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6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 20, 2016 Hebron remembered at Cottage Grove dam presentation BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel When asked how many knew where Hebron is, the audience at the Cottage Grove Commu- nity Center presentation burst into laughter. That’s because it would take a boat and perhaps some scuba gear to reach the old Oregon town. While the topic of Saturday’s presentation by Corps of Engineers Park Ranger Christie Johnson was on the Cottage Grove dam, the town of Hebron was very much the heart of the story line. A vital source of information for Johnson was the book “They Called it Hebron,” by the late Marie Geer. “It was an invaluable source for learning about the town,” she said. Before a lot of the dams were built around the area, the Wil- lamette Valley consistently fell victim to mass fl ooding. John- son shared photographs from the early 20th century that de- picted Cottage Grove residents getting around town by boat. The Cascade mountain range on the east and the Coast Range on the west make the valley act as a geographical bowl, where snow melts from the mountains, funneling a massive amount of water into the Willamette River, which passes through all the major towns in the Willamette valley. Without any dams, early LORANE COUNTRY NEWS BY LIL THOMPSON For the Sentinel T welve Crow Middle/High School students attended the 2016 Math Fair at LCC on April 7. There were six differ- ent levels of math — pre-algebra though calculus — with two of our students in each group. The teams competed against seven other teams from Churchill, Creswell, Junction City, Marist, Oak Hill, Sheldon and South Eugene. Two local students, Grace Wagner (Level 1) and Teancum Jentszch (Level 6) had high scores of 12 on a 15-point test. Only one other student from all the other schools scored that high. State competition will be on May 14 for levels 3-6. Con- gratulations to all. Distinguished Service Award presentations will be held at Applegate Elementary this year on Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. A bake sale will be held April 23 in front of the Lorane Family Store starting at 10 a.m. The annual Grandparents Tea is scheduled at Applegate Ele- mentary on Thursday, April 28. The program, which includes a talent show, begins at 1 p.m. Themed baskets from each class will be auctioned off at the tea. Classroom parents are collect- ing items for the baskets: Kin- dergarten — kitchen/cooking items; grade 1— movie night items; grade 2 — relaxation items; grade 3 — game night; Driveway, Rock, Septic Pumping, NEW AND REPAIRS SENIOR DISCOUNT Residential and Commercial Licensed and Bonded CCB#70638 with an NBC show called “Highway of Adventure” (sometimes listed as “High Road to Adventure”), in which he recounted spine-tingling mo- ments from the previous dozen years of hunting for dinosaur eggs and exploring unknown landscapes. He also sought and won the hand of Miss Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Michigan timber family. And then, in 1933, he went to Port Orford — probably to search for the legendary Port Orford Mete- orite. It was a historic moment indeed. “Two years later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabit- ants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., and formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water har- bor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate,” reports TIME Magazine in its somewhat supercilious 1938 account. The empire builder Gable hit Port Orford like a temperate-zone hurricane. He was convinced the nearby countryside was peppered with deposits of copper, gold and other resources, all covered over with billions of board-feet of old-growth timber. The har- bor, having no river to compli- cate navigation with a bar to fi ght through, was just a mil- lion-dollar jetty away from be- coming the perfect port … but, of course, it would also need a railroad line. For a few years things went very well indeed. “Since 1935, Gilbert Gable has wrought such changes in Southwestern Or- egon that the region has been called his ‘empire,’” Time Mag- azine reported in April of 1938. But: “Last week, Emperor Gable was dethroned by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion,” the article continued. It was the railroad line that took Gable down — the rail- road line, and the sea. Just three months after Gable (now mayor of Port Orford) dedicated the harbor in a splendid cer- emony before