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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 15, 2015 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Aspiring for greater harmony On the night of Nov. 18, 2014, a poet stood up on stage at the Axe and Fiddle Pub and declared Cottage Grove, Ore- gon as ground zero for creating greater harmony in the community. This declaration was made again in December and also in January. No one stood and said it was a bad idea. No one said we should not be in the business of creating greater harmony in Cottage Grove. So it is a done deal. We are all locked into creating greater harmony in the community because no one protested the idea. A steering committee was formed and it was decided we need to de-cre- ate disharmony fi rst. Trouble spots include cigarette butts, which need to disappear forever. Second, those ve- hicles that have muffl ers above street- noise level are to be addressed. In or- der to comply with the declaration of greater harmony we ask you to put on a quiet muffl er and help us achieve our goal. No more loud muffl ers in Cottage Grove — that is the focus. Older people complain that the noise hurts the ears. We the people of Cottage Grove wish to create greater harmony. We want a clean town and a quiet town. As part of our commitment to great- er harmony we ask all students of Cot- tage Grove to take charge on Earth Day by spending one hour picking up trash and cigarette butts. And may we suggest that we wear multi-colored tops in keeping with and celebrating our Earth. The focus of Earth Day in our town is to create a quiet happy and clean town. Joseph Henry Wilkinson Cottage Grove Beware Scotch Broom Scotch Broom is blooming now at the Mosby Creek Trailhead of Row River Trail. It is one of 11 invasive foreign plants that threaten our woods and pastures. Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius), with yellow, pealike fl ow- ers, is TOXIC to humans, horses and livestock. Please help by removing if from your property. Nolene M. Wheeler A Mosby Creek neighbor LORANE COUNTRY NEWS Talent show dazzles, wrestling team scores high GPA BY LIL THOMPSON For the Sentinel S ome very exciting events are happening at Crow Middle/High School! To begin: two professional ballet dancers started a residency to teach our middle-schoolers Ballet/Cre- ative Dance. They will also present a choreographed end-of-the-year perfor- mance to show their new skills. The CHS Wrestling Team is receiv- ing a special recognition for having the highest team GPA in the state! The next CAL School Board meet- ing is Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Lorane Grange Hall. Crow High School Prom is scheduled for May 2 in Veneta at Deep Woods. Moonlight Masquerade is the theme for this excit- ing evening for the students. The Crow Cougar Drama Class made gambling prevention videos, and two out of three made it to the top fi ve. All eighth-grade parents are asked to attend a meeting on Wednesday, Offbeat Oregon History Pioneering Oregon historian earned recognition but little money BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel B ack in 1867, Elwood Evans, a young law- yer, politician and historian in Washington Territory, started writing a book on the history of Washington’s neighbor to the south — the eight-year-old state of Oregon. Thinking it would be well to get input from some of the still- living people who had shaped Oregon’s history, Evans reached out to some of them, hoping to get better information. One of these people was Jesse Apple- gate, popularly known as the “Sage of Yoncalla,” a key player in the early formation of Or- egon who had since retired to his farm. Applegate was a bit of a fear- some character. He was known for being brusque and blunt, not much given to worries about whether others thought him a nice guy, and unwilling to suffer foolishness lightly. But he was the man to talk to about Oregon territorial history. So Evans sent him a chapter of his book with a request for feedback on it and hoped for the best. Applegate did not much like it. But instead of actually tell- ing Evans why and giving a full critique, he did something that may have surprised Evans: He April 15 at 7 p.m. in the Library to dis- cuss recognition night and the dance. The distinguished service awards host- ed by Crow High School in the gym start at 7 p.m. Mr. Chuck Lutsch will be recognized as teacher of the 2015 school year; Diana Osibov as classifi ed employer of the year and Diana Lassen as volunteer of the year. Come one, come all to the annual Grandparents Tea at Applegate El- ementary on Thursday, April 