10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 22, 2016
Elks ceremony honors fl ag, details history
BY SAM WRIGHT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
colonies. At this point, the stars were six-
pointed stars, as opposed to the fi ve-pointed
stars used today.
There was also a point where the fl ag had
15 stars and 15 stripes as Vermont and Ken-
tucky joined the Union.
In the early 19th century, the fl ag reached
20 stars, with a new star being added upon
a new state’s admittance, but the number of
stripes was reduced to 13 in honor of the
original 13 colonies.
Since then, the fl ag underwent many
changes, with more and more states joining
the union until the appearance of the 48-star
fl ag, as it took 47 years for Alaska, and a
year after that, Hawaii, to join the U.S.
The Elk’s Lodge ceremony was a very
traditional and patriotic one. Members of
the Elks gave premeditated statements on
what the fl ag symbolizes and means for the
United States. The Boy Scouts showcased
a total of eight different fl ags including the
Gadsden fl ag that was used by the Conti-
nental Marines.
D
id you know that Oregon’s was the
33rd star added to the U.S. fl ag? Last
Tuesday (June 14) marked national Flag
Day, and on Thursday, June 16, the Cottage
Grove Elk’s Lodge hosted a short, but in-
formative presentation on the history of the
Star Spangled Banner.
The current fl ag we see today is the 27th
design, and local Boy Scouts presented sev-
eral of the designs used throughout the his-
tory of the nation.
The very fi rst fl ag was brought out that
resembled the fl ag of the British East India
Company with a few tweaks. It was origi-
nally called “The Continental Colors” and
was also dubbed the “Grand Union” later in
the 19th century.
Then the fi rst fl ag with stars and stripes
was presented. However, this fl ag was origi-
nally meant for the U.S. Navy and had 13
stars as well as striped to represent the 13
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photo by Sam Wright
Local Boy Scouts were on hand to
present several fl ags representing
the evolution from the U.S. Flag's
earliest days until the present at a
ceremony held Thursday, June 16 at
the Cottage Grove Elks Lodge. The
fl ag has undergone several evolu-
tions since before the United States
achieved its independence.
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He said police have located
several of the cars the sisters
are believed to have purchased
and seized three of them. The
women also allegedly attempted
to convince the man to cash in
a CD.
The victim reportedly learned
of the deception perpetrated
against him when one of the
sisters went to California to see
to the burial of the man’s wife,
Skaggs said.
“Within 15 minutes, she’s
gone, and he can’t fi nd her,”
Skaggs said. “He’s got no gro-
ceries and can’t get his medi-
cine.”
Skaggs said the man then
took off on his own, walking the
1-½ miles from his home to the
police station with the aid of a
walker to report his situation.
“He had no idea how exten-
sive it was, and it just about
broke him,” Skaggs said.
The bank used by the victim
was cooperative and provided
records, though Skaggs said po-
lice are still looking for checks
that have gone missing and oth-
er items.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we
found more,” he said.
Amundson and Taylor were
lodged at the Lane County Jail,
and both were reportedly booked
on charges of aggravated theft in
the fi rst degree (charges which
involve theft over $10,000 and
which Skaggs said could mul-
tiply). Amundson was also
charged with fi rst-degree crimi-
nal mistreatment stemming
from her disappearance from the
man’s home while she was em-
ployed as his caregiver. Skaggs
said the sisters have no known
criminal history, and both were
unemployed. The investigation
continues.
Skaggs described the man’s
situation as “sickening.”
“Here he’s looking for some-
body to help him, and he gets
wiped out,” he said. “It really
hit us in the gut.”
pesky metal-fatigue problem
that had plagued the older Lib-
erty ships had not been com-
pletely licked.
And if that was the case, the
crew of the Drexel Victory had
had a very narrow escape in-
deed. The bar that day had hit
the ship with a few big swells,
but nothing compared with what
a good January storm can dish
out on the north Pacifi c, between
Portland and Yokohama. And if
the hull had cracked as it did in
the middle of one of those, there
likely would have been no sur-
vivors.
ship Web page at www.lanevic-
tory.org)
yourself!” It had to be the Holy
Spirit leading him, because he
says that’s when he thought,
“That’s the girl for me!”
Everyone’s story is different
but the point is the Holy Spirit
wants to lead us all according
to the plans God has for each of
our lives. I’m not saying it will
always be easy. King David was
called a man after God’s heart,
but we know it wasn’t because
he did everything right. How-
ever, David had cultivated a
passionate heart for God’s will.
He learned how to recover from
his failures and move on in God,
and because of that “God testi-
fi ed concerning him: ‘I have
found David son of Jesse, a man
after my own heart; he will do
everything I want him to do’”
(Acts 13:22 NIV).
In our relationship with God,
our part is to pray, study His
Word, and learn to develop our
own sensitivity and obedience
to the Holy Spirit’s lead. His
promise to us is, “I will give
them one heart [a new heart]
and I will put a new spirit within
them; and I will take the stony
[unnaturally hardened] heart out
of their fl esh, and will give them
a heart of fl esh [sensitive and
responsive to the touch of their
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to do, when it had happened.
The Drexel Victory drew 30 feet
of water fully loaded; the chan-
nel where she started taking on
water was 60 feet deep. And
the Army Corps of Engineers,
surveying the channel after the
sinking, found no obstructions
there.
So either the Drexel Victory
rammed a derelict ship, or — as
seemed far more likely — that
(Sources: Gibbs, James A.
Pacifi c Graveyard. Portland:
Binford, 1950; National Parks
Service, “Liberty Ships and Vic-
tory Ships, America’s Lifeline
at War,” Teaching with Historic
Places Lesson Plans, www.nps.
gov; S.S. Lane Victory museum
follow the Holy Spirit. I can
tell you that life will never be
boring with Him in the lead.
When I fi rst met my husband,
Dave, I never would’ve thought
God was leading him to me.
But he had been praying for a
wife…and particularly someone
who needed help. He came to the
house one day to visit a friend of
his who lived upstairs from us. I
was outside washing my car and
he said, “When you fi nish that
one, you want to wash mine?”
My response was, “If you want
your car washed you can wash it
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