dignitaries from all over the state, the massive new Trans-Pacifi c and Port Or- ford Dock and Terminal Line breakwater collapsed in a huge storm. A temporary pier was soon built, but it didn’t afford the kind of protection the harbor would need, and Gable’s back- ers weren’t willing to invest in a railroad line to service a har- bor that might not be capable of functioning as more than a tem- Cell: (541) 729-7779 Construction of the dam began in 1940 and ended in 1942. settlers suffered damages and loss of life over the course of Please see DAM, Page 9A grade 4 — outdoor game/beach items; grade 5 — Duck tailgate items and grade 6 — camping items. Many Lane County schools are implementing the KITS (Kids in Transition to School) Program. KITS’ purpose is to help incoming kindergarten and fi rst grade students, with their parents, get a “jump start” on their fi rst years in school. CAL District has been award- ed a grant from SIF (Social In- novation Fund) and UNICEF to begin this program this year. Up to 22 kindergarten and fi rst- grade students planning to at- tend Applegate Elementary this fall may attend. It will start the week of July 11 and run through Aug. 22. Those interested can call the district offi ce at 541-935-2100 for more information. Everyone attending the spa- ghetti dinner and bingo Sat- urday night at Lorane Grange had a fun time. The progres- sive blackout is growing again. They will resume the dinner and bingo nights in September. Those with bingo withdraw- als may like to know that Crow Grange has them on the fi rst and third Saturdays. Crow-Apple- gate-Lorane music department will present a night of music with food, raffl es and door priz- es on May 17 to raise money for the district’s music department. Spaghetti dinner begins at 6 p.m. and will cost $5 per adult, $3 per child, or $15 per family of four. District students will perform along with some guest performers from local music groups. porary port of refuge. In 1938, an ICC examiner quashed the whole plan, opining that Port Orford was never go- ing to be an important center of commerce, and pulling Gable’s “certifi cate of convenience and necessity” — and with that, his permit to build the railroad line. link. He started thinking about ways to bring pressure on the state to help him out. He started advocating for Curry County to split off from Oregon and become part of California — a suggestion that seems to have yielded amusement, alarm and ridicule in roughly equal mea- sures from the governments of both states, but nothing more. The suggestion did bring something else, though. It brought a visit from one of the West Coast’s most enterpris- ing and colorful newspapermen — Stanton Delaplane. Gable and “Del” hit it off immediately. Soon, the two of them were cooped up together in a cozy offi ce with a bottle of 150-proof rum as a hard winter rain pounded the roof, making plans that would soon blossom into an apparently serious pro- posal to secede from the state outright. We’ll talk about those plans and their implementation next week. Desperation sets in Now Gable was caught in a catch-22. Without a rail- road connection, his backers wouldn’t help him fi nance the necessary repair and beefi ng- up of the harbor jetty. Without a beefed-up jetty protecting the harbor, the ICC wouldn’t issue a permit to build a railroad. An increasingly desperate Gable looked to the state for help in getting roads improved, so that the mining, logging and shipping companies that he’d founded could get their produce out to markets. But politicians in Salem could barely be bothered to even no- tice the tiny port city of 1,000 residents that still cherished hopes of superseding Portland’s harbor. Road-building dollars remained in scarce supply. By fall of 1941, Gable was watching his dream slip from his fi ngers for want of a railroad Douglas G. Maddess, DMD FAMILY AND GENERAL DENTISTRY Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time See our new website: douglasgmaddessdmd.com O FFBEAT Continued from page 5A Greg Stocker Owner (Sources: Laufer, Peter. The Elusive State of Jefferson. Guil- ford, Conn.: Twodot, 2013; “Gable’s Gold Coast,” TIME, 04 Apr 1938; Gable, Gilbert. “Thrills,” Radio Digest, March 1931; Los Angeles Times, 1927- 1930) THINK BEFORE YOU REACT April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a reminder that every child deserves to feel safe at home and in his or her community. If you feel you are in danger of harming your child, help is available. We provide support and counseling. Call us at 