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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
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