SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015
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‘Stewards of the Sands’ presentation made to school board
Board also receives update on Siuslaw Eductional Foundation progress
Youth Summit in Portland
along with 29 other schools
from around the state. The stu-
dents are members of the
Oregon Dunes Stewardship
project, an ongoing program of
Siuslaw fourth grade classes
since 2011.
The students made their
presentation to keynote speak-
er,
anthropologist
Jane
Goodall. It was a display built
from scotch broom stems and
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During the Oct. 14 Siuslaw
School Board meeting, students
from the elementary and mid-
dle school gave board members
a preview of their “Stewards of
the Sands” presentation that
was given in Portland the fol-
lowing day.
On Thursday, Oct. 15, 10
students attended the Oregon
demonstrated the negative
impact this invasive species has
had on the dunes along the
Oregon coast.
The four-year-old program
won an award from the Oregon
Invasive Species Council. The
program is headed up by fourth
grade teacher Dennis King and
retired teacher Jim Grano.
Also during the meeting,
board member Suzanne Mann-
Heintz gave an update on the
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Siuslaw Educational Found-
ation that is being established
to help Siuslaw and Mapleton
school districts acquire addi-
tional funds to cover the costs
of school needs.
“On Oct. 9, we officially
formed the corporation, a non-
profit corporation for public
benefit. We will be applying
for the final 501(c)3 status as
soon as we have the $400 to
cover the application fee,”
Mann-Heintz said.
According to Mann-Heintz,
the board is not yet complete,
but there are currently six
board members and superin-
tendent Ethel Angal. Mann-
Heintz is hopeful of getting
Mapleton School District
Superintendent Jodi O’Mara to
join as well.
“The foundation board is
supposed to have one repre-
sentative from each of the six
schools in the two districts,
either staff, teachers or par-
ents,” she said.
Mann-Heintz said former
Siuslaw school board members
Deena Mitchell and Michele
Rose have agreed to serve on
the board.
“The Siuslaw Educational
Foundation will be an organi-
zation that will be able to col-
lect
donations,
receive
requests and apply for and
receive grant money and fun-
JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS
During the Siuslaw School Board meeting, Oct. 14.,
members of the “Stewards of the Sands” student group
kneel in front of the display they created out of scotch
broom stems. The group practiced a presentation they
would give to anthropologist Jane Goodall in Portland the
next day on the dangers of non-native invasive plants
during the Oregon Youth Summit.
nel it to the school projects,”
she said. It exists for the pur-
pose of supplementary funding
of schools, activities and class-
room supplies.”
Mann-Heintz
said
the
organization would not com-
pete with other local school
fundraising organizations such
as the PTA or booster clubs.
“We hope to pull in grant
money from corporations who
would not fund public institu-
tions, but who will fund pri-
vate organizations,” she said.
Mann-Heintz has already
been receiving requests for
project funding.
“I learned from a couple of
students that are in the choir
that they need new music and
replacement choir robes.”
She said the foundation
hopes to be able to replenish
some of the funds for extracur-
ricular activities that have
been cut from school budgets
over recent years.
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‘Dia de los Muertos’ at Siuslaw Library
Local resident,
over a two-day
Mary McCarthy, a
period annually on
retired
registered
Nov. 1 and 2.
nurse practitioner,
The holiday hon-
will share her expe-
ors those who have
riences celebrating
passed away with
the annual Dia de los
joyful rather than
Muertos (Day of the
somber
celebra-
Dead) holiday Oct.
tions, as there is a
31 and Nov. 1 at
commonly
held
the Siuslaw Public
belief by the com-
Library at 1 p.m.
munity of cele-
This Day of the
brants that the
Dead gathering is
deceased would be
sure to appeal to
offended by grief.
COURTESY PHOTO
anyone interested in Sugar Skulls, a Dia de Los Muertos Trea ending
The festivities
customs of other
include
food,
cultures and, in par-
drink,
and
music.
to death and dying were of
ticular, this festive tradition great interest to me.”
Families gather and share
honoring those who have
This year, with the help of happy remembrances of the
passed away.
those attending the celebration, dearly departed and ofrendas
For twenty-five years, Mary McCarthy will build an altar to (personal altars) are erected on
McCarthy
attended
to honor departed family and which to place mementos of
HIV/AIDS patients at the friends. Attendees are invited the dead including candles,
University of California San to bring their own objects to flowers and pictures.
Diego’s Owen Clinic.
This event is free to the pub-
place on the altar in celebrato-
“Because I speak Spanish, I ry memory of their loved ones. lic.
attended to many of the
For more information, visit
Dias de los Muertos festivi-
Mexican patients who came to ties observed in Mexico and the Siuslaw Public Library,
Owen Clinic,” said McCarthy. many Latin American coun- call 541-997-3132 or visit
“Some of their customs related tries and communities are held www.siuslawlibrary. org.
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