SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017
Lutheran Church to host
Ash Wednesday service
All are welcome to attend
New Life Lutheran’s Ash
Wednesday Worship today,
March 1, beginning at 4 p.m.
New Life is located at 21st
and Spruce streets, between
Food Share and ABC
Preschool.
Come together as wor-
shipers are marked by ash and
reminded that they are dust
and to dust they shall return.
Feel free to partake in the
Community Supper that hap-
pens at 5:30 p.m. in the fel-
Library
Tidings
lowship hall of New Life.
Community Suppers hap-
pen each Wednesday and are
hosted by a different church.
The rotation is as follows:
First Wednesday at New Life
Lutheran; second Wednesday
at
Presbyterian of the
Siuslaw, third Wednesday at
United Methodist; and fourth
Wednesday at St. Andrews
Episcopal.
All are welcome.
For more information, call
541-997-8113.
I N HONOR OF THE
100 TH A NNIVERSARY OF R OTARY F OUNDATION
Florence Rotary Club’s
100 Acts of Good
50. Rotary helps the Western Lane Boys & Girls Club stuff the bus
with toys
51. Rotary recognizes Siuslaw Middle School student Hector Garcia
and SHS student Destinie Tatum as Students of the Quarter
52. Rotary recognizes Lane Community College student Nicole
Briggs as Student of the Quarter
53. Florence Rotarians and Interact students volunteer their time
to hand out Christmas baskets for the Florence Soroptimists
54. Rotary Interact students donate $300 to the Western Lane
County Boys & Girls Club Stuff the Bus Program
55. Rotarian Crystal Farnsworth’s Heceta Self Storage loans
their moving van to Soroptimists for the Christmas basket
distribution
For more information Call President, Pat Riley: 541-991-6371
www.thefl orencerotary.org
Free and Confidential HIV Testing
Happening in Florence NOW !
What: Due to a high number of
new infections, HIV Alliance is offering
free HIV testing to anyone .
When: 1st and 3rd Friday of every month.
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Hospital 400 9th St. Bldg 310
Call Anthony with any questions at 541-342-5088
The Case Against Sugar
By Gary Taubes
Book Review
From the best-selling author
of “Why We Get Fat,” a ground-
breaking expose that makes the
convincing case that sugar is the
tobacco of the new millennium:
backed by powerful lobbies,
entrenched in our lives, and
making us very sick.
Among Americans, diabetes is
more prevalent today than ever,
obesity is at epidemic propor-
tions, and nearly 10 percent of
children are thought to have non-
alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Here, Gary Taubes argues per-
suasively that sugar is at the root
of these, and other critical socie-
ty-wide, health-related prob-
lems.
With his signature command
of both science and straight talk,
Taubes delves into Americans’
history with sugar: its uses as a
preservative and as a key ingre-
dient in cigarettes, its replace-
ment by high-fructose corn
syrup (and the marketing ploy
that represents), and its unex-
pected inclusion in so much of
what we eat and drink.
He explains what research has
shown about our addition to
sweets. He clarifies the argu-
ments against sugar, corrects
misconceptions about the rela-
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 community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
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How did the Boys and Girls
Club of Western Lane County
make the turnaround from near
bankruptcy in February 2015 to
financial stability this month?
Chuck Trent will say it was
because of the generosity of
several donors and the commu-
nity. Many of those around
Trent will tell you it’s because
of the hard work of him, and
others around him.
Trent has been the executive
director of the club for the past
two years. In the 10-months
prior to that, he served on the
board of directors and began
realizing they were facing a
challenge to their very exis-
tence. In debt more than
$300,000 with far less than that
in assets, financial and legal
advisors told the club they
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THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL EVENTS: Films are regular prices | Performing Arts $19/$15 Member/$10 Student
11:00 AM
189 MIN – Visually arresting staging of Verdi
ROYAL OPERA BALLET: WOOLF WORKS
NR 89 MIN – Great comics talking about comedy
with Florence Community PTA
President Tiffany Holdahl and
club spokesperson Natalie
Lyda.
They have a couple of differ-
ent activities coming up,
including teacher and staff
member appreciation in May.
In addition to kids, Our
Town will check in with Adult
Services Librarian Kevin
Mittge. He’ll talk about his
“Best Books of 2016” program
coming up March 10 at the
library.
Mittge spends an hour going
through the top 60 books of the
year. At one book a minute, it’s
pretty fast paced and a lot of
fun.
