SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
The Lane County Search
and Rescue K-9 Team, called
Pacific Northwest Search
Dogs, recently received a
donation of $2,000 from the
McKenzie Cascade Dog
Fanciers, a nonprofit dog club
in Lane County.
The donation will be used to
purchase Garmin Astro canine
collars, a device that allows K-
9s to search off lead and still
be monitored electronically by
their handlers and incident
command.
The Astro uses a handheld
device that maps where the
dog has searched and the dog’s
current location, and is used
for training and in rescue and
recovery missions.
The
technology
will
increase safety during training
and searches, and will allow
the teams to cover more
ground in less time.
Cabela’s in Springfield also
offered to pass on a vendor
discount and gift card to the
team so that between the two
donations so that five collars
and three Astro devices can be
purchased.
The Pacific Northwest
Search Dogs are one of eight
specialty search and rescue
teams under the direction of
the Lane County Sheriff’s
Office.
The current team has 12
members and seven certified
dogs.
The Search and Rescue K-9
Team is made up of volun-
teers, who train with their dogs
on ground and water search,
skills that are used to save
lives during rescue missions.
FRAA to host first quarterly
meeting Jan. 26
The Florence Regional Arts
Alliance will be hosting its
first quarterly meeting of 2015
at the Art Center on Jan. 26,
from 3 to 4:30 p.m. In addition
to a short business meeting,
members are encouraged to
bring in items they are work-
ing on, or have completed, that
represent their artistic areas of
interest.
This members show-and-
tell will include some of the
many talents and accomplish-
ments of FRAA members,
such as: published books,
poetry, two- and three-dimen-
sional art, sculpture, jewelry,
carvings, scratch board, pho-
tography, Zentangle, sewing,
knitting and cards.
Anyone interested in find-
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ship, this would be a great
meeting to attend.
Also at this meeting, mem-
bers will hear about a grant the
FRAA has recently received,
from the Arts Commission
Recognition Grants, for
$1,000.
As the grant criteria states,
these grants are given to
“exemplary arts organizations
that have a record of excel-
lence in programming, service
and organizational capacity.”
The awards support activi-
ties that advance the organiza-
tions marketing and outreach
efforts, raising their profile in
the community.
Members attending the
quarterly meeting will also be
viewing equipment purchased
through the recent grant
received from the Oregon
Community Foundation.
The equipment purchased
from this grant, such as com-
puter, camera and big screen
television, will allow students
to view teaching demonstra-
tions close-up on a big screen,
as well as internet presenta-
tions.
The FRAA Art Center is
located at 4969 Highway 101,
Munsel Lake Plaza No. 4, just
north of Fred Meyer.
More information about all
the classes and events happen-
ing at FRAA can be found at
www.fraaoregon.org.
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Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings, a reg-
ular feature of The
Siuslaw News, fea-
tures 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
Author Review by Susie Voth
John Grisham does not as a
rule write books in a series. He
doesn’t have a character like
Alex Cross or V. I. Warshawski
or Kinsey Millhone who show
up in book after book.
Characters that have lives that
their followers, well... follow.
Characters that change and grow
over time.
Grisham did, however, write
three loosely connected books
that take place in Clanton,
Mississippi.
Jake Brigance makes an
appearance in two of these books
and Lucien Wilbanks shows up
in all three. The books are “A
Time to Kill” (Grisham’s first
book but not published until
after the astounding success of
“The Firm”), “The Last Juror,”
and “Sycamore Row.”
Brigance is a lawyer with little
trial experience in A Time to
Kill. His case is a hard one; a
black man killed two white men
in front of many people. Of
course there is a reason for the
sensational killings and that
makes the very beginning of the
book difficult to read, but it sets
the scene for all that comes next.
Don’t expect the same charac-
ters to show up in Sycamore
Row, the other Brigance novel.
Lucien Wilbanks is one of the
few holdovers. The story is com-
pletely different, and rightly so.
The one element that remains
constant between the books is
racial tension.
Willie Traynor is the main
protagonist in The Last Juror.
Traynor is a 23-year-old college
dropout. He gets a job at The
Ford County Times, the local
newspaper in Clanton, which he
eventually buys. A gruesome
murder becomes front page news
and Traynor uses the murder to
the newspapers’ advantage and
makes a few enemies in doing
so.
(Okay, there is one exception
to this Grisham series rule: the
juvenile
series
featuring
Theodore Boone. Be that as it
may, for the most part Grisham
writes stand-alone novels.)
Best Books of 2014
Did you have a favorite new
book you read in 2014? Each
year the library solicits recom-
mendations from patrons, volun-
teers, and staff on the previous
year’s best books.
A selection of these books will
be presented during a “Best
Books,” with about “60 book
Holiday Closure
In honor of Martin Luther
King Day, the library will be
closed on Monday, Jan. 19.
Regular hours resume at 10
a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
Volunteer retreat for 90 by 30 set for Jan. 22
Organizing and orientation
efforts for the West Lane 90 by
30 Child Abuse and Prevention
program continue this month
with a volunteer orientation
and leadership retreat on
Thursday, Jan. 22, at Mapleton
High School.
The program is from 3 to 7
p.m. at the high school on E.
Mapleton Road.
“We are still actively recruit-
ing community members in our
West Lane region to step up
and participate in this effort,”
said Lynn Anderson, co-chair
of the program. “We absolutely
invite anyone who cares about
the future for our children to
come and learn more about the
program.”
The West Lane 90 by 30 pro-
gram is exploring ways to stop
child abuse before it starts by
examining a number of pro-
grams that address those con-
cerns. It is part of the Lane
County 90 by 30 Program that
has as its goal to reduce child
abuse and neglect 90 percent
by the year 2030.
