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VOL. 129, NO. 7
SERVING
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WEDNESDAY EDITION | JANUARY 23, 2019 | $1.00
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Rain early with
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COMMUNITY
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SPORTS
nspired by the national Women’s
March on Saturday, Jan. 19, Florence
residents held their own “Women’s
Wave” to promote local and regional
initiatives to support civil rights and a
variety of causes. Joined by State Rep.
Caddy McKeown (right) and women in
iconic costumes, the Florence march
featured creative signs, positive mes-
sages and diversity.
See the full story and more photos on page 7A
U.S. federal shutdown continues to impact Oregonians
Additional services end as funding ceases for multiple departments
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
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Obituaries &
emergency
response logs
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As of press time on Tues-
day, Jan. 22, there has been
no change in the status of
the partial government shut-
down impacting more than
800,000 Federal employees
as it enters its 33rd day.
Local efforts from veter-
ans’ groups and communi-
ty members to assist U.S.
Coast Guard members of
Station Siuslaw River and
their families have generated
more than $10,000 in cash
donations. Additionally, or-
ganizations such as Siuslaw
Outreach Services (SOS) and
Florence Food Share are pre-
pared to respond to requests
for aid, although at this time
they have reportedly had few
additional requests.
Depending on the agency
they work for and whether
they are deemed operation-
ally “critical,” some federal
workers have been compelled
to return to work without pay
until the shutdown is ended.
Many of these agencies pro-
vide important services to
members of the Siuslaw re-
gion.
The change of status for
some of these federal em-
ployees, transitioned from
furloughed status to work-
ing without pay, is shifting
in part due to the season-
al requirements of the IRS,
as well as increased safety
concerns in areas where the
federal government has over-
sight responsibilities.
These include the author-
ity to approve the distribu-
tion of food, the release of
new consumer products and
drugs, and the protection of
America’s 95,473-mile coast-
line by the Coast Guard.
There is also growing con-
cern regarding the identifi-
cation of potentially danger-
ous people traveling through
security areas monitored
by Transportation Securi-
ty Administration (TSA)
staff, many of whom have
been furloughed while the
rest work without pay. This
problem could potentially
increase as the rate of no-
shows or sick calls made by
TSA employees has risen
from slightly more than 3
percent last January, to more
than 10 percent on the same
dates so far this January.
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notices
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First baby of the New Year born at Peace Harbor
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Melissa and Tim Moffett and their two older daughters
greeted 2019 with the arrival of Carter Lynn Moffett on
Jan. 17.
On Jan. 17, 2019, Florence welcomed its
first newborn baby of the year with the birth
By Jared Anderson of Carter Lynn
Moffett. Weighing
Siuslaw News
6 pounds, 2 ounc-
es, and 18 inches in
height, the little girl was born at 3:32 p.m. at
PeaceHealth Peace Medical Center.
Carter Lynn is the third girl for Maple-
ton residents Melissa and Tim Moffett, who
have had the odd habit of naming all of
their children after presidents. Carter Lynn
was named after President Jimmy Carter.
“I had never heard of a girl named Roos-
evelt,” Melissa said of the couple’s first child.
“If it was a girl, she could go by ‘Rosie.’”
Playing on the theme, they had planned
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the years. Th ey look forward to many more years helping the Florence community fi nd their dream homes.
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tive effort, even those crafted
in a traditional bi-partisan
fashion, to re-open the agen-
cies affected by the shutdown
until both houses of Con-
gress agree to authorize his
request for a $5.7 billion ex-
penditure for a future “bor-
der wall.”
Newly seated Speaker of
the House of Representa-
tives, Nancy Pelosi of Cali-
fornia, and her Senate coun-
terpart New York Senator
Chuck Schumer, have reiter-
ated their opposition to the
wall, refusing to consider the
president’s latest budget pro-
posal for the border wall and
choosing instead to push for
more technologically-based
solutions.
January’s baby
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JIM HOBERG
The list of federal depart-
ments and agencies defund-
ed is extensive and many vot-
ers are unaware of the extent
to which their lives will be
more noticeably impacted as
the shutdown extends into its
second month. Departments
currently unfunded include
Agriculture, Commerce, Jus-
tice, Homeland Security, In-
terior, Transportation, Trea-
sury and Housing and Urban
Development.
The shutdown also affects
the pay for agents of the FBI,
the Federal Prison System
and the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration, all of which have Or-
egon-based employees.
President Donald Trump
has maintained his refusal to
consider funding any legisla-
on naming their second child Lincoln if it
was a boy, but she turned out to be a girl.
“We thought Lincoln could work as a
girl’s name, so we went with it,” Melissa said.
But by the time Carter came around, the
presidential theme stuck.
“We thought, ‘Oh no, now we have a pres-
idential theme, so we have to find a presi-
dent,’” the couple said.
Taking the name of Lynn from a family
member, Melissa and Tim felt that Carter
could be the perfect name.
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor’s OB/GYN
team includes Drs. Yvonne Sculley, Jacque-
line Serrano and Justine Parker. For more
information, visit www.peacehealth.org/ or
www.facebook.com/PeaceHarbor/.
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