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127TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 65
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Police aid in
search for
missing Dallas,
Ore., woman
U . S . COAST GUARD STATION SIUSLAW RIVER
FLORENCE BECOMES COAST GUARD CITY TODAY
Designation ceremony begins at 11 a.m. at Florence Events Center
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
D
uring the Aug. 7 Florence
City Council meeting, Mayor
Joe Henry proclaimed Aug. 16 as
Florence Coast Guard City Day.
As he began reading the procla-
mation, Henry thanked the “brave
personnel” of U.S. Coast Guard
Station Siuslaw River.
“This is a really exciting day
for the City of Florence,” Henry
said. “I’m very proud and hum-
bled by all the attention we’ve
gotten and the support of our local
Coast Guard station, not just for
this recognition but for the things
they do on our river and miles of
coastline.”
The Coast Guard and City of
Florence are holding a Coast
Guard City Designation Celeb-
ration today at Florence Events
Center, 715 Quince St., from
10:30 a.m. to noon, with a formal
presentation at 11 a.m.
The community is invited.
Afterward, Coast Guard Station
Siuslaw River, 4255 Coast Guard
Road, is hosting an open house
from 12:30 to 4 p.m.
Community members are invit-
ed to park at the events center and
shuttle to the station.
The Coast Guard City designa-
tion comes after more than a year
Heather Davison came to area
Saturday and disappeared
B Y M ARK B RENNAN
Siuslaw News
CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
U.S. Coast Guard Master Chief Tim Tregoning (second from right) accepts a proclamation
from Florence Mayor Joe Henry last week declaring Florence a Coast Guard City. The
Coast Guard and the city will have a designation celebration today, Aug. 16, at Florence
Events Center, 715 Quince St., from 10:30 a.m. to noon, followed by an open house at
Station Siuslaw River until 4 p.m.
of work by Coast Guard Auxiliary
Flotilla 52 members, volunteers,
Western
Lane
Emergency
Operations Group, the City of
Florence and Oregon Coast
Military Museum.
During the celebration, Rear
Admiral David Throop, com-
mander of Coast Guard District
13, will speak.
“Over the past 100 years, the
community has rallied around and
accepted the men and women of
the Coast Guard as their own,”
Throop said. “The support of
communities like Florence is
essential in helping our crews and
families to be ready at all times.
We are happy to be able to high-
light these local efforts by desig-
nating Florence a Coast Guard
City.”
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CITY 7A
Florence Police Depart-
ment is currently assisting the
Dallas, Ore., Police Depart-
ment with an investigation
into the disappearance of 37-
year-old Heather Mounce
Davison on Aug. 12.
Davison has been missing Heather Mounce
since midday on Saturday and
Davison
is believed to have traveled to
Florence earlier that day, on her own, before she
disappeared.
Dallas Police reported that Davison had been
seen at her home in Dallas on Saturday morning.
Davison’s car was located Saturday afternoon,
just north of Florence at milepost 180 on Highway
101, by members of the Oregon State Police.
Davison’s cell phone was located about 400 feet
from her empty automobile.
Family members filed a missing persons report
with the Dallas Police Department on Saturday,
prompting the agency to initiate and lead the inves-
tigation into Davison’s disappearance.
Florence Police Department Commander John
Pitcher said the search for the missing woman is
ongoing and generating
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some possible leads.
ATV accident Sides of the same coin
Brower brothers prepare rare treasures for
claims life of The
the 20th annual Florence Coin Show at the FEC
Mapleton teen “I
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Students and residents in
the Mapleton area are
mourning the loss of another
young resident following the
third fatal ATV accident
since May.
On Saturday morning just
after 10 a.m., 16-year-old
Haley Wells
Haley Wells was riding on an
ATV with a family member along a Bureau of Land
Management road just off of Rice Road in
Mapleton when Wells was thrown from the vehicle
and over an embankment.
Wells, whose helmet came loose during the fall,
was brought up from the embankment but was not
breathing. Family members administered CPR until
first responders from Mapleton Fire and Rescue
arrived, but Wells never
regained consciousness.
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just spent $25,000 and another $16,000
with a lady today and went broke,”
George
Brower
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
laughed
as
he
looks
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at trays upon trays
of coins, stacked
one on top of the other. “But I got some sur-
prises, some special prizes.”
George and his brother Harold have a trove
of special prizes in the musty corridors of
Brower Stamp & Coin, an establishment
they’ve run since 1983.
Looking at their unassuming building on the
corner of Rhododendron Drive and Highway
101, one could be forgiven for not knowing the
treasures hidden inside.
Many of those treasures will be on display at
the 20th annual Florence Coin Show, running
Aug. 19 and 20 at the Florence Events Center
(FEC). In fact, it’s the second longest running
show at the FEC, just a few months shy of the
Home and Garden Show.
George helped start the coin show with
Dennis Hankins.
“When they were talking
about building the FEC, peo-
ple were trying to come up
with ideas for it. I volun-
teered without thinking,” he
said.
Twenty years later, it’s
still going strong.
The seminal coin show is
considered by most numis-
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matics — the official term
(From left) Terry Woodward, Harold Brower and George
for coin collectors — to be
Brower show off their coins and a rare sheet of National
in the top three Oregon has
Bank notes from Durango, Colo.
to offer.
For instance, they have one of the first quar-
At least, that’s what George humbly said.
Harold was a bit more boastful, saying, ters ever made, minted in 1796. Small potatoes,
though; the quality is shoddy and it’s only
“We’re the best.”
After many years, George sold his stake in worth $6,000.
The créme de la créme right now is a long
the coin show to his longtime friend and fellow
numismatic Terry Woodward, but he’s still sheet of six uncut $10 National Bank Notes
from the Burns National Bank of Durango,
heavily involved.
The three men showed off some of the types Colo. The big deal? Printed numbers one
of coins that make the annual event, and the through six.
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hobby, so special.
C O O L P L A C ES
U.S. Coast Guard Station Siuslaw River
TO VISIT THIS SUMMER
4255 Coast Guard Road, Florence ❘ 541-997-3631
A T A GLANCE : U.S. Coast
Guard Station Siuslaw River
was completed in 1917. The
first officer in charge, Capt.
Theodore Roberge, was appoint-
ed ‘Keeper’ of the station on
Dec. 14, 1917. A full crew of five
men from Florence and three
men from other local towns was
active by 1918.
Over the years, the station
has protected the Siuslaw River
bar as a U.S. Lifesaving Service,
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S PECIAL F EATURE :
This summer we are
highlighting unique
spots that make the
central Oregon coast
one of the coolest
places to live and play.
New locations will be
featured each month.
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as an outpost and as a full
station. Now, Station Siuslaw
River serves as one of seven
lifeboat stations in Oregon
whose primary mission is to
provide search and rescue to
commercial mariners, recre-
ational boaters and surfers.
The Coast Guard and its
auxiliary also escort fishing
vessels across the bar and
SIUSLAW NEWS FILE PHOTO
enforce boating regulations,
An early crew shows some of the orig-
among other important work. inal features of Station Siuslaw River.
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