SIUSLAW NEWS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020 | 3A
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Donate bottles, cans Jackpot hits at Three Rivers in Florence
to Habitat today
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Is your storage being
overtaken by empty bottles
and cans? Help the envi-
ronment while supporting
Florence Habitat for Hu-
manity.
Donations will go to-
ward assisting Florence
Habitat for Humanity pur-
chase a new delivery truck.
Florence Habitat is host-
ing its next bottle and can
drive on Saturday, Aug.
1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
This is a social distancing
drive-thru event.
People can bring return-
able bottles and cans that
they wish to donate to the
parking lot at Habitat Re-
Store, 2016 Highway 101.
Volunteers will be on hand
to unload them from your
vehicle.
For more information
about Florence Habitat for
Humanity, visit www.flor-
encehabitat.org.
n July 24, Three Rivers Casino
Resort, 5647 Highway 126 in Flor-
ence, was the site of a $36,376 jack-
pot — a bright spot in the midst of
COVID-19.
The big winner, Sheldon P., hit the
big one at about 11:30 p.m. He had
driven over to the coast with his wife to
beat the heat in Eugene.
Sheldon had been playing for a few
hours and was down to about $20 when
he decided to try his luck at the Tarzan
slot machine. On his second pull, he
hit the Progressive “Grand” jackpot for
$36,276.00.
“We love to see our guests hit these
big jackpots, it’s really exciting for ev-
eryone,” said Rich Colton, Three Rivers
Casino Marketing Director. “And we
have had almost 10 jackpots like this
throughout the years.”
This is the biggest jackpot Sheldon
has won. Previously, his largest win
was for $3,500. As someone affected by
COVID-19, the timing was perfect.
Progressive slot machines are a
network of machines connected elec-
tronically throughout the West Coast
which accumulate a percentage of the
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play on all the machines, allowing for
mega payoffs not possible on just one
machine.
Three Rivers has had many of these
large jackpots hit in the past. Previous
payoffs have been $1,325,180 in 2005;
$855,769 in 2008; $5.2 million in 2009;
$1,078,050 in 2009; $437,737 in 2010;
$1,199,337 in 2012; and $107,529 in
2018.
Three Rivers opened as a casino-on-
ly facility in 2004 and was expanded
into a full service resort, including the
adjoining hotel, in 2007. Owned and
operated by the Confederated Tribes
of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siu-
slaw Indians, Three Rivers Casino Re-
sort has strong ties to the communities
along the Central Oregon Coast.
Visit online at threeriverscasino.com.
Organic Sweet Two free workshops support adapting businesses
BERRIES!
Florence Area Chamber
of Commerce continues to
offer important informa-
tion to help businesses car-
ry on under the uncertain
times of COVID-19. The
following two workshops
are both free and both rec-
ommended by the chamber
in its weekly “Chamber
Blast.”
florencefarmersmarket.org
OCHS
Oregon Coast
Humane Society
Treasures
Household
Goods
Ant
“Keeping You and Your
Employees Safe While
Offering Tours and
Services”
Tuesday, Aug. 4,
from 4 to 5:15 p.m.
Join Travel Oregon and
Oregon’s professional tour
operators, guides and out-
fitters for an online forum.
The free event will start
with a succinct technical
education session followed
by questions and small
group breakout discus-
sions.
The speaker is Fabio Rai-
mo de Oliveira from Ad-
venture Travel Trade As-
sociation (ATTA). He will
cover effective approaches
specific to COVID-19 for
sanitation, operations, and
guest communication.
Following the technical
presentation, participants
will talk in small virtual
groups to discuss how to
integrate the ideas shared
in the presentation and
explore with industry part-
ners what protocols are and
are not currently working.
This forum is part of a
short series of Tour Op-
erator, Guide & Outfit-
ter Online Forums being
developed and hosted by
Travel Oregon. Visit indus-
try.traveloregon.com/op-
portunities to learn more
about this series and other
resources for businesses.
“Remote Workers & the
Rise of the Main Street”
Wednesday, Aug. 5
from 1 to 2 p.m.
