SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
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Visitor Center announces grand re-opening
This evening, May 17, the
public is invited to the grand re-
opening of the Florence Area
Chamber of Commerce’s
Visitor Center at 290 Highway
101.
“We’re inviting the entire
community to come from 4:30
to 6:30 p.m. and see the fabu-
lous changes here at the visitors
center,” said executive director
Bettina Hannigan. “Bring your
friends, enjoy some refresh-
ments, visit with local business
and government leaders, and
see how we’re greeting our out-
of-area visitors and local resi-
dents to promote the Florence
community.”
Bids were requested and the
project was awarded to Lofy
Construction of Florence. The
project, budgeted by the
Chamber’s board for the 2016-
17 fiscal year, cost approxi-
mately $17,000.
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“We’ve repurposed space
that was not being utilized to its
potential,” Hannigan said. “We
now have more usable space
for staff to work in, a better
conference room for board
members or our committee
members to meet in, and a more
efficient and attractive wel-
come center in which to greet
guests.”
Hannigan said the Visitors
Center is staffed by 22 volun-
teers who love meeting new
people and talking about all the
fun things to do in and around
Florence.
“They give between 2,500
and 3,000 hours of their time. A
comfortable and efficient work-
space is vital to their success…
and now they have it,
“Hannigan said. “With this
remodel, we are able to offer
local artists to have a place to
exhibit their work. Right now
we have two artists, Digital
Dunes
Photography
and
Lakeshore
Myrtlewood,
exhibiting in the lobby.”
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The newly remodeled Visitors Center has been expanded to offer a more inviting space.
Each month, the Chamber
will feature two- and three-
dimensional exhibits by local
artists and galleries.
For more information about
the Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce, and how to join or
volunteer,
visit
Florence
Chamber.com online, stop into
the Visitor Center or call 541-
997-3128.
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New FEC Gallery Committee members announced
The Friends of the Florence
Events
Center’s
Gallery
Committee has welcomed new
members
Pattie
Brooks-
Anderson and Jane Connelley.
Both are active in the art
community, and both bring a
wealth of knowledge and expe-
rience to the committee.
Brooks-Anderson is a well-
known painter, printmaker,
multi-media artist and chil-
dren's book author, with a
background in teaching.
She has been a member of
Backstreet Gallery since 2006,
where her artwork is on dis-
play.
Connelley says her artwork
exhibits in Galleries One
and Five at the Florence
Events Center, 715
Quince St. in Florence.
They jury, hang and
strike exhibits, work
with the exhibitors and
promote the exhibits.
The calendar for 2018
is
currently
being
planned, so anyone
interested in having a
show as a single artist, or
wish to put on a group
exhibit, should contact
the FEC at 541 997-
1994 for an application.
Don’t miss The FEC’s
current exhibit for May
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in Gallery One: “Fresh
Impressions,” put on by
Patti Brooks-Anderson and Jane Connelley
Kim Pickell’s Siuslaw
High School art students.
has been described as “realism
Connelley’s work can be
To
become
a volunteer mem-
with unrealistic departures.”
viewed at Florence Regional
ber
of
the
Gallery
Committee,
She is also a teacher, having Arts Alliance (FRAA), where
email
cignatieff@live.com
for
recently taught a six-week she is a member.
class to Siuslaw Middle School
The Gallery Committee, more information.
students through Lane Arts
Council.
My Flag
through the Friends of FEC,
present one- and two-month art
Oh! I saw more than one yesterday;
They have a special little hole in the concrete;
where their pole is set, and, they can freely wave along our highway.
Yesterday, they were set, in remembrance, of World War II;
much, was paid, for the freedom for all, not just a few.
Some are hung from tall fl ag poles, and are proudly displayed;
and every time, I look upon her, a tear is shed, and a thank you said,
for the many, who age their life, so the price of our freedom was paid.
We try to remember them all;
Whether it be their name on a grave stone,
or chiseled on some marble wall.
Tuesday 5/9
In the nightly news;
there are a few that don’t share our views.
It is sad, that for their freedom, so many had to die, in that war;
and, there is my neighbor, who’s son, will no longer walk,
through his mother’s front door.
Those few, spit upon it, stomp on it, burn it, and, call it every vulgar
name; don’t they understand, that the wars that were fought,
and the soldiers that died, for our freedom, was not a game.
They, can do what they want with it, and, even call it a dirty old rag;
but each day I go by mine, I touch her gently, and each day I again,
say thank you to those who died, for my freedom,
that allows me to display my fl ag.
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