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SIUSLAW NEWS | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019 | 5A RAIN from page 1A from Pakistan, who were able to talk about the economy of their region of Gilgit-Baltistan and show some of the products they are developing. Cummings met the women on a visit to Pakistan through the University of Oregon (U of O) this fall. “I was asked by U of O to travel to Gilgit-Baltistan and to share the RAIN model there and help them build their en- trepreneurial ecosystem,” she said. “Actually, they’re already doing an amazing job.” According to Cummings, U of O acquired a grant from the U.S. State Department through the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan to partner with Karakoram WLFEA from page 1A percent,” House said. “Having that quick action really did af- fect the outcome.” The Fred Meyer employees included Megan Green, Jason Guiterrez, Jeremy Austin, An- gela Nelson and Kevin Wik- enson, as well as Sky Ceder- leaf-Grey, who was both a Fred Meyer employee and SVFR volunteer. Beyond CPR, the group, along with two unnamed in- dividuals from Peace Harbor who were there at the time, were able to organize the situa- tion, as well as shock Peterson with the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) which Fred Meyer had on site. “It made a difference,” said Peterson, who was at the meet- ing to help present the award and give his thanks. “I would not be standing here if it were not for Fred Meyer staff. If they didn’t do what they had done, the EMTs would not have been able to help.” Also awarded were SV- FR’s Conway Pebley and Kyle International University in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northern region of Pakistan. The grant was to help spur women entre- preneurship. The U of O then hosted the six women from Karakoram International University for three weeks in Oregon. Two, Sumara Shaheen and Tahira Ali, are instructors, and four — Ingleen Fatima, Nida Hayat, Uxma Shahin and Rukhsa- na Zaman — have MBAs and came through the program. According to Tahira, one of the goals of the program is for students to create their own business after graduating so they can go on to employ other people. “These are smart, talented women working on really cool stuff,” Cummings said. “I’m now in love with all these la- dies.” The four entrepreneurs were able to talk about their businesses and show prod- ucts while drinking tea with Florence-area women in busi- ness at The Bodega before the RAIN meetup. The two in- structors spoke of the region’s drive to create employment and how the university there is supporting women in busi- ness. Marianne Brisbane, own- er of The Bodega, invited the women to take tea the way she did growing up in Indonesia: black tea with milk, not cream. Women from the City of Florence and local business- es were able to learn about the products — ranging from bright needlework, delicate gemstones, handmade dump- lings and flower bouquets — at The Bodega, and view some of the items again at the Art-rep- eneur meetup. The Pakistan delegation also got to visit the Oregon coast, much different than their mountainous home, and talk- ed about it later with Florence Mayor Joe Henry and others who attended the two events. Henry thanked Cummings and Ariel Ruben, the local coastal venture catalyst, for renewing RAIN’s partnership with the City of Florence. “I just come on behalf of the city, the city council and everybody, to say ‘thank you’ to RAIN and to all of you who are participating,” Henry said. “RAIN has been with us for four years and there have been quite a few successes — we’re standing in one of them right here for Jayne and her studio — and I know other folks have benefitted from RAIN’s efforts. … You have created a number of jobs, and that has been one of our goals. The communi- ty here has benefitted and I think will benefit more in the near future from the efforts of RAIN and from all of you.” For more information about RAIN’s activities in the Flor- ence area, visit www.meetup. com/Startup-Florence-Oregon -Coast or go to oregonrain.org. Orozco, who were the first re- sponders to arrive at the scene, followed by Douglas Unrein II and David Rossi from WLAD. “I want to say something about Doug and David,” Pe- terson said. “They came and visited me at my home when I got home from the hospital. That was excellent. I had never heard of or seen anything like that. I was deeply moved.” House also recognized Ed Lovell, SVFR’s Community Support Team member, who “helped stabilize the scene, talked with the family, and, though he didn’t have hands on with the lifesaving, he gave us the opportunity to do our job to save the life of Mr. Pe- terson.” “When I listened to all these names, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, how lucky that all these people were there,’” SVFR Board President Ned Hickson said. “But then I thought that we should get to the point where it’s not about luck. It’s about that many people in one place who know how to do that kind of procedure.” Getting people trained in CPR has been a passion for WLFEA Chief Michael Schick. “My goal is to have every out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to have bystander CPR,” he told the Siuslaw News. “That’s why it’s important to train ev- erybody. It’s been getting eas- ier and easier, and everybody should know how to do it.” WLAD offers CPR and first aid courses monthly, and peo- ple can sign up by going to www.westernlaneambulance. com/cpr-and-first-aid/, or by calling 541-997-9614. In other news from Tues- day’s WLFEA meeting, Schick