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FPD and Tribal contract, Public Works projects, proclamation on climate change among disucssion items.
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
The Florence City Council met
on Monday, July 20, for both a 10:30
a.m. work session and a scheduled
evening meeting at 5:30 p.m. There
were a number of substantive is-
sues discussed and decided upon,
including infrastructure improve-
ments, sign-code amendments,
the future relationship between the
Florence Police Department (FPD)
and the Confederated Tribes of
Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw
Indians, and an update to the city’s
fee structure.
“I want to talk a little about the
history of these proclamations and the
Both meetings were
held via teleconference
and new upgrades to the
city’s technological plat-
form — made to allow
for more inclusive public
input at publicly man-
dated meetings — were
used for the first time to
receive live comments
from the public since the
pandemic struck.
Councilors first heard from Flor-
ence Area Chamber of Commerce
Chairman of the Board, Neil Ecker,
for the organization’s annual recap
of the work it has done for the city.
visitors to the Visi-
tor Center in 2018-19,
which was reopened to
limited walk-in service
on July 7.
The “positive working
relationship” between
Travel Lane County and
the Chamber was ex-
tolled by Ecker, as was
the job being done by
newly designated Chief Executive
Officer of the Chamber, Bettina
Hannigan.
Ecker pointed to what he called
authority that lies behind them...”
— Florence Mayor Joe Henry
Ecker shared data which showed
a marked increase in digital traffic
to the Chamber’s website, hosting
more than 64,600 new users and
158,000-page views in the past 12
months. Ecker’s report also stated
that there were more than 10,000
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purchase new children’s books
from First Book, a nonprofit
organization that sells books to
Title I schools.
Helping with Saturday’s event
were daughter Kaylee, husband
Tod, along with Tami Worley
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ganizer of this year’s Power of
Florence event. “However, even
if they are at home doing dis-
tance learning part of the time,
many will lose access to chil-
dren’s books because they have
few or none in their home.”
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year’s event collected gently
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ith the uncertainty
of what school will
look like this fall, the
10th annual Power of Florence
focused on assuring area kids
have access to books at home.
“At school, they have access
to hundreds of book titles in
their reading level to help them
learn to read and learn to love
reading,” said Shannon McCor-
mick-Graham, a teacher in the
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This past Saturday, the Power of Florence celebrated its 10th anniversary by collecting children’s
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Local community radio
station KXCR recently an-
nounced the station has
added Michael J. Kello to
the organizations manage-
ment team as its new vice
president.
Kello has been a Board
Member of the nonprofit
radio station since last year
and also serves on the Board
of Directors of the Oregon
Coast Humane Society.
“I’m humbled by the
board’s approval and abso-
lutely excited by the oppor-
tunity to continue the great
work of KXCR, increasing
its presence on the Oregon
coast and online, while pro-
viding our listeners with
thought-provoking
and
entertaining programming
for decades to come,” Kello
said. “We have an incred-
ibly engaged group of vol-
unteers and Board of Direc-
tors. Florence is very lucky
to have KXCR and the sta-
tion and I are blessed to call
Florence home.”
The ongoing changes at
KXCR consist of more than
just the addition of Kello
they extend to the produc-
tion capacity of the station
and also to its future plans
for expansion of a more var-
ied selection of program-
ming offerings.
Recent technical up-
grades to the station’s equip-
ment and computers have
allowed them to stream
programs and to have a
more interactive website for
potential listeners to view.
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