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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015 Library Tidings News about the Siuslaw Public Library Library Tidings, a regular feature of the Siuslaw News, features news about upcoming Siuslaw Public Library programs for adults and children, new books and videos, and other library news of interest to the community. Library Tidings by Kevin Mittge Track Port AARP tax service The AARP tax service will be available again this year at the library, beginning on Monday, Feb. 2. The service is available on Monday and Thursdays and runs through April 13. This tax service is particularly important this year as the IRS, for the first time, will not be pro- viding 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. Blind Date with a Book Is your book life feeling a lit- tle lackluster? Do you feel like you’re in a reading rut? Do you want to rediscover that love for reading that you once had? Well, you can! During the month of February, the library will be offering our second annual Blind Date with a from 1A blacktop because it was bad for me. I jumped into the trail thing and now do that 90 percent of the time,” he said. Archer has run multiple marathons, including the Boston Marathon when he was 40 and again when he was 60. He also has run the Portland Marathon and others around the state. But mostly, Archer likes trail running. Bromley Room. Up for discussion and demon- stration will be the library’s OPAC, with perhaps a sneak peak at the new version soon to come; NoveList, a subscription database available to library patrons which provides a wealth of information about books and authors; Goodreads, which bills itself as the world’s largest site for readers and book recommen- dations; and Shelfari, similar in some ways to Goodreads and an excellent site for recording your book and reading history. This program is the first in several “literary” themed pro- grams offered by the library dur- ing the month of February. Book program. For the adventur- ous reader this program offers the opportunity to let fate take a hand in selecting what you read. The program works like this. Select a plainly wrapped book from a selection of books at the library. Take the book to Circulation and check it out. Read the book — or at least make an honest and fair attempt at doing so — then return the book with a “blind date” evalua- tion form. The forms, besides being used to recommend new and wonder- ful books to readers, will also be used for prize drawings. The program starts Feb. 1. Websites for readers Friends Book Sale Library Director Meg Spencer and library staff Kevin Mittge and Susie Voth will be dis- cussing several websites for readers at a program on Tuesday, Feb. 3, beginning at noon in the “Most of my running is up on the horse trails near C and K Stables, north of town. There is a series of trails up there that if you add them all up are proba- bly 17 or 18 miles.” In 2003, Archer started a 10- mile trail run called Cape Mountain. The proceeds from the $40 registration fee aid the cross-country students at Siuslaw High School. If the cross-country runners help with the event, then they receive a $100 scholarship to the Steens The next Friends of the Library Book Sale is Saturday, Feb. 7, and Sunday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, in the library’s Bromley Room. Mountain High Altitude Running Camp. Archer got the idea from a friend who operates a similar trail run. “I’m the race director,” Archer explained. “There is a company in Eugene that does all the timing. I do the local set up and mark the trail. Some of the parents bring food up for a potluck afterward.” “After I pay for expenses, I donate $100 scholarships to each cross-country student who helps out. Any leftover money I donate to the track program if they need anything,” Archer said. For the past several years, between 80 and 100 runners register for the run. This year the run is set for June 13. Over his decades of running, Archer has seen the sport evolve in some interesting ways. “The dynamics of running have changed,” Archer said. “Right now the half-marathon from 1A adds the industry of telecom- munications to the things a port can have. “Right now, legal depart- ments for the ports say, ‘If an industry is not indicated in ORS777, you cannot do it.’ Contract law, and my back- ground say that if it is not in there, then you can do it. Many of the ports have just ignored it over the years and done what they wanted to do. To totally ignore legal council on a topic is not comfortable for me.” Forsythe said he would like the change to read that Oregon ports are allowed to do any economic development that makes sense to that port dis- trict. “If ports are limited to only doing economic development that is related to resource extraction, then that is pretty limited,” he said. is the fastest growing race in the country and more than 60 percent of half-marathon finish- ers are women.” Archer also has been involved with various local runs like the Rhody Run and the Shamrock Run. “With the Rhody Run a cou- ple of years ago, we had some complaints because the age groups stopped at 75-plus,” Archer said. “There were a couple of guys in town that were 85-plus and they were A Taste of Florence Dining Guide www.1285restobar.com Forsythe said the question of Port of Siuslaw autonomy with regard to the City of Florence is still under review by the Oregon State Legislative counsel. “I don’t disagree with the City of Florence, Lane County or the State of Oregon” Forsythe said, “but show me the proof that says I have to do it. Because I can show you documentation that basically says I don’t have to because the port is a municipality. “You can’t show me where one municipality is subordi- nate to another one. In 1909, the Port of Siuslaw was deemed a municipality. Show me where the port stopped being a municipality. They cannot. Discovering the truth will give the port a much bet- ter working relationship with the city.” The port hopes to hear back from the state legislature on both issues within 60 days. getting beat by a 75-year-old. We had to add additional older age groups. “When I first started doing road races, the age group stopped at 40-plus. Now, the average age of a marathon run- ner is in the mid-40s.” Archer sees running as a sport someone can continue throughout their entire life. “I ask kids, how many 85- year-old quarterbacks do you see? You can keep running for- ever if you want,” Archer said. 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