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Police identify Mapleton Ames photography featured at OPB this month
Oregon Pacific Bank is high-
drowning victim
lighting the photos of highly
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Oregon State Police has
identified the 23-year-old man
who drowned July 3 in
Mapleton as Duong T. Ngo, of
Eugene.
Local emergency dispatch
received a call for a welfare
check at 87957 Riverview
Ave. in Mapleton at 3:24 p.m.,
where a group of adults was
swimming in the Siuslaw
River. Oregon State Police,
Mapleton Fire Department’s
Quick
Response
Team,
Siuslaw Valley Fire and
Rescue and Western Lane
Ambulance responded to the
call for a water rescue.
According to the three wit-
nesses, also from Eugene, a
group was swimming together
when Ngo disappeared from
sight.
The response agencies sent
divers into the river, where
they conducted a search for
approximately 30 minutes
before locating the victim.
After bringing him to to a
nearby dock, rescue crews
made resuscitative efforts
before transporting Ngo to
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center.
The victim was pronounced
dead at the hospital.
Oregon State Police’s public
information officer said there
was nothing suspicious about
the drowning and there will be
no further investigation.
acclaimed local photographer
Stephanie Ames during the
month of July.
“I love how light and the
camera lens combine to reveal
our everyday world as a myste-
rious and perhaps, unknowable
place,” said Ames, who is a
retired educator and a Pacific
Northwest native.
She has spent decades hik-
ing, backpacking, birding,
kayaking, snowshoeing, rock-
hounding and photographing
all over Oregon.
She has also climbed Mt.
Hood.
Ames’
images
have
appeared in many publications
and calendars, and her work
has been juried into many
shows, including: Celebrate
Arts in Florence; Photo Zone
Gallery; Eugene Mayor’s Art
Show and Viewer’s Choice
Award; Coos Art Museum
Siuslaw River Bridge photo by Stephanie Ames
Show; Jacobs Gallery, Eugene;
Corvalis Art Center and
Eugene Biennial at the Karin
Clarke Gallery.
This past year she won first
place for photography in the
Florence Event Center’s
Artistic Visions Award Show.
Ames has been a member of
Backstreet Gallery in Florence
since 2010, where many of her
photographs are on exhibit. She
is also a member of Florence
Regional
Arts
Alliance
(FRAA).
Customer Appreciation
Spring clean-up nets 18 tons of hazardous waste
BBQ
Lane
County
Waste
Management
Division’s
Special Waste staff collected
35,836 pounds of household
hazardous waste from 506
households in Oakridge,
Florence and Cottage Grove
last spring.
Each spring and fall, the
Special Waste Program hosts
rural collections for house-
holds. The purpose of the pro-
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The Forestland Classifica-
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Special Waste staff also
screens incoming loads at Lane
County sites for hazardous
waste and issue permits for
special wastes such as asbestos
and contaminated soils.
The Special Waste Program
accepts up to 35 gallons of the
following items per household,
including: Paint, household
cleaners, lawn and garden
chemicals, car care products,
and other household hazardous
waste.
The Special Waste Program
does not accept: Empty con-
tainers, drums, radioactive
waste, asbestos, explosives or
electronics
For more information about
Lane County’s Special Waste
Program, visit www.lanecoun
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HazWaste/Pages/default.aspx.
Lane County forestland classification
committee meeting to be held Tuesday
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gram is to divert hazardous
wastes from the landfill.
Household hazardous waste
from residential customers is
also accepted free of charge
year-round at the Hazardous
Waste Collection Center at the
Glenwood Transfer Station.
Collections are scheduled on
Thursdays and Saturdays;
appointments can be made at
541-682-4120.
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on Tuesday, July 12, to con-
tinue review of lands within
the county to determine which
should be classified as forest-
land for the purpose of fire
protection.
The Oregon Department of
Forestry provides wildfire
protection services to forest-
lands in the county, and a
Forest Patrol Assessment on
protected lands helps fund
firefighting.
The meeting will be held at
9 a.m. at the Oregon
Department of Forestry office
in Florence, 2660 Kingwood
St. It is open to the public.
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River restroom
winner named
The Port of Siuslaw has
announced that Ron Caputo,
president of the Port
Commission, has selected a
name for the floating rest-
room.
Caputo said he came under
intense community pressure
to find a fitting and apt name
for the relief head.
“It needed to be a name
that would endure the test of
time, a name which would
not flush away with the cur-
rent,” said Caputo.
Runners-up included “Non
Invasive Feces,” “Toilet
Island,” “Head Above Water”
and “Dumptanic.”
The winner was Bonnie
Kramer, who submitted the
name “Relief Station.”
Kramer will receive a $100
gift certificate to ICM
Restaurant.
The floating restroom, a
gift from the Oregon State
Marine Board, will go into
the river this week. It will be
available for use immediately
thereafter.
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