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Author Robert Heilman to read from latest book tomorrow at Siuslaw Public Library
Author/essayist Robert Leo
Heilman will read from his lat-
est book on Thursday, March
30, at 6 p.m. at Siuslaw Public
Library, 1460 Ninth St.
The author and commenta-
tor will share selected works
from his recent collection of
short writings about life in
Oregon, “The World Pool: A
Literary Variety.”
Published in 2016, “The
World Pool” is a collection of
Heilman’s short pieces written
about life in Oregon over the
past 30 years and what it means
to be human.
His essays, memoirs and
other assorted nonfiction writ-
ings have roots in rural Oregon,
specifically Myrtle Creek,
where the author resides.
His work has received the
Andres Berger Award for non-
fiction and a previous collec-
tion of his was runner-up for a
1996 Oregon Book Award in
the nonfiction category.
Heilman says in and through
his writing he has “tried to …
look at connections, between
my life and the lives of my
neighbors, between our work
and our place, our families and
our community.”
His pieces are introspective
and delve into the joys and
pains of the blue-collar life he
has experienced.
His easy presence and read-
ings are certain to lead to
insightful and engaging conver-
sation about the topic of com-
munity and life in general. He
received a warm welcome and
praise for his work when he
appeared last year at the
Mapleton Branch Library.
Join fellow community
members at the Library’s main
branch for this opportunity to
hear Robert Leo Heilman share
his touching stories and
thought-provoking essays.
This program is free and
open to the public, and light
refreshments will be served.
The event will appeal to all
who have an interest in hearing
Heilman’s
award-winning
words about life in rural
Oregon and is appropriate for
high school-aged young adults
and above.
For more information about
the program, visit Siuslaw Pub-
lic Library, call 541-997-3132,
or visit siuslawlibrary.info.
History
the state.
It did however, set the
precedent that Duniway and
her associates would use to
persuade the voters at the
time, all men, to consider
their wives and daughters
when deciding on whether or
not to allow the law to be put
before the voters.
“When women’s true histo-
ry shall have been written, her
part in the upbuilding of this
nation will astound the
world,” she said.
The New Northwest was
published for 16 years during
the height of the battle for
passage of the right to vote.
Her editorials and high public
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Duniway’s work on the
issue began in 1870 with the
formation of a local “Suffrage
Association,” which was cre-
ated to bring the issues asso-
ciated with voting rights for
women to the attention of the
public.
Duniway was insistent that
the right to vote was funda-
mental to the intent of the
founding fathers, and she went
to great lengths during the
presidential election of 1872 to
draw attention to the issue.
She invited and hosted a
trip to Oregon by Susan B.
Anthony, who at the time was
the controversial leader of the
national effort to obtain vot-
ing rights for all women.
Duniway also wrote and
oversaw the distribution of
suffragist literature across the
state. She did more than write
about her beliefs, she also
took action.
She did this by joining a
small group of suffragist
women that illegally cast bal-
lots in the 1872 election. The
women were allowed to place
their votes in a separate box
that was symbolic, in that the
votes therein were not count-
ed or added to the totals for
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profile succeeded in bringing
attention, sometimes unflat-
tering, to her and the nascent
Women’s
movement
in
Oregon.
These editorials and the
position they supported even-
tually made inroads with the
public.
Duniway
also
believed that the fight for
social justice was ongoing
and urged future generations
to continue the work.
“The young women of
today, free to study, to speak,
to write, to choose their occu-
pation, should remember that
every inch of this freedom
was bought for them at a great
price,” Duniway said. “It is
Memorial
Vietnam and during the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
“King was shot down in the
Solomon Islands while flying a
P-38. Normally pilots would
jump out with a parachute, but
since he was worried about
being shot while coming down
in a parachute, he crash landed
the aircraft in the ocean, got
out before it sank, was strafed
in the water and finally got
ashore on one of the Japanese
held islands,” Tomeny said.
He said King was hidden
from the Japanese for two
months by local natives, along
with seven others, until escap-
ing on a raft.
