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Autumn Festival to kick off fall in Mapleton today
Blissful Seasons presents the
Autumn Festival in Mapleton
on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. at 10650 Highway
101, the former Champion and
Davidson’s Mill site.
There will be a Chili Cook
Off, so people are encouraged
to get their best chili recipe and
cook up a pot of their finest.
Rules: Registration required,
must make six quarts minimum
and must bring your own pro-
pane cooker. No fee for entry,
but tickets will be sold of tast-
ings of the Taster’s Choice Chili.
There will be three judges
who will award a first, second
and third place award, along
with a Taster’s Choice Award.
Amy Ogden Clawson will
emcee the event, and will hope-
fully will sing a song or two.
There will be live music. Rob-
bie Dee Woody will play her
violin. Sydney Crapser and his
band “SYDNEY” will play blues
and rock. The Johnny Kallas
Band will play original songs.
There will also be a flag cer-
emony to honor our past and
present veterans and military
and a moment to honor Ameri-
ca the Beautiful.
At the Autumn Festival,
the community will find food
trucks and vendors, 4H and a
variety of small animals, the
Oregon State University Exten-
sion Service and Lane County
Sheriff ’s Office emergency ve-
hicles on display. Siuslaw Valley
Fire Marshal Tony Miller will
be present to kick off National
Fire Prevention week, which
starts Oct. 3.
In addition, there will be
multiple car clubs showing off
their cool cars. This incldes Or-
egon Coast Hot Rods, Cascade
Corvette Club and more.
Finally, Oregon State Rep.
Boomer Wright, and former
Mapleton educator, will top off
the event with one of his fa-
mous pep talks — as any of his
past students will remember.
For more information, call
541-999-9254.
Lane County declares second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The Board of County Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
“In spite of what many
Commissioners voted to
declare the second Mon- of us were taught as chil-
day in each October as dren, Christopher Co-
We are open and
ready to assist you!
lumbus did not ‘discover’
the Americas. There were
thriving and vibrant In-
digenous cultures across
this continent long before
Europeans arrived,” said
Board Chair Joe Berney.
“This declaration is one
step toward recogniz-
ing the many contribu-
tions Indigenous people
have made to our com-
munity, particularly the
Kalapuya peoples whose
traditional homeland is
where Lane County now
stands.”
in part, as follows: “Lane
County shall utilize the
second Monday in Oc-
tober as an opportunity
to reflect upon the ongo-
ing struggles of Indige-
nous people of this land,
to celebrate the thriving
cultures and values of the
Indigenous Peoples of
our region, and to stand
in solidarity with Indige-
nous peoples elsewhere.”
The concept of Indig-
enous Peoples’ Day was
first proposed in 1977
by a delegation of Native
In Western Lane Coun-
ty, the native peoples are
the Siuslaw, which are
part of the Confederat-
ed Tribes of Coos, Lower
Umpqua and Siuslaw In-
dians.
The declaration was
brought forward at the
request of the Board of
County Commissioners
and was drafted with help
from Indigenous commu-
nity leaders and others
who have worked on sim-
ilar efforts in the past.
The declaration reads,
Nations at the United
Nations-sponsored Inter-
national Conference on
Discrimination Against
Indigenous Populations
in the Americas.
Lane County joins the
cities of Springfield, Eu-
gene, Corvallis, Portland,
the State of Oregon and
others in recognizing
Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
For more information
contact Devon Ashbridge,
public information offi-
cer, at 541-682-4526 or
visit lanecounty.org.
‘We Care’ campaign continues to support health care workers
Johnston Motor Company
Since 1939
2150 Hwy. 101 • Florence
(541) 997-3475 • 1-800-348-3475
The “We Care” cam-
paign, organized by Flor-
ence Indivisible, has deliv-
ered kits of snacks, drinks
and notes of support and
encouragement to health-
care workers at Peace-
Health Peace Harbor every
week in September. The
support and donations
from the local community
has been so amazing that
the campaign will extend
the delivery of “We Care”
kits through the month of
October.
“The ‘We Care’ project
began when we recognized
that Healthcare workers
Huge Contractor, Fishing,
Moving Sale
Sat-Sun, Oct. 2-3
9am-3pm Rain or Shine
83548 Salal Street, Dunes City
Large number of stationery & hand
power tools, hand tools, hardware
and supplies, woodworking and
cabinetry tools and hardware, large
heavy work bench, lots of fi shing,
crabbing and boating gear, and
much more!
were being overwhelmed
and working long hours
with a rise in COVID cases
and hospitalizations,” said
Beverly Sherrill, Florence
Indivisible Group Lead-
er. “The idea to support
our health care workers
came about as a way to
show health care workers
who are working so hard
to keep us all alive that we
care.”
In addition, the “We
Care” campaign includes
encouraging residents to
get vaccinated, practice
social distancing and wear
a mask in addition to pro-
viding healthcare workers
at Peace Harbor “thank
you” gifts from the com-
munity. For more informa-
tion on vaccination clinics
in the area, people can
go to siuslawvision.org/
covid19/
Donations to “We Care”
have come from individ-
uals as well as support
from the Florence Unitar-
ian Universalist Fellowship
(FUUF) church, with do-
nations to fill two of the 21
baskets delivered weekly,
and Silver Lining Boutique
donated trays of snacks
and treats that supplied the
kits for one of the weeks.
Donations of wrapped
snack items, drinks and
notes of encouragement
for the “We Care” kits will
be accepted at Silver Lin-
ing Boutique at 2217 High-
way 101 and BeauxArts at
2285 Highway 101 Suite H.
This initiative has grown
statewide to include “We
Care” projects in The
Dalles, Hood River, Sea-
side, Astoria, Portland
and more in development.
More information and a
tool kit is available from
the Consolidated Ore-
gon Indivisible Network
(COIN), which includes
Florence Indivisible and 50
other Indivisible groups in
Oregon — all local organi-
zations that promote grass-
roots activism through or-
ganizing and taking action
for advocacy and electoral
work.
For more information,
contact Sherrill at floren-
ceindivisible@gmail.com
and 541-980-3090.
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