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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL September 28, 2016 Mural- ist Mike Janisch touches up an outdoor vignette in the former square dance caller's enclave at the Boots and Sandals Square Dance Barn. Day of Caring means aid to several area nonprofi ts BY JON STINNETT AND SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel A rea volunteers rolled up their sleeves to aid several area programs as part of United Way’s annual Day of Caring on Thursday, which featured local aid for projects in fi ve cities in Lane County. Brandy Rodtsbrooks, Director of Market- ing and Communications for United Way, said via press release that Day of Caring included 36 nonprofi t partners, 43 par- ticipating companies, 783 volunteers and 2984 total volunteer hours. “This year’s Day of Caring is a true testament to the power volunteers have to transform our community,” said Julie DiBiase, Volunteer Engagement Coordina- tor at United Way of Lane County. “Local nonprofi ts have reported in with a record level of project needs and our community is stepping up to make an even larger impact.” Day of Caring is an annual day of volun- teering facilitated by United Way of Lane County since the early 1990s. In Cottage Grove, volunteers aided efforts at the Opal photo by Jon Stinnett Mason Antram sorts items for an outdoor sale at the Habitat for Humanity Restore. A part of United Way's Loaned Executive program, Antram helped out with several volunteer efforts on Thursday. Center for Arts and Education, the Habitat for Humanity Restore, Community Shar- ing, the Community Center and an effort to restore riparian habitat on Carolina Creek. Habitat Restore Mason Antram had a very busy Thursday. Active in United Way’s Loaned Execu- tive Program, Antram, who works for Oregon Community Credit Union, stacked fi rewood at Community Sharing and helped paint the Community Center before spending the afternoon at the Restore in the Cottage Grove Industrial Park. There, he and other volunteers helped move and price items for an outdoor sale held over the weekend. “It’s quite the life-changing experience,’ Please see DAY OF CARING, Page 12A Friday's Art Walk set to get cultural I n conjunction with Lane Arts Council’s Fiesta Cultural, Cottage Grove Art Walk is ex- cited to present an evening of cultural art and music on Fri- day from 6-9 p.m. Thanks to grant money from Lane Art’s Council, the band Lo Nuestro will perform from 7-9 p.m. at All-America City Square (a/ka Opal Whiteley Park), and Florabelle Moses will teach a salsa dance from 6-7 p.m. at the Square. The Opal Center is honored 3A to be hosting Samuel Becerra. Becerra is a sculpture, musi- cian and historian who has worked for Lane Arts Council for seven years sharing the pre-Columbian history of the Americas in Lane County. Becerra builds replicas of the ancient clay fl utes from central Mexico and will offer a free bird fl ute workshop. Participating Art Walk busi- nesses also include: Buster’s Bottle Shop — open Delight — Noelle Ervin, fl aunts Apple Pie Antiques — Gloria Campuzano, Mixed Media Maribel Mendoza, Fiber Arts Studio Tattoo: open Bookmine — Music provided by Sierra Kofoid Kalapuya Books — Cada Johnson, Painting Coast Fork Feed and Brewsta- tion — Music by ‘Flies with Honey’ Imagine It Framed — Nancy Watterson Scharf, Painting Hawaiian Music Carousel Deli and Ice Cream — open Big Stuff Barbeque — open The Crafty Mercan- tile — Omar Wright, Surrealistic Painting, Music Provided by Geoffrey Mays Five Flying Monkeys — Stephanie Kornman, ‘Art to Inspire a Sweeter, More Posi- tive, Joy-Filled Life’ Stacy’s Covered Bridge — open photo by Jon Stinnett Square Dance Barn's getting back into business BY JON STINNETT The Cottage Grove Sentinel C ottage Grove youth re- cently put the ‘dance’ back in ‘square dance barn.’ On Sunday, Sept. 11, South Lane Ballet Academy wel- comed its fi rst class of dancers to the refurbished Boots and Sandals Square Dance Barn. Di- rector Mandy Conforth said the facility has been full ever since, welcoming SLBA’s biggest crop of dancers in years. The Acad- emy hosts classes in the barn’s upstairs facility, which now fea- tures a separate dance studio in addition to a gathering place for parents and an area dedicated to the school’s older dancers. Downstairs in the barn, the transformation is ongoing. Per- sonnel with the Cottage Grove Historical Society and Bohemia Gold Mining Museum are busy moving their operations into the fi rst fl oor, which has been extensively renovated and now features three new beams hold- ing up its second fl oor, a system of support designed by local ar- chitectural fi rm Geomax. Historical Society President Holli Turpin said that, while it’s diffi cult to determine a date af- ter which the society might be open for regular hours, guests are being allowed to access its library by appointment. Due to its collection of artifacts, which are quite heavy and must be expertly arranged, it may be longer before the Gold Mining Museum is ready to welcome the general public. The renewed activity, though, is welcome for Faye Stewart, whose Faye and Lucille Stewart Foundation purchased the barn from the Square Dance Club in 2014. 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