Upcoming projects for the
volunteers and leadership team
include a community survey
that asks about beliefs and atti-
tudes to end child abuse. The
survey will create a baseline to
see how community beliefs and
attitudes change as work is
done to educate and inform
people about child abuse and
neglect.
The group also will begin to
identify what helps build safe
families in local communities
and what is needed to create an
even stronger support system
for families.
They will also begin work to
plan the first county-wide
Child Abuse Prevention Month
for April, 2015.
Guests are welcome at all
leadership meetings.
The upcoming schedule
includes meetings Jan. 23 at
Siuslaw Elementary School,
March 6 at Mapleton High
School and May 8 at Siuslaw
Elementary School.
Meetings are held from
11:30 to 1 p.m.
For more information, con-
tact Lynn Anderson at 541-
997-5458 or Jesika Kaczenski
at 503-440-7427, or email Rose
Wilde at rosew@90by30.com.
AARP seeks volunteers for Florence drivers program
Anyone who is passionate
about safety, enjoys helping
others and strives to make their
community a better place,
AARP Driver Safety would
like to meet you.
AARP Driver Safety, the
nation’s first and largest older
driver safety initiative, is
recruiting
volunteers
to
instruct, coordinate and pro-
mote the AARP Smart Driver
Course.
AARP Driver Safety has
opportunities available for
instructors who will organize
and teach AARP Smart Driver
classroom courses at local col-
leges, community centers,
libraries, hospitals and senior
centers.
We have immediate open-
ings in the Florence and adja-
cent areas.
This is a great opportunity to
help seniors avoid crashes,
brush up on basic driving skills
and learn how to adapt to new
driving conditions and most
importantly continue to main-
tain their independence longer.
All AARP Driver Safety vol-
unteer positions are unpaid.
However, volunteers are reim-
bursed for approved out-of-
pocket expenses, such as
mileage, parking and basic sup-
plies.
If you have a prior teaching
or instructor background, or
have been an associated with
driving, such as in law enforce-
ment, trucking, taxi driving or
if you just like interfacing and
helping people, AARP would
like to tell you more about this
opportunity.
Send an email with a brief
note about your background to
dennisdater@gmail.com, or
visit www.aarp.org/drive. Click
the Volunteer, Teach or
Promote a Class button, and fill
in the application at the bottom
of the screen.
Food Share receives $5,000 Cow Creek Grant
Florence Food Share recent-
ly thanked the Cow Creek
Umpqua Indian Foundation for
its generous grant of $5,000 in
support of Food Share’s new
program, The Culturally
Diverse Food Project.
As the population of western
Lane County becomes increas-
ingly diverse, Florence Food
Share has identified the need to
adjust its food purchases in
order to better serve the clients
that are utilizing its food
pantry.
In the past five years, it’
Latino clientele has increased
by 160 percent.
However, staff have found
that these clients do not choose
Soroptimist Club of Florence
Wishes to say a very Special THANK YOU
to the many supporters of the successful
Community Holiday food baskets and toys give away to:
Abby’s Pizza
Camp Florence Boys
Central Oregon Coast Board of
Realtors
Church of the Nazarene
Florence Volleyball Club
Gary Cargill (Flowers by Bobbi)
Grocery Outlet
Heceta Self Storage
Interact Club
Kiwanis of Florence
Les Schwab
Rotary of Florence
Saint Vincent DePaul
Siuslaw Fire Department
Siuslaw Middle School
Three Rivers Casino and Hotel
Trees for Toys in 21 businesses:
Abel Insurance
AIC Insurance
Bi-Mart
Coastal Fitness & Aquatics
Real Food Co-op
Fred Meyer
Hoberg Muffl er
Lane County Community College
On Your Feet with a Splash
First Community Credit Union
Oregon Pacifi c Bank
Pro Lumber
Rite Aid
Umqua Bank
WA Federal Savings
West Coast Autobody
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and
The many other Community Volunteers of Florence
Without the support and help of this wonderful Florence Community,
The Soroptimist Club of Florence would not have been able to give out 400
food baskets and serve 152 families with 396 children with toys.
Member SIPC
reviews in 60 minutes” and a
bibliography will be prepared of
everyone’s suggestions.
We encourage our patrons to
let us know which were their
favorite books.
We do have a few guidelines:
the books can be adult, young
adult, or children; the books can
be any genre, including fiction,
mystery, science fiction or non-
fiction; the books can be any for-
mat, such as print, audiobook, e-
book, etc.; the publication date
should be late 2013 through
2014, but if you’ve read some-
thing older that was really won-
derful that you want to share,
feel free to include it.
If you can, please provide a
short description of the book or
what you really liked about it,
but please limit your suggestions
to no more than five books.
Email your recommendations
to the library at ref@siuslaw.
lib.or.us or stop by the reference
desk and pick up a blank ques-
tionnaire form.
THANK YOU FLORENCE FROM SOROPTIMIST
much of the food offered to
them, because it is not a typical
staple in their diet.
Food Share believes that
purchasing food staples specif-
ic to the Latino population will
more adequately fulfill their
nutritional needs because these
items are typically found in
their diet and are familiar to
them.
Florence Food Share’s mis-
sion is to alleviate hunger in
western Lane County for all its
clients, and its hope that these
new additions to the pantry will
satisfy that need.
Thank You to my Community!
I want to express my deepest thanks to all that
contributed to this years
“Teen Giving Tree”.
Sponsored by Twin Lake Store
Your gifts did make a difference.
The shoes, boots and clothing fit perfectly
and most importantly for teens,
they got what they wished for.
A Special Thank You Ladies of the Elks for your
generous support both this year and Last and for
everything you do for this community.
~Vicki Ambrosio
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