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WEDNESDAY EDITION
❘ OCTOBER 28, 2015
Siuslaw News
P.O. Box 10
Florence, OR 97439
RYAN CRONK , EDITOR
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EDITOR @ THESIUSLAWNEWS . COM
Opinion
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his year marks Siuslaw News’ quasquicentennial, our 125th anniversary, a remarkable achievement for any business in a small
community like Florence. To commemorate this milestone, throughout the year we’ll feature some of the town’s history as origi-
nally published in the newspaper, including historic articles and photos from more than a century ago. —Editor
HAUNTED HOTEL OPENS WEDNESDAY
A blood-curdling spectacle is being
prepared by the Siuslaw High School
(SHS) music students and their boost-
ers for the Florence area Halloween
fans and trick or treaters.
Students are readying their witch,
ghost and monster costumes for the
second annual Haunted Hotel, which
will be open Oct. 29, 30 and 31.
The Haunted Hotel will operate
nightly from 7:30 to 11 pm at 360
Highway 101, in the upstairs portion
of the building in front of Copeland
Lumber Yard.
Last year’s haunted house has been
moved to this new, more accessible,
location and expanded to 20 rooms of
cobwebs and coffins.
Proceeds from the Haunted Hotel
ticket sales will be added to funds
being collected by the Music
Booster organization for SHS music
students’ trips to the 23rd annual
Abbottsford International Music
Festival in Abbottsford, British
Columbia, the first weekend in
May.
This is the first of many projects
planned by SHS music students and
the Music Boosters as money raising
projects toward this trip.
Thrills and chills
await those who
attend the
Haunted Hotel,
a benefit for high
school music
students who are
planning a trip to
an international
competition in
Canada. Here,
students decorate
with their fellow
classmates and a
few extra ghouls
and boos.
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LETTERS
help. How awesome is that?
We are looking forward to a great
big turnout at our haunted maze
fundraiser on Oct. 29, 30 and 31.
Trust me, you won’t want to miss the
spooky fun.
Thank you, Florence, for being an
incredible place to live and for know-
ing that the arts really do matter.
Melanie Heard
Artistic Director of CROW
Florence
This documentary
changes everything
Upon request, City Lights
Cinemas has offered Florence an
encore showing of “This Changes
Everything,” Naomi Klein’s stunning
global warming documentary.
For those of you who missed it,
there is one more showing mid-day
on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, at
12:30 p.m.
Hold on to your seats. It’s scary
and daunting, but also uplifting, with
scenes of people power across the
globe. Apparently there is something
we can do.
Stuart Henderson
Florence
Climate petition
A fine officer
I was with the Florence Police
Auxiliary for over 13 years, and I
don’t know of any finer officer than
Shawn Morgan. It was a privilege to
have been associated with him.
David W. Johnsen
Florence
An ‘open’ port
I was happy to hear that the Port of
Siuslaw was looking to hire a new
port manager. It is an excellent
opportunity for port commissioners
to regain the executive powers of the
port (for which they were elected),
and take those powers out of the
hands of the hired help.
Their scope of authority has been
lopsided since the port manager
gained the executive powers of the
board. So much in the hands of one
person to do and use as he sees fit,
usually does not end up well for the
many.
It will be nice to see the port run
like the “public entity” that it is, and
not like the private club of a few elite
December Members and others who
received special considerations
behind the scene.
I look forward to hearing the Port
of Siuslaw Board of Commissioners’
“open” public meetings, where they
discuss the business at hand and
whatever projects that might be in the
pipeline for all to hear, so the people
of the port district and the Florence
community can stay fully informed
on everything the port is doing in the
“public’s” interest.
When controversy goes unreport-
ed/underreported, the public is
denied an opportunity to express
their opinions and concerns, and the
whole community is left with mis-
conceptions and the reality of what is
happening in their world.
The truth should not be left in the
shadows.
Michelle Culwell
Florence
Full of gratitude
This letter is full of gratitude for so
much incredible generosity and kind-
ness in our little town. Sending out a
big thank you to “Fill a Truck” own-
ers Nichole and Ron Shaw from
Medford and Florence’s own Dori
Wolfe for the successful Zumbathon
that happened Saturday at Siuslaw
Elementary School.
Thank you to all the instructors
that came and traveled to support and
help “Raise the Roof” from Medford,
Cave Junction, Coos Bay and the
Florence Zumba team from Coastal
Fitness. Thank you to our communi-
ty and all the businesses that provid-
ed donations and services to help this
event be outstanding. We raised $815
to add to the pot.
Although we still have a long way
to go, every donation makes a big
impact on the future of our nonprofit
organization and the lives of our local
children. This fundraiser made a big
dent in our renovation fund for
replacing the roof on our new build-
ing at 3120 Highway 101.
I also would like to thank Sean
Sisson and Michael Falter of City
Lights Cinemas for the wonderful silent
auction that accompanied their “Back
to the Future Part II” showing last
Wednesday. Thank you to everyone
who donated an item for the auction and
those who bid. If you haven’t been to
our local movie theater lately, I highly
recommend you go.
These two events are examples of
just how wonderful our Florence com-
munity is. Both of these fundraisers
were initiated and organized by com-
munity members who came to CROW
(Children’s Repertory of Oregon
Workshops) and asked if they could
Please sign the Catholic Climate
Petition at www.catholicclimatemove
ment.global. This petition, sponsored
by the Global Catholic Climate
Movement and endorsed by Pope
Francis, will be presented to world lead-
ers at the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris
in December 2015.
It calls on world leaders to “drastical-
ly cut carbon emissions to keep the
global temperature rise below the dan-
gerous 1.5 degree Celsius threshold,
and to aid the world’s poorest in coping
with climate change impacts.”
Susan Kirby
Florence
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