The city of Yachats, which had attempted to keep its buildings open in the face of the coronavirus outbreak, announced Monday it was closing city offices, the library and the Little Log Church to the public.
On Tuesday the city said the Commons would follow suit and close to all activity.
The outbreak and advice for people to keep their distance from one another has led to dozens of event cancellations.
In addition to closing city offices, Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire said Monday that all city meetings are canceled until early April. City of Yachats customers can still contact employees by phone or use the internet to conduct business.
On Tuesday, Friends of the Library set up a fully-stocked bookshelf at the front door of the 501 Building where people could come and pick up a book.
The Yachats Chamber of Commerce is postponing its big arts and crafts fair scheduled Saturday and Sunday, March 21-22, at the Yachats Commons.
The Cape Perpetua Collaborative canceled its Saturday morning presentations at the Cape Perpetua Visitors Center for the rest of March.
Polly Plumb Productions announced that a nationally-known bluegrass quartet scheduled to play Wednesday, March 18 in the Commons had canceled its West Coast tour. The performance was expected to attract up to 125 people.
The monthly “Lunch Bunch” gathering of Yachats-area senior citizens scheduled for March 26 was also canceled.
The Friends of the Yachats Library announced it was postponing its annual book sale scheduled March 27-28 in the Yachats Commons. The event, which attracts more than 500 people, is the group’s largest fundraiser of the year.
At the Angell Job Corps Center just north of Yachats, director Bryan Wilson has stopped students’ off-campus trips to help prevent the possibility of contracting the coronavirus. There are currently 150 students at the center — near its 160 capacity — and 64 staff members.
Job Corps students had the ability to leave campus on the weekends and every two weeks it gets new students, Wilson said. There is one student isolated in the Job Corp health clinic with a confirmed case of the flu — but not coronavirus, Wilson said.
“We’ve just taken some extra precautions because we have so many people coming and going,” he said. “We’ve stopped a lot of the off center activities just to protect ourselves a little bit more.”