COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL November 23, 2016
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Free community
Thanksgiving meals
attention.
Several years later, in April
of 2014, Mayhem mysteri-
ously disappeared. You might
say, ‘total mayhem’ ensued as
Sharlene’s family searched the
neighborhood.
“Our son, Cameron, owns
KNND radio station,” she said,
“so he continually asked people
to look out for her. We ran news-
paper ads, checked Craigslist
and ... nothing. We were very,
very sad.
Then in August 2015, I was
out walking when my cell
phone rang. The nice ‘voice’ on
the phone asked me if we ‘...had
a cat named Mayhem’ I said,
‘Yes, but she has been missing
for quite sometime.’
The kind ‘voice’ said she was
calling from Pet Finder and that
Mayhem had been found and
was at Eugene’s Greenhill Hu-
mane Society. I could barely be-
lieve my ears! Yes, we have all
our cats microchipped and that
little-itty-bitty microchip was
the reason for the happy phone
call!
Mayhem had somehow trav-
eled 12 miles from home and
was spotted starving and fed by
a kind woman at the upper end
of Cottage Grove Lake.
It obviously had been a long
hard 16-months, and poor May-
hem was in bad shape. She was
extremely thin, her eyes were a
goopy mess, she was skittish,
Mayhem’s Miracle
S
everal years ago, the
animal shelter asked for
people to foster kittens. “That
sounds like fun!” thought Shar-
lene.
Now, that would be dangerous
if I had read it! For many of us,
cats are like jelly beans! They
come in multiple colors and, of
course, you can’t have just one!
But Sharlene jumped right in
and fi nding it rewarding raising
and then sending little felines on
to their FUR-ever homes.
She admitted that, “It was also
challenging because you get at-
tached to the fur babies.” Then
reality set in, she, apparently,
loves jelly beans, too! Oh! Oh!
“Our feline family grew,”
admitted Sharlene, “I thought
the weak ones could not live
without me, but it was the other
way around. I would have been
heartbroken to let them go.
That’s how we ended up with
Mayhem!”
Mayhem was found aban-
doned in a fi eld with her litter
mates. “She was tiny and sick-
ly,” said Sharlene, “and almost
died. We kept her because she
has chronic respiratory issues
and runny eyes.”
Mayhem has a sweet purrs-
onality and she loves everyone!
She is exceptionally patient
with children and she lives for
Photo by Mary Ellen “Angel Scribe”
Cameron, Sharlene and Joel with their sleepy miracle
kitty, Mayhem.
hissy and growly. Not at all like Norine volunteered to watch
before her disappearance. Either her nephew’s new dog, Hudson,
she was delirious from dehydra- while its family vacationed in
tion, from the hot summer, or Hawaii for 10 days. The neph-
she was still terrorized from ew lived a two-hour drive away,
‘trying’ to exist on her own. And so after she picked up the dog,
obviously not doing a very good as she was unloading groceries
job at it.
into her home, she tied Hudson
As I now look down at her, to the front steps hand rail. She
resting on my lap, I think, ‘she came back, minutes later, to an
is our miracle cat!’ She is chub- empty harness! Hudson had
by and healthy! It took her a few wriggled free and took off to
months to return to the cat we parts unknown!
knew. At fi rst she cowered be-
The search was on. She post-
hind my computer, in only fi ve ed LOST DOG notices. Several
inches of space. She made it her sightings were reported, but to
safe-warm nest as she healed no avail. Norine lost weight
physically and mentally.
worrying and walking, search-
She ‘hid’ there until meal ing for Hudson! She was in a
times, then she would ‘wolf’ terrible state wondering what to
down her food in SECONDS! It tell his family. But! The day be-
took a month before she realized fore they fl ew home, who walks
that she was going to be fed, on up her driveway, but their lost
a regular basis, before she ate dog! How had Hudson found
normally. Starving is a terrible the house he had only been to for
memory. We are grateful for mere minutes? It was as though
the microchip technology that he knew that vacation time was
brought her back into our lives. over and he’d better get back to
Guaranteed she is, too!”
Norine’s so he could go home to
On another rescue note: his family. It was miracle!
