave Coos County to the ‘manly men’ who think nothing of trying to pick the pockets of a hard working companies and the public that lets it happen.

Not that all experiences have been bad, there are good companies in Coos County like Koontz Machine Shop in Coos Bay and CAPCO powder coating in Coquille, (well worth the drive from North Bend), even the International Port of Coos Bay has been awesome, but the three bad experiences are soooo bad that I just don’t want to do business here anymore. Luckily for me, I don’t have to.