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128TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 89
FLORENCE, OREGON
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
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Community
engagement at
the city level
Florence seeks up to 39 people
to step into revised committees
The Florence City Council met on Mon-
day night for a regular session, the last public
By Chantelle Meyer meeting before the
election drew to a
Sieslaw News
close.
Among the con-
tests in yesterday’s election was two seats for
the council: the positions currently held by
Woody Woodbury, who was appointed in Jan-
uary, and Susy Lacer, whose four-year term
ends in December.
During the public comment period, Flor-
ence resident Sally Wantz stepped forward to
speak.
“I want to thank each and every one of you,”
she said to the five members of the council
seated on the dais before her. “I want to thank
you for your service. … You’ve put forth the
work and I appreciate all you’ve done.”
Siuslaw’s 2nd
Color-a-Thon raises
more than $10,000
S
iuslaw School District held a
Color-a-Thon on Saturday at
Siuslaw Middle School, where
more than 450 students and communi-
ty members ran or walked a 5K among
clouds of thrown and sprayed colored
powder. Thanks to registration fees
and business sponsorships, the district
was able to raise $10,508.45 with the event.
Florence Community PTA held a similar event in
2016. “It was awesome, and such a great commu-
nity experience,” said this year’s organizer,
Crystal Osburn. Because of those community
partnerships, every kid who wanted to was able
to run in the Color-a-Thon and experience get-
ting covered in colorful powder. According to
Osburn, Oregon’s rain helped with most of the
cleanup. For more photos, see Page 12A.
PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
See CITY page 8A
Nov. 6 General Election
Readers looking for results from
the Nov. 6 General Election will find
them in Saturday’s print edition of
the Siuslaw News. Results were made
public last night beginning at 8 p.m.,
after the paper’s print deadline, but
an updated tally can be found online
at www.TheSiuslawNews.com.
Lane County Elections will contin-
ue to provide updates on the results
until all ballots are processed.
Historic cemetery experiences a little ‘kindness’
Kindness Club member restores headstones at Deadwood Pioneer Cemetery
By Jared Anderson
Sieslaw News
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“I think it’s important because they could get
forgotten if they’re just covered in stuff and no
one would know they are there,” Emma Meier
said about cleaning headstones at the Deadwood
Pioneer Cemetery.
Emma, who is a 10-year-old fourth-grader at
Siuslaw Elementary School, began cleaning head-
stones for a school project. Along with the help
of Emma’s mother Nicole, who is a kindergarten
aide at the school, classmates, teachers and oth-
er volunteers, Emma and her cohorts ended up
cleaning and restoring 25 of the 300 headstones
at the cemetery, which was established in 1883.
But Emma and Nicole aren’t stopping there.
Once they began cleaning the headstones, they
found that more work needed to be done at the
historic cemetery. With luck and support, they
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Emma Meier, above, in glasses, decided
to help restore headstones at Deadwood
Pioneer Cemetery as part of a Siuslaw
Elementary School Kindness Club proj-
ect she began with family and friends.
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hope to clean and restore all of the headstones in
the Siuslaw region.
The project began from an idea for Siuslaw
School District’s Kindness Club, headed by
teacher Shannon Graham.
“We do community projects,” Emma said.
“Kindness Club is for kind people. It’s for ele-
mentary students.”
“And some middle school to do mentoring,”
Nicole added.
The Kindness Club was a good fit for Emma,
“Because I’m kind,” she said.
“And responsible,” Nicole added. Emma smiled
and nodded her head, saying, “I follow the rules.”
Helping others in the community is important
to the Meiers for a variety of reasons.
“I do it because I like to — being nice and help-
ing people,” Emma said. “You do it so you can
help them.”
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