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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL December 23, 2015 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Availability's an issue for those trying to break the ad- diction/habit. How do we pre- vent people from getting the ad- diction/habit in the fi rst place? In the Dec. 16 issue there was an article re: Safe Haven hoping to create a sober living facility in the area. I wish them well. But we all need to take a hard look at the source of the prob- lem — the easy availability, and what can be done about that. Consider how many outlets in Cottage Grove and the sur- rounding area have some type of alcohol or other mind-alter- ing substance available. Several restaurants The big box stores The liquor store Several taverns Many corner markets The new “brew houses” Vineyards Lodges Several marijuana dispensa- ries How many places to get alco- hol and drugs do we need? The population inside city limits is just under 10,000. Consider- ing the surrounding area, we probably serve 25,000-30,000 in population. Why does our population drive the demand for so many outlets for alcohol? How many AA meetings oc- cur in Cottage Grove? On one hand, we try to help people stop the abuse of too much alcohol, and on the other hand, we make it extremely easy to acquire. If Safe Haven succeeds, there will be a safe place and support Janetta Overholser Cottage Grove Row River Trail ‘improvements’ While cycling into town on Monday, Dec. 14 on the Row River Trail, I was dismayed to fi nd the new tunnel under Row River Road to be fl ooded by over a foot of water. Ever since the tunnel was fi rst proposed, I was concerned about the poten- tial for fl ooding. The very fi rst thing I did when the tunnel was opened was to look at how it was drained. To me it seemed obvious that the drainage would be inadequate. Now that it has indeed fl ooded I am left won- dering where all this water is going to go and how long it may take for the tunnel to be pass- able again. In addition to this problem is the issue of the automatic sen- sors at the road crossings, which are intended to trigger fl ashing crosswalk signs to alert oncom- ing motorists of pedestrians and/or cyclists in the roadway. In the hundred or so times I have cycled passed these sensors they have worked on only six occa- sions (four of those times I was pulling a trailer). Even though they beep at me as I pass by, they do not trigger the fl ashing crosswalk signs, and no motor- ists are alerted of my presence. Why this is I do not know, per- haps I do not pass these sensors at a slow enough speed? I have been commuting back and forth on the Row River Trail three to fi ve times a week since 2003. In those 13 years, which I calculate to roughly 5000 crossings at each location, I have never had an incident with a motorist. Even though “im- provements” have been made, I still follow the guidance of my mother, which is to look both ways — twice — before cross- ing the road. James Taylor Cottage Grove A welcome shot of joy The Sentinel deserves con- gratulations for the photo page in the Dec. 16 issue. As the world situation be- comes darker and our own country sinking into more con- fusion, foolishness and hate, we have proof that all is not lost. It has been revealed to our town that Jim Kness is the real Santa Claus. At the Bookmine cultural cen- ter, coffee shop, bookstore and a source of free condoms, a regu- lar round of the Grove’s more rational citizens gather almost daily to discuss the world situa- tion and possible courses of ac- tion that can be taken locally to Offbeat Oregon History Collection of “history hoarder” is a priceless treasure today BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel I f you were to start asking local historians, asking them who the most infl uential Oregon historians of the 19th century were, there would be several names you would hear over and over. You’d hear Frances Fuller Victor mentioned the most; the “Mother of Or- egon History” is certainly the most fa- mous, despite Hubert Howe Bancroft’s efforts to pass off her work as his own. And you might hear a mention or two of Oregonian editor Harvey Scott — al- though really, Scott was more of a pro- pagandist than a historian, and would never be caught passing on a tale that refl ected poorly on the state or contra- dicted the heroic “Oregon story.” But the name you’d be least likely to recognize is that of a failed printer, amateur historian and compulsive col- lector from Portland: George Henry Himes. George Himes is best known as the curator of the Oregon Historical Soci- ety, a position he held from 