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Small towns celebrate the season
By TOM WOLFE
Of the Emerald
About once a year small-town America struggles to its feet, dusts
itself off and puts on a show.
Quebec can have a snowfest in December and Louisiana can have
a Mardi Gras in February, but in Oregon there’s only one time to
celebrate — SUMMER.
Besides giving people a reason to kick back and close up shop,
frontier town festivals served as a stage for intense competitions to
attract settlers, businesses and railroads..
Citizens got caught up in the mania, and, in a spirit of one-up
manship, made the festivals longer and more imaginative every year.
What remains in the Eugene area is a hodge-podge of rodeos, fairs
and festivals honoring everything from the ugliest dog in town to the
spawning of smelt:
July 2-3: Yoncalla’s 32nd Amateur Rodeo is free and open to the
public. Events are scheduled Monday and Tuesday at Scotts Valley
Road grounds south of town. Dances are scheduled Sunday and Mon
day nights and a parade and queen selection is planned Tuesday.
July 4: In addition to their own festivals, most towns have some
thing special planned for Independence Day. The Eugene Active 20/30
Club will again sponsor a fireworks display at Autzen Stadium. Admis
sion is free but donations are solicited to help pay for the group’s child
welfare projects.
Harrisburg, about 15 miles north of Eugene, will celebrate an
Old-Fashioned July Fourth with a dance the night before, dog and
pony acts on the holiday and fireworks over the Willamette River in the
evening.
July 8: Yachats will sponsor a Smelt Fry — all the golden-brown
crisp fried smelt you can eat, plus trimmings, at the Yachats Grade
School. About 1,000 smelt dinners are served by the Yachats Chamber
of Commerce. The smelt spawn on the coarse black beach sand near
the town in early summer.
July 13-16: Cottage Grove spends this week with two concurrent
festivals, Bohemia Mining Days and the Cottage Grove Amateur
Rodeo. Home of the ugly dog contest, Cottage Grove will have two
parades, a childrens’ parade Friday and a second, larger one Saturday.
Bluegrass and gospel music bands are also scheduled, as is a
13-mile footrace, a photo contest, a muzzle-loading shooting competi
tion and booths and show at the abandoned mill south of town on
Highway 101, in Main Street city park and other locations.
The rodeo, July 14 and 15, will include bull-riding, saddle bronc
riding, calf and team roping at the rodeo grounds south of Cottage
Grove on Highway 99.
July 16: The Creswell Air Fair is a revival of the event discontinued
in 1971. It features aerobatics, antique aircraft displays, skydiving,
gyrocopter flights, military and agricultural fly-bys, spot landings, flour
sack bombing, model airplane demonstrations and other aviation ac
tivities. The fair is located north of Creswell and east of Interstate 5.
Admission is charged.
August 4-6: Elmira and Veneta cooperate to sponsor the
Applegate Trail Days to honor the Applegate Trail into the Willamette
Valley opened by Jesse Applegate in 1846. The program features
pioneer activities such as a black powder shoot and threshing demon
strations.
August 10-13: Junction City residents celebrate the heritage of
many of the town's settlers who came from Denmark, Norway, Sweden
and Finland, during its Scandinavian Festival.
Four days are devoted to the food, dancing, music and costumes of
the homeland nations. Free bus tours, craft booths, art exhibits, a
traditional dinner and a beer garden will highlight each day.
August 25-27: Cottage Grove gets back into the festival spirit this
week for its Western Oregon Exposition, featuring a livestock auction,
log-bucking, arm-wrestling and all types of agricultural exhibits, crafts,
booths, games, rides and horses next to the Riverside Speedway, just
north of Cottage Grove on Highway 99. Admission is fr, e.
August 25-27: This week the small metropolis of Coburg celebrates
its Golden Days of 1906 when the town officially became a city. Since
that time Coburg has added only 240 residents but still finds reason to
enjoy horse shoe pitching, a beer garden and the crowning of a senior
citizen as “Golden Lady" who headlines the town’s parade.
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