8A | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2019 | SIUSLAW NEWS
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Florence inns name new president
R
on Moore will replace
retiring
Hoagland
Properties president
Craig Sanders, says Loretta
Hoagland, CEO of Hoag-
land Properties, Inc., which
owns and operates The Riv-
er House Inn and The Old
Town Inn in Florence, and
the Scenic Hills Super 8 in
Salina, Utah.
Sanders has served the
company for more than 10
years, with the last four as
president. In that time, the
company’s motels have won
numerous customer service
awards and have been high-
ly rated compared to their
competition.
Recognitions
included
being the only Pride of Su-
per 8 motel in Utah, the
Old Town Inn being named
No. 11 on TripAdvisor’s 25
Best Budget Motels in the
U.S., and The River House
Inn gaining TripAdvisor’s
elite Certificate of Excel-
lence eight times in a row,
as well as being named to
their Customer Service Hall
of Fame. Both Florence inns
have also won placement
on Oregon Business Maga-
zine’s Top 100 Fan Favorite
Destinations and won the
Florence Area Chamber of
Commerce’s Siuslaw Award
— twice for customer ser-
vice, and once for curb ap-
peal at The River House Inn.
Sanders also oversaw the
completion of more than
$750,000 in renovations and
upgrades of the two Flor-
ence properties in 2012-
2013. Although he is
retiring as a president of
Hoagland Properties, he
will remain part of the
team as a consultant on
both business and con-
struction projects.
On March 1, Moore
was named president of
Hoagland
Properties.
He brings a strong back-
ground in both financial
Hoagland Properties’ new president is Ron Moore (left),
matters and training.
who takes over from retiring president Craig Sanders.
His first career was in
the financial industry
to continue the company’s transition. His passion and
working as a bond trader, involvement in supporting background are tremen-
analyst, developing trading and growing the local com- dous assets in moving the
software, and serving as a munities of Florence and company forward and cre-
vice president for a Fortune Salina.
ating changes to meet new
500 trading firm.
“Craig’s first involvement industry regulations. Ron is
After nearly 20 years in the with Hoagland Proper- a deep thinker, loves to put
financial sector, he switched ties began as a contrac- numbers together, and has
careers to become an in- tor, working on projects shown he cares about our
structor for The Church of for both the Old Town employees. Hoagland Prop-
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Inn and River House Inn,” erties is in good hands.”
Saints. Almost another 19 says Moore. “The Hoag-
years later, Moore retired lands noticed the quality
early from teaching to trav- of Craig’s character and his
el internationally and hike work, and asked Craig to
portions of the Pacific Crest join the company full time.
Trail. Before becoming an He quickly became a self-
employee of the company, taught hotelier. Over his
Moore served for nearly a 10-plus years, he was given
decade as a member of the responsibility for the daily
company’s board of direc- management of our three
tors.
properties and led us to
Moore aims to continue many successes.”
building on the company’s
“Ron has done a tremen-
reputation and forward dous job getting ready to
momentum in fulfilling its take over,” says Sanders.
mission “to exceed guest “He has had a lot on his
expectations with a spot- plate, learning as much
less, reasonably priced, about the company and its
well-appointed room and daily operations as he could
exceptional service,” and during our four-month
Peace Harbor celebrates
30-year anniversary
In July, PeaceHealth
Peace Harbor Medical Cen-
ter will celebrate 30 years
of caring for the Florence
community.
To mark this
milestone,
Peace Harbor
is
inviting
the commu-
nity to the
30th anni-
versary ice
cream social on
Friday, July 12, from
2 to 5 p.m. Festivities will
begin with a brief greeting
and blessing, followed by
ice cream, snacks and give-
aways. The event will be
held in Conference Room
C on the hospital campus,
400 Ninth St. in Florence.
Guests are welcome to drop
by at any time.
PeaceHealth’s presence in
the Florence area dates back
40 years to 1979, when the
publicly-owned
Western
Lane Hospital contracted
with PeaceHealth to pro-
vide management services.
