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Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 10 and 40 years ago t looks like fans of Cottage Grove’s most popular radio talk show will now have an ex- tra half-hour for morning activi- ties before it begins. Cameron Reiten, owner of radio station KNND, said that as long as he can remember, the station’s Beeper Show has been on the air from 8:30-9:30 a.m., a time he’s heard is too early for some. “Some people are telling us they can’t listen at 8:30 because they’re getting the kids off to Work on bike path to begin Cottage Grove area residents will be able to use a city bike path sometime this summer if everything goes according to schedule. The planned path will be an 8-foot wide asphalt surface that will begin near the city’s sewage treatment plant on Douglas Street and snake its way for approximately one mile to Thornton Lane. According to City Manager Phil Kushlan, the proposed path will run through a 46-acre wedge of city-owned regional park property located north of the I-5 connector road, east of Highway 99 and West of I-5. The Property’s northern boundary is the confl uence of the Row and Coast Fork rivers. Mr. Kushlan said recently that the $22,000 project should begin in mid-May and will take 80 to 90 days to complete. City crews will handle the construction work on the project including clearing, blading, graveling and putting down the asphalt. Funds for the project are from the Bureau of Outdoor recreation and have been available to the city since 1971, Kushlan said. “It had a low priority among all the other things we were doing,” Mr. Kushlan said, commenting on the time lag. “It kind of worked its way to the top.” The Thornton Lane ending requires the path to loop under the I-5 freeway where the highway crosses Row River and run eastward to meet the street. A second phase of the bike-path project, for which funds are not yet available, anticipates taking the path from Thorn- ton Lane eastward past the airport, along Row River Road. “It’s going to be basically a natural bike-path area,” Mr. Kushlan explained. “It’s not going to require concentrated maintenance.” West Coast Regional Summit City Manager Richard Mey- ers attended the International City/County Management As- sociation (ICMA) West Coast Regional Summit in Portland with about 140 other local gov- ernment leaders from Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Califor- nia, Nevada and Utah. The managers reviewed recent work by author Daniel Pink regard- ing citizen engagement. The managers also discussed perfor- mance measurement tools and programs. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 March 24 The suspect was transported di- rectly to the Lane County Jail, due to threatening and violent behavior. Criminal mischief, S. 10th St Disorderly subject, Safeway A complainant at the station reported damage to windows at the location occurring sometime over the weekend. The damage was estimated to be $100. The caller said that a male, who was last seen at the west entrance of the business, was pulling trash out of a can and screaming at it while fl ailing his arms and shouting at no one. Protect your world March 25 defecating in the park next to the bathrooms. March 26 Domestic disturbance, Shell Station Theft, Yorkies The caller said his wallet was stolen sometime in January, and since that time an unknown sus- pect had charged up $1000 on his Paypal account. Suspicious condition, Bohemia Park Auto • Home • Life • Retirement school or for other reasons,” Reiten said. “They say they’re missing the fi rst half of the show.” In a change that began Mon- day, KNND will now start the Beeper Show at 9 a.m., which will run until 10 a.m. and lead directly into Swap and Shop. “We’re responding to com- ments we’ve heard in a way we hope will make our morning lineup fl ow more smoothly,” Reiten said. CITY BEAT March 30, 2005: Classic tower restored — This 1930s airway beacon has a new home, at the Oregon Aviation History Center on Jim Wright Field at Cottage Grove Airport. March 23 5A Beeper Show to start at 9 a.m. I March 27, 1975 POLICE BLOTTER COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 1, 2015 The complainant said a His- panic female with red hair was The caller said the suspect put a knife to her throat and said that he was going to his brother’s house to kill him next. A bystander was able to pull the suspect away and calm him down. The suspect was last seen on foot near the Forest Valley Clinic. All parties were contact- ed and advised to have no more contact with each other. ‘If I Were Mayor’ Contest The deadline is quickly ap- proaching for entries the “If I Were Mayor” youth contest. Youth in the community are eligible for local cash prizes. Visit the City’s website for more information and entry forms. Fleet maintenance training Fleet and Facilities Supervisor Russ Kaleese attended the 65th Annual Vehicle Maintenance Management Conference in Seattle March 24-26. The conference is the premier West Coast educational conference for the vehicle maintenance in- dustry. Agencies from Canada, California, Washington, Idaho and Oregon were represented. This is the 18th year that Kaleese has attended the edu- cational conference where he also serves as a Trustee on the Board of Directors. This year’s conference focused on new fl eet technology, specif- ically new engine designs, fuel saving practices, hybrid tech- nologies, shop management, and diesel engine servicing. The City Shop maintains and repairs over 300 pieces of roll- ing stock ranging from mowers, golf carts, and ATVs to 10-yard dump trucks and backhoes. Looking Glass Rural Program At the March 23 City Council meeting, Lorinda Wolfard, Pro- gram Supervisor, and Kirstin London, Services Director with Looking Glass Youth and Family Services, gave a pre- sentation to the Council about the programs they offer. They are looking for host homes to provide short-term shelter (up to 21 days) for youth to help end or avoid homelessness. Those interested in learning more about being a host home, contact Lorinda or Kirstin at (541) 767-3823. O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A Call me today to discuss your options. 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Northbrook, IL. © 2010 Allstate Insurance Co. 6 113896 (*'>8K<N8P9CM; :FKK8><>IFM< \i`bY\ejfe7XccjkXk\%Zfd The state Democratic Party he autocratically led was resolutely moderate by the standards of the day, and the acrimony between his “Salem clique” and Joseph Lane’s pro-slavery Southern Democrats was getting harsher by the day. So when he got wind of the plot to secede, this time Bush was having none of it. “What a ridiculous fi gure would the Pacifi c Republic cut among the nations,” he jeered. “With a population of little more than half a million? With Mexico upon one side, British Columbia on the other, a de- fenseless sea-coast in front, and a horde of hostile savages and marauding Mormons in the rear, and unable to protect ourselves on any side, we could only pre- serve our existence by forming an alliance with some powerful government which could afford us protection at the price of our liberty.” Once the cat was out of the bag, word of the plot went through Salem and Portland like chain lightning, and the reaction was almost universally negative. It irreparably damaged Joseph Lane’s reputation and ended his career in Oregon politics. And it galvanized Asahel Bush’s mod- erate Democrats into making an informal coalition with the new state Republicans to form a sort of fusion ticket for the state’s senators, with the sole object of locking Lane and his Southern Democrats out of power. (As a side note, the Repub- -day weather forecast THURSDAY April 2 FRIDAY April 3 33° | 58° 36° | 61° Mostly Sunny P.M. 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The fusion ticket did plenty of wrangling, but they needed each other to get the job done, so fi - nally they did, sending Democrat James Nesmith and Republican Ned Baker to the Senate to re- place Lane and Delazon Smith. It was a sign of how low Lane’s star had sunk that he wasn’t even able to carry his home state for the Breckenridge-Lane Presi- dential ticket that year. Oregon went for Lincoln, and to add in- sult to the Southern Democrats’ injury, changed its unoffi cial motto from “Alis Volat Propri- is” (“Flies with Own Wings”) to “The Union.” (And, by the way, if you’ve ever wondered how Oregon got stuck with such a boring state motto, well — now you know. The motto wouldn’t become offi cial, though, until 1957, in preparation for the 1959 state centennial.) In California, the Pacifi c Re- public scheme still had legs well into 1862. But in Oregon, nobody in high offi ce ever seri- ously considered West Coast in- dependence again. 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