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Greentrees featuring Olson art
Gene Olson will be
exhibiting as Artist of the
Month for April in the
Greentrees
Community
Center.
The subject will revolve
around fishing boats along
the coast as well as ocean
scenes. Included in the
scenes will be the Otter and
historic towboats that plied
the Siuslaw River.
Olson holds a masters
degree in art education and
has taught in the Beaverton
School District and for the
University of Portland.
He went on to be the
Cultural Director for the City
of Concord, Calif.
He has donated paintings
to the Siuslaw School
District, the Siuslaw Pioneer
Museum and Coast Village
Community Center.
His work has been pur-
chased by the U.S. Navy
Postgraduate School and the
Monterey Art Museum.
He is retired in Florence.
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This and other artwork by Gene Olson will be on display in the Greentrees
Community Center during April.
Sign up for annual Boys and Girls Club wine tour
Seats are on sale now for the
Boys and Girls Club of
Western Lane County’s 9th
Annual Wine Tour fundraiser,
which will be hald Saturday,
April 30.
This annual event has suc-
cessfully provided funds each
year for after-school enrich-
ment programs, the club’s sum-
mer activities and youth athlet-
ics. This year’s tour will return
to the Umpqua Valley region to
visit four wineries there.
“This tour is such a success-
ful event for us,” said Mike
Smith, current board secretary.
“I am constantly humbled and
amazed by the generosity and
support from our community
for our kids. And while this is a
fundraiser for the Club, it’s also
a ‘thank you’ to anyone who
can come — because it’s just a
lot of fun.”
This year’s tour will meet at
Three Rivers Casino Resort in
Florence for continental break-
fast beginning at 8 a.m. Busses
will depart promptly at 8:30
a.m. Lunch, snacks and bever-
ages will be provided.
Busses plan to return to
Florence at approximately 6
p.m. There will also be a live
raffle on each bus for prizes,
including wine gifts, gift cer-
tificates for local services and
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To help ensure healthy
grapes for future wine tours,
transportation is again being
provided by EcoShuttle, a com-
pany based in Sherwood, Ore.
Employing a carbon-neutral
fleet of vehicles, EcoShuttle is
leading the way in providing
green transportation services in
Oregon.
Again this year, the wine
tour motor coaches will be
powered by 100 percent renew-
able bio-diesel, refined from
recycled cooking oils.
Seats for the Wine Tour are
$75 per person, which includes
breakfast, lunch, beverages,
Evelyn Searle Hess will
read Saturday, April 16, at 7
p.m. during the Nye Beach
Writers Series in the Nye
Beach Visual Arts Center.
At various times a teacher,
gardener, garden designer,
greenhouse manager, nature
guide and nursery owner as
well as being a mother, grand-
mother, and now great-grand-
mother, Hess currently weeds,
writes and watches wildlife in
the Coast Range foothills
southwest of Eugene.
Her book “To the Woods:
Sinking Roots, Living Lightly,
and Finding True Home,”
from OSU Press, won the 2011
WILLA Literary Award for
Best Creative Nonfiction.
After camping in their
woods for 16 years, Hess and
her husband, David, were
ready for some serious nest-
ing. In a quest to build lives in
harmony with the planet and
all of their fellow earthlings,
Hess explores the challenges
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at various levels of interlock-
ing nests: house, ecosystem,
social and economic systems,
world community and envi-
ronment.
Everyone is welcome.
An open mic for local writ-
ers will follow the presenta-
tion.
General admission is $8,
and students are admitted free.
For more information, visit
www.writersontheedge.org.
Get ready for annual ‘Shred
Day’ at Oregon Pacific Bank
Oregon Pacific Bank will be
holding its ninth annual Shred
Day on Saturday, April 16,
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., or until
the truck is full.
Trucks will be set up to
accept confidential paper
materials to be shredded onsite
in the Florence Branch parking
lot, 1355 Highway 101.
The event is free and open
to everyone in the Florence
community. Businesses may
bring confidential materials
for shredding during the last
hour of the event.
Once the shred truck is full,
Oregon Pacific Bank will be
unable to accept any more
confidential documents.
The public is encouraged to
take advantage of Shred Day
as a way to protect themselves
from identity theft by correctly
disposing of paper waste.
After all paper documents
have been shredded they are
taken to be recycled, allowing
for a safe and responsible way
to dispose of confidential
paper materials.
For more information about
the upcoming Shred Day
event, call Oregon Pacific
Bank at 541-997-7121 or visit
www.opbc.com.
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transportation and tasting fees.
Raffle tickets will be avail-
able for an additional donation.
Seats are limited, so sign up
today by calling the Boys and
Girls Club at 541-902-0304
and reserve a seat, or stop by
the BGC Teen Center or Coast
Insurance to purchase tour tick-
ets.
Only adults 21 years or older
are allowed on the tour.
For anyone unable to partic-
ipate in the tour but who would
like to help by giving a dona-
tion of time or money, call the
Teen Center to find out how
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