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Birthday bash! On 'Our Brothers in the Camps' Inside: Special edition commemorates 90 years of 'The General' Essay from famed Cottage Grove author details her love and respect for her roots, page 6A $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016 SOUTH LANE AND NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889 VOLUME 129 • NUMBER 6 Annexation approved BUSTER KEATON DAY SCHEDULE: Saturday, Aug. 13 City annexes Cottage Grove Airport S Upcoming train show should be County's largest BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel photo by Jon Stinnett Lee Keller checks out his new airplane at the Cottage Grove Airport. Keller said he'll wait and see how annexation by the City could affect operations there. Many area pilots own the hangars that house their airplanes but not the land under them, and the number of parties that would be affected by annexation has been a factor in the timeline of the process. The Kelleys say that many aspects of air- port operations would be better handled by the City of Cottage Grove. “Putting a hangar up in Lane County takes an act of God,” Shawn Kelley said. “We’re hoping that working with the City is a lot ballot measure that would double the amount of lo- cal tax that fuel customers pay at the pump will go before vot- ers in the Nov. 8 election. The Cottage Grove City Council unanimously approved a resolution that will refer a three-cent hike in the City’s motor vehicle fuels tax to vot- ers in the upcoming election. If approved, customers would pay a total of six cents per gallon in local taxes. The vote to refer the tax to voters could have been expect- ed; the Council voted to direct city staff to create a resolution for the ballot measure at its July 25 meeting after a lengthy dis- cussion of how best the City might tackle the $9 million or so in deferred maintenance proj- ects necessary to rebuild dilapi- dated city streets. At that meet- ing, Councilor Garland Burback voted against referring the tax to voters, preferring instead to pursue a bond levy to tackle specifi c road projects. On Monday, Burback said he would reluctantly support send- ing the tax to voters. “I think there should be a vents surrounding the 90th anniversary of the fi lming of Buster Keaton’s clas- sic “The General” won’t be the only train-themed celebrations this weekend. Lee Temple, President of the Willamette Cascade Model Railroad Club, said the organi- zation and many of its 60-plus members will bring the “larg- est operating model train show in Lane County” to Cottage Grove’s Armory beginning Fri- day morning. Temple said the group, which has operated locally for about 50 years, will bring layouts in various scales to the Armory, and all-told, he expects the dis- play to be larger than that which recently broke the record for largest-ever layout at the Lane County Fair. Included in the setup will be a Lionel train layout in 1/48 scale, an American Flyer layout in 1/64 scale and a layout fea- turing television’s Thomas the Tank Engine that comprises fi ve concentric circles. In addition, representatives from Operation Lifesaver, an effort dedicated to easier.” On Sept. 9, 2015, the State Aviation Board passed a motion to request that the City an- nex the Airport. The City Council examined the request last January and directed City Manager Richard Meyers to initiate the an- nexation application. The City subsequently hired a surveyor to map out the Airport’s Please see AIRPORT, Page 11A bonding measure to tag in with this,” he said. “This is like buy- ing blacktop and using it to patch up holes. And it’s going to take a lot more than a few hun- dred thousand.” Burback referenced the $300,000 or so that the City receives in fuel tax each year, a number that City Manager Richard Meyers pointed out would essentially double if the tax were raised to six cents per gallon. And while acknowledg- ing that such revenue was not going to repair all the City’s streets, Meyers stated that it Roa found guilty of attempted murder S entencing was expected on Tuesday for a 39- year old Cottage Grove man convicted of attempted murder and other charges following a shootout with Lane County Sheriff’s Deputies last Sep- tember. It took a jury in a Lane County courtroom less than three hours of deliberation on Tuesday, Aug. 2 to convict Carlos Roa of the three counts of aggravated attempted mur- der, two counts of reckless endangerment and one count of fi rst-degree assault that followed an encounter with deputies on the night of Sept. 25, 2015 at a home on London Road near Cottage Grove Res- ervoir. Police alleged that Roa had fi red more than two dozen R “would help,” adding that the City pays for maintenance such as street striping and lighting that could be addressed with tax funding. “The tax will have to increase, because it doesn’t keep up with infl ation,” he said. tCouncilor Mike Fleck said that complaints about city streets are the most common type he hears from the public. “I don’t see a downside to supporting this,” Fleck said. “Folks know the condition of our streets.” Airplane striking wire blamed for Saturday power outage shots from an AK-47 rifl e at the home following a dispute at a Cottage Grove restaurant earlier that day related to the