SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017
FEC to offer pet photos
for Valentines Day
On Saturday, Jan. 21, from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. you are invit-
ed to bring your pet to the
Florence Events Center to
have him/her photographed in
a very special Valentine’s Day
Booth.
Photographs cost $5 and
the proceeds will go to the
Oregon
Coast
Humane
Society. The only request is
that animals be held, or kept
on a leash.
The Friends of the FEC are
celebrating animals during the
months of January and
February in Gallery One with
the themed exhibit “For the
Love of Animals.”
Paintings,photography,
mixed media and 3-D art are
interspersed with photos of
animals up for adoption at our
local shelter.
There will be raffle tickets
sold during the Jan. 21 recep-
tion, with the winning ticket
being drawn at 2 p.m. (need
not be present to win). A
framed oil painting of your pet
by talented local artist Ron
Hildenbrand will be the raffle
prize.
There will be refreshments
for people and their pets, and
admission is free. All that is
asked is that guests bring a
donation of dog or cat food to
place in a special collection
container.
All animal lovers are
encouraged to attend this
event, whether you are a pet
owner or not.
For more information, call
541-997-4277.
Mapleton School Board
meets tonight
Mapleton School District
will recognize the contribu-
tions of its Board at the Jan.
11 meeting at Mapleton High
School.
Mapleton will join 196
other Districts statewide in
celebrating the important
work it’s board members do.
According to District
Superintendent Jodi O’Mara
the individuals that serve on
the board are essential to the
fulfillment of the district’s
mission.
The next Mapleton School
District Board meeting is
scheduled for Wednesday,
Jan.11 at 6 p.m. and parents,
students and community
members are invited to
attend.
For more information call
541-268-4312.
Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
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 com-
munity.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Adult Services
Librarian
Siuslaw Public Library
(541) 997-3134
Book Review
“Nobody Rich or Famous: A
Family Memoir”
By Richard Shelton
In “Nobody Rich or Famous”,
author Richard Shelton immers-
es us in the hardscrabble lives of
his Boise, Idaho, clan during the
1930s and ’40s. Using a frame-
work of journals, road trips, and
artful storytelling, Shelton traces
three generations of women.
We meet his mother, Hazel, a
model of western respectability,
who carefully dresses in her
finest clothes before walking
into a bar and emptying a loaded
handgun in the general direction
of her husband.
We meet his great-grandmoth-
er, Josephine, who homesteads a
sod shanty and dies too young on
the Kansas prairie.
We follow his grandmother,
Charlotte, as she grows from a
live-in servant girl to a fiddle-
playing schoolteacher who burns
through two marriages before
taking up with the iceman and
providing Shelton one of his few
refuges.
Known for his storytelling,
Shelton, a professor emeritus at
the University of Arizona, crafts
a tale of poverty and its attendant
sorrows: alcoholism, neglect and
abuse.
But the tenacity of the human
spirit shines through.
This is an epic tale of
Steinbeck proportions, but it is
not fiction. This is memoir and
family history, in its finest tradi-
tion, illuminating today’s cultur-
al chasm between the haves and
have-nots.
In the author’s words,
“Nobody Rich or Famous” is
“the story of a family and how it
got that way.”
Free Computer Lab
Did you get a new technology
device for the holidays? Are you
wondering how to get online,
send an email, or read a book
with your new eReader?
Join a library staffer for the
next open house computer lab,
which will be on Tuesday, Jan.
24, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the
library’s conference room.
This is a chance to ask all your
“techie” questions.
Finding Your Roots class
Librarian Kevin Mittge will
be offering two basic classes in
starting your family history
research. The first “Finding Your
Roots” will be this Friday, Jan.
13, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the
Siuslaw Room.
The
second,
“Finding
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Records” will be on Friday, Jan.
27, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the
Siuslaw Room.
The classes complement each
other but can be taken separately.
The first is a general class on
how to start your family history
research, while the second will
look more specifically at what
kinds of records are available,
where to find them, and how to
use them.
Space is limited to 10 partici-
pants, so you must sign-up at the
reference desk.
Mapleton Branch
The Mapleton library is locat-
ed at 88148 Riverview Ave., in
the Lion’s Club Building. With a
nice view of the Siuslaw River,
it’s a wonderful, warm place to
sit and enjoy a good book or read
the newspaper.
The library also has books,
magazines, DVDs and videos,
recorded books, Internet com-
puters, wireless Internet access,
a rotating art display and more.
Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Holiday Closure:
In honor of Martin Luther
King's Birthday, the library
will be closed on Monday,
Jan. 16. Regular hours resume
on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
WLCF 2017 grant applications now being accepted
Western Lane Community
Foundation (WLCF) has ann-
nounced
its
annual
Discretionary Grant Program
is accepting applications
immediately for the 2017
grant cycle.
Grants are awarded to
local nonprofit organizations
for projects and programs in
the areas of education, medi-
cine and science, the arts and
social and civic services.
Money given each year
varies. However in February
of 2016, the grant program
distributed
more
than
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$71,000 to 39 nonprofit
recipients covering most of Western Lane Community Foundation grant recipients for 2016.
western Lane County.
received no later than close of
Information, guidelines, and applications can be down- or call 541-997-1274.
loaded at www.wlcfonline.org
Applications
must
be business on Jan. 15, 2017.
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own mouth, nose or eyes. The
average incubation period for
flu is two days but can range
between one to four days.
Those with flu can infect
others beginning one day
before symptoms develop in
five to seven days after
becoming sick.
Symptoms include a fever
(100 ºF or higher), cough,
sore throat, runny or stuffy
nose, body aches, feeling very
tired, vomiting or diarrhea.
Not everyone that has flu
has all of these symptoms.
In addition to yearly flu
vaccination in adults, health
officials are urging the high-
est risk groups (e.g., persons
aged 65 years or older, chil-
dren, pregnant women, per-
sons with cardio-pulmonary
disease and the immunocom-
promised) to prioritize vacci-
nation.
Some, particularly the eld-
erly population, may also
benefit from the use of the
newly available high dose or
adjuvant vaccine.
Finally, it is important for
all individuals to practice
proper respiratory hygiene by
covering their cough or
sneeze; washing hands fre-
quently or using hand sanitiz-
er; disposing of tissues used
for coughing or sneezing in a
receptacle that is out of reach
to children; avoiding touching
the eyes, nose and mouth; and
by staying home up to 24
hours after a fever has
resolved.
Individuals can receive the
flu vaccine at participating
pharmacies or from their
health care provider.
For more information on
influenza, visit the Lane
County Public Health website
at
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government/county_depart
ments/health_and_human_
services/public_health.
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While it is difficult to accu-
rately compare the current flu
season with previous years
until after the season has
ended, both the number of
reported outbreaks and deaths
are on track to be at their
highest since 2012.
Additionally, this season is
unique in that there seems to
be a bi-modal distribution in
cases, with an initial peak
happening in early December
and a likely second peak in
mid to late January.
Influenza, or the flu, is a
contagious respiratory illness
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On Friday, Lane County
Public Health officials con-
firmed 11 outbreaks of
influenza-like-illness have
been reported within the last
30 days in Lane County, six
of which have been within the
last week.
In this same time span in
Lane County, seven people
have died due to influenza —
four in the last week.
“I think it is clear from the
number and rate of outbreaks
that our vaccination rates here
in Lane County are far too
low,” said Dr. Patrick
Luedtke, Lane County Chief
Health Officer. “It’s certainly
not too late to receive your flu
vaccination and while we will
always have reports of indi-
viduals contracting influenza
after receiving the vaccina-
tion, at a population level it is
evident that widespread vac-
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