SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Plan Siuslaw region’s future
at Vision Keepers tomorrow
Siuslaw Vision Keepers will
meet Thursday, Sept. 22, in the
Bromley Room of Siuslaw
Public Library, 1460 Ninth St.
The meeting begins at 8:15
a.m. and ends by 9:45 a.m.
Agenda items will include:
an update on printing of the
Siuslaw Region Vision 2025
brochure, discussion of hiring
a paid part-time Vision
Coordinator, plans for upcom-
ing presentations and progress
on vision action items.
Action items cover a broad
array of topics of interest to
residents, such as transporta-
tion, jobs and workforce
development, housing, inter-
net access, recreation, a com-
munity calendar and the arts.
The Siuslaw Region Vision
is the result of over two years
and thousands of hours of
effort by area volunteers who
care about the community and
want to see it thrive.
The Vision Keepers is a
steering committee whose pur-
pose is to keep the vision alive,
and help community members
throughout the region move
forward to achieve this vision.
The committee includes a
diverse mix of regional resi-
dents, elected officials, busi-
ness owners, nonprofit volun-
teers and staff, educators,
librarians, and artists. The
Vision Keepers invite the pub-
lic to become familiar with the
2025 Vision and take part in
achieving it. The committee
also welcomes opportunities to
present the vision to groups
and organizations.
For more information, visit
www.SiuslawPathways.com
or email SiuslawVision@
gmail.com.
Award-winning blues band
to perform at Blue Bills
The Stevens Hess Band,
recently given the title of
“2013 Best New Blues Act” by
the Cascade Blues Assoc-
iation, will be performing at
Blue Bills Sports Bar and Tap
Room on Thusday, Sept. 23,
and Friday, 24, from 9 p.m. to
12:30 a.m.
Blue Bills is located inside
Three Rivers Casino Resort,
5647 Highway 126.
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Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of interest
to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Constance Fenimore
Woolson: Portrait of a
Lady Novelist, Miss Grief
and other stories by
Constance Fenimore
Woolson
By Anne Boyd Rioux
Book Review by Kevin Mittge
Constance Fenimore Woolson
was one of the most accom-
plished American writers of the
19th century. Yet today, the
best-known (and most-misun-
derstood) facts of her life are her
relationship with Henry James
and her probable suicide in
Venice.
Anne Boyd Rioux has written
the first full-length biography of
Woolson that evokes her dramat-
ic life and reaffirms her literary
stature.
Woolson was a grand-niece of
James Fenimore Cooper and
wrote to help support her family.
Known for her powerfully realis-
tic and empathetic stories of
post-Civil War American life,
she created compelling portray-
als of the rural Midwest,
Reconstruction-era South, and
formerly Spanish Florida, to
which she moved with her
invalid mother.
After her mother’s death she
moved to Europe, living mostly
in England and Italy, where she
met Henry James.
In a sense Woolson has been
“re-discovered” by contempo-
rary readers. A new book of her
short stories, “Miss Grief and
Other Short Stories,” includes
the title story, “St. Clair Flats”
set in the Great Lakes region,
“Solomon,” “Rodman the
Keeper” set in post-Civil War
south and “Sister St. Luke,” “A
Florentine Experiment” and “In
Sloane Street” set in London.
Highly rated on the popular
book site, Goodreads, “Miss
Grief” is an excellent introduc-
tion to an almost forgotten
American author.
Florence Festival of Books
The Siuslaw Public Library is
a proud sponsor of the Florence
Festival of Books, an event
sponsored by the Friends of the
Florence Events Center and
many numerous and generous
sponsors.
The festival features keynote
speaker, New York Times best-
selling author, Phillip Margolin,
Friday at 7 p.m. at the FEC.
On Saturday, the free festival
presents many local authors
from the Oregon Coast and
around the Northwest.
What a wonderful opportunity
to meet some wonderful writers
and learn about their books!
Check the Florence Festival of
Books website, www.florence
festivalofbooks.org, for a list of
5 A
participants, information about a
free author’s panel on Friday
afternoon and how to attend the
Margolin keynote.
Don’t miss this fantastic cele-
bration of authors and books!
Free storytelling workshop
On Saturday, Oct. 22, from 2
to 4 p.m., Portland Story Theater
will be presenting a workshop on
the art of storytelling. In the
workshops, they teach “inten-
tional storytelling” where people
learn how to tell stories improvi-
sationally by being resourceful
and using the power of spontane-
ity.
You’ll get a chance to learn
about story structure, the power
of presence, the differences
between writing and telling, and
to find the story that you need to
tell.
This workshop will give you a
taste of this ancient art form in a
fast-paced, fun environment.
Workshop size is limited to 25
participants, so pre-registration
is required.
Please stop by the Reference
Desk or call (541) 997-3132 to
sign-up. For those who would
just like to listen to storytelling,
the Portland Story Theater will
be doing a free show at the
library that evening at 7 p.m.
Look in future Tidings for
more information.
Senior Center offering flu SOS co-sponsoring board
vaccinations Sept. 27
training for nonprofits
The Florence Senior Center
is sponsoring a flu vaccine
clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at
10 a.m.
Beginning questionnaires
are available at the Senior
Center desk which will speed
up appointments if completed
in advance.
Continue your day with
lunch at the Singing Pines
Café. Chef Richard and
Teresa are preparing the
meals, which have been
receiving raves.
Reservations are required
in advance for each meal by
calling 541-997-8844.
The cost of each meal will
be increasing beginning in
October. Increased food costs
have required the Board of
Directors to authorize the
increased charge to assure the
continued high quality of
meals presented by the Senior
Center kitchen.
The new cost will be $7 for
each meal.
Come get a flu shot and
join others in your com-
munuty for lunch.
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The Center for Nonprofit
Stewardship and Siuslaw
Outreach Services (SOS) are
teaming up for a training
invitation to board members
and key staff of local non-
profit organizations.
The training will be held in
Florence on Nov. 12, at the
Florence Events Center.
Doors open at 8 a.m. This
fun and interactive workshop
is also sponsored by The
Ford Family Foundation, and
will lay the groundwork for
new, as well as veteran,
board and staff members.
Training
topics
will
include: Rights and Respons-
ibilities of Board Members,
Managing
Organizational
Risk, Understanding Finan-
cial Information, and Board
Roles and Responsibilities.
The Center for Nonprofit
Stewardship and Siuslaw
Outreach Services are non-
profit charities.
To register, visit www.
nonprofitsteward.org.
For more information, call
SOS executive director
David Wiegan at 541-997-
2816.
PeaceHealth to host open
house for expanded ER
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
will be hosting an open house
for Florence community to
tour its newly expanded emer-
gency department on Sunday,
Sept. 25, at 12:30 p.m.
The expansion and remodel
project took approximately 15
months and cost $6 million to
complete.
With donations from the
community and grants total-
ing $5 million, this wraps up
the largest fundraising cam-
paign to date in Florence.
The open house will allow
donors and community mem-
bers to see firsthand how this
expansion will better serve
the health needs of the
Florence and surrounding
communities.
1749 Highway 101 • 541-997-1200
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