COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL DECEMBER 20, 2017
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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.
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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.
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No one knows how many people died in Puerto Rico after
hurricane Maria battered the island earlier this year. Nearly 40
percent of the island’s power is still not being generated and
millions are without power. While initial estimates placed the
death toll at 64, new estimates place the total closer to 1,000.
Puerto Rico has ordered a recount to fully assess the number
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Just before midnight an individual on Mosby Creek reported
hearing three shots fi red.
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