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Yachats Spring Festival features Florence artists SEAcoast brings Vivace
The 21st Annual Spring
Arts & Crafts Festival by
Crafts on the Coast will bring
70 exhibitors together inside
the Yachats Commons, in
Yachats, the Gem of the Ore-
gon Coast, during Memorial
Weekend, Saturday, May 26,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and
Sunday, May 27, from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Admission to this fami-
ly-friendly event is free. The
Yachats Commons, a beauti-
ful, refurbished elementary
school, will be filled with 70
of the best artisans from the
Pacific Northwest including
a large number of award win-
ners.
From gourmet foods to fine
art, jewelry, clothing, wood,
metal, fabric, paper and glass
art, garden art, body products;
dog treats, toys, photography,
pottery, candles and rugs this
selection offers something for
everyone in everyone's bud-
get.
Upcycled, green art is a fea-
tured attraction with many
artisans using their creative
genius and recycled materials
to turn out truly interesting
items. This is a great oppor-
tunity to find the perfect gifts
for dads, grads, weddings and
spring birthdays.
Many of the artisans at the
Festival will demonstrate their
arts including beading and
jewelry making. Children and
adults are fascinated watching
each designer creating some-
thing of lasting value.
Florence area artisans are:
Paul and Sandra Bowen,
wood boxes and trays; Alis-
sa Clark, modern ceramic
ware with a whimsical theme;
Debbi Simpson, embroidered
shirts and bags and hand-
made purses and Charmaine
Pesnell, award winning bead
work, silver and glass jewel-
ry. Lane County artisans in-
clude: Carol Morrison, fabric
accessories; Martin Gabbert,
decorative and practical iron
work; Kristin Hawke, stained
glass art; Wendy Hoffman,
jewelry and zentangle art;
Kim and Jeff Wiktowski, ter-
rariums, air plants, glass and
pockets; David Duckett, un-
conventional upcycled wood-
work; Joe Blakely, author of
15 books; Linda Lessner, hand
dipped candles; Sonja Curtis
and Leslie Laing, pens, cutting
boards, game boards and key
rings; Melody Morton Gandy,
chair massage; David Brady,
woodworking and original
photography; David Hascall,
author of 3 novels and Barba-
ra Hascall, lotions, lip balms
and soaps.
Gourmet food producers
will offer free tastes of their
products. Meet Ethel Stratton
of Celia's Gourmet Balsamics
and sample authentic Italian,
barrel-aged Traditional and
White Balsamic vinegars and
oils; Starla Gade of Stargaz-
er's Gourmet offers caramels,
chocolates, fudge and biscotti;
Jan Barbee will offer samples
of Jan's Robust Salami, hand-
made, home smoked beef sa-
lami and home canned pick-
led vegetable and try some
honey and roasted hazelnuts
from Darl & Kelly Hajek's Oh
Honey & Nuts.
Stop by the Cafe, have a seat
and relax with a pick-me-up
from Debi Degele of The De-
poe Baykery who will offer
an array of delightful original
recipe baked goods and bever-
ages for sale during the event.
Melody Morton Gandy,
LMT, will be offering soothing
RULES from page 1A
building program,” said Flor-
ence City Manager Erin Reyn-
olds.
In order to bring Florence’s
program into compliance by the
division’s deadlines, Reynolds
and city staff needed to have a
plan right away. A city council
work session and executive ses-
sion were schedule to be held
before the May 21 city council
meeting.
And then came the good
news.
“What I know now is we do
not need to follow those rules
that were published April 24,
but we do have new rules pub-
lished May 18,” Reynolds said.
“That extends the renewal date
of our program until next year,
and we will basically need to
know what we’re doing in the
next six months. … We’ll proba-
bly find out more and have more
rules to research diligently, like
we were, to find a way that the
City of Florence can keep a pro-
gram local, keep it cost effective
for our builders — because we
don’t want to provide yet anoth-
er hindrance to building — and
be able to provide that excellent
level of customer service that
we’ve come to be able to provide
locally. All while doing that in
compliance with whatever the
new rules are.”
She said that city staff and
Williamson “have done a
mighty amount of work” with
multiple partners to bring atten-
tion to the issue.
“It was a pretty massive co-
ordination effort across Lane
County, down south to Douglas
“All options were on the table
and city staff coordinated with
Lane County and other jurisdic-
tions in the county, and we have
some great options moving for-
ward,” Williamson continued.
Friday’s letter rescinded tem-
porary rules set forth in an April
24 letter, which declared the
City of Florence to be in viola-
tion of the new rules, and there-
by unable to renew its building
inspection program.
“We first received a letter
from the Building Code Divi-
sion telling us they had enacted
new rules, emergency rules, and
they were in effect — and on top
of that, not only were they in ef-
fect, we were out of compliance
with those rules for our local
chair massage throughout the
weekend.
Crafts on the Coast always
offers community groups, us-
ing crafts as a way of fundrais-
ing, free booth space in the
Festival. Visit with the Yachats
Ladies Club will offer crafts
made by the ladies of the club
and The Yachats Volunteer
Fire Department will have
info about programs they of-
fer.
Yachats is the place to be
during Memorial Weekend
because in addition to the Arts
& Crafts Festival there are
several other events planned.
On Saturday, if you like pie,
visit the Yachats Ladies Club
17th Annual Pie Social at the
Yachats Ladies Club, 286 W.
3rd St. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
or until the pies are gone.
Handmade pies will be avail-
able by the slice with or with-
out ice cream.
