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Bret Lucich and Paul Biondi
return to Three Rivers
Three Rivers Casino
Resort invites the public,
21 and older, to Blue Bills
Sports Bar & Tap Room to
hear live shows performed
by top local artists.
On July 19 and 20, The
Bret Lucich & Paul Biondi
Experience will perform.
This variety band has a
wide array of sounds. Lu-
cich plays a multitude of
instruments and his vocal
abilities allow him to do
great impersonations; in
combination with Biondi’s
saxophone, this creates a
unique and unforgettable
experience.
As a reminder, there is no
cover charge, but patrons
must be 21 years or older to
attend.
To learn more about
Three Rivers and the July
entertainment line-up, vis-
it www.threeriverscasino.
com/events.
Community News
Community
gathers to
‘Remember
Leah’
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Civil War Food Drive
July 20 th
11AM to 2PM
It is Time for our annual
Power of Florence,
Civil War Food Drive
Choose your team and bring your
non-perishable food dona ons to
Grocery Outlet
All dona ons go to the Florence
Food Share.
Florence Food Share is your local community food
pantry. We serve emergency food boxes to all those
who qualify fi nancially. Our hours are 9:30 AM to
12:45 PM Monday through Friday. We are open
Monday and Wednesday 4 to 6 PM, and 2 nd and 4 th
Saturday from 10 AM to 12:45 PM
Benefit concert raises
money for Friends of the
FEC fund
PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/
SIUSLAW NEWS
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n Sunday, Team Leah and
All donations went to the
the Vollmar family present-
Friends of the FEC Leah Good-
ed the Remembering Leah
win Memorial Fund, which helps
Goodwin Benefit Concert at the
support the needs of the the-
Florence Events Center (FEC).
ater, subject to the approval of
Up -and- coming 15-year- old
the Goodwin family.
singer Nyah Vollmar led the con-
The event also honored the
cert with guest performances by
Goodwin family, with Nyah per-
Jason Wood, William Owens and
forming favorite songs of both
Nyah’s 9-year-old brother Jonah.
Leah and her father, Butch. The
Annie Schmidt emceed the
set included songs from musical
event, which sought to celebrate
theater, songs written by Nyah
the life of longtime FEC light-
and classic rock.
and sound-technician Leah, who
“Leah was a woman who nev-
was active with many theater
er stopped believing: in the
and entertainment groups in
basic goodness of all people,
Florence.
in their ability to achieve their
“It was Nyah’s idea to honor
own dreams, and most of all,
Leah close to the first anniversa-
in her own ability to overcome
ry of her death and in so doing,
any and all physical setbacks,”
raise money for an organization that was perhaps Schmidt said.
the closest to Leah, heart and soul — not to men-
For information on the Friends of the FEC, stop
tion, a lot of sweat — the Friends of the FEC, of by the events center at 715 Quince St. or visit
which she was once president,” Schmidt said.
eventcenter.org.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, astro-
nauts Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin landed the Apol-
lo 11 Lunar Module Eagle on
the moon. Highlights of the
historic event will be present-
ed by Jeff Phillips of the Eu-
gene Astronomical Society
in the Bromley Room at the
Siuslaw Public Library, 1460
Ninth St. in Florence, on Sat-
urday, July 20, at 1 p.m.
This free presentation
and celebration of the moon
landing is part of the library’s
“Universe of Stories” Summer
Reading Program and is open
to the public.
NASA will also be cele-
brating the 50th anniversary
of the Apollo 11 moon mis-
sion by sponsoring numerous
events this month.
The moon mission began
on July
ellite, the
16, 1969,
Explor-
with the
er 1, and
lift off of
America’s
Apollo
first as-
11 from
tronaut
N A S A’ s
A l a n
Kenne-
Shepard.
dy Space
W h e n
Center
he
was
in Flor-
young,
ida with
Phillips
PHOTO BY JEFF PHILLIPS
astro-
would
The Jan. 1, 2018, Super Moon
nauts Neil
sneak a
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and transistor radio into school
Michael Collins on board. so he could listen to space
Four days after the launch, on launches.
July 20, Armstrong and Al-
He has been a member of
drin became the first humans the Eugene Astronomical
to set foot on the moon.
Society for over 20 years and
During the presentation at some of his photos have ap-
the library, Phillips will share peared on Sky and Telescope
fascinating film clips of the weekly update and the Ce-
historic moon landing to- lestron telescope catalog.
gether with background de-
The Eugene Astronomical
tails and anecdotes.
Society is a group of amateur
Phillips has been a space astronomers dedicated to
enthusiast since the launch- observing the sky and learn-
ing of Sputnik when he was ing about the Universe. The
a child. His father was an group is committed to shar-
engineer who worked on ing its understanding and
the Jupiter C, the rocket that appreciation of astronomy
launched America’s first sat- with students and the general
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public. The society has been
doing astronomy education
and public outreach for many
years.
This celebration of the first
moon landing is for every-
one. What better way to cel-
ebrate the historic 50th anni-
versary of Apollo 11’s mission
to the moon than to attend
this program presented by an
avid astronomy and space en-
thusiast? To enhance the cel-
ebration and mark this mon-
umental achievement of our
country’s space program, the
Friends of the Siuslaw Public
Library will serve moon pies
at the conclusion of the pre-
sentation.
For more information
about the 50th anniversary
of Apollo 11 celebration, vis-
it the Siuslaw Public Library,
call 541-997-3132, visit the li-
brary’s Facebook page or visit
www.siuslawlibrary.info.
For NASA sponsored and
co-sponsored events of the
first moon landing, including
a live television broadcast on
July 19, visit NASA’s web page
at www.nasa.gov.
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