COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 7, 2015
Congratulations!
Employee
7A
to our
Resident
of the
Month
of the
Month
Laure
Barrue
Bea
Bassler
What’s not to love?
for the Month of December, 2014
Magnolia Gardens 541-942-0054
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30-60-90K Services
Brakes, belts, hoses and cooling system
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Engine rebuilding and repair
Drive-train repair such as clutches, u joints
and differentials
All makes and models.
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DUSTIN TULLAR & RUSS OWENS
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Douglas G. Maddess, DMD
Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time
“I love cats with my whole heart and al-
ways have,” admits Laura. “What’s not to
love? Fluffy or sleek, big or small — I love
them all. Each one is a work of art: they
come in an array of beautiful colors and
each is uniquely marked. Cats’ eyes sparkle
like marbles with bright lights behind them.
When you look into their eyes, you can feel
their love and intelligence, and it is easy to
read what is on their minds by looking into
them. Their little puffy cheeks are adorable
and their whiskers fall like a graceful wa-
terfall framing their face. Their noses are
heart shaped and hearing their purr-ecious
little voices lifts my spirits. My cat, Len-
ny, ‘murdles’ which is ‘our’ word for their
meow-talking.
I admire and respect that cats do as they
darn well please — at any given moment.
My two rescued humane society cats, So-
phia and Leonard, are proof of this!
They know when I’m sad and help com-
fort me by laying their soft cuddly bodies
on me and purr. When I am ill they are at-
tentive little nurses. Sophia lays beside me,
and when she leaves, for a break, Leonard
takes her place.
It is fun watching my cats roar around
the house playing tag. At night, Sophia zips
through the rooms chasing invisible bugs.
After she settles down, I straighten out all
the rugs she sCATtered.
Lenny’s hobby is purr-posley shoving his
toys under the fridge or FUR-urniture. He
then reaches back under it trying to ‘capture’
his prey. One day, I dragged a wire hanger
underneath a cabinet and reclaimed 10 toys!
Now for the interesting part! Leonard taught
Sophia how to ‘play the game’. I recently
saw her shoving her toys under the fridge!
Sophia insists on Leonard taking fi rst
place at the food bowls before she eats. And
if my cats were a dessert, Leonard would be
a pound cake: he is heavy, solid and sweet.
Sophia would be a meringue cookie: she
is light, fl uffy and pretty. When you go by
weight alone, it is hard to believe they are
siblings.
When I mimic a New York accent and say,
‘Sophia Rose! Show Momma your swisha!’
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“When Leonard and Sophia were kittens,”
said Laura, “I’d arrive home and discover
all kinds of unexpected things. Their wet-
kitchen-sponge ‘toy’ would be either on the
living room rug or on the bed. Usually on
the bed, of course!
Pictures that were sitting on the china
cabinet would be on the fl oor. The timer on
the stove would be buzzing (Lord knows for
how long!), so to this day I keep the dials off
the stove when not in use, because if they
can turn one dial they could turn them all!
When I put the window blinds up, I al-
ways twist tie the strings up high so the cats’
claws or necks won’t get caught in them. The
other night, when I lowered the blinds, So-
phia caught a claw in the blind and couldn’t
get out of it without my help. There’s a good
reason I do what I do.
For the last two years, while volunteering
for our humane society to raise money, for
fun, I wore a Halloween Cat Woman cos-
tume. I sold $2 raffl e tickets and brought in
$2000!”
Courtesy Photo
“Who needs an entertainment center
when you have cats!” laughs Laura
as she refers to her mischievous-
rescued twins, Sophia and Leonard.
Note:
Laura is the woman who recognized that
the ‘new’ cat in her yard was lost. The ar-
ticle on Prince’s mysterious appearance
and return to his owner was published in
the Sentinel’s December miracle pet series.
How did Prince make a three and a half hour
trip through the Rocky Mountains, down the
Trans-Canada Highway, 220 miles to Van-
couver B.C., pay $69 for a Ferry ticket to
Vancouver Island, travel another 40 miles
to Duncan, and walk two miles from the
highway? While his owners thought he was
in their back yard? It remains a mystery to
everyone, including the shelter worker who
said, “I’ve worked here for 20 years and
never heard of anything like this!”
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she swishes her fl uffy tail from side to side.
The more I say it, the harder she swishes
her swisher.
Leonard is an excellent catcher. Before
I toss his toy I count out, ‘one....two....
THREE!’, and he catches it between his
front paws. Every - Single -Time.
Sophia has torn my bed’s box spring net-
ting to pieces and made herself a fun cave.
This is ‘our’ second bed that she has ‘re-
designed’. I told her she was naughty for
ripping our new bed. She told me I was
naughty for taking away the ‘good’ bed and
making her start all over again. The three of
us sleep together. Leonard lays on my left
side, I put my arm around him, and he lifts
his leg, wrapping it gently around my arm.
The fi rst week I adopted my kittens,
Leonard jumped into the shower with me.
He seemed interested for a couple of min-
utes and then he jumped out. He never did it
again. I guess he decided his tongue does a
better job of keeping him clean. It washes
and dries at the same time!”
him across the head with his
knife. Fitzhugh, now armed only
with the empty derringer, rushed
another partygoer named Tom
Thompson — which turned out
to be a huge mistake, because
Thompson clearly knew his way
around a six-shooter better than
anyone else in the room.
Two gunshots later, Fitzhugh
was done for the night — not
dead, but badly wounded.
Forbes and Hannon, seeing this,
attacked Thompson and were
also shot down — both hit in the
stomach. Crow, suddenly real-
izing he was the only survivor
of the little war party, gave full
rein to the better part of valor
and fl ed into the night.
Over the next week or two,
much to the surprise of nearly
everyone, nearly all the injured
parties rallied and recovered.
Only Bob Forbes, whose spine
had been broken by Thomp-
son’s revolver ball, and Barrin-
ger, shot through the heart by
Fitzhugh, died.
Fitzhugh was soon arrested
and put on trial for murder
along with Hannan; Crow, who
had made a dreadful mess of
fi ddle player Clayton, couldn’t
be found. It’s not clear why Cul-
ver wasn’t charged, but chances
are good his sucking stab wound
was still too serious for him to
make a court appearance.
The “riot,” which got exten-
sive newspaper coverage all over
Oregon, had brought the linger-
ing resentments in Douglas
County to a head, and hundreds
of people took an avid interest
in the trial. For most of them, it
was more than a drunken act of
petty criminality; it was a proxy
fi ght between the forces of the
North and the South.
When it was all over, the jury
found both men guilty. But the
judge sentenced them to very
light sentences: fi ve years for
Fitzhugh, and one for Hannan.
The champions of Unionists
(Sources: Lalande, Jeff. “Di-
xie of the Pacifi c Northwest,”
Oregon Historical Quarterly,
spring 1999; Portland Morning
Oregonian, 3 Jan. 1867 and 14
Jan. 1867)
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and Southern Democrats alike
decried the verdict in editorial
pages and coffee houses — the
one side complaining about the
light sentences, the other about
the guilty verdict. But after
it was all over, and nobody’s
“team” had “won,” Douglas
County residents were fi nally
able to settle down and live with
one another — if not at peace,
then at least not actively at war.
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