SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016
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Three Rivers Casino Nichols featured artist at Backstreet Gallery
offers weekend lineup
Three Rivers Casino Resort
is offering a weekend enter-
tainment lineup Friday, Oct. 7,
and Saturday, Oct. 8, at Blue
Bills Sports Bar and Tap
Room (located inside Three
Rivers Casino Resort), 5647
Highway 126.
Scott William Perry will
perform Oct. 7, from 9 p.m. to
12:30 a.m. Perry is a rising
country rock star on the West
Coast.
Then, on Oct. 8, Al Rojas
will perform from 9 p.m. to
12:30 a.m.
Rojas, aka “DJ Owl,” has
been packing dance floors and
setting the perfect tone for
hundreds of events since 2006.
From Phoenix, Ariz., he is a
wedding, club, private party
and corporate experience DJ.
Music has always been a
passion of his. He has a way of
energizing the crowd to create
an unforgetable experience.
We invite you to
join us.
Multimedia artist Karen D.
Nichols will celebrate her 10-
year
membership
with
Backstreet Gallery as the fea-
tured artist in October.
Her reception is Saturday,
Oct. 8, from 3 to 5 p.m., during
the Second Saturday Gallery
Tour and the Wine Walk.
One of Nichols’ favorite
media is paper-painting col-
lage, a sculptural relief art form
that gives spirit and 3D shape
to her many birds in flight, col-
orful florals and interesting
people.
She also enjoys painting in
watercolors, oils and acrylics.
Nichols is a member of the
Watercolor Society of Oregon
and a founding member of the
Florence
Regional
Arts
Alliance (FRAA), where you
can also find her artwork,
including her Pocket Poem
books for an infusion of uplift-
ing messages.
COURTESY PHOTOS
This and other mixed medium art by Karen D. Nichols is
currently on display at Backstreet Gallery.
Her fifth book, “The Moral
of the Story,” has just been
released. This new book is a
collection of stories that may
elicit a tear or a belly laugh and
a few emotions in between.
Her previous novels are all
set in Florence, have a dog nos-
ing its way into the story and
range from mystery and adven-
tures to inspirational stories.
Find her books at Backstreet
Gallery, FRAA and on
Amazon.com.
Nichols is also on the board
for the Florence Festival of
Books. She recently spoke at
the Writer’s Salon at the
Florence
Regional
Arts
Alliance and has taught classes
in drawing, portraiture and
writing.
Come enjoy a reception with
food, fun, wine tasting as well
as blues guitar music and
singing by David Wiegan,
executive director of Siuslaw
Outreach Services.
Backstreet Gallery, 1421
Bay St., is open daily from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Siuslaw Viewfinders announce photo winners
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COURTESY PHOTO
Winning photographs by (from left) Bill Stone, Cathy Wasson and Jane Pittenger
The Siuslaw Viewfinders
Camera Club was back from
the summer break with lots of
great photos to contribute to
the three themes of summer.
The fist theme was, appro-
priately enough, “Summer
Fun.”
First place went to Cathy
Wasson with her picture of her
dog, Spike, having a blast on
the beach.
Second place was taken by
Curt Peters, with a photo taken
at the Newport Aquarium
under the sea.
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Third place was a great
photo from Stephanie Ames of
a bronc rider doing a face plant.
The next theme was
“Independence.”
First place went to Jane
Pittenger with a composite of
Holman Overlook and some
lovely fireworks.
Curt Peters took second in
this category as well with a
photo titled “Americana.”
Rudy Gargioni’s photo of a
crow titled “Alone But Not
Lonely” took third.
The last theme was “Hinges,
Door knobs, Faucets” and pro-
duced some outstanding photo-
graphs, such as first place win-
ner Bill Stone with his photo
titled “Keyhole in Green Door:
Jamestown, Calif.”
Second place in this catego-
ry went to Rudy Gargioni with
“Out Back” and third place was
captured by Jane Pittenger with
“Birds with Faucet,” a study of
three birds trying to figure out a
dripping faucet.
The theme for this month’s
Viewfinders photography chal-
lenge is “Floating,” a photo
subject that can be interpreted
in a variety of ways.
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For the Murpheys, protection involves personal lines insurance,
such as home, auto, boat, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and side-
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for individual care or groups.
On the commercial end, Coast Insurance off ers small business
insurance packages, workers compensation insurance and insurance
for public entities.
“We cover, basically, all aspects of life,” Jean said.
Jean is the commercial lines agent, runs operations in the offi ce
and has worked for Coast Insurance since 1994. She moved to the
Florence area in 1989.
“John does outside sales, is the insurance agent to public entities
and does our troubleshooting,” she said.
John was born and raised in the area and started at Coast
Insurance in 2000.
Th e Murpheys bought Coast Insurance in 2012.
“It’s always been a family-owned, locally owned business,” Jean
said. “Th e history of it is that Bob Read opened the local agency in
1952. He and his wife Gini ran the agency until they sold it to David
Jackson in 1992. David ran the agency until we purchased it.”
John said, “We took over Jan. 1, 2013.”
Besides John & Jean, Coast Insurance has fi ve employees, one
of which is John’s daughter Heidi. Heidi is a part-time commercial
lines agent. Th ey also employ two part-time receptionists as well as
two full-time personal lines agents.
A majority of Coast Insurance’s clients live and work in the
Florence and Mapleton areas, but clients stretch “from Waldport to
Reedsport,” said Jean.
“We have customers in outlying areas, and a few stragglers all
over the state of Oregon,” John added.
Coast Insurance focuses on the coast because it means
community. Th e business sponsored artist Brian Bloss’s Dancing
with Sea Lions public art sculpture, “Th alassa,” as part of the
Florence Events Center’s 20th anniversary this year. Th e Murpheys,
too, are heavily involved in community groups.
“John has all the credentials,” Jean said. “He is on the board
of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Western Lane County
and the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum. He’s also on the City Planning
Commission and on the budget committees for Siuslaw School
District, Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue and Western Lane
Ambulance District.”
John is also the past president of the Florence Kiwanis Club,
and Jean is the president elect.
“I’m going to be pretty involved in Kiwanis for the next couple
years,” Jean said.
She is one of the main organizers for the annual Fraudville lip-
sync contest benefi tting the Boys & Girls Club.
“Most of what I do is Fraudville,” she said. “It’s so fun.”
For even more fun, John and Jean like to go motorcycling
together.
“John got a motorcycle with a sidecar, so we go tootling around
in that,” Jean said. “We also have scooters, so we do ‘Scooter Trash
Tuesdays.’”
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