SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2015
Scam
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OPB and LCSO offer the
following tips to help residents
avoid scams:
• Don’t give out any per-
sonal information over the
phone, Internet or mail unless
you know exactly who you are
talking to and what the infor-
mation will be used for.
• Never give out personal
information to an individual or
company that you did not initi-
ate contact with.
• Shred all documents and
paperwork containing person-
al information.
• Don’t carry your social
security number with you and
only give it out if absolutely
necessary, or ask for another
form of identification.
• Don’t use obvious pass-
words like your birthday, fam-
ily or pet’s names, or any cor-
responding letters/numbers on
the keyboard.
• Never open or click on
links from email sources you
don’t recognize or that seem
suspicious.
• Be aware of callers who
are unprofessional, pushy or
use scare tactics, such as
threatening arrest if payment is
not made.
• Callers asking for pay-
ment through wire transfer,
cash cards, such as green dot
cards, or other non-traceable
methods are signs of a scam.
Legitimate government agen-
cies will not ask you to pro-
vide payment using these
methods.
• Never wire money to
someone you don’t know.
• Never
wire
money
because someone contacted
you, even if you think you
know the person. If the request
is coming from a relative or
close acquaintance, contact
them directly using an alterna-
tive method of communication
than the one you received to
confirm the request.
• Check the caller’s infor-
mation. If they claim to be
from a law enforcement
agency or other governmental
agency, call the publicly listed
phone number for that agency
to verify the caller’s authentic-
ity.
• Report all scams immedi-
ately to the Federal Trade
Commission by calling 1-877-
382-4357 or filling out a report
online at ftc.gov/complaint.
Residents can also report fraud
to the Oregon Attorney
General’s Consumer Hotline at
1-877-877-9392.
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“We wanted to create a fun
idea based on the fact that, as
you get older, you don’t have
the same kind of creative
notions that little kids do,”
Matt Hawk said. “Our job as
Lost Boys or airship pirates is
to pick up adults, help them
find their own pieces of
Neverland, so that hopefully
when they come in here they
can find their own creative
spark.”
The Second Star Festival’s
motto is “Always create,
always encourage, never
land!”
Many of the vendors at this
year’s show included whimsi-
cal and fantastical elements in
their products. This included
digital art, illustrations, chil-
dren’s books, graphic novels,
jewelry, textiles. gemstones
and steampunk-styled contrap-
tions.
“We wanted to try a wide
range of things for people to
look at and pique their inter-
est,” Matt said.
Kesha added, “And be
inspired, so that when you
leave, you’re thinking, ‘Hey,
what am I going to do? If all
these other people are doing
all this amazing stuff, I can do
something too.’”
The Hawks have been part
of the creative festival circuit,
which includes events like
Eugene’s Faerie Worlds and
Veneta’s Oregon Country Fair,
for the past five years.
Kesha said, “We wanted
more fun, interactive areas. We
had all this creative spirit and
ideas, so we wanted to do it
for ourselves. It was time.”
They also knew other
artists, artisans and musicians
who would fit in well at a cre-
ative, collaborative festival.
“We wanted to find a way
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Filmmaker
and puppeteer
Toby Froud
entertains children
with one of his
puppets.
to support all these other cre-
ative people and uplift them,”
Kesha said.
Based in Eugene, the couple
chose Florence because they
love the coast. At only an hour
away, it made sense to start
their festival in a location that
they loved.
“We heard they were look-
ing for a new idea for an event
at the Florence Events Center,”
Matt said. “The FEC has been
a tremendous help in putting
this thing together. They’ve
worked with us to try to get
something different going in
Florence.”
“Something different”
involved filling the FEC with
people wearing fairy wings,
brass and leather goggles, top
hats and colorful layers, even
dressing as a pirate — and
sometimes, all of the above.
“We just want people to
have fun. People need to have
more fun in their lives and
allow themselves to find their
own creativity,” Matt said.
The Hawks are part of an
artistic family. Matt is an artist
and Kesha is a photographer,
among other things, and they
include their family in the fes-
tival.
