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COUPONS INSIDE www.shoppelocal.biz SATURDAY WWW.THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF FLORENCE • DUNES CITY • WESTLAKE • MAPLETON • SWISSHOME • DEADWOOD • YACHATS AND ALL POINTS BETWEEN 125 Y T H • E A R I N S S U E B&G Club director placed on paid leave O . 15 FEBRUARY 21 • 2015 $1.00 RHODY ROYAL S IUSLAW , M APLETON STUDENTS SELECTED TO REPRESENT ANNUAL FESTIVAL SENIOR COUR T – PRINCESSES Board continues to seek solutions for financial struggles B Y J ACK D AVIS Courtney King Siuslaw News Trista Lane Alize Giselle Castellanos Joseph Dotson Jonathan Griffes Adelaide Ficcadenti Ariana Galvan Mendez Olivia Moore Elizabeth Perez PHOTOS COURTESY OF PARENTS AND SIUSLAW SCHOOL DISTRICT B Y C HANTELLE M EYER Siuslaw News Award-winning documentary of interest to students, adults ontinuing a tradition that began more than 100 years ago in 1908, five Siuslaw High School senior girls, four Siuslaw High School senior boys, one Mapleton Elementary girl and four Siuslaw Elementary girls joined the Rhododendron Festival’s 2015 “Rock ’n’ Rhody”-themed royal court. The Rhododendron Festival High School Court is comprised of five outstanding young women: Courtney King, Trista Lane, Natalie Madden, Kennedy Roylance and Bailey Wells. The four outstanding young men are Keoni Castro, Trey Cornish, Joseph Dotson and Jonathan Griffes. This is the Rhody Festival’s second year with boys included in the scholarship competition. Applicants had to provide refer- ences, fill out an application and describe their personal achieve- ments and goals. They also said which college they would prefer to attend. Choice in college varied from rel- atively close, like Central Oregon Community College, Corban University, George Fox University, Lane Community College and Oregon State University, to those a little farther away, like Brigham Young University Idaho. The mission of the Rhododendron Court program is to provide scholar- ships for higher education, to pro- mote community outreach and vol- unteerism and to offer networking and mentoring opportunities to out- standing young women and young men in a program that perpetuates an appreciation for Rhododendron Festival history and tradition. The Junior Court is comprised of five young ladies: Alize Giselle Castellanos, Adelaide Ficcadenti, Olivia Moore and Elizabeth Perez of Siuslaw, and Ariana Galvan Mendez of Mapleton. Beginning in March, court mem- bers will visit community events, business leaders, senior living cen- ters, youth organizations and civic groups. Court members also receive one-on-one mentorship. The members of the senior court will showcase their talents in the Rhododendron Showcase on Wednesday, May 6, where they will compete for the titles of Queen Rhododendra and King of the Coast in addition to scholarship money. Herb Enthusiasts learn history, uses of cannabis B Y J ACK D AVIS Siuslaw News Spoiler alert. This movie has nothing to do with hunting, bears, hibernation, cute cuddly cubs or the California state flag. It’s about human interaction and one couple’s unique American odyssey, spanning 60 days, 30 states and five small towns named Bear. This award-winning documentary, by husband-and-wife filmmaking team Sarah Sellman and Greg Grano, both 25, is coming to City Lights Cinemas Tuesday, Feb. 24, because of the efforts of Mapleton School District Superintendent Jodi O’Mara. “A former colleague I taught with introduced me to the documentary, ‘American Bear — An Adventure in Kindness,’” O’Mara said. “I looked at it and spoke with Michael Falter of City Lights Cinemas. He had been talking with the filmmakers for another theater that he manages.” B Y C HANTELLE M EYER Joanne Whitney, chief pharmacist at the Florence Bi-Mart, and Nome McBride, a master herbalist based in Eugene, address more than 50 people at the Florence Herb Enthusiasts’ Feb. 19 meeting about cannabis. Siuslaw News BEAR 6A The Florence Herb Enthusiasts invited herbalist Nome McBride and Joanne Whitney, chief phar- macist at Bi-Mart in Florence, to speak about cannabis at their Thursday, Feb. 19, meeting. McBride covered history, types and uses of cannabis. Whitney answered questions about the interaction of cannabis with pharmaceuticals and provided input from the medical community. “I was a little surprised when I was asked to do this presentation, but I’m glad to,” McBride said. He has spoken at five previous meetings of the Herb Enthusiasts. “I’m for cannabis,” he said. “I’m for every herb and the use of every herb in the correct dosage at the correct time, and that time may or may not occur in your lifetime. But it is good to respect every herb for the uses that it can have.” According to McBride’s research, cannabis is an ancient plant with origins in the Himalayas. It spread, along with colonialism, to South America PHOTO BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS and into North America. “Cannabis is definitely the most bred plant on earth,” he said. “It’s probably the oldest recorded plant in human history.” There are many strains and uses for cannabis. SPORTS — B INSIDE S AT U R D AY Obituaries Opinion SideShow Sports Trey Cornish JUNIOR COUR T – PRINCESSES Bear’ comes to Florence B1 B7 A5 A2 Bailey Wells CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Keoni Castro C ‘American Angling Classifieds Community Courts Kennedy Roylance SENIOR COUR T – PRINCES Last weekend Boys and Girls Club of Western Lane County Board of Directors President Mike Smith placed club Executive Director Jonathan Hicks on paid administrative leave, effective immediately, according to club secretary and media liaison Bob Forsythe. “We are in a restructuring mode and we needed to make that move for several rea- sons,” Forsythe said. “Hicks and his fam- ily have already moved to the Bend area, so he was only here either one or two days a week, depending on which week of the month. It’s also something we real- ly needed to do as a part of the restructur- ing process the board is doing.” Hicks has served as executive director of the club since Feb. 1, 2013. He was initially hired as the club’s athletic direc- tor in 2012. Forsythe said the club’s board is con- tinuing negotiations with Oregon Pacific Bank on restructuring options to ease financial pressures and allow the club to continue operating. The Boys and Girls Club currently operates an after-school program in cooperation with the Siuslaw School District; the ABC Preschool program and the Quality Child Care of Florence daycare facility, as well as numerous sports and other programs. See Natalie Madden Your A2 A4 B6 B Weather T ODAY S UNDAY M ONDAY T UESDAY Mostly sunny 55 38 Sun Sun 56 38 56 38 Mostly sunny 56 43 Parts of the cannabis plant are used in medicines, food and the manufacture of clothing and building materials. Male cannabis is called hemp, which means “useful,” and has antifungal properties. See HERBS 4A