Also in the “arts” arena will
be a conversation with David
Lauria, the artistic director for
the Class Act Theater. He’ll
talk about the theater and the
2017 season of four produc-
tions they have planned; two of
which will be local presenta-
tions of Tony Award winners.
The other segment on Our
Town this month will be the
rain. Florence received a record
breaking amount of rain during
February this year. As of the
end of Monday, that total has
broken 22 inches according to
the City of Florence Public
Works Department. They’ve
been keeping records for 60
years and this amount is about
2 1/2 times the annual average
for the month.
KVAL meteorologist Al
Peterson will talk about why
we’ve received so much rain.
Spilde, president of Lane
Community College, is one of
nine college presidents who
will be honored with the
Michael Bennett Lifetime
Achievement Award during
PTK Catalyst, Phi Theta
Kappa’s annual convention in
Nashville, Tenn., April 6-8.
The award is the latest in a
long list of national, regional,
state and city awards presented
to Spilde during her career.
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
Earlier this month, she
accepted the national CASE
(Council for Advancement and
Support of Education) District
VIII Leadership Award for pro-
moting understanding and sup-
port for education.
Spilde will retire in June
after 16 years as Lane’s presi-
dent, 21 years with the college
overall, and 37 years in higher
education.
Michael Bennett Lifetime
Achievement Awards are pre-
sented to retiring college presi-
dents or campus CEOs and sys-
tem directors at two-year insti-
tutions.
The awards recognize con-
sistently outstanding support to
Phi Theta Kappa.
They are named in honor of
the late Dr. Michael Bennett,
longtime president of St.
Petersburg College in Florida.
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188 MIN – Triptych based on Virginia Woolf
DYING LAUGHING
would be better off to close the
doors and walk away.
Fast forward to this year, and
the club has eliminated nearly
all of its debt and is on the
verge of hiring a full time
director who will receive more
than the $1 a year that Trent has
been receiving.
Trent, along with former
board member John Murphey,
as well as Jean Murphey, will
talk about the work and the
fundraising they’ve done to
make the organization finan-
cially stable and providing
much-needed assistance to
families and kids in the com-
munity.
Their appearance on this
month’s edition of Our Town
will cap a two-hour show that
will also feature conversations
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178 MIN – “State of the art stagecraft.”
90 MIN – Cinematic exploration of his work
The library is pleased to pres-
ent an Oregon Humanities
Conversation Project program
on Wenesday, March 15, at 1
9:10 PM
KONG: SKULL ISLAND 3-D
PAINTER'S SERIES: I, CLAUDE MONET
Fish Tales: Traditions and
challenges of seafood in
Oregon
7:30 PM
PG-13 119 MIN
Reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong story
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE CO: THE TEMPEST
On Friday, March 10, at 1
p.m. in the library’s Bromley
Room, librarian Kevin Mittge
will be presenting the “Best
Books of 2016” as selected by
patrons, staff and book critics.
This will be a fast-paced
review of the year’s best books
in 60-minutes with a booklist of
the reviewed titles available. A
sneak preview: among the top
books this past year are Truly
Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarity
and White Trash by Nancy
Isenberg.
Hopefully all those who
attend will get some ideas about
wonderful new books to explore.
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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: IL TROVATORE
Best Books to be presented
LCC president Spilde to receive life-time achievement award
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p.m., in the Bromley Room, fea-
turing Jennifer Burns Bright dis-
cussing “Fish Tales: Traditions
and Challenges of Seafood in
Oregon.”
Oregonians love the wild
beauty of our 363 miles of coast-
line but finding truly local
seafood can be hard, even on the
coast. The U.S. imports approx-
imately 90 percent of its seafood
and ships out nearly as much to
the global market.
Why aren’t we eating more
local seafood?
Why do we consider seafood
more a delicacy now than in the
past?
In this conversation, food
writer Jennifer Burns Bright
helps participants explore our
relationship with the products of
the sea and culture traditions
involving fishing, eating seafood
and understanding the ocean’s
bounty and challenges.
Jennifer Burns Bright is a
food and travel writer based in
Port Orford. She recently retired
from teaching at the University
of Oregon, and holds a Ph.D.
from the University of California
Irvine and a Master Food
Preserver Certification.
As a community organizer
linking local producers and con-
sumers, Bright often speaks and
teaches at events.
tionship between sugar and
weight loss, and provides the
perspective necessary to make
informed decisions about sugar
as individuals and as a society.
Lucid, compelling, and urgent
in its impact, this is a must-read
for all who care about their
health and the well-being of their
families.
B&G Club success leads off KCST’s ‘Our Town’ today
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