SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2016
LED holiday light display
contest winners announced
There were 14 entries in this
year’s LED Holiday Lights
Display contest, sponsored by
the Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce. There were both
“commercial” and “residential”
categories.
Judging was based on the
“Wow” factor (overall impres-
sion), “Theme” (Nativity,
Santa’s workshop, etc.) and
“Variety” (Use of trees, bushes,
music, projection, moving fig-
ures, etc.)
“All of the judges were
amazed by the amount of time,
creativity and effort put into
their entry,” said Nancy
Pearson, event coordinator for
the Chamber of Commerce.
“When we would turn a corner
to look at the next house, every-
one in the car would say ‘Wow!’
Each entry had its own person-
ality.”
Winners were:
• Commercial —
First
place:
Heceta
Lighthouse
B&B,
92072
Highway 101. Credit for the
effort
went
to
Heceta
Lighthouse B&B
Library
Tidings
Second place: TR Hunter
Real Estate, 1749 Highway 101.
Credit for the effort was given
to Tim Sapp
Third
place:
Linda’s
Christmas Trees, 1890 37th St.
Credit was given to Linda, as
well as her family and friends.
• Residential:
First place: JR Gray, 1072
Eighth St. Credit was given to
JR Gray
Second
place:
Terry
Anderson, 4742 Sea Breeze Ln.
Credit was given to Terry
Anderson.
Third place: Terry Tomeny,
6110 Pine St. Credit was given
to Terry Tomeny
Honorable mention: Keli
Thrall, 2187 East 18th St. Credit
for the effort went to Ken and
Keli Thrall and their kids.
“What a great way to cele-
brate the season with seeing all
the wonderful lights around our
city,” Pearson said.
First place received $250,
second place received $150, and
third place received $100 in the
form of a Visa gift card from
Central Lincoln PUD.
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings
by Kevin Mittge -
Wed. Dec. 21,
2016
Book Review
by Linda Weight
The library staff
wish all our
patrons a happy
and safe holiday
season!
Hidden Figures by Margot
Lee Shetterly
Like Rise of the Rocket Girls,
another book published earlier
this year, Hidden Figures tells
the story of women working as
“human computers” in the aero-
space industry.
However, Hidden Figures tells
an even more unique story,
focusing on the black female
mathematicians recruited by the
Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory in Hampton,
Virginia during World War II.
Not only did these women tran-
scend the bias of the time
against women scientists, math-
ematicians and engineers, they
also transcended the even more
repressive bias against people of
color in the sciences.
Despite oppressive Jim Crow
laws that had both obstructed
their education, and then their
careers, these exceptionally tal-
ented women, who had perse-
vered against many barriers to
obtain advanced degrees in
mathematics and physics,were
able to finally find jobs worthy
of their skills during the labor
shortages of World War I .
This occured when America's
fledgling jet plane program was
fighting to develop new tech-
nologies ahead of Nazi
Germany.
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website?
Just go to: www.siuslawli-
brary.org. Click on the link to
the card catalog, enter your
library card number and PIN,
and then select “databases”.
The Gale Databases include
journals, newspapers, and
books.
Full-text articles can be printed
off your home or library com-
puter. For more information or
a demonstration, check with the
Reference Desk.
However, even at Langley,
where their obvious talents were
recognized, Virginia's strict seg-
regation laws mandated separate
bathrooms, water fountains,
lunchroom tables and even
workspaces. But they perse-
vered, letting their talents speak
for themselves, and gradually,
many barriers were broken
down.
After World War II, when
many women went (or were
sent) back to their housekeep-
ing, some of the women of
Langley's all-black “West
Computing Group” were called
on to move to NASA, partici-
pating in and facilitating some
of NASA's greatest successes.
Among the many historic flights
they worked on and made possi-
ble were John Glenn's first
flight, and the first moon land-
ing.
