SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2016
Van Fans to host card
games, luncheon fundraiser
Get together with friends
for a fun day of card games
and lunch hosted by the Van
Fans on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
The event will take place at
a new location, St. Mary’s Our
Lady of the Dunes Catholic
Church, two miles south of
Florence on Highway 101.
Tickets are on sale now for
$15 to reserve a table. Games
begin at 11:30 a.m.
There will be raffle prizes
and games throughout the
day.
Ticket price, with or with-
out card games, is $15 per per-
son and includes the luncheon.
The Friends of Florence
Van Fans is a nonpolitical
organization that sponsors this
event twice a year. All pro-
ceeds go to support the Cancer
Van, which transports cancer
patients every weekday to and
from Eugene and Springfield
for radiation treatments.
For more information or to
sign up for card games, call
Karen Lee at 541-997-9669.
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hand personal observations
extending over his own 25-year
friendship with Phillips.
Phillips recorded what some,
including author Guralnick, con-
siders the first rock and roll
record, “Rocket 88” by Jackie
Brenston and his Delta Cats, a
band led by Ike Turner, who also
wrote the song.
From 1950 to 1954, Phillips
recorded Howlin’ Wolf, whom he
considered his greatest discovery,
Elvis Presley, his second, as well
as James Cotton, Rufus Thomas,
Rosco Gordon, B.B. King,
Charlie Rich, Junior Parker, Roy
Orbison, Carl Perkins and many
more.
If you enjoy biographies about
American greats and creative
geniuses, you are sure to enjoy
Sam Phillips.
Sam Phillips: The Man
Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll
By Peter Guralnick
Book review by Kevin Mittge
In January 1950, Sam Phillips
opened Sun Studio, originally
called Memphis Recording
Service, in Memphis, Tenn. An
Alabama native, Phillips had
been a disc jockey and radio
engineer for a local station in
Muscle Shoals before moving to
Memphis.
Music
historian
Peter
Guralnick has now written an
intensely interesting and enter-
taining biography of Sam Phillips
and his impact on rock and roll
music.
Entitled “Sam Phillips: The
Man Who Invented Rock ’n’
Roll,” the subtitle continues
“How One Man Discovered
Howlin’ Wolf, Ike Turner, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and
Elvis Presley, and How His Tiny
Label, Sun Records of Memphis,
Revolutionized the World!”
That subtitle captures the
nature of this wonderful book.
Guralnick, who has written
extensively on American music
and musicians, including a two-
volume biography of Elvis
Presley, tells Phillips’ amazing
story loaded with detail from
extensive interviews and first-
New materials
The library has several “new”
materials shelves. We separate
out new adult fiction and nonfic-
tion, new large print, new DVDs,
new audiobooks, new young
adult and new juvenile fiction.
The length of time items stay
on the new shelves depend on
various factors, including shelf
space to move them off the new
shelf as well as the need to make
room for more new items.
5 A
A six-or nine-month stay on
any “new” shelf is about average.
Keep in mind that not all “new”
items will be on the new shelf.
We try to select the most popular
and most diverse new titles for
your browsing pleasure.
Study rooms
Did you know that the library
has two small study rooms that
comfortably seat about four or
five people, that can be used for
small meetings, private study,
one-on-one tutoring or as a quiet
place to use one’s laptop?
The rooms may be scheduled
up to four hours and are available
on a first-come, first-served
basis; the rules of use are other-
wise the same as for the larger
conference room and Bromley
Room.
Please note that one of the
rooms is equipped with a white-
board, and both rooms are
equipped with a dictionary, the-
saurus and MLA handbook.
Story Time on Hiatus
Twice weekly story times with
Ms. Gayle are on hiatus until
September.
Story times resume on
Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 10:30 am.
See you then!
Sheriffs to conduct DUII, seat belt enforcement blitz
Oregon Department of
Transportation (ODOT) Crash
Analysis and Reporting Unit
released the latest available
state-wide data for passenger
vehicle fatalities by county.
The data from 2014 shows
232 deaths from crashes
throughout Oregon that year.
Lane County recorded 28 fatal-
ities from vehicle crashes —
the highest number of fatalities
resulting from vehicle crashes
state-wide, with Clackamas
County next with 23 deaths in
the same year.
Lane County Sheriff’s
Office received special allocat-
ed funding from ODOT and
Oregon
State
Sheriff’s
Association to provide over-
time patrols with a focus on
Traffic and Life Safety, empha-
sizing DUII and aggressive
driving enforcement, as well as
seat belt use enforcement.
Through the grant funding,
sheriff deputies will be con-
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ducting overtime patrols in the
Lane County area through
Labor Day, Sept. 5.
This saturation is in conjunc-
tion with a nation-wide effort
to reduce drunk and impaired
driving and reduce the number
of injuries and deaths from
vehicle crashes.
Lane County Sheriff’s
Office wants to remind
motorists to buckle up, drive
safely and drive sober. With the
passage of Oregon’s marijuana
laws, this is also a reminder of
the impairment marijuana cre-
ates of drivers, impacting their
ability to safely operate a
motor vehicle.
Driving Under the Influence
of Intoxicants (DUII) applies
to drivers under the influence
of marijuana, as it does with
alcohol.
Three Rivers
Casino holds
comedy night
Three Rivers Casino
Resort’s Comedy Thursdays
continues
through the
summer,
with stand-
up comedi-
ans per-
forming
each
Thursday in Susan Jones
Blue Bills
(located inside Three Rivers)
from 7 to 8 p.m.
On Aug. 25, the headliner
will be Susan Jones, a West
Coast favorite and nationally
known headlining comic.
Jones brings her 20 years
of comedy and radio experi-
ence to the stage with some
seriously funny girl talk.
Larger than life, Jones uses
her attitude and experiences
with size acceptance and
being a single mom to deliv-
er consistently funny, crowd
pleasing performances.
She has opened for Ron
White, Jeffrey Ross, Brad
Garret, Doug Stanhope, Josh
Wolfe, Emo Phillips, Rick
Overton, Judy Tenuta, Brad
Upton, Susan Rice, Rod
Long, among a host of oth-
ers. She can frequently be
heard on national television
and radio.
Susan won Jack FM and
Snoqualmie Casino’s
Funniest Comedian in
Washington contest, Club
Casino’s Jokers Run
Funniest Comedian contest,
was a finalist in the
“Funniest Woman in
California” competition, and
can be seen in the independ-
ent film “Homeless”.
The opener for Jones is
Bahiyyih Mudd.