SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016
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Mainly Piano House
Arizona artist awarded BE The Whale scholarship
concert to benefit OCHS
Pianist and composer Dan
Chadburn, along with singer
and songwriter Tom Nichols,
will be making their third
appearance at Kathy Parsons’
“Mainly Piano House Concert
Series” as a benefit for the
Oregon
Coast
Humane
Society (OCHS) on Saturday,
July 30, at 7 p.m.
The duo’s concerts are
relaxed and informal. These
accomplished and talented
musicians, composers and
songwriters delight audiences
with piano and acoustical gui-
tar original music.
For a sample of their style
of music, visit the websites at
www.themusicoftomnicholls.
com/index and www.dan
chadburn.com/music.
Seating is limited and reser-
vations are required by email-
ing Kathy Parsons at
KathyPiano@gmail.com or
calling 541-999-9720.
Address and directions will
be given after reservations are
made.
The suggested donation of
$15 will be collected at the
door and donated to OCHS in
Florence.
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Siuslaw Middle School stu-
dents have joined forces with
Florence artist and The River
Gallery owner Jan Jagoe to pro-
mote her endangered species
project, which awards $1,000
scholarships to high school art
students nationwide.
The Siuslaw School District
will now receive 10 percent of
the funding received by the BE
The Whale project, to be divided
among the elementary school,
middle school and high school.
The funds will be distributed to
classroom teachers and staff to
buy much needed school supplies
and equipment.
In addition to the 10 percent of
the Go Fund Me account going to
Siuslaw School District, a por-
tion of all proceeds will be donat-
ed to various endangered species
projects across the country.
Donations to help support this
program can also be made at
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Highway 101, P.O. Box 22,000,
Florence, OR 97439.
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is that on rainy days we don’t
have a place where the kids can
run around and burn off ener-
gy,” Trent said. “Our plan is to
COURTESY PHOTO
“BE The Whale” art scholarship recipient Zoey Zhao of
Arizona (left) with Florence resident and artist Jan Jagoe
Checks should be addressed to
the “BE The Whale” donation
fund. The project will continue as
additional funding becomes
available.
The BE The Whale project tar-
gets all types of endangered
species, with a different animal
chosen to represent each state.
Zoey Zhao from Empire High
School in Tucson, Ariz., received
a scholarship in May, for her col-
expand our basketball court
area by another 1,000 square
feet by next week and then to
cover it. That will provide our
rainy day shelter.”
He plans to fund the covered
basketball area project through
a combination of grant money
and private donations.
“On behalf of the board, I
want to say thank you to our
community that has been phe-
nomenal in their support and
encouragement,” Trent said.
“When I look back a year ago,
it took a lot of faith for many of
the people to stand behind us
given where we were at the
time.”
In December 2014, the board
was facing near insurmount-
able debt and was forced to
close the Teen Center. In
January 2015, the board creat-
ed a five-phase strategic action
plan.
“When we started this plan
we had about $120,000 in past
due payables and we had been
advised that our best course of
action would be to just declare
bankruptcy and call it a day,”
Trent said.
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Texting While Driving
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Texting while driving is
banned for all drivers in 45
states and the District of
Columbia, according to the
Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety. Additionally,
novice drivers are banned
from the activity in Missouri,
Oklahoma and Texas.
Some drivers are still legally
allowed to text while driving
according to their state law,
under specific circumstances.
In Texas, for example, driv-
ers in school crossing zones
and on public school property
during the time reduced
speed limit applies are
banned from texting while
driving. Drivers over 18 not in
these areas, however, are
allowed to text while driving.
But many localities within
Texas have enacted their own
bans on using cell phones to
text while driving.
You can see how this
non-uniform approach could
be confusing.
Check out the IIHS col-
or-coded map on the organi-
zation’s website (wwww.iihs.
org) to find out where your
state stands. Contact your
local Secretary of State to find
out how any related laws
impact your city or county.
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ACTIVITY
Even though we can’t all
ince text messaging is a relatively new issue
in the world of driving laws, the ramifications
of doing so are not yet universal.
ored pencil drawing of a baby
Ocelot.
Brooks Jones, from Herriman
High School in Salt Lake City,
Utah, received a scholarship in
December 2015 for her pen and
ink drawing of a Southwestern
Willow Flycatcher.
Jordan Merz from Bonners
Ferry High School in Bonners
Ferry, Idaho, received a scholar-
ship in May 2015, for her
graphite and charcoal drawing of
a Woodland Caribou. Paris
Meyers, from Crescent Valley
High School in Albany, Ore.,
received a scholarship in
December 2014 for her watercol-
or of a humpback whale.
High school students from
Nevada will submit artwork dur-
ing the fall semester of 2016. The
endangered animal chosen for
the fall semester will be
announced in September 2016.
Pictures of the winning art-
work are at BeTheWhale.com
and at The River Gallery in Old
Town Florence.
The board met with repre-
sentatives of Boys and Girls
Club of America and received
some startling news.
“They said that if this club
ever closed, they would never
put another club back in this
community,” Trent said.
“We got several of our most
business savvy donors together
and explained the situation.
One of the messages that we
heard consistently from that
group of advisers was, ‘You
have to reopen the Teen
Center,’” he said.
The club reopened the Teen
Center in September 2015 with
nine members and ended the
school year with more than 40.
The state of Oregon and
Siuslaw High School have
graduation rates well below the
national average.
In a recent survey of local
Boys and Girls Club members,
100 percent of Teen Center mem-
bers said they plan to graduate
from high school on time.
“Our goal is to make sure we
are doing everything we can to
help Siuslaw School District
and the families in our commu-
nity improve our graduation
rates,” Trent said.
“As soon as Superintendent
Andy Grzeskowiak has a
chance to catch his breath from
the transition, the conversation
that we will have with him will
be, ‘What does the Boys and
Girls Club need to do to help
you be successful?’” he added.
Through its elementary,
Teen Center and sports pro-
grams, Boys and Girls Club of
Western Lane County reaches
approximately 600 Florence-
area youth.
Administrative offices are
located at the Teen Center,
1601 15th St. For more infor-
mation, call 541-902-0304.
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seem to agree on the legality
of texting while driving, we all
should pay attention to the
statistics.
According to the National
Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and its “Stop
the Texts, Stop the Wrecks”
advertising campaign:
• You are three times more
likely to crash your vehicle if
you text while driving;
• 49 percent of adults say
they have been passengers in
a car when the driver was
sending or reading text mes-
sages on their cell phone;
• 68 percent of teens and
young adults disagreed that it
is easy to text while driving
and still pay attention to the
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road; and
• 78 percent of teens and
young adults say they have
read a text message while
driving, while 71 percent say
they have composed and sent
one.
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“Constantly living your
life ‘age-appropriately’ can
be like Kryptonite,” Hickson
wrote in “Turning 49.”
“Keeping a lighthearted per-
spective on the world and
maintaining a sense of won-
derment about its possibili-
ties — whether plausible or
fanciful — helps avoid that
downward spiral into living
life in an uninspired rut.”
Siuslaw News also won
third place for Best Page
One Design.
Editor Ryan Cronk sub-
mitted the issues of May 23,
Oct. 10 and Dec. 2, 2015,
for consideration. Cover sto-
ries included Vern DiPietro’s
images of a pod of orcas on
the Siuslaw River, ALICE
safety training at Mapleton
School District, the Dancing
with Sea Lions project and
Florence’s annual Holiday
Festival and Tree Lighting.
Jenna Bartlett, general
manager for the Siuslaw
News, said, “I think you can
see that 2015 was a great
year for the paper. We con-
tinue to provide top news
content to our community.”