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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 6, 2016 11A Row River Nature Park hosts a Pond Party TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel S uperb spring weather, combined with the recent stocking by the Oregon De- partment of Fish and Wildlife of 1500 hatchery-raised rain- bow trout, made the pond at Row River Nature Park in Cot- tage Grove a local hotspot last week. Fishermen and women crowded the banks at the pond throughout the week, particu- larly in the evenings, though mornings were also a busy time. As is often the case with hatch- ery-raised fi sh, those hoping to catch their dinner sometimes cycled through several bait op- tions to fi nd the one that worked most that day, and fl y anglers joined those with spinning and other tackle in trying to fi ll a stringer. The ospreys perched overhead, however, showcased their own fi shing technique, diving headlong toward the lake and, with a splash that sounded like a fi fth-grader being thrown into the water, pouncing on the unwary fi sh below. According to Katherine Nor- dholm with ODFW, the pond will be stocked with an addi- tional 2000 fi sh this week in an- ticipation of the Family Fishing event set to take place there this Saturday, April 9. More infor- mation is available by contact- ing the Springfi eld ODFW of- fi ce at 541-726-3515. Persistence and skill paid off for these fi shermen, who each left the pond with a limit of fi ve hatchery-raised trout. While popular with humans, the nature park is also the home to many nesting pairs of geese and ducks like this mallard drake. Family fi shing event Saturday, April 9, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Enter to win 4 tickets to WILDLIFE SAFARI.* Canine friends accompanied many anglers. Looking for something to do with the kids? O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A Want to i nd this week’s best shopping deals? Curious about the latest local developments? We have you covered with locally focused coverage of everything from jobs, politics and education to sports, shopping, dining, entertainment, comics and more. Expand your mind with the kid scoop page each week! Start your $29 Subscription* today, and start getting more out of every week in South Lane County! Cottage Grove Sentinel 541-942-3325 www.cgsentinel.com * New subscribers available through 04.29.16. all over the state and talking to doddering pioneers and Na- tive Americans, saving dozens of stories from the early 1800s from vanishing forever. After Henry had squandered with hopeful recklessness all his Navy money, Fuller Victor took a job writing for Hubert Howe Bancroft. Bancroft blithely ap- propriated all her unpublished research and put her to work as a contract writer, creating what should have been her life’s mas- terwork to be published under his name. She resented it bitter- ly, but it was, in a real sense, the price of her life; she and Henry were now separated, and she had to support herself somehow. Fuller Victor lived just long enough to still be alive when Oregon’s historical community belatedly realized what a trea- sure she had given it. In 1899 she was named an honorary founding member of the Oregon Historical Society, and the Or- egonian conferred the title of “Mother of Oregon History” upon her in 1901. She died the following year. Bethenia Owens- Adair, M.D. First female physician in the West Coast states, 1840-1926 S o me So e time t i me ti m e s, mes, s p a am m pe peri r ing ri ng i s no n t en enou ough ou u gh t o ke keep ep y ou our r fe f eet e et e h al he alth th hy. y I f you yo o u ar a e a se s e ni nior or o r ha h ve v f ee eet t th that at r eq equi uire ui re s pe p ci cial a c ar al are, e e, y yo o u’ u r re e n ot t a lo o ne ne.. Ou O u r serv Our se e rvic rv v ic c es a re e s pe p ci c al ally ly d es esig ig gne e d fo for r th thos o e os wh who h o ha ave v e t he h se a nd o th t er e m ed edic i al ic a l c on ondi d iti di ti i ons: on n s: s arthritis mobility limitations diabetes limited vision O r ce Ou cert r ifi rt fie fi e d Re Regi gi i st g ster ered er ed d N ur u se a ss s s es e sse sess an se nd ca care ress fo re forr yo y ur f ee eet: t : t: Nail trimming Debridement or buffi ng of corns and calluses Education regarding diabetic foot care Education for preventative care Home treatment for athlete’s foot and tinea pedis Bethenia Owens-Adair’s life story is straight out of a Hora- tio Alger novel. Married at 14 to an amazingly lazy man, she tolerated him for four years be- fore taking their two-year-old son and moving out. Then, after returning to school, Bethenia worked her way up from noth- ing, taking whatever grueling piecework jobs she could get and saving every nickel she could. After half a dozen years of this, she had enough money tucked away to start a dressmak- ing and millinery business in Roseburg. By the time her son was ready for college, she was making enough money to send him off to the University of Cal- ifornia at Berkeley. She was now a successful businesswoman, and most peo- ple in her position would have stopped there. Not Bethenia. In 1870, she headed east to a col- lege of “Eclectic Medicine.” A year later, she was Dr. Bethenia Owens. Again, she had reached a po- sition where most people would have stopped. Again, she didn’t. Eclectic medicine was not main- stream, but it had been the only program she could get into as a woman. To her, it was a step- ping-stone to a “real” medical degree. After some trouble, she found a place at the University of Michigan, and in 1880 ma- triculated as, you might say, a double doctor. Owens-Adair’s legacy today is tainted by her enthusiasm, as a physician, for eugenics and forced sterilization. It’s entirely possible that without her ad- vocacy, Oregon wouldn’t have had a forced-sterilization pro- gram for Gov. John Kitzhaber to apologize for in 2002. But while we shouldn’t minimize the harm that was done, eugenics was a respected and mainstream be- lief back in the Edwardian era, especially for physicians, and it’s not really fair to judge her by our modern standard. We’ll continue this round-up of great women of Oregon his- tory in next week’s column. (Sources: Aldrich, Myrna. “Oregon’s First Woman Law- yer,” With Her Own Wings, ed. Krebs, Helen. Portland: Beat- tie, 1948; Friedman, Ralph. In Search of Western Oregon. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1990; Martin, Jim. A Bit of a Blue: The Life and Work of Frances Fuller Victor. Salem: Deep Well Pub., 1992) 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. 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