8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
OYCC helps fund Kennedy High's move
Oregon Youth conservation Corps
By Matt Hall
[OYCC]
provided $12,000 to fund Al
For The Sentinel
Kennedy High School’s summer crew.
Every summer Al Kennedy High School
runs a six to eight week summer crew program, where crew mem-
bers are paid minimum wage and work on conservation projects.
The Oregon Youth Conservation Corps (OYCC) was created by
the 1987 Oregon Legislature to emulate the Civilian Conservation
Corps of the 1930's. OYCC’s purpose is to build on strong connec-
tions between positive experiences, work skills, personal responsi-
bility, commitment to education, and future employment for Ore-
gon's youth. Matt Hall, Kennedy Conservation Corps crew leader,
said “We really hoped we would get this summer crew funding as it
would enable us to pay our student crew to move the contents of the
school from Kennedy’s old location on South 8th street in Cottage
Grove to its new location at Delight Valley School in Saginaw”.
A requirement of the grant is that early in the summer the crew
leader has to attend a 3 day OYCC Crew Leader Training session,
this year’s was held in Bend. “ I’ve attended a number of these
trainings in the past” said Matt Hall ” I always learn something new
and come away better prepared to provide a positive work experi-
ence for my youth crew”
Beginning on June 12th for almost a full week, the eight youth
members of the conservation corps, with lots of assistance from
the school district’s grounds and maintenance staff, loaded and un-
loaded trucks ,trailers and a U-Haul van. During that time the entire
contents of six classrooms, the library, the music room, the prin-
cipal’s offi ce, the secretary’s offi ce, the cafeteria, the crew lead-
er’s offi ce, the crew room, tools and the outdoor education equip-
ment were transferred to the new classrooms or temporary storage
at the Delight Valley School location. The Workforce Innovation
and Opportunities Act offi ce was moved to its new location at 19
North sixth street through the assistance of the student crew. The
move was complicated as some classrooms at the Delight Valley
location were available to move into and some were still occupied
temporarily by Head Start of Lane County who will be sharing the
campus with Kennedy for the 2017-18 school year. When asked to
provide feedback on the student’s job performance Trevor Smith,
Maintenance Supervisor for South Lane School District, said, “We
thoroughly enjoyed working with the Kennedy crew during our
transition to the Delight Valley site. We were all impressed by their
team work, their work ethic, and their character. We would be more
than happy to work with them in the future and are excited to wel-
come them to their new school.”
After the move was completed the crew spent 3 days fi nishing
Sunday dinner
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all who needed it without the
hoopla of checking IDs, moni-
toring incomes and reporting to
a governing agency, the com-
munity was skeptical. But Jean
is used to it.
She's counciled boards in
Hawaii and worked on politi-
cal campaigns in Alaska. She
understands people and with
decades of experience under her
belt she still has just one mis-
sion.
"I just want to feed people,"
she said.
So, she took her cause to the
city. Cottage Grove City Man-
ager Richard Meyers, she said,
had his doubts on top of con-
cerns about an unmonitored din-
ner that boasted free food.
"But, they have just as much
right to be in that building as
anyone else," Meyers told The
Sentinel.
"I did think it was nuts!" he
said. "I asked here where are
you getting the volunteers and
where are you getting all the
food?"
Jean had a plan. Food for
Lane County, a food pantry
that serves outlets catering to
low-income and homeless indi-
vduals, requires certain criteria
be met. But Jean didn't want to
ask people their income level or
document who was coming in
and when. Instead, she relies on
donations to feed her diners and
occasionally she receives food
from Community Sharing, the
local food pantry.
Meals are made up of what
she gets. Tonight, it's roasted
vegetables and oven-baked to-
matoes with cheese bread. Ap-
ple pie and brownies for desert.
The meal is planned for 5
p.m. and set to close at 6 but
they never turn anyone away.
"If it's 10 after six and some-
one comes in, we have frozen
mac and cheese or frozen chili.
They don't leave hungry," Jean
said.
That includes those who
showed up on time.
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Kennedy High School moved to Delight Valley with some elbow grease and
help from OYCC.
building the new garden area, the native plant nursery beds for the
Army Corps of Engineers and Lane County waste management and
rebuilt the pollinator garden, a project undertaken in collaboration
with The Cottage Grove Ranger District. All the remaining nursery
stock and garden plants that had been salvaged from the nursery
and garden at Kennedy’s old site were planted in the new beds. The
rest of the summer program was spent either working on the Row
River Trail “bike path” for the BLM or digging up blackberries and
scotch broom in the Brice Creek drainage for the Forest Service.
The summer crew program ended on August the 17th. Student crew
members earned an hourly wage for all their summer work. OYCC
is funded primarily through Oregon’s Amusement Device Tax, via
the Oregon Lottery to be able to support school conservation corps.
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This Friday, September 15, Lorane Grange is resuming their
bingo nights with a Dessert and Bingo evening. Desserts are
$3. Bingo begins at 6:30 p.m. The famous 50/50 returns and
the progressive blackout has really grown. Remember, the bin-
go nights will be on Fridays until January. There will be a po-
tato bar with all the trimmings at the October evening School
is in full swing including football at home, Crow High, this
Friday at 7 p.m. against Elkton. The CH/MS Booster is hosting
a fundraiser on October 14, raising funds to help our students.
The Annual Halloween Carnival is set for October 28 and is
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Each diner is given a brown-
bagged lunch for the following
day. Usually a peanut butter
sandwhich with a snack or two.
It's just afer 6 p.m. and Jean,
with her troupe of fi ve volun-
teers start to clean up.
Ann Marie Herron and her
husband Pete have been lending
a hand for more than three years.
Pete--who does the dishes--was
only supposed to accompany his
wife on the fi rst night.
"When the weather is nice,"
Herron said, "We don't get as
many people but when it gets
cold, the whole world is in
here."
The group uses 50 as their
base for everything. 50 chairs
arranged around clothed tables.
50 plates served by volunteers
like in a restaurant and not
lined up for diners to take like
in a shelter. 50 brown-bagged
lunches given out by a volunteer
with a smile and a "Have a nice
night."
As Jean fl utters around the
tables of those who are left
eating and volunteers begin to
clean up, Ron Jean continues
to strum his guitar and rasp out
"Brown Eyed Girl." Music, said
his playing partner Jim Schaper,
better known as Farmer Jimmy.
"Some people come in here
stressed," he said. "And if
there's just the sound of fl atware
clinking it's aggrevating! This
way they know somebody's
there and somebody cares."
Jean won't think about what's
for dinner next week until
sometimes Monday afternoon.
It will depend on what she has
in storage--a refrigerator and
freezer in the community center
and another set of storage con-
tainers at her home.
"I just feed people," she
said. "Some are homeless,
some aren't. But they sit very
well together. Food is the great
equalizer and it brings people
together."
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