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EXAM from page 1A
Women’s breast tissue rang-
es from fatty to dense, which
is completely dependent on
genetics. A woman won’t
know what type of breast
tissue she has until her first
mammogram, but about 50
percent of women have dense
breast tissue. During a mam-
mogram, the patient stands
and places her breast on the
flat plate of the mammogra-
phy machine. A top plate will
proceed to lower and essen-
tially compress the breast in
order to take an X-ray image
of the breast tissue.
A mammogram can be un-
comfortable and even painful
for some women. In the past,
women with dense breast tis-
sue were at a disadvantage
with the 2D technology avail-
able through most mammo-
gram machines over the last
decade. For women with fatty
breast tissue, 98 percent of
breast cancers were found us-
CLEAWOX from page 1A
Many of the original build-
ings were constructed by the
Civilian Conservation Corps
in the 1930s, including the
lodge, which was replaced by
the current building in 1996.
The camp’s history is pre-
served in the memories of
members of the Order of the
Silver Trefoil (OST), a group
of men and women who have
each been part of the Girl
Scouts for more than 25 years.
Member Patti Luse, a Girl
Scout for 65 years, serves as the
historian of Camp Cleawox.
“I’m not the oldest camper
here,” she said right away. “The
oldest camper is Katie Lytle,
and she was here in the 1940s.
I was here in the ‘50s and ‘60s,
and the camp director in the
late ‘60s. Then I worked at the
Girl Scout office until I retired
in 2004. I worked for 30 years
for the Girl Scouts.”
Luse and Lytle talked about
ing 2D, but only 48 percent of
cancers were found for wom-
en with dense breasts.
Hunt said PeaceHealth’s new
Siemens 3D mammogram ma-
chine changes all of this.
“Those 50 percent of wom-
en with dense breast tissue
that had to worry about us
missing their breast cancers
until they were big enough
to see with 2D, now they are
on the same playing field as
women with fatty breasts that
are easy to see through,” she
said.
Here’s why: When the 2D
mammography
machine
compresses the breast, it has
to be flattened as much as it
can be in order to stretch out
the denseness within and take
a single image of the inside
breast tissue, putting women
with dense breast tissue at a
disadvantage.
Radiologists examine the
image and look for any ab-
normalities; if the patient is
following the recommended
annual exam schedule, the
radiologist looks for changes
between last year and the new
image.
Sometimes breast tissue
can overlap, thus covering
tumors, and the denser the
breast, the easier it is for the
cancer to be camouflaged. If
a tumor is still small enough,
then the radiologist may not
be able to see it with the 2D
machine.
Breast cancer patients have
a 98 percent survival rate
when diagnosed early, but for
women with dense breasts,
the early diagnosis was more
difficult.
With the new tomosynthe-
sis X-ray technique, the 3D
machine moves in an arch,
taking 50 images of the breast
tissue and compiling it into
a flipbook file for the radiol-
ogist to look through. The
images capture sections of the
breast that together form an
entire image. Tumors camou-
flaged in the dense breast tis-
sue will now show up on the
3D scan.
The 3D technology was
developed in 2015, but Dan
Goldblatt, imaging manag-
er at Peace Harbor, said the
medical center waited to buy
the machine to ensure all the
bugs were worked out first, as
with any new technology.
Now the 3D mammogram
is living up to its expecta-
tions; the American Cancer
Association reports that 3D
is able to detect 40 percent
more cancer in patients than
2D mammograms.
Sandy Bupp, a patient at
PeaceHealth, started getting
her annual mammograms at
age 40, and says her experi-
ence with the 3D mammo-
gram machine is definitely an
improvement from the past
2D machines.
“Getting into position for
the new machine is a bit awk-
ward, but once they get you
into position, it’s only a few
seconds,” she said. “If you go
every year it gets less and less
uncomfortable because you
know what to expect. I think
it’s really important.”
According to Goldblatt,
Peace Harbor chose the Sie-
mens machine because it
scans the widest angle of
breast tissue with the thin-
nest sections of the tissue
captured, meaning more can-
cers can be caught before they
have time to grow.
“The advantage of this
machine is that we can find
smaller cancers and detect
them much earlier to give
far greater outcomes for pa-
tients,” Goldblatt said.
The new Siemen mam-
mography machine also re-
sults in faster mammograms
and less compression, mean-
ing less discomfort for wom-
en during the exam. A mam-
mogram exam will take five
to 10 minutes, but the actual
compression of the breast is
only about a minute.
the camp back in the days
when the camp was inacces-
sible and the forest came right
up to the three-sided Adiron-
dack cabins.