As part of Pacific North-
West Economic Region’s
“Innovating Our Way Out
of a Crisis” webinar series,
this panel will feature three
smaller towns in the PNW
and highlight how they are
positioning to grow in the
emerging new economy
by levering their incum-
bent capabilities, strategic
planning and welcoming
remote workers.
COVID-19 has dispro-
portionately affected ur-
ban cores of cities due to
population density, shared
resources, and the diffi-
culty of minimizing per-
son-to-person spread. Ad-
ditionally, it has introduced
millions of workers to tools
for remote productivity. If
managed and planned for
effectively, this could spark
a golden age for small and
medium sized cities.
During the panel, discus-
sion will touch on broad-
band requirements, inclu-
sive growth and virtual
agglomeration.
For more information,
visit www.pnwer.org.
For more information
about the Florence Area
Chamber of Commerce,
visit florencechamber.com
or 290 Highway 101.
Online reporting form urged for filing COVID-19 complaints with OSHA
iqu
es
2 Weekends!!!
Friday July 24th & Saturday July 25th
9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the OCHS Annex
4981 HWY 101 in Florence!
Friday July 31st & Saturday August 1st
9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the OCHS Thriftshop
1193 Bay St. in Old Town Florence!
Masks will be required. Admittance will be controlled per COVID protocols.
As Oregon Occupa-
tional Safety and Health
Administration
(OSHA)
continues to process and
evaluate complaints related
to COVID-19, the division
encourages workers and
members of the public to
use its online workplace
Visit us on the web
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hazard reporting form at
osha.oregon.gov/workers/
Pages/index.aspx.
While people may still
call the division with com-
plaints, the online report-
ing form offers a quicker
way to bring concerns to
the division’s attention.
Oregon OSHA, a divi-
sion of the Department of
Consumer and Business
Services, enforces the state’s
workplace safety and health
rules and works to improve
workplace safety and health
for all Oregon workers. For
more information, visit
osha.oregon.gov.
The Department of Con-
sumer and Business Ser-
vices is Oregon’s largest
business regulatory and
consumer protection agen-
cy.
For more information, go
to www.dcbs.oregon.gov.
KXCR radio station seeks additional committee members
KXCR 90.7 FM Commu-
nity Radio of Florence is
seeking community mem-
bers to volunteer on stand-
ing committees.
“There are several open-
ings on committees to help
run our stations effectively,”
said KXCR Board of Direc-
tors Vice-President Michael
J. Kello.
Committees include pro-
duction/engineering,
fi-
nance, events, membership
engagement and communi-
ty advisory board.
All committees work di-
rectly with the station’s board
of directors and have an op-
portunity to steer the radio
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Interested parties may
send an email with your
interest and experience to
admin@kxcr.net or call the
station at 541-997-5252.
The committees will start
meeting in September.
For more info, visit www.
kxcr.net.
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Health is our #1 Priority!
At Shervin’s we are taking extra precaution in order to ensure that our customers and staff are kept safe
and healthy during this quickly changing situation.
1 Car Sanitation – All cars are wiped down with a sanitizer before and aft er the service. We wipe down
any areas in the interior where employees have touched, such as door handles, the steering wheel, keys,
shift ers and power window panels.
2 Hand Sanitation- Our staff will continue to wash their hands throughout the day and change gloves
aft er each car they service.
3 Give Customers Options- We will pick up and deliver your vehicle to your home. You may also drop
your key in our secure mailbox for drop-off s to avoid or minimize contact.
4 Employee Illness is Serious- We are encouraging employees
not to shake hands. We are practicing “personal distancing” and
encouraging employees to stay home if they feel under the weather.
5 Wipe Down High Touch Points- We wipe/spray counters, credit
card machines, door handles, phone handles, kitchen areas, and
chair arms and tables in waiting area multiple times a day.
We continue to be focused and committed to working with each
of you to ensure we continue to meet and exceed your expecta-
tions. We are here for you. 
We thank you for your business and more importantly, your
friendship. Please be safe and exercise extra precaution during this
challenging time.