COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 6, 2016
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Boone said that he worked at
a game store in 1993, at the start
of what he called a great “Board
Game Renaissance.”
“Back then, there was Mo-
nopoly and Life and a few oth-
ers,” he said. “You used to roll
the dice, move to the right space
and do what it said.”
Now, Boone explained that
gamers are enjoying the “Gold-
en Age of Board Gaming,” with
the unbelievable array of games
at Gamesquall acting as unde-
niable proof. On Thursday af-
ternoon, guests could be seen
playing Stratego, the Game of
Thrones board game, Steam-
punk Rally and a host of other
games. The event also acts as an
alcohol-free alternative to the
typical New Year’s Eve celebra-
tion.
“It offers a nice combination
of face-to-face interaction with
a minimum of awkward small
talk,” Boone said.
The Odd Fellows Hall hosts a
photo by Jon Stinnett
Many of the hundreds of available games belong to avid
gamer Jake Boone.
similar but smaller gathering the
fi rst Sunday of each month from
noon to 7 p.m., a gathering that
has grown over time.
“As the gaming community
grows, it’s nice to get people
together to have fun and share
it with,” Boone said. “These are
just nice, decent people.”
A few of those people —
Johnson, Danny Hintze, Harry
Anderson and Daniel West
— could be seen attempting
the “work-replacement” game
“Raiders of the North Sea.”
“It’s all about managing your
resources,” Johnson said as an-
other game got underway.
Pam Reber served as director
of the Coast Fork Willamette
Watershed Council until last Oc-
tober, when she stepped down
to assist with regional contract
work in natural resources and to
assist with a gubernatorial cam-
paign. As director, Reber wrote
that she worked extensively with
many of the City’s departments,
and she also served on its bud-
get and visioning committees.
She wrote that the City needs
to work on building capacity
and that “fi rst and foremost, we
have a responsibility to run ef-
fective government using best
practices.”
“The City should secure regu-
lar public input from the com-
munity,” she wrote, adding that
she would like to see the forma-
tion of a city parks department.
A busy agenda for its Jan. 11
meeting prompted the Council
to schedule interviews of the
four candidates at a workses-
sion prior to its Jan. 25 meeting,
after which it is expected to ap-
point a candidate to the at-large
position. The appointed candi-
date will serve the remainder of
Murphy’s tenure, which is set to
expire on Dec. 31, 2016.
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and has volunteered with sev-
eral community and church ac-
tivities. Ervin recently applied
for the Council’s Ward IV posi-
tion, to which Councilor Amy
Slay was eventually appointed.
He wrote that he wishes to “play
a role in securing opportunity”
for his children’s future in Cot-
tage Grove. Ervin listed safety
of people and property as two of
the City’s major concerns and
wrote that hearing the concerns
of citizens should be a Council
priority.
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been active in the community,
serving on Chamber boards in
both communities, Planning
Commissions, hospital and
school boards.
About fi ve years ago, Devine
and Gillett said they began dis-
cussing the next chapter in their
lives and that of their business.
“We knew that the best way
was to sell to community-mind-
ed business owners,” Devine
said. “We were never comfort-
able with going with a big cor-
porate, long-distance owner-
ship.”
“It didn’t feel like the busi-
ness could continue on the way
we wanted if that happened,”
Gillett added.
Instead, they talked to their
representatives from the Do-It
Best coop, who offered two or
three options for people who
might be interested in the pur-
chase.
“From almost the beginning,
the folks at Gold Beach Lumber
looked like they had the poten-
tial to be a good fi t,” Devine
said.
The stores will continue to
be called Cascade Home Cen-
ters, and Devine said the Ringer
family, now in its fourth genera-
tion of lumberyard owners, has
“oodles of experience” in the
business, with Ryan Ringer re-
cently earning accolades as Do-
It Best’s Retailer of the Year.
“They’re just good business
people and very accomplished,”
Gillett said. “They like our
stores and are very civic mind-
ed; they plan to be very active in
both communities. It’s exciting
for us, and it’s going to be great
for our employees.”
There will be no change
among the ranks of Cascade
employees, Devine said.
“We’ve got great people that
the town really respects,” he
said. “This has been a nearly
seamless process. We’ve cer-
tainly enjoyed the ride, and we
appreciate all the friends we’ve
made here in Cottage Grove and
in Creswell.”
whenever possible.
“They’re all independent
situations, and they get to de-
cide what to do,” Denham said.
“Some of them chose to barri-
cade their doors, while others
chose to escape. If they do lock
down, we always want them to
try to barricade the doors. The
thought is that we’re not just
going to be victims anymore.
They’re going to counter with
whatever they have. We hope to
help them make a solid decision
and go with it based on the situ-
ation, though of course that situ-
ation may change.”
The training included the
sound of live gunfi re, and edu-
cators like Garrett Bridgens,
who serves as South Lane’s
Communications Coordinator,
were given options on what to
do during the training.
“We had our door jammed
shut,” Bridgens said. “We were
using desks, the podium, every-
thing, and we thought we had it
secure, but the guy busted right
through it.”
Cottage Grove High School
art instructor Erin Royce said
that it was nice to be empow-
ered through the training to act
on behalf of herself and her stu-
dents.
“It’s nice to feel like you
wouldn’t just be sitting ducks,”
Royce said, “that there is a way
you could lead your students to
safety.”
In a debriefi ng after the morn-
ing training session, one teacher
noted an inability to properly
barricade their classroom doors,
an issue organizers said they
were hoping to address in the
near future.
According to Superintendent
Krista Parent, the next step in
training involves teaching area
students age-appropriate drills
that can impart the lessons of
the A.L.I.C.E. method, training
that is expected to take place
this spring.
to the Architecture of Lane
County Oregon,” indicates that
the home “is one of two houses
built by 14-year-old “Zach”
Shields for the Cooley family.
This one differs only in minor
detail from another built in the
same year for John Cooley, one-
half mile south at 32481 How-
ard Loop. Both houses have
two front doors — an east coast
tradition. Each also features a
broad roof, a gallery-like porch
with square columns and excep-
tionally fi ne detail on the porch
and eaves.”
An entry from “Golden was
the Past,” a compilation of lo-
cal historical articles penned in
1970, indicates that Alexander
Cooley, who came to Oregon in
1853, was one of the early Cot-
tage Grove merchants, on South
River Road near the fl our mill.
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Department also took part in
the training.
Denham, who explained that
Monday’s training was part of
an effort to offer A.L.I.C.E.
training to educators throughout
Lane County, said the exercise
aims to empower teachers and
other employees to use new in-
formation and a new approach
to an active shooter to decide
what will work best in their situ-
ation and for their students. The
fi rst scenario offered a look at
the classic lockdown response
to a shooter, in which teachers
and students cordon themselves
off in a room and hide together
from an intruder.
“We’ve always had a one-stop
shop that said to lock down and
wait,” he said. “We don’t want
to do that anymore.”
New thinking indicates the
need and ability for teachers and
employees to counter or active-
ly resist a shooter and escape
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Both the John and Alex Cool-
ey houses were built circa 1868,
and were nearly identical, at
least from the outside.”
It was thought that Eliza
Shields’ brothers were carpen-
ters, and records show that her
youngest brother, Zachariah
Shields, had helped build both
homes. A publication entitled
“Style and Vernacular, a Guide
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