SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2016
Month-long sweatshirt,
coat drive begins today
Three Rivers Casino Resort
is partnering with the Florence
community PTA to gather
donations of coats and sweat-
shirts for the winter.
This will give the commu-
nity an opportunity to keep
people warm this winter as
well as have a little fun along
the way.
Three Rivers Casino Resort
in Florence will accept dona-
tions of new coats and sweat-
shirts between Oct. 15 and
Nov. 15, at the Players Club
inside the casino.
Donated items will be dis-
tributed to students ages 5-18
in the Siuslaw School District.
For every donation of a
sweatshirt with tags, donors
will receive $5 in free play.
For a donation of a coat with
tags, donors will receive $10
in free play.
“Three Rivers wanted to
make this a win-win for
everyone,” said Three Rivers
COO, Mike Rose. “The chil-
dren benefit from new, warm
clothes and our players will
have an opportunity to test
their luck with free play.”
As the weather gets colder,
the community can support
this effort to keep kids warm
as autumn moves into winter.
Three Rivers Casino Resort
is at 5646 Highway 126.
For more information, call
541-902-6619 or visit www.
ThreeRiversCasino.com.
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Wayne Sharpe, local radio
personality with Coast Radio
and President of the Oregon
Coast Miliary Museum, was
Master of Ceremonies.
The speakers paid tribute
to the Coast Guard members
and families at the station as
well as the Auxiliarists who
augment Station Siuslaw
River in the areas of watch
standing, food services, pub-
lic affairs, mechanics and
even boat crew.
There were several stand-
ing ovations.
Henry expressed many
kudos and recognized the
critical importance of what
Station Siuslaw River does
every day. He expressed that
the community stands with
the active members and sup-
ports their heroic service, and
thanked them for being
neighbors and friends to the
community in general.
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Because Florence is a
coastal community subject to
the effects of a tsunami creat-
ed by a Cascadia Subduction
Zone earthquake, tsunami
zone evacuation becomes a
necessary component of the
drill.
Messmer said, “The Great
Shakeout is an earthquake
drill, but we live on the coast,
so our immediate reaction
afterward is to anticipate
water, so you are moving to
higher ground.”
inspiring and patriotic
speech, said, “Our Florence
station crew are exemplary in
carrying out the Coast Guard
mission of being Semper
Paratus — Always Ready!
The Coast Guard has great
technology, but make no mis-
take, it is the people that
truly make the Coast Guard
what it is today.
“Station Siuslaw River has
some great members and great
citizens volunteering as auxil-
iarists to help carry out the
Team Coast Guard mission.”
Coast Guard and Auxiliary
members stood shoulder-to-
shoulder with the community
to celebrate.
The local Band of
Brothers veteran’s group
sponsored the Challenge
Coins and many local organi-
zations and individuals
helped sponsor the event.
But the Year of the Coast
Guard doesn’t stop with this
dinner. The Coast Guard will
be the celebrated Grand
Marshall of the Florence
According to Messmer, the
city is involved in a three-
point tsunami evacuation plan.
“We have ‘You are in the
tsunami zone’ signs that go all
the way up and down the coast
up into Canada,” she said.
The next component is that
Florence-area assembly points
have signs designating the
sites.
Messmer recommends all
people living or working with-
in the tsunami zone be familiar
with the nearest assembly
points and locate them on the
tsunami zone maps printed in
2013.
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Station Siuslaw River provides a Color Guard to begin the
dinner and formal ceremony. Veterans groups, community
members, dignitaries and Coast Guard members attend the
evening sponsored by Oregon Coast Military Museum.
Veteran’s Day Parade on
Friday, Nov. 11.
And just this month, the
Chamber of Commerce
announced that in 2017, the
Coast Guard will be the
Grand Marshal of the 110th
annual Rhododendron
Festival Grand Floral Parade,
the second largest parade in
the State of Oregon. The
theme of the 2017 parade
will be “Always Ready to
Rhody,” as an homage to the
Coast Guard motto, Semper
Paratus.
The maps may be accessed
by going to the City of
Florence website at www.
ci.florence.or.us/em.
The third element is the
blue tsunami zone street mark-
ers that were recently laid
directly on the pavement
telling people where the tsuna-
mi zone ends.
Messmer said Florence is
one of five coastal Oregon
cities to receive five of the
indicators as part of a pilot
project by OEM.
“We have always had signs
that say you are in the tsunami
zone and signs showing how
to get out of the tsunami zone,
but we have never told people,
‘Stop, you are out of the
tsunami zone,’” she said.
Messmer stressed that a few
assembly points, such as the
Florence Events Center on
Quince Street, would have
Red Cross emergency shelter,
generators and some first aid.
She added, “Our
Geographical Information
Systems specialist has taken
photos of the assembly points
and our goal is to create a
‘scavenger hunt’ map and
asking people to find their
assembly points.”
None of the Florence-area
assembly points are designed
for long-term sheltering or
for food distribution
“They are not meant to
be long-term shelter areas,”
Messmer said. “We don’t
have sheltering supplies for
everyone. That’s not some-
thing we can feasibly do.
We would encourage citizens
to have their own supplies
— several days worth of sup-
plies — because it is going
to be longer than you think.
“If you have enough warn-
ing, bring your supplies to
an assembly point or other
place outside of the tsunami
zone.”
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