COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Latham
"Waver" recognized
Continued from A1
members a rough estimate
of $779,500 to fi x rotting win-
dows, intercoms, water pipes,
septic system, roofi ng, minor
asbestos, lead paint, Americans
with Disabilities compliance
upgrades and possibly a boiler.
A previous discussion by the
board concerning Latham’s fate
revealed a possible savings of
nearly $200,000 if the school
were to close.
“The question that is linger-
ing,” said board chairman Alan
Baas, “is either we win the
lottery or Latham is closing at
some time in the future.”
That time, however, is not
next fall.
The original discussion that
began in December and was
centered around closing Latham
at the end of this school year
so students and teachers could
enter the new Harrison Elemen-
tary School that is scheduled
to open Fall 2018. Now, the
Latham community will wait
until October or November to
learn if they’ll be granted an
additional year or close for the
2019-2020 year.
“It just feels like we’re be-
ing dragged along again,” said
Latham parent Ashley Rigel.
One son is a second-grader at
Latham, the other is set to start
kindergarten there next year but
Rigel knows now that he most
likely will not make it to second
grade at Latham like his older
brother. “I just want a yes or a
no,” she said.
The school board has sug-
gested the Latham parent club
look into increasing enrollment
at the school which currently
spends approximately $5,000
per student for instructional
time. London spends $4,800.
Harrison, $4,700.
“We don’t know what the
school enrollment is going to
do,” Duerst-Higgins said before
making a motion to prolong the
decision to close Latham for an-
other year.
Board
member
Jerry
Settelmeyer contended that
the savings garnered by clos-
ing Latham could benefi t other
schools in the district that will
face budget shortfalls next year
after the state legislature failed
to pass the requested $8.4 bil-
lion education budget. Former
superintendent Krista Parent in-
formed the board late last year
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Local man looks for help after heart attack
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
It was the worst two hours of
Roger Stevens’ life. He’d come
home from work and readied for
bed when a pain shot through
his chest.
It was a heart attack. He was
44.
“My wife was never usually
home at that time because of her
job but for some reason she was
home that night,” he said.
On the ambulance ride they
avoided a car wreck and when
he arrived at the hospital he got
the news: it had been what doc-
tors dub the “widow maker.”
Now, two years later, the
Cottage Grove native is on the
road to a heart transplant and is
struggling to make rent.
“We’re about to be homeless
and I don’t know how that can
happen. I’ve worked since I was
16-years-old,” he said.
Stevens was born in Cottage
Grove but soon moved with his
parents to Springfi eld. Some
how though, he spent his days
in the Grove.
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“Every weekend, holiday and
summer I was at River Stone
park with my grandparents.
They made me who I am,” he
said.
Stevens spent his days mow-
ing lawns and collecting cans
to make money for the “cool”
clothes his parents couldn’t af-
ford and when a divorce sent his
brother with his father and Ste-
vens with his mother, he picked
up part-time work. He didn’t
fi nish high school.
“I could have gone to the Uni-
versity of Oregon but I didn’t
really know that as a kid,” he
said. “I was just working and
helping my mom.”
At 20, he had a son and a few
years later he had what he de-
scribed as a “good week.”
“I got custody of my son, got
married and got a job in Port-
land,” he said.
After fi ve years and anoth-
er child in Portland, Stevens
bounced around Oregon work-
ing in lumber yards and over-
working in lumber yards.
“I smoked, I worked 60 and
70 hour weeks. It was the stress
of life,” he said.
The night he had his heart at-
tack, doctors placed a stent in
his neck and watched his vitals.
He began having pain again and
doctors worried he was having
another heart attack.
“I had a nicked artery,” he
said.
He was released from the
hospital with a life vest: a con-
traption that was strapped to his
body with the intention to shock
him back to life if he suffered
another heart attack and cover
him with blue dye to notify him
when he woke that he’d nearly
died.
“I was off work for four
months, I stopped smoking and
started walking. I could walk
miles a day,” he said. He went
from 235 pounds to 190 pounds.
Then, he went back to work.
“I really had to, we were a
one-income house after my
heart attack,” he said.
However, his health again,
went into a decline.
He started having memory
problems and would come close
to passing out at work.
“My heart was fl ooding,” he
said. “And it would scare the
guys at work. They’d say I got
bright white and looked horrible
but if I went home and slept for
awhile, reset, I was ok again.”
After further consultation
with his doctors, Stevens was
facing a pacemaker or perhaps a
bypass until fi nally, a transplant
was suggested.
“But there are things you
have to do fi rst before you go
on the list,” he said. “They want
your heart that you have to go as
far as it will go fi rst.”
But that means he can’t work
and while he’s applied for his
social security benefi ts, it’s a
long process.
“I didn’t have a fl ood or a fi re.
I wasn’t the victim of a shoot-
ing or an earthquake so it’s hard
to fi nd a way to get help,” he
said. “But we need help. This
really could happen to anyone.
A health problem, a heart attack
at 44 and you could lose every-
thing,” he said.
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pone.” He also stated that he
would fi nd it hard to entertain
postponing the closure again
in six months.
The motion to keep Latham
open for another year passed
unanimously.
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that the district would be up
against a budget gap due to the
biennial nature of the budget.
She noted that the second year
of the budget cycle was always
short because costs rise but
funding remains the same. The
district was previously faced
with cutting school days from
the calendar.
“I have mixed emotions on
this,” Settelmeyer said, noting
he wasn’t sure how he would
vote on the issue. “If we’re
talking about benefi ting all
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