SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016
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Florence Senior Center FEC’s ‘Artistic Visions’ winners announced
needs volunteer help
As the Florence Senior
Center moves into its new
phase of allowing all ages to
access its resources, it is look-
ing to enhance its volunteer
workforce.
The Florence Senior Center
is at 1570 Kingwood St.
“As the center opens a new
chapter in its existence, we are
looking for new people with
new ideas and interests to help
us move forward,” said
Christine May, senior center
board president.
Two key volunteer positions
have opened up recently.
Beginning this year, the senior
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center needs someone to take
over as volunteer coordinator.
In addition, the person in
charge of rentals and schedul-
ing is looking to move on.
The senior center also has
an ongoing need for volunteer
receptionists and alternates.
The Tuesday afternoon slot
will be open.
“Volunteers are the heart
and soul of the senior center.
Without them, we are just a
building,” said May.
Anyone interested in joining
the senior center volunteers is
urged to call the senior center,
541-997-8844.
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The January exhibit “Artistic
Visions” at the Florence Events
Center (FEC) features a wide
variety of 2-D, photography,
and 3-D artworks in galleries
One and Five.
At the awards reception,
first-place winners received
$150 each, as well as a gold
ribbon.
Silvia Trijillo won the 2-D
award for her painting
“Equinox.” Stephanie Ames
won the photography award for
her photograph “Singularity.”
David Johnsen won the 3-D
award for his walking stick
“Falling Leaves.”
Honorable Mention ribbons
went to artists Collen
Goodwin, Julie Strecker, Julie
Ripley, Lin-Su Nordin, Ben
Cahoon,
Patricia
Ball,
Stephanie Ames, Stephen
Jones, Patrice Lampton, Ken
McDougal, Amy Rickford and
Mike Shoys.
Judges for the show were
Susan Lehman from Bandon,
2-D; Mack Holman from
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Local students experience ‘The Great Depression’
Many Florence-area resi-
dents will remember liv-
ing through The Great
Depression, but students at
Sonshine Christian School
also got a taste of the times
during a recent emotional,
energizing and empathizing
school day.
As part of their history
studies, students experienced
simulated aspects of the
Great Depression, and war
time measures, rolled into
one day of dramatized enact-
ments. The day started out
with news from board mem-
ber Don Large, dressed much
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home responsibilities. Board
chairman Nathan Large soon
arrived and told students he
had to “confiscate books and
school supplies as collateral
to pay their school bills.”
For their meager lunch, all
of the students dug and pre-
pared potatoes and carrots
which had been hidden in the
dirt of the playground by
board members earlier that
morning.
The few cents they
received to “live on” were
insufficient to purchase
necessities, forcing students
to pool their resources, or do
without.
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“Pallets, tarps, boards and
Students stand within a shelter built during Sonshine baling twine came in handy
Christian School’s “Great Depression” experience.
for the students to build shel-
ters,” said Karen Nelson, the
like a dustbowl farmer, that under martial law and that school’s principal and an
“the stock market has just troops would need the stu- instructor. “They discovered
crashed and the situation dents’ lunches that day.
that even the cosiest tarp
looks pretty serious.”
The students learned what shelter isn’t very warm when
During their morning Bible martial law is, why it is the cold winter wind blows.
study time, the students enacted, and its impact on cit- But that didn’t stop the kids
reflected on people in the izens.
from making it a great learn-
Bible who experienced hard
As the morning progressed, ing experience with their
times, and how God provided the students’ “lives” were enthusiasm, creativity and
for their needs.
suddenly changed as part of cooperation.”
In a brief look back at this Great Depression experi-
Sonshine Christian School
World War II shortages, and ence. Some students had to is accepting applications for
to emphasize the potential move to the farm with an aunt enrollment for second semes-
severity faced then and dur- or uncle while their parents ter.
ing the depression, a uni- went in search of work.
Parents or grandparents
formed military officer,
Others had to find menial seeking more information on
retired Army colonel Larry jobs to help their families sur- the school and its programs
Smedley, informed the stu- vive. Still others had to drop can contact principal Karen
dents that Florence was now out of school to help with Nelson at 541-997-5909.
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