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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 15, 2015 Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 20 and 30 years ago 5A CITY BEAT 2015-16 Budget April 17, 1985 City Staff is preparing the City’s budget for 2015-16. They are also planning a Budget Committee Training on Tuesday, April 21 from 2-4:30 p.m. The training will include tours of City facilities and provide some valuable background infor- mation for new Budget Committee members. Seasoned (old) Budget Committees members are invited to participate in the training as well if they wish. Just to help with scheduling, all Budget Committee members should be preparing for Budget Committee meetings to possibly be held on May 19, 21 and 26. All the dates may not be necessary, but please reserve the dates just in case they are needed. A movie for CG? It seems almost a sure thing now that part of the fi lming for the movie called “The Body” — an Em- bassy Pictures production to be directed by Rob Rein- er — will be done in the Cottage Grove area, accord- ing to people who are working to lure Embassy and Reiner here. Mark Hughes, president of Mark Hughes and Com- pany, Inc., which held a local talent search Saturday at the Village Green, said the movie’s production manager indicated that the scouting crew would be returning to the Cottage Grove area sometime this week for a second look. “My information is that they will shoot some in Cot- tage Grove and some in another city in Lane County within a 30-40 mile radius,” Hughes speculated. Those comments were echoed on Tuesday by Ro- berta Harp, assistant to Laura Pryor, the state’s man- ager of the fi lm and video recruitment offi ce in Sa- lem. “They have not made, as far as we know, a defi nite decision where they are going to fi lm it,” said Harp. “But it’s 99 percent sure they’re going to fi lm it in your area (Lane County).” The movie, based on a Stephen King book by the same name, centers around two boys on an adventur- ous search for the body of a boy they believe was hit by a train. Finding all the right locations for the movie has been slowed due to Southern Pacifi c Railroad’s hesi- tancy to allow fi lm crews to use their facilities, sourc- es say. It has been Southern Pacifi c’s policy not to get involved in such fi lming because it creates a negative image for their business. The company also does not want the movie to attract children to the tracks, of- fi cials say. POLICE BLOTTER If I Were Mayor . . . Youth in the in the community only have a few more weeks to submit their entries in the 2015 “If I Were Mayor” contest. The contest is open to all youth in the community; 4th and 5th grade-aged youth can enter the poster contest; 6th through 8th grade aged youth can enter the essay contest and the high school aged youth can enter the video or presentation contest. There are local prizes and the winner from each contest is submitted to the statewide competition that is sponsored by the Oregon Mayors Association. More information and entry forms are available on the City’s webpage at: www.cottagegrove.org. Bikes to Blooms Wildfl ower Event April 12, 1995: Bud’s Back! — After more than three months on the lam, family dog comes home. Rhen and Vangie Warren are all smiles now that Bud has returned home after a three-month ab- sence. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 April 6 April 8 April 10 Civil problem, Village Green Trespass, Harvey Rd. Assault, Main St. and River Rd. A complainant requested an offi cer to assist with a civil issue when, following a verbal dispute, his spouse refused him en- try back into their hotel. The complainant added that his two children, ages nine and 11 years old, are in the room as well and refused him entry. Offi cers contacted the complainant in the lobby, and attempted to contact his spouse, but there was no answer at the door. A caller said that somebody broke into his shed and had been staying in it. It was unoc- cupied at the time, but the person’s property was still there, including a blanket and a de- fl ated air mattress. The caller said that a drunk, redheaded female slapped him. The suspect was con- tacted and given a court date. Suspicious condition, Main St. Liquor Store A male wearing a purple shirt, was walk- ing northbound on the roadway and had a large knife hidden under his shirt. April 9 Suspicious subject, Hwy 99 and 4th St. Two teenage boys were in the area of the location, and one threw a couple of bricks at the Real Estate Territorial Land Company offi ce. They were last seen heading south on 17th St. Motor vehicle accident — non injury, 5th St. and Main St. The caller said she was headed south on 5th St from Whiteaker, and when she ap- proached the traffi c light a bus turned into her lane and forced her to swerve and hit a parked car. April 11 Welfare check, police station Death Investigation, Columbia Court A complainant who had driven by the lo- cation said there was a male in camoufl age yelling at a power pole, and requested