SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016
Elementary, middle school
receive vision screenings
The
Florence-Siuslaw
Lions Club, in conjunction
with the Lions Sight and
Hearing Foundation, recently
conducted vision screenings
at the Siuslaw Elementary
and Middle schools.
Screenings were conduct-
ed on 608 elementary stu-
dents and 257 middle school
students in less than four
hours.
Of the 865 students
screened, 69 were referred
for follow-up screenings.
Lions Club members used
four SPOT Vision Screeners,
hand-held devices designed
to help users quickly and eas-
ily detect vision issues on
patients from 6 months of
age through adult.
SPOT screens both eyes at
once from a nonthreatening
three-foot distance.
The devices, which have a
value of $10,000 each, were
provided by the Lions Sight
and Hearing Foundation.
According to figures
reported by the University of
Tennessee, even though 85
percent of a child’s learning
is vision-related, approxi-
mately 80 percent of
American children have
never had their eyes tested
before starting kindergarten.
When tests are performed,
they are usually capable of
only detecting no more than a
couple of conditions.
Unfortunately, this means
that vision-related learning
disabilities such as dyslexia
can be missed and may not
be noticed until they are
well-established.
The SPOT system is capa-
ble of identifying 13 vision
anomalies with one screen
shot.
House Bill (HB) 3000 B
requires students entering
Oregon’s public schools to
submit proof that the child
has had a vision screening or
eye exam.
HB 3000 B does not
address follow-on and peri-
odical student eye screenings
or exams because vision
problems can occur later.
The Lions Club intends to
repeat school vision screen-
ings each year and to expand
them to include high school
students.
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 Sherlockian
By Graham Moore
Book review by Susie Voth
I am a fan of most things
Sherlock Holmes. I like the
books by Arthur Conan Doyle, I
like the movies with Robert
Downey Jr. and Jude Law, I like
the PBS series starring Jeremy
Brett, the series “Elementary”
starring Jonny Lee Miller and
Lucy Liu, and I like Benedict
Cumberbatch in “Sherlock.”
I even like the books about
Sherlock that are not written by
Doyle.
I guess one could say I am a
fan.
Recently I read “The
Sherlockian” by Graham Moore.
It was recommended to me by
a friend and sat on my “to-be-
read” shelf for months until I
found myself bookless (a rare
occurrence).
This book takes place in two
different time settings — in 1893
featuring Arthur Conan Doyle
with his friend Bram Stoker, and
in 2010, which features Harold
White, a newly inducted member
of the Baker Street Irregulars.
These parallel storylines both
involve mysteries that require
solving.
In 1893, Doyle received a
package in the mail. It was a
bomb and it exploded, ripping
apart Doyle’s study, fortunately
without harming Doyle or his
family.
This event sent the author to
New Scotland Yard, where he
was treated with respect but the
mystery of who sent the bomb
was not. Doyle decided to inves-
tigate declaring, “It is not a case
worthy of Sherlock bloody
Holmes. It is a case worthy of his
creator.”
In 2010, White and other
members of the Baker Street
Irregulars were eagerly anticipat-
ing the keynote speaker, Alex
Cole, who found a long-missing
diary of Conan Doyle and was to
present it at the conference.
Instead, Cole was found dead
in his hotel room. White asked
himself, “What would Sherlock
Holmes do?” He then donned his
deerstalker hat and decided “The
game is afoot.”
Soup Night approaches
The library is pleased to pres-
ent Maggie Stuckey, author of
“Soup Night,” discussing her
book and presenting soups for
sampling made by Friends of the
Library
volunteers,
on
Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m., in
Florence, and at noon the follow-
ing day, Thursday, Jan. 28, at the
Mapleton branch in the Lions
Club Building on Riverview
5 A
Avenue.
Come learn about “Soup
Nights,” where neighbors build a
real sense of community through
the age-old idea of getting
together for a simple meal (in
this case, a soup supper) on a
regular basis.
What Stuckey has found and
documented in this cookbook is
that the humble idea of gathering
friends and neighbors on a regu-
lar basis for a casual night of
soup and sides has an extraordi-
narily positive ripple effect on
children, senior citizens, families
and communities at large.
With simple ideas for gather-
ing neighbors and friends togeth-
er, readers will be looking for
any opportunity to make “Soup
Night” a part of their lives.
Friends of the Library
to meet Jan. 28
The Friends of the Library
will hold its monthly board
meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28, at
11 a.m., in the library’s confer-
ence room.
All FOL members and others
interested in supporting the
library or learning more about
the Friends are invited to attend.
The purpose of the FOL is to
support the Siuslaw Public
Library.
Local Elks make donation to Roseburg veterans
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Florence Elks Lodge No.
71858 members, the Ladies of
Elks and the local TOPS Club
recently donated money for
clothing, Levis and needed
items to the Roseburg VA
Hospital.
The veterans look forward to
receiving homemade cookies
in July and December each
year.
The Ladies of Elks, the
Rolling Elks Club, the Lodge
members and the local TOPS
Club sent 420 dozen cookies.
The Mapleton Food Share
donated nine handmade lap
robes. The Ladies of Elks
donated two quilts.
A shopper from the Elks
Share Shop overheard that lap
robes were needed, and donat-
ed 18 crocheted lap robes.
Elks Lodge member Leo
Stapleton, who is a veteran, his
wife Shirley and their grand-
sons delivered the gifts on Dec.
21.
The Elks Lodge supports
veterans and this is one way to
thank them for their service to
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and city staff invite all
to the City of Florence State
of the City presentation
tomorrow, Jan. 21.
The address will take place
at the Florence Events Center
(FEC), 715 Quince St.,
from 5 to 7 p.m., as a
Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce Business After
Hours event.
The mayor’s State of the
City address will begin at
5:30 p.m.
All are welcome to listen
to Henry discuss the acc-
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