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128TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 104
FLORENCE, OREGON
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
Hope for a cure
Port of Siuslaw installs
gates at three access points
Local woman raises funds, awareness of autoimmune disease
Passcode locks will enforce night restrictions
By Damien Snerwood
Siuslaw News
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
Hope Sneddon is training to fight a
disease she no longer has.
“A cure will not help me. It’s too
late,” she said.
But with funding, Sneddon is opti-
mistic her efforts will help others who
still struggle with Crohn’s disease and
ulcerative colitis.
Though her ordeal with ulcerative
colitis is largely in her past, Sneddon’s
future is highlighted by a desire to al-
leviate the pain she knows others with
her former condition must be going
through. Part of that involves being
upfront about a disease that carries the
burden of social stigma.
“I’m open about my experiences be-
cause I want to be a voice for others,”
said Sneddon. “I totally respect that
there are individuals who aren’t open
about their disease and that is okay.”
Sneddon first noticed something
was wrong with her intestinal tract af-
ter her first year in college, when she
was around 20 years old.
“It started off pretty mild,” Sneddon
said. “So doctors said, ‘Okay, why don’t
Hope Sneddon elected to remove
her large intestine instead of
dealing with the effects of ulcer-
ative colitis, which began impact-
ing her life when she was 20. She
has started a fundraiser to help
those with the disease.
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/SIUSLAW NEWS
you just cut out gluten? Why don’t you
try taking Metamucil?’”
Sneddon tried to adjust her diet —
“but things progressively got worse,”
she said.
Sneddon became increasingly fear-
ful of certain foods and had to learn
which ingredients would roil her
stomach, causing sudden and frequent
trips to the bathroom.
“It’s kind of trial and error trying
to figure out what works and what
doesn’t,” she said. “Some days I could
have a scrambled egg and an avoca-
do. Some days I could have a piece of
toast.”
But some days nothing seemed to
agree with her.
“So it was really hit or miss,” she
said.
See HOPE page 7A
New gates with passcode
locks have been installed at
the Port of Siuslaw docks in
an effort to curb unwanted
visitors on the docks after
hours.
“The gates are something
we’ve been trying to get
installed for several years,
now,” said Port Manager
David Huntington. “Our
docks have always been
closed from dusk ‘til dawn;
MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS
the rule has been in effect
since the ‘70s. We have signs The east end of the Port of Siuslaw Boardwalk,
posted at each gangway, but as well as two other locations, now features a
they didn’t deter anybody. gate with passcode locks. The docks are not
We’ve been getting a lot of open to the public from dusk until dawn.
complaints from moorage customers
There were three gates installed in
from the traffic at night.”
total, one at the boardwalk entrance
The general public will still be wel- and two by ICM and Mo’s restaurants
come to walk, shop, fish and recreate on Bay Street. There is a fourth en-
on the docks during daylight hours. trance to the docks, through the port’s
Beginning in January, the gates will RV park, which has had a locked gate
lock at dusk via electronic keypad, and for the past 20 years.
only customers or visitors with a pass-
code will be able to enter the area.
See GATES page 8A
Lodge hosts
Glad tidings Elks annual
Community
& good cheer Christmas dinner
PHOTOS BY MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS
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undreds of area residents made a free Christmas meal at Florence Elks
Lodge #1858 a centerpiece of their holiday celebrations on Tuesday.
Lodge members volunteered for the many hours of food preparation in the
kitchen, and in the serving of the more than 800 meals that were expected to
be eaten. Exalted Ruler Bruce Smith welcomed people to the meal. “I want to
thank you all for coming today and I want to especially thank all of our volun-
teers for all the time and hard work they have put in to make this event hap-
pen,” he said. The lodge’s chaplain blessed the meal and those partaking of the
feast, after which the hundreds waiting in line were escorted to tables, orders
were taken, and meals served.
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