announced that funding was awarded for the Mobile Health Mental Health Crisis team in the amount of $287,000. The team is a partnership between SVFR, WLAD, the Florence Police Department and Peace- Health Peace Harbor, and is expected to help people in cri- sis. “Right now, our options are to either take people to the hospital or to take them to jail,” Schick said. “Sometimes that’s appropriate, but many times it’s not. We want to make sure these people are getting the services they need.” The team will help individu- als for a wide variety of issues, including suicidal thoughts, drug addiction or other mental health issues. The funding also provides for an additional social worker at Peace Harbor’s emergency department, and it is expected that Lane County Sheriffs will also partner with the team by next year. “We’ve got people train- ing right now,” Schick said. “I think we’ll see our first patient in the first couple months, probably sooner than that. We just want to make sure every- body’s trained.” The mental health unit would create yet another mobile unit associated with WLAD. House provided numbers regarding the Mobile Integrat- ed Mental Health program, which has WLAD and Peace Harbor employees checking up on individuals at home after they come home from the hospital. The purpose of the program is to reduce the amount of ER visits, though until now the exact impact of the program was unknown to the WLAD board. “I talked to Jason Hawkins, the CEO of Peace Harbor hos- pital,” House said. “He stated the best way he could explain it is a 1:5 ratio. For every $1, we’re actually saving $5 to the health care system because of MIH. In one year, 500 visits for 60 clients, we decreased the ER visits by 200 percent and we’ve decreased readmission by 200 percent.” Finally, before the meeting, Schick was able to give an up- date on a pair of unexpected late season fires from the pre- vious week, the first of which occurred on Oct. 15 up Tier- nan Road. “There’s a logging operation going on, and one of their piec- es of logging equipment that cuts down trees caught on fire,” Schick said. The equipment had just been filled up with 140 gallons of diesel the night be- fore. “Luckily the ground was wet around it so it didn’t get into the trees,” Schick said, ex- plaining the logging personnel had attempted to put the fire out before the flames became unmanageable. “We had to cut a little path to it,” he continued. “It took us a while to get it out, but we did get it out. Summer time, it would have been a fully differ- ent picture, so we were lucky.” A second fire occurred that week in a motorhome just north of Florence off Sunny Acres Road. The RV had been vacant for months, though neighbors had seen people in the area recently. “It looked like someone had been there, though,” Schick said. “The window was ajar but the door was locked. We have reason to believe someone was in there. We’re still investigat- ing, but at this time it looks suspicious.” There were no injuries re- ported at the fire, which was quickly put out by SVFR. J OIN U S I N W ORSHIP 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 Coffee 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. Website:florence4square.com CROSS ROAD ASSEMBLY OF GOD NEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH, E.L.C.A. Corner of 10th & Maple –997-3533 Wednesday, 7 p.m. - Family Connections Adult Bible Class, 9:30am on Sundays. Sunday Services, 9am and 10:45am. florencecrossroadag.org • office@florencecrossroadag.org 21st & Spruce Street – 997-8113 Pastor Rachel Simonson – All are welcome Adult Forum 9:00 a.m. – Sunday school !0:30 Worship Service Sun. 10:30 a.m. www.florencenewlife Lutheran.org FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - SBC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE SIUSLAW 1935 25th St. – 997-7660 • Pastor, Ron Allen Wednesday 6 p.m., Sun.; 11 am & 6pm, Bible Study 9:45am Sharing the Hope and Love of Jesus Christ to our community by being Living Proof of a Loving God 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. www.churchofchristflorence.org FLORENCE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 12th and Nopal –997-9020 • Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Online Worship Service@ florencenaz.church Wednesdays Celebrate Recovery 5:30 pm facebook:florenceoregonchurchofthenazarene FLORENCE EVANGELICAL CHURCH 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 All Welcome. Come as you are. 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. FLORENCE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP 87738 Hwy 101 at Heceta Beach Road RUAUU? All are welcome to explore the answer. Sunday Worship Service ~ 10:00 a.m. www.FlorenceUUF.org - (541) 997.2840 See Jim for your auto sales needs! RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH, L.C.M.S. Every Sun., Bible Class 9 a.m., Worship Service 10 a.m. 85294 Hwy. 101 S. – 997-8038 DVD of Weekly worship service available. Pastor Randy Benscoter 2150 Hwy. 101 • Florence (541) 997-3475 • 1-800-348-3475 ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 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. SAINT MARY, OUR LADY OF THE DUNES CATHOLIC CHURCH Masses: Sat. 5:30 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m. 1.5 miles south of river on Hwy 101 – 997-2312 FLORENCE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 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. Siuslaw News + Join Us In Worship 4 lines, approx 15 words, $10 a week 4 week Minimum Deadline 3 p.m. Mondays. 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