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SOUTH LANE AND NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889
VOLUME 128 • NUMBER 50
Candidate fi lings begin
Boone fi rst to fi le for
Mayor, though others are
expected
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Sentinel fi le photo
The Eugene Symphony will make a return trip to Cottage
Grove on Monday, July 18.
Summer of
'16
As usual, CG has a packed
schedule for the warm months
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Last week’s sizzling temperatures
offered a clue that summer is
near, and if the weather wasn’t
enough to clue Cottage Grove in
to the changing of the seasons,
the plethora of events coming up
in the next few weeks and months
I hear a symphony
A large crowd enjoyed the Eu-
gene Symphony’s fi rst visit to
Cottage Grove last summer, and
the ensemble will be back at Bo-
hemia Park on Monday, July 18
for another program.
The concert will begin with the
music of local performers at 6:30
p.m., according to Cottage Grove
City Manager Richard Meyers.
The Symphony will thus start a
half-hour later at 7:30 p.m. to al-
low for cooler temperatures to (it
is hoped) take over.
Last year, the Faye and Lucille
Stewart Foundation contributed
$20,000 toward the $30,000 cost
of bringing the Symphony to
town. About $10,000 was made
Buster Bash
Cottage Grove’s love affair with
iconic silent fi lm star Buster Ke-
aton and the epic movie he largely
fi lmed here, “The General,” may
reach their zenith in 2016, a year
that marks the 90th anniversary
of the movie and a summer of
fi lming that involved much of the
community back in 1926.
Local Buster Keaton buff Lloyd
Williams said the celebration
will be in high gear beginning
Friday, Aug. 12, when members
of the ‘Damfi nos,’ the Interna-
tional Buster Keaton Society, will
visit Cottage Grove for a Buster-
themed gathering that takes place
every fi ve years (the name refer-
ences a habit Keaton had of say-
ing “damn if I know” in response
to a perplexing question.)
Williams said around 40 Dam-
fi nos will converge from through-
out the U.S., taking in sights such
as the fi eld behind Safeway where
much of “The General” was
fi lmed, Hansen Butte (a recurring
could really drive the point home.
Yes, Cottage Grove adds a diz-
zying array of events — some
recurring, some brand-new — to
its already packed schedule this
time of year, and it is our pleasure
at the Sentinel to showcase some
of this summer’s most impactful
events:
through fundraising in the form of
sponsorships for last year’s event,
Meyers said, though the City will
be selling buttons and raffl e tickets
to fi nance this year’s show. More
sponsor tables are also being add-
ed to raise funds.
Free concerts in Cottage Grove,
Eugene and Roseburg are sched-
uled to kick off the Symphony’s
51st season. “I am pleased that Eu-
gene Symphony in the Park con-
tinues to be successful and grow in
popularity,” says Maestro Danail
Rachev. “We love providing the
opportunity to spend a summer
evening outside listening to high-
quality orchestral music with the
community. It lets us showcase
our orchestra to a broader audi-
ence beyond the concert hall.”
shot in the movie), and of course,
the location of the iconic train-
wreck scene over the Row River.
The next day, Saturday, Aug.
13, Bohemia Park will play host
to a special outdoor screening of
“The General,” a showing that
will be set to music by Mark Or-
ton, the Portland-based musician
that composed the score for the
Oscar-winning fi lm “Nebraska.”
“It’s not going to be a score
you’ve heard before,” Williams
said, referencing a six-musician
ensemble that also includes a
sound-effects specialist.
In a traveling show that Wil-
liams said has “grown legs” since
Cottage Grove fi rst started talking
about commemorating 90 years
of “The General,” the movie and
Orton’s score will also travel to
theaters in Portland, Coos Bay,
Bend and Astoria, though this
community will host the only free
outdoor showing.
The free showing of “The Gen-
eral” is set to begin at dusk, though
it will likely be preceded by other
entertainment.
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mid the ongoing hoopla regarding
the 2016 presidential election, it
can be easy to forget that the campaign
season for positions in local government
has just begun.
In fact, Wednesday, June 1 was the
fi rst day of availability for election pack-
ets for those interested in running for the
offi ces of Cottage Grove’s Mayor, City
Councilor At-Large or City Councilors
from Ward II or Ward IV in the Nov. 8
election. Each of these positions expires
on Dec. 31, 2016.
Mayor Tom Munroe has already indi-
cated that he will not seek his third two-
year term this fall. On Wednesday, City
Councilor Jake Boone announced via
Facebook that he had already been the
fi rst candidate to fi le paperwork with the
City to run for Mayor. On Monday, City
Recorder Trudy Borrevik said that City
Councilor Mike Fleck had requested but
not yet returned the paperwork to run
for Mayor. Fleck has already indicated
an interest in running for the position,
as has Councilor Jeff Gowing, who an-
nounced his intention to run at local ra-
dio station KNND prior to departing on
a cross-country motorcycle ride in mid-
May.
