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SOUTH LANE COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889
Fire Chief changes
format of restrictions
Council mulls
shopping cart
ordinance
S
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
T
he Cottage Grove City Council voiced sup-
port Monday night for a citywide ordinance
that would authorize penalties for local businesses
that fail to retrieve shopping carts that have been
removed from their premises in a timely manner.
Ordinance No. 2010-03, modeled on ordinances
currently in effect in Roseburg and Forest Grove,
would require businesses that supply shopping carts
for public use to post signs showing that their busi-
ness owns those carts, in addition to stating that
removing shopping carts from their premises is a
crime. The ordinance would also require businesses
to provide a telephone number for the public to re-
port abandoned carts. Business owners would also
be required to retrieve abandoned carts within 72
hours or the City may take custody and impose a $50
penalty on the owner of the cart. If not claimed, the
City could take custody of the cart after 30 days.
City Manager Richard Meyers said that explor-
ing a shopping cart ordinance came in response to a
“proliferation of carts dumped on sidewalks, streets
and in parks.” Meyers said that, contrary to the be-
liefs of some that the carts are being taken and uti-
lized by the homeless, the carts are more often taken
by community members who use them to transport
items, then abandon them.
“They end up in the river and in the parks,” Mey-
ers said. “We’ve been collecting them, taking them
to the city shop and then calling their owners. This
ordinance is a way to try to help encourage busi-
nesses to help us with this problem.”
Meyers acknowledged that local businesses that
provide shopping carts had not been consulted prior
to Monday’s discussion, and Councilor Jake Boone
was among those in favor of communicating with
those businesses to determine whether they might
have ideas that could mitigate the problem.
“We need to talk to the store owners, because
they’re going to have a number of ideas about this,”
Boone said.
Councilor Jeff Gowing said that he wasn’t in fa-
vor of a solution espoused by a previous grocery
business that required customers to submit a 25-
cent deposit before taking a cart. Councilor Gar-
land Burback said the City should simply crush the
carts and “tell the stores tough luck.” Councilor
Kenneth Michael Roberts said that he had been rid-
ing with city Public Works crews that day and had
seen the amount of energy they spent dealing with
abandoned shopping carts.
Please see COUNCIL, Page 11A
VOLUME 129 • NUMBER 12
photo by Jon Stinnett
Librarian Natasha Chitow helps Sharon Kness access a new computer at
the Cottage Grove Library, which recently upgraded its public machines.
Tech partnership paying
off, City says
Contract with LCOG for IT reportedly paying dividends
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
C
ottage Grove Community Services
Director Pete Barrell, who oversees
operations at the C.G. Library, estimates
that about half of the Library’s users visit
to access a computer. These days, those
visitors are able to access newer and more
reliable machines, in part through a part-
nership between the City and the Lane
Council of Governments (LCOG).
For about a decade, Barrell said a vol-
unteer, Joseph Toman, kept the Library’s
computer system going on his own. Still,
the need for newer machines was palpa-
ble, and a contract between the City and
LCOG, which works to help area cities
and Lane County meet their shared goals,
made an upgrade possible. Despite having
fewer computers available, Barrell said
the Library now has higher quality ver-
sions, and a new wireless Internet router
has streamlined online visits for library
users.
Barrell said the Library is also explor-
ing the idea of purchasing tablets that can
be checked out for use in the building or,
eventually, taken home. Other ideas in-
clude a kids’ computer zone.
“As soon as we open up our technol-
ogy, it can be a huge draw,” Barrell said.
“People are looking for more contempo-
rary ways to access information, and we
want to be a source for that.”
Last spring, the City contracted with
LCOG for all of its Internet technologies
services, an arrangement that has proven
benefi cial, according to City Manager
Richard Meyers.
Please see IT, Page 11A
outh Lane County Fire and Rescue Chief John Woo-
ten announced an easing of the fi re restrictions in place
throughout the District last week, in addition to a change in
the format of any future restrictions.
Wooten wrote that the set of regulations released last week
are designed from now on to be in effect from the beginning
of fi re season until the season ends, adding that the District
will be moving away from the practice of issuing and reis-
suing emergency orders in response to changing fi re condi-
tions.
