SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016
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Applbee retires from the
chamber on Friday, Feb. 26. He
plans to remain in the area.
“Cal has set the bar pretty
high,” Bartlett said. She then pre-
sented Applebee with the
Distinguished Service Award.
During the rest of the award
ceremony, Applebee read
descriptions and testimonials for
each of the nominees.
“All of these nominees are
winners. Just look at their contri-
butions to the community,” he
said.
Oregon Pacific Bank won the
Community Caring Award. The
City of Florence’s Siuslaw River
Bridge Interpretive Center won
the Curb Appeal Award. The
Excellence in Customer Service
Award went to Hoagland
Properties. Sand Master Park
won the Innovation in Business
Award. The Non-Profit
Achievement award went to the
Kiwanis Club of Florence.
Two businesses were nominat-
ed for the Stu Johnston Business
of the Year Award, Homegrown
Public House, who catered the
event, and Gary Foglio Trucking.
Gary Foglio Trucking won.
The business is a second-genera-
tion family-owned business that
has adapted to changes in the
logging and trucking fields and
remains a vital part of the local
economy.
“You’re all way too kind, but I
thank you very much,” Foglio
said. “It is an honor to be nomi-
nated and an honor to receive
this award. ... You can tell this
has been a family show. About
two years ago, my granddaughter
Muerella told me that she is
going to move to Florence after
college and she’s going to run
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Siuslaw School District
Superintendent Ethel Angal
announced Holly Hicks, Hannah
Bartlett, Alexis Scheer and
Mikaela Siegel as the nominees
of the Future First Citizen
Award. All four young women
are seniors at Siuslaw High
School.
The 2015 Future First Citizen
is Hannah Bartlett.
“Hannah’s work ethic, com-
passionate spirit and talents have
made her a very well-rounded
and successful young woman.
Our school community and
Florence community are lucky to
have her,” Angal said.
“I want to say a big thank you
to everyone here and to the com-
munity. I’ve lived in Florence
my whole life. For such a small
town, it is a generous and giving
community. It makes it easy for
me to want to give back to it,”
Hannah Bartlett said.
The Florence First Citizen
Award, the final award of the
night, considers length of serv-
ice, current involvement in the
community, past and present
leadership and overall communi-
ty impact of the nominees.
This year’s nominees were
Bill Craig, Geraldine Lucio,
Janet Snow and Gayle Waiss.
Wobbe, the 2014 First Citizen,
honored past First Citizens from
the award’s beginning in 1967.
Mayor Joe Henry announced
Waiss the winner. Waiss is the
children’s librarian at the Siuslaw
Public Library, a volunteer in
many organizations and the vol-
unteer executive director of the
Western Lane Community
Foundation.
“Gayle’s participation in
organizations and projects all
have a common thread: to make
a difference in the lives of youth
in the Florence and Mapleton
area,” Henry quoted from the
Rotary Club of Florence.
“I’m not often speechless, but
I am,” Waiss said. “I’m also
humbled. Most people volunteer
without expectation of being
noticed. ... I never imagined I
would be one of the very fabu-
lous First Citizens who have
done so much for our communi-
ty.”
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“A fabulist is a person who
creates stories. The other part of
the description is a liar,” he said.
“I loved that combination being
like a coin. On the head side, it’s
really nice, like a storyteller. On
the flipside, this person is a liar.”
He describes the series as “a
collection of short stories, smoke
and mirrors, shadows and light”
that he hopes to continue in
monochrome.
It will be similar in format to
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and
“The Twilight Zone” and will be
full of suspense and mysteries.
Many of his crew from
“Glorious” will return, though he
hopes to include different actors
and settings in each episode.
“I really want this to be a real
Oregon product,” Sisson said.
“The intimacy that I have with
Florence, Portland and the state is
huge for the direction of this proj-
ect.”
“Glorious” was shot in
Florence and featured City Lights
Cinemas, the Florence Playhouse,
Grocery Outlet and the Siuslaw
River Bridge. The expansion will
include even more of the land-
scape.
Future episodes will likely take
place in Florence, Mapleton,
Eugene and Portland.
Sisson wants to explore a vari-
ety of themes in the series, and he
knows some of them will feature
the uglier sides of human nature.
“This stuff is real. I’m trying to
hold up the mirror. You’re not
always going to like what you
see, but it’s real,” he said. “I love
this community so much, and
they’ve given me so much love, I
hope that we have an understand-
ing that this is a fantasy. I do want
to portray Florence, and to a
degree help put it on the map.”
