SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 | 5A
Food drive to benefit Library
Mapleton Food Share Tidings
Grocery Outlet will be host-
ing the Mapleton Food Share
on Saturday, Aug. 18, for a
food drive to help replenish
the food share’s shelves for the
season.
The food share is hoping
to fill its new van with much
needed canned foods and
nonperishables, such as Spam,
chili, spaghetti, ravioli, soups,
veggies and cereal. The organi-
zation is hoping to collect one
ton of food.
“Summer hits family food
budgets hard with the kids
home from school, and in
turn it hits our shelves hard
as well,” said Mapleton Food
Share President Karen Hard-
en. “In addition to providing
food for area families, we have
furnished sack lunches three
times a week for the kids of
Mapleton, Swisshome and
Deadwood all summer.”
The drive will be held from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be
located in the Grocery Outlet
parking lot, located at 2066
Highway 101. Cash donations
will also be accepted.
For more information, con-
tact Harden at trzrhntr@gmail.
com or call 541-268-2919.
For more information about
Mapleton Food Share, visit
www.mapletonfoodshare.org.
Florence Senior Center hosts
lunch fundraiser Friday
On Friday, Aug. 17, Florence
Senior Center invites the com-
munity to a lunch fundraiser.
Featuring hamburger soup,
BLT sandwiches, chips, bever-
ages and ice cream sundaes for
just $5, this fundraiser will help
raise money for the center and
its events, many of which are
open to all ages.
The event begins at 11:30
a.m. at the Florence Senior
Center, 1570 Kingwood St.
For more information, call
541-997-8844 or visit www.
florenceseniorcenter.org.
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Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of inter-
est to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Book Review
“The Cooking Gene”
by Michael W. Twitty
In “The Cooking Gene,”
culinary historian Michael
W. Twitty brings a fresh per-
spective to our most divisive
cultural issue, race, in this il-
luminating memoir of South-
ern cuisine and food culture
that traces his ancestry — both
black and white — through
food, from Africa to America
and from slavery to freedom.
Southern food is integral to
the American culinary tradi-
tion, yet the question of who
“owns” it is one of the most
provocative touchpoints in our
ongoing struggles over race.
In this unique memoir, Twitty
takes readers to the white-hot
center of this fight, tracing the
roots of his own family and the
charged politics surrounding
the origins of soul food, barbe-
cue and all Southern cuisine.
Twitty travels from the to-
bacco and rice farms of colo-
nial times to plantation kitch-
ens and backbreaking cotton
fields to tell of the struggles
his family faced and how food
enabled his ancestors’ surviv-
al across three centuries. He
sifts through stories, recipes,
genetic tests and historical
documents, and visits Civil
War battlefields in Virginia,
synagogues in Alabama and
black-owned organic farms in
Georgia.
As he takes us through his
ancestral culinary history,
Twitty suggests that healing
may come from embracing
the discomfort of the South’s
past. Along the way, he reveals
a truth that is more than skin
deep — the power of food to
bring the kin of the enslaved
and their former slaveholders
to the table, where they can
discover the real America to-
gether.
puter lab at 1:30 p.m. Come
learn about how to organize
your email inbox, send mes-
sages, work with attachments
and more.
Computer labs and classes
are held on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month and
are a low-key, friendly place to
ask questions about your com-
puter, other devices, programs
and apps.
Grant Workshop
The Lane County Cultural
Coalition (LCCC) will be of-
fering a grant workshop at the
library on Thursday, Aug. 23,
from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
LCCC will discuss the pro-
cess and how to write a suc-
cessful grant application. If
you are involved in the arts
in any way, this workshop is a
must!
LCCC has funded a wide va-
riety of programs in the county
ranging from dance and music
programs in the schools, to his-
torical restoration, multi-cul-
tural festivals and even the
historical photograph display
at the Mapleton branch library.
Friends of the Library
Book Sale
The Friends of the Siuslaw
Public Library will be hold-
ing their next book sale Labor
Day weekend, Saturday and
Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2, in the
library’s Bromley Room.
Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day, this sale is a good place to
pick up some great summer
reading at bargain prices.
Books for sale come from do-
nations as well as books weed-
ed from the library’s collection.
And, as always throughout the
year, the Friends accept do-
nations of all kinds of books,
DVDs, and CDs.
The proceeds from the book
sale go to support the library.
For more information about
the Siuslaw Public Library or its
programs, stop by 1460 Ninth
St. in Florence or 88148 River-
view Ave. in Mapleton, or visit
www.siuslawlibrary.info.
Open Computer Lab
Next Tuesday, Aug. 21, the
library will be holding a com-
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