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SATURDAY EDITION | APRIL 25, 2020 | $1.00 THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM Community & Lifestyle T IME O UT By Lloyd Little Retired teacher, coach and game offi cial With more than55 years as an athlete, coach, parent and spectator, Lloyd Little has gained some insights and perspectives regarding athletics. Each week, he shares what he's learned about sports from his multiple points of view. Seasons Lost (part II) My coaching career spanned four decades and included over 30 seasons as a coach of a sport. Unlike my win-loss per- centage of fewer than 25 per- cent as a player, my coaching win-loss season percentage was above 70 percent of all the teams I coached. Deciding on the lost season’s impact on the team and myself is much more diffi cult than it was for my lost seasons as a player. So, I have decided to limit myself to one team’s season for each category of my coaching career. In 1975, my fi rst head coach- ing position was at Spray High School in Spray, Ore. Th e town decided to add football for the fi rst time, and I was See COURTESY PHOTO Food Backpack for Kids Distribution Liason Walt Homenyk and Program Director Marilyn Barba, along with the group’s van. F OOD P ACKPACK PROGRAM ADAPTS TO NEW CHALLENGES D uring the COVID-19 pan- demic school closures, Food Backpack for Kids (FB4K) has had to adapt to new challenges. FB4K is ready to continue distribu- tion beyond the normal end of the school calendar year. “We’ve increased inventory levels at a time we normally decrease them,” said FB4K Program Director Marilyn Barba. The group’s operations have had to adjust menu items due to shortages, but are focused on a balanced diet. All FB4K packing volunteers follow protocols from the Center for Disease Control. In addition, distribution to schools continue. FB4K’s partners, Siuslaw Elementary School Principal Mike Harklerode and Mapleton Elementary School Principal Jodi O’Mara, as well as school staff, have also adapted. Volunteers distribute food bags directly to 98 students’ homes since school buses aren’t running. Going forward, Florence Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3232 will be distributing food bags to 75 children’s homes in Florence. Mapleton Community Volunteers are distributing 23 food bags to stu- dents who have very little food at home to them. Finally, United Way Lane County fully funded a $2,500 COVID-19 grant request for FB4K to continue purchasing food. For more information or to donate to FB4K, visit www.foodbackpackfork- ids.com. City announces business resource newsletter, website LITTLE 3B Tide Tables Entrance Siuslaw River High Tide Low Tide April 25 1:40am / 7.2 2:54pm / 6.0 8:31am / -0.3 8:19pm / 2.6 April 26 2:08am / 7.2 3:39pm / 5.8 9:08am / -0.3 8:53pm / 3.0 April 27 2:41am / 7.0 4:30pm / 5.6 9:50am / -0.3 9:33pm / 3.3 April 28 3:19am / 6.8 5:28pm / 5.4 10:39am / -0.1 10:24pm / 3.6 COURTESY PHOTO Mapleton student Lea Buss’s mixed media “A Cold Blossom Tree.” April 30 5:12am / 6.3 7:39pm/ 5.5 12:38pm/ 0.2 May 1 6:32am / 6.0 8:36pm / 5.9 12:58am / 3.5 1:44pm / 0.2 May 2 7:55am / 6.0 9:25pm/ 6.4 2:20am/ 2.9 2:46pm/ 0.2 Student exhibit goes virtual Every year, the Fresh Impressions Exhibition at the Florence Events Center features student artwork from the Siuslaw and Mapleton school districts, as well as from area home- schoolers. This year, the 2020 Fresh Impressions Exhibition is being held as a virtual tour that opened this past Wednesday. The community, includ- ing students and their fam- ilies, are invited to check the show out in the online gallery at https://bit.ly/ 22020FreshImpressions VirtualShow. According to organizer Jo Beaudreau, member of the FEC Gallery Committee, “This exhibi- tion is a celebration of the artistic talents of the youth in our community. … A special thank you to those individuals, groups and businesses that have helped in make this event possi- ble.” She thanked the Friends of the Florence Events Center, Florence Events Center staff, the FEC Gallery Committee, See FRESH 2B The City of Florence is launching a weekly business resource newsletter in response to the COVID-19 public health crisis. This newsletter, The Flor- ence Four, is intended to con- nect local businesses with re- sources and support during the COVID-19 emergency and throughout the recovery phase. Each week, the newsletter will feature four new resources or updates on different local ini- tiatives that economic develop- ment partners in the region and state are taking. Businesses have been au- tomatically subscribed to the newsletter if the City had an email address on file in associ- ation with their business license. If you would like to subscribe, go to www.ci.florence.or.us/ economicdevelopment/busi- ness-resources-novel-covid-19. In addition, the City of Flor- ence is constantly adding re- sources to their Economic De- velopment website, which has been redesigned to be more easily accessible. The City’s Eco- nomic Development website is accessible by going to: ci.flor- ence.or.us/economicdevelop- ment. Questions about the news letter and the website can be di- rected to Sarah Moehrke, Com- munity & Economic Develop- ment Assistant, by email: Sarah. Moehrke@ci.florence.or.us or call 541-991-8276.
