2B COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JUNE 28, 2017
...Continued from B1
“They all have their own stories,” said James Beranek who
owns six planes and was sitting beside a plane he owns from 1947.
“They’re all a refl ection of different owners and different tastes
and different skill sets.”
Beranek, 66, fl ew the particular plane for the fi rst time when he
was 19 years old. He then sold the plane in 1983 but after missing
both the plane and the youth that he associated with it, he reac-
quired the plane in 1983. For the next year and a half he worked
on it about three times a week to get it in the pristine shape that it
is in today.
“I was mentored well and now a lot of my mentors are gone.
This airplane pay homage to those before me that are not here with
us anymore,” said Beranek. “And they taught me so much.”
A few spaces down from Beranek sat Mary Corrington. As she
rested in the shade of a tent, she was next to her 1949 Chevrolet
Pickup Deluxe. This particular vehicle was a beat up farm truck
until she restored it in 2009. Since then it has been featured in
various publications and even made a trip down Route 66 to the
Grand Canyon.
“Like any of us older citizens, things wear out and you have to
keep them up,” said Corrington about her seacrest green truck. “So
there are little things you fi nd out that you have to keep on top of.
They didn’t built them the way they do now.”
A walk across the land
PHOTOS BY ZACH SILVA
AND ABE ERWIN/COT-
TAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Top: Our fi rst
glimpse of the
water on the day.
Bottom left and
center: Some
fl owers that we
found on the
path that we
ultimately did not
know the names
of. Bottom right:
My mom walking
ahead on the
trail.
TRACK TOWN SHINES
IN SACRAMENTO,
HEADED TO WORLDS
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
While Sacramento is not
Track Town, USA, a host of
track and fi eld athletes who
train or went to school in Eu-
gene felt right at home in Cal-
ifornia for the USA Outdoor
Track and Field Championship
last week as they punched their
tickets to the world champion-
ships in London.
After not being entirely
pleased with their performanc-
es at the NCAA Track and
Field Championships, Oregon
sprinters Arianna Washing-
ton and Deajah Stevens were
looking to land a spot on Team
USA. On Friday the pair did
just that when Stevens took
second and Washington third
in the 100. Former teammate
and Oregon standout English
Gardner placed sixth in the
race.
Stevens and Washington’s
weekend was not done and
the pair raced again on Sun-
day in the 200 fi nal. Stevens
took fi rst but Washington was
edged out at the line and fi n-
ished in fourth. Former Duck
Jenna Prandini fi nished sev-
enth. Elsewhere on the wom-
en’s side, Phyliss Francis, who
graduate from UO in 2014,
took second in the 400 and
current Duck Raevyn Rogers
was fourth in the 800.
On the men’s side, former
Duck Matthew Centrowitz,
who won gold at the 2016
Olympic Games, was passed
right at the fi nish line resulting
in a second place fi nish in the
1500. Current Ducks Devon
Allen and Damarcus Simpson
each placed third in the 110
hurdles and long jump respec-
tively.
Former Oregon standout
and Olympian Galen Rupp,
who had won eight consec-
utive 10,000 meter outdoor
track and fi eld championships,
fi nished fi fth place in the race
on Thursday.
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
My dad said that we should
go on a hike at 7 a.m. on Satur-
day; I said no.
And so there we were, me,
my dad, my mom and my sis-
ter Abe, at the start of the trail
just a touch past 7 on Saturday
morning.
We had decided to go hike
Green Island as part of the
McKenzie River Trust’s Ore-
gon Walk the Land Day. Green
Island was one of 16 hikes
around the state where people
could go and walk on these
natural lands that are protect-
ed year-round and often not
allowed for people to roam.
These are nature preserves
that are protected to restore the
land back to its original state
but on this day all across Or-
egon, we could explore these
nature-fi lled lands.
A quick drive through Co-
burg and a turn onto a seem-
ingly random gravel path and
we had arrived at our destina-
tion. We found ourselves in a
full parking lot in the middle
of… somewhere. It wasn’t
quite nowhere, I mean, we had
just left from Eugene, but it
certainly was not somewhere
familiar.
As I fi lled my pockets with
granola bars I looked around to
take in the world around me.
There were big trees and there
were outhouses. There was a
glowing bright blue sky and
then there were sign in sheets
and volunteers. It felt like the
start of a 5K race except once
we began, instead of using our
energy to get ahead we got to
leisurely stroll through the
path.
As we began our walk, I re-
membered why were there. It
was not just to celebrate the
beauty that is the state of Or-
egon but here we would be
offered a glimpse of the con-
fl uence of the McKenzie and
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According to the McKenzie
River Trust over 2,000 people
would be taking part in this
day and almost half of those
at Green Island but when we
were walking on our route, it
was just us. Just us and nature.
As we walked along the grass
we stopped at various places
marked off as lookout points.
At one in particular spot we
were right next to the slowly
rushing river with a gaggle of
geese to our side. We watched
the river simply fl ow and it felt
as if we were in the middle of
a dreamy poem about a sum-
mer’s day.
After about a mile in we got
to the spot near the confl uence.
While we were blocked by
bushes and were not able to
get close to the water on this
occasion, we got to see where
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these two powerful rivers fl u-
idly fl ow forward.
It was not this wildly over-
whelming or breathtaking mo-
ment, and if coming to see it
had not been the reason we had
come I may have missed it al-
together, but it was just peace-
ful. Serene. The river fl owing,
the birds that we were unable
to identify their species chirp-
ing while the warm sun heated
us up.
And sure, maybe the tone
of the moment shifted when a
middle aged woman was upset
that the bushes kept her from
getting to the water and she
threatened to fi le a complaint
to, uh, someone at this place
working to keep nature in its
original state. But the com-
plaint didn’t matter. We got to
be in nature and be on this land
that is taken for granted and of-
ten forgotten about. And it was
even worth waking up before 7
a.m. to see it.
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