8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JULY 19, 2017
New school
Continued from A1
PHOTO BY CAITLYN MAY/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Welding shop gets new life
PHOTO BY CAITLYN MAY/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Bear Diriwachter stands with the old owner (Harry) of
his new shop, Bear Iron.
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
I
n March of this year, Harris Machine and
Design wasn’t quite out of business and
Bear Iron wasn’t quite open but they were
operating out of the same space on 10th St. in
Cottage Grove.
“It was a bit of an overlap,” said Bear Iron’s
owner, Bear Diriwachter. “But we’re ready and
open and working now.”
The shop, that sits just across from Bohemia
Park, focuses on blacksmithing—a profession
Diriwachter has had his eye on
since he was a child. After 20 years in Springfi eld,
he started looking for a space to operate his busi-
ness out of that was closer to his home in Cottage
Grove.
Now, he’s just fi nished moving his machinery
in and his dog Orca with her bright blue eyes and
casual attitude towards visitors, guards the front
offi ce while he works.
“We do architectural blacksmithing but we will
fi x anything,” he said. Diriwacher makes every-
thing from railings to gates to car parts but he’s
also hoping to build a reputation as a shop open to
fi xing anything that needs fi xing.
“There’s not another place where someone can
get something small fi xed,” he said. “People can
bring in garden art that’s falling apart and we can
fi x it. If it’s broken and it’s only a $20 bill for us,
we don’t care, we’re going to fi x it. No job is too
small.”
There isn’t a job that’s too big either. His strang-
est request from the community, he says, was an
order for 100 manhole cover openers.
“You know, the tool that you use to open the
manhole covers,” Diriwacher said. “This compa-
ny ordered them and we made them.”
Diriwacher has been a resident of Cottage
Grove for 10 years, making the trek into Spring-
fi eld to work before renting out the old Harris
building, but he says he’s fallen in love. And in
the fall, he’ll be starting welding and blacksmith-
ing classes for the community.
“I love everything about Cottage Grove,” he
said. “I just, I love the community.”
It’s part of why he opted to open the welding
and blacksmith shop. With the ability to weld
steel to aluminum, he said he wanted to provide a
place for locals to come.
“Eugene is a far way, you know,” he said. “Peo-
ple can get things repaired here, made here and I
have steel available for sale to the public. I just
wanted to do something for Cottage Grove.”
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Right, construction continues on the new Harrison Elementary School. Above, superintendent Krista Parent points
out progress to school board chair Alan Baas.
Superintendent Krista Parent. room, a kitchen, a gymnasium.
he said, noting that the project
Parent is a regular fi xture at
“We could be weeks away is still on schedule for its 2018
the site on Taylor Ave. where from walls.”
opening.
life-sized Tonka Trucks crawl
The kindergarten pods al-
And when students hop off
and roll through mounds of ready resemble buildings— buses that pull into a specially
gravel, piles of dirt and out- bricks form their foundation designed bus lane that avoids
lined spaces that will eventu- and with the help of a hydraulic parent drop off lanes and head
ally become an 80,000 square scaffold, more will join them. into the new school under a
foot elementary school. It will It will mean workers can stop covered patio they’ll pass a 14-
sit beside what used to be Al hauling the bricks and the walls foot wall that will double, in-
Kennedy Alternative High go up faster.
tentionally or not, as a handball
School. That building—current-
The wood-framed library court. They’ll walk by a covered
ly undergoing asbestos renova- that abuts 10th St. is beginning playground and into a school
tions—will be used as an early to look like a building as well. that will house four classrooms
education center for students Once the plumbing, electric and for each grade level, an “owl’s
who are preparing to enter kin- other utilities are set, cement nest” for autistic and special
dergarten. The tennis courts are trucks will come in and make it needs children, a new library,
gone and it took several district offi cial.
gymnasium and a project room
employees jumping down into a
“It’s a nervous part of the that will house a kiln and other
ditch and pooling their institu- project,” Allen said. “You don’t equipment for the messiest of
tional knowledge to determine get too many chances at it.”
projects. And its construction
if a staircase existed under the
The school is expected to be will have an added meaning
mounds of dirt but things are ready to receive kids for the with workers like John Partlow,
taking shape at the site.
fall of 2018 and is currently Gary McDonald and Allen, all
There are currently three ex- on budget according to Allen local graduates, on site.
cavators on site and soon, con- and the district. “We’re being
“It’s great to see,” Allen said,
crete will be poured. Two by creative,” he said, noting that “People who went to school
fours standing straight on their sub-contractors are hard to here are coming back as part of
ends mark the elevator shaft come by as projects continue to the community and working on
and rebar and orange fl ags peek spring up around the state of Or- this project.”
through the dirt to signal a class- egon. “We’re making it work,”
Worship
Directory
DRAIN:
HOPE U.M.C.
