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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 12, 2015 Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago Aug. 7, 1985 Downtown to Celebrate Downtown Cottage Grove merchants and shoppers are gearing up once again for the second annual Main Street Cel- ebraion—a community festival designed to promote downtown as an attractive, progressive part of the city. Sponsored by the Downtown Restoration Association, this year’s affair will be held August 10, and will open with a fun run- promenade and will end with an old fashioned street dance. A special 12-page pullout section in this week’s edition of The Sentinel has a complete listing of scheduled events. “The idea for all this was re- ally just to celebrate the efforts of the Downtown Restoration Committee,” says Celebration Chairwoman Diane O’Renick. Last year the committee hung fl ower baskets from various locations along Main Street, while this year colorful banners were added to further spruce up downtown. O’Renick estimates the cel- ebration attracted about 2,000 people last year and she hopes this year’s event will draw at least 2,500. She places part of her big crowd hopes with three new events to this year’s slate of activities. For the fi rst time a combination fun run and walk- dubbed “The Celebration Race and Promenade,” – will be held. Other new events include a tal- ent contest and the street dance, which will be headlined by the rock band “Fat Chance.” The talent show is open to anyone interesting in entering one of fi ve categories-individu- al vocal, group vocal, individual instrument, break dancing and miscellaneous. Applications are available at KNND, Uptown Printing, and Pen and Press. The entry fee is $1, with a grand prize of $50 to be awarded. Top three category POLICE BLOTTER and crafts show, face painting and entertainment. “The whole idea for the Main Street Celebration is to have a good turnout of people from Cottage Grove and the surround- ing area and for everone to see what downtown Cottage Grove has to offer,” says O’Renick. “Hopefully out of all this, the downtown area will continue to grow." Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 Aug. 3 Aug. 4 Aug. 5 Theft A large black leather purse was stolen from a woman at the highway 99N Goodwill store. The purse contained two wal- lets, credit and debit cards, so- cial security info, car and house keys, and a Samsung S5 phone, estimated value: $200. Burglary Subjects broke into the Econo Clean on E. Gibbs Ave the night before through the back win- dow. The offi cer reported that nothing was missing from the business. Theft The caller advised police that someone had broken into a large trailer parked in front of the Cot- tage Grove Yamaha on Palmer Ave. Tools and other items were stolen. Fingerprints were lifted from the trailer but came back with negative results. Domestic Assault Caller reported that a wom- an assaulted her and has been stealing items from her and us- ing drugs at an apartment off of Highway 99. Both the caller and suspect were taken into cus- tody. Please see BLOTTER, Page 11A CITY BEAT Scenic bikeway rating City Manager Richard Mey- ers attended his fi rst meeting of the Oregon Scenic Bikeway Committee on Tuesday, Aug. 4. The meeting involved about a 30-mile bike ride on a proposed scenic bikeway. The committee evaluated the ride based on cri- teria for scenic bikeways. They will be meeting again to review the ratings and consider the pro- posed bikeway. Meyers is the offi cial representative on the committee from the League of Oregon Cities to represent the interest and concerns of cities around the state. CLIP N' CARRY GARAGE SALES MULTI-FAMILY COUNTRY SALE 76658 Blue Mtn. School Rd., off Mosby Creek Rd. Thurs-Fri 9am-5pm Old books, antiques, glass- ware, household goods, clothes, antique cream cans, vinyl records, Danner boots, electric power saw, bench grinder, 1990 Travelite 5th wheel trailer. winners will walk away with $15, $10, and $5 respectively. Finals will be at 5 p.m. on a stage set up downtown. Main Stree from 5th through 8th Streets will be barricaded from traffi c throughout the Celebra- tion from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Other events will include var- ious sidewalk merchant sales, four showings of “Surpressed Desires,” by the Cottage The- atre, a chicken barbeque, an arts Museum painting now complete The brick chimney that was part of the Cottage Grove His- torical Society Museum at Birch and H Streets was removed last year by Public Works staff. The City says the chimney had be- come unstable and was in dan- ger of falling. The removal of the chimney left a hole in the side of the building, which was repaired using siding identical to the original siding. Because the chimney removal occurred late in the year, the siding un- derneath the chimney was not painted to match the rest of the building. This week, the unpainted section of the build- ing was primed and painted to match the rest of the museum structure. 5A ESTATE SALE by Roger's Antiques A MUST SEE! 164 Village Drive Thur-Fri-Sat-Sun 9-4 Antique furniture, pottery, tools, art work, patio furni- ture. MULTI-FAMILY SALE 32306 Cleveland St. (by Hillcrest Market) Thur-Fri 10am-6pm; **Sun. 25-cent Sale** Furniture, trinkets, Jim Beam collection, 17" tires, nice back-to-school clothing, costume jewelry. YARD SALE 2135 Patrick Court Fri 9a-2p; Sat 8a-2p Household, toys, camping, cupboards, clothes, more. YARD SALE 34771 Shoreview Dr. (4 miles east near Dorena dam) Fri-Sat 9am-4pm Antique pump organ, 3- wheeler, table saw, walker, bike, and much more! GARAGE SALE - TWO FAMILY 31371 Kenady Lane Fri-Sat 9am-5pm Antique table, iron bed, small yellow boat, jeans, girl's clothing and lots more! CLEANING OUT THE ATTIC. ESTATE SALE 1302 Girard Ave. Fri 9a-4p; Sat 10a-4p Furniture, household, tools, a lot of everything! 