COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 15, 2015
Wild pursuit
ends in pasture
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T
he pursuit by Lane County Sheriff’s Depu-
ties and state troopers of a man allegedly
trespassing on property near Sears Road came to
a wild end in a nearby cow pasture Friday after-
noon.
The Lane County Sheriff’s Offi ce states that, at
about 11:35 a.m. Friday, it received a call from a
homeowner on Sears Road advising that an un-
known subject came through her gate and was
driving his red pickup around inside the perimeter
of her property. The male subject got in and out
of his vehicle several times and continued to drive
around the property, including through pastures
and behind barns.
The fi rst Deputy Sheriff arrived soon after and
reportedly confronted the subject, who initially
complied but soon rose to fl ee.
The deputy deployed his Taser; however, the
subject broke contact and fl ed to his vehicle. The
subject then continued to fl ee from the deputy in
his vehicle, driving north across the rural farm
property.
Eventually the subject parked his vehicle on the
back of the property and fl ed on foot, jumping into
the Coast Fork of the Willamette River, the western
Cottage Grove TV returns
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BY CINDY WEELDREYER
For The Sentinel
F
courtesy photo
State Police and South Lane Fire and Rescue helped Sheriff's Deputies apprehend
Kevin Crook in a cow pasture Friday afternoon.
boundary of the victim’s property.
Additional deputies responded along with troop-
ers from the Oregon State Police to attempt to lo-
cate the subject on the west side of the river.
At 12:38 p.m. police say the subject, later identi-
fi ed as 55-year old Kevin D. Crook, was confronted
by Sheriff’s Deputies as he attempted to run west-
bound across a cow pasture at 81275 Davisson
Road. They say the subject was again non-compli-
ant and fought with deputies, kicking one in the
chest several times. Crook was eventually able to
be subdued with assistance from additional deputies
and troopers. He was taken into custody, checked
by medics on scene, and transported to be lodged
on charges of trespassing, methamphetamine pos-
session, eluding police and resisting arrest.
On Monday, LCSO spokesperson Carrie Carver
said Crook insistently told troopers he believed
he was driving on his own property, which Carver
added is not near the Sears Road property.
Oil leak causes sheen on Coast Fork downtown
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
A
n unnatural shine on the sur-
face of the Coast Fork of the
Willamette River in downtown Cot-
tage Grove alarmed several passersby
last weekend and eventually drew a
response from city crews and Ore-
gon’s Department of Environmental
Quality. The oily sheen was fi rst no-
ticed on Sunday evening, April 5, and
Cottage Grove Police contacted city
staff about the oil slick. Crews with
Public Works spent the next day fol-
lowing the sheen upriver, removing
3A
manholes to trace its path through the
City’s stormwater system, according
to Mike O’Reilly of the City’s main-
tenance department.
“We could smell the oil when we
got to a catch basin at Sixth and
Madison, where we noticed an old oil
container leaking all over the parking
lot,” O’Reilly said.
Eventually, they arrived at the for-
mer location of Oletsgo Automotive,
where an oil tank apparently used to
hold waste oil had failed and begun
to leak oil onto the nearby parking lot
and, eventually, into a nearby storm
drain.
Oregon DEQ was called in response
to the incident, and State On-Scene
Coordinator Geoff Brown said that
about half of the tank’s 60-70 gallon
capacity may have leaked over time.
“We had the owner spread out ab-
sorbents on the parking lot, and we
put out absorbent booms to catch
more of the oil,” Brown said. He
added that the catch basin nearby was
also pumped clean. Brown said that,
in this particular case, there weren’t
many cleanup options available.
“Typically, cleanup involves some
sort of soil removal, but because this
oil was released to asphalt, there
wasn’t any more we could do,” he
said. “We lost a lot of it to rain that
carried it through the stormwater sys-
tem.”
Brown said there was “not a lot of
risk” posed by the relatively small
amount of oil released to the river.
“It takes very little oil to create a
large sheen,” he said, “and it’s not un-
common to see a sheen without any
major spill. You’re going to fi nd some
petroleum in any urban setting; it’s
the world we live in. There’s no ex-
treme risk, but it’s the responsibility
of the property owner to do what can
be done to minimize that risk.”
ans of CGTV programs will be hap-
py to know many of them are now
available online. For 3 ½ years CGTV
programs were shown on the local trans-
lator system on Channel 38.2. Local vid-
eographer Dan Holt worked with other
regional videographers to provide 24-hour
programming, which featured travel docu-
mentaries, Christian programs, alterna-
tive health and coverage of local events in
South Lane County.
New management at His Word Broad-
casting took the channel in a different di-
rection in 2014, removing CGTV programs
and disappointing loyal viewers. Holt has
now uploaded more than 300 videos to
YouTube that are available anytime on de-
mand for free. To view them go to www.
youtube.com/user/danholtvideo then click
“videos.” Thus far there are three days of
programs available under “playlists.”
Some videos are also available at www.
dailymotion.com/danholtvideo, however
viewers must activate the full screen fea-
ture to ensure the advertisements don’t
block the program being viewed.
Holt said one of the drawbacks of put-
ting these programs on the web is the pro-
hibition of copyrighted music. The Booher
Family and the Pacifi c Gospel Music Asso-
ciation were popular programs on CGTV
which cannot be shown on YouTube.
For additional information or assistance
call Dan Holt at 541-946-1445 or send an
email to danholtvideo@gmail.com.
Event planners band together to seek equipment funding
Photo by Claire Sylvain
B
oard members and coordinators for four lo-
cal summer events gathered last Wednesday
evening, April 8 at the Cottage Grove Commu-
nity Center with a grant writer seeking funds for
equipment they plan to share. Grant writer Rose
Miller worked with leaders of Bohemia Mining
Days, Oregon Covered Bridge Festival, Rotary’s
Cycle The Lakes and the WOE Heritage Fair to
agree on what items are needed by all the groups.
After introductions and discussion the participat-
ing organizations determined their highest shared
equipment needs were tables, chairs, shade sails
and storage for the items.
Leaders of local summer events at recent
summit meeting included: [clockwise]
Marie Longfellow, OCBF Board and Quilt
Show Coordinator; Don Strahan, Rotary
Cycle The Lakes Coordinator; Cindy Weel-
dreyer, BMD Board; Kerri Warren, BMD
Board; Jim Gilroy, former CG Mayor and lo-
cal events supporter; Jimmy Schaper, BMD
Board; Lorraine Eriksen, OCBF Board;
Dena Twite, Carolin Pettit and Judy Cash,
WOE Board; Nancy Glines, BMD Festival
Coordinator; Cathy Simmons, BMD Board
and grant writer Rose Miller.
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