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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER11, 2017 5A Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago Pay station tango: Nov. 4, 1987 Karen Boyd has spent the last Sentinel Staff Writer '87 several weeks bidding fond and tearful farewells to the customers who have used her pay station during the past 12 years. Now the cheeks on her smiling face will no doubt blush when she fi nally tells those people that her pay station located in the Greyhound bus depot on North 8th St, in Cottage grove will run business as usual. In September, Boyd announced plans to either sell the pay station or close it because Pacifi c Northwest Bell, her primary source of revenue, said it would no longer compen- sate pay stations for handling its bills. Katherine “Kitty” Slack, owner of Cot- tage Grove Answering Service, recently an- nounced plans to buy the station and move the bus depot to Adams Ave. behind the post offi ce. Boyd decided not to sell the business af- ter PNB reversed its policy and said it will compensate pay stations for handling cash payments. However, PNB will not pay agents for payments made by check, as it did in the past. PNB Community Affairs Manager Bruce Hall said the company’s most recent move came in response to concerns raised by pay station agents and customers. Hall said PNB originally planned to discontinue compen- sating pay station agents because it would save the company about $1 million annually in Oregon and Washington. Hall said about half PNB’s customers who pay phone bills through pay stations use cash. That means the company will save about half of what it originally planned on saving. “Even making a few dollars will make a By Pete Malliris POLICE BLOTTER difference,” Boyd said. Her business also handles bills for other utilities and Falcon Cable, and houses Western Union. Boyd hopes the additional revenue from PNB will be enough to keep her business going. “I’ll just have to talk real hard to get ev- erybody to pay in cash,” she said laughing. Boyd said she is happy to have her station back but there are problems she must deal with. “I feel relieved it is over,” Boyd said. “I at least know what to tell my customers.” It could take some time for all Boyd’s customers to get the message that she is still open. Furthermore, she is now competing with two other stations in Cottage Grove. When PNB announced its original plan to discontinue compensating pay station agents, it began negotiating with other local stores to open new pay stations. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 October 2 An individual on River Rd. report- ed that a neighbor had hung up a stuffed animal from a light fi xture and they were hoping the police would get it down. A 61-year-old man was arrested for public urination/defecation at Walmart. October 4 An individual on 8th St. reported a drug deal going down next door to him. An intoxicated subject was report- edly passed out in front of apart- ments on 6th St. A female was seen walking into traffi c acting like a mime. October 3 There were two reports within half an hour, one on Quincy Ave. and one on 10th St., of a man stealing purses. The fi rst reported that the man climbed through her living room window. The second reported that a man broke down her door and stole her purse. A car was broken into and had mul- tiple items stolen from it on Harri- son Ave. October 6 October 9 A man on Douglas St. woke up and found someone in his house. A woman reported that she received a scam call from a man who threat- ened her safety. After she declined to give him her credit card infor- mation for her supposed winnings, he said he was on her way to her residence with a gun and would be there in 45 minutes. October 8 An individual reported that a man threw a bike him near the golf course. DUI? A man and woman were seen mess- ing with the lock on the front of the Cottage Grove Market in the early hours of the morning. A man and woman were having a verbal dispute on Madison St. An individual reported that items were being thrown and that kids live at the location. A bag of white powder substance was found in Walmart and was re- ported so it could be disposed of. A suspicious subject was reported when an individual reported seeing a man slowly riding around Fair- view Loop. Looking at driveways and vehicles. boyfriend were at her sister’s house when her boyfriend and sister got in a fi ght. During the fi ght the boy- friend grew angry and then stabbed a dog with a knife. Breathalyzer Installed $250 for Most Vehicles* Fast Discrete Professional Automotive Specialties 6 weather forecast THURSDAY Oct. 12 FRIDAY Oct. 13 54° | 42° 53° | 34° Mostly Cloudy Showers SATURDAY Oct. 14 SUNDAY Oct. 15 59° | 37° 64° | 39° Sunny Sunny MONDAY Oct. 16 TUESDAY Oct. 17 67° | 43° 63° | 43° Sunny Showers 60% of smalled businesses close their doors within 6 months following a cyber-attack. Call today (541) 942-0555. PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove News from the state and around the nation Lisette Medrano-Perez, 25, and her four children were killed after a drunk driver with previous convictions for the offense, hit their car head-on. The children ranged in age from eight to two; all pronounced dead at the scene. Favian Garcia, 27, pled guilty to driving under the infl uence in 2011 and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the infl uence in July of this year. He is currently facing manslaughter charges. The Sunday, October 8 crash occurred in Salem. From around the state University of Oregon students staged a protest, forcing president Michael Schill to postpone is “state of the universi- ty address” where he was expected to announce a $50 million gift to the university. Students walked onto the stage chant- ing, “nothing about us without us” and refused to leave. Oregon will begin distributing the $85 million in tax reve- nue collected from the legal marijuana operations throughout the state. The money has been held from state agencies until the Oregon Liquor Control Commission refunded the admin- istrative costs of setting up the legal marijuana program. The law dictates that 40 percent of the funds go to the Common School Fund, 20 to mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, 15 to Oregon State Police, 10 to cities for local law enforce- ment, 10 to counties for local law enforcement and fi ve to the Oregon Health Authority. Vice President Mike Pence left a Colts football game on Sunday, sparking reports. The Colts have routinely kneeled during the nation- al anthem since the protests began earlier this year. Howev- er, Pence attended the game and left shortly after citing the team’s kneeling. President Donald Trump tweeted his appre- ciation a short time later. From around the nation Electricity has not been restored to Puerto Rico after Hur- ricane Maria hit the island. The Department of Homeland Se- curity announced on Monday that it would not renew the tem- porary waiver of the Jones Act for the island. The law stops the island from receiving good carried on ships that are built in other nations—the lack of a waiver will reportedly double the cost of imports to the island including food and water. At least one person is dead as wildfi res continue to sweep through Northern California. 15,000 buildings have been de- stroyed and 20,000 people evacuated as fi res rage in eight counties including Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Yuba, Nevada, Calaveras and Butte. 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