South Lane will also move away from announcing restric-
tions in accordance with the Industrial Fire Precaution levels
issued by the Oregon Department of Forestry, Wooten said,
and will enact restrictions that are designed with the general
public in mind and are “refl ective of fi re danger based on low,
medium, high and extreme” levels. Wooten said that ODF
was helpful in consulting with South Lane Fire to draft the
new regulations document. The current restrictions, which
will last until the end of fi re season (which will occur when
the Lane Regional Air Protection Authority declares the legal
start of open burning in Lane County unless Wooten lifts the
restrictions fi rst) are:
Smoking is prohibited while traveling, except in vehicles
on improved roads, in boats on the water and other desig-
nated locations.
Open fi res are prohibited, including campfi res, charcoal
fi res, cooking fi res and warming fi res, except at locations
where fi re pits are present. Portable cooking stoves using liq-
uefi ed or bottled fuels are allowed. Briquette use is allowed
in barbeques, but is restricted to use on hard, non-fl ammable
surfaces such as patios, driveways, gravel or green irrigated
lawns.
The use of power saws is prohibited during extreme fi re
danger. Power saw use is permitted before 10 a.m. and af-
ter 8 p.m. during low, moderate and high fi re danger. Each
power saw is required to have one shovel and one fi re extin-
guisher of at least eight-ounce capacity.
Cutting, grinding and welding of metal is prohibited dur-
ing extreme fi re danger. This activity is permitted before
10 a.m. and after 8 p.m. during low, moderate, and high fi re
danger, as long as it is conducted in a cleared area, and has a
charged garden hose or 2 1⁄2 pound or larger fi re extinguisher
immediately available.
The mowing of dried, cured grass is prohibited during ex-
treme fi re danger. This activity is permitted before 10 a.m.
and after 8 p.m. during low, moderate and high fi re danger.
The culture and harvest of agricultural crops is exempt from
this requirement.
Motor vehicles, including motorcycles and all-terrain ve-
hicles, are only allowed on improved roads free of fl ammable
vegetation, except for the culture and harvest of agricultural
crops.
Use of illegal fi reworks is prohibited at all times, and in
any location within the District. Legal fi rework use is permit-
ted in areas free of dried, cured grasses, brush, or trees. Gen-
erally fi rework use is only permitted on asphalt, concrete, or
gravel and a charged garden hose or one 2 1⁄2 pound or larger
fi re extinguisher is immediately available.
Pioneering realtor marks 50 years in business, refl ects on changes
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
S
igned in 1963, the char-
ter document of Cottage
Grove’s Board of Realtors is
noticeable for the list of promi-
nent realtors and other com-
munity members it contains.
These days, however, the list
also stands out for another rea-
son — the gender of most of the
Board’s charter members.
“I used to count the number
of women, and at the time, there
just weren’t that many,” said
Ruth Hemenway-Duran. “Now,
there are a lot more women, and
it actually seems more likely
that your realtor is going to be
female.”
“He and Mom did everything
together,”
Hemenway-Duran
said of her father. “She didn’t
have her name out there, but she
was very involved.”
Perhaps
Hemenway-Du-
ran took some cues on being a
strong woman in business from
her mother, lessons she fi rst put
to use at an offi ce in Creswell.
“Real estate is actually pretty
equal-opportunity,” she said.
“If you make the sale, you get
the commission, and it was one
of the fi rst areas where women
could succeed equally if they
were able to do the work.”
Hemenway-Duran said those
early days in Creswell offered a
few hard-won lessons.
“In the old days, you didn’t
The gender shift in real estate
is far from the only change in
the local market that Hemen-
way-Duran, who celebrates 50
years in real estate this year, has
witnessed since 1966, when she
obtained her real estate license
at age 21. And Hemenway-Du-
ran is certainly not the fi rst in
her family to journey into the
business. The daughter of James
and Julia Hemenway, who start-
ed their own business in 1959,
Hemenway-Duran also pointed
out that her great-grandfather
had a real estate business, in ad-
dition to a dry goods store and
mining interests, in this com-
munity’s earliest days. Still, her
parents were a shining example
of a power couple.
share real estate listings,” she
said. “Over time, realtors have
made cooperation the norm, but
it sure wasn’t 50 years ago. Now,
it’s competitive yet cooperative,
and we acknowledge that we
need other people to help fulfi ll
our clients’ goals.”
Hemenway-Duran was instru-
mental in starting the Women’s
Council for realtors in Oregon,
and she said she’s proud of how
many women may have entered
the business through the Coun-
cil’s efforts.
Since then, the technol-
ogy behind real estate has also
changed tremendously, which
Hemenway-Duran underscores
Please see REALTOR, Page 11A
photo by Jon Stinnett
Ruth Hemenway-Duran checks real estate listings in her
home offi ce; Hemenway-Duran marks 50 years in real
estate this year.
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