SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017
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LCC-Florence offering PeaceHealth introducers new healthcare providers
defensive driving course
A driver safety class is
being offered by Lane
Community College-Florence
on Thursday, Nov. 16, from
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the
Shorewood Retirement
Residences.
This course offers people an
important opportunity to learn
how to drive more efficiently
and safely. The course con-
tains up-to-date information
about changes over time relat-
ed to aging, vehicles, roads
and laws.
The course is open to all
ages.
The content of this course
can help boost safety aware-
ness, refresh and improve
driving skills, minimize crash
risk, increase confidence, pro-
long mobility, and maintain
independence.
Completion of this six-hour
driving refresher course can
yield discounted auto insur-
ance premiums for safe driv-
ing individuals 55 and older.
Pre-registration is required
and can be made by calling
LCC-Florence at 541-997-
8444.
The course fee is $20 with a
$5 discount for current AARP-
members, the fee includes a
workbook and other materials,
and is payable to AARP at the
class.
Baha‘i’ Faith of Florence invites YOU to a FREE FILM
“LIGHT TO THE WORLD” FESTIVAL
Celebration of 200th Anniversary Birth of
Sunday, Nov. 12th, 2-4 p.m @ CLASS ACT THEATRE
Info: 541-590-0779 • 509 Kingwood St, Florence
Time for the
Big Reveal!
Our remodel is at last complete.
Please join us for cupcakes and
conversation as we celebrate our
new look.
Open House
Tuesday, November 14
9 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Banner Bank
777 Highway 101
Florence, OR
bannerbank.com
541-997-3486
Member FDIC
PeaceHealth Medical Group
at PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center has welcomed
three new women’s services
physicians to its team of
providers.
With the addition of Justine
Parker, DO, family practice
and obstetrics; Yvonne Sculley,
MD, obstetrics and gynecolo-
gy; and Jacquelyn Serrano,
MD, family practice and
obstetrics.
The additons allow Peace
Harbor to continue expanding
its capacity to meet Florence’s
need for both primary and spe-
cialty care.
“We are delighted to have
these three excellent new doc-
tors on our team,” said Ron
Shearer, MD, medical director
of PHMG in Florence. “We’ve
listened carefully to our
patients and community mem-
bers over these last several
years as we’ve struggled to
meet the growing demand for
primary care.
“With these additions, we're
able to substantially improve
access to an array of general
and specialized services for
women.”
Those include preventive
well-woman care, comprehen-
COURTESY PHOTO
From left: Justine Parker, DO; Yvonne Sculley, MD; and Jacquelyn Serrano, MD
sive prenatal care and child-
birth services, as well as treat-
ment of conditions related to
the female urinary tract,
endocrine system and repro-
ductive organs.
• Justine Parker, DO, earned
her medical degree at the
Chicago
College
of
Osteopathic Medicine before
completing a family medicine
residency, with a focus on
women’s health, at Advocate
Illinois Masonic Medical
Center.
She
completed
an
Osteopathic
Manipulative
Medicine fellowship in 2013
and recently a fellowship in
Maternal Child Health at West
Suburban Hospital in Chicago,
where she was trained in high-
risk obstetrics.
• Yvonne Sculley, MD, joins
PHMG in Florence from
Mississippi, where she was
chief of medical services for
the Keesler Air Force Base.
She earned her medical
degree at the Uniformed
Services University of the
Health Sciences in Bethesda,
Maryland, before completing
an OB/GYN residency at
Travis Air Force Base in
California.
She’s served as a flight com-
mander, medical director,
physician and nurse at several
Air Force bases.
• Jacquelyn Serrano, MD,
earned her medical degree at
the Stanford University School
of Medicine in 2002 before
completing a family medicine
residency at the University of
Minnesota Department of
Family
Medicine
in
Minneapolis.
She most recently worked as
a family physician at Samuel
Simmonds Memorial Hospital
in Barrow, Alaska, but has
practiced in a variety of set-
tings, including urgent care.
All three providers are
accepting new OB/GYN
patients.
To schedule an appointment,
call 541-902-1634
Genealogy enthusiasts discuss Civil War mementos
Siuslaw Genealogy Society
President Mike Allen was also
a presenter at the September
meeting of the genealogy
group. Allen’s program fea-
tured three members telling of
their research on relatives who
were members of The Grand
Army of the Republic. Known
as the GAR, it was a patriotic
organization of veterans who
fought for the Union Army in
the American Civil War. The
organization ceased to exist
when the last member died in
1956.
The Genealogy Society pro-
vides a monthly program on
topics of interest to persons
using genealogy to explore
family history. The public is
invited to these presentations.
The November speaker will
be Kevin Mittge, the Adult
Services Librarian at the
Siuslaw Public Library. Mittge
has been “doing” genealogy for
40 years.
His lecture will discuss
COURTESY PHOTO
“trees” on Ancestry.com.
Presenters
of
the
“Genealogy
Shorts”
program
on
the
Grand
Army
of
the
Republic
This includes: how to create
included
(from
left)
Siuslaw
Genealogy
Society
President
Mike
Allen,
member
Sally
a tree, how to edit and add
Daugherty and program chairman Kevin Mittge.
information, deciding whether
a tree should be public or pri-
vate, inviting people to private
trees, linking a tree to a per-
son’s Ancestry DNA results,
using trees to determine rela-
tionships from DNA results,
syncing trees to genealogy
software, saving tree data,
deleting trees and more.
This presentation will be
from 7 to 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the
Bromley Room of the Siuslaw
Public Library, which is locat-
ed at 1460 Ninth St. The pub-
lic is invited.
Refreshments will be served
and members will be available
to answer questions after the
presentation.
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