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8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL March 9, 2016 Community Foundation announces grant awards T he Cottage Grove Com- munity Foundation (CGCF) announced Monday that 13 non-profi t organiza- tions were selected as com- munity grant recipients for an awards total of $16,121. Funding of the grants is made possible through do- nations from the Commu- nity Foundation Permanent Endowment Fund, the Drs. Harrison and Fuller Advised Fund, the Cottage Grove Green Earth Advised Ex- pendable Fund, the Carlton Woodard Advised Fund and the Cottage Grove Women and Children Assistance Fund. The grant recipients and projects are as follows: – South Lane Children’s Clinic Critical Needs, $1,000 Educational Grants: Social Service Grants: Ophelia’s Place – Cottage Grove Schools Partnership, $1,000 South Lane School District – Family Connections Proj- ect , $1,000 Lincoln Middle School – Chromebook Cart, $1,000 First Presbyterian Church – Grove Music Camp, $800 South Lane Dental Clinic/ South Lane School District Community Sharing Pro- gram – Latino Food Box, $1,000 Bohemia Mining Days, Inc. – Temporary Crowd Mis- ters for Coiner Park during Festival, $200 Humane Society of Cottage Grove – Canine Spay Neuter Assistance Program, $1,000 South Lane Family Nursery – Purchase of Therapeutic Early Childhood Learning Materials, $2,500 CASA of Lane County – A Voice For Every Child, $2,310.50 Womenspace – Direct Client Aid Fund, $2,310.50 Safety/Medical Services Grant: Warren H Daugherty Aquatic Center – Life Jack- ets and Training Equipment, $1,000 The Cottage Grove Com- munity Foundation will cel- ebrate with these outstanding non-profi t organizations at a Community Grant Awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 8 from 12-1 p.m. in the Shep- herd Room of the Commu- nity Center. The public is invited to attend. The Cottage Grove Com- munity Foundation is a pub- lic non-profi t organization to help improve the quality of life for residents of the City of Cottage Grove and surround- ing communities. O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A In the middle of the night, though, the four-year-old boy started having a nightmare, and with a shriek kicked out, catching poor Wells in the solar plexus. This happened two more times, and the last time, the ex- asperated and exhausted Wells secured a length of cord from his valise and set about tying the lad’s feet to the bedpost. Now the boy really did start to scream, bringing his parents running. Upon arriving at his bedside, they found their son lashed to the bed and Wells guiltily fumbling at the knots. We can imagine how the sub- sequent conversation went. In fact, we have to, since Wells doesn’t give the details; nor does he mention where he spent the rest of the night. But, “They never came to church again,” he writes. “And I never received an- other invitation to their home.” The next time Wells came to Weston, he was on his own for a place to stay — word having apparently gotten around. So he bedded down for the night in a haystack, piled up against a fence to which he tied his horse. The horse, who knew a good thing when he saw it, spent the evening taking bites of the hay and yanking them over the fence so that he could enjoy them at leisure. Sometime in the wee small hours, having developed a desire for a midnight snack, the horse stretched his neck over and got a big mouthful of hay — with Wells’ trouser cuff in it. The horse gave a lusty yank, and the snoozing Wells came fl ying over the fence and down into a heap at his horse’s feet. Quite possibly Wells’ most picturesque misadventure — and, I’d argue, the one that it’s hardest to believe consists pure- ly of plain, unadorned Gospel truth — was one that he had in a small town in northern Idaho. In the hotel there, he requested a bath and was told a tub would be ready for him in the morning at the head of the stairs. Upon coming out the next day, he found the tub — one of those old-style giant washbasins that one sometimes sees miner-’49er types using in old Western mov- ies, half full of water. It was the dead of winter, and the foyer of the hotel was about 20 degrees; so, shivering in the chilly air, the Reverend leaped into the tub to get his morning ablutions over with as fast as possible, so that he might put clothes on and get warmed back up. He immediately made two unpleasant observations. The fi rst was that the water in the tub was just above freezing; he broke through a skim of ice on his way into it. It seemed the hotel owner had prepared the bath the night before, so as not to have to bother with it in the morning; so it had had all night to get very cold in the pre-dawn winter’s chill of the unheated hotel lobby. But the second discovery made Wells forget all about the coldness of the water. It seemed the tub leaked a little. It had been leaking out onto the fl oor throughout the night, forming a small puddle that had then fro- zen like black ice on a highway. When Wells had hopped into the icy water, the momentum of his leap had set the tub in motion on that sheet of ice. Majestically and inexorably it sailed straight toward the top of the staircase Community Conversation March 17 The trials involved with coming home from war are the focus of "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home," a free conversation with photographer Jim Lommasson on Thursday, March 17 at 6 p.m. at Hard Knocks Brewing. This program is co- hosted by the Opal Center for Arts and Education and Hard Knocks and spon- sored by Oregon Humanities. Lommasson is a freelance photog- rapher who received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize for his fi rst book, "Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacri- fi ce & the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms." … and decanted its contents over its rim. And so the Reverend Lemuel H. Wells, shivering cold and stark naked and helpless in the hands of a cruel fate, rode a half- full washtub down the stairs of the hotel, tumbling with it to the bottom and ending up with the tub perched triumphantly atop his battered and shivering body in a great puddle of freezing wa- ter on the landing below. This was, of course, hardly a silent procedure. The crashings and clangings of the tub, and the terrifi ed shrieks of its helpless passenger, roused every person in the building and probably several neighbors to boot. Luck- ily, he wasn’t badly hurt. He was escorted back to his room as discreetly as was possible un- der the circumstances, where he tried to warm himself as best he could and get ready for a day’s preaching of sermons to people who had, a few hours earlier, seen him naked under the most undignifi ed of circumstances. Just another day on the job, right? We’ll talk about some other adventures of early-day circuit preachers in next week’s col- umn. (Sources: Bromberg, Erik. “Frontier Humor: Plain and Fan- cy,” Oregon Historical Quarter- ly, Sept. 1960; Wells, Lemuel H. A Pioneer Missionary. Seattle: Progressive Publishing, 1930) 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. Cottage Grove Sentinel +