SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 | 7A
KXCR Fireside Chat
contemplates ‘Am I Racist?’
KXCR 90.7 FM contin-
ues to hold weekly Fireside
Chats on Tuesday evenings
at 5 p.m. These are all avail-
able to stream afterwards.
The Aug. 11 chat, entitled
“Am I a Racist?: Recogniz-
ing Unconscious Bias and
the Role of Conflict Resolu-
tion Practices” was moder-
ated by State Sen. Arnie Ro-
blan, who often participates
in KXCR’s Fireside Chats.
According to KXCR,
“Our objective for this
week’s Fireside Chat is to
educate listeners about how
institutional racisms man-
ifests itself in our lives and
systems — and what we’re
doing to combat it.”
Speakers included:
• State Sen. Lew Freder-
ick, representing North and
Northeast Portland in the
Oregon Senate, who offered
written testimony
• Professor Erik Girvan,
University of Oregon Law,
whose academic interests
include civil litigation, con-
flict and dispute resolution,
criminal law, appropriate
dispute resolution, Oregon
Child Advocacy Project and
psychology
• Damon Isiah Turn-
er, consultant with Know
Agenda Consulting and
contractor with the Nation-
al Policy Consensus Center
• Laurel Singer, Executive
Director of the National
Policy Consensus Center
• Manuel Padilla, Project
manager on staff within the
National Policy Consensus
Center.
The Fireside Chats are
streamed live, and available
afterward, on Facebook
at
www.facebook.com/
kxcr90.7. For more infor-
mation, visit www.kxcr.net.
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Florence is recorded as having been
founded in 1875 and the townsite
plotted in 1887 by the late George
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plate of a wrecked British bark, which
was picked on the south beach, prob-
ably by Dave Morse, first white man
in this territory, and for whom the
Morse addition was named.
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Alley’s bill to incorporate Florence
passed the house and was ready for
the governor’s signature. The senator,
known affectionately on the Siuslaw
as Col. Alley, was then editor and
owner of the newspaper The West. It
was with no little difficulty that suf-
ficient signatures had been obtained
from among the male populace to
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in Florence and nightly black outs. The
community went “all in” to support the
war effort by sewing surgical dressings,
donating wastepaper and promoting the
sales of bonds.
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