12A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL September 28, 2016
D AY
OF
C ARING
RIPARIAN
RESTO-
RATION:
Cottage
Grove Peace
Health em-
ployees and
Coast Fork
Watershed
Council
staff spent
three hours
mulching
300 trees
on an active
riparian res-
toration site
on Carolina
Creek.
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Antram said. “I never realized
how much United Way does in
the community, especially here
in Cottage Grove.”
Habitat’s Linda Oxley said that
the Day of Caring helped mo-
bilize the organization to plan
the sale knowing it would have
help to set up the event.
“I hadn’t seen how we could
make it happen without this
many people,” Oxley said. “The
volunteers have just been great
— they have a positive attitude,
and we’ve even recruited future
volunteers today. It’s a win-
win.”
Opal Center
Volunteers Joanne Holcomb
and Francine Hans spent much
of Thursday helping Opal
Center Director Leah Murray
and owner Ivan Del Sol sort
through the relics of the Opal
Theater’s many productions in
Cottage Grove. Hans, a Peace-
Health employee and Cottage
Grove resident, said she specifi -
cally sought out volunteer op-
portunities in her hometown.
Visitor’s Center
The Lane County Blood
Centre and the City of Cottage
Grove teamed up on Thursday
to help paint the Cottage Grove
Visitor’s Center. Headed by the
city’s community volunteer co-
ordinators, Pete Barrell and Te-
resa Cowan, the painting of the
center helps rejuvenate the place
that most tourists come to fi rst.
“It’s a really important job be-
cause a lot of travelers do come
here to see what the town has to
offer, so we want to make sure
that it’s welcoming and appeal-
ing,” Barrell said. He also added
that it was not diffi cult to fi nd
volunteers for this job.
“This is a community that re-
ally cares; all of our volunteers
are really enthusiastic.”
From the Lane County Blood
Center, Marianne Wagley, De-
bee Brown and Heather Young
helped paint the lobby of the
visitor’s center, while Barrell,
Cowan and Dar-Ya Grozovs-
kaya were repainting separate
rooms. Some of the volunteers
photo by Jon Stinnett
Volunteers Joanne Holcomb and Francine Hans seek
a new home for Slimer, a prop from the Opal Theater's
2010 production of 'Grovebusters.'
courtesy photo
Trick or Treat on Main Street
were fi rst-timers for this event
and others—such as Grozovs-
kaya—have been doing this for
several years.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Community Sharing
At Community Sharing, Em-
erald People’s Utility District
(EPUD) volunteered to help
chop and stack fi rewood for the
program. Scott Coe, general
manager at EPUD, oversaw the
workers at Community Sharing.
“This is a great opportunity
for a lot of employees to work
with colleagues that they don’t
usually ever work with. It’s a
great time for networking and
to bridge communication gaps
for our company, so this whole
event is really a win-win,” Coe
said. Executive Director of the
Community Sharing Program
Mike Fleck was also there over-
seeing the work.
“We really have great part-
ners here to help us with this.
We have all this fi rewood, and
for them to help chop and stack
it is really a huge help,” Fleck
said.
By noon on Thursday, the
stack was already well over six
feet high and the volunteers
were still hard at work.
If you are a business and want to set
up a booth downtown and be a part
of the festivities, contact Travis at the
chamber offi ce (541) 942-2411.
photo by Sam Wright
Volunteer John Norrena helps stack fi rewood for Com-
munity Sharing. Emerald People's Utilities District per-
sonnel helped cut and stack wood Thursday.
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