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127TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 69
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Are the kids
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still alright? R U N N I N G W I T H T H E P E O P L E I N S P I R I T
Part III
Community, Healthy
Directions seek to curb
teen drinking
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
(Editor’s Note: This is the final
installment of a three-part series ex-
amining teen alcohol use in Florence.)
Community and family help heal all
wounds. They look out for those in need,
and lift those who are in their darkest
hours.
That’s what Nicole, as she prefers to be
called, believes. Nicole had seen her fam-
ily members lose everything, but it was
community and family that pulled them
through.
Her husband, who had been addicted to
drugs most of his life, was kicked out of
his home and lost his job, throwing the
custody of their only child into doubt.
But Nicole didn’t give up on him.
“I just knew, the second I saw him, that
he was mine,” she said. “He had no
chance.”
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On Saturday, Siuslaw Watershed Council again dedicated the Salmon Run to former Mapleton resident Shiloh Sundstrom’s memory.
More than 70 runners participated in the 3K and 5K, including youth and people from all over Lane County.
S
hiloh Sundstrom was a runner. A
graduate of Mapleton High School,
he participated in track every year
he was eligible. College was no differ-
ent, where he ran on the cross country
and track teams for
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the entire four years
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he was there.
“He was not built for long dis-
tance running,” his father
Johnny Sundstrom said. “Or
speed. But he worked at it. He
really did.”
Johnny spoke about his son at
the Salmon Run 5K and 3K fun
run/walk that was held on
Saturday, Aug. 28.
The run, which snaked
through the wooded back roads
of Mapleton, was a fundraiser
for the Siuslaw Watershed
Council (SWC), but also acted
as a tribute to Shiloh, who
passed away in 2015.
“His two loves in those days
were running and the water-
Next Healthcare
Taking
flight
with
Boys
Town Hall set
13 teens graduate from Florence Air Academy
ormer Aero Legends owner Sam not just see graduation as the finish
for Sept. 13
F Spayd and current owner Terry line, but to look beyond, to their
Tomeny, both pilots, taught the first future.”
shed,” Johnny said.
Running had always been a
bond between the two, particu-
larly when Shiloh was in high
school.
“I’d been helping the program
for a number of years because
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& Girls Club
B Y M ARK B RENNAN
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Florence Air
Academy
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(FAA) to 13
eager Boys
and Girls Club of Western Lane
County Teen Center members.
The course ran three six-hour
days a week from Aug. 14 through
Aug. 25, covering all aspects of
flight instruction, from the basics of
how an airplane flies to the com-
plexities of plotting a flight plan.
Boys and Girls Club Executive
Director Jack Davis said, “This has
been a great experience for our
kids. Several have decided that they
want to pursue a career in aviation.
That is what we want, for kids to
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical
Center and the City of Florence are invit-
ing the community to attend the third in a
series of Healthcare Town Halls at the
Florence Events Center, on Wednesday,
Sept. 13.
There will be two sessions in this free
event. The first will be from 7 to 8 a.m.
and the second will be held at 1:30 p.m.
The presentations by PeaceHealth lead-
ers will provide updated information
regarding the organization’s ongoing
recruitment effort, recent initiatives
focused on community benefits and a
question and answer period.
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Club members got to fly drones
and participate in radio-controlled
model aircraft flights.
The course culminated with each
student getting to fly with a quali-
fied pilot, flying the flight plan they
worked out earlier in the course.
During the Florence City Council
meeting on Monday, Councilor
George Lyddon, who attended the
Aug. 25 class where the FAA stu-
dents flew and graduated, said, “I
think a seed has been planted. It's a
great thing to see. You can just tell
that there was something going on
in their heads.”
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ABOVE: PHOTO BY JACK DAVIS
RIGHT: PHOTO BY JARED ANDERSON/
SIUSLAW NEWS
In August, local pilots
Sam Spayd and Terry
Tomeny paired with
Boys and Girls Club to
teach 13 youth the
wonders of flight.
C O O L Amanda’s Trail
P L AC E S
TO VISIT THIS
S U M M E R
S PECIAL F EATURE :
This summer
we are high-
lighting 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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A T A GLANCE : Accessed through the
Cape Perpetua Day Use Area, 22 miles
north of Florence, The
Amanda Trail descends
through the canopy of
Sitka spruce and alder trees
from the top of Cape
Perpetua down the north
side of Highway 101.
This trail is rated “most
difficult” by U.S. Forest
Service, but even more dif-
ficult is the story of
Amanda De-Cuys, a native
Coos woman who left
behind bloody footprints
in 1864 during a forced march from
Coos Bay to a reservation near Yachats.
Siuslaw National Forest Trail Planner
Lloyd Collett named this trail after
THIS WEEK ’ S
Amanda after discovering her story in
1984. It is dedicated to the memory of
Native Americans
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the original peoples are coming together
to restore native ways in the modern
world.
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September 23rd • 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
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who were marched
along the coastline
in hopes that “new
communities and
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