COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 3, 2016
Proposed cell
tower south of CG to
receive public hearing
Dispute between
neighbors draws
police presence
A
spokesperson with the Lane County
Sheriff’s Offi ce said a dispute over a
garden tool may have led to an exchange of
gunshots between neighbors on Brice Creek
road southeast of Cottage Grove last week.
Public Information Offi ce Carrie Carver
said that a scene that had once drawn sever-
al vehicles and personnel with the Sheriff’s
Offi ce and Oregon State Police was cleared
by about 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 26 after po-
lice responded to a call involving shots fi red
in the area at about 9 that morning.
Police were busy interviewing many in-
dividuals, and one man had been detained
early this afternoon, Carver said, though she
added that no one had as yet been arrested.
“Reportedly there was gunfi re exchanged,
but we haven’t been able yet to determine
which party fi red fi rst or whether both of
them fi red shots at all,” Carver said.
The man who was detained at the resi-
dence was cooperating with the ongoing
investigation, Carver indicated.
Lane County Land
Management to host
hearing Aug. 11
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
photo by Jon Stinnett
Police vehicles — both marked and unmarked — responded to a home in
the 39000 block of Brice Creek Road on Tuesday, July 26.
She said the County’s Special Response
Team was called to the area. A response
from Oregon State Police was also initially
requested, though OSP was called off soon
after.
“We brought armor right away; it’s the
case when there’s anything called in that
involves shots fi red,” she said. The Eugene
Register-Guard reported that Carver said the
remoteness of the area and “law offi cials’
history with both parties” led to the heavy
police response, adding that the owner of
the home in question, David Pressley, faced
charges in 2006 including coercion, second-
degree kidnapping, fi rst-degree robbery, un-
lawful use of a weapon, pointing a weapon
at another and being a felon in possession
of a weapon.
Utility says expansion will help spread its costs
EPUD spokesperson
said upgrades to serve
new manufacturer will
also reduce outages
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
T
he recent announcement
that Eugene-based Pak-
Tech, a manufacturer of injec-
tion-molded packaging handles
and in-line automated applica-
tion equipment, had purchased
the former Kwikee building at
230 Davidson in Cottage Grove
and would expand its operations
there was preceded by lengthy
discussions between several
representatives of the City of
Cottage Grove, the company
and nearby utility the Emerald
Peoples Utilities District, which
will undertake a major upgrade
of its systems to provide the
electricity the new business
needs.
“We’ve been working with
the City, the Chamber of Com-
merce and variations of them
for a really long time with re-
gard to the Kwikee building,”
said EPUD spokesperson Rob
Currier. “We’ve worked to meet
the electrical needs of several
companies who have looked at
the building over time, but this
opportunity came up super-
quick.”
In mid-June, Currier said the
EPUD board of directors be-
gan discussing the possibility
of capital investments to bolster
its systems to provide the elec-
tricity that PakTech will need,
which he described as being
equivalent to the power use of
about 300 homes, supplied al-
most constantly.
“We were making the case
that it could benefi t the City
and all of our customer/owners
R
esidents who live near the
location of a proposed
Verizon cell phone tower are be-
ing asked by Lane County land
management offi cials to com-
ment on the land use change that
would green-light the tower’s
construction.
A Cottage Grove area resident
concerned about the tower’s po-
tential impact on its surround-
ings forwarded the Sentinel a
notice of public hearing indicat-
ing that Verizon hopes to install
a 150-foot self-supporting lat-
tice tower and associated equip-
ment on the ground in a 50 foot
by 50 foot fenced area on 36.47
acres at the Hull Timber Ranch
located at 77329 McDole Road,
located between Interstate 5 and
London Road about four miles
southwest of Cottage Grove.
Property owners near the pro-
woman suspected of fur-
nishing alcohol to mi-
nors at a party in May has been
arrested in
Clackamas
County af-
ter failing
to appear
in court in
response to
the charges
against her.
The Cot-
tage Grove Angela Ward
Police Department’s activities
log indicates that 33-year old
Angela Ward was arrested in
Clackamas County Saturday
on a Cottage Grove Municipal
Court warrant for failure to ap-
pear. Police had been looking for
and even utilized CGPD’s Face-
book page to enlist the public’s
help in locating Ward, who they
said purchased alcohol for sev-
eral teens in advance of a May
20 party that attracted police
attention after South Lane Fire
and Rescue received a report of
a 14-year old female foaming at
the mouth. Several of the teens
were extremely intoxicated, po-
lice said — a 15-year old was
reportedly found with a blood
alcohol content of .26 percent,
over three times the legal limit
for an adult DUI. Police say a
second 15-year old was found to
have a BAC of .18 percent.
Commander Conrad Gagner
said that a tip indicating that
Ward may be at the Department
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Please see EPUD, Page 11A
of Human Services offi ce in
Springfi eld led police to arrest
her there, and she was given a
June 20 court date at that time.
Ward was cited and released,
though a warrant was issued
July 25 when she failed to ap-
pear in court. She was subse-
quently given a new court date
of Thursday, Aug. 18, and bail
was set at $50,000.
posed tower received the notice,
which points out that a public
hearing will be held Thursday,
Aug. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the Lane
County Public Works Customer
Service Center, Goodpasture
Room, 3050 N. Delta Highway
in Eugene.
“You may want to share this
information with others in your
neighborhood,” the notice stat-
ed.
According to the document,
comments may be submitted to
Erik Forsell of the Lane County
Land Management Division at
3050 N. Delta Highway, Eu-
gene, OR 97408 or faxed with
ATTN to Forsell at 541-682-
3947. Written comments will
be accepted until the day of the
hearing and during the hearing
itself. The application and all re-
lated documents are available at
the Public Works Customer Ser-
vice Center between 9 a.m. and
4 p.m. on weekdays, and a copy
of the staff report will be avail-
able at no cost one week prior
to the meeting. Mail copies are
also available at cost by calling
Chris Rogers at 541-682-3347.
City Council cancels
its Aug. 22 meeting
Woman accused of furnishing alcohol to minors arrested again “
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I think I heard a motion
with fi ve seconds!”
Mayor Tom Munroe heard an
enthusiastic response from the
City Council at its Monday, July
25 meeting regarding the pros-
pect of holding just one meeting
this August.
“There is the potential, be-
cause there’s nothing on the
schedule for Aug. 22, to cancel
that meeting, but I need a mo-
tion not to meet,” City Manager
Richard Meyers stated before
several councilors jumped in.
Meyers explained that, by law
the Council must meet at least
once a month, and the lack of
business on Aug. 22 apparently
made that meeting expendable.
Still, Councilor Jeff Gowing’s
motion included the provision
that, should city business need
to be handled that Monday, the
meeting would go ahead as it
was originally scheduled.
Unless that happens, the
Council will only meet once,
this Monday, Aug. 8, when a
review of the ballot language
for a prospective three-cent gas
tax increase will be among the
items on the agenda. The meet-
ing starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall’s
Council chambers, and the pub-
lic is welcome.
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