SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015
Find inner peace with Dr.
Titus, blackberries Saturday
Tom Titus will be reading
selections
from
his
popular
book,
“Blackberries in July: A
Forager’s Field Guide to
Inner Peace” in the Bromley
Room at the Siuslaw Library
on Saturday, July 25, from 4
to 6 p.m.
Titus is fourth generation
Oregonian who grew up
in the rural Willamette Valley
foothills
near
Eugene.
His family reveled in the
outdoors, and vacations
were usually camping trips
with hiking, fishing and
hunting.
He completed his B.S.
in biology at Western
Oregon State University
and
then
traveled
to
the University of Kansas,
where
he
completed
L L E E O
O M
M L L I I D D
his doctorate in Evolutionary
Genetics.
Returning
home
to
Oregon, he became a
research geneticist and
instructor at the University of
Oregon and began searching
for the Oregon of his
youth: old orchards, bay
clams, wild mushrooms and
spawning salmon.
“Blackberries in July: A
Forager’s Field Guide to
Inner Peace” is a search for
place, a year-long chronolo-
gy of the hunting and gather-
ing of his spirit that became
a reunion with the land
and intergenerational tradi-
tion.
Titus works, writes and
forages from a home that two
cats share with him and his
wife in Eugene.
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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
“Designated Daughters” by
Margaret Maron
Book Review by Susie Voth
“Designated Daughters” is the
most recent book in the Deborah
Knott mystery series written by
Margaret Maron. Several of my
friends have encouraged me to
read this series. Finally I did.
However, I would not recom-
mend starting with number 19.
The reason is that Deborah
Knott has a huge family, so big
that the author provides a family
tree at the beginning of the book.
For readers of Maron, perhaps
this family tree is not required.
For a first time reader, jumping
in at the end of the series instead
of the beginning, the family tree
is essential.
What a cast of characters! The
main character is the youngest of
12 children and the only girl in
the family. Her father, Kezzie,
(notorious as a former bootleg-
ger) was twice married and is
still going strong in his seven-
ties. Her brothers are married
with a bunch of children and
grandchildren.
This well-written murder
mystery will entertain readers
immensely.
Deborah Knott is a district
court judge in North Carolina.
Her husband, Dwight Bryant, is
a deputy sheriff. Between the
two of them I suspect many mur-
ders have been solved in
Colleton County.
In this novel, Deborah’s aunt
Rachel is on her death bed. Ra-
chel is widely known throughout
the county as a kind, humorous
woman who runs a vegetable
stand. As well as selling vegeta-
bles Rachel will sit and share a
glass of icy cold tea and listen to
anyone tell a tale or share a story.
She is also known as a woman
who minds her own business and
won’t pass on those tales or sto-
ries.
Why then would someone
want to kill her, especially since
she is so close to death anyway?
Friends of the Library
prepare extraordinary food
Don’t forget that tomorrow,
July 23, at 2 p.m. the Friends of
the Library are inviting all
library patrons to enjoy some
unusual finger foods in celebra-
tion of the adult summer reading
theme Escape the Ordinary.
The library’s huge collection
of cookbooks will be highlighted
and a recipe from each of nine
cookbooks have been selected to
be prepared by FOL members.
Come and enjoy some treats
that are out of the ordinary.
A city’s center subject of
“Conversation”
On Saturday, July 25, at 1
p.m., the library will be hosting
Nan Laurence in an Oregon
5 A
Conversation Project entitled “A
City’s Center: Rethinking
Downtown.”
Laurence is a senior planner at
the City of Eugene and manages
downtown development projects
and revitalization efforts.
Historically, a city’s down-
town core has been the commu-
nity’s cultural and economic
center, expressing shared values
and aspirations.
Today, however, many down-
towns represent a comm-
unity’s social and economic dis-
tress.
Cities of all sizes are trying
to revitalize their downtowns,
but the qualities essential to
this revitalization remain elu-
sive.
Laurence will explore the
changing character of downtown
activities, urban forms and pub-
lic spaces and lead participants
in a conversation about
how downtowns can represent a
community’s ideals and aspira-
tions.
Laurence’s program is made
possible by funding from
Oregon Humanities, an inde-
pendent, nonprofit affiliate of the
National Endowment for the
Humanities and a partner of the
Oregon Cultural Trust.
