SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2015
Homegrown Pub presents
evening of food, ale pairs
Homegrown Public House
has announced a one-of-a-kind
collaborative pairing experi-
ence on the coast with Agrarian
Ales to host an evening of cre-
atively fresh food paired with
many favorite farmhouse ales.
“This was a fun process for
both of us, and we think we
have come up with unique and
inspiring pairings to saturate
your pallet,” says Jen Nelson of
Homegrown.
Both Homegrown and
Agrarian Ales believe in
supporting local farms and
producers. The menu will
reflect this belief.
Join them Monday, Jan. 11,
at 5:30 p.m. for this collabora-
tive beer-pairing experience. A
limited number of tickets are
available at Homegrown, 294
Laurel St. in Florence.
Agrarian Ales, in Harrisburg
near Eugene, is located on
Crossroad Farms, where the
owners produce ales made with
a variety of hops and herbs
grown using organic practices,
combined with water from their
aquifer and grains and other
ingredients from neighboring
farms.
FEC to host ‘Artistic Visions’
show through February
Original 2-D, 3-D and pho-
tography works from local
artists will be on display dur-
ing the Artistic Visions Awards
Show through January at the
FEC. This awards show is
sponsored by the Friends of
the Florence Event Center
Gallery Committee, and will
be on display from Tuesday,
Jan. 5, through Monday, Feb. 1.
Three out-of-town judges
were selected for this show,
each one respected in their
field of expertise (2-D, 3-D,
photography).
A cash prize of $150 will be
awarded for first place in each
category, along with honorable
mention ribbons, with each
artist allowed to submit up to
three works of art.
A special artists reception
will be held Saturday, Jan. 9,
from 2 to 5 p.m., during the
Second Saturday Art Tour.
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Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of interest
to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
The Mechanical
By Ian Tregillis
Book review by Susie Voth
What fun it is to travel back in
time to 1926 and visit New
France (the country now known
as Canada), the Netherlands and
France. “The Mechanical” is a
blend of alternate history and
steampunk genres.
The book is populated with a
variety of mechanicals called
Clakkers.
There are military mechani-
cals created for their strength
and military capabilities.
Stemwinders, the rarest, most
feared, and mysterious type of
Clakkers, have four legs and
four arms and do not communi-
cate, but blindly follow orders.
Finally, the servitor-class
mechanicals, the lowest of the
Clakkers, built to serve their
human masters, and ultimately
the Rightful Monarch of the
Dutch Empire, Queen Margreet.
Jax is a servitor Clakker.
Through his thoughts and
actions, the reader learns that
Clakkers are not merely
machines: they have desires.
However, any action on their
desires is prevented by a “geas”
or obligation set by a Clakkers’
owner. Any attempt to delay the
completion of geas is prevented
Story Time at the library
Don’t forget that our youngest
patrons (with their parents) are
invited and encouraged to attend
exciting story times each
Tuesday and Friday morning at
10:30 a.m.
Ms. Gayle entertains with a
variety of stories, followed by
fun crafts and games.
For more information, contact
the library at 541-997-3132.
Holiday closures
The library in Florence will
be closed at noon tomorrow,
Dec. 24, while the Mapleton
branch will not be open.
Both libraries will be closed
on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec.
25.
The Florence and Mapleton
libraries will both close at 4
p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 31, and
be closed on Friday, Jan. 1,
New Year’s Day.
The library would like to
wish all our patrons a wonder-
ful and safe holiday season.
Strategic Planning closure
The Siuslaw Public Library,
both Florence and Mapleton
branches, will be closed all day
on Saturday, Jan. 9.
There will be a strategic
planning retreat at the library
that day, including a wide vari-
ety of community members all
coming together to help plan
the library’s future.
Regular hours in Florence
will resume the following day,
Sunday, Jan. 10, at 1 p.m.,
while Mapleton will reopen on
Tuesday, Jan. 12, at noon.
Us TOO Florence recognizes Dr. Hoff at lunch meeting
At the Dec. 15 meeting of
the Us TOO Florence Lunch
Bunch, Bob Horney, fac-
ilitator of Us TOO Florence,
presented a certificate of
appreciation to Dr. Doug Hoff
for his nearly five years of
meeting monthly with the
group.
The certificate, signed by
Horney and Tom Kirk, presi-
dent and CEO of Us TOO
International, was in recogni-
tion of Us TOO’s sincere
appreciation of the time,
expertise and personal inter-
est Dr. Hoff took in every per-
son who attended the Us TOO
Florence Lunch Bunch.
Every lunch with Dr. Hoff
was like an hour’s office visit
in the clinic, helping men
gain vital information about
their prostate cancer journey.
This was Dr. Hoff’s final
meeting with the Lunch
Bunch. Starting in January, he
will be providing urological
services on a rotating basis
with three other urologists at
Oregon Urology Institute
(OUI) to veterans seeking
service at the new VA Clinic
in Eugene.
Us TOO Florence regrets
losing Dr. Hoff’s camaraderie
and compassionate care, but
are pleased that the veterans
will have access to his urolog-
ical skills.
Urologist
Dr.
Roger
McKimmy will provide serv-
ice to the Florence OUI Clinic
PHOTO BY MARILYN BARBA in Dr. Hoff’s place on the first
Us TOO Florence facilitator Bob Horney (right) pres- and third Tuesdays of each
ents a certificate of appreciation to Dr. Doug Hoff for month. Dr. Bryan Mehlhaff
his nearly five years of meeting monthly with the will continue to cover the sec-
ond and fourth Tuesdays.
group.
‘Stormy weather’ through
February at Backstreet
and a joyous New Year.
May the joy of the season make
all your wishes come true.
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by pain. The longer a Clakker
delays, the more severe the pain.
Jax heard rumors of rogue
Clakkers, Clakkers that don’t
suffer the pain of geas, and
don’t follow orders. but have
free-will.
One such rogue was captured
and brought before Queen
Margreet, who demanded he
kneel before her. “No,” said the
Clakker to the queen. “I prefer
not.” The queen could not allow
this Clakker to survive — how-
ever, in his final moments, when
humans heard the clattering of
fear, Clakkers heard something
quite different — Clockmakers
lie.
The audiobook is most excel-
lently read by Chris Kayser. He
was able to pronounce words
specifically made-up for this
book. That is quite a feat, partic-
ularly the names of the Clakkers
such as Jalyksegethistrovantus
(so much easier to just say Jaz).
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Backstreet Gallery, 1421
Bay St., invites you to enjoy
“stormy weather” January
through February, when
gallery membership will join
together as they create their
own “Stormy Weather” art
piece.
Local singer songwriter
Stephen McVay will bring his
soulfull
violin
into
Backstreet’s New Year’s mix,
along with his fine guitar.
He’ll set the moods with his
own beautiful songs and their
sweet harmonies, as well as
those of others we know and
love so well.
Greet the New Year with the
reception Saturday, Jan. 9,
from 3 to 5 p.m.
The gallery will be loaded
with great food, unique art,
live entertainment and the
merriment in celebration of
2016.
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