COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 27, 2016
CITY BEAT
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at a Sentinel story from 36 years ago
5A
From the City's
Friday Update
Police offi cer recruitment
Editor's Note: Rex Seals of
Cottage Grove passed away
Jan. 12, 2016. This week,
the Sentinel looks back at a
mammoth project that Seals
fi nished in 1978.
The City said its police offi cer hiring process continues to
progress. This week the department conducted written testing
of 45 applicants. As a result of the testing 15 applicants will
progress to oral board interviews on Monday and Tuesday next
week. Following the oral boards, the remaining successful can-
didates will meet with Interim Chief Scott Shepherd for an ad-
ditional interview.
New life for an old car
The police department’s last Crown Victoria Patrol car received
a new (used) engine this week. This vehicle is assigned to the
School Resource Offi cer Charlie Martin and the City said it had
over 100,000 miles on it when the engine died. Russ Kaleese of
Public Works found and installed the used engine, which is re-
ported to have a little over 50,000 miles on it and was a fraction
of the cost of even a used replacement vehicle, this week.
has spent many 10-hour days
and seven-day weeks construct-
ing his second steel vessel at his
home on S. 6th Street.
The “Olena S.,” named in hon-
or of Mr. Seal’s wife, is 50 feet
long, 15 feet wide and 21 feet
high, from the top of the cabin to
the kneel. Mr. Seals says 60,000
pounds of steel went into the
boat, which will be powered by a
671-Detroit diesel engine.
“Olena S.” was fi nally ready
to be transported to Winchester
Rex Seals
May 25, 1978
Finally off to sea!
“You know you don’t see the
work that goes into a boat until
you start doing it,” says commer-
cial fi sherman Rex Seals.
And work he did.
Since October, 1976, Mr. Seals
POLICE BLOTTER
Jan. 21
Suicidal Subject,
E. Chamberlain
A caller reported that she re-
ceived a text from someone
that he is going to kill himself,
although no means were men-
tioned.
Runaway Located, Gateway
Blvd.
A caller advised police that
they received information that
both subjects are at location.
Both of them are runaways out
of Idaho listed in NCIC and
the room they are in at the Best
Western should be rented under
the name Darlene Broderick.
Bay last Wednesday, May 17,
but not without great diffi culty.
It took two cranes (and most of
the day) to get the boat on the
low boy truck. “On God,” Mr.
Seals sighed the next morning,
“another day like that I couldn’t
take.”
Everything was set Thursday
morning, however, and the boat
and the cabin, which was loaded
on a separate truck, were trans-
ported safely to Reedsport. The
vessel is now in the water at
Winchester Bay, where it will be
based.
“I’ve got about a month’s work
yet,” says Mr. Seals. “I’ll be fi n-
ishing by July.”
Two other Cottage Grove fi sh-
ermen, Mark Hnseley and Car-
roll Seals (Rex’s brother) built
similar vessels last year.
Asked if his second boat would
be his last, Mr. Seals quickly re-
plied, “you bet, I don’t think I’m
physically able to do another.”
Intoxicated Subject, Gate-
way Blvd.
A caller advised of an intoxi-
cated person who was passed
out behind their business. The
subject was taken into custody
for non-criminal detoxifi cation
and transported to the Buckley
house.
Jan. 22
that a male called his brother and
told him that he was going to kill
himself (no method mentioned).
The subject was at an unknown
location and police sent out an
attempt to locate for a welfare
check.
Unauthorized Use of
Vehicle, E. Main St.
A caller advised that her
daughter drove a Chevy pickup
truck to the location this morn-
ing to supposedly run an errand.
The subject then left the truck
and took a grey Chevy Cobalt
that also belongs to the caller
that was in the parking lot.
Suicidal Subject, City
A reporting person advised
DUI, Hwy 99N
A reporting person advised of
a male driver who exited his ve-
hicle at a stop sign and was pos-
dy, “needs to be prosecuted.”
“It’s not going to end the
same way it ended down there,”
he said, referencing the end of
a 2014 standoff in Nevada in-
volving Bundy’s father, Cliven.
“That’s all I can say.”
With regard to the upcoming
election, DeFazio said that John
Kasich seems to stand alone
among Republican candidates
with a positive message. Regard-
ing his own party, he called the
Obama presidency “very disap-
pointing.”
“Starting at the beginning,
when he hired Larry Summers
and Timothy Geithner, I knew we
were in trouble from day one,”
he said. “They crafted a stimulus
sibly vomiting. There were two
previous calls from the interstate
and the vehicle was suspected to
have exited at exit 174 (Cottage
Grove).
Jan. 23
Property Found, County
Dump
A reporting person at the sta-
tion turned in a wallet found at
the County Dump. A message
was left for Mr. Smith regarding
his found property.
Death Investigation,
N Eighth St.
