COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER11, 2017
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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.
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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.
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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. Governor Jerry Brown has is-
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Two used syringes that were laying
on the sidewalk on Main St. were
called to be picked up by the police.
An animal abuse
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