COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 6, 2015
Business owners
removing trees
Merger off, cable unchanged
T
he termination of a merg-
er agreement between two
cable giants last week prompted
a letter to Cottage Grove City
Manager Richard Meyers in-
dicating that there will be “no
change to the cable service pro-
vider in your area.”
Comcast Corporation will not
merge with Time-Warner Com-
munications, according to the
letter, which was dated April 28
and signed by Charter Govern-
ment Affairs Director Marian
Jackson, meaning that Charter
will continue to hold the cable
More Main Street maples
likely to come down
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
T
he Norway maple trees lining Main Street in down-
town Cottage Grove have been a hot topic since de-
liberations leading to the development of the Main Street
Refi nement Plan began nearly two years ago, and observant
individuals downtown may notice that the trees have begun
to come down in earnest in recent weeks.
On Monday morning, Tim Schweitzer of Schweitzer’s
Western Wear and Britz Jewelers could be seen cleaning up
the branches left from an extensive trimming of one of the
trees in front of his business. Schweitzer said he plans to
write a letter to the City of Cottage Grove requesting ap-
proval to take the tree down completely. The tree in front
of the First National Bank building was removed over the
weekend by the building’s owner, Danny Solesbee, and Su
Rosenthal of Pandora’s Box at the corner of 6th and Main
had her tree removed last weekend.
City Planner Amanda Ferguson said Monday that she be-
lieved many downtown business owners had been waiting
for the outcome of deliberations on the Refi nement Plan to
decide what to do with their trees, though this could not be
confi rmed before press time with the business owners who
Please see TREES, Page 8A
franchise in Cottage Grove.
Meyers said that, while cus-
tomers will not notice the im-
pact of the merger that never
was, the City may now have to
wait a little longer in its nego-
tiations to establish a franchise
agreement for Charter’s opera-
tions in Cottage Grove, as the
company may have been more
likely to push the negotiations
in advance of its merger.
These negotiations have been
taking place off and on since the
late 1990s.
Activities highlight
Mental Health
Awareness Month
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photo by Jon Stinnett
Tim Schweitzer said he plans to request approval to remove
the tree in front of his business.
Tagged trout in Coast Fork offer rewards
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
S
igns posted near the banks of the Coast
Fork of the Willamette River detail a
program meant to help gauge the use and
effectiveness of the river’s fi shery.
Shannon Richardson of the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife said the
agency’s Tag Reward Program involved the
recent stocking of 1500 rainbow trout in
the Coast Fork, a waterway some 40 miles
in length formed with the confl uence of
Garoutte Creek and Big River in the Cala-
pooya Mountains. Richardson said 200 of
the stocked trout have a “non-reward, spa-
ghetti-style ‘fl oy’ tag” similar to one used to
mark clothes in a store attached to their dor-
sal fi ns, while 20 of the fi sh have a red tag
that will earn the angler who catches them
a $50 reward from ODFW, which asks that
fi sh with either type of tag be reported.
Richardson said the program aims to col-
lect data on the “angling experience” in the
Coast Fork.
“We’re curious how people are utilizing
the fi shery,” she said. “We’ve been stocking
it for a long time, but we still don’t have a
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photo by Jon Stinnett
Signs near the Coast Fork detail
ODFW's Tag Reward Program.
lot of information on how anglers are using
it. We hope to start the conversation of how
satisfi ed they are with the fi shery, do they
return fi sh, etc.”
ODFW is also anxious to see if any of the
Chinook salmon smolts it has stocked in the
Coast Fork in years past will return to the
river to spawn, with many in the agency be-
lieving that 2015 is a kind of make-or-break
year in the effort to reestablish a salmon
fi shery in town.
“The return may be stronger in 2015, and
if it isn’t, we may look to change things over
time,” ODFW Fish Biologist Jeff Ziller told
the Sentinel last January. “If the Coast Fork
and the Row are going to produce a fi shery,
2015 would be the year to see it.”
Richardson added, though, that the Tag
Reward Program isn’t likely to yield much
information on the salmon fi shery.
“Salmon/steelhead and trout anglers are
usually two different camps,” she said.
“Trout have such a different life history, and
once they’re stocked in an area, they usually
don’t go far.”
Fish and Wildlife plans to release an ad-
ditional 1400 fi sh in the Coast Fork on May
11, Richardson said, with 200 containing
white non-reward tags and 20 with tags that
earn a $50 gift card. She said Cottage Grove
may be unique in terms of a viable fi shery
in its city limits.
“There are town-run steelhead in Eugene
that have bank access, but Cottage Grove
is unique in that it has hatchery trout, a vi-
able cutthroat fi shery and the potential for
salmon in the Row,” she said.
ugene psychologist Char-
lotte Peterson will provide
a sneak preview from her soon-
to-be published book “Growing
Kind Kids: Mindful Parenting
from Peaceful Cultures” in the
fi rst of four Thursday events
taking place through May in
Cottage Grove to mark Mental
Health Awareness Month.
Peterson’s talk will be Thurs-
day, May 7, from 6:30-8 p.m.
at South Lane Mental Health,
located at 1345 Birch Ave. in
Cottage Grove. Refreshments
will be provided and admission
is free.
Subsequent Thursday evening
get-togethers scheduled at the
same time and place include
“Living Well with Chronic
Conditions,” presented by Pro-
gram Coordinator Leslie Gil-
bert on May 14, and on May
21, “Holistic Wellness through
Eastern Spirituality & Western
Psychology” by Eugene psychi-
atrist Joseph Arpaia, MD, who
will share tips from his books
“Real Meditation in Minutes a
Day” and “Tibetan Wisdom for
Western Life.”
On May 28, South Lane Men-
tal Health will present “Happy,”
an Academy-Award nominated
documentary that explores hu-
man happiness through inter-
views with people from 14 dif-
ferent countries.
A Wellness Day Celebration
will take place Saturday, May
16 from noon to 4 p.m. at South
Lane Mental Health. A labyrinth
walk, yoga, storytelling, video
games, art and a cooking and
gardening activity are among
the scheduled events.
All events are being presented
as creative ways to encourage
and support mental health.
For more information or to re-
quest a sign language interpreter
or other accommodations, call
South Lane Mental Health at
(541) 942-3939 or visit www.
slmh.org.
Death/Memorial
Notices
Frederick Willis Harding, 80
of Cottage Grove died April 29,
2015. A memorial will be held
Saturday, June 13 at 11 a.m. at
Smith-Lund-Mills Chapel in
Cottage Grove.
Carol Mae Van Poll, 80, of
Cottage Grove died April 9,
2015. A memorial and potluck
will be held Sunday, May 17
from 2-4 p.m. at Bohemia Park
in Cottage Grove.
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