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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL DECEMBER 20, 2017 5A Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago Volunteer helps poor feel better: '87 When their lights have been Sentinel Staff of 1987 shut off or an eviction notice comes addressed to them, the indigent may knock on Community Sharing’s doors. Volunteers at Community Sharing work all year, but Christmas is perhaps the time volunteers’ work is even more heart-felt and appreciated. Janet Day is one of those volunteers. Planning to mop fl oors or shelve food, she started working at Community Sharing about tow years ago. Now she works in emergency aid, interviewing potential re- cipients, helping to allocate food and doing just about anything that needs to be done. She sees the tears and hears some of the heart-wrenching circumstances clients. But when they receive their allotments of food or fi nancial help, “we get to see how grateful they are for it.” The agency helps temporarily fi ll needs for shelter, rent, utility, medical and dental prescriptions, emergency transportation, fi rewood and others. It sometimes acts as a referral or gives the needy part of the some to keep the electricity or gas on, she said. While it needs money now for Christmas food baskets, the agency always needs funds for utilities and shelter, she added. When logging in the woods was recently shut down, two men who had never been there before sought help at Community Sharing. “I was glad they knew about this place.” And, “it’s gonna be a rough winter,” she said, adding that the agency needs vol- unteers. “We get to give out the help that other people have donated, and most of the peo- ple are very grateful,” she said. “I wish all the people that donated all the food could see it too, but we get to have the pleasure of that.” She is one of about fi ve unpaid volunteers who work at the emergency aid desk. She is also trained to answer calls on the helpline a crisis intervention and information referral Monica Alleven POLICE BLOTTER service. Many people try to live as long as they can before asking for help. For children who fi rst come to the agen- cy, “it’s probably more food then they have seen for a while, and that’s really touching.” Besides working between two to 10 hours each week, she is always willing to donate her time to help the organization. Doing volunteer work gives her feeling of satisfaction. “I like to feel worthwhile.” And she has the time to devote to helping others, she said Day has done a considerable amount of volunteer work before. She is one of two charter women members of Cottage Grove’s Bohemia Sunrisers Kiwanis Club and has helped collect fi rewood for the needy. Although her husband is now retired from the Navy, they have lived in various cities across the country. But she has liked Cottage Grove the most, she said. “I enjoy the work. I enjoy the people,” she said. Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 December 11 An individual reported a suspicious vehicle, and was concerned the driver may be casing the area, when a pickup was driving up and down Holly Ave. at 8:00 p.m. The individual was looking at Christmas lights. Three individuals were charged with various offenses (theft 2nd degree, conspiracy and felon in possession of restricted weapon) after they were seen stealing makeup and purses from Walmart. December 15 National Beat News from the state and around the nation Oregon State Police asked for help from the public ear- lier this week in identifying the individual(s) responsible for illegally killing an elk in the Owyehee Canal. Offi cers from the state’s fi sh and wildlife department found the animal’s carcass on Dec. 8, skinned with its shoulders nearby and its head removed. From around the state University of Oregon’s Jim Leavitt will stay with the Ducks after it was widely assumed he would be joining former head coach Willie Taggart in Florida at FSU. The defensive coor- dinator will bank $1.7 million a year under his new contract. Oregon joined a list of states who announced their inten- tion to sue the Trump Administration over the FCC decision to repeal net neutrality—a rule that prevents internet provid- ers from charging customers more to visit certain websites. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum released a state- ment, saying, “The decision by the FCC to reverse course on net neutrality will have lasting negative impacts for our economy and almost every aspect of our lives.” On Wednesday, Dec. 13, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck just south of Mollala. Former Portland Mayor and Oregon House Speaker Vera Katz passed away on Monday, Dec. 11. Katz served three terms as mayor and became the only woman at the time to hold the position as speaker of the state house. Federal judicial nominee Matthew Peterson made headlines last week when he was unable to answer basic le- gal questions during his confi rmation hearing. Peterson later withdrew his nomination in a letter to President Trump, citing his desire not to become a “distraction.” From around the nation Shots were reportedly fi red at around 7:00 p.m. on London Rd. An individual reported that outside the break area at a grocery store on Main St. an employee was approached by a woman who placed some change and a handgun on the table and suddenly de- parted. Suspicious subject was reported when a male subject was trying to avoid being seen on 17th St. The individual was ducking down between vehicles and houses and was carrying a gas can at 1:00 a.m. An individual at Coast Fork Nursing Center was threatening staff with a fi re extinguisher and was refusing to let anybody near him. December 12 December 16 A suspicious vehicle was reported after an individual noticed a white van following a school bus and stopping at each stop two days in a row. December 14 Fall Heating Tune-Up Only $99* We’ll make sure your system is running effectively and effi ciently. Call for details and an appointment today, and beat the winter rush! Two individuals loaded up two shopping carts of toys and ran out of Walmart with them. The staff was able to recover one cart but not the other. The items in the cart were estimated to be over $1,000. An individual reported a suspicious vehicle when they saw a pickup truck being loaded with “something heavy” at 2:00 a.m. Criminal mischief was reported at Walmart a male got upset while at the pharmacy and on his way out of the store threw merchandise on the fl oor and knocked over a Christmas tree. An individual reported that multiple kids at the front of Harrison Elementary appeared to be up to no good. TURNING 65 AND NEED HELP WITH YOUR MEDICARE CHOICES? 6 -day weather forecast Call Paul to help simplify the complicated. 541-517-7362 THURSDAY Dec. 21 FRIDAY Dec. 22 41° | 25° Paul Henrichs ~ Independent Agent 38° | 19° coverage4oregon@gmail.com Showers Partly cloudy SATURDAY Dec. 23 SUNDAY Dec. 24 37° | 18° 38° | 22° Partly cloudy Partly cloudy MONDAY Dec. 25 TUESDAY Dec. 26 40° | 23° 38° | 22° Partly cloudy Sunny No one knows how many people died in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria battered the island earlier this year. 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