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126TH YEAR
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
SIUSLAW AWARDS
SHINING BRIGHT
First Citizen
Gayle Waiss
(left) & Future
First Citizen
Hannah Bartlett
Angal
announces
plans for
retirement
Siuslaw School District
superintendent Ethel Angal
will not extend contract
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9th annual event
honors Florence-area
citizens, businesses
Stu Johnston Bu
siness of the Year
Gary Foglio Truc
king
Hoagland
Properties
Bartlett
Cal Applebee & Jenna
City of Florence
Oregon Pacific
Bank
Kiwanis Club
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lorence Area Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director Cal Applebee wel-
comed community members to the ninth
annual Siuslaw Business Awards at the
Florence Events Center on Jan. 20.
The event honored the 14 businesses nomi-
nated for six prestigious awards and eight peo-
ple nominated for the Florence First Citizen
and Future First Citizen awards.
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Chamber Board President Jenna Bartlett
began the event with a list of the community’s
accomplishments in 2015.
At the end of Bartlett’s speech, Mike Rose,
Lisa Walter-Sedlacek and Cindy Wobbe joined
her on stage.
“Cal Applebee has been the voice and the
face of the chamber for several years, and I
think we can all agree that he’s done an
admirable job representing us to the outside
community,” Wobbe said. “You could really be
the winner of any of these awards this evening,
and we thank you for that.”
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Ethel Angal will end a 42-year career in
education when she retires as Siuslaw School
District Superintendent
on June 30. Angal has
held the position since
2014.
She was appointed
interim superintendent
by the school board on
June 11, 2014, after
the board placed then
Ethel Angal
superintendent Shawn
Wiencek on administrative leave. Wiencek
was subsequently terminated by the board and
Angal was offered a two-year contract on Sept.
10, 2014.
Angal has been with the district since 2009,
when she was chosen to be its special educa-
tion director. She held that job for five years
before being offered the superintendent posi-
tion.
“My biggest challenge was learning all the
unknown parts of the job,” Angal said. “When
you go for your superintendent’s credentials,
they teach you about budgets and about human
resources. But one of the biggest challenges is
the political part.”
Angal, 65, was planning on retiring at the
end of the 2014-15 school year, before she
received the superintendent offer.
“I feel like I have had wonderful support
from the staff, the administrative team and
from the school board,” Angal said. “I was
ready to retire before they offered me this posi-
tion. I’m so glad I didn’t. I’m struggling with
leaving because I’ve loved it so and I feel like
we are in such a good place.
“I feel like our district is more or less unit-
ed in purpose, from the educational assistant
and support staff all the way to the school
board. That’s not typical. The district has a
strong school board right now that uniformly
supports the administration and the teaching
staff,” she added.
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Moment of glory
Local filmmaker launches campaign to fund new film series
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ean Sisson is a local artist
and filmmaker who is work-
ing to “place Florence on the
map” of the film world. His
most recent project involves expand-
ing his 3-minute award-winning short
film “Glorious” into an episode in a
new film noir series.
“Glorious” first premiered on
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screen at the Eugene Film Society’s
third annual 72 Hour Horror Film
Competition last October. When the
film won second place in the juried
competition and first place in the
audience vote, Sisson had to decide
what to do next.
“I just wanted to tell the story,”
Sisson said.
Winning the Eugene film competi-
tion will allow him to enter an
expanded version of “Glorious” into
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a future competition.
“I thought it would be kind of a
waste to just make a 15-minute
piece,” Sisson said. “If I’m going to
go through that effort, I really want to
do it right.”
Sisson decided to not only create
one 15-minute film, but to develop a
seven-episode series called “The
Fabulist’s 7.”
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Sean Sisson began a fundraising campaign last week at City
Lights Cinemas to expand his award-winning short film
“Glorious” into a series featuring the Florence area.
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