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10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 20, 2016
Visit to CG inspires
fi ction novel
A TRIBUTE IN SONG
Nez Perce Elder and Great-Great Grand-
son of Chief Joseph, Roy Hayes Jr., sings
a prayer for a departed loved one at the
Cottage Grove Library Saturday afternoon
as part of Native American Cultural Events
this month. The last event will be at the
library this coming Saturday, Jan. 23, from
noon to 3 p.m. The events include singing,
story telling, Native American fl utes, learn-
ing to bead and do leatherwork, Native
American artifacts will also be on display.
Hayes has appeared at the Cottage Grove
Library many times in recent years.
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photo by Bruce Kelsh
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Aprovecho has been working
to design its own cleaner-burn-
ing, inexpensive cookstoves for
some time now, and about 10
years ago, Still said Apro tasked
itself with making equipment
that could measure how clean
— or dirty — a stove was burn-
ing.
“We couldn’t quantify the
carbon dioxide or carbon mon-
oxide stoves were producing, so
we had to start building equip-
ment to measure it,” he said.
Since then, Aprovecho has
worked to develop the Labo-
ratory Emissions Monitoring
System, or LEMS, a “package
solution” to quantifying emis-
sions that can be set up and op-
erated inexpensively anywhere
and without much training for
its operators. Bentson and oth-
ers, meanwhile, have tackled
specifi c aspects of the march
toward more accurate cookstove
measurements.
A few years back, at a con-
ference hosted by the Global
Alliance for Clean Cookstoves,
Benston learned that the Inter-
national Standardization Orga-
nization, or ISO, had changed
its rules for measuring smoke
emissions without specifying
how those new standards were
to be met. Bentson thus took up
the task of designing a system
that would allow laboratories
to cheaply and accurately make
those measurements. His solu-
tion — a pump-and-fi lter sys-
tem that showcases the cleanli-
ness or otherwise of a stove by
the color of the fi lter through
which its smoke has passed.
“Had he not invented that
system, nobody would be able
to measure smoke particulates,”
Still said, “and Sam’s work was
a major part of getting those 30
laboratories funded.”
Recently, Bentson undertook
another quandary with regard to
measuring stove effi ciency. Cli-
mate change researchers, Still
said, believe that if the amount
of soot or “black carbon” that
falls on snow worldwide were
reduced, it could be the fastest
and most effective way to deter
climate change. But there wasn’t
a reliable way to measure black
carbon until Bentson set about
to perfect it.
A company had created a way
to photograph a fi lter through
which smoke had passed, then
send that photograph to the
company for analysis of the
amount of black carbon the
fi lter contained. The problem,
however, was that too much soot
was making it onto fi lters to be
accurately measured.
“I worked out a way to make
samples that were in range of
their system,” Bentson said, ex-
plaining that he sized down the
pump-and-fi lter mechanism so
that appropriate amounts of pol-
lution were released that could
then be measured.
Elsewhere on the Aprovecho
“campus,” Alex Seidel has
worked to streamline the mech-
anism at the heart of each test-
ing laboratory.
“The electronics are pretty
much the same,” Seidel said.
“But these machines are get-
ting faster and easier to make.
They’re more robust, easier to
use and more accurate.”
The original system, Seidel
said, was about the size of a
clothes dryer. Today’s version
is scarcely larger than a loaf of
bread. Seidel and Karl Walter
have also worked to develop a
small emissions monitor that
can be used to take measure-
ments inside the home, and Se-
idel said studies using real-time
data gleaned from tests using
these monitors are taking place
in many locations in Africa.
At Aprovecho, one can also
fi nd Andy McClean, former fi re
marshal at South Lane County
Fire and Rescue, working to de-
sign and manufacture more ef-
fi cient stoves.
“The LEMS shows us how
to make better stoves, and we
make those stoves here,” Mc-
Clean said. “Dean has the ideas,
and I make them a reality.”
Thus, Aprovecho’s famous
Rocket Stove now sports a
computer-driven fan to direct
its emissions outside the home,
and the FireFly Lantern offers
light and cooking ability in the
kitchen.
“We didn’t invent the top-
light, updraft stove, but Andy
made it work,” Still said with
pride. Aprovecho has now
formed a for-profi t organization
to sell its stoves, with revenues
put toward funding its research
in a cycle that means the orga-
nization doesn’t always have to
rely on outside funding.
“It’s science aimed at solving
a problem on a more practical
level,” Still said of Aprovecho’s
work. “If we didn’t do it, it prob-
ably wouldn’t get done. And we
don’t just design the solution.
