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.
After starting work, Stewart
realized the renovation would
need to be much more extensive
and entail the redesign of the
barn’s support system — hence
the new supports downstairs.
“They had to design a whole
new support system,” Stew-
art said. “It was the most eco-
nomical repair; otherwise, we
might have had no other option
but to tear the building down.”
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