SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Chamber’s First Friday
returns to Old Town
Florence
First
Friday
returns to the streets of historic
Old Town Florence starting
Friday, March 6.
Produced by the Old Town
Committee for the Florence
Area Chamber of Commerce,
it is an effort to encourage
businesses in Old Town and
the Antiques District to com-
mit to remaining open until 8
p.m. the first Friday of each
month.
“Come to Historic Old
Town and Antiques District to
see what is happening on the
street,” committee co-chair-
Library
Tidings
woman Jenna Bartlett said. “It
could be wine tasting, special
discounts or listening to some
music while shopping.
“Whether you are celebrat-
ing TGIF or doing a little
shopping after dinner, you will
find it all here.”
Co-chairwoman
Glenna
Martin said, “We also want
extended hours for our locals
who may find parking more
difficult during the day.”
Decorative window signs
will identify those businesses
who are committed to the
effort.
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of interest
to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
‘The Right Word:
Roget and his Thesaurus’
By Jen Bryant
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Book Review by Susie Voth
In 1787, when Peter Roget
(pronounced roh-zhay) was just
eight years old, he began his
first notebook. He called it
“Peter, Mark, Roget. His Book.”
In it he wrote lists and from the
lists he learned that words are
powerful things and to use just
the right word felt wonderful.
Roget’s Thesaurus is a house-
hold staple, like a cookbook,
only for words. We’ve all used
them to write English papers, to
find the perfect word of love to
send in a card to one we adore,
to convey our sorrow at the
death of a friend or loved one.
We trade in a 5-cent word for
a $5 word and it is easy because
Peter Mark Roget spent his life-
time infatuated with words and
lists of words
“The Right Word: Roget and
his Thesaurus” has been nomi-
nated for and/or won many pres-
tigious awards. The Robert F.
Sibert Informational Book
Award for most distinguished
informational book for children
is one of the awards received.
“The Right Word: Roget and
his Thesaurus” is also a
Caldecott Honor Book for 2015.
Melissa Sweet, the illustrator,
used only word and lists found
either in Roget’s notebooks or
the first edition of Roget’s 1852
Thesaurus in the artwork for this
book. She was able to use
Roget’s original 1805 word
book for her research.
This fabulous book is not just
for children. People of all ages
will find much to appreciate
within its pages. It is more than
a nice book; it is excellent,
splendid, grand, stunning, and
top-notch.
‘Owyhee River Journals’
with Bonnie Olin
Oregon author Bonnie Olin
will present and discuss her new
book, “The Owyhee River
Journals,” at a program on
Tuesday, March 3, at 1 p.m.
Join fellow adventurers in this
vicarious journey through the
spectacular
and
peaceful
Owyhee River basin area of
eastern Oregon.
Olin began exploring the
Owyhee River area in the early
1990s with her soon-to-be hus-
band, Mike Quigley. The cou-
ple’s initial exploration led to
many more trips down the unde-
veloped, pristine Owyhee River
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and through its striking canyons.
These journeys are the subject
of “The Owyhee River
Journals.” The book includes
photos of rarely seen landscapes
taken by Mike Quigley during
the adventuresome duo’s many
journeys together.
Bonnie Olin will discuss their
floats down the river, hikes
through the canyons, and what
impact these adventures had on
her life
Free tax services
The most common question
we’re getting at the library at
this time of year is: Do you
offer help with taxes?
The library doesn’t, but
AARP does in the library’s
Bromley Room.
The AARP tax service is
available on Monday and
Thursdays, from 9:30 a.m. to 2
p.m, and runs through April 13.
This tax service is particular-
ly important this year as the IRS,
for the first time, will not be
providing instruction booklets,
just the three basic 1040 forms,
which have not yet arrived at the
library.
Oregon has not provided tax
instruction booklets or forms to
libraries for some years.
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Wayne Sharpe, a morning
show host on Florence’s KCST
Radio, and a founding board
member of the Oregon Coast
Military Museum, will be
speaking at the Oregon Dunes
Chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution meeting
on Friday, Feb. 27.
Sharpe will share the story
of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-
day Adventist conscientious
objector who never carried a
weapon in WWII. He was the
first conscientious objector to
be awarded a Medal of Honor
for saving the lives of many
soldiers while under fire by the
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recipient and conscientious objector Desmond Thomas
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“This story is very inspiring,
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Penalties to be assessed for filing incorrect
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Businesses must comply starting with 2014 returns
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“Desmond Thomas Doss was
one of only three conscientious
objectors to ever be honored
with the Medal of Honor.”
“Many women see member-
ship in DAR as a way to honor
their family history and pre-
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for future generations,” said
National Society Daughters of
the American Revolution presi-
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Young. “Others see DAR as an
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scholarship for Florence area youth and other community projects.
filing any number of W2s or
more than 10 1099s to file
those electronically through
iWire by March 31.
The penalty will be $50 per
return, with a maximum of
$2,500. If a business knowing-
ly fails to file or knowingly
files an incomplete, false, or
misleading return, the penalty
will be $250 per return, up to a
maximum of $25,000.
All electronic filing must be
done through iWire, a free,
browser-based
application
available through the ODR
website.
Many software vendors and
payroll providers have updated
their programs to support
Oregon iWire. If your software
does not support Oregon iWire,
submit your file using the spec-
ifications provided on the ODR
website.
Contact the iWire team by
phone at 503-945-8127, during
normal business hours, or by
email at iwire.dor@oregon.
gov.
Visit www.oregon.gov/dor
to get tax forms, check the sta-
tus of your refund, or make tax
payments; or call 1-800-356-
4222 toll-free from an Oregon
prefix (English or Spanish);
503-378-4988 in Salem and
outside Oregon; or email,
questions.dor@oregon.gov.
For TTY (hearing or speech
impaired), call 1-800-886-
7204.
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