12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 15, 2015
PROBLEMS
UNDERSTANDING
SPEECH?
Up-and-down
attendance at
Home Show
Please give us a
call for a hearing
evaluation to see
if we can help.
John Wilson of Cottage Grove
spins the prize wheel donated
by radio station KNND for use
by CG Area Habitat for Human-
ity at the Home and Garden
Show held Saturday and Sun-
day at Cottage Grove High
School. Organizers with KNND
say attendance was good early
on both days but added that
nice weather Sunday may have
kept some people outdoors
as opposed to attending the
show. Cameron Reiten, KNND
owner, said competition from
other home shows in the region
means that many vendors now
choose not to attend the Cot-
tage Grove show, adding that
he's uncertain if the event will
be scheduled again next year.
Celebrating 20 years of providing
the best customer service in the business.
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Board Certifi ed in
Hearing Instrument Sciences
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Cottage Grove
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photo by Jon Stinnett
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Light the
Way to a
Cure
R OSIES
Continued from page 1A
Luminary Ceremony
Friday, 10pm, June 21st
Give the gift to the American Cancer Society & keep the
light burning with a luminaria in memory of someone lost to cancer,
in honor of someone still fi ghting, or in special recognition
of someone who has beat the disease.
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photo by Jon Stinnett
'Rosebuds' Yvonne Fasold, ARRA President, and Corolene Correia (top row) with Ros-
ies Alice Heiney, Lorette Wedlake, Doris Graham and Opal Nelson.
Wedlake spoke of employ-
ment at a much younger age.
The war caused a shortage of
fuel that left farmers exploring
their options for harvest without
gasoline-powered farm imple-
ments. Wedlake was one of
many Massachusetts teens hired
for about four hours a day to
harvest acres of carrots, beets,
spinach, corn and tomatoes.
Doris Graham’s presentation
included tales of several brushes
with celebrity. In June of 1942,
the day before she graduated
high school, Graham took a job
with the U.S. Treasury Depart-
ment in Washington, D.C.,
where she would type war bonds
for the better part of three years.
Previously a “farm girl,” Gra-
ham spoke of her view of the
White House grounds and her
father’s position with the Secret
Service. During that time, she
met stars such as Marlene Di-
etrich and Maureen O’Hara and
shook the hand of First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt during an in-
augural ball.
Nelson shared the news that
she was an actual riveter during
the war, though she could have
had a number of jobs back then.
“Everybody was hiring,” she
said. “You didn’t have to look
for a job; they came to you.”
Nelson eventually took a po-
sition with Douglas Aircraft
riveting together the fuselages
of airplanes in places where ma-
chines couldn’t reach.
“Sometimes we’d get to go
out to the runway,” she said.
“They’d give us fi ve to 10 min-
utes to look at the airplanes and
put our names on them (and
maybe our phone numbers.”
Nelson appreciated the work
but eventually sought a position
with the Red Cross. She showed
the Cottage Grove crowd her
uniform from that time, embla-
zoned on one sleeve with the
Red Cross insignia.
“It still fi ts,” Nelson said with
a laugh, “as long as I don’t but-
ton it.”
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and mail to:
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949 S. 6th St
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
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The Boys
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Oregon’s Main St.
“The Folk History”
Pacific Yurts
STARFIRE Lumber Co.
77456 Hwy 99,
Cottage Grove
541-942-9435
2795 Mosby Creek Rd.
Cottage Grove
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Hope for the Flowers
An English Book
Where the Wild
Things Are
A-Ok Building
Maintenance
Rosendo Lopez
Contructing
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Cottage Grove
541-954-1954
Kalapuya Books
637 Main St., CG
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