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10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 13, 2016 S YMPHONY Continued from page 1A that was founded in 2013 by Eugene Ballet Company danc- ers Antonio Anacan and Su- zanne Haag. By using audience participation, #instaballet cre- ates unique ballet performances on the spot, while giving the audience a behind-the-scenes look at how ballet is created in real-time, a format for present- ing dance that is original to #in- staballet. The Cottage Grove concert is the second of a series of free out- door concerts this year that will be kicking off the 51st season of the Symphony. Maestro Danail Rachev will lead the orchestra in popular audience favorites, including some orchestral high- lights from Williams’s “Star Wars” and Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz from Swan Lake,” plus Sousa’s “Washington Post March,” Sup- pé’s “Overture to Light Caval- ry,” Dvorák’s “Slavonic Dance No. 8” and Cole Porter’s “Be- gin the Beguine.” Cellist Nora Willauer, Eugene Symphony’s 2015/16 Senior Divison Young Artist Competition winner, will perform Tchaikovsky’s “Varia- tions on a Rococo Theme.” Violist Maia Hoffman, Eugene Symphony’s 2015/16 Junior Di- vison Young Artist Competition winner, will perform Weber’s “Andante & Rondo ongarese.” Closing the concert, as always, will be Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.” “We love providing the op- portunity to spend a summer evening outside listening to high-quality orchestral mu- sic with the community. It lets us showcase our orchestra to a broader audience beyond the concert hall,” said Maestro Da- nail Rachev. C ll Blueberr e w s ie re 34030 Orchard Ave., Creswell 541-895-8907 U-Pick or Call to Order Open Daily 8-5pm Accommodate off hour picking by appointment July –August with seven different varieties No Spray! We provide buckets & boxes Please leave pets at home. Come help us celebrate!! courtesy photo #instaballet offers audiences the chance to see a dance created on the spot or even join in. SHARO N’S 75TH BIRTH DAY! S HEPHERD Continued from page 1A chief position but will likely avoid an extensive or broad search for a new chief. “I don’t anticipate that any- body else will apply,” he said. “We could bring somebody in, but he’s done a great job so far, and we wanted to give him an opportunity to see if he wanted to do it full-time.” Meyers said he was pleased with Shepherd’s idea to add a part-time staffer at CGPD to handle duties that would other- wise require the services of a full-time offi cer, a position that the City is currently working to fi ll. Meyers said he also ap- preciated Shepherd’s work with the community group Stand Up for Cottage Grove and other in- ternal personnel challenges that he declined to detail more fully, in addition to working with a shorthanded staff due to some offi cers completing their police academy training. Shepherd said that he will do whatever he can to make his ap- pointment to the chief position permanent. He said he’s occu- pied himself thus far rising to new challenges and learning the dynamics of a department that he’s come to understand much more fully since he’s been in charge. “With the group we have here, I know that we can face chal- lenges and make good decisions to try to continue to do as good a job as we can for the citizens of Cottage Grove,” he said. “I’m sure that at times we’ll do great things and be applauded and at other times people will think we didn’t hit the mark, but either case offers something we can learn from.” Shepherd said that police work has evolved since his early years with CGPD (he grew up and attended school here and began serving with the Depart- ment in 1993.) “The climate of law enforce- ment has been infl uenced by happenings in other areas,” he said, referencing the recent police shootings in Dallas and elsewhere. “We need to continue to look toward new technology to do our tasks with more effi - ciency while still maintaining personal contact with citizens so that it’s more of a commu- nity effort. It’s going to take us not to cooperate with Folkes’ defense attorney. And the pros- ecution even constructed, in an Albany railroad yard, a life-size diorama of the murder train – except it had been modifi ed so that the cook’s car, in which Folkes was working, was one car away from the murder car instead of fi ve or six. So, why turn a blind eye to such a promising suspect and focus all energy on pinning the job on a man with a pretty de- cent alibi, and against whom the only evidence is guesswork, tainted and shifting testimony from Wilson, and an unsigned and probably coerced confes- sion extracted from him by what was then one of the most notori- ously brutal police departments in the country? The most likely answer is that, for every authority involved, Folkes’ conviction represented salvation from consequences ranging from inconvenience to catastrophe. We’ll talk about those conse- quences in next week’s column. all doing what we can to make improvements.” Shepherd’s tenure has already included an increased online presence in the form of Face- book postings, and he said that outreach has had a “mostly pos- itive” impact. Still, he said that maintaining personal contact is still important. “There’s an expectation that when people call for an offi cer, they’re going to get one,” he said. “It’s important to reinforce that we need to be responsive to that expectation.” Shepherd said he hopes to fi n- ish his career in his hometown. “I still love this community, and I like what I do,” he said. July 19th 11 am - 4 pm Th e Carousel Deli ORDER A SANDWICH and get a FREE slice of cake with ice cream O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A ran through and then said maybe he hadn’t made it to the back of the train after all (al- though one source says a blood trail was found leading to the end of the train). He claimed it took him nine steps to get to the end of the car in pursuit, when he was less than six feet from it. On the witness stand, he was un- able even to identify his military unit. And one of the witnesses recalls him actually trying to plant a bloody towel in the bath- room between the murder scene and the cook’s car. But in court, the prosecution seemed to fi ght desperately to avoid even considering the pos- sibility that Wilson had any role in the murder other than that of too-late would-be-rescuer. The railroad ordered its employees (Sources: Geier, Max G. The Color of Night. Corvallis: OSU Press, 2015; Barker, Neil. “Murder on No. 15…” Oregon Historical Quarterly, fall 2011; archives of the Portland Morn- ing Oregonian, Jan. 24, 1943) 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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