SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016
Sign up for Girl Scout camp
Girls from kindergarten
through 12th grade are invited
to attend the Girl Scout
Twilight Camp, from June 27
to June 30, on the open field at
the Elks RV Park on Mercer
Lake Road.
Monday and Tuesday will
be from 3:30 to 8:45 p.m.
Wednesday will be overnight
with pick up at 11 a.m. on
3 A
Amateur radio club provides most volunteers
Thursday.
Cost is $25 and includes a
T-shirt and badge, with dinner
Wednesday and breakfast
Thursday morning. If not a
Girl Scout, add an additional
$15.
For any questions, call
Norma Parry at 541-991-2594
or Lisa Spencer at 541-999-
9878.
JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS
Join us for
During the June council meeting, Dunes City Mayor Rebecca Ruede (right) presents Central Oregon Coast Amateur Radio
Club President John Pershing a check for $250 for providing the most volunteers to help with the 2016 Oregon Dunes
Triathlon and Duathlon held May 7. The club provided 14 volunteers to help with the Dunes City sponsored annual event.
Club director at large Renee Dickson (left) was the activities coordinator between the club and the city.
Spruce Point Assisted Living and Memory Care
JOB FAIR • JUNE 30TH FROM 10-5
We have opening for the following positions:
· Expressions Director
(for our memory care. Must have dementia experience)
High-flying action returning to Florence in July
· Part-time nurse, memory care
(RN preferred, must have dementia experience)
· Cook
· Caregiver (work 4 on/2 off )
· Part-time housekeeper (20 hrs per wk)
Immediate interview. 10am-5pm
Managed by
Prestige Senior Living
Ph: (541) 997-6111
375 9th St
Florence, OR 97439
www.spruce-point.com
Visit us online: www.TheSiuslawNews.com.
Once again, the friendly
skies over Florence will play
host to dozens of pilots during
the annual Wings and Wheels
Fly-In and Car Show at the
Florence Municipal Airport on
Saturday, July 2.
An exciting enhancement
for this year is the appearance
of a World War II warbird, the
iconic P-51 Mustang, from the
Erickson Aircraft Collection
in Madras, Ore.
This aircraft has three
major sponsors: the Oregon
Coast Military Museum, the
Western Lane Ambulance LifeMed
Open Enrollment
Invest in Your Peace of Mind
For just $65 per year, you and
your family receive emergency
ambulance services as often as
medically necessary throughout
most of Oregon
“…thank you for how great you were…
I always dread having to deal with the way (family)
treats any medical professionals.
You knew just how to handle (family) and made
the whole situation far less traumatic for my family.
Thank you all so much – and keep up the
great work for your community!” - J.D.
For more information & to join, call 541-997-9614
Stop By Our Offi ce:
410 Ninth Street
Florence, Oregon
Monday thru Friday
8 am – Noon & 1 pm – 5 pm
(Closed on Holidays)
Visit:
WesternLaneAmbulance.com
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includes the 1935 Stinson SR5
owned and restored by the
Oregon Aviation Historical
Society out of Cottage Grove,
and piloted by Eric Baldwin.
This high-wing, radial
engine aircraft makes a spec-
tacular showing when it lands,
takes off or simply does a fly-
by.
Also scheduled to return
this year is a contingent of the
Ravens Northwest group out
PHOTO BY LYLE FANSMA of Aurora area which flies
Jim Martinelli will pilot a P-51 D from the Erickson Aircraft Vans RVs and specialize in
Collection, a plane made famous by the Tuskegee close-formation flight.
Other WWII-era trainers
Airmen.
have been invited by appear-
City of Florence and Three “Soaring with Warbirds” pro- ances are not yet confirmed.
The Florence-based 1944
Rivers Casino Resort.
gram, says the P-51 is his
Stearman PT17, owned by
Piloted by Jim Martinelli favorite.
who is also the director of
Scheduled to arrive over the AeroLegends, is scheduled to
maintenance at Erickson, the skies of Florence on Friday, be offering scenic flights
P-51 D is painted in the “Red July 1, the public can pur- as is locally based Apex
Tail” configuration of the chase a ride directly from the Helicopters.
In addition to the one hun-
famed Tuskegee Airmen who flight crew on Friday and
dred vehicle car show and
flew Mustangs in WWII and Saturday for $1,500.
earned a reputation of having
One ride will be raffled off shine, emergency vehicles and
never lost a bomber on an on Saturday during the fly-in food by Ada Grange and
escort mission.
for the cost of a $5 ticket, Florence-Siuslaw Lions Club.
The Oregon Central Coast
Military records released in which can be purchased at the
post-war years, however, dis- fly-in on that Saturday or in Military Vehicle Group will
proved this myth. Tuskegee advance at R&R RC Hobby be offering convoy rides
Airmen did attain a better and Mo’s, both in Old Town, around the north end of the
escort record than any other Florence, or In Bloom on airport in vintage military
fighter cover group with a loss Kingwood, as well as the vehicles in addition to other
ratio of 27 vs. other groups Florence Area Chamber of military vehicles on static dis-
who averaged a loss ratio of Commerce Visitor Center or play.
The Oregon Coast Military
46 during the same period.
the Oregon Coast Military
Museum will be celebrating
Martinelli, who also pilots Museum.
six other Erickson collection
Other aircraft scheduled to its one-year anniversary that
warbirds in the museum’s return for this year’s event day as well.
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