SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021 | 3A
Community News
Artists get grant to help show they ‘CARE’
F
lorence Regional Arts
Alliance (FRAA) has
been awarded a grant of
$2,500 toward its project
Art CARE (Community
Artists Reaching Elderly).
The funds will be used to
make accessible art, writ-
ing, music and poetry to
the aging population in
area facilities.
The funding is provid-
ed by the Oregon Cultural
Trust in conjunction with
the Lane County Cultur-
al Coalition. Lane Coun-
ty Coalition is funding 15
projects for the 2021 cal-
endar year for a total of
$35,904.30.
CARE’s goals include in-
creasing health, emotion-
al well-being and morale;
prolonging independence;
and decreasing feelings of
isolation. Grant funds will
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be used to engage seniors
in three local assisted living
facilities.
Also, as part of the grant,
a TV and Chromebook
were delivered to Spruce
Point Assisted Living to en-
able them to enjoy the art
videos supplied. The first
video was created by Na-
than Pfaff, a FRAA Youth
Board Member. He pre-
sented a Zentangle project,
and residents then enjoyed
making their own book-
marks.
While the grant is for
2021, FRAA has already
been working closely with
Spruce Point, Regency
Florence and New Friends
Memory and Residential
Care of Florence to deliver
homemade cards.
The goal is to help them
through their current iso-
Book Review
“Hieroglyphics”
by Jill McCorkle
Lil and Frank married
young, launched into court-
ship when they bonded over
how they both — suddenly,
tragically — lost a parent
when they were children.
Over time, their marriage
grew and strengthened,
with each still wishing for
so much more understand-
ing of the parents they’d lost
prematurely.
Now, after many years in
Boston, they’ve retired to
North Carolina. There, Lil,
determined to leave a his-
tory for their children, sifts
through letters and notes
A Spruce Point resident shows one of the 150 cards
and gifts provided through the FRAA Art CARE pro-
gram in December.
and diary entries — perhaps
revealing more secrets than
Frank wants their children
to know.
Meanwhile, Frank has
become obsessed with what
might have been left behind
at the house he lived in as a
boy on the outskirts of town,
where a young single moth-
er, Shelley, is just trying to
raise her son with some
sense of normalcy. Frank’s
repeated visits to Shel-
ley’s house begin to trigger
memories of her own family,
memories that she’d hoped
to keep buried. Because,
after all, not all parents are
ones you wish to remember.
“Hieroglyphics” reveals
the difficulty of ever really
knowing the intentions and
dreams and secrets of the
people who raised you. In
her deeply layered and mas-
terful novel, Jill McCorkle
deconstructs and recon-
structs what it means to be
a child piecing together the
world around us, a child
learning to make sense of
the hieroglyphics of history
and memory.
Hiking Book Author
Sullivan to Speak
Author William Sullivan,
famed for his Oregon hiking
books, will speak this Satur-
day, Jan. 30, at 2 p.m., about
his latest, a beautiful photo-
lation and let them know
they are in our thoughts.
Kellie Daugherty, Life
Enhancement
Director
at Spruce Point wrote a
thank you to FRAA for the
Thanksgiving card deliver-
ies.
“We put them at each
resident’s place setting for
their Thanksgiving meal. It
meant so much to them and
it took some of the loneli-
ness away. Please thank all
the wonderful artists who
continue to bless us with
their work,” she said.
For the Christmas holi-
days, FRAA delivered 150
cards and hand-crocheted
snowflakes to the senior
centers.
FRAA extends special
thanks to BeauxArts Fine
Art Materials & Gallery for
offering FRAA a great dis-
count to acquire the needed
art supplies. Additionally,
many individuals — artists,
musicians and poets — will
be donating their time in
2021.
As FRAA member Kris-
tin Anderson said, “FRAA
is so appreciative of all the
artists who continue to do-
nate their supplies and time
to make this outreach hap-
pen.”
For more information
about FRAA, visit 120
Maple St. in Historic Old
Town Florence or go to
fraaoregon.org.
graphic coffee table book,
“Hiking Trails of the Pacific
Northwest.”
To participate, on the day
and time of the program,
just visit springfield-or.lib
cal.com/event/7378812 and
then click on the Zoom link.
The Springfield Public
Library is offering virtu-
al, online author programs
that they have invited oth-
er Lane County libraries to
share with their patrons.
These programs are free to
the public but require using
Zoom to participate.
We thank Springfield
Public Library for making
this possible.
Curbside Takeout
Don’t forget that curbside
takeout of books, DVDs,
magazines, and other ma-
terials is available, Monday
through Friday. Call the
library 541-997-3132, be-
tween 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.,
to request materials and
pick them up the next day,
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays.
The library also has one-
day-a-week curbside pickup
in Mapleton, each Thurs-
day, from 3 to 5 p.m. When
ordering books, just make
sure to indicate to send your
items out to the Mapleton
branch.
Lane County pilot project to improve multi-family recycling underway
Fresh with the New Year, agement Division began a seeks to improve the quanti-
Lane County Waste Man- 6-month pilot project that ty and quality of recycling at
apartments, condominiums
and multi-tenant proper-
ties.
Some of the 2,000 house-
holds in the pilot may be
wondering: “Who is that
peeking into garbage and
recycling containers?” It’s
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analyst staff. They are re-
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structions and will provide
a way for residents to collect
their recyclables and trans-
port them to the waste areas
without using plastic bags –
which don’t belong in mixed
recycling.
After giving households
a few weeks to get into new
habits, each waste enclosure
in the pilot will be visited
for a second round of data
collection. Comparing the
results of the two waste
studies will help confirm
the value of the bag as an
effective educational re-
source. A third review of
each waste enclosure this
spring will help determine
whether those new habits
stuck around.
This project is made pos-
sible with grant funding
from The Recycling Part-
nership, a national organi-
zation dedicated to improv-
ing recycling throughout
the country.
“The Recycling Partner-
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ship has a long history of
providing excellent resourc-
es and assistance for curb-
side recycling programs,”
said Sarah Grimm, waste
reduction specialist for
Lane County. “Our plans
were made ten times better
with The Partnership’s in-
volvement. Not only are we
able to provide effective dis-
tribution of the bags as an
education resource for our
multi-family residents, but
we also have the benefit of
The Partnership’s extensive
experience in data collec-
tion and analysis.”
Providing clear instruc-
tions and signs on contain-
ers has largely been option-
al for cities and property
managers. But in the 2015
legislative session, Oregon
lawmakers voted to require
that such services be in
place starting in 2022. Lane
County is using this study to
ensure efforts are data driv-
en and effective.
“We are pleased to sup-
port Lane County’s efforts
to increase recycling and
decrease contamination at
multi-family
properties,”
said Asami Tanimoto, com-
munity program manager
at The Recycling Partner-
ship. “With the new state
law requiring recycling at
multi-family properties in
place starting next year,
it’s great to see the County
making resources available
for property managers now.
This pilot program will un-
lock valuable recyclables in
multifamily homes that can
be used to create new prod-
ucts.”
Clear instructions distrib-
uted to residents periodical-
ly and coordinated signage
are often the most effective
tools to keeping the re-
cycling clean and sorted
correctly. Go to www.lane
county.org/multifamily
recycling for free signs and
printed material resources.
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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.
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aft er each car they service.
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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.
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of you to ensure we continue to meet and exceed your expecta-
tions. We are here for you.
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