COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 17, 2016
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Model
trains in
several
scales fi ll
Armory
BY SAM WRIGHT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
courtesy photo
The Reveleers — Steve Whaley, Larry Plummer and
Darryl Wetzell, rocked teen dances in the early 60s,
and a reformed lineup will play Bohemia Park next
Wednesday.
T
he Armory was buzzing
with activity over the
weekend as the Willamette Cas-
cade Model Railroad Club host-
ed a model train show. The club
was formed in 1978 in Eugene
and hosted its fi rst show in 1979
at the Valley River Center.
A train show has been in the
works in Cottage Grove since
the Chamber of Commerce’s
Executive Director, Travis
Palmer, approached the club.
President of the Railroad Club
Lee Temple says that Palmer
contacted the club after catching
wind that they did a model train
show in Drain.
“Travis thought it was a great
idea and said we absolutely have
to do a show in Cottage Grove,”
Temple said.
This year, the club featured
four different tracks, including
a Thomas the Tank Engine set
owned by club member Roger
Fegles. Two other tracks that
were featured were G-scale
tracks, making the model scaled
Reveleers ready to
rumble at Bohemia Pk.
Roger Fegles (left) discusses the G-Scale model train set he was operating during the
model train show. The set is contributed to by all members of the model railroad club.
between 1:29 and 1:32. G-Scale
model trains are typically larger
and more durable and therefore
can withstand being displayed
outdoors.
The main attraction was the
modular set which is an HO-
scale set (1:87). The modular
parts are owned both by indi-
vidual members and the railroad
club. The model is a great rep-
resentation of Oregon railways,
with trains such as Amtrak mod-
els as well as timber and mining
cars. The accurate depiction is a
strong goal of the club, because
having a great-looking set isn’t
the sole purpose of the Club.
“We don’t want to talk just
about model trains,” Temple
said. “We aim to educate peo-
ple on railroads, especially the
Transcontinental Railroad that
helped shaped Oregon and the
West.” Among the model trains
were educational booths that
held magazines and literature
about historical railroads and
model trains.
With their educational goal,
the WCMRC operates as a Non-
Profi t organization out of Eu-
Roa gets 35 years
C
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
photo by Sam Wright
ottage Grove’s Carlos Roa re-
ceived a prison sentence last week
that could have the 39-year old behind
bars until he is a senior citizen.
On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Roa was sentenced
by Judge Curtis Conover to serve the full
35-year sentence possible following his
conviction the week prior on charges in-
cluding attempted murder.
Roa was convicted of trying to kill Lane
County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Olson and
other law enforcement personnel during
an encounter outside a home near Cot-
tage Grove Reservoir on the evening of
Sept. 25, 2015. Roa had testifi ed that he
blacked out during the incident and came
to several hours later, after an intensive
search, claim-
ing that he did
not remember
fi ring an AK-47
several times at
police. He was
wounded in the Carlos Roa
right buttock dur-
ing the encounter
by Deputy Richard Glessner, while Olson
was shot in the groin area.
Roa’s lawyer, Mike Flinn, argued that
Roa had not intended to kill anyone, ac-
cording to the Eugene Register-Guard.
Flinn had instead asked for a 15-year sen-
tence.
gene and Springfi eld.
The club is open to any and
all who are interested in model
trains. Its newest member, Ron
Judd, joined about four months
ago after he became interested
in model trains while shopping
in Springfi eld.
“They just caught my eye
and I became really interested,”
Judd said. The model trains
seem to have that effect on a lot
of people, as community mem-
bers poured in Friday, Saturday
and Sunday to inspect the model
sets.
Council approves
fl ood code
At its Monday, Aug. 8 meeting, the Cottage
Grove City Council unanimously approved
an ordinance to establish a new City code for
fl ood damage prevention. Community Devel-
opment Director Howard Schesser told the
Council that the new code will bring the City
into complainace with state and federal stan-
dards, adding that it does not change mapping
of the local fl ood plain by the Federal Emer-
gency Management Association.
City Planner Amanda Ferguson has said that
the City’s new code has been updated in an
effort to ensure that Cottage Grove be in-
cluded in FEMA’s community rating system,
which provides federal fl ood insurance for
those structures required to carry it.
O
ver 50 years ago, a power trio became one of Cottage
Grove’s earliest rock bands, churning out the tunes of
Bill Haley and the Comets, the Sonics, the Kingsmen and oth-
er pioneer bands for appreciative young crowds even before
the Beatles became a household name.
Steve Whaley and Darryl Wetzell have been through much
since those early rocking years, but the duo — two-thirds of
the Reveleers, along with departed drummer Larry Plummer
— say they’re still on the same wavelength of rock and roll,
hot rods and riffs that drew the group together in decades
past.
On Wednesday, Aug. 24 beginning at 6:30 p.m., Whaley
and Wetzell will reunite the Reveleers for “The Reveleers
Rumble” as part of the Chamber of Commerce’s Concerts in
the Park series at Bohemia Park. And they’ll have a hand-
picked group of friends, seven in all, to fi ll out their sound.
The event won’t be the fi rst Reveleers reunion; Whaley and
Wetzell performed together at a class reunion in 2005, then
got the band together for the fi rst concert in Bohemia Park
back in 2014.
“We swore that was going to be our last one,” Whaley said
of the 2014 show. “But we were inundated — it seemed like
every time we turned around, somebody was asking us if we
were going to do it again.”
Last fall, Whaley approached Wetzell about another show,
mainly because “we still both love it so much.” However,
Whaley’s upcoming surgery to give a kidney to his sister,
Connie, threw the gig in doubt. (The Reveleers Rumble will
be dedicating their set next week to Connie, in addition to
Plummer, their departed drummer.)
“There’s a different group of players with us this time,”
Whaley said. “The sound will be a little more streamlined,
more up-tempo. This show is about us being able to give back
to the people that have supported us all these years and lis-
tened to us way back then.”
“There are a lot of old songs that have been updated; it’s
going to be really cool,” Wetzell said. “We were a little part
of history at that time, and our camaraderie has always been
there.”
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