“When I went to camp, we
thought this was an island,”
Luse said. “They would bus us
from McArthur Court in Eu-
gene and we’d go Highway 36,
which had so many hairpin
turns that almost everybody
on the bus had to have a sack
— except I don’t know if they
had invented sacks by then —
and then they took us to Hon-
eyman State Park. We unload-
ed the buses, they separated us
into units and then we got on
barges to go over to the island.
It never occurred to us.”
Lake Cleawox has now been
largely enveloped in the sand
dunes, but back then, barge
rides used to be a big part of
the activities.
“You’d get on the barge and
sing all the wonderful camp
songs. I’m sure it went half
a mile up the arm of the lake
that used to be there,” Luse
said.
She had no idea at the time
how staff would get supplies to
the camp, and said at least four
years went by before she real-
ized there must be road access.
“We just didn’t venture out,”
she said.
The myth of being an island
was encouraged until the early
1960s, after which Girl Scouts
were bused into the camp.
Lytle
attended
Camp
Cleawox in 1944 and ‘45.
“Because of the war, they
didn’t have camp from 1941
to ‘43. They were afraid of the
Japanese invasion,” she said.
Although she was at the
camps in 1945, she was not
there on Aug. 15 when the
Allied Forces accepted the
surrender of Japan.
“One of our OST people
was here as a counselor in
1945 when V-J Day occurred,”
Lytle said. “They were over
here, and I don’t know if they
had a telephone or not, but
they could hear all the noise
coming from Florence. They
crossed the lake and got into
town to find out what was
going on. I want to say she
swam, but they probably took
one of the rowboats.”
OST members have also in-
cluded counselors who were
around when the Siuslaw
River Bridge was under con-
struction.
Lytle described the place-
ment of the original lodge
— which did not have glass
windows, only screens — and
pointed to where the Co-
lumbus Day Storm of 1962
thinned the trees all over
camp.
“Camp was a full two weeks
for my sister and I,” Lytle said.
“We were fortunate enough
that our folks could afford to
do that. As I remember, it was
like $8 a week.”
Seventy-five years later,
and accounting for inflation,
prices in 2019 are 1,355.07
percent higher than average
prices throughout 1944. The
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics’ consumer price index
suggests that would have
been about $116.41 in today’s
money.
One-week stays at Camp
Cleawox now cost between
$465 and $675.
The barge Luse remem-
bers wasn’t in use yet in the
‘40s. For Lytle, the Girl Scouts
rowed boats filled with their
gear to get to camp.
“And no life jackets!” she
said.
When they arrived at camp,
the scouts went to their unit,
where there was a pile of
straw. Each scout filled large
denim bags, called “ticks,”
with straw. These served as
the mattresses for the wooden
slats of the bunks. The scouts
dumped out the straw at the
end of camp and left the straw
for the next set of campers.
“One of the nice things
about being here as a camper
was that you were with girls
who were Girl Scouts but who
were your age that you would
never have met otherwise,”
Lytle said. “That was really
nice, and you got to be friends
with them and look for them
the next year.”
Lytle went to St. Mary
School, a Catholic school in
Eugene that is now called
O’Hara Catholic School.
“We did not have a lot of
contact with other girls our
age in the community, un-
less you happened to live in a
neighborhood,” she said.
Luce said the girls in Eu-
gene often were separated in
that way; “It was fun to all get
together each summer,” she
said.
Lytle looked over the al-
bums and memorabilia of
Camp
Cleawox
history,
showing a vintage picture
of two girls in their bathing
suits — “My, how those have
changed!” she exclaimed. —
One was Lytle and the other is
a woman Lytle still talks with.
“I had lunch with her last
week. We’ve stayed in contact
all these years since our 50th
high school reunion in 1999.
We have met on the third Fri-
day of the month ever since,”
she said.
Lytle has also stayed active
in the Girl Scouts.
“I have been here a lot,”
she said. “I helped start the
Hooky Weekend, I’ve been
a troop leader and brought
my troops here, I’ve come
with adult groups. I’ve been
on the Camp Properties
Committee, I’ve helped clear
trails and paint Hooslies (the
camp’s outhouse toilets) and
stayed involved. It’s where
my friends are, other than at
church.”
She’s also involved in the
OST, which originated in Eu-
gene in the late 1970s and has
since expanded to 40 chapters
across the nation. The group
meets once a month and uses
membership dues to provide
scholarships to adult volun-
teers who are going on op-
portunities with their troops.
One scholarship helped a
troop from Junction City visit
England in June.
OST also worked to help
Cleawox celebrate its 65th
and 75th anniversaries, and
was a big part in the June 29
festivities.
“We try to support the
GSOSW council,” Luse said.
“This camp here is very im-
portant to us. … I hope when
I’m 86 I’m still around, be-
cause I want to come to the
100th!”
