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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 10, 2016 And the Wiener is... 2016 Wiener Dog Races & Pet Fest Saturday, August 20, 2016 4-8pm WOE Fairgrounds 11A A IRPORT Continued from page 1A boundaries. According to State Airports Manager Matt Mauss, the De- partment of Aviation believes annexation is the right move be- cause it will put the Airport in position to utilize city services such as police, fi re and permit- ting. “We believe those services can help the Airport develop ad- ditional hangars,” Mauss said. “Cottage Grove is currently one of the only of the 28 airports we manage that hasn’t had any new hangar activity lately, and we were hearing that it may be be- cause it’s really diffi cult to get on approved by the County. We see this as having lots of ben- efi ts and few drawbacks.” City Planner Amanda Fergu- son said that City staff are also in favor of annexation. “There should be more com- mercial uses possible when city services are added,” Ferguson said. “Adjacent property owners could negotiate for direct access to the airport for business pur- poses. Bringing in water to the existing hangars will also have its benefi ts.” Currently, there is no running water available at the Airport, and the Kelleys and others have advocated for the construction of a pilots’ welcome center that can provide visiting pilots with a reason to stick around when they stop in Cottage Grove. “We’d have a real bathroom,” Nadine Kelley said. “We hope it will spur growth at the Airport, and people may even move to Cottage Grove as a result.” One hurdle facing annexa- tion concerned taxation. Hangar owners understandably do not want to pay property taxes to both the County and City. Thus, an agreement was reached that, for the fi rst 10 years following annexation, the state would pay the difference of any increase in taxes for hangar owners. Im- provements to their properties would be handled by the City’s planning department, and any necessary permits would also trigger the change in taxation. The City also hopes to utilize the Airport to spray effl uent from treated wastewater on the open spaces there. Pilots contacted about the annexation were cautiously optimistic about the changes it could bring. “It will help move things ahead so that we can get our pi- lots’ welcome center, which is the result we want,” said Doug Kindred, president of the Ore- gon Aviation Historical Society, which is headquartered in Cot- tage Grove. “It will make this a destina- tion with much more use,” said Tom Cunningham. “Airports can be moneymakers, if cities know how to operate them.” “I hope nothing really chang- es,” said pilot and hangar owner Kent Koester. “Whenever you see a small airport get involved in politics, it’s generally not good. I just hope it doesn’t cost me more money. It’s kind of like our garage here — we’re a low- key airport that doesn’t need a lot of help.” Pilot Lee Keller said he’s ad- opted a “wait and see” approach with regard to annexation. And with the Council's vote in its favor, it looks like the wait is over. she had never heard many of the scientifi c names spoken out loud. Most lumber camps were small, having anywhere from fi ve to fi fty families. Everyone knew each other. A logging camp was a temporary settle- ment of a lumber mill and the lumber shanties for the workers. Once the nearby trees were cut, the entire camp, the mill and the small houses would be moved by railroad to a new place to cut trees. Opal lived in over 15 logging camps in the Row River Valley. Lumbering had the highest mortality rate of any workers ex- cept deep mining. Opal’s paper describes the fear each person in the camps feels upon hearing the four blasts of the mill whis- tle signaling a severe accident. Opal has personally known the terror that it could be her parent or friend who has been injured. She asks her readers to con- sider the essential humanity of those who work hard to produce things we use everyday. In some ways her essay may sound like many papers that freshman or sophomore stu- dents have written. Young peo- ple have a strong sense of jus- tice and what is “right” in their eyes. Most students are simply repeating what they have read — but not Opal. She has actu- ally lived the life she writes about. She has seen many men die in the 10 years she has lived in lumber camps. Few freshmen had seen so much death as Opal. Her grade for the paper was an “S” for Satisfactory. Opal wrote this many years before the use of chainsaws and big trucks. Logging was still mostly done by men us- ing an axe or large, cross-cut saw. Horses were still used for hauling lumber, and chainsaws were not widely used until after World War II. However, fate was to change Opal’s academic career. Just one year after Opal enrolled in college, her mother moved to Eugene for medical care. Elizabeth Whiteley had breast cancer. Opal’s mother suffered a very painful death from can- cer in May 1917. Mrs. Whiteley wanted Opal to quit college and take care of her siblings after she died. Opal left Oregon in early 1918 during her sophomore year, partly because of pressures from her family. Like many young women who have been faced with this diffi cult choice when a parent dies, Opal chose to lead her own life, moving to Los Angeles where she pub- lished her book, The Fairyland Around Us. She never returned to Oregon, but did go to Boston where she published her child- hood memoir in 1920. 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