SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
Dinner
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The celebration will include
live music entertainment by
Marty Adams, some dancing
and a short program.
“It won’t be a real big, fancy,
drawn and dried program.
Wayne Sharpe, as president of
the museum board, will be the
emcee, and the mayor and aux-
iliary commander for this
region will speak,” Applebee
said. “There will not be a mas-
sive keynote presentation.”
The dinner is also part of the
city’s bid to become a Coast
Guard City.
Applebee said, “Mayor
Henry is very excited about the
application process. He’s get-
ting a lot of letters of support.”
Henry is working with Coast
Guard Auxiliarist Deborah
Heldt Cordone to gather letters
of support and photos and sto-
ries of the Coast Guard’s
involvement with the commu-
nity.
“The plan is to submit that
application right after the
Appreciation
Dinner,”
Applebee said.
The dinner will also feature
newly minted challenge coins
with the Coast Guard logo and
the date of the event.
Applebee hopes the planning
committee decides to remain
engaged with OCMM.
“I am personally very excit-
ed about the way all the vet
groups are pulling together. I
hope that this committee will
evolve into a veterans group
liason committee and keep all
those groups engaged,” he said.
The public can purchase
tickets at OCMM, Banner Bank
and the Florence Area Chamber
of Commerce Visitor Center for
$35.
For more information, go to
OCMM at 2145 Kingwood St.
or visit oregoncoastmilitary
museum.com.
Lunch
“They offered to pay rent
and we said, ‘But is that going
to take money away from your
program?’, and they said, ‘No,
we have been given a grant
specifically for rent for the
fall,’” Thompson said.
Church members agreed to
rearrange schedules so that
Helping Hands would be able
to use the facilities to prepare
and serve hot lunches inside
the church’s kitchen and dining
building.
“Wednesday is a fairly busy
day here at the church and we
had to move things to
Wednesday afternoons to
accommodate their needs,”
Thompson said.
Helping Hands volunteers
have been serving hot meals at
the church since the end of
August. In addition, the group
continues to provide laundry
and shower vouchers and a free
post office box so homeless
people can receive mail.
There is not enough room to
continue the free clothing pro-
gram at the church location.
“One of the problems for
them is that we don’t have stor-
age space,” Thompson said.
“We can only give them one
shelf in the refrigerator and
two shelves in a cupboard.”
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a large hopper. The dredge
then dumps the sediment a
mile or two off shore in an
Environmental Protection
Agency authorized offshore
disposal site.
Keen said the dredge slow-
ly moves across the disposal
site area to deposit the sedi-
ment instead of dumping it in
one big pile. After releasing
the debris, the dredge returns
to the river and continues to
work where it last left.
According to Kate Groth,
Army Corps’ Coastal Project
Manager, the Yaquina
removes about 80,000 to
100,000 cubic yards of mate-
rial from the Siuslaw River in
an average year.
This year had less than
average build-up at the bar,
but 79,314 cubic yards of
debris was removed in July
and September combined.
Groth said, “Dredging the
entrance is always our priority
for safety; however, with the
reduced shoaling on the
entrance this year we were
able to dredge some material
two to three miles upriver”.
Siuslaw Port Manger
Steven Leskin and members
of the U.S. Coast Guard were
invited onboard the Yaquina
during its recent visit.
Leskin, who had the oppor-
tunity to watch the dredge
operate from the bridge, said,
“We are grateful for the feder-
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Several events take place in Florence this weekend,
including the Rods ’n’ Rhodies Car Show in Old Town,
the Citywide Garage Sale and the Grand Opening of the
CROW Center for the Performing Arts, 3120 Highway
101, on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m.
ON THE
STREET
What are you most excited for about this weekend?
“I am most excited about this weekend’s Rods
’n’ Rhodies — because someone else is running it
for a change!”
—C AL A PPLEBEE , F ORMER C HAMBER
D IRECTOR & C AR E NTHUSIAST
“I’m on the hunt for a treasure! When I brought
this to a skeptical Chamber board three years ago, it
took some convincing. ‘Trust me, they’ll come,’ I
said. And here we are in our fourth year. I’m already
getting heart palpitations!”
—C INDY W OBBE , C ITYWIDE G ARAGE S ALE
C OMMITTEE C HAIRWOMAN
“Opening the doors to the CROW Center for the
Performing Arts is a dream come true for all of our
kids, families, volunteers and production team. I’m
excited, nervous and grateful for the Grand Opening
event, and can’t wait to hear the beautiful sounds of
our CROW kids singing in our brand new home.”
—M ELANIE H EARD , CROW D IRECTOR
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M ONEY TO BE MADE WITH
V ACATION R ENTAL
al appropriations which make
this possible. Dredging makes
commercial and recreational
activities more attainable. It is
crucial to the Florence econo-
my and to the coastal port
cities along the Oregon and
Washington coastline.”
The federal appropriation
to dredge the Siuslaw for fis-
cal year 2016 was $771,000.
The Yaquina dredges on fed-
eral navigation channels only.
On the Siuslaw, the designated
federal waterway goes upriver
several miles, but the Corps
normally does not dredge past
the bridge. The area outside the
boundaries of the actual channel
is not their responsibility.
The Port of Siuslaw is
responsible for dredging in the
port area outside the channel.
Leskin explained, “We are
lucky. The swift current of the
Siuslaw acts as a natural
cleansing agent. We do not
have large sediment accumu-
lation in the port’s area of
responsibility. However, we
still need to dredge periodi-
cally in our portion of the
river and we have access to a
smaller, state-owned dredge.”
According the Leskin, the
state-owned dredge was pur-
chased when several south
coast ports formed a coalition
and lobbied the State of
Oregon to purchase a dredge,
which it did. That dredge has
been successfully used in
Bandon, Gold Beach and
Brookings. It is scheduled
next to be used at the Port of
Alsea and Coos Bay.
“We are permitted by the
Corps and Oregon
Department of State Lands
until 2019. I hope we will
have access to the state-
owned dredge before our per-
mit expires,” Leskin said.
“The cost of using the state-
owned dredge is about $3 a
cubic yard, versus a private
dredge which is about ten
times that amount.”
For more information about
Dredge Yaquina, visit
www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Mis
sions/Navigation/Vessels/.
The U.S. Coast Guard
reminds mariners to use extra
caution around larger vessels
on the Siuslaw River and
ocean. They have limited visi-
bility, turning and stopping
capabilities. Maintain an all-
around lookout at all times
and be prepared to move out
of their path.
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She has seen an increase of
people taking advantage of the
Helping Hands free lunch pro-
gram, compared to the church
program.
“They are feeding between
50 and 60 people each day,”
Thompson said. “On Tuesdays
and Thursdays, our church’s
free lunch program was aver-
aging 35 to 40.
“In some ways it is different
people,” she added. “Some
have not necessarily been com-
fortable coming to a church
before, and now that Helping
Hands is doing it, it’s not just
those ‘church ladies’ serving
meals. That is wonderful as far
as we are concerned.”
Helping Hands has an agree-
ment with the church to run the
free lunch program and other
services through the church
kitchen until the end of
December.
“After that we will have to
look at it,” Thompson said. “If
it is all going well and they
need more time, it will proba-
bly go on.”
In the meantime, Helping
Hands volunteers will continue
to search for a building of their
own to run the program.
“When they do get a build-
ing, we are all going to need to
support them,” Thompson
said.
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