On Sunday, The Yachats Li-
ons Club holds their annual
Pancake Breakfast from 7:30
to 11:30 a.m. at the Lions Hall
and the Yachats Farmers Mar-
ket will be on Fourth Street
featuring home grown veggies
and craft items.
County and Coos County, with
our neighbors up to the north in
Lincoln County, across the state
and with the LOC, including
members of the Coastal Caucus,
Sen. Roblan’s office and Rep.
McKeown,” Reynolds said.
According to Williamson, the
main person efforts targeted
was Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.
“This is an election year, and
one of Gov. Brown’s election
points is affordable housing and
rural development. We were
telling the governor from many
facets, from legislators and sen-
ators to the LOC, that she was
shooting herself and her incen-
tives in the foot,” Williamson
said. “No builder is going to
build a house if it’s going to take
eight weeks for a permit. There
was a lot of pressure applied.”
for season finale
Vivace, a modern and
thrilling combination of four
unique and exceptional pop
and classical singers will per-
form Thursday, May 24, at 7
p.m. at the Florence Events
Center (FEC), 715 Quince St.
The pre-show talk will begin
at 6:15 p.m.
This performance closes
SEAcoast Entertainment As-
sociation’s 2017-18 concert
season.
The members of Vivace
first merged their talents in
2010 at the Vancouver Winter
Olympic Games. Since then,
they have gone on to tour ex-
tensively through out the US
and Canada, captivating audi-
ences everywhere they go.
Vivace is the latest addi-
tion to the classical cross-
over/“popera” genre. Their
stirring combination of pow-
erful male voices and emo-
tionally driven female vo-
cals come together to create
a sound that is exclusively
their own. With a rich and di-
verse repertoire ranging from
pop, to arias, to their own
One of the new rules set forth
in the April 24 rules was to re-
quire six- to eight-week turn-
arounds for building permits.
“It doesn’t work for our build-
ers here in Florence or builders
anywhere in this state,” Wil-
liamson said.
Reynolds described the pro-
cess as inquiring “about the
reasonableness of asking local
cities to change what they have
been doing for a very long time,
in such short order, that had sig-
nificant financial impact to the
operations of what we felt were
very well run, effective pro-
grams using third-party con-
tractors to be our city’s building
officials and inspectors.”
By July 1, Oregon Senate Bill
1051 will go into effect, requir-
ing cities with population great-
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self-written material, Vivace
puts a fresh new take on the
classical and modern music of
today.
Critics from the U.S. and
Canada say, “Each of their
voices is incredible and pow-
erful individually, but to-
gether, their harmonies could
make angels in heaven cry
tears of joy” and “Their beau-
tiful blended harmonies and
passionate performances are
engaging and highly emotion-
al.”
Based primarily in Van-
couver, Vivace is made up
of Melody Courage, Tiffany
Desrosiers, Joey Niceforo and
Joel Ros.
Tickets are on sale now at
the FEC box office or the Sea-
coast Entertainment Website
www.seacoastea.org and are
$32 for adults or $10 for stu-
dents under 18.
SEAcoast
Entertainment
Association is an all-volun-
teer 501(c)(3) nonprofit that
has been bringing entertain-
ment to the Oregon Coast
since 1980.
er than 5,000 or counties with
population greater than 25,000
to decide within 100 days on
applications for housing de-
velopments containing afford-
able housing units. In addition,
many Oregon communities
must allow Accessory Dwelling
Units (ADU) by that date.
On Monday, Florence City
Council voted to approve Or-
dinance No. 4, Series 2018, to
update Florence City Code to
include amendments for ADUs
and other requirements under
SB 1051.
“We’re going to work hard to
find a local, permanent permit
program that can serve your
builders and get all these hous-
ing units built,” Williamson
said.
Reynolds referred to the past
month as a “whirlwind” period
for many of Oregon’s cities and
communities.
Williamson said, “I com-
mend your staff. They’ve got
your back. This last three weeks
has been incredible and a huge
amount of work, meeting after
meeting, changing landscape af-
ter changing landscape.”
For example, he said that
the agenda for Monday night’s
meeting was approved on
Thursday, but by 4:30 Friday, it
was outdated.
Florence Mayor Joe Henry
said, “It’s not over with. It just
gave us a reprieve.”
Williamson agreed.
“There will be more rules
coming out,” he said. “There
will likely be legislation in this
next 2019 session, and we’ll be
coming back to you before July
of next year, probably on anoth-
er deadline to meet whatever
standards they come up with.
But we’re well prepared now.”
Henry concluded, “On behalf
of the council, I add our thanks
to our staff, Ross, the LOC, who
did a lot of work on this thing,
our local legislators, our coun-
ty commissioner and our state
representative and senator, who
all went to bat for us on this is-
sue. … I do believe we should be
prepared to aggressively resist it
as it moves forward.”
According to LOC, “While
this news is making its way to
the cities that were potentially
under investigation, there is still
work to be done. The league will
continue to keep cities informed
as we learn more, and will keep
working with all stakeholders
interested in reaching a consid-
ered and legally defensible solu-
tion. Special thanks to the cities
of Aurora, Clatskanie, Hood
River, Dunes City, Florence, Es-
tacada, King City and Cottage
Grove and others that have kept
this issue in the news and in
front of state policymakers.”
In addition to these topics,
Florence City Council also re-
viewed the solid waste rate for
area haulers. See Saturday’s
edition of the Siuslaw News for
more coverage on these issues.