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Congratulations
Class of 2016
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SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
FLORENCE GREEN FAIR
GREENER LIVING
Graduates
take home
$132K in
scholarships
Siuslaw, Mapleton seniors
celebrate end of high school
B Y J ACK D AVIS
Siuslaw News
Hundreds of family, friends and well-wishers
gathered over the weekend to celebrate the 91
Siuslaw and Mapleton school district seniors who
received diplomas.
Siuslaw High School graduated 82 Friday
evening, June 10, and Mapleton High School
graduated nine on Saturday, June 11.
Siuslaw School Board members handed out
diplomas to this year’s 75 graduating seniors, six
2015 graduating seniors and one foreign exchange
student. In addition, 35 local organizations award-
ed 91 scholarships totaling $121,850 to 25 of the
high school seniors.
Six underclass students and one home-school
student also received scholarships during the
awards ceremony May 26.
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M
ore than 750 people attended the seventh
annual Florence Green Fair on Saturday,
presented by Siuslaw News and KCST
Coast Radio. This year’s event featured 30
exhibitors and several
speakers who presented
local products, environ-
mentally friendly prac-
tices and healthy living
at the Florence Events
Center. People entered
the fair with donations
to Florence Food Share,
raising an estimated 400
pounds of food. A new addition that proved popular this
year was Oregon Coast Humane Society’s Give or Take
area, where people could bring items and swap them for
others. The 2016 Green Fair was sponsored by Laurel Bay
Gardens and County Transfer and Recycling.
County budget
focuses on closing
revenue gap
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Lane County Budget Committee, composed of
five community members and the five Lane
County commissioners, has approved the fiscal
year 2016-17 budget. The commissioners will
meet June 21 for its final adoption.
County Administrator Steve Mokrohisky spoke
about the county budget when he was in Florence
last month.
“We want to create long-term financial stability
and stability in services we provide to the communi-
ty. Our budget is really aimed at that,” he said. “It’s
also aimed at recognizing that while we have scarce
resources, we can still do some good things and pos-
itive investments in services in the community.”
The approved budget includes reducing the $6
million structural imbalance in the general fund
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One year after a fire engulfed its
storage units, Pacific Pines RV Park
returns to normal operations
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ast June, Linda and Brian Stent
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
watched as their storage building at
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Pacific Pines RV Park and Storage
went up in flames. Siuslaw Valley Fire
and Rescue Fire Marshal Sean Barrett called it a “four-alarm fire” and the
biggest commercial fire the City of Florence had seen in recent years.
Now, a year later, recovery of the 36-unit building is complete.
“The insurance decreed that we would have all the roof, doors, mechanisms
and electric replaced. Other than the con-
crete shell, it’s pretty much all new as a
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result,” Brian said.
The June 16, 2015, fire started in one
unit, and quickly spread to three more.
From there, other units and their contents
caught fire and billowed smoke. An esti-
mated $5 million in damages was report-
ed at the time, though the Stents believe
the total is much less.
COURTESY PHOTOS
Siuslaw Valley called in North Bend
Fire Department and Lane Fire Authority,
All 36 storage units at Pacific
Pines were replaced after being
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destroyed by a fire last year.
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