SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016
Florence VFW to host
yard sale this weekend
The second annual Veterans
of Foreign Wars (VFW)
Florence Post 3232 Yard Sale
will be held Saturday, Oct. 8,
and Sunday, Oct. 9. The yard
sale will be held at the the
Florence Elks lodge, 1858 12th
St., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In the event of rain, the yard
sale will be moved to Oct. 21
and 22.
Proceeds from the yard sale
are used in many ways. Last
year’s proceeds purchased uni-
forms for its 15 Honor Guard
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Wasting away
members. The Honor Guard
provides memorial services for
fallen heroes.
Post 3232 is also the Honor
Guard/Color Guard for the
State of Oregon Veterans Of
Foreign Wars.
Proceeds are also used to aid
veterans in need and their fam-
ilies with temporary or perma-
nent housing.
Funds can be used to assist
local students and recognize
local teachers, law enforcement
and fire protection personnel.
Burn permits required
for outdoor burn season
Siuslaw Valley Fire and
Rescue announced that out-
door burning will be allowed
starting Saturday, Oct. 15.
Last year, Siuslaw Valley
adopted the Oregon Fire Code
and now requires a permitting
process for open burning.
As a way to educate the
public and keep track of open
burns, the fire department is
continuing a free burn permit
program.
The permit program will be
in conjunction with the Lane
Regional Air Protection
Agency, which has rules and
regulations for the open burn
season that usually runs Oct. 1
through June 15 of each year.
Burn permits are now avail-
able to the public for those that
live outside of the city limits.
There is no open burning
allowed in the Florence City
limits.
All open burns will require
a burn permit. The burn per-
mits are valid for the entire
burn season. Each permit has
information on what can be
burned and who to call to con-
firm each appropriate burn
day.
The permits are available
online at www.svfr.org and at
the main fire station at 2625
Highway 101.
Windjammer Salon Welcomes
Kelcee Pengra
Open Tues-Th urs 8 to done
Fri-Sat 8-3 Sun/Mon by appt only.
Walk-ins welcome
1747 21st Street, Florence
Call 541-590-5191
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Lane County Waste Management reported strong turnout for its semiannual hazardous waste collection effort
last Friday and Saturday. Area residents took advantage of the free event to drop off toxic items that should
not be disposed of in the local landfill.
‘Our Town’ to discuss physician recruitment, senate seats
Primary Care, the Fifth
District Oregon State Senate
Race and “Being Mortal”
are the three topics that
will be explored this week
during the October edition of
KCST Coast Radio’s Our
Town.
Efforts to recruit additional
primary care physicians are
beginning to pay off for
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center, but there will
still probably be a shortage of
providers for several more
months.
Dr. Mark Adams is the
Chief Medical Officer for
PeaceHealth.
He joins a panel of four
others in the studio at KCST
and KCFM to talk about
recruitment efforts, as well as
a possible “long-term solu-
tion” to the nationwide short-
age of care providers.
Along with Adams will be
Rick Yecny, the chief admin-
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phone about his record in the
legislature over the past sev-
eral years.
Roblan is recuperating at
home from an “unexpected”
hip surgery last week.
He is being challenged by
former Lincoln City Mayor
Dick Anderson (R-Lincoln
City). Anderson will be in the
studio where he will talk
about his qualifications and
his expectations for what he
would like to accomplish in
Salem.
Opening up this month’s
public affairs program will be
Dave Ripley. He is one of a
panel of experts on aging and
life that will be presenting a
four-part series beginning
later this month at Lane
Community
College
in
Florence.
It’s called “Being Mortal,”
a presentation of the Adult
Continuing Education Series.
Our Town airs on KCST,
FM 106.9, today, Oct. 5, from
4 to 6 p.m., then again
Thursday, Oct. 6, from 10
a.m. to noon on KCFM.
Reporter
past two years. One of his
projects there was to digitize
the library of oral history
tapes recorded in the Florence
area in the 1970s.
“I’ve been trying to do jour-
nalism for years,” Brennan
said. “I love Florence so much
that I was wanting to get a job
where I could use my skillset
to further the sharing of infor-
mation in our community.”
Brennan belongs to com-
munity groups such as the
Surfrider Foundation, Old
Town Association and a
Willamette Valley photogra-
phy club. He also cares for his
neighbors and works as a
docent at Heceta Head
Lighthouse.
One of the reasons he came
to Oregon was its similarity to
the area where he grew up.
“Maine is where I grew an
appreciation for this culture
— for woods and for nature
and being very close to the
environment with clean liv-
ing.”
Siuslaw News Editor Ned
Hickson said, “Mark brings a
lot to the table with his knowl-
edge of local history and tech-
nical skills as a writer and
photographer. But, even more
importantly, he brings his gen-
uine interest in people and our
community. I feel very fortu-
nate to have him as part of our
staff and look forward to what
he's going to contribute to our
newsroom.”
“I’m looking forward to
sharing my enthusiasm for our
city with our readers,”
Brennan said. “This is really
the realization of a 30-year
dream.”
Brennan joins the editorial
team of Hickson, Chantelle
Meyer, features editor, and
Jack Davis, city reporter.
Dr. James Ridley,DDS
206 Nopal Street
Florence, OR 97439
from 1A
Bridge Interpretive Center on
Bay Street.
“It turned out to be a great
opportunity,” Brennan said.
He has also provided tech-
nology support at the Siuslaw
Public Library for most of the
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istrative officer at Peace
Harbor Medical Center and
Nena Harvey, the operations
director of PeaceHealth
Medical Group in Florence.
Rounding out the panel will
be two people who have
devoted a great deal of their
professional time reaching
out to doctors and trying to
convince them to move to
Florence.
Michael Penrose is the sys-
tem director, provider recruit-
ment and workforce planning
person for PeaceHealth;
Grace Riggs is the designated
“provider recruiter” for
PeaceHealth in Florence.
The group will spend a
great deal of time talking
about the challenges and the
long lead time required to
backfill several positions that
opened up at the PeaceHealth
medical clinics over the past
several months.
Also on Our Town this
week,
incumbent
State
Senator Arnie Roblan (D-
Coos Bay) will talk with Our
Town host Bob Sneddon by
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