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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 14, 2015
Cottage Grove's fi rst 2015
baby has New Year's birthday
T
he Sentinel understands that the
life of brand-new parents is a hec-
tic one, so the newspaper is grateful to
the parents of one-week old Brooklynn
Paige Rust for bringing Cottage Grove’s
fi rst baby of 2015 by the offi ce for a visit
last week.
Cottage Grove’s Chelsie (Flagg) Rust
and Adam Rust said their fi rst baby was
due on Dec. 23. The couple had origi-
nally suspected that they might have a
Christmas baby, but Chelsie Rust said
they’re glad that little Brooklynn waited
a while.
First, though, Chelsie Rust endured
36 hours of hard labor, with contractions
happening regularly every two minutes.
Doctors decided she’d be fi rst in line for
a Caesarean Section on Thursday, Jan.
1; thus, her baby fi nally came into the
world at 9:36 a.m., making Brooklynn
Paige the fi rst baby born at Sacred Heart
Medical Center, Riverbend in 2015.
She weighed in at a healthy eight
pounds, 15 ounces and was 20 ½ inches
long. Anxious to meet her were grand-
parents Dave and Debbie Rust and Den-
nis and Kathie Flagg, all of Cottage
Grove. Her parents are both 2007 gradu-
ates of Cottage Grove High School.
As the parents of the fi rst Cottage
Grove baby of 2015, the Rusts received a
complementary one-year subscription to
the Sentinel, lunch for two at El Tapatio,
a FireMed subscription from South Lane
Fire and Rescue and a prize pack from
Riverbend Community Medical Center,
Cottage Grove.
CITY BEAT
City summarizes leaf
pick-up data
At the end of December, Cottage Grove
Public Works fi nished the leaf pick-up
program for 2014, according to a listing
in the City’s Friday Update page, which
added that Public Works personnel
hauled 16 less loads of leaves than they
did in 2013. Below is located an equip-
ment, labor and load summary by week.
photo by Jon Stinnett
Brooklynn Paige Rust fl ashes a smile for adoring parents
Adam and Chelsie. She was born at 9:36 a.m. on Thursday,
Jan. 1, the fi rst 2015 baby born at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
TEAM-Cottage Grove seeks to improve networking
T
TEAM representative Cindy Weel-
dreyer.
TEAM-Cottage Grove began as a
concept nearly a year ago. This plan-
ning group of 23 motivated commu-
nity leaders wants to increase com-
munity involvement in local events
by establishing the following things:
An e-mail network of appointed
representatives from most – if not all
– community groups, organizations
and businesses.
A phone tree to reach those who
do not use computers but want to be
informed about what’s happening in
their town.
A central online volunteer regis-
here’s a new TEAM getting to-
gether in Cottage Grove.
TEAM-Cottage Grove bills itself
as “a new networking organization
devoted to connecting our community
to itself,” according to a recent press
release. Its organizers seek to better
coordinate the sharing of information
about planned projects and events to
assist with date-setting, event public-
ity and matching volunteers to spe-
cifi c tasks needing to be done.
“Experience teaches us word-of-
mouth is THE most effective way of
disseminating community informa-
tion in The Grove, which is why this
new organization was created,” said
try to overcome the tendency of 10
percent of our townspeople doing
90 percent of the work to pack the
community calendar year after year
with fun experiences and to provide
worthwhile causes to support.
A group of experts to provide fo-
rums that teach those interested how
to create press releases and use social
media.
TEAM-Cottage Grove’s founding
members spent months last year cre-
ating a current database of 108 local
nonprofi t organizations that is avail-
able by request. The next step is to
personally contact each group and in-
vite them to become members of this
new networking group.
TEAM-Cottage Grove launches its
weekly email: “Around The Grove”
on Friday, Jan. 16 to provide infor-
mation on what events and oppor-
tunities are happening in town each
week. Copies are available by email
subscription, and a limited number
of paper copies will be available at
the Community Center’s Information
Desk and in the lobby of the Village
Green Resort.
TEAM-Cottage Grove meetings
are held on the second Tuesday of
each month from 8-9:30 a.m. at Bust-
er’s Main Street Café.
Driver of salmon smolt tanker cited for DUII
O
regon State Police announced last
week the fi ling of charges against
the truck driver who lost control of a
tanker truck on the McKenzie Highway
on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Police say that, on Jan. 7, state troopers
cited Ray C. Lewis, 45, of Umpqua, for
the crimes of DUII-alcohol, and Reck-
less Driving into Lane County Circuit
Court. Lewis reportedly had a blood
alcohol level of .29, about three times
the legal limit, at the time of the crash.
Police declined to release additional
information on the crash or the charges
fi led against Lewis. They say they are
continuing the investigation into the
crash, which occurred on Highway
126E near milepost 11 in Cedar Flat,
just east of Springfi eld.
Lewis had been transporting the fi sh
from the nearby Leaburg hatchery to
a destination in the Row River near
Cottage Grove, according to Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish
Biologist Jeff Ziller. The smolts per-
ished soon after the crash, Ziller said,
and were the last of seven truckloads of
young salmon slated for transplant into
the Row at the Row River Nature Park
just outside Cottage Grove that day.
Lewis suffered facial and scalp lacera-
tions and was transported to the hos-
pital for treatment of other unknown
injuries. An additional investigation is
pending, and OSP is being assisted by
the Lane County District Attorney's
Offi ce.
3A
Week One – Nov. 10-13
Total backhoe hours: 25.5 at $26 per
hour = $663
Total dump truck hours of 51 at $21.76
per hour = $1,109.76
Total of 76.5 labor hours at the shop,
average of $37 per hour = $2,830.50
45 loads of leaves were hauled (10 yards
per load)
Week Two – Nov. 24-Dec. 2
Total backhoe hours 25 = $650
Total dump truck hours of 49.5 =
$1,077.12
Total of 74.5 labor hours = $2,756.50
32 loads of leaves were hauled
Week Three – Dec. 16-23
Total backhoe hours: 21.5 = $559
Total dump truck hours of 21.5 =
$467.84
Total of 43 labor hours = $1,591.00
17 loads of leaves were hauled
Total backhoe hours: 72 = $1,872
Total dump truck hours: 122 = $
2,654.72
Total labor hours: 194
= $ 7,178.00
$11,704.72 total cost
A total of 94 loads were hauled, which
amounted to 940 cubic yards of leaves.
Get shredding
About 11,000 salmon smolts perished when this tanker truck
left the roadway and crashed on the McKenzie Highway on
Tuesday, Dec. 30.
On Saturday, Jan. 24 between 10 a.m.
and noon, the City of Cottage Grove will
be sponsoring a shred event, meant as a
way to safely and securely get rid of all
those old papers or documents that have
a name, address, birth date, social secu-
rity number, bank account number, credit
card number or any other piece of infor-
mation printed on them that should not
fall into the wrong hands. There will be
a local document shredding company at
City Hall with one of their onsite shred-
ding trucks to take documents and shred
them immediately, all for the price of a
non-perishable food item to be given to
Community Sharing.
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more awake. A monk named Chadely, or Scyadly, from
a nearby monastery passed by. Kaldi told him about the
goats and he demanded to be shown the plant. The monk
crushed a few of the berries into a powder and poured
boiling water over them to make a drink. This was the first
cup of coffee. (It was not until much later that coffee beans
were roasted.)
Impressed with the results of the drink in making him wider
awake and yet not affecting his capabilities, the monk
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became in much demand with devout Moslems, believing it
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