COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 15, 2015
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at Sentinel stories from 20 and 30 years ago
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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
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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
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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. John teaches at Or-
egon State University and writes
about odd tidbits of Oregon his-
tory. For details, see http://fi nn-
john.com. To contact him or
suggest a topic: fi nn2@offbe-
atoregon.com or 541-357-2222.
(Sources: Martin, Jim. A Bit
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