To honor Camp Cleawox’s
90th birthday, OST mem-
bers led the assembled Girl
Scouts and families in a song
circle. The attendees formed
a friendship circle, holding
hands with one another, right
over left.
“Even some of the older
campers may not know it, but
this kind of tells what Camp
Cleawox is all about,” Luse
said.
The song went:
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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Located at Munsel Lake Road and North Fork Road
Worship Services 10:00 AM Sunday
All are welcome! 541-997-7268
FLORENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Worship Services 10:00 a.m. Sunday
Adult Classes at 9am; Children’s Sunday School at 10:30m
Coff ee Fellowship Following Service
2nd & Kingwood • (541) 997-6025
FOURSQUARE CHURCH
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH
4590 Hwy. 101, Across from Fred Meyer –- 997-7418
Sunday School, 9:30a.m. – Worship, 10:45
Wed. Prayer - 6:00 p.m. –Wed. Ministries 1-8 Grade 7 p.m.
1624 Highway 101 (next to A&W) –- 997-6337
Pastor George Pagel – Something for the entire family.
Sun. Services: 10:45 a.m., Wed. Bible Study 7 p.m.
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CROSS ROAD ASSEMBLY OF GOD
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Wednesday, 7 p.m. - Family Connections
Adult Bible Class, 9:30am on Sundays.
Sunday Services, 9am and 10:45am.
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21st & Spruce Street – 997-8113
Adult Forum 9 a.m.
Worship service: Sun. 10:30am
Welcome to all!
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - SBC
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE SIUSLAW
1935 25th St. – 997-7660 • Pastor, Ron Allen
Series “People of the Bible.” on Wednesdays 6 p.m.
A friendly place to worship, vacationers welcome.
Sun.; 11am & 6pm, Sunday school 9:45am.
FLORENCE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
2nd & Ivy – 997-2961 –Non-Denominational
Worship Service: 9:00 am & 10:30 am
Middle School and High School youth groups meet on
Wednesday.
FLORENCE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Pre-Denominational (Romans 16:16)
1833 Tamarack Street (2 blocks east of Hwy. 101 on 18th St.)
Bible Study: Sunday 10 a.m.; Worship: Sunday 11 a.m.
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FLORENCE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
12th and Nopal –997-9020 • Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Saturdays, Mens’ Breakfast @ 8 a.m.
Online Worship Service@ fl orencenaz.church
Wednesdays Celebrate Recovery 5 pm
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1318 Rhododendron Dr. • 541-997-2523
Sunday Service 11am ( Children Sunday School)
Mid-Week Activities, all ages.
Traditional Worship Service 10:00 a.m. , Reverend Greg Wood
Sunday School and Nursery – Organ and Choir
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3996 N Hwy 101 997-7136
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
“War is still not the answer.” FCNL
We worship in homes at 11am Sundays
Call 997-4237 or 902-9511 for locations.
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Every Sun., Bible Class 9 a.m., Worship Service 10 a.m.
85294 Hwy. 101 S. – 997-8038
DVD of Weekly worship service available.
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2135 19th St. –- 997-6600
8:30am, Tuesdays, Morning Prayer
Sunday Services: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. - Wed, 11 a.m.
Everyone Welcome – Come walk our Labyrinth.
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Masses: Sat. 5:30 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m.
1.5 miles south of river on Hwy 101 – 997-2312
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4445 Hwy 101 (South of Fred Meyer) – 997-3951
Worship on Saturday 10:30 A.M.
Adult/Children’s Sabbath School 9:15 A.M.
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87738 Hwy 101 at Heceta Beach Road
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“C is for the claims of those
who found her
L is for the love we’ll
always hold
E is for the evergreens
around her
A is for adventures
yet untold
W is for the water shining
clearly
O is for the old times
now at rest
X just marks the spot we
love so dearly
Camp Cleawox — we know
you’re the best!”
Afterwards, camp counsel-
ors served cake while people
continued talking, greeting
old friends and learning about
Camp Cleawox’s history.
“The other thing is we’d
have watermelon polo,” Luse
said. “You’d grease a water-
melon with Crisco and put
it in the swimming area and
have two teams. The first
team that could get it on the
opposite dock, like when you
play soccer, won. I thought
that was fun.”
While some things have
changed, tradition is still
around for the Girl Scouts
who make their summer
homes at Camp Cleawox.
“They have campfires,
they have s’mores, they make
memories. This is a wonder-
ful place to make memories,”
Luse said.
Mealy agreed. “Lots and
lots of memories.”
Read more about Camp
Cleawox and its current op-
portunities for Girl Scouts in
the Wednesday, July 17, edi-
tion of the Siuslaw News.
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