Councilors Amy Slay and Kenneth
Michael Roberts have indicated their in-
terest in running for the positions they
were each appointed to last year, though
neither has yet fi led for election, nor has
any potential challenger for their Ward
IV and at-large council positions. The
council terms of Boone and Fleck do
not expire for another two years, though
Gowing’s term as Ward II councilor ends
this year. This means that, should Gow-
ing not be elected Mayor, he will fi nd
himself off the Council, an eventuality
he has said he is prepared to handle.
“In the event that I didn’t win, I’d just
as soon not be there,” Gowing said re-
cently.
To qualify as a candidate for local
offi ce, a person must be a resident of
Cottage Grove during the 12 months im-
mediately preceding the election and a
qualifi ed elector within the meaning of
the Constitution. Candidates fi ling for
Ward positions must be a resident of that
Ward at the time of the nomination and
election and must live in the Ward dur-
ing their term of offi ce. Those interested
in seeing which Ward they reside in can
consult a Ward map on the City website
at cottagegrove.org/city council. Those
seeking more information on the elec-
tion can contact City Recorder Trudy
Borrevik at (541) 942-5501 or cityre-
corder@cottagegrove.org.
Edible
marijuana
proves
popular
Candy, cookies and other
laced products now
available for retail sale
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
T
he latest milestone in Oregon’s
evolving relationship with mari-
juana brought customers aplenty into
Cottage Grove’s dispensaries beginning
last week.
The sale and purchase of marijuana
for recreational consumption became le-
gal in Oregon for those over 21 years of
age on Oct. 1, 2015, a day greeted with
a frenzy of business at Cottage Grove
dispensaries, which have until recently
been the only outlets able to lawfully
sell recreational pot.
Since then, though, there have been
items for sale at medical marijuana
dispensaries that were not available for
recreational purchase, including edible
products like candies and cookies and
marijuana-infused topical oils. On Thurs-
day, June 2, local dispensaries were able
to offer marijuana edibles and topical
products to their recreational customers,
and by all indications, a steady stream of
customers came in to give them a try.
At Mandy’s Med Club, Cottage
Grove’s fi rst medical marijuana dispen-
sary, Megan Higley said the frenzy for
edibles rivaled the fi rst day of legal pur-
chases last fall.
“It’s like recreational day,” Higley
said. “Every time someone walks out the
door, somebody else walks in. And it’s
been that way all day.”
Higley said that even the lower dos-
age mandated for edibles meant for rec-
reational consumption has not hurt sales.
By state law, edibles can only contain 15
milligrams of THC, the high-inducing
compound in marijuana, per serving.
By contrast, medical edibles can contain
photo by Jon Stinnett
Jamie Boren browses the new selection of edible marijuana products
at Mandy's Med Club while Megan Higley talks about their effects.
Packages of "That Taffy" are pictured below.
much higher volumes of THC. Recre-
ational customers are also only allowed
to purchase one product per day.
Higley said that the edibles meant for
recreational customers at Mandy’s, in-
cluding chocolates, hard candies, cook-
ies and taffy, are priced the same as their
more potent medicinal counterparts.
Still, their popularity was evident last
week.
Across town at Apothecaria, Shenna
Whitlock said the dispensary took a
precaution and was closed for business
Thursday.
“There was some confusion with our
license,” she said. “We wanted to make
sure we were complying with the law
100 percent, and we were the whole
time.”
Despite losing the fi rst day of sales,
though, Whitlock said Apothecaria was
still quite busy later on.
“It’s been crazy,” she said. “I worked
yesterday, and there was four times the
amount of sales for what is typical for
a Sunday.”
Both Higley and Whitlock said their
biggest concern with the advent of ed-
ibles has been educating their custom-
ers, many of whom have not tried edible
marijuana before. In contrast to smok-
ing marijuana, edible products take ef-
fect more slowly, and their effect can at
times be much stronger.
“It’s important to understand that
you’re ingesting this,” Higley said. “It’s
a lot like taking a pill; it takes time to
feel the effects. We’ve been working a lot
on education so that people can fi nd the
chemistry that works right for them.”
Whitlock said she’s talked to
many customers so far about their
options with regard to edibles.
“It’s good to start slow,” she said. “Low
and slow is our motto; even if there’s a
low dosage, we recommend taking half
to see how it makes you feel. We don’t
want people to have a bad experience
with edibles, especially with all the pro-
paganda out their now saying how awful
they are, because medically they’re quite
wonderful.”
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