We make it, manufacture it and
sell it, too.”
sic for their fi lm’s soundtrack 20
years ago in the folk-rock style
of the 1960s. The photo book
“1000 Yard Stare” is comprised
of 300 pages of photographs
taken by Waszkiewicz himself,
which the duo began compil-
ing in 2010. They’re hoping the
book and fi lm can be released
this year, and funds are current-
ly being raised to hire a grant
writer.
“The goal is to get veterans
of every generation talking to-
gether about their experiences,”
Jones said.
Songs at Saturday’s presenta-
tion will be presented by Buf-
falo Romeo, a duo that includes
Jones and his step-grandson
Keenan Dorn. They will perform
during the multimedia portion
of the show and afterward for
a $3 cover charge. A meet-and-
greet with the producers begins
at 6:30 p.m. with the presenta-
tion scheduled at 7 p.m.
V IETNAM
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compassionate, behind-the-
scenes look at what the kids
were going through and what
many of them came home to, in-
cluding its long-term effects.”
It’s a project decades in the
making for Waszkiewicz and
Jones, who penned original mu-
L ANCASTER
ubrey Russell is a novel-
ist who has an endear-
ing soft spot for Cottage Grove.
“Not only did I fall in love with
Cottage Grove, I fell in love
with one of its beautiful wom-
en,” Russell said, when refl ect-
ing on a visit here a number of
years ago that eventually led to
his new fi ction novel, “To Slay
the Lonesome Night.”
The story recounts a road
trip Russell and a friend took to
Canada the summer after gradu-
ating from high school with an
extended stay in Cottage Grove.
“It was an exciting trip that
both of us looked forward to,”
Russell said, “and it ended up
being a surreal journey that
brought the unexpected with it.
Those unexpected events are
written about in the novel, and
the reader is in for a pleasant,
stimulating, but at one point
very dangerous ride.”
Russell, a former print jour-
nalist, said he always wanted
to put his pen to the story, and
fi nally, after retiring from his
job as a reporter and launching
a freelance writing career, cou-
pled with grown children out of
the house and on their own, it
was time and opportunity to get
serious and get the novel writ-
ten.
How does Cottage Grove fi t
into the story?
“My (our) stay in Cottage
Grove is really the heart of the
story, the sane part of the story.
It takes up two full chapters and
a part of a third. It’s in Cottage
Grove that we became men in-
stead of boys,” Russell said.
Russell, who lives in Califor-
nia’s Central Valley, once again
visited Cottage Grove a few
years ago. He even stopped at
the Sentinel for a guided tour
and stayed for a few days.
“Yes, I wanted to retrace my
steps and I found Cottage Grove
the same small and charming
town I remembered it to be. I
hope readers here, especially
young readers, will enjoy read-
ing a story that takes place in
their town, at least the most im-
portant part. I plan on coming
back someday. There are still a
few covered bridges I haven’t
seen.”
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including England, Germany,
India, Japan and South Africa,
then authoring his own.
Among the rights outlined in
Lancaster’s “People’s Constitu-
tion” are the right of citizens to
travel freely, to operate a vehicle
if they can prove they are able
to do so and the right of soldiers
to “take battle trophies in war as
long as they are not inhumane”
or indecent.
With regard to Cottage
Grove’s needs for its legislative
body, Lancaster said a “visual
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accomplished thus far. He
has sat with the Council as its
youth representative through the
Youth Advisory Council, served
as president of his class at Ken-
nedy High School and captained
state-champion chess team at
Cottage Grove High School.
When assigned to study the
Ninth Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, Lancaster went
several steps further, study-
ing the constitutions of nations
change” could be achieved by
cleaning up the moss that litters
sidewalks. He advocates the use
of Cottage Grove Scrip, a local
currency that he says is under-
utilized, and would support the
construction of another hydro-
electric dam at Cottage Grove
Lake to match the one at Dorena
Reservoir.
“We have a geographical op-
portunity to exploit that source
of energy,” he said.
Lancaster said he’s also bus-
ied himself reading all of the
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paperwork the Council receives
before each meeting, in addition
to trying to master the “ayes and
seconds” of its rules of order.
He said that if he’s appointed to
the Council, he’ll likely delay
school so that he can serve.
On Monday, City Manager
Richard Meyers said he has no
idea which way the Council will
lean when appointing a candi-
date.
“We’ve got four good candi-
dates,” Meyers said. “It’ll be all
up to them to decide.”
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