SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016
‘BE the Whale’ art winner announced
Florence artist and River
Gallery owner Jan Jagoe
awarded a $1,000 art scholar-
ship to Brooks Jones, a Utah
high school student, for her pen
and ink drawing of a south-
western willow flycatcher.
The “BE the Whale” project
targets all types of endangered
species, with a different animal
chosen to represent each state.
Jones, from Herriman High
School in Salt Lake City, Utah,
received the scholarship in
December 2015.
Paris Meyers, from Crescent
Valley High School in Albany,
Ore., received a scholarship in
December 2014 for her water-
color of a humpback whale.
Jordan Merz from Bonners
Ferry High School in Bonners
Ferry, Idaho, received a schol-
arship in May 2015 for her
graphite and charcoal drawing
of a Woodland Caribou.
The ocelot has been chosen
as this semester’s endangered
animal.
Siuslaw Middle School stu-
dents have joined forces with
Jagoe to promote her endan-
gered species project, which
awards $1,000 scholarships to
high school art students nation-
wide.
The Siuslaw School District
will now receive 10 percent of
the funding received by the
“BE the Whale” project, to be
divided between the elemen-
tary school, middle school and
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High school student Brooks Jones receives a $1,000 art scholarship from Jan Jagoe.
high school. The funds will be
distributed to classroom teach-
ers and staff to buy needed
school supplies and equipment.
In addition to the 10 percent
of the gofundme account going
to Siuslaw School District, a
portion of all proceeds will be
donated to various endangered
species projects across the
country. Donations to help sup-
port this program can also be
made at Oregon Pacific Bank,
1335 Highway 101, P.O. Box
22,000, Florence, OR 97439.
Checks should be addressed to
the “BE the Whale” donation
fund, which continues as addi-
tional funding becomes available.
Pictures of the winning art-
work and information about the
project can be found on the proj-
ect website at www.bethewhale.
com, “BE the whale” on
Facebook and at The River
Gallery in Old Town Florence.
Promotional items such as T-
shirts and coffee mugs are
available on the website and at
the gallery.
Mapleton Kindergarten Round-up set for May 10
Mapleton
Elementary
School will hold its annual
Kindergarten Round-up on
Tuesday, May 10, for all chil-
dren in the Mapleton School
District who will be 5 years old
by Sept. 1.
Parents and their upcoming
kindergarten students should
Districts
from 1A
At the Western Lane meet-
ing, Burright advised moving
into the “planning and imple-
mentation phase” of the IGA.
“I think we need to continue
with the planning,” said Board
Member Dick Childs. “We’re
not committing to the proposed
IGA, as we don’t know enough
yet about it to know which way
to jump.”
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plan to attend school beginning
at 5:30 p.m. Students will have
a chance to meet their fellow
students, and parents will
receive helpful information
about kindergarten.
Bring your child’s birth cer-
tificate, immunization records
and social security card to the
Round-up.
Knowing how many kinder-
garten students to expect in the
fall is extremely important. If
you know of a student who will
attend kindergarten in the fall and
is unable to attend the Round-up,
call Mapleton Elementary
School at 541-268-4471.
Longtime Board Member
Anne Stonelake remained
unsure.
“I’m still not convinced, and
I would like to see us stand
alone and hire a district manag-
er,” she said. “I’m willing to go
a little farther here, but we
have to have a hammer time.”
The Western Lane Board
also voted to move forward.
One member was absent
from each board: Woody
Woodbury from Siuslaw
Valley and Bob Sneddon from
Western Lane.
Western
Lane
Board
President Mike Webb said,
“Let’s work carefully, make
sure we set this up right so it
doesn’t set up to fail, give you
the tools to make it work and
be committed to that.”
He and Stonelake volun-
teered to join a committee
comprising of board members
from each district, representa-
tives from each district’s
unions and associations,
Burright, Langborg and Julie
Brown, who provides finance
and human resources to both
districts through an IGA started
in December.
Moving forward, Burright,
Langborg and Brown will pres-
ent a framework to the com-
mittee, similar to an IGA draft
already provided to both
boards.
“The next phase involves
exploration, further research,
planning and implementation.
The boards will direct us from
there,” Burright said.
“It’s very step by step,”
Langborg said.
As for the timeline,
Langborg said that nothing is
definite. Both districts are
involved in planning their
budgets, and other factors
might involve waiting to
implement the IGA until after
the fiscal year begins. The
budgets may have to reflect a
change in personnel services.
“We’re exploring to see if
this works. We would need to
create a system that is based on
efficiencies,” Langborg said.
After
Western
Lane
approved the step forward,
Stonelake thanked the directors
for their work so far.
“You have given us a lot to
work on, and I appreciate
everything you’ve done,” she
said.
May is National Burger Month, and to
celebrate, Siuslaw News is introducing
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at 148 Maple St. for details.
ON THE
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What is your favorite kind of burger?
“For me, a burger isn’t a burger without
bacon. Lots of bacon. And cheese. Plus some
barbecue sauce. Then again, if it just had bacon
and nothing else, I’d be OK with that.”
—N ED H ICKSON , S PORTS E DITOR
“From avocado to zucchini, there are a lot of
great burger toppings out there. My ideal burg-
er would have blue cheese and bacon. There’s
just something about that combination that I
love. And french fries, of course.”
—C HANTELLE M EYER , R EPORTER
“My favorite hamburger has to have grilled
onions. I first had one when I went to a destruc-
tion derby in Portland with my dad when I was
8 years old. I’ll never forget it!
—J ACK D AVIS , R EPORTER
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Port
from 1A
Aiken said, “FEMA
defines the word ‘mitigation’
as making something better
than it was before its present
condition.”
Because the Geotube and
riprap would make the bank
more stable than it was
before the storm erosion,
Aiken felt much of the proj-
ect should qualify for the
100 percent FEMA 406 haz-
ard mitigation fund grant.
Commissioner Mike
Buckwald expressed con-
cerns over the timing of the
grant applications.
“We need to know if
FEMA is going to participate
with us in less than 60 days
for our budget process,” he
said.
Aiken assured the board
that the port should have an
answer from FEMA within a
few weeks.
The commission author-
ized Aiken to proceed with
the inquiry process with
FEMA.
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