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126TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 70
❘ AUGUST 31, 2016 ❘ $1.00
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Leonard Ulrich joins
Siuslaw School District
B Y J ACK D AVIS
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PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
Florence Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors hold the ribbon for
Siuslaw Youth Soccer Association President Cameron Jagoe as he officially
opens the soccer season at Miller Park. Registration for youth to partici-
pate in the new soccer league continues until Sept. 9.
L ONG - RANGE
GOAL
New Siuslaw Youth Soccer Association
offers soccer to youth aged 5 to 18
outh will continue to play
soccer at Miller Park
thanks to the new Siuslaw
Youth Soccer Association (SYSA)
and its teamwork with Boys and
Girls Club of Western Lane
County and the City of Florence.
SYSA held an open house and
registration night on Friday to
meet area youth, interact with fam-
ilies and introduce the new club.
The association is a 501(c)3
nonprofit that will now run the
soccer program in Florence. Youth
ages 5 to 18 will be able to partic-
ipate.
“Thank you to all of you for
signing up and making this hap-
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B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
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pen,” said SYSA Board President
Cameron Jagoe. “Here’s to
answering a strong call for soccer
in Florence.”
Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce Ambassadors and
Mayor Joe Henry helped SYSA
open the season with a ribbon cut-
ting.
Henry said, “I appreciate all the
efforts you guys have made to
keep this sport going.”
Many area groups have come
forward to sponsor and support
SYSA and soccer in Florence,
including the Florence Siuslaw
Lions Club, who roasted hot dogs
and poured root beer donated by
A&W Restaurant during the regis-
tration event.
The City of Florence worked
with SYSA to make sure all the
groups utilizing Miller Park have
space to practice and compete. The
city also installed new soccer
goals at the park.
The biggest partner has been
Boys and Girls Club and its exec-
utive director, Chuck Trent.
SYSA Board member Justin
Linton said, “We want to thank the
Boys and Girls Club for their con-
tinued effort in making Florence
an area where the youth are appre-
ciated and have opportunities to
learn and grow. They’ve done a
good job of keeping soccer for the
elementary aged kids, so we’re
extremely grateful. ... Not only
that, they’ve been a big help in
donating goals and soccer balls
and passing the ball on to us as a
torch to get things rolling.”
According to Linton, SYSA
wanted to make soccer available
for middle- and high-school-aged
youth, so it joined the Oregon
Youth Soccer Association and cre-
ated its own league.
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Siuslaw Elementary and Middle schools selected
Leonard Ulrich as the next assistant principal. The
position opened in July when Andy Marhol was
promoted to prin-
cipal at Siuslaw
Middle School.
Ulrich, 39, a
Lincoln City Taft
High School grad-
uate, spent the
past two years at
the Yamhill
Carlton School
District near
Newburg.
“My job
responsibilities
will range from
evaluating teach-
JACK DAVIS /SIUSLAW NEWS
ers, to discipline,
Leonard
Ulrich
to helping
improve atten-
dance here at the schools,” Ulrich said.
While at Yamhill Carlton, Ulrich focused on
improving the district’s poor graduation rate, a
problem that plagues many Oregon school dis-
tricts, including Siuslaw.
“A lot of research has shown that middle school
attendance carries over to whether you are going to
be likely to graduate or not. If you have 95 percent
or higher attendance in middle school, it is almost
guaranteed that you will graduate from high
school. That is a big one for us this year,” he said.
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MAPLETON
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PHOTOS BY JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS
Pamela Lauer and Clara Smith
wo new teachers (left) join the team at Mapleton School District
for the 2016-17 school year. Pamela Lauer, from Mt. Shasta,
Calif., will teach first and second grade and Clara Smith, from
Portland, Ore., will teach fifth and sixth grade. At right, Mapleton
Lions Club served a free taco lunch for the staff and teachers of
the entire district on Monday. The tradition began in the early
1960s as an appreciation dinner but morphed into a lunch. “We
catch a lot more people doing a lunch here at the school,” said
Carl West, Lions Club member and school board chairman.
Strawberry Hill
TO VISIT THIS SUMMER
Neptune State Scenic Viewpoint, Florence ❘ 541-547-3416
S PECIAL F EATURE :
This summer we are
highlighting unique
spots that make the
central Oregon coast
one of the coolest
places to live and play.
New locations will be
featured each month.
A T A GLANCE : Strawberry Hill is the access point
to two beaches and several rocky outcroppings, ideal
for beachcombing, tide pooling and agate hunting.
This stretch of the coast has been referred to as a
microcosm of the central Oregon coast.
The grassy knoll adjacent to the parking lot has
benches for picnicking and is an ideal spot for bird
and whale watching. There is a path and a series of
stairs that leads visitors to the beaches and tide
pools.
Strawberry Hill, a part of Neptune State Park, is
located on Highway 101, between Florence and
Yachats at milepost 169.
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ATTENDANCE 6A
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
New assistant
principal makes
graduation rates
top priority