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VOL. 129, NO. 56
NEWS &
VIEWS THAT
DEFINE OUR
COMMUNITY
F LORENCE , O REGON
WEATHER
Celebrating Camp Cleawox
Story & Photos
By Chantelle
Meyer
Siuslaw News
Partly sunny with a
high of 70 and a low
tonight of 56.
Full forecast on A3
COMMUNITY
Girl Scouts gather to celebrate 90 years of Camp Cleawox’s history
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reminiscing about the history of
Cleawox.
Camp Cleawox is the smallest of
three overnight camps in the Girl
Scouts of Oregon and Southwest
Washington (GSOSW) council.
More than 140 people registered At just 63 acres, the camp is fo-
to spend the day adventuring in the cused on Lake Cleawox, the Ore-
camp, enjoying birthday cake and gon dunes and the Pacific Ocean.
More importantly, it is a place for
girls to gather with other scouts in
the Great Outdoors for one to two
weeks at a time.
Camp Cleawox Director Pam
Mealy has been coming to over-
night camps since 2001. Each year,
her favorite moment is seeing the
camp lodge for the first time.
irl Scout overnight
camps began this week
at Camp Cleawox,
which celebrated its 90th
birthday on June 29.
“I think, ‘Ah, I’m going to be
here for the summer.’ It’s my home-
away-from-home feeling,” Mealy
said.
Cleawox has been that “home
away from home” for generations of
Girl Scouts since it was founded in
the 1920s.
See CLEAWOX page 5A
Taking
New technology
ownership means better tool
of Singing for women’s health
Pines Dog
Park
Bark in the Park
Fundraiser seeks
to rehabilitate
Florence’s dog park
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
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“I go to the dog park quite a bit,”
Jolene Medeiros said about the
Singing Pines Dog Park. “There
are a group of people that are there
all the time. And every time we’re
talking about the dog park, we’re
complaining about the landscape
and how dirty it is. And how it’s
just been run down and kind of
forgotten about. One day, I was
like, ‘I wonder what we need to do
to get it cleaned up.’”
That question led to a ground-
swell of community support and
some major cooperation from the
city that has quickly created the
dream of rehabilitating the dog
park, located on Kingwood Street,
a reality. With help from the City
of Florence, Medeiros and dog
lovers from around the area have
put in place a plan that will bring
new groundcover to the park,
fencing, trees and amenities that
can be used all year round.
See BARK page7A
One out of every eight wom-
en can expect to develop breast
cancer in her lifetime. In the
U.S., breast cancer is the sec-
ond-leading cause of cancer
death in women, behind lung
cancer. The two main risk
factors for developing breast
cancer are being a woman and
age, accompanied by family
history.
With Florence’s large ag-
ing population, it’s important
to be educated on and follow
preventative care routines, and
the resources are right at Peace-
By Victoria Sanchez
Siuslaw News Intern
Health Peace Harbor Medical
Center. Earlier this year, Peace
Harbor bought a new mammo-
gram machine, making Flor-
ence only the second location
on the west coast to have a Sie-
mens mammography machine.
According to PeaceHealth
mammography
technician
Vickie Hunt, women’s mam-
mogram experiences in Flor-
ence are about to change.
See EXAM page 5A
VICTORIA SANCHEZ/SIUSLAW NEWS
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor’s new Siemens
mammography machine comes with change-
able mood lighting to make the experience
more comfortable for patients. PeaceHealth
went live with the machine in February.
Crafting beer culture
Local brewpub
still in the future
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
The buzz around beer is shifting
dramatically, yet again.
The last decade has seen unap-
parelled growth in the craft beer
industry, but a saturation of brew-
eries, coupled with a never-ending
increase in the number of available
styles of beer, has meant a shift in
the approach local investors and
brewers have taken when consid-
ering an investment in a future
Florence brewpub.
July is Oregon Craft Beer
Month and the public’s appreci-
ation for the diverse flavors and
varieties created by smaller bre-
whouses has become more than a
trend — it’s become a competition
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Local craft beer enthusiasts Jon Tippler, Scott Waiss, Don Patton
and Mike Whiteside form the core of a group of local homebrewers
working on plans to bring a brewpub to Florence.
to grab the attention of a more
There have been a number of ex-
sophisticated customer and keep ploratory efforts undertaken in the
that interest over time.
See BREW page 6A
Interior and Exterior
House Painting
Florence, OR CCB#195304
• Deck and Railing Staining
• General Repairs
• Pressure Washing
• Mossy Roof Treatment
• Gutter Cleaning