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WEDNESDAY EDITION
❘ JULY 29, 2015
Siuslaw News
RYAN CRONK , EDITOR
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EDITOR @ THESIUSLAWNEWS . COM
Opinion
P.O. Box 10
Florence, OR 97439
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his year marks Siuslaw News’ quasquicentennial, our 125th anniversary, a remarkable achievement for any business in a small
community like Florence. To commemorate this milestone, throughout the year we’ll feature some of the town’s history as origi-
nally published in the newspaper, including historic articles and photos from more than a century ago. —Editor
Girl Scouts enjoy time of their lives at beautiful Camp Cleawox
O RIGINALLY P UBLISHED J ULY 31, 1931
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The 12 Girl Scouts who entered Camp
Cleawox Sunday more than filled the places
of the 10 scouts who returned home. There
were 35 scouts in camp for the second ses-
sion.
A.G. Hines, a ranger stationed in the
Siuslaw National Forest, has been extremely
helpful in guiding guests and parents to the
camp. He has assisted in loading the duffel on
the boats, as well as directed those who were
walking from the landing to the edge of the
lake opposite camp.
The fore part of the camp’s first week was
marked by a hike over the sand dunes to the
ocean followed by a lunch on the beach.
The latter part of the week a group of 15
girls, who are studying pioneering, took an
overnight hike to Woahink Lake.
Their equipment was transported to
Robinson’s landing where the scouts had an
opportunity to camp under primitive condi-
tions. They made bough beds, cooked a uten-
sil-less supper — with pork chops as the piece
de resistance — and told stories and sang
songs around the campfire in the evening.
All this as well as doing the construction
work required for the Pioneer Award. They
retired to the main camp after cooking their
breakfast, all of them full of enthusiasm for
primitive living.
Classes have been going forward rapidly in
an abandoned homestead shack now known
as the Craft House.
The scouts studying handicrafts are now
working on leather. They are turning out
very attractive belts, purses, portfolios, tie
slides, key holders and axe sheaths.
The dramatics group presented the “King’s
Breakfast” by A.A. Milne at the campfire.
Swimming is a very popular activity. A
strip of water with a gradual slope of sandy
beach has been enclosed by a string of floaters
for a swimming pool.
Graded instruction is given there in the
morning and water sports take place in the
afternoon. Ball games are especially popular
during the afternoon swimming period. One
of the features which has been added to the
camp program is outdoor cooking. The scouts
prepare at least one utensil-less meal a day.
The first week of camp culminated in a
treasure hunt and costume party on Saturday
night. Following the trail signs of little ships,
they came at last to the treasure which was a
pirate chest full of gold — oranges for each
participant. After the hunt, there were nose
bag suppers followed by “some-mores,” a spe-
cial favorite with the scouts.
At the campfire there were songs, stunts
and stories. Each councilor was responsible
for one part of the entertainment. ™
NEIGHBORS
Carpe diem — seize the moment
sive houses that are facing a beautiful
vista, and yet day after day the blinds
are pulled lest the sun fade the furni-
ture or wash out the image on the tel-
evision screen?
Unfortunately, the majority of us
have the blinds lowered on the win-
dows of our daily lives. Have you
ever looked up into the vast expanse
of sky in open-mouthed awe, and
marveled at the sometimes wispy,
sometimes dramatically angry, tum-
bling cumulous nimbus clouds and
the infinite variations in between?
This free show is there each and
every day, but how many of us even
bother to look up?
No stranger to flying, I was a Navy
air gunner, have even ridden in a SPD
dive bomber, and had hundreds of
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his “preachy rant” will be
short, for it is likely that I may
have touched on this subject
in the past. Sadly, our everyday
awareness and appreciation of life is
mainly acquired very briefly through
a detached, unthinking process, not
unlike osmosis, whereby everyday
blessings are absorbed but sadly only
taken for granted.
Horace, 65 BC, was a Roman poet
who is vaguely credited with the
aphorism: “Carpe Diem, pluck the
day/as it is ripe — seize the moment.
Mindfulness of our own mortality is
key in making us realize the impor-
tance of the moment.”
Another quote: “Art is long, life is
short, live in the present — enjoy
every moment of your life. Life is
largely a matter of expectation. And
in reference to the writer: The pen is
the tongue of the mind. Cease to
inquire what the future has in store,
and take as a gift whatever the day
brings forth.”
