COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 8, 2016
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Sisters and Cottage Grove residents Molly and Samantha Duncan fl ash
a smile during the Oregon Gran Fondo, held amid unseasonably swel-
tering temperatures Sunday morning. The Gran Fondo is part of the
Oregon Triple Crown series that features a 117-mile route around the
area which took even the fastest cyclists over fi ve hours to complete.
This year, a total of 425 riders came to cycle the route, although there
were two other shorter routes available. Residents from all over the
state and from California, Washington and even Nevada competed.
Hospital
makes top 100
PeaceHealth
Cottage
Grove
Com-
munity Medical Center named Top 100
CAH for the third consecutive year
PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medi-
cal Center was recently named among the Top
100 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the
United States for the third year in a row. This
list was developed by iVantage Health Analyt-
ics as part of the 2016 Rural Relevance Study:
Vulnerability to Value.
“We are honored to have received this rec-
ognition, which is especially impactful as we
strive to deliver quality, safe care with high
patient satisfaction in a rural region,” said Tim
Herrmann, Chief Administrative Offi cer for
PeaceHealth Cottage Grove. “Thank you to our
caregivers for your valued contributions for en-
suring we provide the highest quality care here
in Cottage Grove.”
PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community
Medical Center scored in the top 100 of CAH
on the iVantage Hospital Strength INDEX™.
The INDEX is the industry’s most comprehen-
sive rating of U.S. acute care hospitals, and the
only one to include the country’s 1,300 CAHs.
The results recognize that the Top 100 CAHs
provide a safety net to communities across rural
America – measuring them across 62 different
performance metrics, including quality, out-
comes, patient perspective, affordability, popu-
lation risk and effi ciency.
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Erik Benson
541-942-2605
Continued from page 6A
130 Gateway Boulevard
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
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were “doggy-sat” by their hu-
man grandma and grandpa.
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“Several times during fi lm-
ing our wedding,” said Kevin,
“kindhearted Amy snuck our
K-9 attendants dog treats. Im-
mediately following the cer-
emony, the Roloffs invited us to
their potato cellar, beautifully
transformed into a wine cellar
for us. After we sat with them
and talked for a few minutes,
they presented us with a bottle
of wine that they had specially
made. The label sported a paint-
ing of our dogs! Delilah and
Winston were in the wedding,
included on the honeymoon, but
they won’t be sharing the wine
with us.
The night the show aired
we celebrated with family and
friends. Halfway through the
show Winston went to bed; ap-
parently he was not happy, be-
ing reminded that he didn’t
catch the boom’s mic!
Married life is incredible! We
hope to add a little one to our
family this year- a baby. Our
dogs will make great nannies.
Meredith and I loved sharing
our wedding on Small People
Big World, and will enjoy look-
ing back on that incredible day
70 years from now.”
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embed/vJRDpTUIrJI
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Which is why, after she was
arrested in San Francisco for
the Yacolt caper, her subsequent
trial in Vancouver turned into
such an event. It was a bit like
a reunion tour for all the claims
agents she’d defrauded in her
long and distinguished career.
The prosecutor paraded them
before the jury, one after the oth-
er, describing her performances
— the horrible falls, the “blood”
gushing from her mouth and
nose, the sickening misalign-
ments of knees and ribs, and
always the poor wailing baby or
toddler who was frightened but
uninjured in the crash.
The outcome was never in
doubt. Off to the penitentiary at
Walla Walla went Maud John-
son to serve a fi ve-year sentence.
The governor pardoned her out
of the joint after two years, and
she dropped out of sight.
After her release, Maud John-
son appears to have more or less
gone straight, immersing her-
self fully into show business.
She appears only sporadically
in the newspapers after that, in-
cluding one time in 1922 when
a minstrel’s troupe she’d joined
disbanded suddenly and she had
to raise some cash by kiting bad
checks. But as far as I’ve been
able to learn, she never again
tried her fake-injury swindle.
(Sources: Archives of Port-
land
Morning
Oregonian,
Pendleton East Oregonian and
Albany State Rights Democrat,
1896-1922; Washington State
Archives; “Smooth Woman
Swindler on Coast,” Electric
Traction Weekly, 7/31/1909;
“Fakir Queen Makes Living
Falling from Trains,” The Day
Book, 5/27/1914)
Finn J.D. John teaches at Or-
egon State University and writes
about odd tidbits of Oregon his-
tory. For details, see http://fi nn-
john.com. To contact him or
suggest a topic: fi nn2@offbe-
atoregon.com or 541-357-2222.
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companies all over the country
and living high on the hog from
the proceeds. Sometimes, after
a particularly horrifi c-looking
pratfall, she would even call for
a lawyer and minister and make
out a will on the spot.
She was good enough that she
might have gotten away with
this for many years, had she not
been seemingly unable to stick
around after being paid. In case
after case, the delivery of a stack
of cash transformed her from a
catatonic cripple into a hale and
hearty specimen leaping aboard
an outbound train.
Her performances were so
lucrative, and her abrupt depar-
tures so obvious and galling to
the freshly fl eeced, that the rail-
road agents actually formed the
Pacifi c Claim Agents Associa-
tion specifi cally to try to spread
the word of her antics and share
information that might lead to
her capture.
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