COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL March 16, 2016
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Grant to CDC aims
to aid would-be
entrepreneurs
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
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courtesy photo
Representatives from organizations awarded grants by the Cottage Grove Community Foundation gathered at the Cot-
tage Grove Community Center for an awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 8.
Foundation grant awards presented
V
isitors to Cottage Grove's annual
Bohemia Mining Days should have
one one more way to keep cool this July as
the festival utilizes grant funding from the
Cottage Grove Community Foundation to
purchase misters for use in Coiner Park.
The project was one of 13 recognized by
the Foundation at an awards ceremony held
in the Cottage Grove Community Center
on Tuesday, March 8, a list that Foundation
Director Travis Palmer said will now include
one more award.
Palmer said a $1000 contribution from Betty
Wright led to a 14th grant of that amount
to aid in the purchase of iPads for students
at Latham Elementary, a grant that was not
included among the original roster.
In all, then, community grant funding totaled
$17, 121 for the Foundation in 2016.
Several projects to aid Cottage Grove schools
were in fact funded, as were a popular band
camp, special food boxes for Latino families
through Community Sharing, the Humane
Society's spay and neuter program, life jack-
ets and training equipment at the Warren H.
Daugherty Aquatic Center and social service
efforts such as CASA of South Lane Coun-
ty's "A Voice for Every Child" initiative.
Planning Comm. to examine zone change application
O
n Wednesday evening,
March 16, the Cottage
Grove Planning Commission
will deliberate on a change of
the Land Use Map designation
for two properties on North Lane
Street in Cottage Grove.
The applicants, Erik Scully
and Glenn Taylor, are seeking
to change the designation at the
properties near the railroad tracks
from C-2 Central Business Dis-
trict to C-2P Community Com-
mercial. City Planner Amanda
Ferguson said that Scully has
stated an intention to change the
zoning to allow “light manufac-
turing and horticultural use” on
his property, which he reportedly
told the City would entail a mari-
juana grow operation. (Scully
could not be contacted by the
Sentinel for this story).
Ferguson said that such an op-
eration is not permissible under
the Central Business District zon-
ing but would be allowable with
Community Commercial zoning.
She said the City has fi elded “a
number of requests” downtown
and in the City’s industrial park
for marijuana grows, though that
type of use is forbidden down-
town and in the Industrial Park.
She said this is the fi rst applica-
tion that has sought to change
zoning on a property for this use.
Despite not technically being
located downtown, Ferguson said
the properties’ previous owners
sought zoning in the Central Busi-
ness District to avoid having to
add paved parking, which Scully
and Taylor will have to do.
In addition to the zone change
request, the Planning Commis-
sion will also elect its offi cers
for 2016 at the meeting, which
begins at 7 p.m. in the Council
Chambers at City Hall.
LORANE
COUNTRY
NEWS
break, everyone!
This Saturday, March 19, Lo-
rane Grange will host another
spaghetti dinner and bingo eve-
ning. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m.
followed by bingo starting at
6:30 p.m. Dinner is $6 for adults
and $3 for children eight and un-
der and includes your spaghetti,
Caesar salad, French Bread, bev-
erages and desserts. For those
coming for bingo only, there is a
nominal fee of $2 for unlimited
beverages and desserts. There is
still the ever popular 50/50 and
no one has won the progressive
blackout yet.
Congratulations to our district
students for raising $1,016 for
their Pennies for Patients cam-
paign.
Two Crow High School stu-
dents have won great honors for
their short stories as a part of
the Wordcrafters Annual Writ-
ers Conference. For the high
school division, Crow High
sophomore Hunter Black’s “Co-
penhagen Estates” placed third,
and Ryan Larsen’s “A Dream at
Death’s Door: The Long Flight”
took fi rst place! These awards
were presented at the UO Baker
Center. How exciting for them to
hear their work acclaimed from a
highly professional writer. Con-
gratulations!
Some Lorane students were
positive behavior Panthers for the
week of Feb. 29- March 4: First
grade — April Casto, Fifth grade
— Ian Eshleman, and sixth grade
— Logan Eshleman.
Just a reminder that open en-
rollment is during the month of
March. If you know of anyone,
share the greatness of our district
and have them call Lee Ann at the
District offi ce at 541-935-2100.
BY LIL THOMPSON
For the Sentinel
There’s so much information to
share, but I’ll start with two events
this weekend: SPRING BREAK
actually starts when school is out
this Friday, and school’s days off
are Monday, March 21 through
Friday, March 25. Enjoy your
grant recently received by the Cottage Grove
Community Development Corporation is expect-
ed to bring events dedicated to helping develop the ideas
of would-be entrepreneurs.
The City announced that the $42,608 grant from Lane
Workforce Partnership aims to stimulate workforce de-
velopment through a partnership with FertiLab to bring
new programs and support the growth of ideas in the
area.
Fertilab works to support idea-stage and emerging en-
trepreneurs by offering tools and resources to start suc-
cessful businesses.
Grantwriter Lori Bumgardner, who said she has
worked with FertiLab for some time, said the program
caters to business ideas that “aren’t really at the accel-
eration point” in their development” and may “require a
little more handholding.” In Cottage Grove, two events
are scheduled to help what are known as “wannapre-
neurs” get started.
A start-up clinic features six visits from a panel of ex-
perts that evaluate and prescribe actions to help get new
ventures focused and healthy.
“They’re for people who think they may have a great
idea but aren’t really sure,” Bumgardner said. “It’s really
hands-on, a little ‘Shark-Tank’-ish.”
Another event, billed as the “Big Mix,” is labeled as
a “social mixer for entrepreneurs, techies, designers,
founders” and “startup folks of all types.” During the Big
Mix, entrepreneurs with concept stage startups are given
three minutes to introduce who they are, what problem
they are working on and who they are looking to connect
with. The goal is to celebrate and support founders of
new startups and help them access the network effects of
Fertilab’s system.
The grant funding for these events is expected to assist
up to 56 start-ups in one year, serve 100 entrepreneurs via
the Big Mix, serve six companies or eight individuals in
the start-up clinic and refer two companies to RAIN (The
Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network) Eugene,
an organization that works to “advance the formation of
high-growth innovative startup companies throughout
the South Willamette Valley,” according to its website.
Bumgardner said that, while RAIN tends to focus on
products, FertiLab expands the possibilities to include
technology, bioscience and other fi elds.
Matt Parsons, chair of the Cottage Grove CDC, said
the events funded by the grant are still in the planning
stage. The Cottage Grove Community Development
Corporation was founded in 2011 when citizens “banded
together to address the blight and disinvestment that had
turned our once thriving timber community into one of
stereotypical rural decay.” It is dedicated to helping
Cottage Grove become a destination for the cultivation
of business potential. More information on the CDC is
available at http://www.cgcdc.org/.
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