“At Elgin Air Force Base, in
California, where USAF
Special Operations is head-
quartered, they named an audi-
torium after him,” Tomeny
said.
According to Tomeny, King
died of cancer in 2004 after
retiring to Florence.
His relatives still maintain
the family home here in
Florence.
DOV
secretary
Cal
Applebee said, “This project is
an ideal project for grants
under the Oregon Parks
Department (OPD) Veterans
and War Memorial grant pro-
gram.”
Mayor Joe Henry said, “For
what little financial involve-
ment the city is going to have,
I think we should jump ahead
on.”
Applebee said the OPD
grant cycle was already closed
for this year and that the group
would not be able to apply for
a grant until next year, but that
the group could move forward
with smaller park improve-
ments.
The council agreed to place
the DOV’s request to develop a
comprehensive master plan for
approval on the April 3 city
council meeting agenda.
area, only 50 percent of those
emergency generators actually
worked,” Schultz said. “That
event impacted the area for two
weeks at most for power loss.
With a Cascadia event we are
talking potentially significant-
ly longer.”
Schultz does not see under-
ground utilities as a solution.
“With a tsunami, under-
ground utilities are not your
best option. It will be much
easier to repair lines that are
above ground, as opposed to
having to retrench and fix all
the ones that get severed
underground,”
he
said.
“Underground is a good strate-
gy for places that have wildfire
risks.”
According to Schultz, fund-
ing whatever solutions the
teams come up with will be a
challenge.
“Funding is a big question.
Some of it will probably be
folded into existing distribu-
tion plans for structure
upgrades. We will also be look-
ing to the NGA for help in
identifying funding sources.
They have done good work in
identifying innovative financ-
ing solutions in the past,”
Schultz said.
Schultz hopes to share the
findings of the study with the
state’s other 36 PUDs after the
program is completed next
year.
“The young women of today, free to study, to
speak, to write, to choose their occupation,
should remember that every inch of this freedom
was bought for them at a great price.”
— Abigail Scott Duniway
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“To move forward, we need
to have the city on board,”
Spayd said.
“The park would be used
primarily as a gateway to the
airport. We are tying that in
with the location of the mili-
tary museum,” he added.
He said the park would also
draw attention to the airport
from people driving by on
Kingwood Street.
Spayd said, “We also want
to honor a distinguished citizen
of Florence. Most people don’t
even know who he was.”
DOV vice president Terry
Tomeny gave a brief history of
King’s military career, which
included being a fighter pilot
ace, serving in both the Pacific
and European theaters of war
during World War II. King also
flew fighters in the Korean
conflict and later served in
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Duniway was a prolific
writer, and she was the first
person to publish a novel that
was commercially available
in Oregon. She was the author
of dozens of books, both fic-
tion and non-fiction.
More significantly than her
fictional writing was her work
for the New Northwest news-
paper. She established, edited
and wrote for the paper for
the purpose of promoting eco-
nomic and social rights for
women, minorities and immi-
grants.
Duniway also believed that
women’s contributions were
undervalued by their male
counterparts.
for them to show their grati-
tude by helping onward the
reforms of their own times,
by spreading the light of free-
dom and of truth still wider.
The debt that each generation
owes to the past it must pay to
the future.”
Ultimately,
in
1874,
Duniway succeeded in getting
the legislative support she
needed to get the law on the
ballot. This first effort to
approve the vote for women
was rejected by the male vot-
ers of Oregon by a vote of
11,223 to 28,178. The law
was reintroduced for voter
consideration six times, more
than any other state, until it
was passed in 1912.
The
sitting
governor,
Oswald West, in recognition
of Duniway’s unrelenting
efforts to pass the legislation,
asked the 79-year-old activist
to author and sign the procla-
mation that announced to the
public the passage of the law.
Duniway was also given
the honor of being the first
women to legally cast her
vote in an Oregon election, a
fitting tribute to the women
many consider the “Mother”
of the Oregon law that pro-
hibits voting discrimination,
based on an individuals gen-
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