1915 until his death in 1940. That’s because it was during that time that it became clear to anyone interested in state history what he had done for the state. For decades he had been, you might say, a hoarder — but a hoarder with a purpose, and a hoarder of a very specifi c type of mate- rial. And he left his hoard as his legacy to his adopted home state: a massive collection of things — documents, books, maps, photographs and physical artifacts — that forms the foundation of the Oregon Historical Society’s col- lections today. In doing so, Himes helped set a tone for how history would be done in Or- egon — a tone that draws as much from the journalist’s toolkit, and the amateur antiquarian’s, as it does from the pro- fessional academic historian’s. George Henry Himes was born near Troy, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and emi- grated on the Oregon Trail nine years make our world a better place. The de facto leader of these dis- cussions is Jim Kness. With his long lifetime of ex- perience he does tend to spin a tale or two. These discussions tend to be quite serious and it takes a lot of thought to suss out the threads of reality. Of course by then many hours have gone by and your day is shot. None- theless, Jim is held with great respect throughout our unique town. In fact, he is so unique that the word cannot be used in any other context. Moving right along, on one later. They settled in the town of Lac- ey, up in what’s now Washington, and when he was 17, young George got his start as an apprentice printer to a news- paper publisher. Himes made his way to Portland in 1864 and took a job setting type on the Portland Morning Oregonian; his hand set the type in the Oregonian that an- nounced the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the following year. This was probably about the time he adopted his lifelong habit of historical scrapbook- ing and collecting, saving clippings and artifacts of contemporary histori- cal events — forming the nucleus of the collection that he would one day bequeath to OHS. By 1870, Himes had his own printing company, which he somewhat unimag- inatively named “Himes the Printer.” He’d met and married a woman named Anna Riggs, and the two of them were getting started on building a family that would eventually include 11 children. But by 1873, Himes was already worrying about the obscurity that would soon fall upon the stories of the pioneers who had braved the Or- egon Trail 20 years before. As the city around him grew in size and opulence, he worried that their stories would be lost. And, of course, being one of their of Jim’s ventures into the halls of wisdom, knowledge and cof- fee, yielded quite the little joke. Gail Hoelzle, the decades long proprietoress of this founda- tion of Cottage Grove, offered a warm pullover to Jim. She did neglect to inform him that this was no ordinary pullover, but a Santa suit. As he was putting it on Mary spilled the beans. We held our collective apprehensive breath. We feared that this pil- lar of conspiracy theories and overall seriousness would shed this fi ne wardrobe. To our relief he was delighted and was proud number himself, he took that prospect rather personally. So with several other Oregon Trail veterans, he formed the Oregon Pio- neer Association. The OPA was more of a fraternal or- ganization-cum-public-relations outfi t than a true historical society. Over the years, it staged parades and banquets, sponsored lectures and shows, and pub- lished books and articles, all of which were at pains to preserve the pioneers’ stories (and, a professional academic historian might remark, perhaps also to reshape and mythologize them just a bit). But the OPA was, until the Oregon Historical Society was formed in 1900, the organization most in control of the narrative of Oregon history. And, backed up by Himes’ already-huge- and-growing collection, it was growing to resemble a historical society more and more. Himes the Printer, during this time, made a name for himself as a publisher of Pioneer Association items and other poorly-selling nuggets of Oregon his- tory, as well as several volumes of Joa- quin Miller’s poetry. A lifelong Con- gregationalist, he was also a hardcore temperance man; when, in 1874, Fran- ces Fuller Victor published the story of W here does chocolate come from? A darkly colored bean – so of course, unprocessed cacao beans are brimming with antioxidant nu- trients. Accordingly, chocolate consumption has been associ- $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM 116 N. Sixth Street · P.O. Box 35 · Cottage Grove, OR 97424 ADMINISTRATION: JOHN BARTLETT, Regional Publisher.............................. 