Medics on scene confi rmed the
death of an individual at around
9 a.m. The body was released to
the Musgrove Mortuary.
D E F AZIO
Continued from page 3A
air-traffi c control by the Federal
Aviation Administration.
“I think that’s a government
function,” he said.
Responding to the situation
at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge,
DeFazio said the leader of the
occupation there, Ammon Bun-
Last Tuesday, Jan. 19, Water Production Superintendent Ray
Pardee attended the American Water Works Association spon-
sored training entitled “Hydraulics: Pump Curves and Control
Valves”. This all-day training was held at the Springfi eld Util-
ity Board offi ce in Springfi eld. The class detailed how pumps
and valves are used to maintain pressure in water distribution
systems.
There were approximately 40 water system professionals in
attendance from around the region.
Drinking Water Protection Plan
meeting
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
Runaway Juvenile, Grant
Ave.
A caller advised that her son
has been gone since Tuesday.
The caller spoke with one of her
son’s friends last night who ad-
vised that the son said he wasn’t
coming home.
Hydraulics training
package that was mostly tax cuts
instead of putting people back to
work. I was very angry that Eric
Holder did not work to put the
Wall Street criminals in jail, and
I think there’s anger on both the
left and the right that these people
are able to plunder our resources
without consequences.”
On Thursday, Water Production Superintendent Ray Pardee,
City Planner Amanda Ferguson and Public Works Director Jan
Wellman attended the fi rst annual stakeholder meeting as a part
of the City of Cottage Grove’s Drinking Water Protection Plan
(DWPP). When the original DWPP was written and submitted
to DEQ for review, it was suggested that the City add an imple-
mentation strategy to place the plan’s goals and objectives into
action.
Toward this end, Public Works applied for two grants, totaling
$38,250, to fund a Phase 1 and Phase 2 implementation strategy.
Phase one fostered agency cooperation to protect the watershed
and called for a memorandum of understanding between stake-
holders for this purpose; which culminated in Thursday’s annual
meeting.
Phase two dealt with individual landowner issues, education,
and outreach. Thursday’s meeting was facilitated by the Coast
Fork Willamette Watershed Council and was attended by repre-
sentatives from the US Forest Service, US Army Corps of Engi-
neers, the Bureau of Land Management, Lane County, Oregon
DEQ, Weyerhaeuser, Natural Resources Conservation Service,
and E-System Services (City’s Phase 1 consultant). There was
a general discussion by the partner agencies concerning their
2015 activities that aimed to benefi t or protect drinking water
and presentations concerning planned activities for 2016. Each
of the partners also committed to meet annually to continue the
dialogue in regard to drinking water protection activities in the
area.
Community Center hosts
tax service
Volunteers from AARP are offering free tax service on
Wednesdays starting Feb. 3 in the
Reception Hall at the Community Center from 10:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. This service is being offered on a drop-in basis, so no
appointments are being taken. Doors open at 8 a.m. and a sign-in
sheet is available for those interested in having help with taxes.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
the trip,” he fumed, according to
one student’s recollections, “so
help me God I would send them
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both home.”
When the team left for Port-
land, Condon generously al-
lowed Marsh to take a large as-
sortment of specimens from his
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own collection back to Yale on
loan. He would spend the rest
of his life trying to get Marsh
to return them, making multiple
appeals. Even Marsh’s death
in 1899 didn’t improve things
much, and it was only in 1906
— a year before Condon’s own
death — that they would fi nally
be returned.
By then, though, Condon
knew better than to expect
Marsh to send the bones back
gracefully. Everyone did. Marsh
and Cope, by that time, had
plunged themselves, their insti-
tutions and their entire scientifi c
community into lasting disgrace
with 20 years of unremitting
competitive spitefulness.
In doing so, however, they
expanded the fi eld of paleontol-
ogy tremendously. At the end
of their colorful careers, Cope
had discovered 56 new dinosaur
species, and Marsh had dis-
covered 80. Cope in particular
wrote of his fi ndings with a dra-
matic fl air that encouraged his
specimens to be brought to life
in a thousand magazine articles
and picture-books, and between
the two of them they launched
what’s almost a tradition of fas-
cination with dinosaurs among
small American children.
Dinosaurs were, of course,
where the real prestige was
when it came to fossils, and
the John Day Fossil Beds are
not quite old enough to contain
those. That’s probably why, af-
ter that one early expedition,
neither Bone Warrior ever re-
turned to Oregon to hunt fossils
personally.
Perhaps it’s just as well. As
Condon demonstrated clearly
while Marsh was his guest, their
particular brand of hypercom-
petitive cowboy paleontology
was never Oregon scientists’
style.
Finn J.D. John teaches at
Oregon State University and
writes about odd tidbits of Or-
egon history. For details, see
http://fi nnjohn.com. To contact
him or suggest a topic: fi nn2@
offbeatoregon.com or 541-357-
2222.
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