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126TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 85
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
A change in the RAIN
egional Accelerator and
Innovation
Network
(RAIN) has worked with
the City of Florence and the coastal
region for more than a year to
bring focus and support to entre-
preneurs and businesses. Now that
it has proved the viability of a pro-
gram in western Lane County,
RAIN hired a new coastal venture
catalyst, David Youngentob, to
begin Nov. 1.
“Many of you already know of
his great work at Fertilab —
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launching its Mentor Clinic ID8
pre-accelerator program and sever-
al other entrepreneurial programs
for early-stage entrepreneurs,” said
RAIN Venture Catalyst Caroline
Cummings. “David is transitioning
from his director of entrepreneur-
ship role at Fertilab over to our
coastal venture catalyst role. We
are very excited to have him join
our team.”
RAIN was started to advance
the formation of high-growth inno-
vative startup companies in Lane,
Lincoln, Linn and Benton coun-
ties. It offers instruction for start-
ups, accelerator and pre-accelera-
tor programs for launching busi-
nesses, resources for testing the
market, opportunities for invest-
ment and connections with part-
ners and mentors.
Cummings has been RAIN’s
main presence on the coast since
October 2015.
“We really want to get boots on
the ground. This year, I was prov-
ing there was a ‘there’ there, but
Nordahl
retires after
39 years with
Siuslaw News
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could only spend 20 percent of my
time on the coast,” she said.
Youngentob’s territory will be
western Lane County and Lincoln
County. His experience with rural
communities, entrepreneur sup-
port groups and mentor programs
will benefit the mid-coast region.
He has also been an entrepreneur
and started his own traded-sector
bio-science company.
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LINKING UP
Oregon National Guard meets with
local agencies, community
S
iuslaw News graphic designer
Carolyn Nordahl retired Friday after
39 years in the back office.
“My work has
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consisted of creat-
Siuslaw News
ing display adver-
tising and section
covers, plus merging the work of our news
staff with that of the advertising depart-
ment,” Nordahl said.
Nearly every
page published by
the Siuslaw News
has had Nordahl’s
fingerprints on it
— whether in
paper or digitally.
“Carolyn was a
huge factor in get-
ting our paper to
the printer on time
each week. She
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was a vital mem-
Carolyn Nordahl
ber in the way we
do things, and she will be missed,” said
Siuslaw News General Manager Jenna
Bartlett.
A former telephone operator and stay-at-
home mom, Nordahl’s position in the com-
position department was her first in the
newspaper business. Though she had no
formal training in her field, fine arts were a
hobby of hers and she applied a creative
mind to the artistic demands of graphic
design.
“It comes pretty naturally because I’ve
always dabbled in the arts,” she said. “It
was an artistic thing, so it was fun to
learn.”
She started out part-time, hired on by
then-publisher Dave Holman, whose son
Paul later took the reins; but, like many
newspaper jobs, her position soon evolved
into full-time.
She was composition supervisor from
1999 until she “retired” in 2006, but con-
tinued to create both in the office and at
home, with her small business called Echo
Graphics.
“I do much of the same things as I have
done at Siuslaw News — mostly business
materials such as cards and brochures,
posters, flyers and advertisements,”
Nordahl said.
She also paints in watercolor. A selection
of her work will continue to be on display
at the Siuslaw News on 148 Maple St.
That is also where you can buy a copy of
her books: “Grandma’s Window Shade”
and “A Skunk in the Garden.” She hand-
painted and designed the watercolor
covers.
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Oregon National Guard sets up a containerized kitchen to feed people and interact with the community at the Florence Events Center
Sunday. Florence-area first response agencies also attend the family-friendly event.
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regon National
Guard units and
Florence emer-
gency responders conduct-
ed a joint exercise Sunday
in the Florence Events
Center parking lot.
The purpose of the exercise
was to plan a response to a natu-
ral disaster that would require
National Guard units to travel
from Eugene to Florence to ren-
der assistance.
First responders from the
Florence Police Department,
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Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue
and Community Emergency
Response Teams (CERT) were
on hand to coordinate the local
response to the simulated dis-
aster.
Florence Police Commander
John Pitcher said, “From our per-
spective it went really well. The
National Guard got to test their
abilities and get some hands-on
experience. And we got to know
and interact with each other —
and, maybe most important, we
get to see what they can offer us
in the event of an emergency.”
The National Guard contingent
included vehicles and transports
specifically designed for quick
setup and use.
A major focus of the event was
food distribution, according to
Florence Mayor Joe Henry.
“The National Guard is coming
here as part of a maneuver to
demonstrate that they can get to
Florence during an emergency,
and deliver large amounts of
food,” he said.
The guard accomplished this
goal by setting up and staffing a
completely functioning kitchen
with the ability to feed thousands
of displaced persons if necessary.
The set up and operation of the
Guard’s containerized kitchen
(CK) was a special focus of the
exercise.
National Guard First Sergeant
Michael Creech said, “An impor-
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tant part was to set up the CK,
get it up and running in as short a
time period as possible and to
start serving food as quickly as
possible.”
According to Creech, another
element of the event was to con-
nect with the community and to
local first responders.
He said, “One of the goals was
to show presence in the commu-
nity, to show the assets we can
provide and, of course, to give
information to the public.”
Creech also said that the com-
munity response to the exercise
was very positive.
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RAIN hires David Youngentob to be new coastal venture catalyst