10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL October 26, 2016
B RIDGE
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City Manager Richard
Meyers has stated that the
City does not intend to tear
out and/or replace the bridge,
though on Monday he said
the City has three options in
light of the recent fi ndings.
It could attempt to repair
the elements of the bridge
as they exist. The City could
construct a new suspension
bridge similar to the old on
at the site, or it could order
a more economical — likely
mostly prefabricated — sus-
pension-style bridge.
“We’ve asked OBEC to
prepare an estimate of the
cost of replacing the towers
and cables to get to a 1.0 rat-
ing,” he said, “to maintain the
bridge as-is or install a new
B ALL
suspension bridge,” he said.
“Those are the pieces we
knew would be a problem.”
Meyers said he did not
know exactly how important
having a suspension-style
bridge of this type is to the
citizens of Cottage Grove.
“It has been a suspension
bridge for a long time, and
nobody else has one like it,”
he said. Meyers said the City
could use funding from its
fuels tax revenue to repair or
replace the bridge but added
that at this point, its options
are “still wide open.” The
City may pursue grants to
defray some of the costs or
begin a local fundraiser for
bridge repairs, a process he
said would also showcase
community support for the
bridge.
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auction, dessert dash, live auction
and “paddle raise.” Counting spon-
sorships, Lund said she expects the
fi gure to approach $44,000. Live
auction items including a helicopter
ride for four above the McKenzie
River, a weekend stay in Bandon
and deluxe Portland Trailblazers
tickets helped raise that total.
During her remarks Saturday
evening, Lund spoke of a commu-
nity effort to secure the funds need-
ed to bring the Armory back to its
standing as the “premier gathering
place and cultural hub” of a thriv-
ing downtown. Following its reno-
vation, the Armory — which was
purchased by the City for $395,000
after it was decommissioned by the
National Guard — is slated to host a
commercial kitchen and emergency
shelter and serve as the headquar-
ters for local organizations. Prior to
Douglas G. Maddess, DMD
Lund’s remarks, a video by televi-
sion personality Rick Dancer also
showcased renovation efforts and
the City’s goals.
During his keynote speech,
Brigadier General William Ed-
wards, who commands over 6000
soldiers as part of the Oregon Na-
tional Guard’s Land Component,
spoke of “catching up with an old
friend” when visiting the Armory,
as he himself once had an offi ce in
its basement.
Edwards said he had the “bitter-
sweet honor” of taking down the
American fl ag at the Armory for the
last time. Since then, he said, HHC
2-162, which has since relocated
to Springfi eld, deployed to Iraq for
the second time and to Afghanistan
in 2014. In 10 months, the unit con-
ducted over 500 missions and trav-
eled 1.2 million miles.
“And the best part is, we brought
everybody home,” he said.
M EASURES
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Douglas County Measure
10-145
Question: Shall the (Douglas
County) Library District be
formed with a permanent rate
limit of $.44 of assessed value?
Summary: In June 2016, the
Douglas County Board of
Commissioners agreed to send
to the voters the question of
forming a library district with a
permanent rate limit of $.44 per
$1000 of assessed value and
ordered that an election on the
question be held.
If approved by the voters, the
Douglas County Library Dis-
trict will be created to provide
O FFBEAT
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Register-Guard reporter Don
Bishoff had actually gotten
through to the source and blown
the cover off the whole thing.
“We had an aging hippie work-
ing on our copy desk named Bill
Thomas,” Bishoff recalled later.
“Somehow he had the number
for the pay phone on the wall
at The Factory. So I called the
number — and Paul Morrissey
answered it.”
Morrissey had clearly made a
variety of arrangements in case,
but apparently it had never oc-
curred to him that any of the
hinterland yokels would be hip
enough to actually know the
phone number of the Factory’s
ironic pay phone. Caught by
surprise, Morrissey stammered a
bit, then put Warhol on the line.
And, after some head-scratching
over how Bishoff could know it
was the real Warhol this time,
the artist confessed the whole
thing.
“He was better than I am,”
Warhol told Bishoff. “He was
what the people expected. They
liked him better than they would
have liked me.”
“His explanation of how he
sent the guy didn’t make sense,”
Bishoff recalled. “I still think to
this day he was pulling another
Andy Warhol spoof, and prov-
ing a point that people wouldn’t
know the difference.”
The student journalists in
Utah, whose skepticism led to
the full unmasking, seemed dis-
tinctly unimpressed. In a tele-
phone interview, Morrissey told
Chronicle Assistant Editor Kay
Israel that impersonating each
other was just regular hijinks for
the art world’s self-styled avant-
garde golden boys.
“We do it a lot in New York,”
he explained.
“Well, being from the West, I
don’t think we’re quite used to
it,” she shot back.
Paul Cracroft, the director of
lectures and concerts at the Uni-
versity of Utah, was even more
acerbic about the whole thing.
Cracroft, who had learned of
the scam early enough to with-
hold payment for it, said he’d
be open to having other pop art-
ists come and talk at the U. of U
— “if they’re wonderful and can
assure us somehow that they’re
coming themselves.” Asked how
that might be accomplished, he
quipped, “Blood tests and fi n-
gerprints.”
(Sources: Allen, Greg. “The
Fake Warhol Lectures,” greg.
org, 4-06-2007; archives of Eu-
gene Register-Guard and Or-
egon Daily Emerald, Oct. 1967;
personal recollections of Don
Bishoff and Leland John, Jan.
2009)
public library services...If
created, all of Douglas County
and all cities within Douglas
County will be included in
the district, with the exception
of the cities of Sutherlin and
Elkton. This tax rate is a per-
manent maximum; the district
is not required to assess the full
rate.
FAMILY AND GENERAL DENTISTRY
Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time
“The protocols to operate the
shelter are straightforward and
the training was very helpful,”
Mary said. “We wanted to fi nd
something that had a limited du-
ration that fulfi lled a community
need and provided the opportu-
nity for us to meet new people.
We’re looking forward to this.
It’s kind of like jury duty where
you’re waiting for the call.”
Melba and Don Kokko are
also fi rst-time BFN volunteers
this year and attended the Thurs-
day evening training.
“There is a need to provide a
warm place on a freezing night
for people that have nowhere
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else to go,” Melba said. “We
love our community, and we’re
retired now and have the time to
help meet this need.”
For safety reasons, an Oregon
State Police background check is
required of all BFN volunteers.
First aid/CPR skills are helpful
but not required. Moats said in-
terested persons who missed the
two trainings last week can still
participate and will be paired
up with experienced volunteers
to receive on-the-job training
during shelter activations this
winter.
For more information, visit
www.freezingnights.com or call
Moats at 541-521-8816.
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