23. Par- ents, friends and grandparents are encouraged to attend. This will begin at 12:30 with a talent show and other entertainment at 1 p.m. An awards as- sembly will follow. referred the Washington histo- rian to an Oregon competitor. “While I have generally suc- ceeded in escaping from male authors and think I could still fi ght them off, I have been no match for the ladies of the pen,” he wrote. “To one of these I have fallen a helpless victim and surrendered at discretion. I held my own while I kept her at a dis- tance but in one of my letters I inadvertently said “If you want information you must come to me for it.” She took me at my word and in about two weeks she pumped me so dry of histor- ical matter that the stores both of memory and imagination were utterly exhausted — there was nothing I could conceal or withhold from the keen scrutiny of this lady — If you really seek truth, go to her. I cannot object if she now gives you my autobi- ography. The lady is Mrs. Fran- ces Fuller Victor of St. Helens.” The message was pretty clear. Another great book fair arrives at Ap- plegate on April 20 through April 24! The Lorane Celebration 2015 meet- ing has been changed to April 23 at 7 p.m. There was a smaller number of com- munity members attending the RAC/ Lorane Grange Talent Show on Sun- day due to illness and great weather for working outside. Regardless, everyone enjoyed a marvelous array of talent. Out- standing Community Service awards were presented to Lorena Mitchell, Sande Maxwell, Larry Moore and the three Garys in the Grange — Lutman, Morehead and Thompson. Special thank-you awards were presented to But Evans probably received it with a smile. He and Frances Fuller Victor were already good friends, and had been working together — freely exchanging tips and ideas, mostly through letters — for the previous two years. Those two years had been full ones for Frances. A chance remark by her husband’s boss had, in late December of 1864, had set her life’s work in a new direction, and she’d lost little time in going with it. She was going to be an Oregon historian — the Oregon historian. So in spring of ‘65 she stepped onto a riverboat for the fi rst of doz- ens and dozens of voyages of research and discovery around the Beaver State. She stopped in Oregon City to meet with the son-in-law of Dr. John McLoughlin, who gave her copies of some of the “Father of Oregon’s” personal papers. In Albany, she met pio- Charlotte Mitchell, Betty Willoughby and Connie Loveall, and it looks like Moira and Bethany Struthers have got- ten their mother’s (Amy’s) talent for singing! In spite of some great talent, the hit of the afternoon was little three- year-old Lylah Cooper singing every word of the theme from “Frozen!” She sang into the mic, twirled to the music and did a few steps. I think everyone was glad she went last! Hope to see everyone back next year! Lorane Grange spaghetti dinner and bingo is planned for Saturday, April 25 starting at 5:30 p.m. The blackout pot is rising! neer J. Quinn Thornton, with whom she carried on a long- running correspondence over subsequent years. And it was on this fi rst trip that she fi rst visited Jesse Applegate. Two months later, home again, she embarked on her “Colum- biad,” a riverboat journey down to Astoria and then back up to the heads of navigation on the Columbia and Snake rivers, the whole while seeking out, learn- ing from and establishing corre- spondence with local historians and historical fi gures: Joe Meek, Thomas Condon, Harvey Scott. By the late 1860s, she was ready to publish “The River of the West,” the fi rst of several great historical works to come out with her by-line on them. The book was well received, but it made her some powerful enemies. In it, she tackled head- on the myth — the very conve- nient myth, for some — that Dr. Marcus Whitman had “saved Oregon” for the United States by racing back to Washington, D.C., in the winter of 1842, to lobby the president to send set- tlers to the state. This narrative has since been thoroughly dis- credited, but at that time it was a very important part of the be- liefs of several infl uential local churches and missionary societ- ies. It was about this time that the Victors’ marriage started to fail. The problem was, Henry was a bit of an irresponsible and fl ighty man. His fortune made by a bo- nus received for a particularly clever bit of work for the Navy during the war, he immediately got about investing it with that special kind of visionary reck- lessness so characteristic of a fool temporarily endowed with gold. 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