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$1.00 S peci al BMD p ullo ut in sid e ! C ottage G rove S entinel PERSONAL i BUSINESS i BENEFITS i SURETY (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove For a complete six- day forecast please see page A5. WED 81º/53º SOUTH LANE AND DOUGLAS COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 FACEBOOK.COM/CGSENTINEL • TWITTER.COM/CGSENTINEL CGSENTINEL.COM Harrison 58th Annual Bohemia Mining Days TINY HOME walls go up INTRO Construction on the new elementary school continues SET By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com Matt Allen is a busy guy. He serves as the South Lane School District’s maintenance and facilities supervisor and while school may be out for the summer, there’s still work to be done. Recently, the district received fi ve grants for seismic updates for Lincoln Middle School which he is overseeing and in November, voters passed a bond measure—to the tune of $35.9 million—aimed at improving school infrastructure and tech- nology. The largest portion of the bond, $23 million, was ear- marked for the construction of the new Harrison Elementary School and after months of fi - nancing, planning and detailing the construction, crews are on the ground and walls are going up. That’s where Allen comes in. “The contractors have said they have never worked with someone that is so hands on in his position,” said South Lane’s Please see SCHOOL PG. A8 PHOTO BY GREG LEE The 58th Annual Bohemia Mining Days rolled into town on Thursday, July 13. The event marks Cottage Grove's biggest event of the year drawing residents and tourists alike. Above, the Bloomer Parade kicked-off the four-day festival with ladies taking to Main St. in traditional bloomers. For more photos, high- lights and stories from this year's festival, please see the special Bohemia Days insert in this edition of The Sentinel. Drain camp asks for horses After a contentious start that saw the community ac- cusing Cottage Village Coali- tion (CVC) of hiding its “tiny home” project, Cottage Village, the group is ready for its com- ing out party. CVC will be hosting a BBQ on its property on E. Madison Ave. on July 29 to welcome the community and show off the latest plans for the proposed tiny house village designed to help those in danger of falling into homelessness fi nd stable housing. The village, part of Eu- gene-based SquareOne’s grow- ing community of alternative housing, will eventually hold 13 tiny homes and is being funded in part by the Meyer Memorial Trust. The money from the trust bought the land but now, CVC has to raise $800,000 to com- plete construction of the village. “The fundraising effort is substantial,” said CVC member Allan Katz. While the group has collectively taken grant writing Please see TINY HOUSES PG. A6 "Lasting Legacy" Old Mill Farm Store is up for sale with a 164 year old legacy at stake By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com July 15 marked the 26th an- niversary of the day Brenda Ford’s husband fi rst asked her to be his girlfriend. More than two decades, a marriage and family later, Ford remembers the day like it was yesterday. It’s not hard—she returns to the spot every summer when she comes back to Camp Corley in Drain to give back to the camp that helped shape her life. The camp, located approx- imately three and a half miles off the interstate off Sand Creek Rd., runs four sessions consec- utively. Kids head up to Corley on Monday, spend fi ve days there getting three meals a day and head home Friday night. “We bring in kids from all over,” Ford said. “We get kids from Nevada, Idaho, Arizona. We get kids from everywhere.” Approximately 150 campers Please see DRAIN PG. A7 PHOTO BY CAITLYN MAY/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL The Old Mill Farm Store has been seated on S. River Road for more than 100 years. Above, it's pictured in history books as a backdrop in "The General," a silent fi lm. By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com T he counter at Old Mill Farm Store in Cottage Grove is not extraordinarily tall. It’s not made of a precious material and the paint job is peeling. A jar of organic pet treats sits to the left of the cash register that looks like it would be more at home in the 1980s than in the pay-as-you-go-on-your-cell-phone era of to- day. It’s nothing special, the counter at Old Mill, except residents once stood at it chatting about whether or not Oregon should join the union and become a state. They debated politics and asked each other if they’d heard the news—Lincoln proclaimed emancipation, the 13th amendment passed, Bell invented something called a Please see OLD MILL PG. A3 GOVERNMENT New Main St. leader All the fun and festival wrap-up from this year's BMD. PAGE B1 Meet the new Main St. coordinator for Cottage Grove. PAGE A11 INDEX COMMUNITY BMD days Calendar ...................................... B11 Channel Guide ............................... B5 Classifieds ...................................... B7 Obituaries ...................................... A2 Opinion ......................................... A4 Sports ............................................ B1 AD 6x2 cgnews@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-3325 ph • (541) 942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Corner of Sixth and Whiteaker, Cottage Grove _______________ VOLUME 129 • NUMBER 33