SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016
Lutherans serve
Community Suppers
Community Suppers are
being held each Wednesday
from 5 to 7 p.m. on a trial
basis at different local
churches through Dec. 14.
New Life Lutheran is the
host for October.
Other churches will host in
November and December.
Each host is responsible
for cooking the food brought
on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Library
Tidings
Beverages are provided.
If there is enough partici-
pation and interest, the
suppers could continue in
2017.
Come to have food and fel-
lowship with other area
churches.
For more information, call
431-997-8113.
New Life Lutheran is at
2100 Spruce St.
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
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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
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Before the Wind
by Jim Lynch
Book review
In “Before the Wind” by Jim
Lynch, Joshua Johannssen has
spent all of his life surrounded
by sailboats. His grandfather
designed them, his father built
and raced them, his Einstein-
obsessed mother knows why
and how they work (or not).
For Josh and his two siblings,
their backyard was Puget
Sound and sailing their DNA.
Both his sister and brother
fled many years ago: Ruby to
Africa and elsewhere to do
good works on land, and
Bernard to god-knows-where
at sea, a fugitive and pirate.
Suddenly 31, Josh — who
repairs boats of all kinds in a
marina south of Seattle — is
pained and confused by what-
ever went wrong with his
volatile family. His parents are
barely speaking, his mystified
grandfather is drinking harder
and he himself — despite an
endless and comic flurry of
online dates — hasn’t even
come close to finding a girl-
friend.
But when the Johannssens
unexpectedly reunite for the
most important race in these
waters — all of them together
on a classic vessel they made
decades ago — they will be
carried to destinies both indi-
vidual and collective, and to a
heart-shattering revelation.
Jim Lynch, of Olympia,
Wash., is the prize-winning
author of “The Highest Tide,”
“Border Songs” and “Truth
Like the Sun.” He has won
both the Washington State
Book Award for Fiction and the
Pacific Northwest Booksellers
Award.
If you enjoy books about the
Pacific Northwest, about sail-
ing, and about families strug-
gling to reconnect, you will
greatly enjoy “Before the
Wind” by Jim Lynch, one of
the Northwest’s premier writ-
ers.
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Hang-It All
The 24th annual “Hang-It
All” art show is inviting entries
for a non-juried, all-comers art
exhibition featuring local
artists and craftspeople.
Hang-It All will be on dis-
play throughout the month of
November at the library.
All entries must be hand-
delivered to the library
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on
Tuesday, Nov. 1, and be picked
up during the same hours on
Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Mark your calendars
for the next book sale
The Friends of the Siuslaw
Public Library will be having
their next book sale the week-
end of Nov. 5 and 6.
On Saturday, they will be
having a presale for members
of the Friends from 9 to 10 a.m.
Memberships will be available
if you wish to participate in
this presale.
Otherwise, the sale is open
to the general public from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. both Saturday
and Sunday. There will be a
table with “special” books for
sale, and if you buy a Friends
book bag for $15 you can fill it
up for free.
Felting with Kathy
Elfers
The library is pleased to
have local artist Kathy Elfers
present two felting workshops
on Sat., Oct. 29, the first from
noon to 2 p.m., and the second
from 3 to 5 p.m., in the
library’s Bromley Room.
Elfers will give a history of
felting followed by a brief
demonstration of felting tech-
niques. She is an award-win-
ning felter who draws from
nature for her inspiration. No
pre-registration required —
just stop by and learn to felt.
One mile south of the bridge on Rte. 101
Climate change program offered tonight
Harvest Festival
Saturday, October 29 th
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Treats, Games, Fun
Kids & Families
Welcome
At the Siuslaw Watershed
Council’s (SWC) next general
meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m.,
the topic will be “The
Changing Northwest Climate”
and “Federal Cost-Share
Programs for the Upper
Siuslaw.”
The meeting will be held at
the Lorane Grange (corner of
Old Lorane and Orchard
roads., in Lorane).
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the
meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Gabrielle Roesch-
McNally, from the Northwest
Regional Climate HUB, will
explain the changing climate
and how Oregon is projected
to experience longer, drier
summers and warmer winters
with less precipitation stored
as snow.
These climatic changes
will impact managed land-
scapes that will have some
positive and negative effects
on farms, forests and range-
land.
Dave Downing, District
Manager for the Upper
Willamette Soil and Water
Conservation District, will
explain Federal Cost-Share
Programs for conservation
practices including near
stream vegetation, removal of
invasive vegetative species
and replacement with native
tree/shrub species, limiting
livestock access to streams by
fencing, off-stream watering,
manure management, rota-
tional grazing fence systems,
grass water ways and heavy
use protection.
Currently, the district has a
priority area in the South
Fork Siuslaw sub-basin and
has obtained limited funding
to assist interested landown-
ers.
The SWC supports sound
economic, social, and envi-
ronmental uses of natural and
human resources in the
Siuslaw River Basin.
The council encourages
cooperation among public
and private entities to pro-
mote awareness and under-
standing of watershed func-
tions by adopting and imple-
menting a total watershed
approach to natural resource
management and production.
Christmas
Store seeks
volunteers
Volunteers are needed to
help assist shoppers at the
Oregon Coast Humane
Society Christmas Store
beginning Nov. 1.
The hours are flexible
and the mood festive as
shoppers find new holiday
items.
Call 541-997-4457 for
more information.
Trunk-or-Treat!
Monday
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LOTS OF CANDY!
Free Hot Dogs & Hot
Beverages
HALLOWEEN PARTY
ADA GRANGE #570
Florence Nazarene
1536 12th St.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
1:00 to 3:00 pm
Costume Parade 1:15pm
Finger Foods Provided
Questions? Call Megan at 541-997-6933 • 10 Miles out Canary Road
