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In Florence, life's good even if you're not coasting.

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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

FLORENCE - It's no secret: Florence has a healthy contingent of residents enjoying their Golden Years.

This is a place, after all, where the City Council is pondering how to regulate the use of "slow-moving vehicles" (golf carts) on its streets; where oldies music means Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra; and where a full third of the population has soared past age 65 and the vast majority of the rest are 40-plus or minus-20.

Which leaves an oft-neglected minority: Generation X (or Y or Z or Wired or GenNext or MTV, or whatever the latest catchphrase is).

Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with the imbalance. Golfing and waltzing certainly have their place in the world. And if not for grandparents, who would spoil the children?

But there's more to life in Florence than Sunday buffets and bridge. We promise.

Thus, the first-ever Register-Guard Guide to Living in Florence for the Young, Hip and Culturally Aware (or really, any non-AARP member).

We interviewed thousands of experts and combed through millions of documents to bring you the very best entertainment in the greater Siuslaw water- shed.

Our intent, please understand, isn't to offend, but to inform. So, here goes (and any angry calls should go to our bosses, who are much...

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