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SN THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM | WEDNESDAY EDITION | OCTOBER 13, 2021 | $1.00 Protect your personal information and destroy your confidential documents! Community Shred Day! Saturday, October 23 | 10am to 1pm Florence Financial Center 1365 HWY 101 Business owners are asked to please wait to bring materials for shredding until the last hour of the event. Once the shred truck is full, Oregon Pacific Bank will be unable to accept any more documents. We will also be accepting donations for Florence Food Share! Siuslaw News Siuslaw graduate joins local Honor Flight veterans in Washington, D.C. Hometown Honor Siuslaw News NEWS & VIEWS THAT DEFINE OUR COMMUNITY By Chantelle Meyer Siuslaw News Claire Waggoner graduat- ed from Siuslaw High School in 2017, earning in that time multiple titles, including Fu- ture First Citizen of Florence, Queen Rhododendra and Senior Class President. She also made her mark when she united the school district with local veterans with the first Veterans Day Assembly in November 2016. Since then, Waggoner re- ceived her bachelor’s degrees in political science and histo- ry from Oregon State Univer- sity, managed a state senate cam- paign, moved to Washington, D.C., and works for U.S. Rep. Mike Gar- cia of California’s 25th District as a press assistant. She recently wrote the first speech that Garcia read on the House floor. VOL. 131, NO. 82 O CT . 13, 2021 F LORENCE , O REGON WEATHER Rain likely with a high of 56 and a low of 47. Full forecast on A3 COMMUNITY PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY CLAIRE WAGGONER Living in D.C. also gave Waggoner the opportunity Claire Waggoner to connect back home. The was able to serve as first weekend in October, a guardian for the she was able to meet up with South Willamette the South Willamette Val- Valley Honor Flight in ley Honor Flight and Flor- D.C. on Oct. 2 and 3. ence-area veterans as they went on a tour of national memorials and monuments. “I knew the Honor Flight was coming out that week- end. I had applied as a guard- ian right out of high school. … I explained I worked with veterans quite a bit in high school in my hometown, and I would love to be just an ex- tra set of hands on the pickup to drop off because I was already out there,” Waggoner said. She knew some of the local vet- erans, as some attended the same church she did growing up and one is a 1965 Mapleton High School See HONOR page 5A SWC hires director, new staff as it continues work ‘Engaging & empowering families & communities’ By Mark Brennan Siuslaw News The work of restoring damaged natural areas can be difficult and may take more than one season to complete. One of the most suc- cessful organizations in this area at revitalizing degraded locations is the Siuslaw Watershed Council (SWC). Th SWC is seeking to establish a new, redefined role in the wake of the pandemic. It is also engaged in the process of figuring out ways to continue to improve damaged or underperforming areas in the local watershed while operating under different expectations and shifting personnel needs. In light of that, SWC announced a number of staff changes in the past few months. Project Manager and SWC Out- reach Coordinator Tim Moffett joined the staff in August. He will Siuslaw names Homecoming Royals INSIDE — A3 SPORTS Mapleton plays flag football INSIDE — B RECORDS Rosemary Pazdral Caleb Mentzer lend his skills and experience to fo- cus on outreach and education. He said the search to fill organi- zational openings was challenging. “We had been searching inter- mittently for an executive director since the early stages of the pan- demic. Mizu Burruss, a longtime project manager with SWC, filled the position in the meantime,” Moffett said. In late September, SWC hired Rosemary Pazdral as the new exec- utive director. Pazdral grew up on the head- Kevin Whittaker Tim Moffett waters of the Siuslaw Rivers and recently completed work on her PhD in water hydrology from the Oregon State University. “I am dedicated to steward- ing land and water in the Oregon Coast Range through community partnership and science-informed management,” Pazdral said. “I have previously worked on multi-stake- holder projects to restore flood- plain hydrologic connectivity, field data collection in remote streams across the Pacific Northwest, See WATERSHED page 6A Obituaries & response logs Inside — A2 Dogs have their day TV GUIDE Inside — B3-B4 KIDS CORNER Activities for kids Inside — B5 Story & Photos By Chantelle Meyer Siuslaw News OCHS teams up with Jordan’s Way for fundraiser CLASSIFIEDS Listings & notices Inside — B6 A national tour visiting every state stopped by Florence on Monday. Or- egon Coast Humane Society (OCHS) hosted Jordan’s Way, a 501(c)(3) ded- icated to sharing meaningful animal welfare stories that inspire people to adopt. According to OCHS Executive Director Elizabeth Thompson, “Jor- dan’s Way actually reached out to us. We were nominated by several peo- ple and rescue groups throughout the country.” OCHS had at least a dozen nom- inations, some of which likely came through another fundraiser Thomp- son organized in August. That event featured Portland-based Moshow FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /S IUSLAW N EWS @S IUSLAW N EWS T HE S IUSLAW N EWS . COM S IUSLAW N EWS 2 S ECTIONS | 20 P AGES C OPYRIGHT 2021 OCHS pets got special treats — often at the expense of people’s dignity — during a special lives- treamed Jordan’s Way fundrais- er on Monday. Kris Rotunda (right, with camera) hosted the event as part of a 50-state tour. The Cat Rapper. “He really put us on the map with people nationwide,” Thompson said. Jordan’s Way has a soft spot for dogs. 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