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Jurors selected for Shell-A-Bration Art Challenge
Community
&
Lifestyle
Backstreet Gallery invites
community members and
artists to take the shell chal-
lenge, Shell-A-Bration, and
create intriguing art from
natural objects.
People can pick up an ap-
plication at Backstreet Gal-
lery, 1421 Bay St. in Historic
Old Town Florence, open
Wednesday through Sunday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The applications are due by
Oct. 15, with the artwork re-
ceived between 9 and 11 a.m.
on Nov. 8. The community
challenge will also be juried.
This week, Backstreet Gal-
lery announced the selec-
tion of artists Rosie Hill, Joni
Goodman-Fox and Charles
Edmunds as jurors in the
community challenge.
Besides being an import-
ant member of the Florence
art community, Hill brings
her varied background to add
Sprucing up the dunes
ODFW REGIONAL
FISHING REPORT
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
NOTE: With the extreme wild-
fire risk this summer, hunters and
anglers should check ahead about
possible closures.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Cutthroat
trout, fall Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing on the
Siuslaw is still slow but starting
to improve and fish are being
caught every day. Most of the
fish are being caught low in the
tidewater areas downstream of
Cushman.
Anglers are reminded that due
to low forecasted returns for the
2020 season bag limits have been
reduced. The bag limit for the
Siuslaw River is 1 wild Chinook
per day and 1 per year for the
2020 season.
Trout fishing opened in the
Siuslaw basin (including Lake
Creek) on May 22 and has great
opportunities to catch a trout
See
FISHING 2B
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
PHOTOS BY MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS
High Tide
Low Tide
Sept. 30
12:17pm / 5.5
6:03am / 0.4
6:22pm / 1.2
Oct. 1
12:16am / 6.8
12:45pm / 6.9
6:34am / 0.6
6:57pm / 0.9
Oct. 2
12:55am / 6.7
1:11pm / 7.0
7:05am / 0.9
7:30pm / 0.7
Oct. 4
1:33am / 6.6
1:36pm / 7.1
7:35am / 1.3
8:04pm / 0.5
Oct. 5
2:11am / 6.4
2:02pm/ 7.1
8:04am/ 1.7
8:39pm/ 0.4
Oct. 6
2:51am / 6.1
2:29pm / 7.0
8:33am / 2.2
9:15pm / 0.5
Oct. 7
3:34am / 5.9
2:57pm / 6.8
9:03am / 2.7
9:56pm / 0.6
More than two dozen volunteers converged at the South Jetty last Saturday as part of a
clean-up event postponed from earlier this summer. The event was hosted by SOLVE and
the Surfrider Foundation.
Community pitches in for beach clean-up
Sustaining
Oregon’s
Legacy by Volunteering,
(SOLVE) was formed in
1969
by
Republican
Governor Tom McCall to
reduce and cleanup litter
and discourage vandalism
across the state.
The first state-wide vol-
unteer Beach Cleanup in
the nation was organized
by SOLVE in 1984.
The success of that and
subsequent clean-ups by
Oregon volunteers spread
as a means of environmen-
tal activism since then to
all 50 states, and to 100
other countries around the
world.
The group was originally
called
Stop
Oregon
Littering and Vandalism
but changed the name after
expanding the scope of its
efforts to include educa-
tion, outreach and sustain-
ability initiatives. SOLVE is
a non-political, nonparti-
san organization that does
See
BEACH 2B
credibility to this jury.
A librarian, teacher and
gallery owner, she owned
Rosie’s Art Carnival paper
crafting store in Florence. As
a mixed-media artist, work-
ing in collage, art journaling
See
ART 2B
VFW Auxiliary
kicks off patriotic
art contest
Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW) Auxiliary #3232 in
Florence has announced
the kick-off of the VFW’s
annual Young American
Creative Patriotic Art Con-
test.
Local students in grades
9-12 have the opportunity
to compete for $31,500 in
national scholarships.
Students must submit an
original 2- or 3-dimension-
al piece of artwork.
Digital art, photography
and jewelry are not accept-
ed.
The entry must be com-
pleted during the current
2020-21 schoolyear, and
the application must in-
clude a teacher or supervis-
ing adult’s signature.
Students begin by com-
peting at the local VFW
Auxiliary level.
The first-place winner
from each post advances to
district competition, with
district winners advancing
to the state competition.
State first-place winners
compete for their share of
$31,500 in national awards.
The national first-place
winner will be awarded a
$15,000 scholarship.
In addition, national
first- through 10th-place
winners are featured in
VFW Auxiliary Magazine
and at vfwauxiliary.org. All
state winning entries will
be held and displayed and
judged at the VFW Auxil-
iary National Convention
that will take place July 31
to Aug. 5, 2021, in Balti-
more, Md.
VFW Auxiliary started
the Young American Cre-
ative Patriotic Art Contest
in 1979 to recognize up-
and-coming artists and
encourage patriotism in
youth.
Approximately 4,000 stu-
dents participate each year.
In addition to $31,500 in
national scholarships, lo-
cal and state VFW auxilia-
ries throughout the nation
award more than $150,000
in Patriotic Art scholar-
ships every year.
Student entries must be
submitted to VFW Auxilia-
ry #3232 by March 31, 2021.
Interested students, parents
and teachers should contact
Sue Miller at 541-991-3841
or suezqmil-ler51@gmail.
com for more information.
To download an applica-
tion and see the 2020 win-
ners, visit vfwauxiliary.org/
scholarships.
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