an of- fi cer to check on him. A later caller said the subject was throwing things into the street; yelling, cussing and screaming. A reporting person said that he found a 52-year-old woman on the fl oor. The wom- an was confi rmed dead, and an investigation was started. Special wildfl ower tours are scheduled at Bake Stewart Park and Row Point along the Row River Trail for Saturday, May 9. Tours start at the parks at different times, and those attending the tours are encouraged to bike to the tours using the Row Riv- er Trail. To register or for more information about the Bikes to Blooms Wildfl ower Tours visit the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council website at: www.coastfork.org. Registra- tion is not required for the tours, but it will secure a spot on the tour of your choice. Row River Trail Closure The Row River Trail will be closed April 13–17 for the major work to relocate the City’s water line. The water line relocation will involve moving the water line away from the edge of Row River Road and about 18 feet deep to avoid the undercrossing work area and trail relocation that will occur later this Fall. Transportation Open House An open house will be held on Tuesday, April 28 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Stacy’s Covered Bridge Restaurant, 401 E. Main Street. The City is updating the Transportation System Plan (TSP) to meet the needs of Cottage Grove through 2035. Initial lists of projects and strategies have been developed. The City wants to hear if the projects address the transportation issues that matter most to community members. This update is funded by the Oregon Department of Trans- portation. Finance Department hires accounting tech The City’s Finance Department has fi lled a full-time Ac- counting Tech position and wants to welcome Lindsay Lay- cock to the staff. She has been working most recently at Lane Community College – Cottage Grove Campus and serves on the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce. O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A soon circled around, offering a variety of pie-in-the-sky invest- ment schemes. By 1868, the Victors were in fi nancial diffi - culties and living separately. The next two-dozen years would be, for Frances, a constant struggle to keep enough money 6 fl owing in the door to feed her and fi nance her researches. Some years were better than oth- ers — the mid-1870s, when she was researching for a planned history of Oregon’s Indian wars, were especially fruitful and re- warding. It was about this time, with the publication of her brief -day weather forecast THURSDAY April 16 FRIDAY April 17 41° | 71° 42° | 73° Sunny Sunny SATURDAY April 18 SUNDAY April 19 41° | 68° 41° | 72° Partly Cloudy Sunny MONDAY April 20 TUESDAY April 21 41° | 74° 41° | 72° Sunny Sunny account of the Women’s Tem- perance Prayer League activi- ties in Portland, that she started her serious advocacy of voting rights for women. But in 1878, when Hubert Howe Bancroft of San Francisco reached out to her with an offer to join his staff of history writ- ers, she found herself unable to refuse. Her own resources were by now so scant, and she knew his were virtually unlimited, and she further knew he would be producing an Oregon history volume whether she joined up or not. She knew she couldn’t beat him — so she accepted, and joined him. In a way, it was a great job for her. She now had the secu- rity of a steady paycheck and the ability to focus full-time on the kind of writing she wanted to do, without having to waste time writing fl uffy fi ction to pay the bills. But in other ways, it was dreadful. Frances, a seasoned writer and researcher with a great personal reputation, sud- denly found herself doing ghostwriting — crafting whole masterpieces of history that would be published, to universal critical acclaim, with Bancroft’s name on the cover as author. Finally, in 1889 — with sev- eral hefty Bancroft tomes to her credit — she could take it no longer, and quit. For the remaining 12 years of her life, Frances eked out a precarious living as a freelance writer, dashing out “pot-boiler writing” to pay the bills, devot- ing as much time as possible to the historical research she’d come to love and frequently ex- ercising her considerable talents in the service of women’s suf- frage. She lived just long enough to be recognized for the critical role she’d played in preserving Oregon history; the Morning Oregonian, in 1901, called her the “Mother of Oregon His- tory,” and the fl edgling Oregon Historical Society named her an honorary member at its found- ing in 1899. In September 1902, she died peacefully in bed after a brief illness. She was 78 years old. of a Blue: The Life and Work of Frances Fuller Victor. Salem: Deep Well Pub., 1992; Mills, Hazel Emery. “Frances F. Victor in Ascent,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Dec. 1961; Browne, Sheri Bartlett. “Frances Fuller Victor,” oregonencyclopedia. org) Finn J.D. 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