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. The fi nancial sharks,
whose antennae were carefully
tuned to spot that kind of thing,
Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A
Preventing osteoporosis with excellent nutrition
BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD
For the Sentinel
B
one health is directly
linked to nutrition. Cer-
tain foods promote breakdown
of bone and osteoporosis. Other
foods, such as fruits and vegeta-
bles, supply your body with the
nutrients necessary to build and
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