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PHOTO BY CHANDLER BASCUE
The Cottage Grove Lions football team took home its fi rst ever state championship title on Saturday, Nov. 25 after beating out Marshfi eld 48-14. The win capped the team's perfect season and earned the recognition of the Cottage
Grove City Council. The board honored the team during its meeting on Monday, Nov. 27.
Home
Free
Bohemia Mining Days will earn $3,000 from the festival after the
new year
Bohemia Mining Days (pictured above, the carnival) will receive at least
$3,000 from the Home Free concert after the start of the new year.
It was a community effort. Planning
and
Community Development Manager
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Faye Stewart organized the donation of
a fencing system through the Bohemia
Foundation to ensure only ticket holders found their way to the
show. Bohemia Mining Days' (BMD) advertisements featured
press-packet photos of the band and the concert was held in a city-
owned park.
The Home Free concert held during last summer's Bohemia
Mining Days festival was meant to help give a fi nancial boost to
the four-day event, with organizer and BMD board member Joel
Reiten promising to give the proceeds to BMD after subtracting
what it cost him to put on the show, plus 10 percent. Four and a half
months later BMD hasn't seen a dime and Reiten has resigned from
By Caitlyn May
the board.
Reiten, who brought the
band, Home Free to Cottage
Grove at a cost of $25,000, said
the festival will end up with at
least $3,000 of the $3,950 profi t
after the new year.
"It’s been a great privilege
to have served on the board
of Bohemia Mining Days for
the past three years. I am now
stepping down," Reiten said
in a statement. "It’s important
for a small town to preserve
its historic identity and use it
as an educational tool as well
as a unifying force within the
community. The importance for
these local festivals continue to
driving factor for many smaller
Oregon cities to demonstrate
community commitment and
involvement that leads to
spurring business interest and in
local investments."
Reiten
Entertainment
invested the initial $25,000 fee
charged by Home Free as well
as just over $4,042 in media
which included $500 to KNND,
$2,247 for an Interstate-5
billboard and $400 to KPNW
radio for on-air advertisements.
It also spent $4,000 on sound
equipment and $2,071 on
labor which included services
provided by family members
who fl ew out to Oregon. Reiten
paid for their travel and then
donated the money back to
BMD.
In total, fi nancial documents
provided by Reiten show a
total of $35.456 spent to put the
concert on.
Ticket sales came in at just
over $33,530 while food and
drink earned $5,876 and a
percentage of merchandising
brought in a little over $2,000.
The Home Free concert
garnered a profi t of $3,950.
"Unfortunately these types of
festival continue to more and
more costly," Reiten's statement
continued. "The expense of
insurance, necessary security
and infrastructure, everything
for power to toilets is increasing.
I believe that it’s somewhat
irresponsible to think that
public and private donations
will continue to support any
growing festival and it’s the
City manager reviewed
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
C
ottage Grove City Manager
Richard Meyers is getting a
pay raise.
After evaluating the city man-
ager’s performance in an execu-
tive session earlier this month, the
Cottage Grove City Council voted
City Manager Richard Meyers
to approve the city manager’s con-
tract to refl ect a 2.3 percent coat of living increase and bringing his
total salary to $124,393.
“When I fi rst arrived at council, I was hoping there was a dragon
to slay,” Councilor Jake Boone said. “But to my great disappoint-
ment, Richard is a really awesome city manager, competent and
has massive levels of integrity. A lot of other cities would hire him
away if they could. I’m glad you’re here, everyone else should be,”
Boone told Meyers. He went on to note that chatter on social media
about Meyers’ job performance was unwarranted “There’s almost a
one to one relationship to people who don’t like him to people who
have no idea what’s going on in the city,” he said.
It was a common theme of the conversation that preceded a no
discussion unanimous vote of approval. Councilor Mike Fleck also
commended Meyers’ integrity while Councilor Burback said he had
dealt with Meyers on a business level and appreciated his dedica-
tion to the community.
Mayor Jeff Gowing told the crowd-thinned out by the departure
of the local high school sports teams receiving an honor earlier
Monday night—that Meyers went above and beyond his job de-
scription. Gowing said Meyers worked on his days off, attended
community events and worked with the chamber of commerce to
usher PakTech—a manufacturing company bringing jobs to the
community—into Cottage Grove.
Councilor Amy Slay seconded her fellow councilors’ sentiments
adding, “Thanks for putting up with us.”
Please see HOME FREE PG. A10
GOVERNMENT
Changes
Shopping carts
Habitat for Humanity
makes a change. PAGE A3
City Council addressing
shopping carts. Again.
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