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
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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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