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SN SATURDAY EDITION | SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 | $1.00 TH THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM 101 N to Buck Lake Area in Box A BO 7TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY-WIDE GARAGE SALE MAP INSIDE – B5-6 SEPTEMBER C OMMUNITY C ALENDAR I NSIDE — A8 14 & 15, 2019 HWY 126 Ea N. Fork Roa Box B Siuslaw News VOL. 129, NO. 74 NEWS & VIEWS THAT DEFINE OUR COMMUNITY F LORENCE , O REGON WEATHER Mostly cloudy with a high of 69 and a low tonight of 58. Full forecast on A3 DUNES CITY B Coordinated by the Siuslaw News & Florence Area Chamber of Commerce Postal Customer Florence, Ore. 97439 Lane County unveils new program for plastic Florence-area Community Collectors now sought to gather acceptable plastic By Mark Brennan Siuslaw News One of the more positive chang- es that have occurred in the past 25 years regarding human interactions with the planet has been in the area of recycling. The first widely recognized ef- fort to begin to address the damage caused by people to planet Earth took place on the first Earth Day celebra- tion in 1970. During the 1970s, recy- cling began a slow rise from less than 1 percent of materials being recycled, to a measurable increase on a yearly basis. That number continued to grow with recycling percentages rising from 10 percent in the 1980s to 25 percent in the 1990s. By the time the new millennia arrived, recycle rates had risen to more than 30 percent na- tionwide as nearly every municipality offered some form of curbside recy- cling with more than 9,000 voluntary programs in place nationwide. The trend continued, with rates in 2015 at approximately 35 percent. Those numbers show Americans have embraced, to a certain degree, the idea that resources are not end- less and the disposal of waste mate- rials had consequences. People also seemed to understand the dispos- al methods used to remove waste was severely damaging eco-systems throughout the world. That mildly encouraging para- digm changed dramatically in 2016, with China’s announcement that it would no longer accept most plastic resin types from waste management companies and haulers in the Unit- ed States. That decision completely altered the manner in which Amer- ica recycled. Overnight, it essentially elimi- nated the single largest processing destination for the vast majority of America’s plastic waste. This change has forced cities and towns across the country to reassess the way that they handle plastic waste and how best to put in place a system mov- ing forward that will allow individ- uals and municipalities to engage in some level of recycling. See PLASTIC page 11A Siuslaw School Board considers gym floor, climate change at meeting COMMUNITY By Jared Anderson Siuslaw News Honoring Sept. 11, 2001 INSIDE — A3 COOL CLASSICS SPORTS 12th annual Rods ‘N’ Rhodies Car Show continues today S Siuslaw volleyball continues season INSIDE — SPORTS RECORDS Obituaries & emergency response logs Inside — A2 SIDE SHOW Activities and comics every Saturday Inside — B4 CLASSIFIEDS Listings and public notices Inside — B7 FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /S IUSLAW N EWS @S IUSLAW N EWS T HE S IUSLAW N EWS . COM troll the streets of Historic Old Town Florence today for the Rods ‘N’ Rhodies Car Show. Now run by Rods ‘N’ Rhodies, Inc., the show highlights top cars from the region. Expect to see classic stunners and tricked-out hot rods from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plus, raffles are going on all day. Awards will be announced at 4 p.m. before many of the cars join the official car cruise through Old Town at 5 p.m. Also this weekend is the seventh annual Communitywide Garage Sale. For more information, see pages B5 and B6. For more information, visit rodsn- rhodies.org. PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/ SIUSLAW NEWS Learning through play at Mapleton’s new preschool District to begin preschool in October By Jared Anderson Siuslaw News Teacher Amber Tucker interacts with Mapleton students in the nearly complete preschool class- room during the district’s open house on Sept. 12. S IUSLAW N EWS 2 S ECTIONS | 22 P AGES C OPYRIGHT 2019 The Mapleton School District held its annual open house and barbecue on Thursday night, as hundreds of students and family members gathered to officially celebrate the start of the school year. Students feasting on hot dogs and hamburgers walked through the Mapleton campus, looking into the classrooms that they JARED ANDERSON/SIUSLAW NEWS will be calling home for the next unveiled for the very first time open the beginning of October. nine months. But there was one — the district’s new preschool, See PRESCHOOL page 10A classroom that was being was which is expected to officially The Siuslaw School District held its first board meeting of the new school year last Wednesday, Sept. 11, as the district discussed an emer- gency project to replace the Siuslaw Elementary School gym floor, the ef- fects of a recently adopted cell phone policy, climate change discussion in school and the potential for a student walkout this Friday — which coin- cides with a global climate change event on Sept. 20. The gym floor replacement issue came about in June, when the ele- mentary school was re-roofing the gym area. “We had an issue with a surprise rain that caught the workers off guard,” said Siuslaw School District Superintendent Andy Grzeskowi- ak. “We had a rain shower inside the gym. After (crews) pulled back some of the wall, they realized that the vapor barrier was put in wrong. Instead of the water going under the floor and to the concrete, it put it in between the wood floor and the vapor barrier.” With the water trapped between the layers, the gym floor has begun to buckle. “We have a slight wave of the ocean in the floor now. … Pretty soon, that top laminate layer is going to crack into shards,” Grzeskowiak said. To fix the floor, the district will have to close down the elementary gym for two months. “They’ve got to take it all up, dry the substrate, and then let the wood get acclimated and then finished. Then it has to sit for a week to cure,” Grzeskowiak added. The loss of the gym floor won’t be ideal, as Siuslaw Elementary Princi- pal Mike Harklerode explained. “On rainy days, there’s not a mo- ment when the gym is not used from 8 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.,” he said. “When we need it for indoor recesses, it goes from PE (physical education) to recess and right back to PE. 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