SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019 | 3A
Community News
Physicist James Brau
to speak at City Club
City Club of Florence
will host speaker Dr. James
Brau tomorrow, June 6, at
Ocean Dunes Golf Links,
located at 3345 Munsel
Lake Rd.
The program begins at
noon.
Dr. Brau is renowned for
taking scientific terminol-
ogy and simplifying it in
Elks announce Safety Poster contest winners
terms understood by the
average citizen.
He is responsible for
establishing Oregon’s first
experimental
particle
physics group at the Uni-
versity of Oregon, as well
as establishing the Center
for High Energy Physics in
1997.
COURTESY PHOTO
From left: Karen Smales the Exalted Ruler, Chloe Bitner, Bob Catterton the local Chair for the annual poster
contest, Nevaeh Benson, Emmy Center and Joyce Middleton the Chair for the District Eye Program and a
State Trustee.
Florence Elks Lodge
#1858 recently recognized
students at Siuslaw Elemen-
tary School for winning
first-, second- and third-
place at the district compe-
tition for the Elks Youth Eye
Safety Annual Poster Con-
test. Chloe Bitner, Nevaeh
Benson and Emmy Center
had been previously recog-
nized for winning locally.
Bitner took first place at the
district level, winning $100.
Benson placed second and
won $75, with Center tak-
ing third and $50.
By winning at the district
level, all three were eligible
for the Elks statewide com-
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petition. Benson went on
to place third at the state
level and won an addition-
al $100. Her poster will be
framed and hung at the
OHSU Casey Eye Clinic in
Portland for the upcoming
year.
The presentations were
made by Karen Smales the
Exalted Ruler; Joyce Mid-
dleton, the Chair for the
District Eye Pro-gram and
a State Trustee for the Elks;
and Bob Catterton, the lo-
cal Chair for the Annual
Poster Contest.
The Elks Children’s Eye
Clinic at the Casey Eye In-
stitution is the major chari-
table project of the Oregon
State Elks Association. The
clinic would not be possible
without the organization’s
commitment to providing
eye care for babies and chil-
dren along with safety edu-
cation for youth.
The Elks became involved
with the OHSU School of
Medicine in 1949 and have
contributed enormously to
the growth of the clinic. To-
day, the visual program of
the Oregon State Elks As-
sociation contributes more
than $2,000,000 annual-ly
to the Elks Children’s Eye
Clinic, working with 18,000
children each year through
the support of local lodg-
es like the Florence Elks
Lodge #1858.
Financial assistance is
not the only service the
Elks provide. Elk volun-
teers donate thousands of
hours at the Casey Eye In-
stitute. They assist patients,
work on projects for staff
and provide information to
the public. The Elks have
also funded up-to-date
equipment for the pediatric
ophthalmology examina-
tion room at OHSU Doer-
nbecher Children’s Hospital
staffed by faculty from the
Elks Children’s Eye Clinic.
Garden Club presents scholarships to SHS seniors
At the Siuslaw High School Awards cere-
mony on May 30, The Florence Garden Club
awarded two scholarships to graduating se-
niors.
Audrey Lowder received a $1,500 scholar-
ship for her major in Biochemistry at Oregon
State University.
Angela Bartlett also received $1,500 for her
Pre-Med major at Western Oregon University.
Since 1994 The Florence Garden Club has
given more than $61,000 in scholarship awards
to qualified students in Florence and Maple-
ton whose educational goals lead to a career in
horticulture, forestry, biology or an environ-
ment-related field.
“The Garden Club thanks the merchants and
public who support our annual plant sale and
raffle,” said scholarship committee chairman
Carol Jolley. “It’s community support and the
dedication of Garden Club members that pro-
vide the money for these awards.”
COURTESY PHOTO
From left: Garden Club scholarship committee chair Carol
Jolley and scholarship recipients Angela Bartlett and Audrey
Lowder
‘Walking in Their Footsteps’ at Genealogy Society meeting
The Wednesday, June 19
meeting of the Siuslaw Ge-
nealogy Society will feature
Meta Ann Steele, Coos Bay
Chapter DAR Registrar.
Steele will lead a dis-
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
cussion on her journey of
“Walking in Their Foot-
steps in Missouri, Illinois
and Kentucky.”
All are welcome to at-
tend the meeting, which
begins at 7 p.m. in the Siu-
slaw Room of the Siuslaw
Public Library. More infor-
mation is available at www.
siuslawgenealogy.org.
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