SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015
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NAMI offers mental Hollywood music maker to premiere score in Florence
illness education course
The National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI) will
sponsor the NAMI Family-to-
Family Education Program
specifically for families of a
person diagnosed with serious
mental illness.
The 12-week series of class-
es will start in Florence on
Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m., at a convenient in-
town location.
The course will cover infor-
mation about schizophrenia,
the mood disorders (bipolar
disorder and major depres-
sion), panic disorder, obses-
sive compulsive disorder, and
PTSD; coping skills such as
handling crisis and relapse;
basic information about med-
ications; listening and commu-
nication techniques; problem
solving skills; recovery and
rehabilitation; self-care around
worry and stress.
The
co-teachers
for
Florence and surrounding
areas are Monica Kosman and
Bianca Deris.
The course is designed
specifically for parents, sib-
lings, spouses, teen-age and
adult sons and daughters, part-
ners, and significant others
who are caregivers of persons
with severe and persistent
mental illness.
The course is free. For more
information and location, or to
register, call Monica Kosman
at 541-902-8308.
City Lights Cinemas will
host the world premiere of a
muscial new score by award-
winning
composer
Ken
Wannberg, a Hollywood stal-
wart who spent his career
working with some of the
Bees
greatest directors of the age.
Wannberg will be premier-
ing a new original score to the
1920 German Expressionist
classic, “The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari,” on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for City
from 1A
This year Kuhn has 13 hives
on his orchard property, but
the number of hives and the
amount of honey produced
varies from year to year based
on a multitude of factors.
“Honey production is just
like every other agricultural
product,” Kuhn said. “There
are good years and bad years.
Like wine, honey production
is very weather dependent.”
In addition to weather,
Kuhn’s bee colonies have been
infested with the Varroa
destructor mite that has deci-
mated bee colonies across
North America.
“It was introduced into this
country in the early 1990s,
probably through the introduc-
tion of honeybees from other
countries,” Kuhn explained.
“When it first came to
North America, the honeybees
here had no resistance to it.
The mites almost decimated
the wild honeybee population
in the United States, as well as
COURTESY PHOTOS
Certified journey beekeeper
Max Kuhn displays a jar of
honey from one of his 13 hives.
most of the domestic hives
that were managed by bee-
keepers. It is still with us
today and it is still probably
the No. 1 problem facing bees
in this country,” he said.
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Wannberg spent more than
40 years as an accomplished
sound editor and composer and
is best known for his work with
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shareholders. Instead, we can
It took a sudden accident to
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propel logger Harry Abel, Sr., into the
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by Catherine J. Rourke
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community.”
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was risky business. He found a job at an insurance agency in Coos and Brokers of America Best Practice Agency Award. Th e family
Bay and turned “providing peace of mind” into his life work.
also rewards employees who volunteer for charity eff orts with 40
Harry became the fi rst agent in the area to achieve a Certifi ed hours of pay each year.
Agent designation and eventually purchased the agency,
“Florence is such a warm and receptive community,” Wendy
developing it into a family business based on “partnership, said. “We believe in giving back and match funding from our
planning and protection.”
carriers for local nonprofi t needs.”
Harry Abel, Jr., followed his father’s footsteps and joined
Future plans include solidifying partnerships with health-
the agency in 1970 as president, with his wife, Francie, who still care carriers.
manages the books. Th e family expanded the business by merging
“Th e industry is constantly changing,” Wendy said. “We have
it with other area agencies and opened the Florence offi ce in 1990. to stay on top of ways to continue providing the best coverage for
Th eir daughter, Wendy Abel-Hatzel, is the business manager and our clients’ peace of mind.”
her husband, Joe Hatzel, serves as corporate and IT director.
Now marking its 75th year, the agency specializes in risk
management and insurance services, with 18 employees and a
focus on personal service.
“We don’t just sell insurance,” said Harry, Jr. “We love helping
clients achieve peace of mind.”
