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THESIUSLAWNEWS . COM ❘ / SIUSLAWNEWS ❘ @ THESIUSLAWNEWS SATURDAY EDITION ❘ JUNE 13, 2015 ❘ $1.00 COOK-OFF RESULTS Softball summer season begins SPORTS — B INSIDE — A3 SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890 FLORENCE, OREGON Proceeds to benefit LCC Florence Center scholarships B Y J ACK D AVIS Siuslaw News Lane Community College’s Siltcoos Station Retreat and Learning Center has been put on the market fol- lowing a decline in usage at the histor- ical property south of Florence. Built along the Willamette Pacific Railway in 1913 on Siltcoos Lake, the half-acre piece of property and set of buildings were donated to the col- lege’s Florence Center in 1972 by the Christensen family. “The only restriction on it was that when and if the college sold the prop- erty, the proceeds would go to benefit student scholarships here at the LCC Florence Center,” Interim Director Russ Pierson said. A major upgrade was done to the property between 2006 and 2007. “Once the restoration was done, it was used as a retreat center,” Pierson said. “Often people from the main (LCC) campus would come over and use it for various purposes, meeting in the boathouse and staying in the cab- ins.” In 2008, Siltcoos Station was fea- tured in Sunset Magazine. “That generated a lot of interest. Business groups would come out for meetings. People even started having weddings there,” he said. Then, Siltcoos Station’s popularity began to wane along with the econo- my. The facility was too far off the beat- en track — about a 20-minute drive south of Florence on Siltcoos Station Road — and the repeat business nec- essary to sustain a retreat facility was not happening. The college also felt it was not being fair to the other motels around the Florence area because it was not subject to the transient room tax. “It’s a wonderful property,” Pierson said, “but it is not central to our mis- sion as a college. We have a local advi- sory board and they voted unanimous- ly to see if we couldn’t sell the proper- ty and put those funds into the college to benefit our students.” The proceeds from the sale of the property will go toward scholarships for students attending LCC Florence Center. The college recently listed the prop- erty with Coldwell Banker for $325,000. See SILTCOOS 8A School board approves memorials U NDER C ONSTRUCTION Siuslaw High to rename gym, mall in honor of Butler, Whitmore B Y J ACK D AVIS Siuslaw News PHOTO BY JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS Patients and visitors are asked to use the hospital’s south entrance during construction on its emergency room expansion. Hospital’s main entrance temporarily relocated Construction has begun on PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center’s emergency department expansion project, with parts of the front hospital parking lot being blocked off with construction equipment. Patient parking signs have been put up to direct patient and visitors to available parking. Beginning Monday, June 15, the hospital’s main entrance will be relocated to the south side, directly in front of the 390 Family Medicine Clinic building. This entrance is for all patients and vis- itors for the next six months. This will be the drop-off point for patients going to the emer- gency department and for general registration for outpatient servic- es, such as imaging. For more information, call PeaceHealth at 541-997-8412. LIVING MEMORY Siuslaw second-graders visit Veteran’s Memorial Park, write thank-you letters for their service B Y C HANTELLE M EYER Siuslaw News S INSIDE tudents from Siuslaw Elementary School are seeing what it really means to be a hero in tours to the Veteran’s Memorial Park wall on the Siuslaw River. The project, arranged by second- Ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . . Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 A5 B7 A2 grade teacher Shannon Graham and veteran coordinator Steve Olienyk, began last year when second-grade teacher Chris Cambpell organized an Old Town history tour. Graham recommended that they visit the memorial. See Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B Weather Data . . . . . . . . . . . A2 VETERAN 8A THIS WEEK ’ S PHOTO BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS Siuslaw Elementary School students search for names on the Veteran’s Memorial Park wall in Old Town to learn about the men and women who served our country. TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 61 47 63 50 61 51 63 49 WEATHER Full Forecast, A3 Siuslaw School Board voted this week in support of renaming the Siuslaw High School gymnasium as Glenn Butler Court and the school mall as Richard Whitmore Mall in memory of both men who served the district for many years. The Siuslaw Athletic Boosters Club first proposed the idea of renaming the gym and the mall in February. The club raised the money to fund two projects, gathered citizen input and proposed the projects to the board at its May meeting. The board requested additional communi- ty input and scheduled a special meeting on June 4. At that meeting, current and former teachers and community members spoke for almost an hour in support of the project. Only one letter was received opposing the idea. The board approved the two projects at the June 10 meeting. The gym floor is resurfaced every two years, in July. There was not time to sched- ule the project this year. As part of the resur- facing project for 2017, the phrase Glenn Butler Court will be painted on both sides of the gym, facing the bleachers. Butler was a Siuslaw High School princi- pal from 1968 to 1974. He served as district superintendent from 1974 to 1994. He died in 2014. Two 12-inch-by-15-inch bronze plaques will be mounted in the mall area of the high school, and will include an etched photo of Whitmore. Whitmore was a Siuslaw High School biology teacher, administrator, vice princi- pal and principal. He worked for the district from 1961 to 1993. He died in 2012. In other business, the school board adopt- ed the 2015-16 district budget of $19,717,096. The new budget will go into effect July 1, 2015. In addition, the board approved a supple- mental budget, which must be voted on when the district receives additional dollars in excess of 10 percent of the original budg- et funds by any category after that budget has been adopted. S IUSLAW N EWS 125 TH Y EAR ❘ I SSUE N O . 47 C OPYRIGHT 2015 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK LCC TO SELL SILTCOOS STATION PROPERTY