10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL October 5, 2016
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Below are excerpts of how the
candidates responded to some
of the evening’s questions:
Regarding support for rais-
ing Cottage Grove’s fuel tax
and a possible bond to fund
street repairs:
Lancaster: I would vote for
the tax to increase, but I think it
should come down to what the
people want.
Roberts: I think the tax should
be a little bit higher. We have 29
miles of bad road in Cottage
Grove, and doubling the tax will
still not be enough. We’re going
to have to bond for the bigger
road projects.
Slay: I approve of both, but
the gas tax isn’t going to solve
everything. A bond is neces-
sary.
DelSol: It makes sense to tax
drivers and apply the revenue
directly to what the tax is relat-
ed to, but it still looks like we’re
going to have to take out bonds.
Cimburke: I hear the concerns
that people don’t want to pay
for something they’re not using,
but at the same time, that’s how
taxes work. I want all the roads
in my city to be drivable and to
stay that way.
Adams: I’m not too sure
about raising the gas tax. Cre-
swell has gas that’s already a
whole lot cheaper, so what’s to
say I’m not just going to fi ll up
in Creswell.
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Ehler: I’m fully in support of
raising the gas tax, but I think it
could be raised a little bit more.
I’m not so much in favor of a
bond because it only taxes ho-
meowners; it’s not spread out
equally. But I would support a
bond if it had to be done.
Regarding ways to help the
public be more engaged in city
government:
Roberts: There’s nothing
wrong with the way we do
things. Members of the public
can come right to the meetings,
and their freedom of speech can
be heard. Get involved — that’s
how I got started. It’s hard to get
up to a podium, but once you get
over it, you’ll be fi ne.
Slay: We do our best to make
people comfortable, but we have
rules to follow too. Sometimes,
it takes everything in me to keep
my mouth shut, but those are the
rules.
DelSol: I hear from a lot of
people who feel like they’re
not heard, like the city overruns
them. Not everybody is ready
to come to the podium, and not
everybody can, so I would like
to see more methods. Perhaps a
website for discussion of city is-
sues, and maybe more town hall
sort of meetings so people can
talk about the issues in a less
formal setting.
Cimburke: Transparency is
what I’m going for, and I think
Cottage Grove government has
a pretty good track record. If
we’re up here making decisions
about the citizenry and we don’t
want them to know, we prob-
ably shouldn’t be making those
decisions.
Adams: I would kind of like
to see a comment box where
citizens can drop ‘em in the box
and have their questions asked
if they’re unable to ask in such
a public forum. It’s easy to get
nervous, to misplace words and
feel intimidated.
Ehler: Anybody that knows
me knows that I’m easy to talk
to, and I listen. We have to. And
I give feedback when necessary.
If you need to talk, I’m more
than willing to listen.
Lancaster: I’ve been out try-
ing to make contacts with the
people already, going out to lo-
cal businesses. And I’m always
open to scheduling meetings
with the people.
Regarding the need to re-
spond to recent acts of theft
and violence in Cottage
Grove:
DelSol: The kind of crime
we’re seeing is a symptom of a
bigger American economic and
cultural state…Youth is the big-
gest tragedy — there’s a lack of
attention, of opportunities and
engaging activities. You have
to offer an alternative that the
youth can get involved in.
Cimburke: People are really
angry about their stuff being
stolen, and I get it. I’m angry
about it too and want to change
some things. Councilor Slay
tried to start a neighborhood
watch program. I’m in support
of something like that, as long
as it’s not a band of citizens with
pitchforks.
Adams: A big part of it is
paying attention to your neigh-
borhood. If you see somebody
loitering, give the police a call.
We need to try to do a better job
taking care of each other…and
lock your bikes up.
Ehler: We need to work with
the police to identify the areas
where most of this stuff is go-
ing on. We need to hold these
people responsible — make ‘em
clean it, repaint it.
Lancaster: Citizens being able
to be secure themselves would
be a big step. And we could look
into more detective training so
police are not just there to show
up and are able to track people
down.
Roberts: We’ve got quite a
crime problem; there’s been a
lot of property crime. We need
to give Chief Shepherd a chance
to get some of his new ideas up
and running. The Police Depart-
ment is the biggest thing we’ve
got going in terms of our bud-
get, but they could still use more
money.
Slay: It’s hard to get a com-
munity program going without
community involvement. It’s a
huge hindrance. There has to be
a collaborative effort between
the city and its citizens.
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wasn’t high on the court’s
priority list; in that violent age,
getting shot in a gun duel barely
even counted as a killing, and it
was only because of the victim’s
young age that it was being in-
vestigated at all. Predictibly, it
was decided that the case was
really California’s after all, and
California having already decid-
ed that it was Oregon’s, that was
effectively an end to the case.
Only, of course, it wasn’t re-
ally the end.
The real end would come
three months later. Henry Laws’
two sons were out in a pasture
near their cabin, butchering a
steer. They had a quarter of beef
hanging on a tree near a wagon
to haul it, and both of them were
standing in the wagon cutting
up the meat when the rimrock
above and behind them started
crackling with rifl e fi re.
Lee Laws went down like a
stone, shot through the heart.
Joe Laws, the younger brother,
took cover behind the wagon;
atop the rimrock he could see
the horsemen, masks over their
faces, Winchesters at their
shoulders. “You would shoot a
boy, you cowards!” he screamed
at them.
Bullets were fl ying all around
him, breaking spokes off the
wagon wheels and kicking up
puffs of dirt by his feet. Then
one of them shattered his leg.
After that, the masked rid-
ers rode away. A third boy, also
named Henry Laws (probably a
third brother, although that isn’t
clear) hurried out of the cabin
and brought the badly crippled
Joe in to do what he could.
Joe, as you will have guessed
from the message on the tomb-
stone, subsequently died of his
injuries. Their father, Henry C.
Laws, heard about the murders
during a trip to Ashland for sup-
plies, when he stopped at a set-
tlement along the way. He sent
word for his family to join him
there, and they shook the dust of
their old homestead from their
feet — never returning again.
As for the Calavans, they ap-
parently left the area as well;
nothing further is heard about
them.
But someone must have re-
mained behind who cared about
the Laws boys enough to carve
that dramatic epitaph on their
shared headstone.
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