Abel Insurance off ers service locations in Newport and Gold
Beach, making it “the only locally owned, independent insurance
agency on the Oregon coast.”
“We partner with people to protect their most important
assets – their health and family,” Wendy said. “Th e advantage
of a family-operated agency is that we don’t have corporate
Providing Peace of Mind
directly related to the Varroa
mite, Kuhn said that the mites
also weaken the bee’s immune
system, making them more
susceptible to other diseases
and predators like tracheal
mites.
“There are products on the
market that can reduce the
infestation,” Kuhn said, “but
there is nothing that will elimi-
nate it completely. I can
reduce the infestation in my
colonies this month and they
may become re-infected next
month because other colonies
are infected and they intermin-
gle. It is an ongoing process.”
Kuhn hopes that North
American honeybees will
eventually build up immunity
to the Varroa destructor mites.
When talking honey, Kuhn
takes on the visage of a vint-
ner describing the subtle dif-
ferences between a Petit
Shiraz and a Merlot.
“In one of the bee clubs I
belong to, we have honey tast-
ing every year,” Kuhn
explained. “In the city of
Eugene there is one beekeeper
that has hives in various parts
of the city. He may have sev-
eral jars of honey at the tasting
table, sometimes from just a
few city blocks apart. The dif-
ference in the taste of the
honey is astounding. And it
changes every year.
“The same area does not
taste the same from year to
year, because the plants and
trees bloom at different times
each year.
“Labels like clover honey
or apple honey comes from the
fact that the bees were prima-
rily exposed to that particular
crop. But other plants will
probably also be found in the
honey as well,” Kuhn added.
Kuhn said that in Florida,
bees are brought in to pollinate
the orange orchards, and for
miles around, all they have
access to are orange blossoms.
That is how the bees produce
orange blossom honey.
Spielberg and George Lucas.
In addition to the perform-
ance of a new score, there will
be a short introduction to
German Expressionism and the
career of Ken Wannberg by
Michael Falter.
The same thing is true for
almond orchards in California
and apples in Hood River.
“But, most of what I see
around here should be labeled
‘wild flower honey,’” he said.
Some have called honey just
another form of glucose or
sugar. Others have touted a
range of medicinal benefits
associated with honey con-
sumption. Kuhn tends to lean
more toward the beneficial
camp.
“Honey is a sugar, but it is
not an ordinary sugar,” Kuhn
said.
“Honey has anti-bacterial
qualities and other health ben-
efits derived from bee
enzymes. It requires practical-
ly no digestion. It goes almost
directly into the blood
stream,” he added
Kuhn said that people need-
ed to be cautious when pur-
chasing honey, especially
honey that has been imported,
because unscrupulous overseas
companies typically mix the
honey with corn syrup and still
market it as honey.
“Some of the honey that is
sold in stores and that is used
in fast food production is not
really honey at all. It is a
honey product,” Kuhn warned.
“It is cut with high fructose
corn syrup. If you can call it
honey by adding honey to it
and selling it for the price of
honey you’ve created a pretty
good profit.”
Kuhn said that China pro-
duces millions of tons of
honey products and the United
States has banned the importa-
tion of Chinese honey because
of the deception.
“Now, China sells it to bot-
tlers in Thailand or some other
country,” he said. “It is rela-
beled and eventually makes its
way into the market here.
“My philosophy would be
to buy local and know your
beekeeper. Then you are
assured of getting pure local
honey. It’s probably the only
way you can be sure.”
But don’t expect to buy
honey from Kuhn.
“This is a hobby. I have
never sold honey,” he said.
“We mostly use our honey for
Christmas gifts. I have a lot of
relatives that like honey. This
is a hobby.
“Honey is just the icing on
the cake, a pleasant byproduct
of the hobby.”
Kuhn invited anyone inter-
ested in beekeeping to attend
the Central Coast Beekeepers
Association meetings on the
third Wednesday of each
month at the Newport Public
Library, 35 NW Nye St., in
Newport.
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Medium Utility
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