2A | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS
On The Record
OBITUARIES
S H O U P P E — A m a n - in business.
da Lynn “Mandy Stroud”
Mandy met her hus-
Shouppe, of Florence, band, Richard Shouppe,
passed away
in
Bremerton,
March 20, 2020.
Wash., while he
Mandy
was
was stationed with
born April 25,
the U.S. Navy. To-
1970, to Gene and
gether, they had
Gayle Stroud of
their
beautiful
Florence, Ore. She
daughter, Dillan,
graduated from
in 1996 and lov-
Siuslaw
High
ing son, Tyler, in
School in 1988
2001.
Amanda
and
continued
Her
children
Shouppe
her education, at-
looked up to her
tending Northwest Chris- as “Mama Bear” and she
tian College and earning never disappointed. Mama
herself a bachelor’s degree Bear worked diligently to
instill a sense of passion,
courage and unconditional
love to her family, especial-
ly towards her two wonder-
ful children.
Mandy had a soft spot,
(and a notably large col-
lection) for Disney movies
— she shared this passion
with her two children. Of-
ten, the family would va-
cation to Disneyland and
create many loving and hu-
morous memories togeth-
er. These handful of family
trips that were taken — the
laughter they shared and
joy that was felt — were
just a small snippet of the
cherished memories her
family (and loved ones)
will remember her by.
Mandy will be laid to
rest, along with babies
Christian (1999) and Lau-
ren (2000), during a private
family ceremony at Pacif-
ic Sunset Memorial Park
Cemetery in Florence.
She is survived by her fa-
ther, Gene, and stepmother
Myrtle, both of Florence;
husband Richard Shouppe;
and close friend Dea Car-
son; daughter Dillan and
her fiancé Alex; and son
Tyler (all of Eugene, Ore.);
sister Robin and her hus-
band Jeremy Miller, along
with their three children:
Megan, Payton and Carter,
all of Oregon; and Rich-
ard’s family of Florida.
Future plans will be an-
nounced for a Celebration
of Life ceremony to be held
in Florence.
Mandy’s family would
like to thank everyone for
their thoughts and prayers
“ I’m here to
support the
community
and the
Siuslaw News.”
City updates Public Meeting Procedures following EO 20-16
On April 15, Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown issued
Executive Order 20-16
authorizing Oregon local
governments to hold pub-
lic meetings and hearings
by teleconference, video or
through other electronic
methods.
In particular, the exec-
utive order gave local gov-
ernments the authority to
not provide a physical space
for the public to attend
meetings or hearings, pro-
vided a virtual attendance
mechanism is in place.
Given the recent exec-
utive orders, citizens will
not be able to attend City
meetings in person. Inter-
ested citizens who would
like to view and listen to
public meetings may do so
via live broadcast on Char-
ter Cable Channel 191 or
web broadcast at www.ci.
florence.or.us/citymanager/
public-meetings-live.
During this time, City
Council meetings will not
allow for verbal public
comments on any item oth-
er than a mandatory public
hearing, but citizens are still
encouraged to express their
views to the City Council.
Those interested may do
so by submitting written
communications in one of
the following ways:
1. Submit written com-
ments via email to the City
Recorder’s Office at kelli.
weese@ci.florence.or.us;
2. Mail written comments
to Florence City Hall, Attn:
City Council, 250 Hwy 101,
Florence, OR 97439
3. Drop off written com-
ments to the City of Flor-
ence drop box located at
Florence City Hall (250
Hwy 101) to the right of the
main entrance.
On Monday, May 4, at
5:30 p.m., the Florence City
Council will hold a public
hearing related to the Elks
Lodge Zone Change. Those
interested in providing tes-
timony during the public
hearing may do so via one
of the following methods:
1. Written Testimony: It
is strongly encouraged that
interested parties provide
testimony in writing prior
to the meeting in one of the
ways referenced above.
All written testimony re-
ceived at least 2 hours pri-
or to the Council meeting
(May 4 at 3:30 p.m.) will
be distributed to the City
Council and made part of
the record.
2. C onference Call:
Should it be necessary to
provide verbal testimony;
interested parties can par-
ticipate via a conference
call line.
To do so please com-
plete a speaker’s card online
at www.ci.florence.or.us/
council/request-address-
city-council-speakers-card
at least 1 hour prior to the
start of the meeting (May 4
by 4:30 p.m.).
Speaker’s cards must in-
clude the speaker’s name
and phone number they
seek to call into the meet-
ing from. City staff will
then contact the speaker to
let them know the confer-
ence call line number and
protocols.
For details regarding the
upcoming City Council
meeting, contact City Re-
corder / Economic Devel-
opment Coordinator Kelli
Weese at 541-997-3437 or
via email at kelli.weese@ci.
florence.or.us.
during this most difficult
time — they are all deeply
appreciated.
The family respectfully
requests that all donations
be sent to the National Kid-
ney Foundation.
