COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL September 14, 2016
Mayoral candidates'
forum scheduled Sept. 22
Beyond bread
Next generation expands
offerings at Farmhouse
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
B
en Daniels has been baking for much
of his life, but that doesn’t mean he’s
not still pushing the envelope.
Daniels, the son of Bob and Pat Daniels,
founders of Farmhouse Bakery in Cottage
Grove, began learning the craft when his
parents started their own business about 18
years ago.
“I was home-schooling our kids, so it was
a pretty natural transition,” Pat Daniels told
the Sentinel in a 2013 interview. “As the
kids started getting older, I started making
photo by Jon Stinnett
bread, and people liked it a lot.”
Ben
Daniels
helps
daughter
Azryel
work
with
bread
dough.
These days, the Daniels’ bread makes
its way to the shelves at Sunshine Market
front for Farmhouse products in the near fu- cook, and I’m grateful for the lessons I
in Cottage Grove, Eugene’s Friendly Street
ture, but for now he’s set up a stand at the learned in the kitchen.”
Market, Sundance, New Frontier and other
Daniels said his burgeoning interest in
Farmers Market downtown on Thursdays to
specialty stores. But Ben Daniels, the new
showcase a new line of pastries and other baking has come at the right time, as his
head baker at Farmhouse, said the success
parents are reaching the age where they
baked delicacies.
of the family’s wholesale bread business
“I’m working on a little bit of everything,” “don’t want to be working their butts off
hasn’t prompted him to rest on his laurels.
anymore.”
he said.
“I’m trying to take baking to a whole new
“I took it on myself to keep building the
Growing up in a bakery has instilled a
level,” he said. “There doesn’t seem to be a
deep love of food, and Daniels said he loves business,” he said.
lot of care in the craft these days. It’s a lot
For now, Daniels, known by many as “Ben
to visit other bakeries to see what tips and
of hard work, and a lot of people have a hard
techniques they might have to offer. It’s a the Baker,” keeps the ovens fi red and the
time with that.”
love that he’s also working to instill in his fl our mill, which is used to mill fl our each
Daniels worked at another wholesale bak-
day for extra freshness, churning along.
own daughter, Azryel.
ery for a time before returning to the family
“I’m just doing what I can to keep the art
“We’re starting on her early,” he said.
business. He said he hopes to found a store-
“Growing up, my mother was a fabulous of baking in the family,” he said.
Tree planting to commemorate
National Public Lands Day
T
he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
invites volunteers to devote Sept. 24
to planting trees and shrubs and improving
parks at Cottage Grove Reservoir.
The event supports National Public Lands
Day — the nation’s largest annual, single-
day volunteer restoration effort for Ameri-
ca’s public lands. Groups such as scouts,
youth groups and civic clubs are encouraged
to participate in the Cottage Grove Reser-
voir event, but individuals and families are
also welcome.
For their efforts, volunteers are invited
to stay in the Pine Meadows Campground
at no charge, either the night before or the
night of the event.
“We thought it would be nice to give vol-
unteers a chance to stay the night and en-
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joy the campground they will be working to
improve,” said Corps Park Ranger Christie
Johnson. “The campground will be offi cial-
ly closed for the season, so the volunteers
will have the whole place to themselves.”
Volunteers will also receive a pass good
for free entry any day during the next year
at public land sites managed by the National
Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Man-
agement, or the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers.
The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Pine
Meadows Campground; work will be com-
pleted about 12:30 p.m., then volunteers will
be treated to a pizza lunch. All volunteers
are advised to wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes
and long pants. Gloves, tools, drinking wa-
courtesy photo
Volunteers who help plant trees will
receive a free camping pass.
ter and snacks will be available throughout
the morning.
Volunteers are asked to pre-register no
later than Sept. 16 by contacting a Corps of
Engineers park ranger at (541) 942-5631.
For more information about National Public
Lands Day go to http://www.publiclands-
day.org/.
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September 17th • 11am – 3pm
Registration begins at 10:30am
Pre-Registration: $15.00 Registration the day of: $20.00
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Live Music By “Back in Time”
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Pre-Registry recommended, but not required
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The Cottage Grove Sentinel
and radio station KNND will
partner with the Cottage Grove
Chamber of Commerce to
present a candidates' forum for
the three candidates for mayor
in the upcoming election on
Thursday, Sept. 22 beginning
at 6 p.m. at the City Council
chambers at City Hall.
A forum for the seven candi-
dates for City Council will fol-
low on Tuesday, Sept. 27 and
will also begin at 6 p.m.
The events will consist of
opening statements from each
candidate, after which the
candidates will address a set of
questions for which they have
prepared responses beforehand.
Members of the audience will
then be asked to prepare ques-
tions for the candidates on note
cards during the event.
Meet and Greet to serve
as business showcase
D
iane O’Renick of local
radio station KNND said
that the station sought a way to
bring local businesses, nonprofi t
organizations and home-based
businesses together to show-
case their offerings downtown,
a gathering billed as the Cottage
Grove Meet and Greet that’s
scheduled at the Armory this
Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
The Meet and Greet will offer
wine-tasting, live music and a
kids’ play area and coloring con-
test, O’Renick said, in addition
to an outdoor chainsaw carv-
ing demonstration. The Duck
football game will be shown,
courtesy of Dish Network. The
event represents a partnership
between KNND and the Cottage
Grove Sentinel.
The Meet and Greeg aims to
incorporate aspects of the now-
defunct Chamber of Commerce
Business Faire and KNND’s
Home and Garden Show while
also offering a chance to visit
the Armory, O’Renick said.
“We’re hoping to get people
used to visiting the Armory,”
she said, “and hoping that while
they’re there they might be en-
couraged to see the potential
that it holds for downtown and
all of Cottage Grove.”
Music from local bands Hay-
wire and Calvary Creek will be
heard outside from 3-7 p.m.
Veteran to
honor
veterans at
the
Moving Wall
Veterans Memorial in Washing-
ton, DC.
Cottage Grove’s American
Legion Post #32 and VFW Post
#3473 will be out honoring
veterans who have paid the ul-
timate sacrifi ce by placing fl ags
and supplying the Rifl e Honor
Guard for The Moving Wall.
The Moving Wall visits be-
tween 22 and 28 cities in the
United States each year, and
75,000 to 100,000 people come
out to see the memorial during
the week long appearances at
each spot. The Wall has been
displayed from Hawaii to
Alaska and in every state across
the entire continental United
States as well as Canada. There
is no admission fee charged to
visit.
The Moving Wall, the nation’s
original traveling Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, will be
in Eugene from Thursday,
Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct.
2 at Skinner Butte Park. The
memorial is meant to help bring
healing to veterans, families
and friends of those who died
or are missing in Vietnam, es-
pecially those may not have the
opportunity to see the Vietnam
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