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CROW takes ‘Flight’
The Children’s Reperto-
ry of Oregon Workshop’s
(CROW) Flight Dance Team
was formed in 2017 and is
nearing completion of its
second full year. The team is
looking forward to two per-
formances on Friday, May 10,
and Saturday, May 11, at the
CROW Spring Dance Show-
case at the Florence Events
Center (FEC), 715 Quince St.
Both performances will be at
7 p.m.
Flight will debut three new
choreography group pieces,
plus many solos and duets.
On Saturday, June 15, Flight
will be holding auditions for
its annual roster. New and re-
turning dancers are asked to
audition to either win or keep
their spot on the team.
Flight receives tremendous
praise from the local com-
munity, and has performed
for many organizations and
events, as well as each year
in the Holly Jolly Follies. Last
February, two Flight dancers,
Jonathan Olson and Graci
Immel, competed at a region-
al dance competition in Port-
land called Spotlight Dance
Cup and scored in the Ruby
category.
“Being selected for the
Flight Dance Team is a huge
privilege,” said CROW Artis-
tic Director and Flight Direc-
tor Melanie Heard. “The team
has come a long way in only
two short years, but there’s al-
ways room for improvement
and growth.”
Heard plans to push danc-
ers to explore new styles and
to improve upon dance tech-
Church rummage sale
helps kids go to camp
The Florence Evangeli-
cal Church will be holding a
rummage sale Saturday, May
11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Come find items of all kinds
or donate items and get some
extra space in your garage or
closets — all while helping
kids go to church camp this
summer.
The church can use dona-
tions of gently used items,
such as books, toys, tools,
household items and cloth-
ing, to sell at the sale. All
proceeds from the rummage
sale will go toward paying for
summer church camp.
To donate an item, contact
Dave at 541-999-6646 to ar-
range a pickup of your dona-
tion.
The sale will be held at the
Florence Evangelical Church,
1318 Rhododendron Drive,
one block from Highway 101.
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The 2019-20 Flight audi-
tion will take place at noon
at the CROW Center for the
Performing Arts, located at
3120 Highway 101.
Interested students should
wear dance attire and bring
ballet or jazz shoes for the au-
dition. A dance combination
will be taught. Dancers must
be 11 years and older and
hold some previous dance ex-
perience.
Flight team requirements,
including cost, participation
expectations and schedule,
can be found at www.crow
kids.com under the “Flight
Auditions” tab.
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to
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Heard
at
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‘Local Matters’ education series to begin
at Florence Farmers Market on Tuesday
Florence Farmers Market
is pleased to announce “Lo-
cal Matters,” a free education
series available at the Market.
The educational workshops
will be held from 4 to 5 p.m.
on the first three market days
of the 2019 season: Tuesday
May 14, May 21 and May
28. The Florence Farmers
Market is located next to the
Veteran’s Memorial Park, at
the intersection of Bay and
Kingwood streets in Historic
Old Town Florence.
These events are free and
open to the public.
“Local Matters” offers
short workshops on food-re-
lated topics of interest to
Siuslaw residents. These fun
and informal education ses-
sions are presented by local
instructors and will include
plenty of time for Q & A.
The
first
workshop,
“Growing in Florence,” will
be held Tuesday, May 14. It
will feature a panel of local
gardeners sharing their ex-
perience and tips for growing
food in the Florence area.
On May 21, Jen Nelson
will present “Backyard Wild
Edibles.” She will share infor-
mation about edible plants
commonly found in back-
yards.
“Plants that we call weeds
are often nutritious and deli-
cious!” says Nelson.
The third and final work-
shop is “Basic Backyard
Beekeeping” on May 28.
Dave Williams will provide
information on beekeeping,
equipment and varieties of
honey. Williams is a Jour-
ney level beekeeper with the
Oregon Master Beekeeper
Program and a member of
the Lane County Bee Asso-
ciation.
All “Local Matters” work-
shops will begin at 4 p.m. at
the market.