67 YEARS ACCUMULATION! GARAGE/MULTI- FAMILY SALE 1153 LaRae Dr. (off Holly Ave.) Fri 9a-5p; Sat 9a-2p GARAGE SALE 1475 Whitman (close to CG High School) Fri 8a-4p; Sat 8a-1p Kid's stuff, girl's clothes, women's clothes, plus size women's clothes, some building supplies, something for everyone. GARAGE SALE 1765 Pritchett Place Sat. only 9am-5pm GARAGE SALE A whole lot of a little bit of everything! Priced to Sell! All gotta go! Sat-Sun 9am-5pm 76602 Blue Mtn. School Rd. NEIGHBORHOOD SALE 440 N. 16th St. Fri-Sat 8am-4pm Chest freezer, tools, TV, stereo, baby stuff, clothes of all sizes. IN CRESWELL: CRESWELL MASONIC LODGE MEMBERS SALE 73 West C St., Creswell Fri-Sat 9am-5pm Household, kitchenware, collectables, linens, books, puzzles, and more. LIVING ESTATE SALE For Georgia “Pete” Rychard Fri-Sat 8am-4pm 1330 Harvey Lane Antique Hutches, Dressers, Clocks, Dishes, Jars & etc. Vintage Costume Jewelry, Chicken Collection, Bird Houses, Craft Items, Tons of Nice Clothes $1.00 each (small to large), Lots of Shoes and Boots size 7.5. Everything Must Go! ESTATE SALE Creswell Court, 700 N. Mill St. #25, Creswell. Sat-Sun 9am-4pm O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A things settled down. Not much — but enough. Hastily the three surviving boats were launched with a little over half the crew on board to row for shore. They would come www.andreasons.com 541- 485-6659 6 -day weather forecast THURSDAY Aug. 13 FRIDAY Aug. 14 53° | 74° 52° | 81° Sunny Sunny SATURDAY Aug. 15 SUNDAY Aug. 16 52° | 83° 52° | 84° Sunny Sunny MONDAY Aug. 17 TUESDAY Aug. 18 53° | 84° 53° | 84° Sunny Sunny Cottage Grove Sentinel www.cgsentinel.com back 12 hours later for the rest of them…if they could survive. They did. When the boats re- turned to the Shark, they found it battered and waterlogged but with the several dozen shipmates (and their captain) still clinging to the wreckage, all of them tied to the rigging with lifelines to keep from being swept away. Not a single sailor was lost, or even badly hurt. Not one — out of a crew of more than 70 men. When the last members of the crew reached the beach, soaked through and exhausted from their ordeal, they found a great bonfi re blazing on the sand and their comrades all gath- ered around it. They’d found a great deal of driftwood clus- tered along the beach, which had burned very nicely. It was, they later learned, the wreck- age of the sloop of war Peacock, which had come to grief on the opposite shore of the river just fi ve years before. The castaways ended up stuck on that beach for months, al- though their British rivals from the Hudson’s Bay Company hastened to bring them food and supplies. They built a log house at Point George, which they dubbed Sharksville, and waited in it for a vessel that they could charter to take them home. But while they were wait- ing, the barque Toulon — re- member the Toulon? The ship that hired the only river pilot, and then promptly stranded on a sandbar below Fort Astoria? It now returned from a journey with the news that international negotiations between Britain and the U.S. had resulted in a decision to set the boundary be- tween them permanently at 49 e v i t o m o Aut s e i t l a i c e Sp degrees — the modern border with Canada. So in the end, the castaways of Sharksville ended up being the fi rst to hear the news. And upon hearing it, Howison ran the Shark’s fl ag up a makeshift fl ag- pole, and for the fi rst time ever, Old Glory was fl ying above the undisputed American territory of Oregon. Meanwhile, the ship had broken up, and sections of the deck with the ship’s carronades attached had washed up on a nearby beach — just north of Arch Cape. Three pieces of ar- tillery were found, and then an- other; one of them was dragged out of the sand and brought up on shore, where it stood out- doors exposed to the elements for more than 100 years in a little town that was named af- ter it: Cannon Beach. Recently, it was sent off to the Nautical Archaeology program at Texas A&M University for expert res- toration work, and the Cannon Beach History Center and Mu- seum is currently in the midst of a GoFundMe campaign to raise the $30,000 it needs to provide a proper climate-controlled ex- hibit space for this 190-year-old piece of Oregon history. In 2008, two more cannons from the Shark were found by a beach walker, farther to the north; these, also refurbished by Texas A&M, were placed on display at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria last year. (Sources: Shine, Greg P. “A Gallant Little Schooner,” Or- egon Historical Quarterly, Dec. 2008; Tobias, Lori. “Cannons from USS Shark Come Back Home to Oregon’s Coast,” Port- land Oregonian, 16 May 2014; http://www.gofundme.com/ ourcannon) Finn J.D. John teaches at Or- egon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon his- tory. For details, see http://fi nn- john.com. To contact him or suggest a topic: fi nn2@offbe- atoregon.com or 541-357-2222. Douglas G. Maddess, DMD FAMILY AND GENERAL DENTISTRY Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time PRACTICING THE ART OF TRANSMISSION REPAIR SINCE 1991 Manual & Automatic Transmission Repair Tune ups 30-60-90K Services Brakes, belts, hoses and cooling system services Muffl ers & Custom Exhaust Drive-train repair such as clutches, u joints and differentials All makes and models. 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