COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL December 9, 2015
Hill attends historic
Pearl Harbor game
Gold Museum,
Hist. Society
closing before
move to barn
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Square Dance Barn
slated to be ready by
March
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
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photo by Jon Stinnett
ime in their current loca-
tion is short for the Cot-
tage Grove Historical Society
and Bohemia Gold Mining Mu-
seum, which announced plans
last week to close just before
Christmas prior to relocating
to the old Boots and Sandals
Square Dance Barn on 10th St.
Currently housed at 737 E.
Main St., the Gold Mining Mu-
seum and Historical Society
have shared a building since the
Museum relocated from a build-
ing across Main Street and the
Historical Society moved from
space it occupied upstairs in the
3A
Work continues on the Boots and Sandals Square Dance Barn as its iconic dancers
await their reinstallation on the building's facade.
Vealey House, the former home
of the Genealogical Society. The
two historical entities will oc-
cupy the downstairs portion of
the Square Dance Barn, which
was purchased by the Faye and
Lucille Stewart Foundation last
year and continues to undergo
extensive restoration.
The Museum and Historical
Society will be open until Dec.
24, and gifts can be purchased
there until 4 p.m. that day. They
plan to reopen this spring in the
barn when it’s ready for its new
Fire damages
Creswell
home
A
structure fi re caused heavy smoke
and other damage at a home in
Creswell on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
A press release from South Lane
County Fire and Rescue indicated that
the agency responded to a structure
fi re at 785 Barber Drive in Creswell
just before 7:30 p.m. Initial reports had
indicated that the home was occupied
and that the fi re was contained to a
bedroom. First arriving crews found the
home fi lled with smoke and fi re coming
from a rear bedroom.
Seven fi re/EMS apparatus responded
to the fi re, which caused heavy smoke
damage throughout the home and exten-
sive damage to the bedroom where the
fi re started. South Lane was assisted by
the Goshen Fire District and the Lane
County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
occupants.
On Monday, Greg Yoss of Big
Picture Construction said that
workers are continuing electri-
cal, insulation and drywall work
on the barn. Yoss said the hope
is to have the barn restoration
completed by March of 2016.
Stewart had originally planned
to spend four to six months and
about $100,000 restoring the
barn, but structural shortcom-
ings and a desire for more in-
depth construction plans from
the City of Cottage Grove
pushed the timeline back and
cost fi gures much higher. The
barn has hosted events since
the 1950s but had seen little use
since the Square Dance Club
stopped using the building due
to the deterioration of its fl oor.
“If somebody else had pur-
chased it and gone through what
we went through, if they’d real-
ized they were going to have to
produce an extra $75,000 or so,
it could have been quite a hard-
ship,” Stewart said.
Richard Hill had shirts
specially made for Mon-
day's game in Honolulu.
21 different cities but added that
he’s never had to pass a back-
ground check to see a game, as
he did for permission to board
the famed battleship. Hill had
shirts made to commemorate
the occasion, and one shirt, em-
blazoned with the words “Mr.
President,” was delivered by
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden to
U.S. President Barack Obama.
City Recorder named
OAMR secretary
CG man involved in
Highway 26 wreck
O
regon State Police have identifi ed
a 20-year old Cottage Grove man
as one driver involved in a three-vehicle
crash on Highway 26 east of Seaside last
week.
Police announced that on Sunday, Nov.
29 at about 5 p.m., OSP Troopers and
emergency crews responded to the report
of a multiple vehicle crash on Highway 26
at the junction of Highway 103 (25 miles
east of Seaside).
Upon arrival on the scene, emergency
personnel discovered a three-vehicle crash
with at least one adult female deceased.
At least two others were taken to Portland
area hospitals.
Preliminary information indicates a
2006 Pontiac sedan was traveling west-
bound on Highway 26 when it slowed to
make a turn onto Highway 103. While the
Pontiac was momentarily stopped waiting
for passing traffi c, it was rear-ended by a
1992 Ford F350. This impact pushed the
he opportunity was just
too good to pass up.
Cottage Grove’s Richard Hill,
who has attended Oregon Duck
football games as a season-tick-
et holder for 30 years, said that
Monday’s basketball game be-
tween the Ducks and Navy, held
in Hawaii on the deck of the
U.S.S. Missouri on the anniver-
sary of the Pearl Harbor attack,
was one he couldn’t pass up.
“As such a longtime Ducks
fan, and with three graduates of
the Naval Academy in my fam-
ily, how could I not go?” Hill
said.
Hill explained that grandsons
Eli and Alexander Owre, 1998
and 2002 graduates of Cottage
Grove High School, respective-
ly, also graduated from the Na-
val Academy in 2002 and 2006,
as did Alexander Owre’s wife,
Amelia. The couple met at the
Academy in Annapolis, Md. Eli
and Alexander’s parents, Fred
and Brooks Owre, are also Cot-
tage Grove residents.
Hill said that he and his wife
have attended football games in
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The driver of this Pontiac was killed
in a three-vehicle accident on Nov.
29.
Pontiac into the eastbound lanes of travel,
where it collided head-on with a 2004 Jeep
Cherokee.
The driver of the Pontiac, Tracy E. Ram-
bo, age 53, of Seaside was pronounced
deceased at the scene. Both occupants
of the Jeep, Chase and Lilleana Pietz, of
Battle Ground, Wash., were transported by
ground ambulance to a Portland area hos-
pital for non-life threatening injuries. The
driver of the Ford F350, Dustin G. Harr-
old, 20, of Cottage Grove was not injured.
he Oregon Association
of Municipal Recorders
(OAMR) recently installed Cot-
tage Grove City Recorder Trudy
Borrevik, CMC, as 2015-2017
O A M R
Secretary.
Borrevik
received
the oath of
offi ce
at
the asso-
c i a t i o n ’s
a n n u a l
conference
banquet held at the Seaside
Convention Center in Seaside,
Oregon, on Sept. 17.
Borrevik has been an ac-
tive member of OAMR since
2009. She has served on nu-
merous committees: Nominat-
ing Committee 2010-2011;
Historical Preservation Com-
mittee 2011-2015; Newsletter
Committee 2011-2015; Special
Projects/Fundraising Commit-
tee 2012-2013; Co-Chair of the
Kathy Ishiara Scholarship Fund
Subcommittee 2012-2013; and
Conference Committee 2013-
2015. She received Certifi ed
Municipal Clerk designation
in 2013 from the International
Institute of Municipal Clerks.
She was the Region IV Director
from 2012-2015. She has par-
ticipated in and chaired various
work and community related
program as well.
OAMR is a professional or-
ganization dedicated to promot-
ing governmental relationships
and providing educational and
training opportunities for over
200 Oregon city recorders state-
wide.
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