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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015 Port to review new fees Port of Siuslaw Board of Commissioners will meet to- night at 7 p.m., at the Port office, 100 Harbor St. This meeting will include a public hearing for increasing L L E E E E O O M M L L I I D D 3 A Siuslaw West awards grant to Helping Hands moorage and campground fees. Port meetings are open to the public. Following the regular meet- ing, the board will enter into executive session. T O T T R T R O N E E Y Y A A T T A T A N O T O N E R E R Y Y N :,//6¬352%$7(/,9,1*758675(9,6,216 :,//6¬352%$7(/,9,1*758675(9,6,216 40 Years Lane County Legal Experience 10 Year Coast Resident 997-9983 216 Nopal Street (Old Town) PHOTO BY KATHLEEN WENZEL Siuslaw West students participate in giving to the community in the Community 101 grant project. NOW PLAYING MAY 22 - 28 NEW this week: TOMORROWLAND (PG) George Cloony and Britt Robertson star in this globe-trotting, time-traveling caper from Disney POLTERGEIST (PG-13) Are you ready to face your fears? CONTINUING: MAD MAX (R) “A triumph of barking-mad imagination.“ PITCH PERFECT 2 (PG-13) Stinging humor and sassy sisterhood SPECIAL EVENTS: JULIUS CAESAR Globe on Screen Sat: Noon; Wed: 6:30pm IN COUNTRY Sun: 12:30pm Made in Oregon MERCHANTS OF DOUBT Tue: 11:45am, 6:40pm On Wednesday, May 6, the Siuslaw West Community 101 class presented grants to non- profit organizations in the library at Siuslaw High School. The students of Siuslaw West Community 101, with support from the Harry and Marguerite Kendal Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Meyer Memorial Trust, awarded $5,000 to local nonprofit organizations, including Help- ing Hands Coalition, Florence Food Share and various school groups. The students began this proj- ect soon after the beginning of the school year. Their teacher, Sarah Gage-Hunt, led the class throughout the entire project. As a class, they reviewed the grants from the previous year and wrote a mission statement. This year the students’ chosen concerns were alcohol and drug addiction, juvenile crime, rape and sexual assault. Your #1 Local Yard, Garden, and Landscape Experts! Summer Color For Your Yard or Patio! Save up to 75% off garden insecticides & fungicides (while supplies last) Gerbera and African daisies on sale now! New shipment! Begonias, coleus, fuchsias, hardy petunias, hummingbird salvias, digiplexis & impatiens: perfect for shady areas applicant and once their deci- sions were made the recipients were invited to the ceremony held to award the grants. The winners of the grants were required to attend the event. Helping Hands Coalition, which provides hot lunches, toiletries and other services to those in need in and around Florence, received a grant in the amount of $2,000. There was a brief review of the work done by Helping Hands. This Past April, Helping Hands served 642 peo- ple. Hope Claussen, a student at Siuslaw West, said, “I didn’t realize Helping Hands served so many before getting to know more about them through Community 101.” Glen Stewart, the founder and president of Helping Hands Coalition, attended the ceremony. “This grant means a lot to us because Helping Hands is Once a mission statement had be agreed upon, the stu- dents began to research non- profits in the Florence area. They looked at what the most important social causes were in this area, and who in Florence could meet the needs of the community. In November of 2014, appli- cations were sent to various organizations and, beginning in January 2015, the students began the review of the appli- cations received. The students could choose to give grants up to $1,000 to var- ious school groups and $4,000 was available for grants in the community at large. Every nonprofit that applied for a grant was interviewed by the students in the Community 101 class, either on campus or in visits to the facilities of the organizations who made appli- cations. The students voted on the amounts to be granted to each strictly non-profit and the grants keep us going and able to provide services to the needy,” said Stewart. Treasurer Debe Hamilton said she had “always believed in alternative schools and this coming from the kids makes me feel good about the future.” Administered by the Oregon Community Foundation and the PGE Foundation, Com- munity 101 is a classroom- based program that provides student leadership and civic engagement through charita- ble giving. Community 101 students have granted more than $2.2 million to Oregon nonprofits since 1997. For information on how to become involved or to sponsor a class at your local high school, contact Jennesa Datema, the Oregon Com- munity Foundation, at 503- 227-6846. ALICE school safety training Friday stated Chief Tom Turner. “This training will allow us to train for emergency response within a school facility.” School officials have sched- uled an in-service day to pro- vide the training to teachers, administrators, assistants, of- fice staff, bus drivers and other school district staff. There will be no school on May 22. The training is not open to the public. Keep the area clear to allow for the trainings to take place. Law enforcement and school officials will be able to answer community questions regard- Florence Police Department and other local law enforce- ment agencies will be at Siuslaw Middle School on Friday, May 22, to participate in safety training with Siuslaw School District personnel. Law enforcement will be providing Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate (ALICE) training to school personnel, which is specifical- ly designed to improve their ability to protect students and coordinate with first respon- ders in the event of an emer- gency. “We want to protect our kids and keep the community safe,” WEDNESDAY THUIRSDAY ing preparedness efforts once they have completed training. “Our Florence Police Department has been so sup- portive of this effort. We appreciate all our officers making it possible to bring this training to our school and community,” said Superintendent Ethel Angal. The ALICE system has been employed across the country in the past few years and is now being conducted in schools across Lane County. For more information on the ALICE system, visit www.alicetraining.com. 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