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128TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 54
FLORENCE, OREGON
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
PHOTOS BY JARED ANDERSON & MARK BRENNA/SIUSLAW NEWS
FESTIVE FLORENCE FIREWORKS
undreds of area residents and visi-
tors celebrated an “Old-Fashioned
Fourth of July” in Florence on
Wednesday.
“The Fourth of July is a big deal in
town. It feels very Americana and small
town,” said Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce Assistant Director Terry
Abeyta. “It’s a very special feeling when
you’re walking down Bay Street and
around the area.”
Groups held events all over town to
celebrate Independence Day, including
barbecues, pie and watermelon-eating
contests, snow cones and more — with
fireworks over the Siuslaw River pro-
viding a “big bang” conclusion. The
H
Chamber hosted the fireworks, with
additional sponsorship by Banner
Bank, City of Florence, Florence Dental
Clinic, Great Western Corporation, Hop
Valley Brewing, Lofy Construction, Port
of Siuslaw, Shorewood Senior Living,
American Legion Post 59, Kitchen
Klutter, Duman Inc. Florence and the
Florence Saw Shop.
“The old-fashioned Fourth of July is
one of the nicer family-oriented events
we do here,” said Chamber Executive
Director Bettina Hannigan. “It’s a won-
derful family event with a lot of people
coming in and hanging out around the
Port of Siuslaw.”
See more photos on 8A
Summer Brain Gain boosts area youth Getting to
Boys & Girls Club institutes new learning program to combat summer scholastic loss
1 great idea
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n some ways, it’s all about the slime.
“One of the things we’re doing with teens
is learning about molecular structure by mak-
ing slime,” Boys and
By Jared Anderson
Girls Club of Western
Siuslaw News
Lane County (BGC)
Executive
Director
Chuck Trent said. “By adding various different
components to the slime, it affects the viscos-
ity.”
Generally speaking, when introducing these
concepts to teenagers, “they run out the door,”
Trent said. “But when you change that, and you
use these kinds of things that are hands-on and
you make slime by adding different compo-
nents, affecting viscosity is fun.”
At first, it is just a stringy slime. Add differ-
ent components, and the product gets firmer.
“You keep adding until you can actually
bounce it like ‘flubber,’” he said.
Trent, along with Elementary Program Di-
rector Samantha Gauderman and other BGC
staff, use slime, along with Tootsie Rolls and
superhero powers, to help children learn scho-
lastics through a new program called Summer
Brain Gain.
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Oregon coast gets first
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Weekend July 13-14
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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Lane County is participating in a new program to keep
brains healthy and kids thriving all summer. Here, elementary program students demon-
strate that they are “Superheroes of Kindness.”
“This is an eight-week program that is very produced by the national BGC program, is
specific to math, science and English, but it’s all eight weeks of theme-based activities designed
done with a lot of activities that are real fun,” to mitigate summer learning loss.
Trent said.
See BRAINS page 7A
Summer Brain Gain, a national program
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Trent and Jenna Petersen,
May today be fi lled with happy memories
of the past year and bright hopes for the future.
Happy 1st Anniversary!
Love you both,
Mom, Dad, Bryce and Carly
Petersen
“The hardest part of starting up is starting
out,” says the official StartupWeekend.org.
For entrepreneurs
By Chantelle Meyer
and new businesses,
Siuslaw News
finding and con-
necting to resources
can be especially hard in rural areas, such as
Florence and the Oregon coast. Now, commu-
nity partners are bringing together a weekend
catered specifically to startups to pick the right
idea and potentially pitch a winning product.
Florence will host the region’s first-ever
Startup Weekend Oregon Coast on Friday eve-
ning, July 13, and all day on Saturday, July 14,
at Lane Community College Florence Center,
3149 Oak St.
See STARTUP page 8A
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