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SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Crossing the line
CRIME
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Fire ruled
arson,
suspects
arrested
Police use surveillance
footage to nab two men
for historic house fire
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Florence Police Department and
Oregon State Police announced the
arrest of James Luis
Main, 37, and a 17-
year-old male, both
of Florence, after
investigating
an
arson that destroyed
a historic house in
Old Town earlier
this month.
Florence police
James Luis
arrested the two
Main
suspects March 12.
Main and the juvenile were charged
with arson and burglary. Main was
taken to Lane County Jail.
Florence Police Detective Brandon
Ott said the suspects were identified
through surveillance videos in the area.
Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue took
six hours to extinguish the fire at 1515
Second St. on March 3. The house,
built in 1904, was vacant and up for
sale. No injuries were reported.
The fire department and the Oregon
Fire Marshal conducted an investiga-
tion at the site.
Later in the week, Florence police
and Oregon State Police announced
that they were looking for two suspects
and distributed a photo of the adult and
juvenile inside a convenience store.
“The Florence Police Department
and Oregon State Police would like to
thank the public for their overwhelm-
ing support in helping to identify the
two suspects in the arson,” according
to a statement released Saturday.
PHOTO BY CORY E. GROGAN
From left: Oregon Office of Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps, Florence City Council President Joshua Greene, U.S. Rep.
Peter Defazio, Florence Mayor Joe Henry and state Sen. Arnie Roblan cross out of the tsunami inundation zone on Rhododendron Drive
in Florence during a Walk Out Drill March 11. The drill highlighted the Tsunami Blue Line project on the five-year anniversary of the
Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. The new lines can be seen around town as well as in other coastal cities.
Florence kicks off new tsunami preparedness program on coast
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
he City of Florence and three other
coastal communities are starting a new
line of tsunami preparedness: the Blue
Line Project, from the Oregon Office of
Emergency Management (OEM). On March 11,
members of Florence City Council, city staff,
emergency responders and other community
members welcomed U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio,
state Sen. Arnie Roblan, West Lane County
Commissioner Jay Bozievich and others to the
project’s kickoff.
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Florence Mayor Joe Henry formally welcomed
the speakers as well as the televised audience.
“The City of Florence is dedicated to emer-
gency preparedness and serving our community in
the best way possible, during both small and
large-scale emergency events. We’ve been desig-
nated as a tsunami-ready community by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and we will continue our efforts to serve our citi-
zens,” Henry said.
Oregon’s Geological Hazard Program
Coordinator Althea Rizzo started the Blue Line
Project in Oregon.
“I had money left over from another project fund-
ed by the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation
Program and was looking around for something
innovative to do,” Rizzo said. “This blue line lets
people know when they can stop running.”
One aspect of Rizzo’s job at OEM is identifying
ways that people can get to high ground faster and
safer. She got the idea for the Blue Line Project from
a similar program in New Zealand.
OEM provided Blue Line Project signs to
Florence, Reedsport, Coos Bay and Gold Beach.
Each community “buys in” with the project by
installing the signs.
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EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION LAUNCHES MISSION FOR MONEY
Donations sought to help nonprofit
raise money for projects and classes
at Siuslaw and Mapleton schools
B Y J ACK D AVIS
Siuslaw News
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More than 70 people
attended
the
Siuslaw
Educational
Foundation’s
(SEF) meet and greet held at
the Florence Senior Center
March 4 to officially launch
its fundraising campaign to
support the Mapleton and
Siuslaw school districts.
The foundation’s mission is
to raise money to enhance
academic achievement and
expand learning opportunities
for every student in Florence
and Mapleton schools.
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Prior to the establishment
of SEF, Florence and
Mapleton school districts
were two of a handful of
Oregon districts operating
without the support of an edu-
cational foundation.
Educational foundations
are able to raise donations
and write grants to fund spe-
cific projects and elective
classes not supported by the
state’s restricted educational
funding.
According to foundation
president Suzanne Mann-
Heintz, the foundation can
also bundle several similar
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More than 70 interested community members gather
March 4 at the Florence Senior Center to learn about
the Siuslaw Educational Foundation, a nonprofit
organization founded to raise grant money for the
Siuslaw and Mapleton school districts.
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requests together from both
school districts to fund multi-
ple projects from a single
grant.
“If we were to apply to Intel
Corporation for a $200,000
technology grant, we would
want to include the elemen-
tary school request for Ipad
tablets and the high school
request for 3-D printers,”
Mann-Heintz said. “We would
want to include Mapleton as
well. We would ask for a large
amount of money, with that
money being used to fund
multiple
smaller
grant
requests.”
Mann-Heintz said the small
size of the two districts —
Mapleton with about 144 stu-
dents and Siuslaw with about
1,400 students — can be a
detriment in seeking grants
from larger foundations.
“Every grant application
takes the same amount of
human time to process,”
Mann-Heintz said. “The more
we can group requests togeth-
er, the more likely it is that we
will get funding.”
Funding to cover the foun-
dation’s cost of filing for its
501(c)(3) nonprofit status has
been provided by the Rotary
Foundation and Western Lane
Community Foundation.
The foundation has not yet
completed the paperwork on
its 501(c)(3) nonprofit appli-
cation, but any interested
donors may still make dona-
tions through the Florence
Area Community Coalition
(FACC).
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