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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2015
2014 YEAR IN REVIEW continued
donated to Florence
Food Share, the
pounding food drive
project, created by
Cindy Wobbe in
2001, ends. Wobbe
and her husband,
Gene, matched every
pound of food that
was donated to Food
Share during the food
drive, typically held
in November before
Thanksgiving.
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Hanging on, letting go
A week to the day after the
tragic auto accident that
injured three Mapleton stu-
dents and claimed the lives of
MHS freshman Weston
Bowman and senior Abby
Boydston, friends and family
gather Nov. 13 to remember
and celebrate their lives by
writing messages on balloons
and then letting them go. After
a quiet moment, the group
simultaneously released their
wishes, prayers and memories
into the sky in memory and
celebration of Bowman, 16,
and Boydston, 17, who will be
“Sailors Forever.”
Improvement project
planned for bridge
Representatives of the
Oregon Department of
Transportation hold an open
house Nov. 19 at Florence City
Hall to discuss plans for a
Siuslaw River Bridge preser-
vation project that is slated to
begin in 2015 and continue for
up to three years. Crews will
Mapleton students and staff send thoughts and prayers skyward in
memory of two students who died in a car crash in November.
be contracted to repair dam-
aged concrete, cut out and
replace bridge railings, install
earthquake retrofits, re-shape
the ends of the sidewalks to
make them more accessible,
and finally apply a zinc coat-
ing to protect the bridge from
the coastal climate.
DECEMBER
Fire destroys 3 offices
Arson is suspected in a Dec.
7 early morning fire that
destroyed a single-story com-
mercial building housing three
businesses, Emergence drug
and alcohol treatment program
and the law offices of Scott
Bailey and Ron Gerber.
Siuslaw Valley Fire and
Rescue responded to the blaze
at 1932 Pine St. and extin-
guished it after four hours, but
the investigation continues.
Wobbe ends era
of food drive
After 14 years and more
than 80,000 pounds of food
hours on Dec. 21.
Overflow of drugs,
needles forces closure
of disposal program
On Dec. 10, the City of
Florence and the Florence
Police Department terminates
a more than five-year-old pro-
gram to help residents dispose
of unused and expired medica-
tions at the Justice Center due
to abuse from participants.
New stricter state regulations
and added disposal burdens
placed on the police depart-
ment also played a role in the
program’s closure.
Weather disrupts
highway traffic
Traffic is once
again being allowed
through the section of
Highway 101 just north of Sea
Lion Caves at milepost 177
after the road was closed Dec.
20 due to water erosion drop-
ping a section of the north-
bound lane by more than a
foot. The weekend’s heavy
rains combined with high tides
also caused the Siuslaw River
to exceed flood stage and
overflow its banks around
Mapleton and along Highway
126 at Cushman. ODOT
closed that highway for several
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