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City Beat — 5A Low-water shrubs — 9A Tri results — 3B Low lake levels, page 3A $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 SOUTH LANE COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889 'Super' Art Walk happens Friday VOLUME 127 • NUMBER 5 T HE CROWD DOWNTOWN Also inside: A congregation of Oregon’s mayors has prompted the planning of a Downtown Art Walk of enormous scope. Organizers expect the Art Walk scheduled this Friday, July 31, to be big. Really big. The last Friday of each month in Cottage Grove’s Historic District is generally ear- marked for Art Walk, in which businesses ex- tend their hours and play host to local artists who want to show off their work. But orga- nizers say that this month’s “Super Art Walk” will be taken to an entirely new level due to the Oregon Mayors Association’s 2015 Sum- mer Conference being held in Cottage Grove. Approximately 70 mayors from cities across Oregon will converge in Cottage Grove this Thursday through Saturday for training, sharing best practices and networking with other mayors. “The timing is really fortunate for us as the host city this year,” said Chamber of Com- merce Executive Director Travis Palmer. “We already have some great things going on for the mayors to experience around town. Our job now is to make sure that they have such a great time here that they can’t wait to come back again and tell their friends. These visi- tors are the spokespeople for their commu- nities and they talk to a lot of folks. If they see even a fraction of all the great reasons to visit Cottage Grove, we’ll generate some great word of mouth advertising for our little com- munity.” On top of the usual Art Walk activities, Fri- day’s hours have been expanded to 4-9 p.m., and several additional displays and activities are planned for the mayors and public. Visi- tors can try their hand at panning for gold, chat with historians who will be dressed in period costume and see local Hollywood fi lm history displays, which may include a photo booth at the famous Deathmobile from “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Live Music, a toga party, movie showings and other activi- ties are also planned for the evening. “It will be impossible to see it all,” said Shawna Neigh, Coordinator of Cottage Grove’s Main Street Program and one of the event organizers. “We want to provide an op- portunity for people to see how diverse, eclec- tic, and fun our town’s history is and entice them to come back and see more.” Friday’s artist listing: Apple Pie Antiques: Chris Doyle - Beauti- ful unique necklace and earring set; Sally Schwader - Landscape oil paintings Set up on Main Street: Portrait artist James Hodson In Front of Bohemia Rose/Buster’s: Mike McIntosh/ Extreme Metal Werx Big Stuff: Open for dinner Axe & Fiddle: Open for dinner, live music Kalapuya Books: Candee Brennan - Ceram- ics and paintings Coast Fork Feed and Brewstation: Live music Analog Barbershop: Open Imagine It Framed: Danielle Brown Photog- raphy Timeless Treasures: Open The Crafty Mercantile: Fyona Rose - Whim- sical jewelry; Noelle Ervin - Vintage buttons and feathers made into earrings and hair pieces Opal Center for Arts and Education: Movie, “Animal House” Victoriana’s: Live music by Corwin Bolt & The Wingnuts Stacy’s Covered Bridge: Open for dinner Bookmine: Basket cases, pine needle baskets; Eve Pierce, author; Kathy Kingsbury, Author; Tao Orion, author. In Front of Pandora’s Box: Marilyn Wilber - Antt Farm Textiles Nice Tri Couple dominates at CG Lake, page 1B photo by Matt Hollander The combination Chili Cook-off/Car Cruise fi lled Main Street Saturday. Classic Cars and Chili: A winning recipe BY MATT HOLLANDER The Cottage Grove Sentinel W ith still hours left to go in the annual Main Street Chili Cook-off on Saturday, the Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Commerce had already sold out of the 1,000 taste kits organizers had packaged prior to we think that encouraged more peo- ple to come downtown. We were also very pleased to accommodate every contestant on Main Street. In the past we’ve had to put some folks on 7th Street, but it seemed like this year’s lay out made for better fl ow.” the event. “We’re selling them as fast as we can put them together,” said Chamber Executive Director Travis Palmer. In all, Palmer and his team sold 1,300 taste kits — 300 more than at last year’s Chili-cook off. “It was a really good event,” he said. “The weather wasn’t blazing hot, so R CG man undertakes odyssey, page 11A Please see CHILI, Page 12A City Council stands pat on marijuana Ban on early recreational sale at dispensaries not pursued BY MATT HOLLANDER The Cottage Grove Sentinel B eginning in October, it appears that medicinal and recreational marijuana will be available in Cottage Grove as a one-stop shop. On Monday the City Council agreed not to pursue an ordinance that would prohibit the early sale of commercial marijuana by currently established medical marijuana dispensaries. “I don’t see any value in pursuing an ordinance against the early sale because that’s not what the voters wanted,” said Councilor Mike Fleck. While recreational marijuana use be- came legal on July 1, 2015, it will be some time, perhaps not until late 2016, before a legal retail market can be es- tablished by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC). The Oregon Legislature would ap- pear to be addressing this gap through Senate Bill 460; Starting Oct. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2016, medical mari- juana dispensaries may sell commer- cial marijuana to adults age 21 and older, while not being subject to a 25 percent sales tax. However, the legis- lation adopted by the Legislature also created options that are available for local governments. In the coming months, the Cottage Grove City Council will have the op- portunity to consider other regulations on local marijuana retail. Today's special Betty shows us how to use that zucchini, page 6A Please see COUNCIL, Page 10A Driver sentenced for 2013 crosswalk hit-and-run BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel C ottage Grove’s Laurie Colton said she’s spent the last year and a half monitoring the progress of the case against a woman who was sentenced for her role in the October, 2013 crash that claimed the life of Colton’s mother, Claudia Kimery. Kimery, 74, was attempting to cross Highway 99 in Cottage Grove that Saturday afternoon, Oct. 19, with the aid of a walker when police say she was clipped by the mirror of a passing motorist, then hit again by a second driver when she fell to the ground. Kimery was pronounced deceased at the scene. Last Tuesday, July 21, 24-year old Brittney Fletcher, the driver of the fi rst vehicle, received jail time and probation for failing to perform the duties of a driver to an injured person. Police say Fletcher fl ed the scene of the accident and returned a short time later. She will serve 30 days in jail and three years’ probation for her role in the accident. The second driver, Wendy Jo Beard of Cottage Grove, is scheduled to stand trial for the same charge in August. Since the accident, Colton said she’s been working on behalf of her family to stay up-to-date on the case, including contact with victims’ ser- vices at the District Attorney’s offi ce. Colton acknowledged that the cases against the two drivers were “very complicated,” adding that as such the family was willing to accept a lesser sentence for Fletcher. (Neither Fletcher nor her attorney, Greg Gill, could be contacted by the Sentinel for this story.) Please see FLETCHER, Page 10A Sentinel fi le photo A memorial to Claudia Kimery was erected at the site of her 2013 death at a Cottage Grove crosswalk. Rain Country Realty Inc. 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