Showcasing in particular the
lives and accomplishments of
four women, Dorothy Vaughan,
Mary Jackson, Katherine
Johnson and Christine Darden,
Hidden Figures has been made
into a movie, and will be in the-
aters starting December 25.
Holiday Closures
In celebration of Christmas, the
library will be closed at noon
on Sat., Dec. 24 (the Mapleton
branch will not be open that
day), be closed on Sun., Dec.
25, and will also be closed on
Mon., Dec. 26. Regular hours
resume at 10 a.m. on Tues.,
Dec. 27 in Florence and noon in
Mapleton.
The following weekend, the
library will be closing at 4 pm
on Sat., Dec. 31 (both in
Florence and Mapleton) and be
closed both Sun., Jan.1 and
Mon., Jan. 2. Regular hours
resume at 10 a.m. on Tues., Jan.
3 in Florence and at noon in
Mapleton.
Full-text Periodicals Available
Online
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access thousands of full-text
Additional panel being added to Vets Memorial Wall
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The Veterans Memorial Park
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to the Veterans Memorial Wall,
located in the Veterans
Memorial Park on West Bay St
in Old Town Florence.
The additional panel will be
the same height and width as
Panel A. This new panel will
allow the VMPC to place an
additional 253 memorial paver
bricks to the Veterans
Memorial Wall complex.
A paver brick, honoring a
veteran only, can be obtained
with a donation of $75 per
brick. A submitted inscription
for a brick can consist of no
more than three (3) lines with a
maximum of 20 characters and
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Inscriptions must pertain to
the veteran being honored and
must follow the format as used
on the paver bricks of the pre-
vious panels.
Due to limited space, word
abbreviations must be used
whenever possible. All word-
ing, etc. on a paver brick will
be finalized by the VMPC. All
paver bricks for the new panel
must be requested prior to the
VMPC placing any paver brick
on the new Wall panel.
Application forms will be
available only at the Chamber
of Commerce office, located on
Highway 101, and must be
returned to the VMPC only via
the U.S. Postal Service.
Send applications to:
VMPC, P.O. Box 1093,
Florence, Ore., 97439.
Application turn-ins to the
Chamber office or to an indi-
vidual will be not be accepted.
Payment must be by check
or money order only, and must
be included with the submitted
application and made payable
to “Veterans Memorial Park
Commission” or to “VMPC.”
Applications must include a
copy of the veteran’s DD Form
214, or orders showing proof of
military service.
The veteran must have
served honorably or be serving
on active duty. Only the first
253 applications received will
be accepted.
Applications received after
this total has been reached, will
be returned to sender.
Due to Pacific Northwest
weather conditions, the VMPC
expects completion of the new
panel sometime in late Spring
or mid-Summer of 2017.
An announcement will be
made at the time.
Individuals or businesses
wishing to purchase a donor
tile in the flagpole area may
still do so.
There are still tiles available
for a donation of $500 each.
These tiles are not for honoring
individual veterans but for pay-
ing respects to military groups,
units within the different serv-
ice branches, etc.
See samples already in place
at the flagpole area for guid-
ance.
Ladies of Elks send cookies and
donations to Roseburg Veterans
On Dec. 12, Leo and Shirley
Stapleton delivered 643 dozen
cookies to veterans at the
Roseburg VA Hospital, along
with lap robes and various
clothing items donated by
Disabled American Veterans
(DAV).
The Ladies of Elks donated
$500, which allowed the pur-
chase of additional clothing
requested by veterans.
The 1858 Elks Lodge donat-
ed $1,000 for phone cards. The
cookies were made by the
Ladies of Elks, the Rolling
Elks, VFW, Band of Brothers,
the American Legion and from
many residents of Greentrees.
This was truly a collabora-
tive effort and it took a big
truck to take it all,” said Linda
Tank of Ladies of Elks. “The
veterans really look forward to
the cookies and are deeply
appreciative of all that is done
for them.
“We in turn thank them for
their service to our country.”
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