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Businesses shift,
reshape downtown
BY ERIN TIERNEY
THE CHRONICLE
CRESWELL – Downtown Creswell is shifting and
reshaping, and the proof is behind the “closed for reno-
vations,” “coming soon” and “now open” signs taped
on Oregon Avenue storefronts.
While Creswell bid adieu to a handful of businesses
this year – Burlap & Lace, Joe’s Diner, Natural Path,
Drumrongthai Café Spot, Farmstand Collective – entre-
preneurs are working to ensure the future of downtown
is bustling and bright.
Bill Spencer, owner of the Union 76 gas station adja-
cent to the diner, said he is “dreaming” of a bigger,
better, new gas station, a convenient mart and maybe
even a car wash. “The hope is to be able to use the
current Joe’s location for that improved facility,”
Spencer said. If the project goes forward, the goal
would to fi nish by Dec. 31, 2020, he said.
Dale Pallin of Pleasant Hill brought parked his
“smoke shack” just off of Interstate 5 this summer.
Since then, business has been robust, he said. Locals
have been receptive to its pulled pork, ribs and signa-
ture sauces this summer. A winter menu of crab,
salmon, and oysters is underway.
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YOUNG AND PREPARED
CERT training creates
certifi able leadership
BY ALIYA HALL
THE CHRONICLE
MAIL ING L ABEL BELOW
A gourd day at the patch
Sisters Khylie and Aliyah Ferris, 10 and 8, pick their pumpkins at Pleasant
Hill’s Northern Lights Christmas Tree Farm’s pumpkin patch on a drizzly Friday
afternoon. The Ferris’, who are Springfi eld natives, had previously picked
pumpkins at Lone Pine Farm outside of Eugene but enjoyed exploring a new
farm this year. CODY WARREN/THE CHRONICLE
CRESWELL – When a disaster happens in the area,
the more trained hands on deck the better. That’s why
South Lane County Fire & Rescue offers Community
Emergency Response
Team (CERT) training.
For the past three
years, SLCF&R has
offered a teenage
CERT program for 14-
to 20-year-olds, and
added a program for
adults this year.
Nicole Wood, 17,
was one of those teens
who participated; she
did the program in
the fall of 2017. Even
though she doesn’t
want to be a para-
NICOLE WOOD
medic or fi refi ghter, she
wanted to participate
because she thought these would be good skills to have
in an emergency.
“They’re community heroes and I thought it would be
interesting to learn their side of life,” she said.
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