COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 27, 2016
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Eco-preacher to testify here
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ottage Grove will welcome a dif-
ferent sort of preacher to town for a
different sort of sermon this weekend.
On Friday, Reverend Billy of Reverend
Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, a New
York City-based group of performance
artists and eco-activists, will read from
his new book, “The Earth Wants You,” a
chronicle of the group’s efforts to spread
its message at locales like Occupy Wall
Street, the St. Louis offi ces of agricultural
giant Monsanto, at concerts opening for
Neil Young and elsewhere.
‘The Earth Wants YOU’ aims
to “inspire readers and listeners to chal-
lenge the poisons, consumerism, hate that
are killing our planet,” according to pro-
motional materials.
The Sentinel recently caught up with
Reverend Billy just before he entered a
New York City subway. He referenced ac-
tions by Greenpeace and other activists
who managed to keep a Royal Dutch Shell
oil ship from leaving Portland last summer
by dangling from a bridge as something he
and his team “greatly admired.”
“They weren’t just standing up to an
enormous company,” he said. “They were
doing it with a kind of aesthetic grace, and
the streamers dangling from that bridge
were just beautiful.”
The Reverend stated that, while Cottage
Grove does not approach the bank offi ces
on Wall Street or a Portland bridge in terms
of scale, the community and its residents no
doubt still have their own battles to fi ght.
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“Each of us in our own local setting has
our own bridge dangling to do,” he said.
Some activist organizations, however,
don’t go far enough to combat what Rev-
erend Billy and others feel is the wanton
destruction of the planet.
‘The Earth Wants You’ was released on
April 22, and Friday at the Axe and Fiddle
will be the only event in this area to com-
memorate its release. The reading is free
and begins at 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
5:30 p.m. Yoncalla Beautifi cation Com-
mittee. Meets at Yoncalla City Hall
7 p.m.: City of Drain Budget Comm.
Meeting and Revenue Sharing Proposed
Use Hearing. At Drain Civic Center, 205
W. A St.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
7-9 p.m.: The Slow Ponies. At Drain
Civic Center, 205 W. A St., Drain. Spon-
sored by N. Douglas Performing Arts
Council. $5 pp. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Re-
freshments available. Info: 541-520-9808
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
2-4 p.m. Flowers and Butterfl ies. At
ECCC Library in Elkton.
TUESDAY, MAY 3
6:30 p.m. Yoncalla Parks & Rec.
Budget Comm. Meeting. At Yoncalla
Community Center, 400 Main St.
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Events are free.
The Cottage Grove’s Garden
Club presentation on Tues-
day, May 3 at 7 p.m. will offer
the opportunity to learn from
NABA (North American But-
terfl y Association) members
Alison Center and John Hogan
as they share their vast knowl-
edge of butterfl ies that call this
area “home” and explain the lo-
cal efforts to expand habitat for
monarchs, for which compli-
mentary milkweed seeds will be
available.
As always, this presentation
is free and open to the public.
The Garden Club meets on the
fi rst Tuesday of each month at
The First Presbyterian Church
on the corners of Adams and
Third streets.
tions and create strict liability
when a non-GMO farmer’s crop
is contaminated. The meeting is
open to the public.
912 Project
Creswell’s annual Maypole
Dance will be Monday, May 2
from 6:30-8 p.m. in the library’s
backyard at First and Oregon
Ave. Traditional dances and
winding the ribbons around the
Maypole highlight the event.
Live music by Ruth Anne Fral-
ey. Pretty dresses, fl owers, rib-
bons and garlands welcome,
as are spectators. The event is
sponsored by Creswell Library.
Farmers Marie Bowers and
Rodney Hightower will speak at
the next meeting of the Cottage
Grove 912 Project, Monday,
May 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Stacy’s
Covered Bridge Restaurant,
401 E. Main. They will argue
against a proposed Lane County
Charter Amendment to prohibit
the use of GMOs by corpora-
Maypole dance
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CCS registration
Creswell Christian School
(CCS) is now registering for
grades K-12 for school year
2016-2017. Those interested
are asked to call Becky Lake at
(541)895-4622.
Creswell Christian Child Care
Center (5C’s) is now registering
for preschool and pre-kindergar-
ten for school year 2016-2017;
those interested can call Debbie
Hisey at (541)895-4652.
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