When it comes to taking things for
granted; have you noticed the expen-
hours flying aboard huge PBM flying
boats in World War II. And I have
traveled many times in the modern
jet-powered airliners, experiencing
the acceleration for lift-off to well
over 100 miles an hour, and then
watched as the once familiar land-
scape below seemed to slow, then
become unrecognizable as it dropped
away beneath our wings.
My face was always pressed
against the window pane, seizing the
moment. I wanted to drink it all in.
However, when I looked around the
airplane, passengers were lowering
the window blinds to watch an in-
flight movie, or rocking back to catch
some zzz’s.
They had paid big bucks to take
this flight, and then here they were,
completely missing out on an experi-
ence that would have been unimagin-
able to our ancestors barely over 100
years ago.
A woman spends a long time
preparing a tasty dinner for her hus-
band; he comes home, sits down and
eats without hardly noticing what
was placed before him.
Golden moments wasted by inat-
tention — what a travesty. We should
savor all the everyday blessings and
be grateful for every bite of this won-
derful life.
Someone once wrote: “The clock
of life is wound but once, and no one
has the power, to know when the
hands will stop, on what day or what
hour.”
Carpe diem — seize the moment!
LETTERS
Natural geo-disaster
An opinion on “Earthquakes” expressed in
the July 18 issue was both interesting and
informative on the need to prepare for a natural
disaster from an earthquake on the Cascadia
subduction zone.
Then, a week later, another stronger opinion
was expressed on the urgency to prepare for a
more intense disaster from a “Mega-Quake”
and its resulting tsunami that was essentially
based upon an article in the July 20 issue of The
New Yorker.
The last subduction mega-quake, magnitude
9.0, to strike the Oregon coast was 315 years
ago in January 1770. That geo-disaster and dev-
astating tsunami are mentioned in William
Sullivan’s book “Oregon’s Greatest Natural
Disasters,” published nearly eight years ago
when he warned us about the immense possibil-
ity of another subduction earthquake and tsuna-
mi sometime in this century along the Oregon
coast.
Predicting the occurrence of earthquakes is a
delicate analysis of risk because not only
“when” is required but also location, where and
what magnitude to be expected.
If the epicenter of an earthquake should be
offshore near Brookings and at a depth of 15 to
20 miles, the seismic energy could dissipate
from the epicenter so that a lesser magnitude
quake could be felt 300 miles north at Seaside,
but potential infrastructure damage could
remain similar because different geologic con-
ditions underlie the two areas.
Much good information on historic earth-
quake activities and tsunami flood levels along
the Oregon coast are available from the Oregon
Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
and Oregon Emergency Management.
Richard Sullivan
Florence
L ETTERS
TO THE
Liz will be missed
It was inevitable that we would lose Liz
Mobley, but that did not soften what those who
knew her felt. My wife Carol and I moved to
Florence in 2000 and Liz became our travel
agent for 15 years. A consummate professional,
she helped us plan trips in the states and abroad.
At times her assistance was needed when we
had problems while we were traveling.
Walking into her Disneyland sanctuary back
office, she always greeted you with her wonder-
ful smile that could melt lead and her upbeat
personality. She, like my wife and me, was a
foodie and discussed food recipes along with
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camping, fishing and hunting trips that she took
with her family and life in general.
My next to last contact is when I took a con-
tainer of salmon bisque to her that I had made.
On my last visit to her office, the first thing she
said was “Yummy.” She will be missed for her
intellect, outward and inner beauty.
Win and Carol Jolley
Florence
Care packages for soldiers
The Ladies of Elks, the local Veterans of
Foreign Wars and the Band of Brothers Koffee
Klub are each seeking the names and addresses
of local personnel serving in the military, sta-
tioned in either Iraq or Afghanistan, in order to
ship “care packages” to them.
They have been performing this function
since our nation has been involved in the pres-
ent conflict in the Middle East. Unfortunately,
all three groups have run out of personnel or
military units over there with “boots on the
ground” to continue to ship desired items.
Anyone able to provide names and addresses
of personnel or military units presently serving
over there, contact me at 541-997-1677.
Tony Cavarno
Florence
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