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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2015
Police issue warning about unmarked vehicles STEP to discuss salmon,
angling Wednesday
Florence Police Department
has received concerns from
local citizens about unmarked
vehicles attempting to pull
them over with red and blue
mounted flashing lights. The
latest report involved a tan van
Port
from 1A
“That means for the 20-year
loan, the average amount of
interest the city will pay will be
just over 4 percent,” Reynolds
said.
Banner Bank’s Florence
branch manager Dee Osborne
reminded the city council that
Banner Bank remains a vital
part of the local community
School
you do not feel safe, FPD Lt.
John Pitcher recommends find-
ing a populated place to pull
over or driving to the police
station at 900 Greenwood St.
(off Ninth Street) in Florence to
pull over.
from 1A
“Don Wilbur, who is an
old timber guy, said that the
Log Bronc kind of revolu-
tionized the whole industry,”
Dreiling said. “Prior to it, the
mills had what were called
‘pond monkeys.’
“These were men who
jumped onto the logs floating
around in the log ponds.
They ran around on them
with giant poles, pushing the
logs so they didn’t jam up
and kept them flowing the
way they wanted,” he added.
Pond monkeys had been
doing this perilous work
since the 1800s.
The Log Bronc could push
the logs around more quickly
and efficiently and it gave
the men a bit of protection.
“If something went bad,”
Dreiling said, “they could
duck down and let the logs
fall on top of the bronc and
not crush them.”
The Log Bronc the port
has on display worked on the
Siuslaw River until the log-
ging industry faltered in the
1970s. Harrison Dock
Builders (HDB) later
Urban
with dash lights attempting to
pull someone over.
FPD is not aware of any
local law enforcement agency
that uses an unmarked van.
If an unmarked vehicle
attempts to pull you over and
from 1A
“With them all being in one
place, that really cuts down on
the transition time and maxi-
mizes our instructional time,”
said Harklerode.
The
Oregon
State
Legislature mandated every
school district to expand to
full-day kindergarten, but did
not allocate funds to cover any
additional
implementation
costs. The school district added
two new kindergarten teachers
to handle the expansion from
half- to full-day classes and
acquired the new $500,000
modular five-classroom build-
ing.
“I would like to thank the
school board on this because
this was an unfunded man-
date,” Harklerode said. “We
didn’t receive extra money
from the state to put full-day
kindergarten in place this year.
We will receive the full
Average Daily Membership
Log Bronc in action
circa 1950s
COURTESY PHOTO
acquired it.
“It was used for things like
vessel recovery for boats that
were sinking. They had a
location on the Siuslaw
River, east of town,” Dreiling
said.
When HDB closed their
Florence location in 2013,
the Log Bronc was one of
several older vessels left
behind. Port Manager Bob
Forsythe had his eye on the
boat, and when property
owner Don Wilbur informed
Forsythe that the port could
take possession, they jumped
on the opportunity.
“Three of our employees
went over there with a flat
bed and the port’s forklift
truck,” Dreiling explained.
“They picked it up, loaded it
onto the trailer and brought it
over to the port. We sanded
and buffed the whole boat
and repainted it with good
marine quality paint. It took
almost two weeks to haul the
boat over, sand and paint and
after its change from Siuslaw
Bank earlier this year.
She added that Banner Bank
donated to complete the
Emergency Department fund
for PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center and provided
$1,500 to the recarpeting fund
for the Boys and Girls Club of
Western Lane County’s Teen
Center.
The finance department
worked with the city’s bond
counsel, James Shannon and
Courtney Dausz of Mersereau
Shannon, LLP, to finalize the
agreement and authorize
Reynolds and Mayor Joe
Henry to execute the docu-
ments to close the financing.
The $7.8 million financing
will provide a $3.7 million loan
to FURA to refinance $1.745
million in debt and net new
funds of approximately $1.955
million for urban renewal
(ADM), the dollars we get for
each of our students. In previ-
ous years, we only had a half
ADM for kindergarten. This
year we are getting a full ADM.