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TIPS
A microchip, the size of a
grain of rice, is what reunited
Mayhem with her family. Hu-
mane societies and vet clinics
provide the service of inserting
them.
“Microchipping only works
if you register the chip,” advises
Janetta Overholser, president of
The Humane Society of Cottage
Grove. “If you move, immedi-
ately call and update your pet’s
information. We have one sweet
cat here that has a chip and it is
heart breaking because his chip
is not registered. He won’t have
a happy ending like Mayhem
unless we fi nd him a great fam-
ily. He needs them.”
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Thanksgiving
Meal
Thanksgiving
Breakfast
First Baptist Church, locat-
ed at 301 S. 6th St. in Cottage
Grove, will be hosting the an-
nual free community Thanks-
giving dinner on Thursday, Nov.
24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A full
meal will be served, and all are
welcome to attend.
There will be a free Thanks-
giving Breakfast on Thanks-
giving day at the 6th & Gibbs
Chruch of Christ, 522 White-
aker Ave., from 7 to 10 a.m.
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Holiday Memorial Giving Tuesday
Service
At the Nov. 14 meeting
of
the Cottage Grove City Coun-
cil, Mayor Tom Munroe read
a proclamation dedicating the
Tuesday after Thanksgiving,
Nov. 29, as “Giving Tuesday.”
Now a national event that
encourages giving to charities
and efforts of one’s choice fol-
lowing Black Friday and Cyber
Monday, Giving Tuesday offers
a chance for participants to vol-
unteer at their favorite charity,
donate to an organization or
help one’s neighbors. In Cot-
tage Grove, the Family Relief
Nursery is also organizing a Su-
perhero Coat and Book Drive at
its location at 720 N. 14th Street
from 1-6 p.m. Online donations
made to the Nursery at familyre-
liefnursery.org of up to $1000
will also be matched that day.
Smith-Lund-Mills
Funeral
Chapel knows that the holiday
season can be a very diffi cult
time for many people. Those
who have experienced the loss
of a loved one have the extra
burden of grief. In an effort
to lighten this burden, Smith-
Lund-Mills extends an invitation
to the community for its 29th
Holiday Memorial Service, a
special program is designed to
give comfort and strength dur-
ing the holiday season.
Everyone is welcome to this
community-wide
gathering:
The program includes live mu-
sic, readings, a memorial slide-
show presentation and a candle
lighting ceremony.
There will be a hosted re-
ception with holiday treats and
refreshments following the ser-
vice.
The fi rst Holiday Memo-
rial service was held in Cottage
Grove in 1987. Doug Lund,
former owner of Smith-Lund-
Mills, had observed that the
holiday season could be a chal-
lenging time for the members of
our community who had experi-
enced a loss in their lives Since
then, the Holiday Memorial
Service has become an annual
tradition at Smith-Lund-Mills
in Cottage Grove.
Thankful for
blood donors
Lane Blood Center will be in
Cottage Grove Friday, the day
after Thanksgiving, from 1-5
p.m. at the Cottage Grove Com-
munity Center. To schedule giv-
ing blood, call Lane Blood Cen-
ter at 541-484-9111.
'A Christmas
Story' opens
Dec. 2
Thanksgiving
Listen
Cottage Theatre concludes its
2016 season with 'A Christmas
Story,' written by Philip Grecian
and based upon the 1983 movie
of the same name. The play will
run for three weekends at Cot-
tage Theatre from Dec. 2-18.
Cottage Theatre's production
of 'A Christmas Story' is direct-
ed by Eliza Roaring Springs,
with costume design by Me-
lissa Cooper, lighting design by
Ward Fairbairn, and set design
by Tony Rust. The cast features
K.D. Carver as young Ralphie
Parker and Brian Bull as adult
Ralph Parker, who serves as
narrator to the story.
The Great Thanksgiving Lis-
ten is a national project that
empowers high school students
to create an oral history of the
United States by recording an
interview with an elder over
Thanksgiving weekend using
the StoryCorps App (available
for Android and Apple smart
phones).
The StoryCorps app can walk
participants through the record-
ing process and provide ques-
tions to choose from: https://
storycorps.me/.
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