Condolences to the fam-
ily can be sent directly to
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home in
Florence, Ore., to where
they will be respectfully
forwarded to the family.
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Pandemic Unemployment Assistance now available in Oregon
As of yesterday, April 28,
the Oregon Employment De-
partment (OED) bagen pro-
viding unemployment bene-
fits through the CARES Act
Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance (PUA) program.
In preparation, the agency
has recruited and trained
staff to process PUA claims.
Eligibility:
Oregonians who are eligi-
ble for this program include
individuals who do not qual-
ify for or cannot collect ben-
efits on a regular unemploy-
ment insurance claim. This
includes Oregonians who:
• Are self-employed and
not subject to unemploy-
ment insurance tax;
• Perform work as an inde-
pendent contractor;
• Perform work not sub-
ject to unemployment insur-
ance tax, such as agricultural
workers;
• Did not earn enough in
wages or work enough hours
to qualify for regular unem-
ployment benefits;
• Exhausted regular un-
employment benefits, and
are not eligible for another
extension.
• In addition, to be eligible,
you must be unemployed,
partially unemployed or
unable and unavailable for
work due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Covered situations include
individuals who:
• Are directly caring for a
member of the household di-
agnosed with COVID-19;
• Have been diagnosed
with COVID-19, or are seek-
ing a medical diagnosis for
COVID-19;
• Are unable to reach the
place of employment be-
cause of a quarantine im-
posed as a direct result of
the COVID-19 public health
emergency;
• Are primary caregiv-
ers for a child or person in
the household who is un-
able to attend school or an-
other facility closed due to
COVID-19, and that atten-
dance is required for their
work;
• Were scheduled to start
a new job and were un-
able to because the business
closed as a direct result of
COVID-19 public health
emergency; or
• Owned or worked for a
business that closed as a di-
rect result of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Federal law provides that
PUA benefits are retroactive
to the first week a worker
was impacted by a qualifying
COVID-19 reason, poten-
tially from the week starting
Feb. 2, 2020, through the
week ending Dec. 26.
The PUA process can take
as little as one week or sever-
al weeks, depending on the
claim complexity.
How to Apply:
People can access the PUA
application and certification
forms on the CARES Act sec-
tion of the Employment De-
partment’s COVID-19 web
page,
govstatus.egov.com/
ui-benefits/CARES.
There are three ways to
start a new application for
PUA benefits:
• Email: You can email
OED_PUA_INFO@oregon.
gov to request a secure email
link, then attach your PUA
application and weekly claim
reports to the secure email.
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Family in Need
To the Florence Area Com-
munity:
We are a family new to
Florence, we moved from Wis-
consin and came to the coast at
the end of August 2019. We are
reaching out to our new loved
community for help and sup-
port through this tragic time,
since .
Jeff rey was in a major car
accident on March 26th on
Hwy. 126 and suff ered exten-
sive injuries. He broke his back
in three diff erent spots, his left
arm from bracing himself upon
impact, his right knee, which
had to be completely re-built,
his left hip was dislocated and
fractured, and his left fi bula was
broken.
I received the call that
morning that no one ever wants
to get, as I was getting ready for
work.
Lady on the phone: “Is this
Brittany?”
Me: “Yes, it is.”
Lady: “this is so and so
from Eugene paramedics, your
husband has been in a car ac-
cident.”
In that very moment my
heart sank to the bottom of my
stomach. All I could do was
cry….the paramedic explained
to me that Jeff was awake and
alert, he was able to talk and tell
them his medical history, but
he does have some exten-sive
injuries.
I was able to talk to him
very briefl y for a few seconds.
Me (sobbing): “Honey,
what happened?!”
Jeff : “Honey, I don’t know,
it was so bad! I love you!”
Me: “I love you so much!”
He was taken by ambu-
lance to PeaceHealth Sacred
Heart RiverBend in Eugene.
He was rushed in to x-ray’s and
scan to determine how bad his
injuries actually were.
Aft er that I felt helpless. I
didn’t know what to do, but his
team at the hospital was very
good at keeping me updated.
Th ey informed me the extent
of his injuries and told me he
would be going into surgery
at some point that day to fi x
his legs, hip, knee & shin, and
would continue to keep me up-
dated. I asked if we could pos-
sibly talk before surgery and
the nurse told me he was on a
lot of pain meds and wouldn’t
be able to hold a conversation.
Th at put me at ease. I thought
to myself “at least I know he’s
being taken care of.”
Breeze and I were not able
to go see him at all in the hos-
pital because of COVID-19,
which was so incredibly hard to
deal with until I could actually
talk to him!
A few hours later I fi nally
got a call, it was his nurse. She
was calling to let me know he
was going into surgery; Breeze
and I were able to talk to him
for a minute. He was still very
out of it from the meds but told
us he was going into sur-gery
and he loved us.
