SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015
Mapleton Grange Spring
Renewal set for Saturday
This Saturday, May 9, is
the date of the Spring
Renewal For Women at the
Mapleton Grange.
Women are invited to treat
themselves to a full day of
healthy fun: a morning
stretch or yoga, instruction in
preparing a healthy meal, a
nature and wild-crafting
walk, creative arts and an
afternoon Zumba or Yoga
workout.
Local and area experts
are the instructors as guests
learn more about healing
stretches, creative and heal-
ing beverages and ingredi-
ents, and stress-release
through movement and cre-
ative arts.
This is for women by
community friends, and ben-
efits the Mapleton Grange.
Guests can pre-register
and get their ticket at the
Real Food Co-op in Florence
or the Banner Bank in
Mapleton.
Celebrate your health at
the Spring Renewal for
Women, Saturday, May 9,
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tickets are full price $45;
seniors, aged 65 and older,
$30; or with a 15 percent
reduced price for Mapleton
Grange members.
Tickets will also be avail-
able at the door, but pre-reg-
istration helps us prepare
materials and food needs.
Come and celebrate health
while learning more.
PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
RE-ELECT ROB WARD
Siuslaw Valley Fire & Rescue Board of Directors
Rob has been honored to serve on the Board for SVFR since 2006. His
experience as a former Mayor for both Florence and Dunes City has given him
an understanding and appreciation for the Policies & Procedures that guide
the Fire District. Rob respects and values our Fire fi ghters and always welcomes
Community input. The Florence Area benefi ts from having a quality, well
trained, Fire Service and Rob will work hard to keep it that way. Rob has lived in
and served our area since 1974.
Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features 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
Haunted Ground
by Erin Hart
Book review by Susie Voth
I often peruse the Library2Go
Downloadable Books when I’m
at home without an audiobook.
I’ve finally figured out how to
search the catalog, how to limit
the search to the type of book I
want (audio or e-book), the type
of device I use, how to find the
genre I most like to read and how
to download the book.
I just finished “Haunted
Ground” by Erin Hart, a
Library2Go audiobook.
Before I get into the book
review, just let me say that the
woman who narrates the book,
Jennifer McMann, is a fantastic
reader. The lilting Irish accent
was like a caress to my ears.
“Haunted Ground” is really
two mysteries in one book. The
mystery of the caili’n rua (pro-
nounced col-leen rua), the bog-
preserved head of a woman with
long red hair, brings Irish archae-
ologist Cormac Maguire and
American pathologist Nora
Gavin together.
Both are intrigued by the fact
that there is no body attached to
the head and both wonder what
might be the story behind that.
A complication to answering
their questions is that bog bodies
(or heads as the case may be) do
not decay because of the acidic
watery environment of the bog
— so the head could have been
buried for two years or two cen-
turies.
The second mystery involves
a missing mother, Mina Osborne
and her young son. Hugh
Osborne has been suspected of
murdering his wife and child
since they went missing over two
years ago. When the news of the
found body part reaches Hugh,
he races to the site to discover if
it is the head of his missing wife.
This is the first book in a
series featuring Nora Gavin and
Cormac Maguire by Erin Hart.
All of the books in the series
are available either at the library
or from Library2Go.
Celebrate the library’s
centennial tomorrow!
Do not forget: tomorrow,
Thursday, May 7, starting at 6
p.m., the library will be hosting a
“Chamber After Hours” in
celebration of its 100th birthday.
The library began May 7,
1915, when the Women’s
Conservation League opened the
door’s of Florence’s first library
in the Commercial Club, a fore-
runner of the Chamber of
Commerce.
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Several months later the
library received it’s first book
donations from the state library,
and the library was off and run-
ning — and growing and serving
the community ever since.
So, join the community May
7. There will be food and drinks,
live music, door prizes, the
opportunity to have your photo
taken in front of a giant library
card, visiting with friends and
library users, and more.
Everyone, young and old, is
invited to this birthday celebra-
tion.
Answerland
Did you know that you can
ask a question of a reference
librarian 24-hours a day, seven
days a week?
You can through a statewide
Internet
service
called
Answerland.
Go to www.answerland.org
and either chat with, email or
text a question to a librarian.
Answerland is staffed by
librarians from all over Oregon,
and the person you are talking
to may not be working for
the library that you usually
visit.
All Oregon residents are invit-
ed to take advantage of this free
service.
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attempt to “refloat” the pool in
Mapleton and both sides of the
Lane County ballot measure
seeking approval of a $35-
per-year vehicle registration
fee will be the topics on
today’s edition of KCST’s Our
Town on 106.9 FM.
It airs on KCST, FM 106.9,
today, May 6, beginning at 4
p.m.
Host Bob Sneddon will talk
to a variety of different guests
during the program, including
Jim Wells from Reedsport,
who will talk about the
planned Memorial Day obser-
vances in that community. He
will bring an invitation to
Florence area residents to
come watch their Memorial
Day Parade on Sunday, May
31.
Also in the program will be
Jay Bozievich and Ed
Scarberry. In separate seg-
ments, the pair will talk about
why voters should or should
not vote “yes” on measure 20-
231. That’s the Lane County
Vehicle Registration Fee that,
if approved, would generate
Introducing your brand-new local bank.
Community banking is where we got our start 125 years ago. And it’s what we deliver
everywhere we go. Which is why even though Siuslaw Bank is now Banner Bank,
you’ll still find the same local employees you know, and trust and an unwavering
commitment to serving your community.
Visit one of our many convenient branches or find us at bannerbank.com.
Let’s create tomorrow, together.
MEMBER FDIC
roughly $11,000,000 each
year for road and bridge main-
tenance and repairs in Lane
County.
Bozievich, the chair of the
Board of Commissioners, is
advocating a “yes” vote;
Scarberry is voting “no.”
Also on the docket, Meg
Spencer, Kevin Mittge and
Dave Forsberg with Siuslaw
Public Library.
Spencer,
the
Library
Director, will talk about tomor-
row’s 100th anniversary cele-
bration of the library’s exis-
tence.
The library’s Adult Services
Librarian,
Mittge,
has
researched the history and will
talk a little about that.
Forsberg is on the library’s
Board of Directors.
The library will host a
Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce “Business After
Hours” on Thursday, May 7,
from 6 to 8 p.m., to commem-
orate the occasion.
Lauren Hess is with the
Siuslaw Regional Aquatics
Center. The group, which now
goes by the acronym of SWIM
(Siuslaw
Wellness
in
Mapleton) refers to the health
benefits of swimming for more
mature people.
They also advocate swim-
ming lessons at an early age to
help
prevent
drowning
tragedies.
SWIM is currently working
on raising local matching
funds for renovating and
bringing the pool back on line
in the near future.
The current target is
$600,000, only about 10
percent of which needs to
come from within the commu-
nity.
Wrapping up the program
will be an extended conversa-
tion with Central Lincoln
PUD’s Communications Man-
ager Chris Chandler, Chief
Engineer Bruce Lovelin and
General Manager Debra
Smith.
They’ll talk about a current
$6,000,000 project to upgrade
the electrical system in the
Florence area, including instal-
lation of the largest trans-
former in CLPUD’s system to
be located in a new substation
being built right now on
Kingwood Street in the busi-
ness park.
Our Town is sponsored by
Andy Baber of Edward Jones
Investments; Holloway and
Associates CPAs; the Archives
Photo Restoration Specialists
and PeaceHealth.
Portions of KCST’s Our
Town also air on Community
Television, channel 191, with
coverage provided by Alan
Campbell
of
Campbell
Productions.