COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 27, 2016
Car show, cook-off heat up downtown
Rock Roll & Rumble
Show-N-Shine Judges’
Winners:
Robert Costa, 1964
Plymouth Sport Fury
and 1956 Ford
Jack Sprats Cafe
awarded top honors
by people, judges
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Wayne Northern, 1917
Model T Ford
A
s sunshine broke out late
Saturday morning, the
chili began cooking. In con-
junction with KNND’s Rock,
Roll and Rumble Car Show, the
Main Street Chili Cook Off took
place over the weekend.
A variety of local businesses
and organizations entered to
see if they could cook the best
chili in town. Grocery Outlet,
Kiwanis Club, Jack Sprats, the
Axe and Fiddle, Shampoo Dolls
and even State Farm represented
their cooking talents on Main
Street.
Judges and chili lovers had
several hours to taste each
booth’s chili, and in the end,
there was a clear winner.
Jack Sprats took fi rst place in
the judges’ and people’s choice.
Chef Scott Boyles was the man
behind the pot and took home
both fi rst-place trophies.
“I just smoked a lot of meat
and tried to get the best balance
of sweet and spicy,” Boyles said.
The judges voted Chili Knights
for second place and Kiwanis
Club for third place.
For the people’s choice, the
SATURDAY'S
RESULTS:
Larry Carr, 1961
Mach 1 Mustang and
1969 Ford Mustang;
Celia Gowing, 1960
Mercury Comet;
Bruce (?), 1957 Chevy
photo by Sam Wright
Mary Grimes tastes a sample of chili during Saturday's
cook-off downtown.
Axe and Fiddle took second
place, and Chili Knights took
third. State Farm won an award
for the most festive booth.
Though Jack Sprats was a
people’s and judge’s winner,
it’s not to say that other booths
didn’t have good chili. In fact,
by asking around, it would seem
very variable.
Local Grovers John and Lee
Garner said that their favorite
was from State Farm followed
by Grocery Outlet.
Sid Blosch enjoyed the chili
Art Walk to highlight
'Hot Summer Nights'
Downtown Cottage Grove will host its pop-
ular Art Walk this Friday, July 29 from 6-9
p.m. at various downtown locations. Included
in the festivities will be the following artists:
photographer Christina Knight at Delight,
pine needle baskets at Apple Pie Antiques,
author David Finch at the Bookmine, painter
Amanda Wilcox at Kalapuya Books, local
rock band Flies with Honey at the Brewsta-
tion, Michele Rose's whimsical gemstone
jewelry and Tinika's masks and magnets at
the Crafty Mercantile and "Art to Inspire a
Sweeter, More Positive, Joy-Filled Life" by
Stephanie Kornman at Five Flying Monkeys.
The Opal Theater will also present the play
"Mass Appeal" beginning at 8 p.m.
from Shampoo Dolls the most.
“They really put a lot of effort
into the presentation,” Blosch
said.
The car show ended with fi ve
winners. Robert Costa won with
his 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury
and a 1956 Ford. Wayne North-
ern won with a 1917 Model T
Ford, along with Larry Carr’s
1961 Mach 1 Mustang and 1969
Ford Mustang, Celia Gowing’s
1960 Mercury Comet and a
1957 Chevy from an unknown
owner.
Chamber Chili
Cook-Off Winners:
Judges and People’s
Choice No. 1 – Jack
Sprats Café;
No. 2 – Chili Knights
(of Pythias)
People’s Choice No. 2
– Axe & Fiddle; Judges
No. 3 – Kiwanis Club;
People’s Choice No.
3 – Chili Knights (of
Pythias)
Most Festive Booth:
State Farm
Sentinel accepts
awards at ONPA
summer convention
S
entinel Publisher Gary
Manly and Editor Jon
Stinnett were among those in
attendance at the Oregon News-
paper Publisher’s Association’s
summer convention at the Or-
egon Gardens in Silverton on
Thursday, July 21 and Friday,
July 22.
The convention offered an op-
portunity to network with lead-
ing industry professionals, in
addition to the presentation of
awards for excellence in several
journalistic categories as part of
ONPA’s annual Better Newspa-
per Contest.
The Sentinel was grouped into
circulation Group E for weekly
newspapers with a circulation
of 3001 or greater. The news-
paper received three awards for
contest entries from newspapers
published in 2015:
A photo entitled “Snow Ride,”
which depicted cyclist Kevin
Dow’s snowy ride across the
swinging bridge over the Coast
Fork of the Willamette River
in December of 2015, earned
Stinnett a fi rst-place award for
Best Feature Photo.
The regularly appearing col-
umn entitled “CG Daytripper,”
which details the many destina-
tion spots that can be accessed
from Cottage Grove in a single
day, was awarded third place for
Best Local Column.
The Sentinel was also award-
ed third place for the 2015 edi-
tion of its annual Community
Guidebook, a reference material
that contains comprehensive in-
formation about the area’s at-
tractions and services.
In addition to receiving the
awards, the convention also
offered the chance to partake
in several informative panel
discussions and presentations
by various speakers. Friday’s
schedule included a presenta-
tion by Republican gubernato-
rial hopeful Bud Pierce and a
discussion between supporters
and opponents of Initiative 28,
a proposed tax increase on Or-
egon’s largest corporations set
to appear on the ballot this No-
vember. A panel composed of
representatives of the Roseburg
News-Review, the Oregonian
and the Blue Mountain Eagle
and Wallowa Chieftain included
an interesting discussion of how
those publications responded
to major crises that shook their
communities and tested their
newsrooms in 2015, namely the
Oct. 1 shooting on the campus
of Umpqua Community College
and the occupation of the Mal-
heur National Wildlife Refuge.
Tests show lead found in South Lane
District Offi ce drinking fountain
A
stack of papers in South Lane
School District Superinten-
dent Krista Parent’s offi ce showcase
two important letters again and again
— “N.D.”
The letters stand for “none de-
tected” and show the results of tests
for lead conducted at the sources of
the District’s drinking water. South
Lane tested its water supply in June,
as public concern over lead levels
throughout Oregon mounted. Just
last week, in fact, Portland Pub-
lic Schools Superintendent Carole
Smith stepped down over allegations
that the District knew about lead in
its drinking water system for some
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time but did nothing to correct the
issue.
There is no state standard for lead
testing in public schools, Parent
pointed out, adding that public con-
cern prompted the tests here.
“As soon as it happened in Port-
land, we knew we wanted to get ev-
erything tested,” she said. The Dis-
trict’s water supply in its rural schools
is now under its own purview and is
part of the Row River Water District,
which Parent said is routinely tested,
though Lincoln Middle School had
not been tested since 1989 and one
other South Lane School had not
been tested since 2011.
A level of 15 parts per billion of
lead is the upper threshold of accept-
ability for the element. One water
source that did test positive for lead,
the drinking fountain in the District’s
administrative offi ce at Third and Ad-
ams streets, showcased an amount of
6.8 parts per billion. While this num-
ber tests below the acceptable thresh-
old, Parent said the District chose to
replace the fountain anyway.
Parent said she wouldn’t be sur-
prised if the District has to test its
water for lead again.
“The state has gotten pretty seri-
ous about testing,” she said.
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