Surgery took about eight
hours. We were waiting and
waiting and waiting for the sur-
geon to call, as I was promised
a call aft er surgery!
Finally, around 11:00 pm
the orthopedic surgeon called.
He said surgery went well but
his hip was one of the hardest
he has every had to reduce in
his career and he had to use
every trick in the book. He
explained how that part of the
surgery was like a three hours
process. Jeff ’s hip dislocated,
then the ball tore out of the
socket and was also cracked
so he had to smooth out the
ball then fi x all of the nerves,
tendon and ligaments to put
the ball back in the socket and
then put his hip back into place.
On top of all that he explained
how he had fun rebuilding Jeff ’s
know because it was broken in
many diff erent spots, but aft er
many hours of basically putting
the “pieces of the puzzle” back
together he got it done. He told
me Jeff needed to go back into
surgery for his arm yet, but that
would be to much surgery for
him in one day. So, his fellow
surgeon would take Jeff back
into surgery tomorrow. To-
morrow rolled around, he went
into surgery for his arm and all
went well.
He spent fi ve days in the
hospital. Th ey HIGHLY recom-
mended Jeff go to a rehab facil-
ity for at least 30 days for fur-
ther treatment and around the
clock care. With the worldwide
pandemic going on right now
and the president stating that
healthcare facilities are one of
the most dangerous places to be
right now Jeff did not feel com-
fortable going into a facility like
that. His doctors agreed with
him that he would be a dead
man if he would get COVID-19
because of how broken his body
is and because his immune sys-
tem is now compromised. So,
aft er he put up a fi ght and got
every-thing fi gured out for him
to come home, one of my good
friends here in Florence gave
me a ride to Eugene Tuesday,
March 31st to pick him up.
I cannot explain to you guys
how great it was to hug him
and kiss his face! We had to sop
and pick up his wheelchair and
commode then we were home-
ward bound.
We got home, which is an
RV we just bought and moved
into four days before the acci-
dent, and got him comfortable,
he was fi nally able to give me de-
tails that I had been wanting, of
how the accident happened…
For anyone who doesn’t know
Hwy. 126 (Eugene to Florence)
it is a very curvy road in some
spots through the mountains
and it was a foggy morning. He
had already pulled over to allow
traffi c to pass him, as they were
fl ying up on him, he didn’t want
to go any faster than he already
was. He said something caught
his eye on his passenger side, so
he looked, and by the time he
looked up out of the windshield
his driver’s side tire was already
hitting the gravel on the other
side of the road and he was be-
ing sucked into the ditch. He hit
a tree head on at 55-60 mph. He
said it happened so fast that he
had no time to hit the brakes,
and all he could do was brace
himself. He was not wearing his
seatbelt, but with how strong he
is and the way he braced his up-
per body he didn’t move from
his seat. He told me he couldn’t
feel any pain at the time but
could see the bone sticking out
of his knew and steady fl ow of
blood. Come to fi nd out, he al-
most bled out at the scene. He
was not under the infl uence of
any drugs or alcohol. For un-
known reasons he got a ticket
for not having a valid driver’s
license. Th is doesn’t make sense
to either of us especially since
we had police contact a few
days prior while being told we
had to leave the national park
due to COVID-19. Unfortu-
nately, since he doesn’t hold a
valid license (which he is going
to fi ght in court) the car insur-
ance won’t cover anything. We
just recently had work done on
the car but still needed to get
some of the front end fi xed.
Jeff is unsure if something was
broke and that’s why he ended
up on the other side of the road.
Th e fi rst couple days of
being home were challenging.
He had to learn the best way to
do certain things and what was
the most comfortable for him
and how we were going to set
his area up. Within four days
he had accomplished so much
including a TANF and SSDI ap-
pointment, his in-home phys-
ical therapy and even helped
me get his little corner set up
just the way he likes it! Since
then he has continued to do his
FaceTime physical therapy (due
to COVID-19) and gets stron-
ger by the day!
We are extremely grateful
he made it out of the crash alive.
We are also forever grateful to
Breonna (for all the help, sup-
port and ride), the paramedics,
all of the nursing and medical
staff , both of his orthopedic
surgeons, his primary physician
(she has been amazing though
all of this) and everyone else for
all of the well wishes.
We have exhausted all of
our funds and our savings. Jeff
even got a credit card that we’ve
already maxed out.
We are a family new to
Florence, we moved from Wis-
consin and came to the coast at
the end of August 2019. We are
reaching out to our new loved
community for help and sup-
port through this tragic time,
since So I made a gofundme
page for Jeff , it’s called #Jeff rey-
Strong if anyone is interested in
donating to our cause, or you
can contact me personally at
(920)579-4635. Th ank you to
everybody who took the time to
read our story, who has donat-
ed already, and to anyone who
is kind and generous enough
to donate. God bless each and
every one of you.
Respectfully,
Brittany Mulholland