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Florence
continues
improvement
projects
FLORENCE, OREGON
MARCH FOR A CAUSE
Community gathers
to promote October
as Domestic Violence
Awareness Month
City Council awards bids
for Rhododendron Drive,
Siano Loop maintenance
B Y J ACK D AVIS
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Siuslaw News
At its Sept. 21 meeting, Florence City
Council approved contracts for a sanitary
sewer improvement project on Siano Loop
and engineering services on Rhododendron
Drive infrastructure improvements.
The city council awarded Ray Wells, Inc.,
of Florence, the Siano Loop bid for
$348,963.
Florence Public Works Director Mike
Miller said the Siano Loop project is slated
to begin in October.
“The project was identified as a top prior-
ity in our 2000 Stormwater Management
Plan,” he said. “It actually eliminates a por-
tion of deteriorated culvert.”
Other aspects include the construction
and placement of 350 feet of new stormwa-
ter drainage ditching and 1,100 feet of new
stormwater and sanitary sewer piping of
various sizes.
“A lot of energy and engineering went
into the project, but with this project, we’ve
also taken care of a couple other issues we
have in that area,” Miller said.
The contractor will add seven new man-
holes, several stormwater catch basins and
concrete inlet and outfall structures; decom-
mission designated portions of old and fail-
ing sanitary sewer and stormwater facilities;
test new facilities and restore landscape.
“With that all said and done,” Miller said,
“we will be repaving a short section, less
than a block, of 35th Street from
Rhododendron Drive to Siano Loop, then
up Siano, where we’re doing improvements
with the sanitary and stormwater system.”
Ray Wells will install a 42-inch culvert
underneath Rhododendron Drive, then
patch the asphalt trench with a two-inch
HMAC overlay.
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bout 100 marchers took to
Bay Street behind a police
escort Sunday afternoon to
help Siuslaw Outreach Services (SOS)
promote October as Domestic Violence
Awareness Month.
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Leading the march were Siuslaw High
School cheerleaders and football players.
According to SOS Executive Director David
Wiegan, other participants included a volunteer
fireman, a city council member, the Florence
Area Chamber of Commerce director and
domestic violence survivors.
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THIS WEEK ’ S
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ore than 80 regional
authors, publishers and
artists contributed to
the fifth annual Florence
Festival of Books last Friday and
Saturday at the Florence Events
Center. A publishers panel and an
address by keynote speaker Jane
Kirkpatrick kicked off the festival.
Authors read from their books
throughout the day Saturday, while
local guests and out-of-towners
browsed the variety of how-to books,
memoirs, historical fiction, children’s
books, artist books and more.
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“People in the community are very support-
ive. We had a great event. I think this was my
favorite march so far,” Wiegan said.
The Florence march is unique and the only
one of its kind in the state.
Literary fest
brings books
to Florence
PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
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An estimated 100
participants march
along Bay Street in
support of Domestic
Violence Awareness
on Sunday.
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