541-942-3939 South Lane Mental Health Services, Inc. 1345 Birch Ave., Cottage Grove 541-942-3939 • slmh.org To report possible child abuse or neglect, call 800.422.4453 or contact your local child protective services or law enforcement agency. W orship D irectory 6th & Gibbs Church of Christ 195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822 Pastor: Aaron Earlywine Youth & Families Pastor: Seth Bailey Services: 9am and 10:30am Christian Education Nursery for pre-k - 3rd Grade www.6thandgibbs.com Calvary Baptist Church 77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290 Pastor: Riley Hendricks Sunday School: 9:45am Worship: 11:00am The Journey: Sunday 5:00pm Praying Thru Life: Wednesday 6:00pm Calvary Chapel Cottage Grove 1447 Hwy 99 (Village Plaza) 541-942-6842 Pastor: Jeff Smith Two Services on Sun: 9am & 10:45am Youth Group Bible Study Child Care 10:45am Service Only www.cgcalvary.org Center for Spiritual Living Cottage Grove 700 Gibbs Ave (Community Center) Rev. Bobby Lee Meets Sunday 3:00 p.m. (907) 230-5070 www.facebook.com/CSLCottageGrove Church of Christ 420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565 Sunday Service: 10:30am Cottage Grove Bible Church 1200 East Quincy Avenue 541-942-4771 Pastor:Bob Singer Worship 11am Sunday School:9:45am AWANA age 3-8th Grade, Wednesdays Sept-May, 6:30pm www.cgbible.org Cottage Grove Faith Center 33761 Row River Rd. • 541-942-4851 Lead Pastor: Isaac Hovet www.cg4.tv 2 Sunday Services: 9am & 11am Full Childrenʼs Ministry available First Presbyterian Church 3rd and Adams St • 541-942-4479 Pastor: Karen Hill Worship: 10:00am Sunday School: 10:00am www.cgpresbynews.com Old Time Gospel Fellowship 103 S. 5th Street • 541-942-4999 Pastor: Herb Carson Sunday Service: 10:00am Sunday Bible Study: 6:00pm We sing the old time hymns. Grove Community Church 77820 Mosby Creek Rd. Cottage Grove, OR 97424 541-942-0123 Pastor: Bryan Parsons Worship: 10:30 a.m. Nursery: Infant - Pre-K Kidʼs Church: K to 5th grade Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Philip Benizi Catholic Churches 1025 N. 19th St. 541-942-3420 / 541-942-4712 Pastor: Roy L. Antunez, S.J. Euch. Liturgies; Sat. 5:30pm Sun. 10:30am St. Philip Benizi, Creswell: 552 Holbrock Lane • 541-895-8686 Sunday: 8:30am Covered Bridge Nazarene Church 152 S. M St. 541-942-4422 Pastor: Cindy Slaymaker Sunday School: 9:30am Worship 10:30am Hope Fellowship United Pentecostal Church 100 S. Gateway Blvd. • 541-942-2061 Pastor: Dave Bragg Worship: 11:00am Sunday Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday www.hopefellowshipupc.com “FINDING HOPE IN YOUR LIFE” Delight Valley Church of Christ 33087 Saginaw Rd. East 541-942-7711 Pastor: Bob Friend Two Services: 9am - Classic in the Chapel 10:30am - Contemporary in the Auditorium Living Faith Assembly 467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612 Pastor Rulon Combs Sunday School All Ages 9am Worship & Childrenʼs Church 10:30 am “The Bridge” Sat Evening Service 6:00pm Youth 180 Mondays 5:30-8pm Childrenʼs Breakout Class: Wed. 6:30pm First Baptist Church 301 S 6th St 541-942-8242 Pastor: Steve Johnson Sunday School: 9:30am Worship: 11:00am Come Worship with us Non-Denominational Church of Christ 1041 Pennoyer Ave * 541-767-0447 Preachers: Tony Martin & Robert Evans Sunday Bible Study:10:00am Sunday Worship:10:50am & 5:30pm www.pennoyeravecoc.com St. Andrews Episcopal Church 1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050 Rev. Lawrence Crumb “Church with the fl ags.” Worship: Sunday 10:30am All Welcome Seventh-day Adventist Church 820 South 10th Street 541-942-5213 Pastor: Kevin Miller Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40 am Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00 pm Trinity Lutheran Church 6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373 Pastor: James L. Markus Sunday School & Adult Education 9:15am Sundway Worship 10:30 am Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue & Thur 5:00pm TLC Groups tlccg.com United Methodist Church 334 Washington • 541-942-3033 Pastor:Lura Kidner-Miesen Worship: 10:30am Adult Sunday School: 9:30am Comm. Dinner (Adults $5, Kids Free) 2nd & 3rd Monday 5-6:00pm cottagegroveumc.org “VICTORY” Country Church 913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913 Pastor: Barbara Dockery Worship Service: 10:00am Message: 11:00am “WE BELIEVE IN MIRACLES” Our Worship Directory is a weekly feature in the newspaper. If your congregation would like to be a part of this directory, please contact the Cottage Grove Sentinel at 541-942-3325.