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126TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 14
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Cultural
conversation
fuels grant
opportunities
SHARE YOUR HEART
Residents hear from
Oregon agencies on ways
to fund arts, culture
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Cecile Fleming, 11, (top left) and twins Cate and Cort Waggoner, 9, (lower right) perform Feb. 13 during Share Your Heart,
which also featured games with raffles and prizes for community members at CROW’s Valentine’s Day-themed fundraiser.
CROW melts HEARTS
Last Thursday more than 30 people
attended “Conversations with Funders” at
the Florence Events Center with representa-
tives from Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon
Arts Commission, Oregon Heritage and
Lane County Cultural Coalition.
The organizations held conversations
with area artists, nonprofits and residents to
help point out specific arts and culture grant
opportunities.
At the Florence event on Feb. 11, Aili
Schreiner, trust manager at Oregon Cultural
Trust, described the foundation as “funding
and fueling arts and culture.” The Cultural
Trust is a statewide funding agency
financed by individual donations for which
donors receive Oregon tax credit.
Donations to the agency return to the com-
munity in the form of grants.
Schreiner said, “About 14 years ago, the
Oregon State Legislature created the
Oregon Cultural Trust. There’s nothing else
like it in the country. Essentially,
Oregonians get to direct their tax dollars
straight to arts and culture.”
Taxpayers raised $4.5 million for the
trust in 2015, a record amount.
2nd annual fundraiser brings in $20K for youth theater program
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Siuslaw News
hildren’s Repertory of Oregon
Workshops (CROW) put on quite
the show Saturday night at the
second annual Share Your Heart
fundraiser at the Florence Events Center.
Seven students, ages 9 to 15, performed pop
songs, musical renditions and even a tune
from Sesame Street in front of a full house.
According to CROW Artistic Director
Melanie Heard, the event brought in more
than $20,000 in ticket sales, lively games and
three auctions that featured dozens of items
donated by the community.
A highlight of the live auction was a purse
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filled with an undisclosed amount of cash —
donated earlier from those in attendance —
that was put to bid and purchased three sepa-
rate times. All the proceeds, including the
money inside the purse, were given back to
CROW.
Bill Free of Free and Associates Auction
Realty of Florence was the auctioneer for the
event. Local pianists Debra Young and Marty
Adams provided accompaniment.
The fundraiser helps CROW get closer to
reaching its goal of opening a center for the
performing arts at 3120 Highway 101, a
building secured last April by an anonymous
donor until the nonprofit organization can
buy it within a year to 18 months.
A total of $350,000 is needed to buy and
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renovate the building. So far, about $81,000
has been raised.
Joshua Greene, owner of The Archives and
a Florence city councilor, donated a limited-
edition print of Marilyn Monroe for the live
auction. He said that the new CROW build-
ing fills the place of a community center for
area youth.
Greene then announced at the event that he
would be giving $5,000 to CROW.
“I am truly touched by the outpouring of
love and support for our local children in the
arts, as well as very grateful to the auction
donors and all of the dedicated volunteers,”
Heard said.
For more information about CROW, go to
www.crowkids.com.
GRANTS 11A
POLICE
Florence man
arrested for
deadly crash
David Cheeseman
charged with criminally
negligent homicide, DUII
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JOB FAIR PLANNED FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS
More than 30 presenters intend to discuss
careers after high school at April event
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Siuslaw High School will hold its
first Career and Job Fair in April
during school hours for students
interested in learning about occupa-
tions in the area.
More than 400 ninth- through
12th-grade students are planning to
attend the convention-style event on
Thursday, April 28, from 11 a.m. to
12:40 p.m. in the high school gym-
nasium.
Currently, about 30 local compa-
nies and organizations will present
tabletop displays and discuss job
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opportunities with the students.
Additional presenters are being
sought.
Co-chairwomen Carol Jolley and
Nancy Walker stressed that this will
be an informational, not a recruit-
ing, event.
“We are not looking for those
tables to offer jobs,” Walker said.
“We are expecting them to share
their experience with the students.
This may be the students’ only
opportunity to see a wide variety of
in-town occupations and have a
chance to ask questions.”
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Banner Bank Florence Branch Manager Dee Osborne (far left) and
Career and Job Fair co-chairwomen Carol Jolley and Nancy
Walker display one of the banners for the convention-style event
scheduled for Thursday, April 28, at Siuslaw High School.
Additional presenters are being sought.
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Florence Police Department Lt. John
Pitcher reported Monday that a 70-year-
old Florence man was
arrested last week in
connection with a
deadly motorcycle
crash in October.
David
Ralph
Cheeseman was taken
to Lane County Jail
Feb. 9 on charges of
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criminally negligent Cheeseman
homicide and driving
under the influence of intoxicants for his
involvement in the Oct. 8 accident that
killed a Reedsport woman in Florence.
Cheeseman was driving his three-
wheel motorcycle just before 9:30 p.m.
when it crashed on Highway 101 near
First Street in Florence. Jean Benson, 89,
of Reedsport, who was riding on the back
of the motorcycle, died from her injuries
two days later.
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