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Best places for local
warmwater fishing:
• Mercer and Munsel lakes
(Florence area) are great warm
water fisheries and both of them
have stocked trout as well, good
place to target both species in
one trip
• Siltcoos and Tahkenitch
lakes (Florence area) both offer
good warmwater fishing oppor-
tunites as well as good trout fish-
ing for stocked trout and resi-
dent cutthroat.
Fishing
SIUSLAW RIVER: Cutthroat
trout:
Trout fishing opened in the
Siuslaw basin (including Lake
Creek) on May 22 and has great
opportunities to catch a trout
throughout the summer months.
ALSEA RIVER: Cutthroat
trout
Cutthorat trout fishing opened
May 22 on the Alsea River and
trout fishing has been good
throughout the basin. The higher
water and cooler temperatures
have created great spring/early
summer conditions for trout
fishing and will provide good
opportunities through the sum-
mer months.
SALMON RIVER: Cutthroat
trout
Cutthroat trout fishing opened
on the Salmon River on May 22.
Good cutthroat fishing can be
See
FISHING 3B
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
July 11
4:39am / 5.5
5:56pm/ 6.0
11:15am/ 0.6
July 12
5:39pm / 4.9
6:38pm / 6.1
12:12am / 2.2
11:57pm / 1.2
July 13
6:48am / 4.5
7:21pm / 6.2
1:16am / 1.9
12:43pm / 1.8
July 14
8:06am / 4.3
8:05pm / 6.4
2:18am / 1.5
1:35pm / 2.3
JARED ANDERSON/FOR SIUSLAW NEWS
City Lights owners Michael Falter and Susan Tive welcomed moviegoers back to the theater yesterday with a new layout.
Turning the ‘City Lights’ back on
City Lights Cinemas re-opened yesterday with a new look and new focus
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
“T
he craziest thing happened, I
spent eight hours here one
weekend, by myself, just wan-
dering around the movie theater looking
at projects,” City Lights co-owner Michael
Falter said. “And I got excited. I haven’t
been excited for a long time.”
While the pandemic and resulting
restrictions have caused movie theaters
across the nation to question their future,
Falter, along with his wife Susan Tive,
used the shutdown as a way to rethink
what a movie theater experience can be.
Instead of a packed multiplex where
strangers sit shoulder to shoulder, they
opted for the theater to be a more com-
fortable, personal experience.
They used the shutdown time to do a
large remodel, taking out rows of seats
and replacing them with counters and
footrests. The smaller, uncomfortable
seats were taken out, and the lobby was
reworked to be more accommodating for
its patrons.
As City Lights Cinemas prepares to
have its grand reopening this Friday, July
10, residents will be met with a more
modern and streamlined experience.
“In the last six years I haven’t been able
to do a lot of these things because we
have a movie starting,” Falter said. “Once
you’re in the business, it’s hard to say,
‘Let’s just close theater four for a week.’ So
this, while not a financially rewarding
period in my life, was an opportunity to
do stuff that will be better for the theater
and better for Florence.”
When the theater was forced to close
four months ago, Falter attempted to
recoup his losses through virtual cinema
— online pay-per-view releases of a vari-
ety of independent films.
“’I’m not a huge fan, and neither are
the people of Florence,” Falter said. “It’s a
technological hurdle to get a film from
See
THEATER 2B
COURTESY PHOTOS
City Lights’
news theater
layout offers
wider aisles
and
individual
tables as part
of its social
distancing
design
(above). In
addition, the
concession
area has been
modified to
meet health
guidelines
and
streamline
ticket
purchasing.
Oregon DMV now offering new online services
July 15
9:23am / 4.4
8:49pm / 6.6
3:16am / 1.0
2:31pm / 2.7
July 16
10:30am / 4.7
9:34pm / 6.8
4:06am / 0.4
3:28pm / 3.0
July 17
11:24am / 5.0
10:18pm/ 7.1
4:52am/ -0.1
4:21pm/ 3.1
Oregon DMV completed a
multi-year project to replace
its computer systems this
past Monday, July 6.
The replacement is part of
the broader DMV Service
Transformation Program —
a 10-year, $90 million invest-
ment in the future of DMV.
Replacing antiquated tech-
nology, originally installed
in the 1960s and ’70s, was
the first step in DMV’s effort
to expand online services
and explore other modern
improvements to the way it
does business.
“This is a major achieve-
ment for our agency and the
people who work for DMV.
Not many IT projects of this
breadth and complexity can
claim the success that we’ve
accomplished,” said DMV
Administrator Tom McClel-
lan. “Like any successful ven-
ture it comes down to careful
planning, a laser focus on
your goal and a dedication to
seeing it through to comple-
tion. I am incredibly proud
of the work of our staff, and
the partnership with our
vendors to make this re-
placement happen on time
and on budget.”
The initial phase replaced
the vehicle-related systems
in January 2019 and intro-
duced a new online services
site — DMV2U. Online ve-
hicle transactions included
replacing or ordering new
plates, an ability to check
custom plate availability, or-
dering trip and sno-park
See
DMV 2B
T IME
O UT
By Lloyd Little
Retired teacher, coach and
game offi cial
Hall of Fame
(Part 10)
John Reisner
John Reisner is not in the
HOF for his athletics; he is
See
LITTLE 3B