“All of our ventures are
based out of our home. We
work from home and found
ways to work from home
because it’s important for us to
be with our family and be cre-
ative with them,” Kesha said.
This means that the Second
Star Festival is family-friendly.
It was at a festival that the
Hawks met Wendy and Brian
Froud, artists and puppeteers
who worked on the films
“Labyrinth” (1986) and “The
Dark Crystal” (1982). Through
them, the Hawks met their son
Toby Froud, a filmmaker, pup-
peteer and artist who lives in
Hillsboro, Ore.
Froud said that the Hawks’
passion for the their new festi-
val “was just fantastic. They
asked if I was interested and I
said, ‘yes, absolutely.’”
Froud’s recent puppet cre-
ations greeted festival-goers as
they entered the FEC, includ-
ing Boy, Digby and
Grandfather from his newest
film, “Lessons Learned,”
which premiered Saturday
night.
“It’s a short film about the
beginnings of an adventure
Boy is about to go on. Sort of
an opening to another world,”
Froud said.
He said the film is a reflec-
tion of his family’s previous
works.
“I wanted to do something
like that again and prove to an
audience that live-action pup-
petry is viable still. People
respond to something real and
physical,” he said.
He and his team of 40 peo-
ple took three months to build
sets, make the puppets and
prepare. They finished shoot-
ing in nine days.
Besides working on his own
films, Froud also works at
LAIKA animation studio doing
stop-motion puppetry on such
films as “ParaNorman” (2012)
and “The Boxtrolls” (2014).
“There’s such a wonderful
community of fantasy people
in Oregon and also on the
West Coast,” Froud said. “It
makes it easy to come out and
be a part of it.”
Events throughout the two-
day festival included a book
reading, dancing, special taiko
drumming, concerts and the
premiere of Froud’s “Lessons
Learned.”
The whole festival was ded-
icated to Mark Lewis of
Eugene, a storyteller and actor
who died in 2014.
Matt referred to Lewis as
the “Laughing Moon” and led
the concert audience in a
chant: “The Laughing Moon
will never land.”
The Hawks said that Second
Star will return to the FEC in
August 2016.
“We love Florence and we’ll
come back next year. The date
is set for the second week in
August,” Kesha said.
She added that they want
the festival to grow each year.
Matt said, “We want to have
more workshops and give peo-
ple a hands-on experience —
whether it’s making puppets or
tie-dye, whatever — as long as
it gets people’s hands dirty.
That’s always a fun thing.
That’s our goal to facilitate.”
For more information on the
Second Star Festival, go to
www.2ndStarFestival.com.
City
Hilden, this has real potential.”
Although the vehicle is
“tired,” said Turner, “it still
looks exactly like a police car.
Because it is.”
He said that the car is still
mobile and will look official,
especially after Johnston
Motors “buffs it up.”
“You’ll be shocked ... the
way it can slow traffic,” Turner
said.
The City of Florence is
working on building a partner-
ship with Dunes City. The FPD
has responded to incidents in
that area already.
Turner said that Hilden was
willing to work together.
All it will take is for the City
of Florence to transfer the
vehicle to Dunes City.
“We feel that it will be col-
laborative in the fact that we’re
trying to reduce the traffic inci-
dents that we’ve had across
(the Siuslaw River) Bridge,”
Turner said.
“There have been a lot of
conversations about what we
can do to partner,” Reynolds
said. “This was Chief Turner’s
idea, and I appreciate that.”
Hilden stepped forward to
thank the city council.
“This is a sign of the rapport
that’s developing between
Florence and Dunes City. I
thank you for all the outreach
that’s going on,” Hilden said.
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“Chief Turner is here to talk
about a program to highlight
how we’re trying to partner
with our local agencies,” she
said.
Turner proposed giving one
of the FPD’s “well-worn vehi-
cles,” which would normally
go to auction and garner $200
to $2,000, to Dunes City for
use as a speed and crime deter-
rent.
“This is a unique opportuni-
ty,” Turner said. “In talking
with Dunes City Manager Fred
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