SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2015
Greener Florence Award
nominations due March 25
Are you or do you know a
Florence-area business or
service organization that is
mindful of its impact on the
environment?
Nominate yourself or anoth-
er for the 2015 Greener
Florence Award.
The City of Florence wants
to support and recognize those
businesses and organizations
giving that little extra effort to
reduce, reuse, recycle or com-
post.
The winning nominee will
be announced in April 2015
and will receive:
• A certificate signed and
Us TOO Flor ence
Behind the headlines
presented by Florence mayor
Joe Henry
• Promotion and recognition
• A plaque inscription on
view in the Florence City Hall
lobby.
Nomination forms are avail-
able under the Business Tab at
www.ci.florence.or.us, by call-
ing Wendy Farley-Campbell at
541-997-8237 or emailing hr
at wendy.farleycampbell@ci.
florence.or.us.
The completed nominations
must be submitted to Wendy
Farley-Campbell
or
the
Planning Department by 5
p.m. on March 25.
B Y B OB H ORNEY
CANCER SURVIVOR
U S TOO CHAPTER LEADER
I
f you have followed the
prostate cancer journeys
told by the men taking
them, you know that once these
men sit down with a urologist
at Oregon Urology Institute,
there is no limit to the amount
of time they get. Over and over
we read that the urologist spent
an hour or two explaining the
diagnosis and then going over
the treatment or non-treatments
options.
And, unless the patient has
already made up his mind to
have surgery, when the urolo-
gist is finished with his/her dis-
cussion, it is off to see Dr.
Forsythe, the OUI Radiation
Apply for Mapleton
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The Mapleton Community
Foundation
is
currently
accepting grant applications
from non-profit organizations
for community projects within
the Mapleton School District
boundaries.
The applications should
demonstrate how the funding
would educationally, cultural-
ly, physically or civically
improve the students or resi-
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dents of the area.
Applicants must be a not-
for-profit organization. Funds
will not be awarded to individ-
uals or for operating expens-
es.
Grant applications can be
obtained at the Mapleton Post
Office or by calling Kathy
West at 541-268-4665.
Application deadline is
April 3.
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Oncologist, with the same time
commitment.
These are complex issues
that deserve and require an
abundance of time. There are
no shortcuts to these discus-
sions and they will continue
over time and as long as it takes
until the patient has decided
what he wants to do.
Of course, “his” decision is
usually a shared decision
because spouses/significant
others/loved ones are often
very much involved in this
process.
We read about urologists
over-diagnosing and over-treat-
ing men and there are those
who contend it is for the sake
of dollars. Well, not at OUI!
The OUI Urologists and
Radiation Oncologist are not
“telling” men what they need
to do. Sure, each expresses the
pros and cons of their particu-
lar specialty, whether it is open
surgery, robotic surgery or
external beam radiation thera-
py (IGRT), but the final deci-
sion is not made by the medical
personnel; it is made by the
patient.
There is a very good com-
mon sense reason for this. We,
the patients, must assume
responsibility for what happens
to our body. There are treat-
ment choices to be made and,
in many cases, all of them
could provide a cure.
However, each will come
with the possibility of side
effects and it is up to each man
to determine the side effects he
is willing to risk.
Nothing will happen until
the patient names his treatment
choice. The urologists and
radiation oncologist wisely
provide all the information
they can and then wait for the
patient to mull it over and make
his choice. That’s exactly the
way it is and exactly the way it
needs to be.
We patients make the final
decision and are prepared to
live with it, having made our
own choice.
That we get to spend this
amount of time with our urolo-
gists upon receiving a prostate
cancer diagnosis is great, but
one doesn’t have to wait for
that diagnosis to have an
opportunity to spend time with
these doctors. All one needs do
is attend our Us TOO Florence
meetings. Anyone who had
been attending our evening
meetings since 2004, when Dr.
Bryan Mehlhaff began sharing
his evenings with the group,
would have more than 100
hours of expert urologist time.
Or, just attending our lunch
meetings with Dr. Doug Hoff,
would give that person around
30 hours of expert urologist
time.
Those hours are at no cost
and free to attend.
I’m talking about bringing
your own questions, being an
active participant in the discus-
sions and leaving with answers.
I like what Dr. Sheldon
Marks says in the preface to his
book, “Prostate and Cancer: A
Family Guide to Diagnosis,
Treatment, and Survival.” He
says: “I believe the fear of the
unknown is the most over-
whelming and traumatic result
of all the confusion about this
disease. Unfortunately, short of
spending an hour or two in per-
sonal consultation with a urolo-
gist, there is really no complete
and accurate source of infor-
mation available.”
Us TOO Florence provides
the monthly resource of two
urologists for anyone who
wants complete and accurate
information about prostate can-
cer. That is 2 to 2-1/2 hours
nearly every month. That
would remove much of the fear
of the unknown that Dr. Marks
mentioned above.
Meetings are held the second
Tuesday of each month at the
Presbyterian Church of the
Siuslaw, from 5 to 7 p.m., and
the third Tuesday of each
month at the Kozy Kitchen,
from noon to 1 p.m.
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It’s all in the family in the
Last Resort Players’ produc-
tion of “Our Town.” Telling the
story of family relationships in
a small town, the Florence cast
of this classic American drama
doesn’t have to go far to bring
personal experience to their
character portrayals. Their role
relationships are right there on
stage to remind them.
There are father and daugh-
ter, Danny and Lyndsey
Keppol; father and son, Shawn
and Shiloh Penrod; husband
and wife, Chris and Chris
Campbell (try keeping that one
straight), Kassy and Danny
Keppol; mother and daughter,
Kate Gibson and Memphis
Gliewe; and mother and son,
Linda and Jesse Reeves.
All that’s lacking are cousins
by the dozens.
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COURTESY PHOTO
Jesse Reeves and Lyndsey Keppol as George Gibbs and
Emily Webb in the LRP production of “Our Town.”
In one intimate scene
between Emily and George,
she reprimands him, “I used to
watch you as you did every-
thing because we’d been
friends so long and then you
began spending all your time at
baseball and you never stopped
to speak to anybody anymore.”
Emily’s real life father,
Danny Keppol, had a similar
thing happen to him. Before
they were married, Kassy let
him know in no uncertain
terms that he was spending
way too much time on base-
ball.
George gets his priorities
straightened out just as Danny
did in real life.
That’s the kind of situation
that makes Thornton Wilder’s
“Our Town” still speak to audi-
ences today.
Grover’s Corners, N.H.,
may be the stretch of a conti-
nent and 100 years away, but
it’s got Florence, Ore., 2015
written all over it. Newspaper
boys delivering the morning
edition, horse-drawn milk
wagons and ice cream sodas
may be long gone, but the
truths of small town life are
eternal.
“Our Town” opens at the
Florence Events Center on
March 20 and runs Friday
through Sunday for two week-
ends.
Tickets are available at the
box office, by calling 541-997-
1994 or online at www.event
center.org.
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