SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
OCCO concert series to
begin May 7 in Yachats
Beginning May 7 the
Oregon
Coast
Chamber
Orchestra (OCCO) will be pre-
senting its Spring Concert
Series in Reedsport, Yachats
and Florence.
Musician and conductor
John Bringetto will share the
podium with long-time con-
ductor John Monks.
The program offers a vari-
ety of musical styles and eras
ranging
from
classical
Library
Tidings
favorites to contemporary the-
ater and film compositions.
Performance venues and
dates are: Sunday May 7 at 2
p.m., at Reedsport Church of
God, Friday, and Sunday May
14, 2 p.m., at Florence
Community Baptist Church.
Tickets are $10 at the door,
children under 10 and students
are free.
Visit occorchestra.org for
more information.
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Book Review
“The Sleepwalker”
By Chris Bohjalian
In best-selling author Chris
Bohjalian’s latest book, “The
Sleepwalker,” when Annalee
Ahlberg goes missing, her chil-
dren fear the worst.
Annalee is a sleepwalker
whose affliction manifests itself
in ways both devastating and
bizarre.
Once she merely destroyed
the hydrangea in front of her
Vermont home.More terrifying
was the night her older daughter,
Lianna, pulled her back from the
precipice of the Gale River
bridge.
The morning of Annalee’s dis-
appearance, a search party
combs the nearby woods.
Annalee’s husband, Warren, flies
home from a business trip.
Lianna is questioned by Gavin
Rikert, a young, hazel-eyed
detective.
And her little sister, Paige,
takes to swimming the Gale to
look for clues.When the police
discover a small swatch of fabric
from a nightshirt ripped and
hanging from a tree branch, it
seems certain that Annalee is
dead.
But the hazel-eyed detective
still continues to call and he con-
tinues to stop by the Ahlbergs’
Victorian home.
As Lianna peels back the lay-
ers of mystery surrounding
Annalee’s disappearance, she
finds herself drawn to Gavin, but
she must ask herself:Why does
the detective know so much
about her mother?
Why did Annalee leave her
bed only when her husband was
away?
And if she really died while
sleepwalking, where is the
body?
Conjuring the strange and
mysterious world of parasomnia,
a place somewhere between
dreaming and wakefulness, “The
Sleepwater” is a masterly novel
from a treasured storyteller.
Bohjalian is also the author of
“The Guest Room,” “The Light
in the Ruins,” “The Sandcastle
Girls,” “The Double Bind,”
“Midwives” and “Skeletons at
the Feast.”
5 A
p.m.
On Sunday the hours are from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Books for the friends sale
come from donations as well as
weeded copies from the library’s
collection.
One special for this sale: if
you buy a Friends of the Library
canvas book bag for $15 you can
fill it up with as many books (for
free!) that you can carry.
Don’t miss this great opportu-
nity to get some great books at
bargain prices, and help the
Friends and the library at the
same time
Summer reading is coming!
Mark your calendars – sum-
mer reading begins June 1.
A wide variety of programs
for kids and adults are being
scheduled.
Look for more information
here in Tidings.
Friends of the Library
book sale
Mapleton Branch
The Friends of the Library
will be holding a book sale on
Saturday, May 13, and Sunday,
May 14, in the library’s Bromley
Room.
The hours on Saturday are 9
a.m. for Friends of the Library
members only (you can buy a
membership at the door) and 10
a.m. for non-members, until 4
The Mapleton library is locat-
ed at 88148 Riverview Ave., in
the Lion’s Club Building.
The library also has books,
magazines, DVDs and videos,
recorded books, Internet com-
puters, wireless Internet access,
and more.
Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
USA Today names Florence No. 2 on ‘10-best’ poll
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USA Today’s “10Best.com”
editors teamed up with a panel
of travel experts chosen based
on their knowledge and experi-
ence with the region to find the
best small towns in the
Northwest with populations
less than 10,000.
Florence took second place
out of the 50 originally consid-
ered for an online poll that con-
cluded April 24.
“We were super excited to be
nominated to this list of great
places, and are delighted to be
Life‛s Short.
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Time for Spring Planting at
the only Oregon town in the top
10,” said Bettina Hannigan,
executive director for the
Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce. “Especially con-
sidering the other awesome
places from our great state that
were part of this national sur-
vey.”
USA Today’s write-up stat-
ed, “Situated where the
Siuslaw River meets the
Pacific Ocean, Florence is
home to two of the most popu-
lar attractions on the central
Oregon Coast: Heceta Head
Lighthouse and Sea Lion
Caves. Fresh seafood domi-
nates the restaurant menus at
establishments clustered on
Bay Street.”
“We’ve got all that, and
more,” boasted Hannigan. “We
had four weeks of voting, and
voters were encouraged to vote
daily using any and all of their
electronic devices. The proof is
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The remaining towns in the
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“The tourism industry is a
great fit for Florence, and it
provides employment for hun-
dreds of families. It brings
happy people to town who
make major contributions to
the economic vitality of our
beautiful community,” added
Hannigan. “Awards like this
give us some serious bragging
rights when encouraging peo-
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“We couldn’t agree more
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have yet another national
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identity as Oregon’s Coastal
Playground, and as great place
to live and work.”
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