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Community News
Mapleton Lions award education
grants, offer post-high school grant
The Mapleton Lions
Club, via the Mapleton
Community Foundation,
recently awarded $10,210
in grants to eight local
non-profit organizations.
A diverse group of re-
cipients included: the Ma-
pleton School District, two
church projects, Mapleton
Food Share, and the Siu-
SMS team wins county ‘Brain Bowl’
slaw Watershed Council.
The grants ranged from
$250 to $2,500.
Applications for post-
high school education
scholarships are now
downloadable by request
by emailing jayh6539@
msn.com.
The application deadline
is July 15.
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Siuslaw Middle School Knowledge Bowl Team members (from left) Sam Castle, Ava Glowacki, Jeff
Edmond, Landon Severy, Kyle Hughes and Ian Sissel with their first-place plaque.
O
n May 31, 16 members
of Siuslaw Middle School
Knowledge Bowl Team
traveled to Lane Community Col-
lege to compete against 38 other
middle school teams from around
Lane County in the Lane County
Brain Bowl competition.
In the end, one of the three teams
from Siuslaw made the finals of the
event and won first place, doubling
the score of the second-place team
in the finals.
The winning team consisted of
seventh graders Landon Severy
and Sam Castle and eighth graders
Jeff Edmond, Ava Glowacki, Ian
Sissel and Kyle Hughes.
It is the first time that a team
from Siuslaw has won the compe-
tition. Last year, one of the teams
placed fourth.
This was the final event for the
Knowledge Bowl Team for the
school year.
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Registration for Festival of Books opens June 10
Registration is about to
open for authors or pub-
lishers who wish to partici-
pate in the 9th Annual Flor-
ence Festival of Books, held
Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Flor-
ence Events Center.
Registration opens June
10 and tables generally fill
up well before the Sept. 1
deadline.
Large and small pub-
lishers as well as fiction,
non-fiction and children’s
authors are welcome to par-
ticipate. The festival is a cel-
ebration of print books and
is free to the public.
For authors and pub-
lishers participating, it’s a
networking opportunity,
and potential authors can
discuss their manuscripts
with participating publish-
ers.
The fees are $60 for a
single 6-foot table, $75
for a single 8-foot table,
$90 for a shared 8-foot ta-
ble, and $100 for a group
of three at an 8-foot table.
There is no fee for authors
under 18 years of age.
Participants keep 100
percent of sales.
Besides the book fair,
there are two events on
Friday, Sept. 27. The first
is at 7 p.m., when best-
selling author Bob Welch,
award-winning newspaper
columnist and author of
more than 20 books includ-
ing “The Wizard of Foz,”
will be the keynote speaker.
Tickets are $8 in ad-
vance and $10 at the door.
Then, from 3 to 4:30
p.m., all are invited to a
free authors and publish-
ers panel discussion. This
year’s topic will be “The
Ins and Outs of Publish-
ing.”
The application is
available as of June 10
on the FFOB website at
www.florencefestivalof-
books.org.
For more information
and keynote tickets, contact
the Florence Events Center
at 541-997-1994 or 888-
968-4086.
Siuslaw student among Kaiser scholarship winners
Visit us online:
www.TheSiuslawNews.com
Hayley Meier, a senior
at Siuslaw High School,
has been awarded a $2,000
scholarship through the
Kaiser Permanente North-
west Heath Care Career
Scholarship Program. She
plans to pursue a health
care career.
Thirteen students in
Lane County were awarded
a total of $37,000. Overall,
Kaiser Permanente North-
west has awarded more
than a half million dollars
($549,000) in college schol-
arships to 173 diverse stu-
dents in Oregon and Wash-
ington in 2019 through its
Health Care Career Schol-
arship Program.
The program is part of
the organization’s ongoing
efforts to improve commu-
nity health by increasing
access to educational op-
portunity and developing a
health care workforce that
mirrors the communities it
serves.
This year’s investment
brings the total scholar-
ships awarded since the
program’s inaugural year in
2009 to over $4 million.
Recipients of the schol-
arship receive more than
financial assistance. Kai-
ser Permanente also con-
nects recipients throughout
college with professional
development and career
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learning opportunities such
as free resume and inter-
view workshops, paid in-
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opportunities to support
their persistence to degree
completion and readiness
to enter the health care
field.
More information on the
Kaiser Permanente North-
west Health Care Career
Scholarship Program is at
share.kaiserpermanente.
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health-care-career-scholar
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