COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER 18, 2017
Carousel comes out of hiding
PHOTO BY GREG LEE
Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel volunteers and board members
gather to show off the attraction on October 12.
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Don Williams doesn’t waste
an opportunity.
So, when the Cottage Grove
Tourism Board agreed to have
its meeting at the W.O.E. Fair-
grounds, Williams started mak-
ing phone calls. By the time
he was done, a rainy Thursday
morning saw tourism board
members, chamber of com-
merce members and community
leaders milling around a drafty
building, munching on hot dogs
for breakfast and taking in the
sight of the most recent labors
of the Friends of the Cottage
Grove Carousel.
“I wanted people who
wouldn’t ordinarily come out
here to get here and see that we
are serious,” Williams said.
He sits on the Friends of
the Cottage Grove Carousel
board—a nonprofi t tasked with
wrangling a location and busi-
ness plan that would see the
attraction eventually settled on
Main St. While the effort to
bring the carousel to Cottage
Grove has spanned nearly 20
years, the revamped group has
taken up the cause again and
cites nearby efforts, such as the
refurbished carousel in Albany,
that have found recent success.
Cottage Grove resident Judy
Cash originally bought the car-
ousel after coming into a large
sum of money from a family
friend and immediately ex-
plored ways to make her child-
hood passion for the carousel
viable as a tourist attraction for
the town she fell in love with.
After several attempts to secure
funding, locations and energy
for the project, this latest rein-
carnation of the effort has hit the
ground running and signed an
agreement with Cash which out-
lines the specifi c circumstances
that would see the carousel gift-
ed to the group.
Cash previously told The
Sentinel the agreement was in
place to ensure progress after
seeing other groups try and fail
to bring her carousel to Main St.
On Thursday, Friends of the
Cottage Grove Carousel set out
to prove they are serious. The
group assembled the pieces of
the attraction at the fairgrounds,
lining animals along the wall to
showcase the restoration effort.
“This is the fi rst time it feels
like something will happen,”
Travis Palmer, executive direc-
tor of the chamber of commerce,
said, noting the tourism-gener-
ating potential of the carousel.
The group has moved forward
with restoration efforts, teaming
with the advanced art class at
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to fi nd a viable option to update
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However magnifi cent the res-
toration, the group still needs a
location to stage the attraction
as well as professional archi-
tectural drawings, permits and a
slew of other things wrapped in
red tape.
To combat the cost, the
Friends of the Cottage Grove
Carousel have mounted nu-
merous fundraising efforts in-
cluding a no-show banquet and
raffl e. Its latest will be a spon-
sorship drive. Members of the
community will be able to spon-
sor a piece of the carousel with
prices distributed throughout
every income bracket.
“Someone will sponsor ev-
erything,” Williams said of the
plan to have a sponsor for each
piece of the carousel from the
lightbulbs to the fl oorboards.
For more information on the
carousel, to donate or volun-
teer, please contact Friends of
the Cottage Grove Carousel at
(541) 649-1210.
COMMUNITY
BRIEFS
3A
Shopping cart
ordinance may be
headed to board
PHOTO BY COUNCILOR KEN ROBERTS
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Community sing-a-long
Thursday, October 19 at 10:30 a.m. in the reception hall in
the Cottage Grove Community Center at 700 E. Gibbs Ave.
Fire board meeting
The fi re board will meet on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the station
house on Harrison in Cottage Grove.
Farmer's market
The South Valley Farmers' Market will be open Thursday
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the corner of 7th St. and Main St.
Sprout fi lm festival
The Lane Community College Cottage Grove Center pre-
sented its 10th annunal fundraising event showcasing people
with developmental disabilities. Free admission. October 20
to October 21 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Humane Society
The Cottage Grove Humane Society annual jamboree ben-
efi t will be held on Saturday, October 21 at 6 p.m. at the Cre-
swell Community Center. Drinks and snacks available with
donation.
Halloween play
Opal Center's annual Halloween mash-up will run Thurs-
day, October 26 through Saturday, November 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket information available at opalcenter.org.
Railroad show
The model railroad show is coming to the Cottage Grove
Armory on Friday, October 27 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Main St. trick or treat
Annual Main St. trick or treat will be held on Halloween
from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
American Legion
The American Legion will host a dinner on October 24
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Plates for the fundraiser cost $7 and
feature lasagna, salad and garlic bread.
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The city council has been
struggling with the issue of
abandoned shopping carts
crowding city streets for over a
year. Now, they may be ready to
settle on a plan.
According to Cottage Grove
City Manager Richard Meyers,
the city has had an ordinance on
ice for approximately one year.
“In September of 2016, we
came up with a draft and tried
to get input from local busi-
nesses,” Meyers said. “And the
council said, ‘ok’ and they’ve
been thinking and it tapered off.
Now, it’s picked back up again.”
The issue has been resurrect-
ed after city councilman Ken
Roberts announced he’d picked
up and returned more than 100
carts in his fi rst few months in
offi ce. He began working with
local businesses and researching
how other municipalities deal
with the issue.
Roberts spoke out at a recent
city council meeting saying that
"something had to be done"
regarding the carts left around
town.
While several residents have
spoken out and suggested legal
ramifi cations for anyone caught
with a shopping cart off store
property, Meyers says it’s not
that simple.
“What we’re missing is some-
thing that says the cart belongs
to this store and it’s not to be re-
moved,” he said. “We need that
because we have to indicate that
they stole the cart. Did Safeway
just give them the cart to walk
off with? Probably not but we
still need identifi cation and a
statement that says it can’t be
taken from the property.”
Meyers said that while sig-
nage would allow the city to
prosecute, that may not be the
answer.
"The demographic that is tak-
ing the carts most likely can-
not pay the $500 fee and then
we house them in jail and feed
them," he said.
Currently, the city stores carts
it picks up at the maintenance
yard and attempts to contact the
store owners to retrieve them.
Some do, Meyers said. And
some don't.
“We can scrap them after a
while but what a waste,” Mey-
ers said. “This will continue to
be a discussion.”
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Honor
of All
Veterans
The Cottage Grove Sentinel is preparing to publish its
“Salute ot Vets” a special section devoted to all military veterans
who are Cottage Grove-area residents or have a connection to this
area.
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