COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 3, 2015
Velomobiles zip
through Cottage Grove
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
D
uring a rest stop at Buster’s
Café on Thursday, riders
with Left Coast Velomobiles spent
some time talking about what has
to be one of their favorite subjects:
their unique vehicles.
The Left Coast Velomobile Gath-
ering brought about eight riders to
Cottage Grove for the fi nal day of
a ride that began in Portland and
worked its way south last week.
While in the area, riders rode their
velomobiles — basically bikes that
are enclosed for aerodynamic pur-
poses — around Dorena and Cot-
Community Foundation
awards scholarships
Fifty-three awards
totaled $53,000
tage Grove reservoirs, then across
the local covered bridges and back
to Creswell, in the process racking
up between 50-60 miles per day
for the trip.
Cottage Grove’s Taylor Wilhour,
who can often be seen pedaling
around town in his own “velo,” said
the Row River Trail was a popular
aspect of the South Lane County
portion of the ride. Wilhour, who
pedaled across the United States in
his vehicle in 2011, joined others
who had completed similar feats,
each eager to extol the virtues of
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photo by Jon Stinnett
Velomobile riders took in the sights including the
Chambers Railroad Bridge.
Eastside Market changes hands
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
M
andy and Garry Dhanju know how
positively nearby recreation oppor-
tunities have affected their business at Fern
Ridge Market, and they say it’s a big reason
they wanted to operate a similar market in
Cottage Grove.
The Dhanjus found their chance with the
recent purchase of the Eastside Market, one
of the last stops for provisions on the way to
Dorena Reservoir. They also own the Get N
Go Deli in Springfi eld.
“We wanted to buy something down
here,” Garry Dhanju said. “We already have
Fern Ridge, and we thought we could do
even better in Cottage Grove.”
The couple took over ownership follow-
ing a 15-year run by previous owners Jin
Hwan and his wife, who recently sought
retirement. The Dhanjus have been operat-
ing the market since April 1 and are excited
about the changes they have made and will
be making, including the addition of hot
food such as breakfast sandwiches, more
grocery items and a walk-in beer “cave.”
“Come in and see the difference,” Mandy
Dhanju said.
Eastside Market is located at 3075 Row
River Road. It is open from 7 a.m. to 10
p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 10
p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
photo by Jon Stinnett
Mandy and Garry Dhanju assumed
ownership of Eastside on April 1.
BY MATT HOLLANDER
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
A
photo by Matt Hollander
t least 60 kids and their
parents participated in
the fourth annual Cottage Grove
Water Safety Day, held Satur-
day at the Warren H. Daugherty
Aquatic Center.
During the 2 1/2-hour event,
which was free to the public,
families rotated through sev-
eral interactive stations to learn
about life jackets, boating safe-
ty, water rescue and hypother-
mia. Participants also practiced
getting in and out of a boat in
the pool.
Cottage Theatre presents
2015
he Cottage Grove Com-
munity Foundation pro-
vided 57 scholarships to stu-
dents from Cottage Grove High
School, Kennedy Alternative
High School and Creswell High
School for a total $53,500.
Additionally, 22 previous
recipients received renewable
scholarships for a total award
of $1,000. Scholarships range
from $500 to $2,000 each, and
since its inception in 2002, the
Foundation has given out al-
most $490,000 to deserving stu-
dents to help them pay for their
education.
“Each year we receive funds
to disburse for scholarships
from 16 endowment funds. This
year we also had funds from nu-
merous donors including many
members of the faculty of the
South Lane School District who
have opted for monthly payroll
deductions for scholarships for
the South Lane School District
students,” said Kathryn Porter,
Coordinator for the Founda-
tion’s Scholarship Committee.