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Cocoa and dark choco- late have been inves- tigated as a treatment option for elevated blood pressure, but only small decreases in blood pressure were reported. Similarly, regu- lar dark chocolate consumption results in small decreases in cholesterol levels. Flavonoids (antioxidants present in choco- late and many other plant foods) do indeed provide cardiovascu- lar protection — high fl avonoid intake is associated with consid- erable reductions (up to 45 per- cent) in the risk of heart disease. The main point to remember is that when you eat healthfully you are eating a large variety of fl avonoid-rich foods, berries for example. Certainly, you can enjoy some chocolate as a part of a healthful eating style – but how you enjoy your chocolate is important. A milk chocolate bar is roughly only one-third chocolate and two-thirds added fat and sugar. Dark chocolate bars have a higher cocoa content and less added sugar, but they also de- liver a signifi cant load of calo- ries and saturated fat. A great way to enjoy chocolate is by using unsweetened cocoa pow- der. Most of the fat has been re- moved, but the chocolate fl avor and the fl avonoids remain. Add cocoa powder to smoothies (like the chocolate cherry smoothie below), or to blended frozen ba- nanas or cherries for a healthy chocolate “ice cream”. Or try making black bean brownies or Steve Thoemmes Cottage Grove the temperance riots (“The Women’s War with Whiskey; or, Crusading in Portland”), Himes was the publisher. But Himes never was much of a busi- nessman. As a publisher, his knack for seeing the signifi cance of historical events as they happened was a real hin- drance. Nobody wanted to read “The History of the Willamette Valley” when it was published in 1885, because that history was just a couple dozen years old and most valley residents already knew it. Similar bad decisions kept his business perpetually tottering. And it didn’t help that the lion’s share of his labor and time and attention were all taken up with adding to his collections, conducting oral-history interviews with aging pioneers and volunteering on OPA events. By 1898, though, it was clear that un- less OPA was willing to open its mem- bership to non-pioneers, something new was needed. So Himes, together with Oregonian editor Harvey Scott and University of Oregon professor Frederic G. Young and others, formed and incorporated the Oregon Historical Society — the fi rst of its kind on the West Coast. (The California Histori- cal Society claims 1871 as a birth date, Is chocolate heart healthy? BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD For the Sentinel to wear it. Before this fl eeting and historic moment passed we were blessed by the presence of a photographer. Thus this unique, priceless and rare col- lector’s item was presented in the Sentinel. Folks are encour- aged to purchase extra copies and send them to relatives and friends worldwide to prove that Cottage Grove continues to be a beacon of hope and humanity. muffi ns sweetened with dates or a healthy chocolate cake with hidden shredded vegetables. You can fi nd recipes like these on the DrFuhrman.com Mem- ber Center or in my books. Keep in mind, when you fol- low a high nutrient eating style of vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, and seeds, the polyphenols in cocoa are only a trivial amount of the loads of phytochemicals provided by your overall health- promoting diet. Enjoy your chocolate by mak- ing delicious treats without add- ed fats and sugars! Dr. Fuhrman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and Super Immuni- ty, and a board certifi ed family physician specializing in life- style and nutritional medicine. Visit his informative website at DrFuhrman.com. Submit your Please see OFFBEAT, Page 10A Chocolate Cherry Smoothie (serves 2) 2 ounces organic baby spinach 2 ounces Boston lettuce 1/2 cup unsweetened soy, hemp or almond milk 1/2 cup pomegranate juice, cherry juice or cherry pome- granate juice 1 tablespoon Dr. Fuhrman’s Cocoa Powder or other natural cocoa powder, not Dutch pro- cessed 1 cup frozen cherries 1 banana 1 cup frozen blueberries 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons ground fl ax seeds Instructions: If using a regular blender, liquefy the spinach with non-dairy milk and juice. Add remaining ingredients and blend about two minutes until very smooth. If using a high powered blender, blend all at once. Letters to the Editor policy The Cottage Grove Sentinel receives many letters to the editor. 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