SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2017
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Port seeks to fill three Annual VFW ‘Voice of Democracy’ banquet held
Veterans of Foreign Wars
open Commissioner seats (VFW)
of the United States,
The Port of Siuslaw
announces there will be three
Port Commissioner positions
on the ballot for the May 16,
2017 Special District Election.
The positions are available for
the usual four-year term.
Those terms will begin July 1,
2017, and end June 30, 2021.
Port
of
Siuslaw
Commissioners are required to
be registered voters who are
residents of the port district.
The district covers approxi-
mately 700 square miles of the
Siuslaw River watershed,
including the communities of
Florence, Dunes City and
Mapleton.
The watershed extends
upriver to Walton, Lorane and
Blachly.
The Port of Siuslaw is a spe-
cial district, authorized in
1909 under Oregon law, ORS
Chapter 777.
Persons interested in filing
to be on the ballot for any of
the open Commission seats
need to file with Lane County
Elections no earlier than Feb.
6, and no later than 5 p.m. on
March 16. The Candidate
Manual and forms are avail-
able on the Oregon Secretary
of State's website.
Interested candidates can
file with Lane County
Elections by either paying a
$10 fee or by circulating a
petition to collect signatures
and submitting signatures to
the county for verification.
The Lane County Election
office is open Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Questions regarding the
position of Port Commissioner
may be directed to the port
office, 100 Harbor St.,
Florence, or call 541-997-
3426 or port@portofsiuslaw.
com.
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Department of Oregon, held its
annual “Voice of Democracy”
banquet Jan. 28, at the Shiloh
Inn Suites at the Portland
Airport.
Attending were 13 district
state winners of its audio/essay
contest and more than 300
members of the VFW and
Auxiliary, along with family
members of the winners.
Honored guests included
Past
VFW
National
Commanders-in-Chief
Richard Eubank and John
Stroud;
VFW
Inspector
General Harold J. Roesch;
National
17th
Auxiliary
Council Member Mary Stroud;
and the Patriot’s Pen Essay
contest state winner Maria L.
Burns, sponsored by Post 1440,
St. Helens.
Those attending the banquet
included Florence Post 3232
officers, District 9 commander
Dennis R. Marsh; District 9
Auxiliary President Debby
Fawver, and Jennifer and Dan
Waggoner, parents of district
winner Claire Waggoner of
Florence.
Masters of Ceremonies for
the event were John and
Valorie Wrinkle of Redmond,
Department and Auxiliary
Voice of Democracy chairper-
sons. The subject theme of this
year’s contest was “My
Responsibility to America.”
Preceding the event, the
VFW provided the district
winners with a tour of the
OMSI facilities in Portland.
Mackyle “Mac” Little from
District 10 was announced as
the state winner and was
awarded $2,500 by the VFW
Department of Oregon and
Auxiliary for his efforts. He
will also receive a free return
COURTESY PHOTO
Second place state winner Claire Waggoner (second from left) with Florence VFW Post
3232 officers (from left): Ken Smith, Tom Benedict, Bob Brown and Post Commander
Paul Gargis after the VFW Voice of Democracy banquet.
flight and stay in Washington,
D.C. when he competes in the
VFW National finals for the
$30,000 first-place scholarship.
“Mac” will also automatical-
ly receive an additional $1,000
scholarship from the National
VFW just for being selected as
the Oregon state winner.
Claire Waggoner, from
District 9, took second place
and was awarded $1,600 by the
VFW Department of Oregon
and Auxiliary.
A senior at Siuslaw High
School in Florence, and origi-
nally sponsored by Florence
Post 3232, Waggoner repre-
sented VFW Posts from
Reedsport, Florence, Waldport,
Newport, Toledo and Siletz as
the District 9 winner in the
state level of competition.
The Voice of Democracy
Audio/Essay contest is an
annual contest of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary.
More than 40,000 students
in grades 9 through 12 compete
nationwide for education
scholarships worth over $2.1
million each year.
One lucky student in March,
will win a scholarship worth
$30,000 that will be sent direct-
ly to his/her school of choice
which can be a university, col-
lege, technical or trade school.
The theme for the 2017-
2018 Voice of Democracy
Audio/Essay
contest
is:
“American History: Our Hope
for the Future.”
Students eligible for this
contest must be U.S. citizens
and in grades nine through 12
during the 2017-18 school year.
Home-schooled students are
also eligible and welcomed to
compete.
Entries will be due Nov. 1,
2017 to the local Florence
VFW Post.
Application forms for this
contest will be available short-
ly.
Students who will be in
grades six through eight next
year will be able to compete in
the VFW Patriot’s Pen Essay
contest. Its theme for 2017-18
is “America’s Gift to My
Generation.”
It also has a deadline of Nov.
1 to Post 3232.
—Submitted by Dennis
Marsh, Cmdr, District 9, VFW
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City Lights to host film, discussion on ‘fake news’
The terms “fake news” and
“alternative facts” are relative-
ly new to our vocabulary and
express a lack of faith in both
mainstream journalism and the
unprecedented amount of
information we now receive
through countless media plat-
forms.
Join Siuslaw News editor
and award-winning columnist
Ned Hickson and City Lights
Cinemas education director
Jared Anderson as they have a
lively discussion about the
issues of “fake news” and
“alternative facts” in relation to watching the film.”
Hickson, who has been with
the classic film noir “Ace in the
Siuslaw News for
Hole,” starring
17 years as sports
Kirk Douglass.
editor
before
Made in 1951,
being promoted to
Douglas plays a
editor
in
cynical, disgraced
September, said
reporter
who
discussions like
stops at nothing to
this on a local
try to regain a job
level with readers
at a major news-
from the commu-
paper, eventually
nity that journal-
sacrificing
his
Ned Hickson
ists serve are cru-
principles
to
cial in establishing
manipulate a trag-
ic situation into providing his the level of trust and communi-
cation intended by the First
“big story.”
“You have to ask if the prob- Amendment.
lems Douglas faces in the film
“Faith in journalism, espe-
are just as relevant — or maybe cially on the national level, has
even more so — today,” said been shaken in the wake of this
Anderson. “We’re going to past election — some of it
explore that and other ques- intentional and divisive, and
tions with Ned Hickson after some of it as an unintended
consequence of today’s need to
get the story first outweighing
the obligation to get it right.
“Democracy hinges on hav-
ing informed citizens at every
level. If we don’t feel we can
trust the information we’re get-
ting, it undermines our democ-
racy as a whole.”
The program will take place
Sunday, Feb. 12, beginning at 3
p.m., at City Lights Cinemas,
1930, Highway 101, in the
Griffith Theater.
Tickets are $9 for adults, $8
for seniors, students and active
military, or $7 for children.
“Come see the film, partici-
pate in the discussion and
enjoy a fun and informative
afternoon,” said Anderson.
For more information or to
purchase tickets in advance,
call 541-305-0014.
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