The recipients of this year’s
scholarships are:
Jared Alis, Samantha Aring,
Sara Bass, Justin Bennett, Luke
Bennett, Kayla Bethke, Claisey
Buron, Awbree Cardwell, Reid
Center, Sabra Chambers, McK-
enzie Edmunds, Emily Elligott,
Janae Fain, Mariah Fountain,
Melissa Frei, Sara Gardner,
Ronan Hall, Courtney Ham-
mel, Samantha Harvey, Skylee
Holland, Mackenzie Husko,
Mikayla Kerns, Sarah Kumlin,
Libby Ladd, Kendall Lefl er,
Aubry Martini, Mary Meier,
Amber Miller, Emily Morelock,
Georgia Morrill, Eva Murtaugh,
Adam Najera, Gavin Nash, Ash-
lee Neely, Liam Onaitis, Kolby
Owens, Cindy Pleitez, Jarrett
Raade, Mackenzie Roberts, Glen
Rust, Cameron Sandoval, Tay-
lor Sayles, Kaylee Schickling,
Shania Schueller, Aimee Sena,
Abigail Shelton, Roxanne Shel-
ton, Deidre Simons, Lindy Lou
Smith, Whitley Tucker, Brendon
Vichi and Alexa Young.
CITY BEAT
Water Safety Day promotes
life-saving skills
From left: Grace Cross, Lily Cross, Owen Beatty, Rian
Hanson, Rendon Hanson and Bryce Johnson with Bob-
ber the Water Safety Dog and park ranger Christie John-
son after Cottage Grove’s Water Safety Day on Saturday.
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“In this community, we have
access to so many lakes, rivers
and streams, and it is crucial
that kids and parents know how
to be safe around bodies of wa-
ter,” said Christie Johnson, Park
Ranger and Outreach Specialist
for the U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers.
Johnson said that many par-
ticipants come to the event with
some base knowledge of water
safety but that it’s important to
reinforce good practices right
before the summer.
Lane County Search and Res-
cue also hosted a life jacket ex-
change during the event. Thir-
ty-fi ve kids exchanged old life
jackets for better-fi tting ones.
Additionally, the Cottage Grove
Community Foundation provid-
ed 25 brand new life jackets to
be given away.
The Cottage Grove Water
Safety Day was organized by
“Friends of the Pool” in partner-
ship with the South Lane School
District, U.S. Army Corp of En-
gineers, Lane County Sheriff’s
Offi ce, South Lane County Fire
and Rescue, Make a Splash
Foundation and the City of Cot-
tage Grove.
Excerpts from the City's Friday Update
If treated water is too corro-
Lead and copper
sive, it can react with the lead
solder, copper pipes or fi xtures
testing
The Environmental Protec-
tion Agency (EPA) requires the
City of Cottage Grove to test for
the presence of lead and cop-
per in targeted homes that were
constructed between 1983 and
1985.
Currently, the City is required
to test for lead and copper once
every three years so, the next
triennial testing will occur dur-
ing 2015. EPA’s current re-
quirements are that the City test
20 homes, but City Manager
Richard Meyers said the City
samples 40 homes to get a better
citywide representative sample.
Water Production staff will
delivers sample bottles and in-
structions to selected customers.
The customers take the water
sample, return those samples to
Public Works, and they are test-
ed by an independent lab for the
presence of lead and copper.
Meyers said the City occa-
sionally detects minute levels
of lead and copper in some
of these samples, but he said
the 90th percentile sample has
never exceeded established EPA
maximum contaminate levels of
15 milligrams per liter for lead
and 1.3 milligrams per liter for
copper. Homes that were con-
structed between 1983 and 1985
may have used lead solder to
connect household plumbing.
over time to bring these metals
into solution. These metals in
solution would only affect the
household plumbing system that
they are coming from. The City,
through its water treatment pro-
cess, works to control the corro-
sive nature of the treated water
to eliminate lead or copper from
dissolving into the system. The
triennial lead and copper test-
ing will occur during June of
this year. Once Cottage Grove
reaches a population of 10,000,
the EPA will require that the
City increase its routine sample
testing for lead and copper to 60
homes.
Pat Patterson
Youth Advisory
Council
Scholarship
On Wednesday, the City Man-
ager attended the Senior Schol-
arship night at Cottage Grove
High School to present the 2015
Pat Patterson Youth Advisory
Council Scholarship. The $500
scholarship was awarded to Jar-
ett Raade in recognition of his
service on the YAC for the last
four years. Raade has also been
a regular representative to the
City Council.
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