Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at Sentinel stories from 20 and 60 years ago
JUNE 21, 1995: Cithy Hosts Gold Wing motorcycle gathering — The Gold Wing Touring Association held its fi rst
state-wide motorcycle gathering this past week in Cottage Grove. Participants were entertained by the eight-mem-
ber Northwest Wings Drill Team from Seattle, Wash. The team is shown performing a maneuver called 8-Up.
June 23, 1955
The president, however, will be
unable to attend the tournament
and sent, through his secretary,
the following letter:
Eisenhower sends
‘regrets’ on golf
meet invitation
The White House
Washington
June 15, 1955
Last week a letter was writ-
ten to President Eisenhower in-
viting him to participate in the
Cottage Grove Centennial Golf
Championships, July 2, 3 and 4.
Dear Mr. Martin,
The President has received
your letter of June tenth and
has asked me to thank you for
the cordial invitation which you
extended to him, on behalf of
your Committee, to participate
in the Cottage Grove Centen-
nial Golf Championships to be
held at Cottage Grove, Oregon,
July second through the fourth.
He appreciates your justifi able
pride in this event and indeed,
your appealing description of
your part of the country makes
it diffi cult for the President to
POLICE BLOTTER
June 16
Attempt to fl ee, Madison Ave.
The reporting person said
that the driver’s side window
of a customer’s vehicle, which
was parked at the location, had
been broken sometime over the
previous weekend. Offi cers re-
viewed a surveillance tape and
determined that the suspects
were two unknown males. The
damage was valued at $200.
The driver bailed and ran
from a moving vehicle. The
passenger was able to bring the
vehicle to a stop.
June 17
Discharge fi rearm in city,
Benjamin Ave.
CITY BEAT
Oregon Scenic
Bikeways
Committee
The City announces that City
Manager Richard Meyers has
been selected by Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department Di-
rector to serve as a member on
the State Scenic Bikeway Com-
mittee representing the League
of Oregon Cities membership.
The 11-member committee
With best wishes for the cen-
tennial celebration.
Sincerely,
Bernard M. Shanley
Secretary to the President
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GARAGE SALES
GARAGE SALE
32361 Green Acres Lp.
Fri-Sat 7am-4pm
Camping, sporting goods,
garden supplies, microwave,
housewares.
MULTI-FAMILY SHOP
SALE
Rain or Shine
78650 N. Cedar Park Rd.
(follow signs)
Sat-Sun 8am-4pm
TAG SALE
1250 E. Jefferson Ave.
Fri-Sat 8am - ?
GARAGE SALE
Fri-Sat-Sun 8-?
412 Adams
Collectables, Antiques,
Furniture
EARLINE & FRIENDS
ANNUAL GARAGE SALE
1710 S. 5th off 6th & Film-
ore
Fri-Sat 8am-4pm
Furniture, kitchen cabinets,
vintage collectibles, lamps,
linens, tools, succulents,
clothes, garden stuff, wom-
en's leather jackets - large.
YARD SALE
1038 E Van Buren Ave
Sat. only 8am-4pm
Housewares, clothes 2XL/
3XL, guy stuff, misc.
RUMMAGE SALE FUND-
RAISER for EMBRACE
Community Outreach
1115 S. 6th St.
Sat. only 9am-3pm
FARM TO TOWN SALE
Fri-Sat 9-4
1611 W. Main St
Farm equipment, tools,
Furniture, achery equipment,
camping gear, crocks, small
chest freezer, much more.
MULTI-FAMILY
YARD SALE
THURS-SUN 9-?
320 Grant Ave
HUGE GARAGE SALE
SAT 8-4
78696 Bryson-Sears Rd
MULTI-FAMILY SALE
FRI-SAT 8-1
1215 S 4TH ST
Tools, Clothes, antiques
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
June 15
Criminal mischief, Automo-
tive Specialists
send regrets. However, he is
heavily committed for the next
several weeks and cannot pos-
sibly add this engagement to his
crowded calendar.
COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 24, 2015
The complainant at the sta-
tion reported he accidentally
discharged a fi rearm within city
limits. The bullet entered the
neighbor's home, and the com-
plainant made sure that every-
body was okay in the house.
June 18
Criminal mischief, S. 12th St.
The caller said an unknown
suspect had been taking an ax
to his truck at night. There was
slight damage to the rear tail-
gate and right bed wall, as well
as key marks to the right front
quarter panel. The estimated
value was $123.
