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
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Beeper Show to start at 9 a.m.
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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.
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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.
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licans were mostly in Portland
and Bush’s Democrats were
mostly in Salem — and the
Southern Democrats were scat-
tered throughout the hinter-
lands. This may have been the
fi rst outbreak of that urban-rural
divide that’s still a part of Or-
egon politics today.)
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.
(Sources: Hull, Dorothy. ‘The
Movement in Oregon for the
Establishment of a Pacifi c Coast
Republic,” Oregon Historical
Quarterly, Sept. 1916; Portland
Weekly Oregonian, 7-28-1851;
Salem Statesman, 7-17-1860;
12-10-1860)
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tory. For details, see http://fi nn-
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