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127TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 24
❘ MARCH 25, 2017 ❘ $1.00
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SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
T HREE R IVERS C ASINO R ESORT C OMMUNITY J OB F AIR
Making connections
Guns stolen
from The
Sportsman
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rganizers estimate that more than 350 people attended Three
Rivers Casino Resort’s second annual Community Job Fair
Thursday. “This year, attendance stayed steady throughout the
day. It was a nice stream of people all day long,” said Pam Hickson, event
organizer and Three Rivers recruitment specialist. “Vendors said they
made a lot of great connections and it was a good opportunity.” An after-
noon rush brought in youth from Siuslaw High School and Angell Job
Corps from Yachats. “It was awesome to have so many young people,”
Hickson said. The job fair was designed to place area employers in one
location as a “one-stop shopping” destination for job seekers.
The Sportsman sporting goods store,
249 Highway 101, was burglarized early
Thursday morn-
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ing.
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According to
Florence Police
Commander John Pitcher, police received
a call at 3:30 a.m. reporting the break in.
According to Pitcher, the alarm activa-
tion was called in to owner Bill Pinkney,
who then responded and found that a
block had been thrown through the north
window.
Six handguns — four nine-millimeter,
one .38 caliber and one .40 caliber —
were stolen.
Pitcher said no amunition was taken.
Anyone with information is asked to
call the Florence Police Department at
541-997-3515.
Fire destroys
$200K RV
Electrical short likely
cause of fire on Thursday
A 40-foot RV was completely
destroyed by fire in the early morning
hours of March
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occupants and
their two cats
managed to escape uninjured.
Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue
(SVFR) firefighters were dispatched to an
RV fire at Heceta Trailer Park, 4636
Heceta Beach Road, at 2:50 a.m.
Thursday.
A total of six fire vehicles, two support
units and 17 firefighters were called out.
Containing the fire was complicated
because the nearest fire hydrant was
1,200 feet from the fire, too far for fire
hoses, causing firefighters to rely on
water supplied by the firefighting vehi-
cles.
According to Fire Marshal Sean Barrett,
the occupants smelled what appeared to
be smoke and awoke to investigate.
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Council declines agenda proposal
Proposed Protection for Individuals/Sanctuary City
ordinance won’t be heard by Florence City Council
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uring the April 22
Florence City Council
Work Session, councilors chose
not to include an agenda item
submitted by Councilor Ron
Preisler asking city staff to pre-
pare a draft ordinance similar to
the “Ordinance Concerning
Protections for Individuals”
recently approved by the
Eugene City Council.
Preisler’s letter states, “The
city manager is asked to pre-
pare a draft ordinance to pro-
hibit all city employees from
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using public resources to
enforce immigration laws and,
or collect information about an
individual’s political, religious
or social views.”
On Feb. 3, City of Florence
issued a press release in
response to Executive Order
13768 signed by President
Donald Trump on Jan. 25,
which states, “It is the policy of
the executive branch to
empower state and local law
enforcement agencies across
the country to perform the
functions of an immigration
officer in the interior of the
United States to the maximum
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extent permitted by law.”
That executive order directly
conflicts with language in the
Oregon Revised Statutes,
(ORS) and the Florence City
Charter.
The city’s press release
states, “The Florence Police
Department does not enforce
federal immigration laws and
we will continue to follow state
laws regarding immigration.”
ORS 181A.820 states, “No
law enforcement agency of the
State of Oregon or of any polit-
ical subdivision (city or county)
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PROPOSAL 7A
THIS WEEK ’ S
air monitor now
Clearing the air ‘Speck’
available at library
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ake in a long slow deep breath. Now hold it
for a second or two. And then let it escape
easily. That will be just one of more than 20,000
lung fulls of air that the average person will take
in today, with no way
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of knowing what is in
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the air.
According to the
Center for Disease Control, poor indoor air qual-
ity stems from many sources and it can be quite
dangerous. The CDC says indoor pollution can
lead to suffering from lung diseases such as
asthma.
It can also cause headaches, dry eyes, nasal
mucus, nausea and tiredness. Lead exposure can
negatively affect nearly every system in the
body. Additionally, it is hard to tell by the sim-
ple act of breathing what may or may not be in
the air we take into our bodies.
The public’s susceptibility to indoor air pollu-
tion is one of the reasons that the Siuslaw Public
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The Speck Air Quality Monitor can be
used to identify particulates in the air.
Library has begun offering, for patron checkout,
a device that will analyze the air in a home or
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Six handguns taken
during sporting goods
store break-in