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THESIUSLAWNEWS . COM ❘ / SIUSLAWNEWS ❘ @ SIUSLAWNEWS WEDNESDAY EDITION ❘ APRIL 25, 2018 ❘ $1.00 VIKS SET SCHOOL RECORDS SPORTS — B N INSIDE PUBLICATIO 128TH YEAR ❘ ISSUE NO. 33 SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890 Florence Farmers Market set to open May 15 Vision Quest’s ‘Get Wild’ series watches for birds Local farmers will offer an array of healthy food products Tuesdays at new Bay Street site Florence residents will soon have the opportu- nity to purchase healthy, locally grown food, directly from the farmer B Y M ARK B RENNAN growing and harvesting Siuslaw News that food, on Bay Street in Historic Old Town. Starting on Tuesday, May 15, there will be a weekly Florence Farmers Market, offering organ- ic and sustainably grown farm products for sale to the public. It will run from 3 to 7 p.m. According to Mary Shaw, president of the Florence Farmers Market, which was organized in 2017, the community will now have the opportu- nity to buy products sourced within one hour driv- ing distance. Besides increasing local access to farm-fresh food, this will also provide financial support to farms and organizations. “The goal was to create a marketplace for farm- ers within a 60-mile radius of Florence to sell their locally grown and produced products in the com- munity of Florence,” Shaw said. “The benefit to the community is access to these foods and an opportunity to meet the farmers who grow/pro- duce their food,” Shaw said. Another main focus of the new market will be to assist those with less financial ability to be able to purchase wholesome food. “A cornerstone of the market is the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food stamp program, including ‘double up food bucks,’” Shaw said. “If a person elects to spend $4 of your food stamps at the market, they will receive an additional $4 to have a total of $8 to spend on healthy, local food.” People have had a desire to create a farmers market for the Florence area for years, but there have been a number of obstacles to making the market a reality, according to Shaw. See FLORENCE, OREGON MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS This weekend, area residents learned “All about Birds” with Siuslaw Vision 2025’s “Live Learn Explore” initiative, Vision Quest. MARKET 7A T HE Vision Quest’s free two-day workshop educates, then takes public for a walk on the wild side B Y M ARK B RENNAN Siuslaw News T he new Vision Quest group, an initiative of the Siuslaw Vision 2025, presented its second two-day “Get Wild” work- shop with “All about Birds” this past weekend, with assistance from Eugene’s Cascade Raptor Center and the U.S. Forest Service. The Saturday session featured a lecture and a discussion overseen by Cascade Raptor Center Staff member, Carrie Sigloh, in the Bromley Room at the Siuslaw Public Library. The mixed age capacity crowd was treated to a fact filled lecture while having the unique opportuni- ty to see a Swainson’s Hawk from a few feet away. Guapo, which means handsome in Spanish, was clearly the star of the show, preening and looking out at the crowd with intelligence and awareness. The large bird of prey sat calmly on the hand of the knowledgeable Sigloh as she discussed the habits and tendencies of the beautiful bird. The hushed crowd seemed fasci- nated by the information it heard and by the sight of the large raptor slowly working its way through lunch: a small field mouse. “Carrie from Cascades Raptor Center held everyone’s attention for the entire presentation … from the moment she introduced the vis- iting Swainson’s Hawk all the way to the end,” said Siuslaw Vision team member Dina Pavlis, who coordinates the “Get Wild” series. “It was fascinating.” According to Pavlis, more than 120 people attended Saturday’s presentation. “Our ‘All About Birds’ weekend exceeded our expectations in terms of community participation and quality,” she said. “We received immediate feedback as people exit- ed and everyone was thrilled.” See WILD 7A RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS Part V: Engaging in debate – ‘If people talked with each other, that would save lives’ B Y J ARED A NDERSON Siuslaw News “T INSIDE here is no moving toward a ‘solution’ when almost half the country wants to erase the Second Amendment,” Ed Scarberry wrote on the Florence Oregon UNCENSORED Facebook page. He was responding to a teaser for this article, which posed the ques- tion, “How can we move toward solutions on the gun debate?” In response, Matt Stone said, “For one, some people can stop the hyper- bole of when people want some basic and common-sense rules that they are out to ‘erase’ the Second Amendment. We do need to admit there is a problem. We also need to stop allowing people’s paranoid delusions, or delusional fantasies, to become arguments against reason.” “I stand corrected,” Scarberry wrote. “I should have said al- most half the Democrats want it repealed ...” Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B6 Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 School News . . . . . . . . . Inside Library Tidings . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Scarberry posted a March 27 guns, or any other political discus- From the research done on this “Repugnican.” article by the left-leaning sion. series, none of the gun rights advo- And some people just refuse to Washington Post, which stated only Scarberry’s views of gun reform- cates interviewed could be classi- talk about it. 21 percent of all Americans wanted ers is understandable. fied as “homicidal maniacs or stu- “You can’t debate it,” one to repeal the Second Amendment One gun rights advocate who pid, redneck Neanderthals.” Facebook user said. “Each and with 39 percent of every gun control law is by Democrats supporting nature unconstitutional.” “There are good arguments on both sides, and the facts are there for the move, 16 percent of While the sentiment that Independents and eight both sides. And if there was a way to get in the middle and actually look gun control laws are uncon- percent of Republicans. at the issues and the problems, and how we could best protect our kids in stitutional is technically “It is what happens their schools, it would be great. I just don’t know if those two sides can get inaccurate (the reasons for when you neglect a together. Each side is very passionate, but does that leave room for com- which will be explored problem for so long,” later), the sentiment was Stone said. “When you promise?” clear: There is no point in — Commander John Pitcher, debating, even if the facts see a law protecting abuses of a right, you Florence Police Department state otherwise. Both sides alter it to better address are intractably entrenched. the current situation. But as Jaeda Forral posted No rational person is saying to get wrote to the Siuslaw News about Nor, too, could it be said that the on the Florence, Oregon Facebook rid of all guns. People want rules the series said, “As a firearms liberals interviewed for this series page, this kind of thinking is dan- on what kind of weapons we allow owner and supporter of the Second do not believe in America. While gerous in today’s society. in our society, and rules on acquir- Amendment, I am pretty used to certain political parties may have “When you strip away all of the ing and conducting themselves being portrayed in most media out- different views on what role the partisan bulls**t, the simple fact is with them.” lets as a terrorist, a homicidal government should play in kids are dying at school and they’d “Agreed,” Scarberry said. “The maniac or a stupid, redneck America, liberals were just as pas- rather not,” Forral wrote. “They are problem is, this country is so divid- Neanderthal.” sionate about America and what asking for help. From adults. That’s ed that rationality left the building On the other end of the spectrum, they viewed as its core principles. it.” a long time ago. Very little room for conservatives often accuse gun These examples were more “F REE S TATE ” compromise with today’s political reformers, and liberals in general, nuanced when it comes to how “The debate was settled in and social climate being what it is.” of being un-American. different sides of the debate That social media conversation “Liberals want the government view each other, especially in the 1776,” wrote one Facebook com- — a polite example of the ongoing to be ever larger and more intru- names sometimes lobbed about for mentator on why it is useless to talk debate — was an encapsulation of sive,” one reader commented via those with a different point of about the guns in America. the difficulties facing America right email. “Ergo, they are contrary to view — including “snowflakes,” See SPECIAL SERIES 6A now when it comes to the debate on the American premise.” “deplorables,” “Libtards” and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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