ownership of a rifl e scope. They say Roa began fi ring on deputies as soon as they reached the residence; Deputy Todd Olson was wounded in the incident. Roa had testifi ed in his own defense that he had only one drink on the night in question but had blacked out prior to the incident, coming to with a police dog biting him af- ter eluding police for several hours following the encoun- ter. Roa also sustained a bul- let wound in his right buttock from Deputy Richard Glessner during the incident. Roa could be sentenced to BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel An airplane clipping a power line at the Cottage Grove Airport is believed to be to blame for a power outage Saturday that af- fected thousands of customers of two area electrical utilities. An entry in the Cottage Grove Police Department’s activities log for Saturday indicated that a plane had “struck a high voltage line” and knocked down a power line just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Tom Gauntt, spokes- person for Pacifi c Power, said that he had received information indicating that the plane had sheared off the wire near a pow- er pole, cutting off power to “as Carlos Roa was found guilty last week of charges related to a Sept., 2015 shooting. decades in prison on Tuesday. A former fi rearms dealer, he operated West Coast Machine Guns in downtown Cottage Grove until the shop closed in 2012. That year, Roa was sentenced to jail time and pro- bation for theft related to mer- chandise that was never deliv- ered to a customer in 2012. C R many as 5500” Pacifi c Power customers in the area around the airport, in addition to areas in Creswell and Goshen. The bulk of those customers had power restored within about an hour, Gauntt said, though about 1590 customers reportedly had to wait a bit longer. “Having something strike the wire would cause the system to need to reset itself,” he said. “Rather than risk damage, the system would shut itself down. Power for our customers came back on as soon as we were done switching power sources.” A spokesperson for the Em- erald Peoples Utilities District, however, said that many of that utility’s customers had to wait a bit longer to have their power restored. Public Relations Co- ordinator Patty Jo Angelini said that the Pacifi c Power line that was sheared fell onto an EPUD line. As such, EPUD crews waited about six hours for Pa- cifi c Power crews to repair their line, after which EPUD needed about 30 minutes with the help of four linemen and three trucks to repair its own line and restore power for its customers. A total of 4352 EPUD customers lost power as a result of the incident, Angelini said, with 618 Cottage Grove customers as the last to have their power restored just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday. . 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Temple said that Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce Director Travis Palmer ap- proached the Club after seeing one of its displays in Drain, and the Cottage Grove appearance has been in planning stages for about nine months. If all goes well, he said the Club hopes to host a regularly occurring train show that can be visited by area schoolchildren in the fall of 2017. Hours for this weekend’s train show will be: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The event is free and open to the public. E Council votes to refer gas tax hike to voters A 9-10:15 p.m. "The Gener- al," Starring Buster Keaton, with Mark Orton and his ensemble orchestra playing Orton's new musical score 7:30-8:30 p.m. Music In Silent Films (Live musical performance by Blaine Gale, Hunter Hale and Richard Hale) BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel hawn and Nadine Kelley say they moved to Cottage Grove in part be- cause the community boasted its own air- port, and ever since they arrived, there’s been talk of the Airport’s possible annexa- tion by the City of Cottage Grove. “It’s been in the works at least since we moved here,” Nadine Kelley said. “Since 2007, the talk has been, ‘It’s going to hap- pen next year.’ It’s kind of like a running joke among the pilots. Is it going to happen? We just don’t know.” After Monday night’s City Council meet- ing, however — during which the Council voted unanimously in favor of annexing the Airport into the City — we all know that annexation is coming. The Cottage Grove Airport sits on land managed by Lane County, though it is op- erated by the Oregon Department of Avia- tion. On Monday, Councilor Jake Boone only sought to point out that the Airport will still be managed by the state Department of Aviation and not the City before the vote was tallied. 8:30-9 p.m. A Snap- shot In Time (A look at Cottage Grove just prior to World War II, presented by the Cottage Grove Historical Society) WEATHER Valerie Nash ....................521-1618 Licensed in the State of Oregon CONTENTS HIGH LOW 84 56 Sunny Calendar....................................... 11B Channel Guide ............................... 4B Classified ads................................. 6B Obituaries....................................... 2A Opinion .......................................... 4A Public Safety .................................. 5A Sports ............................................ 1B 1 Dollar
