COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 10, 2016
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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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in a small pond” — now she was
one student among thousands.
Opal Whiteley entered the UO
in September, 1916 with more
fanfare than a modern football
star – no one could have lived
up to the academic expectations
of her. She took a huge load of
coursework, enrolling both at
the UO and at a Bible college
while she still had to take a high
school class in Springfi eld. Opal
was still president of the Junior
Christian Endeavor, which re-
quired much travel and com-
munications. Opal also started
a nature club and even played
the sport of Lacrosse. Plus, she
had to care for her mother, who
lived with her and was dying of
cancer.
One of her professors was
later to say “Opal was in the
university, but never of the uni-
versity”. She was considered
“different” – doing things like
singing to earthworms and run-
ning across campus to catch but-
terfl ies. Also, Opal was deeply
religious, and college is when
many students pull away from
church.
One of Opal’s relatives told
me that she frequently mispro-
nounced words and names. That
makes sense, since much of her
knowledge came only through
her reading. Even though she
knew the material quite well,
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