Florence Farmers Market,
a nonprofit organization,
promotes awareness and ac-
cess to healthy, local foods
for Siuslaw residents. The
2019 season begins May 14
and runs through Oct. 15,
every Tuesday from 3 to 6
p.m. The market offers the
Double Up Food Bucks pro-
gram for SNAP (Supplemen-
tal Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram) recipients, allowing
SNAP shoppers to redeem
up to $10 in matching funds
to purchase fresh, local pro-
duce.
Florence Farmers Market
vendors sell only local foods
that are grown or produced
within 60 miles of Florence.
The Market is fiscally spon-
sored by the Florence Area
Community Coalition and
receives funding support for
the 2019 season from the
Western Lane Community
Foundation and the Rose-
marie Sweet Fund. Florence
Farmers Market is an initia-
tive of Siuslaw Vision.
For more information
about Florence Farmers Mar-
ket, email contact@florence-
farmersmarket.org or visit
RiverCal.org.
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Fourth annual ‘Big Wave Poetry Slam’ returns this month
Florence’s 4th annual Big
Wave Poetry Slam will take
place Friday, May 24, be-
ginning at 6:30 p.m. at the
Florence Event Center, 715
Quince St. Doors will open
at 6 p.m. for registration, or
register online.
Over the past three years,
the contest has included po-
ets who travel to Florence
from all over Oregon and
beyond.
Slam poet Jorah LeFleur
from Eugene will return as
emcee. LeFleur is well known
as the Slam Maven, adminis-
trator and host of the Tsuna-
mi Poetry Slam in Eugene
since 2006. This year’s Slam
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contest is limited to 20 par-
ticipants with a $15 entry fee.
First prize is $250, second
prize $100 and third prize
$50. An Open Mic will pre-
cede the Slam contest at 6:30
p.m., with a three-minute
time limit per poet.
Admission is $10 general,
$5 for LCC students and free
to those age 18 and under.
Slam Poetry is a type of
competition where people
read their poems without
props, costumes or music.
After performing, they re-
ceive scores (0-10) from five
randomly selected judges
from our audience.
The judges can be anyone:
they don’t even need to be
poets. Scores are awarded
based on how much each
judge likes a poem.
The rules vary from slam
to slam, but the basic rules
are: Each poem must be of
the poet’s own construction;
Each poet gets three minutes
(plus a 10-second grace peri-
od) to read one poem. If the
poet goes over time, points
will be deducted from the to-
tal score. There will be three
appointed time keepers.
Florence Big Wave Spoken
Word is a group of poetry
lovers dedicated to the pro-
motion and en-joyment of
Poetry in Florence.
The group is part of by the
Florence Regional Arts Alli-
ance (FRAA) and hosts First
Tuesday Open Mic plus three
competitive events per year:
Love Gone Wrong in Febru-
ary, Spooky Word in October
both of which take place at
FRAA, 120 Maple Street in
Old Town Florence, and the
Annual Poetry Slam in May
at the Florence Event Center.
Come out to support po-
ets and enjoy an entertaining
night of Spoken Word poet-
ry.
Tickets and pre-registra-
tion available at FRAA or
online at www.bigwavespo-
kenword.org.
Help “Clean Up Mapleton” Saturday
The community is invited for the annual “Clean Up Ma- Highway 126, participants
to join the fun on Saturday, pleton Event.” From the main will be picking up trash,
May 11, from 9 a.m. to noon bridge to the gas station on weeding and clearing brush.
This year, there will be a
friendly competition forum.
Winners will be determined
by two categories: the team
with the most trash collect-
ed and the team with the
greatest number of team
members. In addition, there
will be team prizes donated
by the Gingerbread Village
Restaurant.
People are asked to bring
their own work gloves, gar-
den tools, etc.
In 2019 we will be celebrating the 80th anniversary
Check in will be at the
of our business in Florence. It is time to express the
Mapleton
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appreciation and gratitude we feel, and have always felt, for
posable vinyl gloves, trash
the friendship, trust and loyalty of those who live in this
community. It is your confi dence in us and your continued
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patronage that has made these 80 years such a pleasurable
provided. Lunch will also be
experience. Th ank you.
served afterwards.
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school will be helping along
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with community members.
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