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COMMUNITY
Florence Area Community Coalition celebrates volunteers
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
Friends of Library
celebrate National
Library Week
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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
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Just weeks after filling one open position
on the Siuslaw School District Board of
Directors, the
By Chantelle Meyer
board is again
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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-
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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
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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
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