SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
Elks to host fish fry
fundraiser Saturday
The Florence Elks Club will
host a Fish Fry Fundraiser
benefitting its new Vocational
Scholarship Fund, which will
award money to students who
wish to pursue vocational
training after high school.
The fish fry, which is open
to the public, wll be from 5 to
7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 1686
12th St., on Saturday, Aug. 12.
Cost is $10 and will include
fried fish, French fries, tartar
sauce and cole slaw.
Refreshments will be avail-
able for purchase.
All ages are welcome.
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upcoming Siuslaw
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grams for adults
and children, new
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news of interest to
the community.
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“The Dark Flood Rises”
by Margaret Drabble
From the great British novel-
ist Dame Margaret Drabble,
“The Dark Flood Rises” is a
vital and audacious tale about
the many ways in which we
confront aging and living in a
time of geopolitical rupture.
Francesca Stubbs has an
extremely full life.
A highly regarded expert on
housing for the elderly who is
herself getting on in age, she
drives
“restlessly
round
England,” which is “her last
love…She wants to see it all
before she dies.”
Amid the professional confer-
ences that dominate her sched-
ule, she fits in visits to old
friends, brings home-cooked
dinners to her ailing ex-hus-
band, texts her son, who is
grieving over the shocking
death of his girlfriend and drops
in on her daughter, a quirky
young woman who lives in a
flood plain in the West Country.
Fran cannot help but think of
her mortality, but she is “not
ready to settle yet, with a cat
upon her knee.”
She still prizes her “frisson of
autonomy,” her believe in her-
self as a dynamic individual
doing meaningful work in the
world.
“The Dark Flood Rises”
moves between Fran’s intercon-
nected group of family and
friends in England and a seem-
ingly idyllic expat community
in the Canary Islands.
In both places, disaster
looms.
In Britain, the flood tides are
rising, and in the Canaries, there
is always the potential for a seis-
mic event. As well, migrants
are fleeing an increasingly war-
torn Middle East.
Though “The Dark Flood
Rises” delivers the pleasures of
a traditional novel, it is clearly
situated in the precarious pres-
ent.
Margaret Drabble’s latest
enthralls, entertains, and asks
existential questions in equal
measure.
Donations for book
sale needed
The Friends of the Library
will be holding their next book
sale on Labor Day weekend and
they are seeking donations.
Please bring any unwanted
books or other materials to the
library’s circulation desk.
The Friends sales help sup-
port the library in many ways,
from helping with the costs of
putting on programs to helping
purchase new furniture and
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Your donation to the Friends
goes a long way towards help-
ing the library continue to pro-
vide excellent service to district
residents and visitors.
Thanks for Summer
Reading
Story times with Ms. Gayle
are on hiatus for the month of
August.
We wish to thank everyone
who participated in this year’s
summer reading program mak-
ing it such a great success —
children, teens, and adults.
During the month of August
the twice weekly story times are
on hiatus to give Ms. Gayle a
well-needed rest, but will
resume in September.
Mapleton Branch
The Mapleton library is locat-
ed at 88148 Riverview Ave. in
the Lion’s Club Building. With
a nice view of the Siuslaw
River, it’s a wonderful place to
sit and enjoy a good book or
read the newspaper. The
library also has books, maga-
zines, DVDs and videos, record-
ed books, Internet computers,
wireless Internet access, a rotat-
ing art display and more.
Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
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