SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017
LCC Florence seeks
Library
spring course proposals Tidings
Got an idea for a class and
want to share your expertise
with your neighbors?
Lane Community College
Florence Center’s Continuing
Education program is current-
ly accepting spring term
course proposals from interest-
ed instructors through Feb. 1.
The Continuing Education
program provides courses and
field trips to encourage life-
long learning in the communi-
ty.
LCC’s spring term begins
April 3 and concludes June 16.
The program currently offers a
variety of courses on technolo-
gy, health and fitness, energy
medicine, cinema studies and
the arts.
Students have specifically
requested new courses on for-
eign language, culinary skills,
painting or drawing and music
classes.
However, all proposals will
be considered.
To submit a course proposal
contact Marsha Sills, program
coordinator, at sillsm@lanecc
.edu or at 541-463-4825.
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Library Tidings,
a regular feature
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features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
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grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and
other library news of
interest to the com-
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Book review
“On Trails: An Exploration”
By Robert Moor
The just recently announced
winner of the Pacific Northwest
Book Award for non-fiction, is
“On Trails: An Exploration” by
Robert Moor, who hails from
Halfmoon Bay, B.C.
This debut author has been
compared to Annie Dillard,
Edward Abbey and Jared
Diamond. “On Trails” is a won-
drous exploration of how trails
help us understand the world —
from invisible ant trails to hiking
paths that span continents, from
interstate highways to the
Internet.
In 2009, while thru-hiking the
Appalachian Trail, Moor began
to wonder about the paths that lie
beneath our feet: How do they
form? Why do some improve
over time while others fade?
What makes us follow or strike
off on our own?
Over the course of the next
seven years, Moor traveled the
globe, exploring trails of all
kinds, from the miniscule to the
massive. He learned the tricks of
master trail-builders, hunted
down long-lost Cherokee trails
and traced the origins of our road
networks and the Internet.
In each chapter, Moor inter-
weaves his adventures with find-
ings from science, history, phi-
losophy and nature writing.
Throughout, Moor reveals
how this single topic — the oft-
overlooked trail — sheds new
light on a wealth of age-old
questions: How does order
emerge out of chaos? How did
animals first crawl forth from the
seas and spread across conti-
nents? How has humanity’s rela-
tionship with nature and technol-
ogy shaped world around us?
And, ultimately, how does
each of us pick a path through
life?
Moor has the essayist’s gift
for making new connections, the
adventurer’s love for paths
untaken and the philosopher’s
knack for asking big questions.
With a breathtaking arc that
spans from the dawn of animal
life to the digital era, “On Trails”
is a book that makes us see our
world, our history, our species
and our ways of life anew.
For another, more local per-
spective on hiking, you might
enjoy “On the Trail: A History of
American Hiking” by Silas
Chamberlin.
This is the first history of the
American hiking community
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and its contributions to the
nation’s vast network of trails.
Blind Date with a Book
Are you ready to take part in
the library’s fouth-annual Blind
Date with a Book program?
For the adventurous reader
this program offers the opportu-
nity to let fate take a hand in
selecting what you read.
The program works like this.
Select a plainly wrapped book
from a selection of books at the
library. Read the book — or at
least make an honest and fair
attempt at doing so — then
return the book with a “blind
date” evaluation form.
The forms, besides being used
to recommend new and wonder-
ful books to readers, will also be
used for prize drawings.
The point is to take a risk and
expand your reading interests.
Sound fun
The program starts Feb. 1.
Friends of the Library
to meet
The Friends of the Library
will hold its monthly board
meeting tomorrow, at 11 a.m.
This will be your opportunity to
meet the new officers for the
year.
PeaceHealth, Providence join for neonatal program
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart
Medical Center at RiverBend
has announced plans to expand
their current neonatal therapy
program as part of the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at
the hospital.
The program, which will pro-
vide additional services to
infants and families in the com-
munity, will be developed
through an ongoing alliance with
Providence Health and Services
through Providence Children’s
Development Institute.
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“Providence
Children’s
Development Institute currently
has an excellent neonatal thera-
py program,” said Katie
Vendrasco,
Director
of
Rehabilitation Services at
Sacred Heart Medical Center,
University District.
“We are eager to work with
them to expand our own pro-
gram, which will support
infants and families in every-
thing from musculoskeletal
development to neurologic mat-
uration, successful breast-feed-
ing techniques and managing
aspects of parent education,”
Vedrasco said.
A neonatal therapist residen-
cy program has been designed
to pass on learnings from
Providence to PeaceHealth
caregivers.
“The vision we share in
our alliance with PeaceHealth is
to improve the health of any
child in our communities,” said
JoAnn
Vance,
Executive
Director
for
Providence
Children’s
Developmental
Health in Oregon.
Beginning in February,
“PeaceHealth therapists dedi-
cated to the new program
will spend one day per week for
three to six months with an
experienced Providence neona-
tal therapist at Providence St.
Vincent Medical Center,” said
Vance.
On the strategic alliance with
Providence, Vendrasco said,
“This is a powerful alliance
between healthcare industry
leaders with common values
and heritage who share the same
priority, the health of our com-
munities.
“We believe this spirit of
cooperation is the future of
healthcare.”
The program’s anticipated
implementation
date
at
RiverBend is July 2017.
ACA discussion continues at library
to explore health care options Jan. 29
Oregon Department of Transportation
PUBLIC HEARING/OPEN HOUSE
Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) - Draft
2018 to 2021 STIP for Public Review
The open house will feature maps to view and handouts about selected projects.
ODOT staff will be on hand to answer questions and take comments. There will
be comment cards available to leave comments regarding specifi c projects.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Lane County Area Commission on Transportation
(Lane County ACT)
Lane County ACT Open House 4:30-5:15PM;
followed by Lane County ACT Meeting 5:30-7:00PM
Lane County Public Works Complex
3040 N. Delta Hwy.
Eugene, OR
Goodson Conference Room
The meeting is open to the public for comment.
To view or comment on this document, please visit:
http://www.oregon.gov/
ODOT/TD/STIP/DRAFT_STIP_18-21.pdf
You can also contact the Region 2 STIP and Financial Plan
Manager John Maher at Ph. 503-986-2674 or his email
address: John.D.MAHER@odot.state.or.us
Accomodations:
Accomodations will be provided to persons with disabilities. To request an accomodation,
please call John Maher the Region 2 STIP and Financial Plan Manager.
Approximately 45 members
of the community came togeth-
er at the Senior Center on
Sunday, Jan. 15, to participate
in a conversation about what
the repeal of the Affordable
Care Act, (ACA) could mean
to the Florence area, as well as
the nation.
The new congress is moving
quickly to make changes, and a
group of concerned area
Democrats felt it was impor-
tant that the community under-
stand the impact of those
changes and what you can do
about your concerns.
The meeting facilitator, Pat
Reno stated, “Having designed
employee benefit plans for
over 20 years, I know how
complicated it is to navigate
the system.”
The group held open discus-
sions on such issues as exclu-
sions for pre-existing condi-
tions, minimum levels of cov-
erage, health savings accounts,
as well as numerous areas of
Medicare that could be affect-
ed. Because there is still so
much uncertainty surrounding
these issues, the group decided
to hold another meeting on
Sunday, Jan. 29, from 1 p.m. to
3 p.m., in the Bromley Room
at the Siuslaw Public Library,
1460 Ninth St.
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Saturday
January 28
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715 Quince Street
Florence, Oregon
541-997-1994
$1.00
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