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SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Quality
Child Care
of Florence
to close
HANGING
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First set of new banners encourages
passersby to ‘Come See What We See’
June 30 marks last day
for struggling facility that
lost $35K since January
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Siuslaw News
PHOTOS BY RYAN CRONK/SIUSLAW NEWS
Members of the Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce Downtown Revitalization Team (DRT)
stand underneath one of two canvas banners
hung up last week on streetlight poles off
Highway 126 and Quince Street to encourage
travelers to stop and stay in the area. The DRT
project includes a total of 21 banners — each
8 feet tall and 20 inches wide — that will be
placed this summer along main thoroughfares
into the city. Local graphic artist Susan Johnson
created the banner design, which features a
heron on a seaside backdrop and the chamber’s
slogan, “Come See What We See.” Other
phrases on future banners will include “Historic
Old Town” and “Mainstreet District.”
See
C O O L P L A C ES
Oregon Coast Military Museum
TO VISIT THIS SUMMER
2145 Kingwood St., Florence ❘ 541-902-5160
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S PECIAL F EATURE :
This summer we are
highlighting unique
spots that make the
central Oregon coast
one of the coolest
places to live and play.
A new location will be
featured each week.
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Library Tidings . . . . . . . . . . .
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A7
A5
A4
Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9
Scoreboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B
Weather Data . . . . . . . . . . . A2
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Festivities include a short ceremony, food and
tours of the facility. Be sure to try some candy
from the old-fashioned Candy Shoppe when the
tour concludes.
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A T A GLANCE : The mission of the Oregon
Coast Military Museum is to educate the com-
munity about the role that military members
(both past and present) have played in defending
the freedoms we all enjoy; and to provide an
avenue for veterans to display and share their
personal artifacts, memorabilia and memoirs as a
history of their honorable military service.
Join the Grand Opening celebration Saturday,
July 4, at noon for this building, which is a testa-
ment to the generous support of this community.
The museum has been built with donations of
time and money, and is completely debt-free.
Parents and staff members received written
notice last week that Quality Child Care of
Florence (QCCF)
will cease opera-
tion after June 30
due to lack of
funds, according
to Boys and Girls
Club of Western
Lane County
Vice President
Chuck Trent, who
announced the
decision Monday.
QCCF was
established in
JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS
2009 to offer
local daycare for
Boys and Girls Club
children from 6
took over the Quality
months to 6 years
Child Care facility at
old. The Boys
2355 Oak St. last year.
and Girls Club
assumed responsibility for operating the cash-
strapped facility, including signing a five-year
lease with Siuslaw School District, on whose
property the building is situated, in May 2014.
“When the Boys and Girls Club board took on
QCCF it was absolutely the right thing to do for
the community,” Trent said. “The heart, the pas-
sion, the desire was there. Hindsight ever since
that point has shown that it was absolutely the
wrong thing to do for the Boys and Girls Club.”
The club board of directors oversees three sepa-
rate entities, Boys and Girls Club activities, ABC
Preschool (ABC) and QCCF. The preschool and
childcare facilities were acquired in 2014 under
the aggressive leadership of newly selected Boys
and Girls Club executive director Jonathan Hicks.
All three entities have struggled financially
since the acquisitions. In January, just prior to
Hicks being placed on administrative leave, the
board held a series of town hall-style meetings to
receive community input as to how to cope with
the looming financial crisis.
“It goes back to what we said in January,” Trent
explained. “Each entity has to pay its own way
and be able to retire its own debt. If it doesn’t, we
will not jeopardize the Boys and Girls Club.”
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