131 W “A” St. Drain, OR
541-315-1617
Pastor: Lura Kidner-Miesen
Fellowship & Song: 11:30am
Potluck Lunch: 12:00pm
Worship: 12:30pm
Cottage Grove Faith Center
33761 Row River Rd.
541-942-4851
Lead Pastor: Kevin Pruett
www.cg4.tv
Full Childrenʼs Ministry available
Two Services 9am & 11am
COTTAGE GROVE:
6th & Gibbs Church of
Christ
195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822
Pastor: Aaron Earlywine
Youth & Families Pastor:
Seth Bailey
Services: 9am and 10:30am
Christian Education
Nursery for pre-k - 3rd Grade
www.6thandgibbs.com
Calvary Baptist Church
77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290
Pastor: Riley Hendricks
Sunday School: 9:45am
Worship: 11:00am
The Journey: Sunday 5:00pm
Praying Thru Life:
Wednesday 6:00pm
Delight Valley
Church of Christ
33087 Saginaw Rd. East
541-942-7711
Pastor: Bob Friend
Two Services:
9am - Classic in the Chapel
10:30am - Contemporary in the
Auditorium
First Presbyterian Church
3rd and Adams St
541-942-4479
Pastor: Karen Hill
Worship: 10:00am
Sunday School: 10:00am
www.cgpresbynews.com
Hope Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
100 S. Gateway Blvd.
541-942-2061
Pastor: Dave Bragg
Worship: 11:00am Sunday
Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday
www.hopefellowshipupc.com
“FINDING HOPE IN YOUR LIFE”
Calvary Chapel Cottage
Grove
1447 Hwy 99 (Village Plaza)
541-942-6842
Pastor: Jeff Smith
Two Services on Sun:
9am & 10:45am
Living Faith Assembly
Youth Group Bible Study
Child Care 10:45am Service Only 467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Pastor Rulon Combs
www.cgcalvary.org
Worship & Childrenʼs
Church 10:00 am
Center for Spiritual Living
Youth 180 Mondays 5:30-8pm
Cottage Grove
700 Gibbs Ave.
Non-Denominational
(Community Center)
Church of Christ
Rev. Bobby Lee
1041 Pennoyer Ave
Meets Sunday 3:00 p.m.
541-942-8928
cslcottagegrove@gmail.com
Preacher: Tony Martin
Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
Church of Christ
420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565 Sunday Worship:10:50am &
5:30pm
Sunday Service: 10:30am
www.pennoyeravecoc.com
Cottage Grove Bible Church
Old Time Gospel Fellowship
1200 East Quincy Avenue
103 S. 5th St. • 541-942-4999
541-942-4771
Pastor: Jim Edwards
Pastor:Bob Singer
Sunday Service: 10:00am
Worship 11am
Join us in Traditional
Sunday School:9:45am
Christian Worship
AWANA age 3-8th Grade,
Wednesdays Sept-May, 6:30pm
www.cgbible.org
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
and St. Philip Benizi
1025 N. 19th St.
541-942-3420 / 541-942-4712
Pastor: Roy L. Antunez, S.J.
Euch. Liturgies; Sat. 5:30pm
Sun. 10:30am
St. Philip Benizi, Creswell:
552 Holbrock Lane
541-895-8686, Sunday: 8:30am
St. Andrews Episcopal
Church
1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050
Rev. Lawrence Crumb
“Church with the fl ags.”
Worship: Sunday 10:30am
All Welcome
Seventh-day Adventist
Church
820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: Kevin Miller
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service:
Saturday, 10:40 am
Mid-week Service:
Wednesday, 1:00 pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Pastor: James L. Markus
Sunday School & Adult Education
9:15am
Sunday Worship 10:30 am
Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue &
Thur 5:00pm TLC Groups
tlccg.com
United Methodist Church
334 Washington • 541-942-3033
Pastor:Lura Kidner-Miesen
Worship: 10:30am
Comm. Dinner (Adults $5, Kids
Free)
2nd & 3rd Monday 5-6:00pm
cottagegroveumc.org
“VICTORY” Country Church
913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913
Pastor: Barbara Dockery
Worship Service: 10:00am
Message:11:00am
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