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SN April Community Voices Siuslaw News SEAcoast continues season I NSIDE — A5 I NSIDE — A12 National Volunteer Week VOL. 129, NO. 30 NEWS & VIEWS THAT DEFINE OUR COMMUNITY F LORENCE , O REGON SATURDAY EDITION | APRIL 13, 2019 | $1.00 TH THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM ‘Heartbeat of our community’ ‘Experiencing the world through volunteering’ WEATHER Part II: Students consider leaving a legacy in the area “T Steady rain with a high of 51 and a low tonight of 42. Full forecast on A3 COMMUNITY Florence Area Community Coalition celebrates volunteers By Jared Anderson Siuslaw News Friends of Library celebrate National Library Week INSIDE — A3 SPORTS T he Florence Area Com- munity Coalition (FACC) held its annual volunteer ap- preciation event on Wednes- day to honor the hundreds of volunteers and dozens of orga- nizations who share their time and resources in the Siuslaw region. “We are so thankful for your work as volunteers, for your work in supervising volunteers and giving opportunities and for all the things that you do for Florence,” said FACC board member Greg Wood. “For all the good that you’ve done this past year for other folk, for the goals you’ve met and the gra- cious gifts you’ve given, we are here to say thank you to each Siuslaw School Board seeks one more member Siuslaw opens league play INSIDE — SPORTS RECORDS Obituaries & emergency response logs Inside — A2 SIDE SHOW Activities and comics every Saturday Inside — B4 CLASSIFIEDS Listings and public notices Inside — B5 FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /S IUSLAW N EWS @S IUSLAW N EWS T HE S IUSLAW N EWS . COM Appointee will serve through end of school year S IUSLAW N EWS 2 S ECTIONS | 20 P AGES C OPYRIGHT 2019 Just weeks after filling one open position on the Siuslaw School District Board of Directors, the By Chantelle Meyer board is again Siuslaw News looking for someone to serve on the board. At the April 10 school board meeting, the directors accepted a letter of resignation from Director Tammy Butler, who held position 5. The board voted to fill the position through an application process, similar to the process completed this month with Director Bob Sneddon. Applications, available at www.siuslaw. k12.or.us, must be completed and sub- mitted by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 15. At a special board meeting on Wednesday, April 17, the board will interview ap- plicants with the intention of filling the position at that time. At the start of Wednesday’s meeting, Board Chair Suzanne Mann-Heintz welcomed the community, special guests and Sneddon as the newest member of the board. “Mr. Sneddon was appointed to fill the vacancy from the resignation of Eric Rines. We went through a process where we took applications, the board had a spe- cial meeting to interview candidates and we selected Mr. Sneddon as our new board member to fill out the rest of Mr. Rines’ term, which actually only goes until June of this year,” Mann-Heintz said. See BOARD page 11A and every one of you.” FACC reported that there were 608 volunteers associat- ed with groups such as Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue, the Friends of the Siuslaw Pub- lic Library, the Friends of the Florence Events Center, Flor- ence Food Share, Siuslaw Out- reach Services and dozens of other organizations. See COMMUNITY page 9A he main thing is, it’s never too late to start volunteering,” said Nic Wilkinson, a senior at Siuslaw High School. “I know a lot of people who would be like, ‘I’ve never done this before, and so I’m not going to be good at it, so I’m not going to do it.’ Just start whenever. If you ever even have the minor thought of volun- teering, just go out and do it. There are so many opportunities.” Wilkinson, along with seniors Samantha Scheer and Audrey Lowder and sophomore Allison Huff, talked about volunteer- ing in honor of National Volunteer Week, which kicked off April 7. In part I of this series, the group described a list of orga- nizations they work with: Rotary Interact, Soropti- mist Key Club, Kiwanis Builders Club. It’s a lot of work. Be- 4862 OCEANA DRIVE $275,000 #11802 MLS#19272989 tween volunteering, em- ployment and school work, one could guess that burnout for the teens is inevitable. But really, it was the opposite for the group. In fact, if it was not for volunteering, they wouldn’t get anything done. “When I have more free time, I tend to not do homework,” Allison said. “So, on Mondays and Wednesdays when I tutor, I’ll sit out on a table over there. And if nobody comes, I’ll be doing our homework. If I don’t have anything going on, then I won’t be doing anything. And I’ll just procrastinate everything.” It’s also helped them learn the importance of time management. See TEENS page 10A Dunes City restricts animal feeding, discusses water meters and decides against social media By Jared Anderson Siuslaw News The Dunes City Council ad- dressed a wide variety of issues in its monthly city council meeting on Wednesday, including passing an ordinance prohibiting feeding wildlife, discussing the purchase of upgraded water meters and debat- ing the efficacy of social media. The meeting began with the pas- sage of an ordinance prohibiting the feeding of wild animals. The city had received multiple com- plaints over the past year regarding a burgeoning deer population, and evidence that citizens were worsen- ing the situation by leaving food out specifically for the deer. “No person shall knowingly place, deposit, distribute, store or scatter food, garbage or any other attrac- tant so as to knowingly constitute a lure, attraction or enticement for deer, raccoon, bear, cougar, coyote, and/or wolf,” the ordinance read, which was passed unanimously by the council. Next on the agenda was an offer to donate land to the city. The par- cel, which is only .11 acres, is locat- ed near Camp Baker. “I don’t want to accept it without knowing we have a use for it,” May- or Robert Forsythe said, pointing out that the cost for upkeep of the property could cost the city more than it was worth. “The only thing I can think of is a COURTESY PHOTO Dunes City addresses citizen complaints by enacting an ordinance to restrict the feeding of wild animals. spot to offer for a cell tower,” Dunes the area is limited and could benefit City Administrator/Recorder Jamie from a tower. Mills said. “There are not houses “I think we had information from down there. The closest thing to it one of the last meetings that the Boy is the Boy Scout Camp. There is no Scout Camp is in the dead zone for road to get to this lot.” radios and phones,” Councilor Shel- Councilor Susan Snow was con- don Meyer said. “Something that cerned that if a cell phone tower would enhance the ability for them was installed, that it could hamper to make contact if a kid were in trou- neighboring lots. Regulations re- ble. Seems to me a really good use quire a setback distance for towers, of that piece of property, if it can be typically one foot for every foot of used.” height of the tower. While there is Before accepting the donation, the currently no built property directly council agreed to investigate if a cell surrounding the lot, a tower could phone tower could be built there, hamper land owners’ ability to and if it would negatively affect sur- build structures. rounding lots. However, cell phone service in See DUNES CITY page 11A A SAMPLING OF HOMES FOR SALE IN FLORENCE... 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