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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-
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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.
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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.
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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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