6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 3, 2015
Cottage Grove Library has big plans for summer
Group gathers at Community Center to sing along
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Tonewood Trio
Pianist Doug Trappen accompanies a sing-along at the Cottage Grove Community
Center Thursday morning.
Jazz ensemble the Tonewood Trio plans a free
show at the Axe & Fiddle at 657 Main St. in Cot-
tage Grove on Sunday, June 7 beginning at 7
p.m.
End: June 7, 2015, 8:00 pm. The Tonewood
Trio bills itself as a “mellow jazz trio with reeds
and tight harmonies.”
Plans are to hold the sing-along every other
week, making the next scheduled sing-along on
Thursday, June 11 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. The
group invites all interested singers to attend, es-
Non-profi t
presentation
photo by Jon Stinnett
pecially males, as there has been a shortage of
male voices for the sing-along so far.
More summer activities planned:
Nature for Kids and Teen
Adventure Trips sign-up
Now is the time to sign up at the Cottage
Grove Public Library for its Nature for Kids
(ages 7- 12) and Teen Adventures (ages 13-17)
all-day adventure fi lled fi eld trips. Join us for
hiking, biking, swimming, canoeing, kayaking,
stream exploration, arts, crafts, food and more.
These popular fi eld trips begin June 19.
Lawn games for check-out
at the Library
mer lawn games for patrons to check out and
use this summer.
Summer reading special guests —Wednesdays
at 2:30 p.m.
Summer Reading Kick-Off
is coming
Chess club — Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Get ready kids (and parents), the Summer
Reading Kickoff event at the Cottage Grove
Public Library is Wednesday, June 17 from 2-4
p.m. Guests can join in for free books and ice
cream and the chance to meet some real-life
heroes.
Free three-month library
cards for families
Special summer programs:
The Cottage Grove Public Library has bocce
ball, badminton, volleyball, bean bag toss,
discs and disc golf, and other awesome sum-
Blackberry Pie
Society to host Representa-
tive Cedric Hayden
The Cottage Grove Blackberry Pie Society
Speaker Series will host Oregon State Represen-
tative Cedric Hayden at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
June 10 at the Brewstation, located at 106 South
6th St. in Cottage Grove.
Representative Hayden will focus on legislation
that impacts his constituents in House District 7,
which includes Cottage Grove. He will also re-
fl ect on his fi rst term in the legislature and take
questions from the audience.
The event is free and open to the public. Re-
freshments will be available for purchase.
For more information about this event, contact
Blackberry Pie Chairperson Leslie Rubinstein at
541-521-2887 or blackberrypie@gmail.com.
B
eautiful voices fi lled the reception hall
at the Cottage Grove Community Center
Thursday morning, and for a solid hour, the hits
just kept coming.
A special sing-along was added to the Com-
munity Center’s lineup on May 14, an event that
fi nds pianist Doug Trappen and a dozen or so
singers rolling through about 30 of the most
popular songs of all time.
A newcomer to Cottage Grove, Trappen
moved to the area six months ago and follows
the template of a singing get-together he used
to accompany at his previous home in Califor-
nia, a template featuring 45 minutes of singing
several songs followed by 15 minutes for solos.
Last week, Joanne Fasold delighted the crowd
with a song.
“When you can get together and sing, you
feel so much better about life,” Trappen said.
“Music has the ability to do that for people.”
Tara Sue Hughart, one of the junior members
of a group that skews largely female, said the
sing-along has offered “a good way to get to-
gether and reminisce.”
“I also learn a lot of new songs, though some
are actually very familiar,” Hughart said. “This
is a nice way to spend time together; I’m glad
we started it.”
COMING UP:
On Monday, June 8 at 3 p.m. at the Healing
Matrix, located at 632 Main St., Amy Callahan,
a former resident of Cottage Grove who is now
working in Portland for the Non-profi t Associa-
tion of Oregon, will be speaking to any interested
local non-profi t leaders about learning more about
how the NAO can provide resources to strengthen
and grow their organization.
Nature for Kids —select Fridays all summer
Harrison
Elementary to present all-
school concert
Passes for families with children who live
outside the city limits will be available June
1. They are provided by the City of Cottage
Grove, Friends of the Library and Cottage
Grove Rotary.
Students at Harrison Elementary School will
present a concert at Bohemia Park near 10th St. in
Cottage Grove from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday, June
4. The school's spring concert will feature contri-
butions from the entire student body and a rous-
ing patriotic tune at its conclusion, according to
music teacher Stephanie Zahlmann. The concert
is free to the public and all are welcome.
Ukulele lessons —Tuesdays at 9 a.m. for chil-
dren age 9 and up.
B UDGET
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“It’s a rubber-stamp process,”
said Price. “We had less than
a week to review the budget,
and once we decided that we
would adjourn by 8 p.m., Rich-
ard (Meyers) knew exactly how
long to talk. It’s the same thing
ever year and it really discour-
ages people from joining this
committee.”
Meyers said he wasn’t overly
pleased with the accusations
levied by Price, and that they
weren’t true.
“From the city staff’s perspec-
tive, we are still trying to fi gure
out why the meeting ended in
such a brouhaha,” Meyers said.
“We asked for questions at every
opportunity, and there were very
few comments throughout.”
Meyers acknowledged that
the budget wasn’t made avail-
able until May 21 — two days
later than expected — due to un-
foreseen problems and changes,
but he said that several commit-
tee members still had time to
review the budget and respond
with questions prior to the May
26 meeting. He added that the
staff fully expected the meet-
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ing to be extended until 9 p.m.
and/or continued on Thursday,
but that decision was up to the
committee.
Meyers also suggested that
that some members could have a
misunderstanding of the staff’s
role as “facilitators.”
“We try to let the committee
run things as they want to, but
the reality is that they meet once
or twice a year and aren’t paid
to do this. We try to guide the
process without orchestrating,”
he said.
Price said that she had hoped
for more discussion on the In-
dustrial Park Operations Fund.
The City is facing a $90,575
debt payment on the park devel-
opment in 2016-2017. In order
to reach that amount, the City
will need to sell at least two of
the remaining four parcels in the
park.
Councilor Jake Boone offered
a motion to create a contingency
fund for the debt payment by
decreasing funding for the pool
by $10,000. That motion died
for lack of a second.
The 2015-2016 budget of
$26.4 million represents an in-
creased of nearly $3 million
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increase is all but accounted for
in the funding of some major
capital improvement projects,
including fi ber optic projects,
sewer system projects and storm
drainage system improvements,
with more than half of those
projects funded through capital
improvement bonds.
The proposed budget also re-
stores the full-time Parks Main-
tenance position and reduces the
number of part-time park em-
ployees. In an attempt to save
funds in the 2014-2015 bud-
get, the full-time position was
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employees. However, Meyers
said that the quality of the parks
took a substantial hit because of
the high turnover of part-time
workers.
The proposed budget also
refl ects the utility rated adjust-
ments that have been recom-
mended in the City’s proposed
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