But that just covers the expense
of lengthening the day for the
students. Actually finding
space for them had to come
from money within the rest of
the budget.
“It was a real show of sup-
port from the school district
and from the school board in
particular to put this through
and make early childhood edu-
cation a priority,” he conclud-
ed.
Siuslaw
Superintendent
Ethel Angal said, “This is a
very joyful event for the dis-
trict. We are so excited to have
a full-day program for our stu-
dents that will give them the
start that they need.”
The new in-house food pro-
gram was also showcased at
the ribbon cutting with a barbe-
cue featuring grilled all-beef
franks, home-made potato
salad, fresh corn on the cob and
from-scratch lemon bars for
dessert.
The potato chips, however,
did come out of a bag.
It is illegal to impersonate a
police officer.
If you think someone is
impersonating an officer, report
the suspicious activity to
Florence Police at 541-997-
3515.
then mount it on three poured
concrete pedestals.”
Dreiling hopes to locate a
vintage outboard motor to
complete the display.
The cut logs acting as
benches around the Log
Bronc also have historic sig-
nificance. They were among
several pulled out of the riff-
raff when the port built the
boardwalk several years ago.
“They appear to be over
100 years old,” Dreiling said.
“So they were a part of the
original structures that were
here. Somebody hand-
hatched all these logs. When
you see hand-hatches, that
occurred a long time ago. We
may get a carbon dating on
them from Oregon State
University to determine
exactly how old they are.”
A plaque is being created
for the site to explain to visi-
tors what role the quirky lit-
tle craft played in local histo-
ry. In the meantime, it will
be what ever a child’s imagi-
nation creates.
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activities.
The other $4.1 million will
provide the city $1.3 million
for construction of a public
works facility, $1.3 million for
street infrastructure projects
and $1.5 million for water
infrastructure projects.
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All things salmon and
angling will be on the agen-
da at the Wednesday, Sept. 2,
meeting of the Florence
Salmon and Trout Enhance-
ment Program (STEP).
The meeting begins at 7
p.m. at the Elks Lodge on
12th Street. The public is
invited to attend.
John Spangler, mid-coast
district fish biologist for the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife, will discuss the
2015 wild coho regulations,
harvest forecasts for Chinook
and coho, effects of the
droughts and a look ahead to
the winter steelhead season.
He will also be showing a
three minute loop video of
sea surface temperatures that
covers years from 1891
through this June.
Spangler’s presentation is
going to be comprehensive
and cover all things salmon,
including the shorter-than-
last year’s wild coho season.
Following Spangler’s pres-
entation, Ron Caputo will
share his 10 strategies for
catching fall Chinook and the
brine recipe he uses to prepare
his cut plug herring.
The wild coho season on
the Siuslaw River will run
from from Tuesday, Sept. 15,
to Thursday, Oct. 15, from
the river’s mouth to Lake
Creek. Lake Creek is closed
for wild coho.
Anglers are allowed one
wild coho per day and two
for the season in the north-
west and southwest zone
rivers, but anglers may not
take more than one adult
wild coho from any area or
combination of areas within
those zones in a single day,
regardless of location.
The wild coho season on
Siltcoos and Tahkenitch
lakes begins Thursday, Oct.
1, and closes on Thursday,
Dec. 31. Wild coho taken in
the lakes do not count
against the seasonal limits in
the rivers, but anglers may
have only five wild coho in
aggregate for the year.
A short business meeting
and fishing report will pre-
cede the presentations.
For questions or informa-
tion about STEP, contact
Caputo at 541-997-4961.
Yachats artists on display at library
Artwork by Yachats Arts
Guild members Claire Good,
Carol Summers and Sherrie
Powell will be on display at
the Siuslaw Public Library,
1460 Ninth St., through the
month of September.
Each of these award win-
ning artists uses a different
medium for their artistic
endeavors including watercol-
or, oil and photography.
Artwork on display is avail-
able for purchase by contact-
ing the artist directly.
Library hours are Monday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday and
Wednesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.
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