June 19
Follow up, Hillcrest Market
During a routine attempt to
locate a stolen vehicle, offi cers
observed the vehicle parked at
the location. The vehicle ap-
peared to be driveable.
June 20
Offi cer safety info, Bennett
Creek Rd.
A caller said his residence
was burglarized one hour ago.
The caller said he attempted to
chase down the burglar in his
truck. The suspect stopped in
the middle of the road and fi red
multiple shots at the caller. The
caller described the suspect's
vehicle as a blue Chevy pickup
truck.
June 21
Agency assist, W. Main St.
The caller said that a female
at the residence had taken an
unknown amount of drugs and
was overdosing. The subject
was transported to the ER for an
evaluation.
Excerpts from the City of Cottage Grove's Friday Update
includes representatives of bi-
cycle advocacy organizations,
tourism organizations, local
governments and state agencies
involved in bicycling recreation
or transportation. The commit-
tee evaluates proposed scenic
bikeways and reviews existing
bikeways to determine if they
continue to meet the scenic
bikeway criteria.
Eugene Symphony
The Eugene Symphony will
be kicking off its 50th anniver-
sary season with free outdoor
concerts in Eugene, Roseburg
and Cottage Grove. The con-
cert in Eugene has limited seat-
ing and tickets became available
on Tuesday, June 16 and already
the free tickets for the concert
in Eugene are “sold out”. The
City says no tickets are needed
for the Cottage Grove concert,
scheduled for Monday, July 20
beginning at 7 p.m. in Bohemia
Park. Maestro Danail Rachev
will lead the Eugene Symphony
in popular audience favorites,
including classical, pops and
Broadway tunes including the
works of John Philip Sousa,
John Williams, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Rossini, Tchaikovsky
and more.
was haunted by the ghost of
Emma Taylor.
When the ship arrived in port
under the command of the fi rst
mate, it had to be sold to pay off
the crew, as not a shekel could
be found anywhere aboard. Ru-
mors that the fi rst mate had ab-
sconded with a chest full of the
mistress’s gold, of course, soon
were everywhere, and were al-
most certainly true.
Those wild days were long
gone now, of course. The Mela-
nope had, it seemed, been dis-
masted for the last time. Aban-
doned at sea, she now belonged
to whoever could get a line on
her and tow her to a port — that
is, to the skipper of the North-
land.
After being towed to Astoria,
the salvaged hulk of the battered
old vessel was pumped free of
seawater and sold to a San Fran-
cisco outfi t, which cut it down
Treated
wastewater
effl uent spraying
This will be the fi fth summer
that treated wastewater effl uent
will be land applied at Middle-
fi eld Golf Course for irrigation
purposes. Between June 15 and
Sept. 15 of each year, limits for
phosphorus and temperature are
placed on the Wastewater Treat-
ment Plant discharge by the
Department of Environmental
Quality. Wastewater Treatment
Plant staff recently completed
total coliform tests and in-
creased chlorine concentrations
in the wastewater to achieve
a seven day average coliform
count of 2.2 colonies or less per
100 mils. This increased chlo-
rine residual will be maintained
throughout the irrigation season.
During the summer months, the
WWTP processes approximate-
ly one million gallons of waste-
water per day. The golf course
requires between 350,000 and
450,000 gallons of irrigation
water per day.
for a barge. How long it contin-
ued to serve in that capacity is
unknown.
Eventually, though, the rusty
old hulk was towed to Comox
Harbor in British Columbia,
along with just over a dozen oth-
er old worn-out iron hulls, and
sunk in a line to form a break-
water for the protection of the
log booming area there. Worn
and rusting away, the ships can
still be seen there, rising skel-
etally out of the harbor at low
tide, a reminder not only of the
golden age of sailing ships but
that of Vancouver Island log-
ging as well.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
Taylor, actually went so far as to
buy the Melanope and sail the
seas with him in it, on a sort of
extended working honeymoon
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while the two of them carried
on a long and torrid affair. But
when she died of yellow fever,
he lost his will to live and threw
himself into the sea. After that,
sailors whispered that the ship
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(Sources: Shady Isle Pirate
Society, http://bbprivateer.ca;
Gibbs, James A. Pacifi c Grave-
yard. Portland: Binford, 1950)
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about odd tidbits of Oregon his-
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