This program is free and open
to the general public.
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Office
of
Emergency
Management
(OEM)
is
urging
all
Oregonians to participate in
the Great Oregon ShakeOut
earthquake drill on Thursday,
Oct. 15, at 10:15 a.m.
It is part of the nation’s
largest earthquake drill, and
last year more than 390,000
Oregonians participated.
Register at http://shake-
out.org/oregon/register/ and
take steps to make your family
safer.
A recent article in the “New
Yorker” called “The Really
Big One” has drawn a lot of
attention both locally and
nationally to the damage a
Cascadia earthquake and
tsunami will cause, and emer-
gency planners have been tak-
ing the opportunity to raise
awareness about how individ-
uals can prepare, and how the
region and Oregon is also con-
tinuing to prepare and mitigate
for the looming threat.
“We want Oregonians to be
prepared, not scared,” said
Oregon
OEM
Director
Andrew Phelps. “What we do
now to prepare will save lives
and property during any disas-
ter.”
OEM and other agencies are
working on a Cascadia
Playbook to synchronize state
and Emergency Support
Function partners during
Cascadia and other emergen-
cies.
The Cascadia Playbook is a
cross-cutting emergency man-
agement tool for the State of
Oregon that supports various,
existing plans and efforts for
the first 14 days of a cata-
strophic incident.
Oregon has also committed
to being a full partner with
Washington,
Idaho
and
FEMA, in the development
and presentation of a regional
exercise called Cascadia
Rising.
The statewide exercise
planning is in concert and col-
laboration with the regional
effort for Oregon’s largest
emergency management exer-
cise ever that is scheduled for
Spring 2016.
Althea Rizzo, the Geologic
Hazards Coordinator for
Oregon OEM said that the
success of what emergency
management partners are
doing to prepare Oregon for
Cascadia and other emergen-
cies is one aspect of prepared-
ness — and that individuals
and families should strive to
be self-sufficient during a dis-
aster.
A good goal is to work
toward having two weeks of
emergency supplies to be
ready for an emergency.
“Now is a perfect time for
everyone to evaluate a family
emergency plan and update or
establish emergency kits,”
Rizzo said. “Make sure you
and family members know
about established exit routes,
contacts, meeting places, etc.,
after a disaster.”
For emergency kits, Rizzo
said it is a good idea to add
new items, over time.
“You don’t have to run out
and spend a lot of money,” she
added. “If you go camping,
you probably have a lot of
your preparedness already
done.”
Rizzo said everyone should
practice what to do during an
earthquake and know where
tsunami routes are if they live
near the coast.
For more information on
preparedness
go
to:
http://www.oregon.gov/OMD/
OEM/Pages/preparedness_inf
ormation.aspx.
Quilters to offer wave of creations this weekend
The Rhododendron Quilt
Guild’s
(RQG)
Donna
Schoeningh will be the fea-
tured quilter for the 2015
Wave of Quilts quilt show at
the Florence Events Center on
Friday, July 24, and Saturday,
25.
There will be door prizes, a
quilt raffle, demonstrations, a
boutique, silent auction, quilt
vendors and a quilt contest.
General admission is $5.
There will be free admis-
sion to anyone age 12 and
younger, or 80 and older.
Raffle tickets are $1 each,
or six for $5. Proceeds go to
RQG education and pro-
grams.
The raffle drawing for the
featured quilt will be
Saturday, July 25.
The show will be open
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Friday, July 24, and from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 25.
Since the group’s creation
in 1992, it has grown from 15
members to 65 — and is
growing.
During the year, members
make quilts for the Pregnancy
Center, along with clothing
protectors and wheelchair
bags for assisted living pro-
grams in the Florence area.
The group also makes
quilts for the Veterans
Hospital in Roseburg and
Eugene’s Riverbend Hospital.
The RQG welcomes new
members to experience the
tradition of quilting through
education, service and friend-
ship by joining the guild.
Annual membership dues
are $25.
The guild meets at the
Florence Christian Church at
the corner of Second and Ivy
streets at 10 a.m., on the sec-
ond and fourth Wednesday of
each month.
Each year, the guild raffles
off a quilt to benefit a local
charity.
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