As a young artist in Florence,
Sisson has tried his hand at vari-
ous ways of creating spaces for
creative expression. He hasn’t
always been successful, but he
has high hopes for both himself
and the community.
“I always wanted to provide
something that Florence deserves,
something world class. I want
people to experience something
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Angal took over the adminis-
tration of the district just as the
Common Core standards were
being implemented in Oregon.
Angal said she knows that
Common Core has become con-
troversial in some communities.
“I truly believe that the con-
troversial piece is the standard-
ized state testing, not the core,”
she said.
Her concern for education in
Oregon is early learning.
“By the standards, our kids
are expected to do quite a bit in
kindergarten and when they
come out of kindergarten. I
would really like to see some
movement toward school-spon-
sored preschool,” she said. “We
need the preschool component
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“What I’d like would be for the communi-
ty to still be a giving, caring and sharing
community.”
—G AYLE W AISS , F LORENCE
“I would love to see a community/recre-
ation center, with a swimming pool, racket
ball courts and meeting rooms. A place for
both adults and kids.”
—A NDY M AROHL , F LORENCE
“We need a community center, where kids
between ages 11 and 16 can go and have fun,
positive activities with other kids and adult
mentors or role models.”
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that’s so awesome that they real-
ize how valuable their life is in
Florence,” he said.
He doesn’t want to leave the
area to accomplish this.
“Florence is just woven into
my heart. When people do come
out to support, it is something I’m
incredibly fortunate to experi-
ence. Florence is so intimate, and
there is no anonymity,” he said.
Sisson and the “Glorious”
crew — Dmitri Von Klein, Omar
Alaniz, Steve Crocker, April
Gilreath, Mark Marbas, Jeremy
Austen and Brynne Sapp — have
started a Kickstarter campaign to
raise money.
Kickstarter is an online
fundraising platform that allows
anyone to give money to groups
or individuals “to make their
ideas a reality.”
Sisson’s Kickstarter goal is
$6,500. As of Friday, 24 backers
had pledged to donate more than
$3,500.
Backers can fund Sisson’s
project in any amount. There are
also “rewards” for donating, from
a digital download of the com-
pleted film, to a role as an extra
and even a production credit.
However, Kickstarter has a
catch: groups only receive the
money if they hit their goal. In
Sisson’s case, he isn’t worried.
“If the public wants to see it
happen, they will rally the sup-
port. The only reason I would fail
this time is if I didn’t talk to the
right people and if I didn’t make
enough effort,” he said.
The money raised will go to
paying the current crew and hir-
ing additional people who can
bring more equipment.
City Lights Cinemas hosted
the launch of the Kickstarter cam-
paign with a champagne party
and silent auction.
Tomorrow, Jan. 24, Siuslaw
Riverside, 1340 Bay St., will fea-
ture “Glorious Night” from 6 to 8
p.m. and will donate 20 percent
of all sales to Sisson’s fund.
“I’m just seeing this love and
support from people,” Sisson
said. “I get emotional every time
the support is there.”
To find out more about
Sisson’s Kickstarter fundraiser, go
to www.kickstarter.com/projects/
seansisson/glorious-pilot-project.
to be available to all.”
Angal also voiced concerns
over the number of families
who must work two or three
jobs.
“When you are with your
child, you don’t necessarily
want to be teaching school stuff,
you want to be doing other
enriching things that are also
important,” she said.
Funding has always been a
struggle for Oregon schools
since the change in school rev-
enue resources mandated by
Measure 5 in 1990. The meas-
ure transferred the responsibili-
ty for school funding from local
government to the state.
“If schools were really ade-
quately funded we could attack
some of the other issues. It is
especially significant in small
communities,” Angal said.
Her No. 1 priority, if she had
the funds, would be finding a
way to improve attendance.
According to Angal, a school
resource officer, a specially
trained police officer, would
help the attendance issue.
“A school resource officer
would come to work in the
school and build a relationship
with kids and help round up
kids that are not attending class-
es,” she said.
Angal said the resource offi-
cer would also build relation-
ships with the students in school
so they would have someone
they could trust in addition to
school staff.
Siuslaw School Board of
Directors vice-chairman John
Barnett said, “She has been a
phenomenal asset to the district
and she will be greatly missed.
But I understand that it is time
for her to move on to other
chapters in her life.”
According to Angal, she and
her husband Steve have no
immediate plans to leave the
area and she said she hopes to
continue her relationship with
the school district.
“I have loved it,” she said.
During a special meeting Jan.
18, the board agreed to initiate
an internal search of current
school district personnel for an
interim superintendent and not
look outside the district for can-
didates.
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