By the mid-1980s, the 1956
facility was no longer ad-
equate to meet residents’
needs, so Florence civic
leaders approached Peace-
Health with a request to
build and operate a new fa-
cility.
With a green light from
PeaceHealth’s
governing
board, community lead-
ers launched a fundrais-
ing campaign to build the
new hospital. Aiming for
$500,000, they succeeded
in raising $1.2 million from
local residents.
Peace Harbor Hospital,
as it was first called, opened
its doors on July 14,
1989.
Today, the
21-bed acute-
care facility
serves an area
of
about
27,000 res-
idents, in-
cluding Florence,
Mapleton, Swisshome,
Westlake, Deadwood and
other small communities.
Services include general
medicine, intensive care,
women’s health and obstet-
rics, 24-hour emergency
care, general and orthope-
dic surgery, palliative and
hospice care, outpatient re-
habilitation, diabetes care,
home health, cardiovascu-
lar rehabilitation, cardiolo-
gy, outpatient infusion, lab-
oratory, walk-in clinic and
state-of-the-art imaging.
PeaceHealth
Medical
Group provides primary
and behavioral health care
on the Peace Harbor cam-
pus.
“We are honored to have
earned this community’s
trust and confidence,” said
Jason Hawkins, chief ad-
ministrative officer. “I’m
inspired every day by our
patients, providers and
caregivers, and I look for-
ward to working together to
build a future of continued
excellence for Peace Har-
bor.”
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OCHS holds annual membership meeting
The Oregon Coast Hu-
mane Society (OCHS) held
its annual membership
meeting on Saturday, June
22. All current members
were invited to attend and
over 40 members
were there to hear
the latest news
from OCHS.
The new OCHS
Board of Direc-
tors were an-
nounced: Dr Jac-
queline Amato,
Jan Barker, Sandy
Davidson, Sharon McLeod,
Jacqueline Parker, Shauna
Robbers, Judy Roth, Judy
Thibault and Carlla Van de
Vyver. The meeting was also
an opportunity to thank
retiring Treasurer Jerry
Hatcher for his commit-
ment and dedication to the
shelter.
The board elections were
conducted by mail in April
and May. Over 65 percent of
OCHS members participat-
ed in the election and sub-
mitted a ballot.
The new board of direc-
tors will meet for the first
time in early july to de-
cide upon board positions,
including president, vice
president, treasurer, and
secretary, and also to set
term limits for each board
member.
“The percentage of mem-
bers voting on the board is
a testament to our commu-
nity’s interest in the work of
OCHS,” said Shauna Rob-
bers, current board presi-
dent. “We followed a very
formal and very transpar-
ent process for the election
of the new board members
and we engaged our mem-
bers and the community at
every step of the way. We
can all be very proud of the
rigor and organization of
the board election.”
The meeting was also an
opportunity for OCHS Ex-
ecutive Director Mark Cur-
ran to provide updates on
the goals he had set forth
at a meeting with the com-
munity held in February.
He presented detailed in-
formation about adoption
statistics, new adoption fol-
low-up activities, financial
performance, infrastructure
updates, and more.
Curran also shared many
of the positively received
activities of the shelter vol-
unteers and team, including
participating in this year’s
Rhody Parade, hosting an
inaugural
Kit-
ten Shower, cel-
ebrating OCHS
volunteers at a
Volunteer Appre-
ciation event, par-
ticipating in the
prosecution of an
animal abuse case
and launching the
Barn/Independent Cat Pro-
gram.
Curran closed the meet-
ing by inviting all mem-
bers to visit the shelter and
thrift store and to encour-
age their friends and family
to become members of the
humane society and get in-
volved.
“We are making great
progress, but there’s lots
more to be done,” Curran
said. “We have a wonderful
community here in Florence
— one that clearly loves and
cares for animals. And I am
so proud of the work of the
members, volunteers and
team of OCHS who, togeth-
er, are driving such positive
change for the animals in
our care and in our commu-
nity.”
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