6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL AUGUST 9, 2017
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Party in the Park gave away 400 backpacks fi lled with back to school supplies on Saturday, August 5 in Coiner Park.
The 17th annual
Party in the Park
was held last week-
end in Coiner Park
where over 400 backpacks fi lled with school
supplies were given out. Hosted by the Cot-
tage Grove Faith Center, with help from the
6th and Gibbs Church and the Living Faith
Assembly, the event gave out 15,000 hot
dogs, 1,000 snow cones and featured vari-
ous activities. Nail and face painting, a dunk
tank, a bounce house, music and giant bub-
bles were also available to participants.
“This is an outreach for the churches, we
just want to share love and grace with peo-
ple. We just wanna make this as fun as pos-
sible and let people know that they are loved
in this town and supported,” the event’s co-
ordinator, Shane May, said. “I want them to
feel loved and cherished and know that they
are worthy and a part of this community and
support them.”
The Faith Center collected over $2,500
from it’s members for the event and obtain
donations from local business and commu-
nity members.
“We love to see the smiles on kids when
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they walk away with
that new backpack,”
Shelia Powell, the
church administra-
tor at Cottage Faith
Center, said.
Over 50 people
donned red shirts
to volunteer at the
event
including
Victor Pearson who
manned the sound
system for the event.
“It’s a lot of fun, even for the people who
are working,” he said.
People like Alicia Sanders were grateful
for the free school packs and welcomed the
activities for her children. Her kids were es-
pecially excited for the bounce house.
“It’s really just something nice to do with
the kids. School supplies are expensive, es-
pecially when you're buying them for more
than one kid,” Sanders said.
A crowd was present well before the
backpacks were handed out. Bonnie Ed-
munds made sure to get here early in order
to grab a spot at the front of the line. She
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even brought her own chair. Her grandson
will be entering the fi rst grade this fall and
she said he was excited for the new school
supplies.
“Lived in California 20 years, never once
in any place did they doing something like
this for the children. So Cottage Grove is
awesome, it is awesome,” Edmunds said.
The event's goal was to bring members
of the community together and to provide
a day of fun for the families of Cottage
Grove, May said.
“It’s great serving people, it’s great hav-
ing people served, we love Cottage Grove.
We love this town,” May said.
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Micolle Garrett celebrated
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said she did feel a bit nausea
from the plane going up and
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“Amazing, it was awesome.
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The goal of the event was to
celebrate the life of Jim Wright,
a local aviator and businessman
who died in plane crash on Au-
gust 4, 2003. The airfi eld was
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ber of that year.
Biplanes from Oregon, Cal-
ifornia and Washington fl ew in
for the Fly-In. Homemade stea-
rman lined the airfi eld as own-
ers and enthusiast talked about
their hobby. Boeing created the
stearman, a type of biplane,
in the late 1930s. The biplane
was used as a test plane to train
WW2 pilots. After the war, the
stearman sold as military sur-
plus for civilian use. Many were
used as crop dusters, Cassandra
Barrong, the administer assis-
tant for OAHS, said.
This year’s Fly-In featured a
pancake breakfast with all pro-
ceeds going towards supporting
the OAHS’s museum. The orga-
nization was originally incorpo-
rated in 1983 with a mission is
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“We here at Cottage Grove
are excited to bring living his-
tory through these WW2 Bi-
planes,” Barrong said.
While many came for the
plane rides, Carpentiero said
there were fewer planes in at-
tendance than in previous years.
Most stearman cost $110,000,
with Carpentiero’s plane worth
$300,000. With the high costs
and unavailability of parts, the
biplane community has been
shrinking in recent years.
“Yeah, it’s always been old
guys, these planes aren't cheap,”
Carpentiero said.
Regardless, many came to
take part in the festivities, such
as admiring each other planes
and telling stories. Some pilots
even camped out on the fi eld,
Carpentiero being one of them.
In addition, the airport is
alive and well. The grand open-
ing of the Cottage Grove Wel-
come Center and Pilot Lounge
is scheduled for August 15 at
noon.
The lounge will provide in-
door plumbing and running
water for the pilots who use the
airport. In addition, the City of
Cottage Grove has donated a car
for pilots to use around town.
Local pilots have also donated
two bikes as well. The news has
created a buzz among the pilot
community. As a result, traffi c
to the airport is expected to in-
crease, Barrong said.
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